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Public Law 75–197

To facilitate the control of soil erosion and flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Cache National Forest in the State of Utah.

Approved May 11, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To facilitate the control of soil erosion and flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Cache National Forest in the State of Utah.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary

Cache National Forest, Utah.

Acquisition of lands for control of soil erosion and flood damage.

36 Stat. 962.

16 U. S. C. § 513.

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 Cache National Forest 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 soil erosion and flood damage; and to pay for said lands that proportion of the entire

Funds available for payment.

receipts from the sale of natural resources, other than mineral, and the occupancy of publicly owned lands within said national forest which is equal to that proportion of the gross area of said national forest situated in the State of Utah hereby is authorized to be appropriated for expenditure for that purpose by the Secretary of Agriculture until said lands have been acquired. So far as the State of Utah

Designated provisions inoperative in Utah.

35 Stat. 260; 37 Stat. 843.

16 U. S. C. §§ 500, 501.

Payments and expenditures within Idaho.

may be concerned, the provisions of the Acts of May 23, 1908 (35 Stat. 260); section 500, title 16, United States Code, of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843); and section 501, title 16, United States Code, shall be inoperative in relation to the receipts so appropriated, but nothing herein contained shall diminish payments to or expenditures within the State of Idaho under the provisions of said Acts.

Approved, May 11, 1938.

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