Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 577c. Acquisition of additional lands in northern Minnesota
Statutory text
To protect and administer more effectively the publicly owned lands within certain parts of the area described in section 577 of this title, and to accomplish certain public purposes explicit and implicit in sections 577a and 577b of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to acquire any lands or interest in lands, and appurtenances thereto, situated within the area described in section 577d of this title, where in his opinion development or exploitation, or the potentialities for development or exploitation, impair or threaten to impair the unique qualities and natural features of the remaining wilderness canoe country.
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. 80–593 § 1 · 62 Stat. 568
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 577c
June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 1, 62 Stat. 568
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 1, 62 Stat. 568Pub. L. 87–351 · 75 Stat. 772
Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 577c
Pub. L. 87–351 removed the restriction on condemnation of contiguous tracts of land in one ownership, not exceeding five hundred acres in the aggregate, if the lands were encumbered with structures of a permanent type suitable for human occupancy and if the owners thereof filed written objections before expiration of the time for answering the petition in the proceedings
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 87–351 removed the restriction on condemnation of contiguous tracts of land in one ownership, not exceeding five hundred acres in the aggregate, if the lands were encumbered with structures of a permanent type suitable for human occupancy and if the owners thereof filed written objections before expiration of the time for answering the petition in the proceedings.
0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1961—Pub. L. 87–351 removed the restriction on condemnation of contiguous tracts of land in one ownership, not exceeding five hundred acres in the aggregate, if the lands were encumbered with structures of a permanent type suitable for human occupancy and if the owners thereof filed written objections before expiration of the time for answering the petition in the proceedings.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
The act of June 22, 1948, ch. 593, 62 Stat. 568, as amended, which is classified to sections 577c, 577d, and 577e to 577h of this title, is popularly known as the “Thye-Blatnik Act”.
Credits
1948–1961 · 2 acts
- 1948June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 1, 62 Stat. 568
- 1961Pub. L. 87–351, , 75 Stat. 772.
Show as published
(June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 1, 62 Stat. 568; Pub. L. 87–351, , 75 Stat. 772.)