Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 552c. Reimbursement of United States for loss of revenue
Statutory text
Whenever national-forest lands are withdrawn under sections 552a to 552d of this title, and the municipality concerned objects to the utilization of the timber or other resources of lands withdrawn, and the Secretary of Agriculture agrees to withhold such resources from utilization, said municipality shall pay to the Forest Service annually an amount which the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine is necessary to reimburse the United States for the loss of net annual revenues which would be derived from the resources so withheld from disposition.
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.
Pub. L. 76–220 § 3 · 54 Stat. 224
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 552c
(May 28, 1940, ch. 220, § 3, 54 Stat. 225.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 28, 1940, ch. 220, § 3, 54 Stat. 225.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. Whenever national-forest lands are withdrawn under this Reimbursement to Forest Service for loss of revenues. Act, and the municipality concerned objects to the utilization of the timber or other resources of lands withdrawn, and the Secretary of Agriculture agrees to withhold such resources from utilization, said municipality shall pay to the Forest Service annually an amount which the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine is necessary to reimburse the United States for the loss of net annual revenues which would be derived from the resources so withheld from disposition.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(May 28, 1940, ch. 220, § 3, 54 Stat. 225.)