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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6300
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 25, 2025
Ms. Hageman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to ensure that ranchers who have grazing agreements on national grasslands are treated the same as permittees on other Federal land.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025
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Eligibility of national grasslands for grazing leases and permits
In general
Section 402(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1752(a)) is amended by striking lands within National Forests
and inserting National Forest System (as defined in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1609(a))) land
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Effect
Nothing in the amendment made by subsection (a) modifies or affects—
the applicability to national grasslands of any provision of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) other than section 402 of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1752);
title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1010 et seq.); or
section 11 of the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 1907).