§ 583a. — Cooperative agreements with private owners; privileges of private owners; recordation of agreements.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC583a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER IV--SUSTAINED-YIELD FOREST MANAGEMENT
Sec. 583a. Cooperative agreements with private owners;
privileges of private owners; recordation of agreements
The Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to forest land under his
jurisdiction, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to forest
land under his jurisdiction, are severally authorized, for the purposes
specified in section 583 of this title, to enter into cooperative
agreements with private owners of forest land within a cooperative
sustained-yield unit, established pursuant to said section, providing
for the coordinated management of such private forest land and of
federally owned or administered forest lands within the sustained-yield
unit involved. Each cooperative agreement may give the cooperating
private landowner the privilege of purchasing without competitive
bidding at prices not less than their appraised value, subject to
periodic readjustments of stumpage rates and to such other conditions
and requirements as the Secretary may prescribe, timber and other forest
products from federally owned or administered forest land within the
unit, in accordance with the provisions of sustained-yield management
plans formulated or approved by the Secretary for the unit; shall limit
the time, rate, and method of cutting or otherwise harvesting timber and
other forest products from the land of the cooperating private
landowner, due consideration being given to the character and condition
of the timber, to the relation of the proposed cutting to the sustained-
yield plan for the unit, and to the productive capacity of the land;
shall prescribe the terms and conditions, but not the price, upon which
the cooperating private landowner may sell to any person timber and
other forest products from his land, compliance by the purchaser with
such conditions to be required by the contract of sale; shall contain
such provisions as the Secretary deems necessary to protect the
reasonable interest of other owners of forest land within the unit; and
shall contain such other provisions as the Secretary believes necessary
to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
Each cooperative agreement shall be placed on record in the county
or counties in which the lands of the cooperating private landowner
covered thereby are located, and the costs incident to such recordation
may be paid out of any funds available for the protection or management
of federally owned or administered forest land within the unit. When
thus recorded, the agreement shall be binding upon the heirs,
successors, and assigns of the owner of such land, and upon purchasers
of timber or other forest products from such land, throughout the life
of such cooperative agreement.
(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, Sec. 2, 58 Stat. 132.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 583, 583d of this title.
