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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management

§ 577g. Payment for additional lands acquired in northern Minnesota

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the certification of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall pay to the State of Minnesota, at the close of each fiscal year from any national-forest receipts not otherwise appropriated a sum of money equivalent to three-quarters of 1 per centum of the fair appraised value of such national-forest lands as may be situated within the area described in section 577d of this title at the end of each fiscal year; and the payments made hereunder shall be distributed to each of the three aforesaid counties in conformity with the fair appraised value of such national-forest lands in each county: Provided, That the fair appraised value of the lands shall be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture at ten-year intervals and his determination shall be conclusive and final: Provided further, That the first payment to the State of Minnesota under the provisions of this section shall not be due until the close of the first full fiscal year after : And provided further, That the provisions of section 500 of this title, shall not be applicable to the national-forest lands to which this section applies.

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. 80–593 § 5 · 62 Stat. 568

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 577g

    (June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 5, 62 Stat. 570.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 5, 62 Stat. 570.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the certification of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall pay to the State of Minnesota, at the close of each fiscal year from any national-forest receipts not otherwise appropriated a sum of money equivalent to three-quarters of 1 per centum of the fair appraised value of such national-forest lands as may be situated within the area described in section 2 of this Act at the end of each fiscal year: and the payments made hereunder shall be distributed to each of the three aforesaid counties in conformity with the fair appraised value of such national-forest lands Appraised value. in each county: Provided, That the fair appraised value of the lands shall be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture at ten-year intervals and his determination shall be conclusive and final: Provided further, That the first payment to the State of Minnesota under the provisions of this section shall not be due until the close of the first full fiscal year after approval of this Act: And provided further. 16 U. S. C. § 500. That the provisions of the Act of May 23, 1908 (35 Stat. 260), and of section 13 of the Act of March 1, 1911, as amended (36 Stat. 961; 38 Stat. 441), shall not be applicable to the national-forest lands to which this section applies.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section, as amended by act June 22, 1956, ch. 425, § 2, 70 Stat. 328, is set out as section 577g–1 of this title.

Credits

(June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 5, 62 Stat. 570.)

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