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42 U.S.C. § 8803 — Forest Service leases and permits
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It is the intent of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture shall process applications for leases of National Forest System lands and for permits to explore, drill, and develop resources on land leased from the Forest Service, notwithstanding the current status of any plan being prepared under [section 1604 of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1604&num=0&edition=prelim).
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It is the intent of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture shall process applications for leases of National Forest System lands and for permits to explore, drill, and develop resources on land leased from the Forest Service, notwithstanding the current status of any plan being prepared under [section 1604 of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1604&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Development, maintenance, and revision by Secretary as part of program; coordination** As a part of the Program provided for by [section 1602 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1602&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall develop, maintain, and, as appropriate, revise land and resource management plans for units of the National Forest System, coordinated with the land and resource management planning processes of State and local governments and other Federal agencies.
**(b) Criteria** In the development and maintenance of land management plans for use on units of the National Forest System, the Secretary shall use a systematic interdisciplinary approach to achieve integrated consideration of physical, biological, economic, and other sciences.
**(c) Incorporation of standards and guidelines by Secretary; time of completion; progress reports; existing management plans** The Secretary shall begin to incorporate the standards and guidelines required by this section in plans for units of the National Forest System as soon as practicable after October 22, 1976, and shall attempt to complete such incorporation for all such units by no later than September 30, 1985. The Secretary shall report to the Congress on the progress of such incorporation in the annual report required by [section 1606(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1606/c&num=0&edition=prelim). Until such time as a unit of the National Forest System is managed under plans developed in accordance with this subchapter, the management of such unit may continue under existing land and resource management plans.
**(d) Public participation and consultation**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shal
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**(a) Authority of Secretary of Agriculture; maximum amount per project** Subject to sections 8812 and 8817 of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture may commit to make, and make, insured loans in amounts not to exceed $1,000,000 per project for the construction of small-scale biomass energy projects.
**(b) Estimated project construction costs as determinative of initial and revised amount of loan; interest rate**
(1) Any insured loan under this section—
(A) may not exceed 90 per centum of the total estimated cost of construction of the biomass energy project involved, and
(B) shall bear interest at rates determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, taking into consideration the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States with remaining periods to maturity comparable to the average maturities of such loans, plus not to exceed one per centum, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and adjusted to the nearest one-eighth of one per centum.
(2) In the event the total estimated costs of construction of the project thereafter exceed the total estimated costs initially determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary may in addition, upon application therefor, make an insured loan for so much of the additional estimated total costs as does not exceed 10 per centum of the total costs initially estimated.
**(c) Funding requirements; “insured loan” defined**
(1) The Secretary of Agriculture shall make insured loans under this section using, to the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund in section 309 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act [[7 U.S.C. 1929](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1929&num=0&editio
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 8803
1 So in original. Pub. L. 97–35 decreased appropriation to
$460,000,000
from
$600,000,000
without
amending
sum
of
$500,000,000.
Executive Documents
TERMINATION OF TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC
ISLANDS
For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Is-
lands, see note set out preceding section 1681 of Title
48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
§ 8803. Funding
(a) Authorization of appropriations
To the extent provided in advance in appro-
priation Acts, for the two year period beginning
October 1, 1980, there is authorized to be appro-
priated and transferred $1,170,000,000 from the
Energy Security Reserve established in the
Treasury of the United States under title II of
the Act entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations
for the Department of the Interior and related
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1980, and for other purposes’’ (Public Law 96–126;
93 Stat. 970) and made available for obligation
by such Act only to the extent provided in ad-
vance in appropriation Acts, as follows:
(1) $460,000,000 to the Secretary of Agri-
culture for carrying out activities under sub-
chapter I, except of the amount of the finan-
cial assistance provided by the Secretary of
Agriculture under subchapter I, up to one-
third shall be for small-scale biomass energy
projects;
(2) $460,000,000 to the Secretary of Energy for
carrying out biomass energy activities under
subchapter I, of which at least $500,000,000 1
shall be available to the Office of Alcohol
Fuels for carrying out its activities, and any
amount not made available to the Office of Al-
cohol Fuels shall be available to the Secretary
to carry out the purposes of subchapter I
under available authorities of the Secret
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