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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management

§ 576a. Authorization of appropriation for reforestation

Statutory text

There is authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year after year ending , not to exceed $400,000, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and operate nurseries, to collect or to purchase tree seed or young trees, to plant trees, and to do all other things necessary for reforestation by planting or seeding national forests and for the additional protection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations or young growth.

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. 71–416 § 2 · 46 Stat. 527

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 576a

    (June 9, 1930, ch. 416, § 2, 46 Stat. 527.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 9, 1930, ch. 416, § 2, 46 Stat. 527.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal Sums authorized for operation of nurseries, reforestation, etc. year ending June 30, 1932, not to exceed $250,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, not to exceed $300,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, not to exceed $400,000; and for each fiscal year thereafter, not to exceed $400,000, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and operate nurseries, to collect or to purchase tree seed or young trees, to plant trees, and to do all other things necessary for reforestation by planting or seeding national forests and for the additional protection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations or young growth.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 9, 1930, ch. 416, § 2, 46 Stat. 527.)

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