§ 472. — Laws affecting national forest lands.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC472]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 472. Laws affecting national forest lands
The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall execute or
cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands reserved under the
provisions of section 471 \1\ of this title, or sections supplemental to
and amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved,
excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, locating,
appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or
patenting of any of such lands.
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\1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 628.)
References in Text
Section 471 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original
a reference to section 24 of act Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1103,
and was repealed by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 704(a), Oct. 21,
1976, 90 Stat. 2792.
Codification
Words ``subject to the provisions for national forests established
under subdivision (b) of section 471 of this title,'' which had been
inserted by the original codifiers of the 1926 ed. of the Code, have
been omitted because of the repeal of section 471 of this title by Pub.
L. 94-579.
