16 U.S.C. § 576a — Authorization of appropriation for refor-

Page 1070 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 572a as ‘‘Cooperative work, Forest Service,’’ see section 1321 of Title 31, Money and Finance. § 572a. Deposits from timber purchasers to de- fray cost of scaling services The Forest Service may accept money from timber purchasers for deposit into the Treasury in the trust account, ‘‘Forest Service coopera- tive fund’’, which moneys are made available for scaling services requested by purchasers in addi- tion to those required by the Forest Service, and for refunds of amounts deposited in excess of the cost of such work. (Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 210, 58 Stat. 737.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944. § 573. Repealed. Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 17(a), 64 Stat. 87 Section, act May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 1, 46 Stat. 387, re- lated to water supply and sanitary systems. § 574. Damages caused private property in pro- tection, administration, and improvement of national forests; reimbursement The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to reimburse owners of private property for dam- age or destruction thereof caused by employees of the United States in connection with the pro- tection, administration, or improvement of the national forests, payment to be made from any funds appropriated for the protection, adminis- tration, and improvement of the national for- ests: Provided, That no payment in excess of $2,500 shall be made on any such claim. (May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 2, 46 Stat. 387; Pub. L. 87–869, § 8, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1962—Pub. L. 87–869 increased from $500 to $2,500 the authorization for reimbursement of owners of private property for damages caused in protection, administra- tion, and improvement of national forests. § 575. Search for lost persons, and transportation of sick, injured, or dead persons, within na- tional forests; authorization to incur expense The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cases of emergency to incur such expenses as may be necessary in searching for persons lost in the national forests and in transporting per- sons seriously ill, injured, or who die within the national forests to the nearest place where the sick or injured person, or the body, may be transferred to interested parties or local au- thorities. (May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 3, 46 Stat. 387.) § 576. Reforestation; establishment of forest tree nurseries; tree planting; seed sowing and for- est improvement work The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to establish forest tree nurseries and do all other things needful in preparation for planting on na- tional forests on the scale possible under the ap- propriations authorized by section 576a of this title: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be deemed to restrict the authority of the said Secretary under other authority of law. (June 9, 1930, ch. 416, § 1, 46 Stat. 527.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SHORT TITLE The act of June 9, 1930, ch. 416, 46 Stat. 527, as amend- ed, which is classified to sections 576 to 576b of this title, is popularly known as the ‘‘Knutson-Vandenberg Act’’. § 576a. Authorization of appropriation for refor- estation There is authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year after year ending June 30, 1934, not to exceed $400,000, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and operate nurseries, to collect or to purchase tree seed or young trees, to plant trees, and to do all other things necessary for reforestation by planting or seed- ing national forests and for the additional pro- tection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations or young growth. (June 9, 1930, ch. 416, § 2, 46 Stat. 527.) § 576b. Purchasers of national-forest timber; de- posits of money in addition to payments for timber; use of deposits; seedlings and young trees for burned-over areas in national parks (a) The Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his or her judgment such action will be in the public interest, require any purchaser of na- tional-forest timber to make deposits of money in addition to the payments for the timber, to cover the cost to the United States of (1) plant- ing (including the production or purchase of young trees), (2) sowing with tree seeds (includ- ing the collection or purchase of such seeds), (3) cutting, destroying, or otherwise removing un- desirable trees or other growth, on the national- forest land cut over by the purchaser, in order to improve the future stand of timber, (4) pro- tecting and improving the future productivity of the renewable resources of the forest land on such sale area, including sale area improvement operations, maintenance and construction, re- forestation and wildlife habitat management, or (5) watershed restoration, wildlife habitat im- provement, control of insects, disease and nox- ious weeds, community protection activities, and the maintenance of forest roads, within the Forest Service region in which the timber sale occurred: Provided, That such activities may be performed through the use of contracts, forest product sales, and cooperative agreements. Such deposits shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is appro- priated and made available until expended, to cover the cost to the United States of such tree planting, seed sowing, and forest improvement work, as the Secretary of Agriculture may di- rect. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, upon application of the Secretary of the Inte- rior, to furnish seedlings and/or young trees for replanting of burned-over areas in any national park.