§ 570. — Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for streamflow protection and report thereof.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC570]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 570. Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public
lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to ascertain and
determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow
protection or for timber production, which can be economically
administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to
the National Forest Reservation Commission established under the Act of
March 1, 1911, and if the commission shall determine that the
administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the
flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote a
future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the
commission before the Congress of the United States.
(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, Sec. 8, 43 Stat. 655.)
References in Text
The National Forest Reservation Commission, referred to in text, was
established under section 4 of Act Mar. 1, 1911 (16 U.S.C. 513). Section
4 of the 1911 act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest
Reservation Commission were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture,
by section 17(a)(1) of Pub. L. 94-588, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2961.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 527, 566b of this title.
