§ 567a. — Cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture with States in acquisition and administration of State forests.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC567a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 567a. Cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture with States
in acquisition and administration of State forests
For the purpose of stimulating the acquisition, development, and
proper administration and management of State forests and of insuring
coordinated effort by Federal and State agencies in carrying out a
comprehensive national program of forest-land management, the Secretary
of Agriculture is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with
appropriate officials of any State or States for acquiring in the name
of the United States, by purchase or otherwise, such forest lands within
the cooperating State as in his judgment the State is adequately
prepared to administer, develop, and manage as State forests in
accordance with the provisions of sections 567a to 567c of this title
and with such other terms not inconsistent therewith as he shall
prescribe, such acquisition to include the mapping, examination,
appraisal, and surveying of such lands and the doing of all things
necessary to perfect title thereto in the United States: Provided, That,
since it is the declared policy of Congress to maintain and, where it is
in the national interest to extend the national-forest system, nothing
herein shall be construed to modify, limit, or change in any manner
whatsoever the future ownership and administration by the United States
of existing national forests and related facilities, or hereafter to
restrict or prevent their extension through the acquisition by purchase
or otherwise of additional lands for any national-forest purpose:
Provided further, That sections 567a to 567c of this title shall not be
construed to limit or repeal any legislation authorizing land exchanges
by the Federal Government, and private lands acquired by exchange within
the limits of any area subject to a cooperative agreement of the
character herein authorized shall hereafter be subject to the provisions
of sections 567a to 567c of this title.
(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 808, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 963.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 567b, 567c of this title.
