§ 500. Payment and evaluation of receipts to State or Territory for schools and roads; moneys received; projections of revenues and estimated payments

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. 1908

   Pub. L. 60–192 · 35 Stat. 251

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 500

   May 23, 1908, ch. 192, 35 Stat. 260

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   May 23, 1908, ch. 192, 35 Stat. 260

2. 1976

   National Forest Management Act of 1976

   Pub. L. 94–588 § 16 · 90 Stat. 2949

   Inserted · 16 U.S.C. § 500

   Pub. L. 94–588 inserted provision that beginning Oct. 1, 1976, the term “moneys received” would include all collections under the Act of June 9, 1930, and all amounts earned or allowed any purchaser of national forest timber and other forest products within such State as purchaser credits, for the construction of roads on the National Forest Transportation System within such national forests or parts thereof in connection with any Forest Service timber sales contract, and that the Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time as he goes through his process of developing the budget revenue estimates, make available to the States his current projections of revenues and payments estimated to be made under the Act of May 23, 1908, as amended, or any other special Acts making payments in lieu of taxes, for their use for local budget planning purposes

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 94–588 inserted provision that beginning Oct. 1, 1976, the term “moneys received” would include all collections under the Act of June 9, 1930, and all amounts earned or allowed any purchaser of national forest timber and other forest products within such State as purchaser credits, for the construction of roads on the National Forest Transportation System within such national forests or parts thereof in connection with any Forest Service timber sales contract, and that the Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time as he goes through his process of developing the budget revenue estimates, make available to the States his current projections of revenues and payments estimated to be made under the Act of May 23, 1908, as amended, or any other special Acts making payments in lieu of taxes, for their use for local budget planning purposes.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 16. payments to states for schools and roads The sixth paragraph under the heading “FOREST SERVICE” in the Act of May 23, 1908, as amended, and section 13 of the Act of March 1, 1911, as amended (35 Stat. 260, 36 Stat. 963, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 500), are each amended by adding at the end thereof, respectively, the following new sentence : “Beginning “Moneys received.” October 1, 1976, the term ‘moneys received’ shall Include all collections under the Act of June 9, 1930, and all amounts earned or allowed any purchaser of national forest timber and other forest products within such State as purchaser credits, for the construction of roads on the National Forest Transportation System within such national forests or parts thereof in connection with any Forest Service timber sales contract. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, from time to time as he Projections, availability to States. goes through his process of developing the budget revenue estimates, make available to the States his current projections of revenues and payments estimated to be made under the Act of May 23, 1908, as amended, or any other special Acts making payments in lieu of taxes, for their use for local budget planning purposes.”.

3. 2008

   Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008

   Pub. L. 110–343 div. C title VI § 601(b) · 122 Stat. 3765

   Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 500

   Pub. L. 110–343, which directed substitution of “an amount equal to the annual average of 25 percent of all amounts received for the applicable fiscal year and each of the preceding 6 fiscal years from each national forest shall be paid” for “twenty-five percentum” and all that follows through “shall be paid” in provisions of both acts May 23, 1908, and Mar. 1, 1911, on which this section is based, was executed by making the substitution for “twenty-five per centum of all moneys received during any fiscal year from each national forest shall be paid”, to reflect the probable intent of Congress

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 110–343, which directed substitution of “an amount equal to the annual average of 25 percent of all amounts received for the applicable fiscal year and each of the preceding 6 fiscal years from each national forest shall be paid” for “twenty-five percentum” and all that follows through “shall be paid” in provisions of both acts May 23, 1908, and Mar. 1, 1911, on which this section is based, was executed by making the substitution for “twenty-five per centum of all moneys received during any fiscal year from each national forest shall be paid”, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Forest Receipt Payments to Eligible States and Counties.— (1) Act of may 23, 1908.— The sixth paragraph under the heading “FOREST SERVICE” in the Act of May 23, 1908 (16 U.S.C. 500) is amended in the first sentence by striking “twenty-five percentum” and all that follows through “shall be paid” and inserting the following: “an amount equal to the annual average of 25 percent of all amounts received for the applicable fiscal year and each of the preceding 6 fiscal years from each national forest shall be paid”. (2) Weeks law.— Section 13 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (commonly known as the “Weeks Law”) (16 U.S.C. 500) is amended in the first sentence by striking “twenty-five percentum” and all that follows through “shall be paid” and inserting the following: “an amount equal to the annual average of 25 percent of all amounts received for the applicable fiscal year and each of the preceding 6 fiscal years from each national forest shall be paid”.

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