16 U.S.C. § 473 — Revocation, modification, or vacation of or-

Page 926 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 473 1 See References in Text note below. ‘‘(B) under a timber sale contract, including a qualifying contract, before the date on which the Secretary adjusts the contract term under sub- section (c). ‘‘(2) RELEASE OF LIABILITY.—In the written request for any option provided under subsections (b) and (c), a timber purchaser shall release the United States from all liability, including further consideration or compensation, resulting from— ‘‘(A) the cancellation of a qualifying contract of the purchaser or rate redetermination under sub- section (b)(1), the substitution of a Producer Price Index under subsection (b)(2), the modification of the contract under subsection (b)(3) or a determina- tion by the Secretary not to provide the cancella- tion, redetermination, substitution, or modifica- tion; or ‘‘(B) the modification of the term of a timber sale contract (including a qualifying contract) of the purchaser under subsection (c) or a determination by the Secretary not to provide the modification. ‘‘(3) LIMITATION.—Subject to subsection (b)(1)(A), the cancellation of a qualifying contract by the Sec- retary under subsection (b)(1) shall release the timber purchaser from further obligation under the canceled contract.’’ [Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical provisions. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of Title 7, Agriculture.] USE OF RECEIPTS FROM TIMBER SALES FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(h) [title II], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–242, 1783–271, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(h) [title II], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–242, 3341–271, provided that: ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec- retary of Agriculture is hereafter authorized to use from any receipts from the sale of timber a sum equal to the cost of construction of roads under the purchaser election program as described and authorized in section 14(i) of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 [16 U.S.C. 472a(i)].’’ § 473. Revocation, modification, or vacation of or- ders or proclamations establishing national forests The President of the United States is author- ized and empowered to revoke, modify, or sus- pend any and all Executive orders and proclama- tions or any part thereof issued under section 471 1 of this title, from time to time as he shall deem best for the public interests. By such modification he may reduce the area or change the boundary lines or may vacate altogether any order creating a national forest. (June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 34, 36.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 471 of this title, referred to in text, was re- pealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792. CODIFICATION The two sentences of this section are from provisions in section 1 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1898, act June 4, 1897. The first sentence is a portion of the third paragraph and was prefaced by the words ‘‘To remove any doubt which may exist pertaining to the authority of the President thereunto.’’ Other provisions of the same paragraph have been omitted as temporary. The second sentence is a portion of the seventh para- graph the whole of which reads as follows: ‘‘The Presi- dent is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the bound- ary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve.’’ Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SHORT TITLE Certain provisions of act June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 34, under the headings ‘‘UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.’’ and ‘‘SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.’’, which enacted sections 473 to 478, 479 to 482, and 551 of this title, are popularly known as the Organic Administra- tion Act. § 474. Surveys; plats and field notes; maps; effect under Act June 4, 1897 Surveys, field notes, and plats returned from the survey of public lands designated as national forests undertaken under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey in accordance with provisions of Act June 4, 1897, chapter 2, section 1, thirtieth Statutes, page 34, shall have the same legal force and ef- fect as surveys, field notes, and plats returned through the Field Surveying Service; and such surveys, which include subdivision surveys under the rectangular system, approved by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate as in other cases, and properly certified copies thereof shall be filed in the re- spective land offices of the districts in which such lands are situated, as in other cases. All laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are declared inoperative as respects such survey. A copy of every topographic map and other maps showing the distribution of the forests, together with such field notes as may be taken relating thereto, shall be certified thereto by the Direc- tor of the Survey and filed in the Bureau of Land Management. (June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 34; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100; Pub. L. 102–154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1000.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Act June 4, 1897, chapter 2, section 1, referred to in text, is act June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 34. For classifica- tion of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CHANGE OF NAME ‘‘United States Geological Survey’’ substituted in text for ‘‘Geological Survey’’ pursuant to provision of title I of Pub. L. 102–154, set out as a note under section 31 of Title 43, Public Lands. Executive Documents TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS ‘‘Field Surveying Service’’ substituted in text for ‘‘of- fice of surveyors-general’’ by act Mar. 3, 1925. Subse- quently, the Service was abolished and its functions transferred to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat.