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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 8A — Guam

§ 1421o. Federal assistance for fire control, watershed protection, and reforestation

Statutory text

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to provide financial and technical assistance to Guam for improving fire control, watershed protection and reforestation, consistent with existing laws, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, which are applicable to the continental United States. The program authorized by this section shall be developed in cooperation with the territorial government of Guam and shall be covered by a memorandum of understanding agreed to by the territorial government and the Department. The Secretary may also utilize the agencies, facilities, and employees of the Department, and may cooperate with other public agencies and with private organizations and individuals in Guam and elsewhere.

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. 93–421 § 1 · [88 Stat. 1154]

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1421o

    (Pub. L. 93–421, § 1, Sept. 19, 1974, 88 Stat. 1154.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–421, § 1, Sept. 19, 1974, 88 Stat. 1154.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Organic Act of Guam which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–421, § 1, , 88 Stat. 1154.)

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