---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8855"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8855"
heading: "Forest Service leases and permits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8855"
units:
  - "Chapter 96 — Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels"
  - "Subchapter III — Rural, Agricultural, and Forestry Biomass Energy"
---

# §8855. Forest Service leases and permits


It is the intent of the Congress that the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) 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](/usc/16/1604.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–294, title II, § 262, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 710.)