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Show liUGBtOGEl QFOEillO iGflHlofiOHO ailGliflGd rule making in the federal register. All adopted amendments were published as a proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, with a 60 day public pub-lic comment period. Appropriate Appro-priate comments and suggestions sug-gestions were incorporated into the final regulations which become effective Aug. 11, 1980. Several sections of the proposed rulemaking that related to placing grazing decisions in full force and effect were deleted from the final rulemaking in light of the public controversy over, and recent legislative action affecting the implementation of this policy. Any necessary changes to the grazing regulations will be published as proposed V The Department , of Interior In-terior has amended its regulations regu-lations for Ivestock grazing to conform to provisions of . Public Rangelands Improvement Improve-ment Act of 1978. The regulations regu-lations apply to lands administered admin-istered by the BLM outside Alaska. They make significant changes in existing regula.-tions regula.-tions concerning reductios in grazing preferences, conditions con-ditions under which aper-mit aper-mit or lease may be issued for less than 10 years, and inclusion of lands outside out-side allotment boundaries in exchange of use agreements. As now amended, where it is necessary to reduce grazing use on an allotment the difference between the livestock operator's grazing graz-ing preference and the auth -1 orized use will be suspend-f ed, rather than canceled. I . Under existing law, graz- 1 ing permits or lease auth- orization of livestock use i on the public lands are is'- ' sued-for a term of ,10 years, i With exceptions to this made ' on a case by case basis, i The adopted amendment ' specifies that the absence of a completed land use plan shall not be the sole basis for issuing a grazing permit : for a term of less than 10 ( years. , |