Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2787 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2787

 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 11, 2025

  Mr. Barrasso (for himself and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF NATIONAL GRASSLANDS FOR GRAZING LEASES AND 
              PERMITS.

    (a) 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''.
    (b) Effect.--Nothing in the amendment made by subsection (a) 
modifies or affects--
            (1) 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);
            (2) title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 
        U.S.C. 1010 et seq.); or
            (3) section 11 of the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 
        1978 (43 U.S.C. 1907).
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