§ 577e. — Approval by National Forest Reservation Commission for acquisition of additional 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: 16USC577e]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 577e. Approval by National Forest Reservation Commission
for acquisition of additional lands
Lands shall be acquired by purchase or condemnation under the
supplemental authority granted in section 577c of this title only with
prior approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission created by
section 4 of the Act approved March 1, 1911, as amended, and lands so
acquired shall become parts of the Superior National Forest and be
subject to the provisions of said Act, as amended, and of such other
laws as apply to land acquired under the provisions of said Act, as
amended, except as hereinafter provided.
(June 22, 1948, ch. 593, Sec. 3, 62 Stat. 570.)
References in Text
The National Forest Reservation Commission, referred to in text, was
created by 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the 1911 Act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest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.
Said Act, referred to in text, means act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36
Stat. 961, as amended, popularly known as the Weeks Law, which is
classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 of this
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out under section 552 of this title and Tables.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 577d-1, 577h, 1133 of this
title.
