16 U.S.C. § 1332 : US Code - Section 1332: Definitions

Search 16 U.S.C. § 1332 : US Code - Section 1332: Definitions

As used in this chapter -
(a) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior when used
in connection with public lands administered by him through the
Bureau of Land Management and the Secretary of Agriculture in
connection with public lands administered by him through the
Forest Service;
(b) "wild free-roaming horses and burros" means all unbranded
and unclaimed horses and burros on public lands of the United
States;
(c) "range" means the amount of land necessary to sustain an
existing herd or herds of wild free-roaming horses and burros,
which does not exceed their known territorial limits, and which
is devoted principally but not necessarily exclusively to their
welfare in keeping with the multiple-use management concept for
the public lands;
(d) "herd" means one or more stallions and his mares; and
(e) "public lands" means any lands administered by the
Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management
or by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Forest Service.
(f) "excess animals" means wild free-roaming horses or burros
(1) which have been removed from an area by the Secretary
pursuant to applicable law or, (2) which must be removed from an
area in order to preserve and maintain a thriving natural
ecological balance and multiple-use relationship in that area.