Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 558c. Authorization
Statutory text
The Secretaries are authorized to recruit, train, and accept without regard to the civil service and classification laws, rules, or regulations the services of individuals without compensation as volunteers for or in aid of recreation access, trail construction or maintenance, facility construction or maintenance, educational uses (including outdoor classroom construction or maintenance), interpretive functions, visitor services, conservation measures and development, or other activities in and related to areas administered by the Secretaries. In carrying out this section, the Secretaries shall consider referrals of prospective volunteers made by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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. 92–300 § 4 · 86 Stat. 147
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 558c
(Pub. L. 92–300, § 4, as added Pub. L. 118–234, title III, § 341, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2913.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–300, § 4, as added Pub. L. 118–234, title III, § 341, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2913.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may Appropriation. be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. but not more than $100.000 shall he appropriated in any one year.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 558c, Pub. L. 92–300, § 3, , 86 Stat. 147; Pub. L. 101–286, title II, § 204(a), , 104 Stat. 175; Pub. L. 114–245, § 4(d)(1), , 130 Stat. 992, related to employment status of volunteers, prior to the general amendment of the Volunteers in the National Forests Act of 1972 by Pub. L. 118–234.
A prior section 4 of Pub. L. 92–300, , 86 Stat. 147, was classified to section 558d of this title, prior to the general amendment of the Volunteers in the National Forests Act of 1972 by Pub. L. 118–234.
Credits
(Pub. L. 92–300, § 4, as added Pub. L. 118–234, title III, § 341, , 138 Stat. 2913.)