Volume 52
Public Law 75–438
To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests in Riverside County, California.
Approved June 15, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests in Riverside County, California.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests. Calif.
Acquisition of lands in, to facilitate soil erosion and flood damage control.
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 San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests, in the comity of Riverside, State of California, 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 from those proportions of the
Payment; funds available.
entire receipts from the sale of natural resources other than mineral or occupancy of public land within the San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests which are equal to the proportion of the net areas of said forests which are within the county of Riverside, State of California, which receipts are hereby authorized to be appropriated for that purpose until said lands have been acquired: Provided,
Proviso.
Waiver of certain provisions.
That so long as said receipts are used in the manner herein authorized, the provisions of the Act approved May 23, 1908 (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 500), shall not be applicable to said county of Riverside.
Approved, June 15, 1938.