§ 576b. — Purchasers of nationalforest timber; deposits of money in addition to payments for timber; use of deposits; seedlings and young trees for burnedover areas in national parks.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC576b]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 576b. Purchasers of national-forest timber; deposits of
money in addition to payments for timber; use of deposits;
seedlings and young trees for burned-over areas in national
parks
The Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his judgment such action
will be in the public interest, require any purchaser of national-forest
timber to make deposits of money in addition to the payments for the
timber, to cover the cost to the United States of (1) planting
(including the production or purchase of young trees), (2) sowing with
tree seeds (including the collection or purchase of such seeds), (3)
cutting, destroying, or otherwise removing undesirable trees or other
growth, on the national-forest land cut over by the purchaser, in order
to improve the future stand of timber, or (4) protecting and improving
the future productivity of the renewable resources of the forest land on
such sale area, including sale area improvement operations, maintenance
and construction, reforestation and wildlife habitat management. Such
deposits shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a
special fund, which is appropriated and made available until expended,
to cover the cost to the United States of such tree planting, seed
sowing, and forest improvement work, as the Secretary of Agriculture may
direct: Provided, That any portion of any deposit found to be in excess
of the cost of doing said work shall, upon the determination that it is
so in excess, be transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest reserve
fund, as a national-forest receipt of the fiscal year in which such
transfer is made: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture is
authorized, upon application of the Secretary of the Interior, to
furnish seedlings and/or young trees for replanting of burned-over areas
in any national park.
(June 9, 1930, ch. 416, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 527; Pub. L. 94-588, Sec. 18,
Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2962.)
Amendments
1976--Pub. L. 94-588 struck out ``or'' before ``(3)'' and
substituted ``, or (4) protecting and improving the future productivity
of the renewable resources of the forest land on such sale area,
including sale area improvement operations, maintenance and
construction, reforestation and wildlife habitat management'' for ``:
Provided, That the total amount so required to be deposited by any
purchaser shall not exceed, on an acreage basis, the average cost of
planting (including the production or purchase of young trees) other
comparable national-forest lands during the previous three years''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 500 of this title.
