Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 579a. Operation of aerial facilities and services
Statutory text
The Forest Service by contract or otherwise may provide for procurement and operation of aerial facilities and services for the protection and management of the national forests and other lands administered by it, including the furnishing, at the airbase, of facilities, equipment, materials and the preparation, mixing and loading into aircraft, with authority to renew any contract for such purpose annually, not more than twice, without additional advertising.
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. 78–412 · 58 Stat. 734
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 579a
Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 205, 58 Stat. 736
Source evidence
Code source credit
Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 205, 58 Stat. 736Pub. L. 91–435 · 84 Stat. 888
Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 579a
Pub. L. 91–435 authorized the Forest Service to extend aerial facilities and services for the protection and management of other lands administered by the Service and to procure, at the airbase, facilities, equipment, materials and the preparation, mixing and loading into aircraft
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 91–435 authorized the Forest Service to extend aerial facilities and services for the protection and management of other lands administered by the Service and to procure, at the airbase, facilities, equipment, materials and the preparation, mixing and loading into aircraft.
0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.
Amendments1950–1970 · 2 rounds
1970
Pub. L. 91–435 authorized the Forest Service to extend aerial facilities and services for the protection and management of other lands administered by the Service and to procure, at the airbase, facilities, equipment, materials and the preparation, mixing and loading into aircraft.
1950
Act , amended section to provide for aerial facilities and services for the protection and management of our national forests.
Credits
1944–1970 · 3 acts
- 1944Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 205, 58 Stat. 736
- 1950Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 4, 64 Stat. 83
- 1970Pub. L. 91–435, , 84 Stat. 888.
Show as published
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 205, 58 Stat. 736; Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 4, 64 Stat. 83; Pub. L. 91–435, , 84 Stat. 888.)