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16 U.S.C. § 552a — Restoration of withdrawn national forest lands to appropriation

submitted 86 years ago by ch. 220 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 78 words · no verdicts yet

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This section allows the President, under stated conditions and on the recommendation of two Cabinet Secretaries, to restore certain reserved national-forest lands to appropriation under public-lands law. The land and notice requirements are stated in the section.

The President may, by Executive order and on the recommendation of the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, restore reserved national-forest land to appropriation under any applicable public-lands law. The land must be covered by a cooperative agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture for protecting a watershed within a national forest from which water is obtained. The President must decide that the public interest would best be served by the restoration, and reasonable notice must have been given through the Department of the Interior.
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The President, upon recommendation of the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, may, by Executive order, when in his judgment the public interest would best be served thereby and after reasonable notice has been given through the Department of the Interior, restore any reserved national-forest lands covered by a cooperative agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture for the protection of a watershed within a national forest from which water is secured, to appropriation under any applicable public-lands law.

Source credit: (May 28, 1940, ch. 220, § 1, 54 Stat. 224; Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.)

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  • 1940Enacted · Act of May 28, 1940, ch. 220 · 54 Stat. 224
  • 1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-579 · 90 Stat. 2792

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