Volume 49
Public Law 74–553
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics and related subjects, and for other purposes”, approved May 22, 1928.
Approved June 15, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics and related subjects, and for other purposes”, approved May 22, 1928.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2
Great Plains Forest Experiment Station.
Vol. 45, p. 701.
U. S. C., p. 672.
of the Act of May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 699; U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 16, sec. 581a), be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:
“The Secretary of Agriculture is further authorized to establish
Establishment, etc.
and maintain a forest experiment station in the Great Plains and prairie States, to be known as the ‘Great Plains Forest Experiment Station’, and to acquire by purchase, condemnation, donation, or otherwise such real property or interest therein as in his judgment is required for the use of said station, including the making of necessary expenditures in examining, appraising, and surveying any such property and in doing all things incident to perfecting title thereto in the United States. There is authorized to be appropriated
Annual appropriation authorized.
annually such additional sums as may be required for the purposes of this paragraph.”
Approved, June 15, 1936.