16 U.S.C. § 4502a — Tropical forestry research and assistance
submitted 34 years ago by Pub. L. 102-574 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 309 words · no verdicts yet
This section authorizes assistance for sustainable management and conservation of tropical forests and for transferring skills to tropical-forest managers. It lists eligible activities, assistance forms, eligible entities, and the included States and territories.
(a) Assistance. The Agriculture Secretary*, through the Forest Service, may assist eligible entities in States with tropical forests to: (1) develop and demonstrate sustainable harvesting of native woods and other products while conserving resources; (2) preserve habitat and protect or recover species; (3) protect native plants, animals, and essential watersheds from non-native species and pathogens; (4) establish biological controls for harmful non-native species; (5) monitor tropical forests to establish baselines and identify harmful changes or improvements; (6) detect and assess stresses from insects, disease, pollution, fire, non-native species, and people; (7) determine causes through experiments, intensive monitoring, and data collection; and (8) conduct research, demonstrations, education, training, and outreach advancing these goals. (b) Assistance may be grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements. (c)(1) “Eligible entity” means a State forester or equivalent official, State, State subdivision, Federal agency, private organization, corporation, or other private person. (2) “State” means the 50 States, Guam, American Samoa, Palau until its Compact takes effect, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
To promote sound management and conservation of tropical forests of the United States and to promote the development and transfer of technical, managerial, educational, and administrative skills to managers of tropical forests within or outside the United States, the Secretary* of Agriculture is authorized to provide assistance through the Forest Service to eligible entities in States with tropical forests to—
develop, promote, and demonstrate sustainable harvesting of native woods and other forest products on a sustainable yield basis in balance with natural resource conservation;
promote habitat preservation and species protection or recovery;
protect indigenous plant and animal species and essential watersheds from non-native animals, plants, and pathogens;
establish biological control agents for non-native species that threaten natural ecosystems;
establish a monitoring system in tropical forests to identify baseline conditions and determine detrimental changes or improvements over time;
detect and appraise stresses affecting tropical forests caused by insect infestations, diseases, pollution, fire, and non-native animal and plant species, and by the influence of people;
determine the causes of changes that are detected through experimentation, intensive monitoring, and data collection at affected tropical forest sites; and
engage in research, demonstration, education, training, and outreach that furthers the objectives of this subsection.
Assistance provided to eligible entities under this section may be in the form of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements.
As used in this section:
The term “eligible entity” means a State forester or equivalent State official, State, political subdivision of a State, Federal agency, private organization, corporation, or other private person.
The term “State” means each of the 50 States, Guam, American Samoa, the Republic of Palau (until the Compact of Free Association enters into effect), Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 102–574, § 3, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4596.)
- 1992Enacted · Pub. L. 102-574 · 106 Stat. 4596
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