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Federal Grazing Regulations: Public Lands Council v. Babbitt (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Nov. 20, 2003
Report Number RS20453
Report Type Report
Authors Pamela Baldwin, American Law Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

New regulations on livestock grazing on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management became effective August 21, 1995. Many aspects of the new regulations were challenged in Public Lands Council v. Babbitt , 529 U.S. 728 (2000). A federal district court upheld many of the regulations, but struck down four of them and enjoined their implementation. At the appellate level, only the new regulation allowing "conservation use" of a grazing allotment to the exclusion of livestock grazing for the full term of a permit was held invalid. In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court on May 15, 2000, upheld the remaining regulations. This report will not be updated.