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16 U.S.C. § 570 — Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to ascertain and determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow protection or for timber production, which can be economically administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to the National Forest Reservation Commission established under the Act of March 1, 1911, and if the commission shall determine that the administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote a future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the commission before the Congress of the United States.
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to ascertain and determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow protection or for timber production, which can be economically administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to the National Forest Reservation Commission established under the Act of March 1, 1911, and if the commission shall determine that the administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote a future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the commission before the Congress of the United States.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, acts Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, §§ 4, 5, 36 Stat. 962; Sept. 21, 1950, ch. 966, 64 Stat. 872, provided for creation and membership of National Forest Reservation Commission.
#### Transfer of Functions
Section 17(a)(1) of Pub. L. 94–588 provided in part that all functions of National Forest Reservation Commission are transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§§ 568f, 568g
SHORT TITLE
Section 4 of act Aug. 25, 1950, setting forth the pop-
ular name of the act of Aug. 25, 1950, as the ‘‘Coopera-
tive Forest Management Act,’’ was repealed by Pub. L.
95–313, § 16(a)(4), formerly § 13(a)(4), July 1, 1978, 92 Stat.
374, renumbered § 16(a)(4), Pub. L. 101–624, title XII,
§ 1215(1), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3525.
§§ 568f, 568g. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section 568f, act May 28, 1956, ch. 327, title IV, § 402,
70 Stat. 208, required the Secretary of Agriculture to
make a study of price trends and relationships for basic
forest products and submit a report to the Congress
within one year from May 28, 1956.
Section 568g, act May 28, 1956, ch. 327, title IV, § 403,
as added Aug. 28, 1958, Pub. L. 85–829, 72 Stat. 986, which
provided that as used in section 568e of this title, the
term ‘‘State’’ included the Territory of Hawaii, is obso-
lete in view of the repeal of section 568e of this title by
Pub. L. 95–313, § 13(a)(5), July 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 374.
§ 569. Donations to United States of lands for tim-
ber purposes
To enable owners of lands chiefly valuable for
the growing of timber crops to donate or devise
such lands to the United States in order to as-
sure future timber supplies for the agricultural
and other industries of the State or for other na-
tional forest purposes, the Secretary of Agri-
culture is authorized, in his discretion, to accept
on behalf of the United States title to any such
land so donated or devised, subject to such res-
ervations by the donor of the present stand of
merchantable timber or of mineral or other
rights for a period not exceeding twenty years as
the Secretary of Agriculture may find to be rea-
sonable and not detrimental to the
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