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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§1674 Renewable Resources Extension Program plan

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 36— - FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES PLANNING › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - EXTENSION PROGRAMS › § 1674

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must prepare a five-year plan called the Renewable Resources Extension Program and send it to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry by the last day of the first half of the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and by the last day of the first half of every fifth fiscal year after that. The plan must give national direction and help state extension leaders at eligible colleges and universities create state programs that fit local needs. It must include short outlines for programs such as fish and wildlife (game and nongame), range, timber (use, harvesting, and marketing), watershed work with water quality protection, forest- and range-based recreation, urban and community forestry, shelterbelts, and natural resource and environmental education for landowners, managers, officials, and the public. When making the plan, the Secretary must consider how much private forests and rangelands can produce and the needs shown in the periodic Renewable Resource Assessment (section 1601) and the periodic land and water appraisal (section 2004). The plan must also review what was done under the previous five-year plan and evaluate progress, showing results for the whole nation and for each state.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §1674

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(a)The Secretary shall prepare a five-year plan for implementing this subchapter, which is to be called the “Renewable Resources Extension Program” and shall submit such plan to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate no later than the last day of the first half of the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and the last day of the first half of each fifth fiscal year thereafter. The Renewable Resources Extension Program shall provide national emphasis and direction as well as guidance to State directors and administrative heads of extension for eligible colleges and universities in the development of their respective State renewable resources extension programs, which are to be appropriate in terms of the conditions, needs, and opportunities in each State. The Renewable Resources Extension Program shall contain, but not be limited to, brief outlines of general extension programs for fish and wildlife management (for both game and nongame species), range management, timber management (including brief outlines of general extension programs for timber utilization, timber harvesting, timber marketing, wood utilization, and wood products marketing), and watershed management (giving special attention to water quality protection), as well as brief outlines of general extension programs for recognition and enhancement of forest- and range-based outdoor recreation opportunities, for urban and community forestry activities, and for planting and management of trees and shrubs in shelterbelts, and give special attention to water quality protection and natural resource and environmental education for landowners and managers, public officials, and the public.
(b)In preparing the Renewable Resources Extension Program, the Secretary shall take into account the respective capabilities of private forests and rangelands for yielding renewable resources and the relative needs for such resources identified in the periodic Renewable Resource Assessment provided for in section 1601 of this title and the periodic appraisal of land and water resources provided for in section 2004 of this title.
(c)
(d)To assist Congress and the public in evaluating the Renewable Resources Extension Program, the program shall include a review of activities undertaken in response to the preceding five-year plan and an evaluation of the progress made toward accomplishing the goals and objectives set forth in such preceding plan. Such review and evaluation shall be displayed in the program, for the Nation as a whole, and for each State.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Subsec. (c) of this section, which required the Secretary to prepare an annual report on the Renewable Resources Extension Program, to be furnished to Congress at the time of submission of each annual fiscal budget, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 45 of House Document No. 103–7.

Amendments

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–624, § 1251(c), inserted before period at end “, and give special attention to water quality protection and natural resource and environmental education for landowners and managers, public officials, and the public”. Pub. L. 101–624, § 1219(b)(2), substituted “for urban and community forestry activities” for “for planting and management of trees and forests in urban areas”. 1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–231, § 3(1), substituted “the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate” for “Congress”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 100–231, § 3(2), added subsec. (d).

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 1674

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73