Volume 49
Public Law 74–691
To facilitate the control of soil erosion and or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah.
Approved August 26, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To facilitate the control of soil erosion and or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission established by section 4 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 513), is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase any lands within the boundaries of the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, in the State of Utah, which, in his judgment, should become the property of the United States in order that they may be so managed with other lands of the United States as to minimize
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soil erosion and flood damage, and to pay for said lands from the entire receipts from the sale of natural resources or occupancy of public land within the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, which receipts are hereby authorized to be appropriated for that purpose until said lands have been acquired.
Approved, August 26, 1935.