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states and local governments for burdens crea- 

 ted as a result of the immunity of Federal lands 

 from State and local taxation. 



(b) The policies of this Act shall become effective 

 only as specific statutory authority for their im- 

 plementation is enacted by this Act or by subse- 

 quent legislation and shall then be construed as 

 supplemental to and not in derogation of the pur- 

 poses for which public lands are administered un- 

 der other provisions of law. 



DEFINITIONS 



Sec. 103. Without altering in any way the mean- 

 ing 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. 



fb) The term "holder" means any State or local 

 governmental entity, individual, partnership, cor- 

 poration, association, or other business entity re- 

 ceiving or using a right-of-way under title V of 

 this Act. 



(c) The term "multiple use" means the manage- 

 ment 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 pro- 

 vide 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 re- 

 sources: 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 per- 

 manent impairment of the productivity of the land 

 and the quality of the environment with considera- 

 tion being given to the relative values of the re- 

 sources 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 meet- 

 ings or hearings held at locations near the affected 

 lands, or advisory mechanisms, or such other pro- 

 cedures 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 Secre- 

 tary 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 ease- 

 ment, lease, permit, or license to occupy, use, or 

 traverse public lands granted for the purpose listed 

 in title V of this Act. 



(g) The term "Secretary", imless specifically des- 

 ignated otherwise, means the Secretary of the In- 

 terior. 



(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 603 

 shall have the same meaning as it does In section 

 2(c) of the WUderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 

 1131-1136). 



(j) The term "withdrawal" means withholding 

 an area of Federal land from settlement, sale, loca- 

 tion, 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 pub- 

 lic values in the area or reserving the area for a 

 particular public purpose or program; or transfer- 

 ring 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 

 oi>erations 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 conduct©^ in 

 order to meet the multiple-use, sustained-yield, 

 economic and other needs and objectives as de- 

 termined for the lands by the Secretary con- 

 cerned; and 



(2) describes the type, location, ownership, 

 and general specifications for the range im- 

 provements 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. 



(1) 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. 



