Public Law 76–316

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, or interests therein, within the boundaries of the Angeles National Forest, in the 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

Payment from Forest receipts, etc.

lands, or interests therein, from the entire receipts from occupancy of public land or from the sale of natural resources other than mineral, within the Angeles National Forest, which receipts are

Appropriation authorized.

Proviso.

Transfer of unexpended appropriations.

hereby authorized to be appropriated for that purpose until said lands have been acquired: Provided, That any appropriated amounts which are unexpended and unobligated at the close of the fiscal year for which appropriated shall be transferred to the national-forest receipts of that fiscal year and amounts so transferred and such part of the entire receipts of any fiscal year as are not appropriated shall be disposed of in like manner as other national-forest receipts.