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16 U.S.C. § 475 — Purposes for which national forests may be established and administered
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All public lands designated and reserved prior to June 4, 1897, by the President of the United States under the provisions of section 471 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, the orders for which shall be and remain in full force and effect, unsuspended and unrevoked, and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and reserved as national forests under said section, shall be as far as practicable controlled and administered in accordance with the following provisions. No national forest shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the boundaries, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or of said section, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for agricultural purposes, than for forest purposes.
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All public lands designated and reserved prior to June 4, 1897, by the President of the United States under the provisions of section 471 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, the orders for which shall be and remain in full force and effect, unsuspended and unrevoked, and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and reserved as national forests under said section, shall be as far as practicable controlled and administered in accordance with the following provisions. No national forest shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the boundaries, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or of said section, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for agricultural purposes, than for forest purposes.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, acts Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 24, 26 Stat. 1103; Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1271; June 25, 1910, ch. 421, § 2, 36 Stat. 847; Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497; June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 9 (first and fifth sentences), 43 Stat. 655, provided for establishment of national forests by the President, limited inclusion of lands in certain States, and authorized addition of lands suitable for production of timber.
Act Mar. 4, 1907, cited above, was not repealed by Pub. L. 94–579.
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Section 704(a) of Pub. L. 94–579 provided that this section is repealed effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976.
#### Savings Provision
Repeal by Pub. L. 94–579 not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see note set out under [section 1701 of Title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1701&num=0&edition=prelim), Public Lands.
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It is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes. The purposes of sections 528 to 531 of this title are declared to be supplemental to, but not in derogation of, the purposes for which the national forests were established as set forth in [section 475 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section475&num=0&edition=prelim). Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the several States with respect to wildlife and fish on the national forests. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect the use or administration of the mineral resources of national forest lands or to affect the use or administration of Federal lands not within national forests.
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In order to promote the highest use of the public lands pending its final disposal, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, by order to establish grazing districts or additions thereto and/or to modify the boundaries thereof, of vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved lands from any part of the public domain of the United States (exclusive of Alaska), which are not in national forests, national parks and monuments, Indian reservations, revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands, or revested Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands, and which in his opinion are chiefly valuable for grazing and raising forage crops: Provided, That no lands withdrawn or reserved for any other purpose shall be included in any such district except with the approval of the head of the department having jurisdiction thereof. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed in any way to diminish, restrict, or impair any right which has been heretofore or may be hereafter initiated under existing law validly affecting the public lands, and which is maintained pursuant to such law except as otherwise expressly provided in this subchapter nor to affect any land heretofore or hereafter surveyed which, except for the provisions of this subchapter, would be a part of any grant to any State, nor as limiting or restricting the power or authority of any State as to matters within its jurisdiction. Whenever any grazing district is established pursuant to this subchapter, the Secretary shall grant to owners of land adjacent to such district, upon application of any such owner, such rights-of-way over the lands included in such district for stock-driving purposes as may be necessary for the convenient access by any such owner to marketing facilities or to lands not within such district
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 477
1 See References in Text note below.
1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Or-
ganization and Employees.
‘‘Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may
designate’’ substituted in text for ‘‘Commissioner of
the General Land Office’’ on authority of Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.
‘‘Bureau of Land Management’’ substituted for ‘‘Gen-
eral Land Office’’ on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of
1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. The ‘‘General
Land Office’’ was abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946
with its functions consolidated with that of the Graz-
ing Service to form a new agency in the Department of
the Interior to be known as the Bureau of Land Man-
agement.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,
and agencies of Department of the Interior, with cer-
tain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with
power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2,
eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5.
§ 475. Purposes for which national forests may be
established and administered
All public lands designated and reserved prior
to June 4, 1897, by the President of the United
States under the provisions of section 471 1 of
this title, the orders for which shall be and re-
main in full force and effect, unsuspended and
unrevoked, and all public lands that may here-
after be set aside and reserved as national for-
ests under said section, shall be as far as prac-
ticable controlled and administered in accord-
ance with the following provisions. No national
forest shall be established, except to improve
and protect the forest within the boundaries, or
for the purpose of securing favorable conditions
of
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