---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1734a"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1734a"
heading: "Availability of excess fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1734a"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Federal Land Policy and Management"
  - "Subchapter III — Administration"
---

# §1734a. Availability of excess fees


In fiscal year 1997 and thereafter, all fees, excluding mining claim fees, in excess of the fiscal year 1996 collections established by the [Secretary](/usc/43/1702.md?p=g) of the Interior under the authority of [section 1734 of this title](/usc/43/1734.md) for processing, recording, or documenting authorizations to use [public lands](/usc/43/1702.md?p=e) 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.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(d) [title I], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–181, 3009–182.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, and not as part of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 which comprises this chapter.