Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3B — Soil Conservation
§ 590i. Surveys and investigations; publication of information
Statutory text
The Secretary is authorized to conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the conditions and factors affecting, and methods of accomplishing most effectively, the policy and purposes of section 590g(a) of this title. Notwithstanding any provision of existing law, the Secretary is authorized to make public such information as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
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. 74–85 § 9 · 49 Stat. 163
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 590i
Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 9, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1150
Source evidence
Code source credit
Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 9, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1150Congressional Reports Elimination Act of 1982
Pub. L. 97–375 title I § 103(c) · 96 Stat. 1819
Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 590i
Pub. L. 97–375 struck out requirement that the Secretary transmit to Congress a report on operations under this subchapter, including a statement by classes and amounts of expenditures and obligations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for each fiscal year thereafter
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 97–375 struck out requirement that the Secretary transmit to Congress a report on operations under this subchapter, including a statement by classes and amounts of expenditures and obligations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for each fiscal year thereafter.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Section 9 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590i; 50 Stat. 329) is amended by striking out the third sentence.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments1937–1982 · 2 rounds
1982
Pub. L. 97–375 struck out requirement that the Secretary transmit to Congress a report on operations under this subchapter, including a statement by classes and amounts of expenditures and obligations, for the fiscal year ending , and for each fiscal year thereafter.
1937
Act , inserted last sentence.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions respecting lands under jurisdiction of Department of the Interior, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 590a of this title.
Credits
1935–1982 · 3 acts
- 1935Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 9, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1150
- 1937amended June 28, 1937, ch. 395, § 2, 50 Stat. 329
- 1982Pub. L. 97–375, title I, § 103(c), , 96 Stat. 1819.
Show as published
(Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 9, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1150; amended June 28, 1937, ch. 395, § 2, 50 Stat. 329; Pub. L. 97–375, title I, § 103(c), , 96 Stat. 1819.)