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{{Infobox U.S. legislation
| shorttitle        = Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978
| othershorttitles  =
| longtitle         = An Act to improve the range conditions of the public grazing lands.
| colloquialacronym = PRIA
| nickname          = Public Grazing Lands Improvement Act of 1978
| enacted by        = 95th
| effective date    = October 25, 1978
| public law url    = https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg1803.pdf
| cite public law   = 95-514
| cite statutes at large = {{usstat|92|1803}}
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| title amended   = [[Title 43 of the United States Code|43 U.S.C.: Public Lands]]
| sections created = {{Usc-title-chap|43|37}} § 1901 et seq.
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| introducedin    = House
| introducedbill  = {{USBill|95|H.R.|10587}}
| introducedby    = [[Teno Roncalio]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]–[[Wyoming|WY]])
| introduceddate  = January 26, 1978
| committees      = [[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|House Interior and Insular Affairs]], [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Senate Energy and Natural Resources]]
| passedbody1     = House
| passeddate1     = June 29, 1978
| passedvote1     = Passed
| passedbody2     = Senate
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| passeddate2     = September 30, 1978
| passedvote2     = [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/95-1978/s1070 59-7]
| conferencedate  = October 6, 1978
| passedbody3     = House
| passeddate3     = October 10, 1978
| passedvote3     = Agreed
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| passedbody4     = Senate
| passeddate4     = October 11, 1978
| passedvote4     = Agreed
| signedpresident = [[Jimmy E. Carter]]
| signeddate      = October 25, 1978
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The '''Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978''' ('''PRIA''') ({{USPL|95|514}}) defines the current grazing fee formula and establishes rangeland monitoring and inventory procedures for [[Bureau of Land Management]] and [[United States Forest Service]] rangelands. The [[United States National Grassland|National Grasslands]] are exempt from PRIA.

The H.R. 10587 [[Bill (law)|legislation]] was passed by the 95th U.S. Congressional session and enacted into law by the [[Presidency of Jimmy Carter|39th President of the United States]] [[Jimmy Carter]] on October 25, 1978.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=30058 |title = Jimmy Carter: "Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 Statement on Signing H.R. 10587 Into Law. ," October 27, 1978 |author1= Gerhard Peters |author2 = John T. Woolley |publisher = University of California - Santa Barbara |work = The American Presidency Project |accessdate= 4 July 2016}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{CRS|article = Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition|url = http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/05jun/97-905.pdf|author= Jasper Womach}}

[[Category:1978 in American law]]
[[Category:95th United States Congress]]
[[Category:United States Department of Agriculture]]