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16 U.S.C. § 559f — Approval of Secretary of Agriculture and Attorney General
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The authorities conferred herein shall be exercised pursuant to an agreement approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Attorney General.
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The authorities conferred herein shall be exercised pursuant to an agreement approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Attorney General.
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**(a) Unlawful acts** Except as authorized by this subchapter, it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally—
(1) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance; or
(2) to create, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to distribute or dispense, a counterfeit substance.
**(b) Penalties** Except as otherwise provided in section 849, 859, 860, or 861 of this title, any person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be sentenced as follows:
(1)
(A) In the case of a violation of subsection (a) of this section involving—
(i) 1 kilogram or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin;
(ii) 5 kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of—
(I) coca leaves, except coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed;
(II) cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salts of isomers;
(III) ecgonine, its derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; or
(IV) any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the substances referred to in subclauses (I) through (III);
(iii) 280 grams or more of a mixture or substance described in clause (ii) which contains cocaine base;
(iv) 100 grams or more of phencyclidine (PCP) or 1 kilogram or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of phencyclidine (PCP);
(v) 10 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD);
(vi) 400 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of N-phenyl-N- [
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of sections 559b to 559f of this title is to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter in sections 559b to 559f of this title referred to as the “Secretary”) to take actions necessary, in connection with the administration and use of the National Forest System, to prevent the manufacture, distribution, or dispensing of marijuana and other controlled substances.
**(b) Law enforcement authority** Nothing in sections 559b to 559f of this title shall diminish in any way the law enforcement authority of the Forest Service.
**(c) Definitions** As used in sections 559b to 559f of this title, the terms “manufacture”, “dispense”, and “distribute” shall have the same meaning given such terms in [section 802 of title 21](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section802&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 559f
(Pub. L. 99–570, title XV, § 15006, Oct. 27, 1986, 100
Stat.
3207–192;
Pub.
L.
100–690,
title
VI,
§ 6254(d)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4364.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1988—Pub. L. 100–690 amended section generally. Prior
to amendment, section read as follows: ‘‘There is au-
thorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each fiscal
year to carry out sections 559b to 559f of this title.’’
§ 559f. Approval of Secretary of Agriculture and
Attorney General
The authorities conferred herein shall be exer-
cised pursuant to an agreement approved by the
Secretary of Agriculture and the Attorney Gen-
eral.
(Pub. L. 99–570, title XV, § 15007, Oct. 27, 1986, 100
Stat. 3207–192.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Herein, referred to in text, probably means title XV
of Pub. L. 99–570, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–191, known
as the National Forest System Drug Control Act of
1986, which enacted sections 559b to 559f of this title,
amended section 841 of Title 21, Food and Drugs, and
enacted provisions set out as a note under section 559b
of this title. For complete classification of title XV to
the Code, see Short Title note set out under section
559b of this title and Tables.
§ 559g. Designation authority of Secretary of Ag-
riculture
(a) Purpose
It is the purpose of this section to authorize
the Secretary of Agriculture to make law en-
forcement operations more efficient in connec-
tion with the administration and use of the Na-
tional Forest System.
(b) Officers of other agencies
The Secretary is authorized to designate law
enforcement officers of any other Federal agen-
cy, when the Secretary determines such designa-
tion to be economical and in the public interest,
and with the concurrence of that agenc
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