§ 583b. — Establishment of sustainedyield units to stabilize sale of timber and forest products.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC583b]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER IV--SUSTAINED-YIELD FOREST MANAGEMENT
Sec. 583b. Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize
sale of timber and forest products
The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior are
further severally authorized, whenever in their respective judgments the
maintenance of a stable community or communities is primarily dependent
upon the sale of timber or other forest products from federally owned or
administered forest land and such maintenance cannot effectively be
secured by following the usual procedures in selling such timber or
other forest products, to establish by formal declaration for the
purpose of maintaining the stability of such community or communities a
sustained-yield unit consisting of forest land under the jurisdiction of
the Secretary establishing such unit, to determine and define the
boundaries of the community or communities for whose benefit such unit
is created, and to sell, subject to such conditions and requirements as
the Secretary believes necessary, federally owned or administered timber
and other forest products from such unit without competitive bidding at
prices not less than their appraised values, to responsible purchasers
within such community or communities.
(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, Sec. 3, 58 Stat. 133.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 583d of this title.
