---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7717"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7717"
heading: "Control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7717"
units:
  - "Chapter 104 — Plant Protection"
  - "Subchapter I — Plant Protection"
---

# §7717. Control of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets

- (a) **In general—** Subject to the availability of funds pursuant to this section, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) shall carry out a program to control grasshoppers and Mormon crickets on all Federal lands to protect rangeland.
- (b) **Transfer authority—**
  - (1) **In general—** Subject to [paragraph (3)](#b-3), upon the request of the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) of Agriculture, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) of the Interior shall transfer to the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) of Agriculture, from any no-year appropriations, funds for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) of the Interior. The transferred funds shall be available only for the payment of obligations incurred on such Federal lands.
  - (2) **Transfer requests—** Requests for the transfer of funds pursuant to this subsection shall be made as promptly as possible by the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16).
  - (3) **Limitation—** Funds transferred pursuant to this subsection may not be used by the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) until funds specifically appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) for grasshopper control have been exhausted.
  - (4) **Replenishment of transferred funds—** Funds transferred pursuant to this subsection shall be replenished by supplemental or regular appropriations, which shall be requested as promptly as possible.
- (c) **Treatment for grasshoppers and Mormon crickets—**
  - (1) **In general—** Subject to the availability of funds pursuant to this section, on request of the administering agency or the agriculture department of an affected [State](/usc/7/7702.md?p=17), the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16), to protect rangeland, shall immediately treat Federal, [State](/usc/7/7702.md?p=17), or private lands that are infested with grasshoppers or Mormon crickets at levels of economic infestation, unless the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) determines that delaying treatment will not cause greater economic damage to adjacent owners of rangeland.
  - (2) **Other programs—** In carrying out this section, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) shall work in conjunction with other Federal, [State](/usc/7/7702.md?p=17), and private prevention, control, or suppression efforts to protect rangeland.
- (d) **Federal cost share of treatment—**
  - (1) **Control on Federal lands—** Out of funds made available or transferred under this section, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) shall pay 100 percent of the cost of grasshopper or Mormon cricket control on Federal lands to protect rangeland.
  - (2) **Control on State lands—** Out of funds made available under this section, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) shall pay 50 percent of the cost of grasshopper or Mormon cricket control on [State](/usc/7/7702.md?p=17) lands.
  - (3) **Control on private lands—** Out of funds made available under this section, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) shall pay 33.3 percent of the cost of grasshopper or Mormon cricket control on private lands.
- (e) **Training—** From appropriated funds made available or transferred by the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) of the Interior to the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) of Agriculture for such purposes, the [Secretary](/usc/7/7702.md?p=16) of Agriculture shall provide adequate funding for a program to train personnel to accomplish effectively the objective of this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–224, title IV, § 417, June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 447.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to agricultural import and entry inspection activities under this chapter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 231, 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.