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16 U.S.C. § 505 — Use of national forests established on land reserved for purposes of national defense; maintenance available

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16 U.S.C. § 505 — Use of national forests established on land reserved for purposes of national defense; maintenance available

Where a national forest is established under [section 471(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section471/b&num=0&edition=prelim) on land previously reserved for the Army or Navy for purposes of national defense the land shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the Department of the Army or Navy Department for said purposes and nothing in this section or [section 471(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section471/b&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be construed to relinquish the authority over such lands for purposes of national defense now vested in the department for which the lands were formerly reserved. Any moneys available for the maintenance, improvement, protection, construction of highways and general administration of the national forests shall be available for expenditure on national forests created under this section.

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Where a national forest is established under [section 471(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section471/b&num=0&edition=prelim) on land previously reserved for the Army or Navy for purposes of national defense the land shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the Department of the Army or Navy Department for said purposes and nothing in this section or [section 471(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section471/b&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be construed to relinquish the authority over such lands for purposes of national defense now vested in the department for which the lands were formerly reserved. Any moneys available for the maintenance, improvement, protection, construction of highways and general administration of the national forests shall be available for expenditure on national forests created under this section.

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16 U.S.C. § 499 — Disposal of money received by or on account of Forest Service; refund of excess and moneys erroneously collected; receipts from permits

All money received by or on account of the Forest Service for timber, or from any other source of national-forest revenue, including moneys received from sale of products from or for the use of lands in national forests created under section 471(b) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, and moneys received on account of permits for hunting, fishing, or camping on lands acquired under authority of sections 513 to 517 and 521 of this title, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt and there is hereby appropriated and made available as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, so much as may be necessary to make refunds to depositors of money heretofore or hereafter deposited by them to secure the purchase price on the sale of any products or for the use of any land or resources of the national forests in excess of amounts found actually due from them to the United States and also so much as may be necessary to refund or pay over to the rightful claimants such sums as may be found by the Secretary of Agriculture to have been erroneously collected for the use of any lands, or for timber or other resources sold from lands located within, but not a part of, the national forests, or for alleged illegal acts done upon such lands, which acts are subsequently found to have been proper and legal.

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16 U.S.C. § 670e — Applicability to other laws; national forest lands

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to modify, amend or repeal any provision of Public Law 85–337, nor as applying to national forest lands administered pursuant to the provisions of section 9 of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 655), nor [section 315m of title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section315m&num=0&edition=prelim).

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16 U.S.C. § 505 — Use of national forests established on land

Page 953 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 505b sale thereof to be credited to the appropriation or appropriations of the Forest Service cur- rently available for the procurement or produc- tion of seed or nursery stock at the time such moneys are deposited: Provided, That the Sec- retary of Agriculture may exchange with such public agencies forest-tree seed and nursery stock for forest-tree seed or nursery stock of the same or different species upon a determination that such exchange is in the interest of the United States and that the value of the property given in exchange does not exceed the value of the property received: Provided further, That no nursery stock shall be sold or exchanged under this section as ornamental or other stock for landscape planting of the types commonly grown by established commercial nurserymen. (Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 9, 64 Stat. 85.) § 505. Use of national forests established on land reserved for purposes of national defense; maintenance available Where a national forest is established under section 471(b) of this title on land previously re- served for the Army or Navy for purposes of na- tional defense the land shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the Department of the Army or Navy Department for said purposes and nothing in this section or section 471(b) of this title shall be construed to relinquish the author- ity over such lands for purposes of national de- fense now vested in the department for which the lands were formerly reserved. Any moneys available for the maintenance, improvement, protection, construction of highways and gen- eral administration of the national forests shall be available for expenditure on national forests created under this section. (June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 9, 43 Stat. 655;

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