Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§2114 Administration
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 41— - COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE › § 2114
Summary
The Secretary must run the program using rules they write that explain how it works at the federal and state levels and say which actions can get cost-sharing. The government should use existing ways to pay landowners and deliver services, and if state foresters cannot pass funds to local agencies, the Secretary may, after talking with them, help those agencies and land‑grant universities directly.
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Title 16, §2114
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(a)The Secretary shall administer this chapter in accordance with regulations that the Secretary shall develop.
(b)The regulations promulgated under this chapter shall include guidelines for the administration of this chapter at the Federal and State levels and shall identify the measures and activities that are eligible for cost sharing under this chapter.
(c)Existing mechanisms shall be used to the extent possible to make payments and deliver services to the landowner under this chapter.
(d)The Secretary, in consultation with State foresters or equivalent State officials, may provide assistance directly to other State and local natural resource management agencies and land grant universities in implementing this chapter in cases in which the State foresters or equivalent State officials are not able to make fund transfers to other State and local agencies.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 2114
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73