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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 2 — National Forests

§ 490. Deposits from timber purchasers to defray cost of disposing of debris

Statutory text

Purchasers of national-forest timber may be required by the Secretary of Agriculture to deposit the estimated cost to the United States of disposing of brush and other debris resulting from their cutting operations, such deposits to be covered into the Treasury and constitute a special fund, which is appropriated and shall remain available until expended: Provided, That any deposits in excess of the amount expended for disposals shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest-reserve fund, to be credited to the receipts of the year in which such transfer is made.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 64–313 · 39 Stat. 446

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 490

    Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, 39 Stat. 462

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, 39 Stat. 462

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1950—Act , covered excess deposits into miscellaneous receipts instead of returning them to the depositors as was formerly the practice.

Credits

1916–1950 · 2 acts
  1. 1916Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, 39 Stat. 462
  2. 1950Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 6, 64 Stat. 84.
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(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, 39 Stat. 462; Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 6, 64 Stat. 84.)

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