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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 2 — National Forests

§ 542a. Congressional findings

Statutory text

The Congress finds that the high altitude and freedom from air pollution and night luminosity caused by human activity, make the research site uniquely suited to the conduct of research probes into thunder clouds and for other atmospheric and astronomical research purposes.

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. 96–550 title II § 202 · 94 Stat. 3221

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 542a

    (Pub. L. 96–550, title II, § 202, Dec. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 3225.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–550, title II, § 202, Dec. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 3225.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 202. The Congress finds that the high altitude and freedom 16 USC 542a. from air pollution and night luminosity caused by human activity, make the research site uniquely suited to the conduct of research probes into thunder clouds and for other atmospheric and astronomical research purposes.

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Credits

(Pub. L. 96–550, title II, § 202, , 94 Stat. 3225.)

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