---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 315h"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "315h"
heading: "Cooperation with associations, land officials, and agencies engaged in conservation or propagation of wildlife; local hearings on appeals; acceptance and use of contributions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/315h"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Grazing Lands"
  - "Subchapter I — Generally"
---

# §315h. Cooperation with associations, land officials, and agencies engaged in conservation or propagation of wildlife; local hearings on appeals; acceptance and use of contributions


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior shall provide, by suitable rules and regulations, for cooperation with local [associations](/usc/43/31b.md?p=2) of stockmen, [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) land officials, and official [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) agencies engaged in conservation or propagation of wildlife interested in the use of the grazing districts. The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior shall provide by appropriate rules and regulations for local hearings on appeals from the decisions of the administrative officer in charge in a manner similar to the procedure in the land department. The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior shall also be empowered to accept contributions toward the administration, protection, and improvement of lands within or without the exterior boundaries of a grazing district, moneys, so received to be covered into the Treasury as a special fund, which is appropriated and made available until expended, as the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior may direct, for payment of expenses incident to said administration, protection, and improvement, and for refunds to depositors of amounts contributed by them in excess of their share of the cost.


## Source credit

(June 28, 1934, ch. 865, § 9, 48 Stat. 1273; June 19, 1948, ch. 548, § 2, 62 Stat. 533.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1948—Act June 19, 1948, substituted “lands within or without the external boundaries of a grazing district” for “the district” in third sentence, in order to permit acceptance of lands without boundaries of grazing district.