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43 U.S.C. § 1734 — Fees, charges, and commissions
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**(a) Authority to establish and modify** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may establish reasonable filing and service fees and reasonable charges, and commissions with respect to applications and other documents relating to the public lands and may change and abolish such fees, charges, and commissions.
**(b) Deposits for payments to reimburse reasonable costs of United States** The Secretary is authorized to require a deposit of any payments intended to reimburse the United States for reasonable costs with respect to applications and other documents relating to such lands. The moneys received for reasonable costs under this subsection shall be deposited with the Treasury in a special account and are hereby authorized to be appropriated and made available until expended. As used in this section “reasonable costs” include, but are not limited to, the costs of special studies; environmental impact statements; monitoring construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of any authorized facility; or other special activities. In determining whether costs are reasonable under this section, the Secretary may take into consideration actual costs (exclusive of management overhead), the monetary value of the rights or privileges sought by the applicant, the efficiency to the government processing involved, that portion of the cost incurred for the benefit of the general public interest rather than for the exclusive benefit of the applicant, the public service provided, and other factors relevant to determining the reasonableness of the costs.
**(c) Refunds** In any case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary that any person has made a payment under any statute relating to the sale, lease, use, or other disposition of public la
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**(a) Authority to establish and modify** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may establish reasonable filing and service fees and reasonable charges, and commissions with respect to applications and other documents relating to the public lands and may change and abolish such fees, charges, and commissions.
**(b) Deposits for payments to reimburse reasonable costs of United States** The Secretary is authorized to require a deposit of any payments intended to reimburse the United States for reasonable costs with respect to applications and other documents relating to such lands. The moneys received for reasonable costs under this subsection shall be deposited with the Treasury in a special account and are hereby authorized to be appropriated and made available until expended. As used in this section “reasonable costs” include, but are not limited to, the costs of special studies; environmental impact statements; monitoring construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of any authorized facility; or other special activities. In determining whether costs are reasonable under this section, the Secretary may take into consideration actual costs (exclusive of management overhead), the monetary value of the rights or privileges sought by the applicant, the efficiency to the government processing involved, that portion of the cost incurred for the benefit of the general public interest rather than for the exclusive benefit of the applicant, the public service provided, and other factors relevant to determining the reasonableness of the costs.
**(c) Refunds** In any case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary that any person has made a payment under any statute relating to the sale, lease, use, or other disposition of public lands which is not required or is in excess of the amount required by applicable law and the regulations issued by the Secretary, the Secretary, upon application or otherwise, may cause a refund to be made from applicable funds.
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**(a)** It is the sense of Congress that each service or thing of value provided by an agency (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) to a person (except a person on official business of the United States Government) is to be self-sustaining to the extent possible.
**(b)** The head of each agency (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) may prescribe regulations establishing the charge for a service or thing of value provided by the agency. Regulations prescribed by the heads of executive agencies are subject to policies prescribed by the President and shall be as uniform as practicable. Each charge shall be—
(1) fair; and
(2) based on—
(A) the costs to the Government;
(B) the value of the service or thing to the recipient;
(C) public policy or interest served; and
(D) other relevant facts.
**(c)** This section does not affect a law of the United States—
(1) prohibiting the determination and collection of charges and the disposition of those charges; and
(2) prescribing bases for determining charges, but a charge may be redetermined under this section consistent with the prescribed bases.
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**(a) Establishment** There is established, as an independent office in the executive branch, the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects.
**(b) Federal Coordinator**
(1) **Appointment** — The Office shall be headed by a Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve a term to last until 1 year following the completion of the project referred to in [section 720a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section720a&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Compensation** — The Federal Coordinator shall be compensated at the rate prescribed for level III of the Executive Schedule ([5 U.S.C. 5314](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5314&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(c) Duties** The Federal Coordinator shall be responsible for—
(1) coordinating the expeditious discharge of all activities by Federal agencies with respect to an Alaska natural gas transportation project; and
(2) ensuring the compliance of Federal agencies with the provisions of this chapter.
**(d) Reviews and actions of other Federal agencies**
(1) **Expedited reviews and actions** — All reviews conducted and actions taken by any Federal agency relating to an Alaska natural gas transportation project authorized under this section shall be expedited, in a manner consistent with completion of the necessary reviews and approvals by the deadlines under this chapter.
(2) **Prohibition of certain terms and conditions** — No Federal agency may include in any certificate, right-of-way, permit, lease, or other authorization issued to an Alaska natural gas transportation project any ter
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**(a) In general** Notwithstanding any provision of applicable law, no action by any Federal agency under applicable law with respect to the approval or disapproval of the authorization, in whole or in part, of any transportation or utility system shall have any force or effect unless the provisions of this section are complied with.
**(b) Consolidated applications**
(1) Within one hundred and eighty days after December 2, 1980, the Secretary, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall jointly prescribe and publish a consolidated application form to be used for applying for the approval of each type of transportation or utility system. Each such application form shall be designed to elicit such information as may be necessary to meet the requirements of this subchapter and the applicable law with respect to the type of system concerned.
(2) For purposes of this section, the heads of all appropriate Federal agencies, including the Secretary of Transportation, shall share decisionmaking responsibility in the case of any transportation or utility system described in section 3162(4)(B)(ii), (iii), or (vii) of this title; but with respect to any such system for which he does not have programmatic responsibility, the Secretary of Transportation shall provide to the other Federal agencies concerned such planning and other assistance as may be appropriate.
**(c) Filing** Each applicant for the approval of any transportation or utility system shall file on the same day an application with each appropriate Federal agency. The applicant shall utilize the consolidated form prescribed under subsection (b) for the type of transportation or utility system concerned.
**(d) Agency no
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make a reasonable allowance for office rent for each consolidated land office; and when satisfied of the necessity therefor, to approve the employment of one or more clerks, at a reasonable per diem compensation, for such time as such clerical force is absolutely required to keep up the current public business, which clerical force shall be paid out of the surplus fees authorized to be charged by section 84 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, if any, and if no surplus exists, then out of the appropriation for incidental expenses of district land offices; but no clerk shall be so paid unless his employment has been first sanctioned by the Secretary of the Interior.
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**(a) Maximum amounts for specified years** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall not be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior for Department of the Interior programs as defined in subsection (e) in excess of $4,095,404,000 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1981; in excess of $3,970,267,000 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1982; $4,680,223,000 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1983; and $4,797,281,000 for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1984.
**(b) Ceilings on certain appropriations** It is the sense of the Congress that the appropriation targets for such fiscal years should be: not less than $275,000,000 to be appropriated annually pursuant to the provisions of chapter 2003 of title 54; not less than $30,000,000 to be appropriated annually pursuant to the provisions of division A of subtitle III of title 54; not less than $10,000,000 to be appropriated annually pursuant to the provisions of chapter 2005 of title 54; not less than $105,000,000 to be appropriated annually to be used for the restoration and rehabilitation of units of the National Park System, as authorized by law; not less than $239,000,000 to be appropriated annually for the Office of Territorial and International Affairs (including amounts for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands); not less than $6,200,000 to be appropriated annually to carry out the provisions of title III of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (91 Stat. 445); 11 See References in Text note below. and not less than $100,000,000 to be appropriated annually pursuant to chapter 69 of title 31 including not less than $5,000,000 annually to carry out the purposes of [section 6904 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-preli
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In fiscal year 1997 and thereafter, all fees, excluding mining claim fees, in excess of the fiscal year 1996 collections established by the Secretary of the Interior under the authority of [section 1734 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1734&num=0&edition=prelim) for processing, recording, or documenting authorizations to use public lands or public land natural resources (including cultural, historical, and mineral) and for providing specific services to public land users, and which are not presently being covered into any Bureau of Land Management appropriation accounts, and not otherwise dedicated by law for a specific distribution, shall be made immediately available for program operations in this account and remain available until expended.
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**(a) Establishment** The Secretary of the Interior, after consultation with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, shall establish an expedited schedule for conducting reviews and making recommendations concerning crude oil transportation systems proposed in applications filed under [section 2004 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section2004&num=0&edition=prelim) and for obtaining information necessary for environmental impact statements required under [section 4332 of title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4332&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to such proposed systems.
**(b) Additional information**
(1) On his own initiative or at the request of the head of any Federal agency covered by the review schedule established under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior shall require that an applicant provide such additional information as may be necessary to conduct the review of the applicant’s proposal. Such information may include—
(A) specific details of the route (and alternative routes) and identification of Federal lands affected by any such route;
(B) information necessary for environmental impact statements; and
(C) information necessary for the President’s determination under [section 2007(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section2007/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) If, within a reasonable time, an applicant does not—
(A) provide information required under this subsection, or
(B) comply with any requirement of [section 1734 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1734&num=0&edition=prelim),
the Secretary of the Interior may declare the ap
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### Statutory Notes
Section, R.S. § 2238; acts May 14, 1880, ch. 89, § 2, 21 Stat. 141; Dec. 17, 1880, ch. 2, 21 Stat. 311; July 26, 1892, ch. 251, 27 Stat. 270; Mar. 22, 1904, ch. 748, 33 Stat. 144; May 29, 1908, ch. 220, § 14, 35 Stat. 468; Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 1179; June 5, 1924, ch. 264, 43 Stat. 395; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145, related to fees and commissions required to be collected by district land offices. See [section 1734 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1734&num=0&edition=prelim).
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### Statutory Notes
Section, R.S. § 2239; acts Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145, related to fees for consolidated land offices. See [section 1734 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1734&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 1734
(e) Uniformed desert ranger force in California
Desert Conservation Area; establishment; en-
forcement of Federal laws and regulations
Nothing in this section shall prevent the Sec-
retary from promptly establishing a uniformed
desert ranger force in the California Desert Con-
servation Area established pursuant to section
1781 of this title for the purpose of enforcing
Federal laws and regulations relating to the
public lands and resources managed by him in
such area. The officers and members of such
ranger force shall have the same responsibilities
and authority as provided for in paragraph (1) of
subsection (c) of this section.
(f) Applicability of other Federal enforcement
provisions
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as re-
ducing or limiting the enforcement authority
vested in the Secretary by any other statute.
(g) Unlawful activities
The use, occupancy, or development of any
portion of the public lands contrary to any regu-
lation of the Secretary or other responsible au-
thority, or contrary to any order issued pursu-
ant to any such regulation, is unlawful and pro-
hibited.
(Pub. L. 94–579, title III, § 303, Oct. 21, 1976, 90
Stat. 2763; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, Dec. 1,
1990, 104 Stat. 5117.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (f), is
Pub. L. 94–579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, known as the
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Ta-
bles.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
‘‘United States magistrate judge’’ substituted for
‘‘United States magistrate’’ in subsec. (a) pursuant to
section 321 of Pub. L. 101–650, set out as a note under
section 631
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