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[CITE: 43USC1702]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
             CHAPTER 35--FEDERAL LAND POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1702. Definitions

    Without altering in any way the meaning of the following terms as 
used in any other statute, whether or not such statute is referred to 
in, or amended by, this Act, as used in this Act--
    (a) The term ``areas of critical environmental concern'' means areas 
within the public lands where special management attention is required 
(when such areas are developed or used or where no development is 
required) to protect and prevent irreparable damage to important 
historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife resources or 
other natural systems or processes, or to protect life and safety from 
natural hazards.
    (b) The term ``holder'' means any State or local governmental 
entity, individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other 
business entity receiving or using a right-of-way under subchapter V of 
this chapter.
    (c) The term ``multiple use'' means the management of the public 
lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the 
combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the 
American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or 
all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to 
provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform 
to changing needs and conditions; the use of some land for less than all 
of the resources; a combination of balanced and diverse resource uses 
that takes into account the long-term needs of future generations for 
renewable and nonrenewable resources, including, but not limited to, 
recreation, range, timber, minerals, watershed, wildlife and fish, and 
natural scenic, scientific and historical values; and harmonious and 
coordinated management of the various resources without permanent 
impairment of the productivity of the land and the quality of the 
environment with consideration being given to the relative values of the 
resources and not necessarily to the combination of uses that will give 
the greatest economic return or the greatest unit output.
    (d) The term ``public involvement'' means the opportunity for 
participation by affected citizens in rulemaking, decisionmaking, and 
planning with respect to the public lands, including public meetings or 
hearings held at locations near the affected lands, or advisory 
mechanisms, or such other procedures as may be necessary to provide 
public comment in a particular instance.
    (e) The term ``public lands'' means any land and interest in land 
owned by the United States within the several States and administered by 
the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management, 
without regard to how the United States acquired ownership, except--
        (1) lands located on the Outer Continental Shelf; and
        (2) lands held for the benefit of Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos.

    (f) The term ``right-of-way'' includes an easement, lease, permit, 
or license to occupy, use, or traverse public lands granted for the 
purpose listed in subchapter V of this chapter.
    (g) The term ``Secretary'', unless specifically designated 
otherwise, means the Secretary of the Interior.
    (h) The term ``sustained yield'' means the achievement and 
maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level annual or regular periodic 
output of the various renewable resources of the public lands consistent 
with multiple use.
    (i) The term ``wilderness'' as used in section 1782 of this title 
shall have the same meaning as it does in section 1131(c) of title 16.
    (j) The term ``withdrawal'' means withholding an area of Federal 
land from settlement, sale, location, or entry, under some or all of the 
general land laws, for the purpose of limiting activities under those 
laws in order to maintain other public values in the area or reserving 
the area for a particular public purpose or program; or transferring 
jurisdiction over an area of Federal land, other than ``property'' 
governed by the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, as 
amended (40 U.S.C. 472) from one department, bureau or agency to another 
department, bureau or agency.
    (k) An ``allotment management plan'' means a document prepared in 
consultation with the lessees or permittees involved, which applies to 
livestock operations on the public lands or on lands within National 
Forests in the eleven contiguous Western States and which:
        (1) prescribes the manner in, and extent to, which livestock 
    operations will be conducted in order to meet the multiple-use, 
    sustained-yield, economic and other needs and objectives as 
    determined for the lands by the Secretary concerned; and
        (2) describes the type, location, ownership, and general 
    specifications for the range improvements to be installed and 
    maintained on the lands to meet the livestock grazing and other 
    objectives of land management; and
        (3) contains such other provisions relating to livestock grazing 
    and other objectives found by the Secretary concerned to be 
    consistent with the provisions of this Act and other applicable law.

    (l) The term ``principal or major uses'' includes, and is limited 
to, domestic livestock grazing, fish and wildlife development and 
utilization, mineral exploration and production, rights-of-way, outdoor 
recreation, and timber production.
    (m) The term ``department'' means a unit of the executive branch of 
the Federal Government which is headed by a member of the President's 
Cabinet and the term ``agency'' means a unit of the executive branch of 
the Federal Government which is not under the jurisdiction of a head of 
a department.
    (n) The term ``Bureau means the Bureau of Land Management.
    (o) The term ``eleven contiguous Western States'' means the States 
of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, 
Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
    (p) The term ``grazing permit and lease'' means any document 
authorizing use of public lands or lands in National Forests in the 
eleven contiguous western States for the purpose of grazing domestic 
livestock.

(Pub. L. 94-579, title I, Sec. 103, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2745.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in the opening par. and in subsec. (k), is 
Pub. L. 94-579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, as amended, known as the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
    The general land laws, referred to in subsec. (j), are classified 
generally to this title.
    The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, referred to in 
subsec. (j), is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377, as amended, 
known as the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 
as amended. Provisions of that Act relating to management and disposal 
of property are classified to chapter 10 (Sec. 471 et seq.) of Title 40, 
Public Buildings, Property, and Works. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 471 of 
Title 40 and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1331, 1761, 1783, 1902 of 
this title; title 16 sections 410ii-3, 410ii-5, 460ccc, 5207; title 30 
section 1028.
