§ 552b. — Administration of withdrawn lands; rules and regulations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC552b]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 552b. Administration of withdrawn lands; rules and
regulations
Lands withdrawn under the provisions of sections 552a to 552d of
this title shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture under
such agreements for the protection of the watershed as he may make with
the municipality concerned, and the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized, in addition to the rules and regulations adopted for the
administration of the national forests, to adopt and prescribe such
further rules and regulations as he considers necessary to effect the
adequate protection of the watershed, including a rule or regulation
forbidding persons other than forest officers and representatives of the
municipality from going on the lands so reserved or making any use
whatever thereof.
(May 28, 1940, ch. 220, Sec. 2, 54 Stat. 224.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 552c, 552d of this title.
