Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 570. Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to ascertain and determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow protection or for timber production, which can be economically administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to the National Forest Reservation Commission established under the Act of , and if the commission shall determine that the administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote a future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the commission before the Congress of the United States.
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. 68–348 § 8 · 43 Stat. 653
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 570
(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 8, 43 Stat. 655.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 8, 43 Stat. 655.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to Public lands. Ascertainment of, valuable for stream-flow, and report to Forest Reservation Commission. ascertain and determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow protection or for timber production, which can be economically administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to the National Forest Reservation Commission established under the Act of March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 961), and if the commission shall determine Report of Commission to be laid before Congress by the President. that the administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote a future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the commission before the Congress of the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The National Forest Reservation Commission, referred to in text, was established under section 4 of Act (16 U.S.C. 513). Section 4 of the 1911 act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest Reservation Commission were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, by section 17(a)(1) of Pub. L. 94–588, , 90 Stat. 2961.
Credits
(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 8, 43 Stat. 655.)