Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§570 Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 570

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture can find public lands that are mainly worth protecting for stream flow or for growing timber and that can be managed as parts of national forests. He must report those lands to the National Forest Reservation Commission (Act of March 1, 1911). If that commission decides federal management will protect streams used for navigation or irrigation or will help future timber supplies, the President must send the commission’s findings to Congress.

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Title 16, §570

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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to ascertain and determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow protection or for timber production, which can be economically administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to the National Forest Reservation Commission established under the Act of March 1, 1911, and if the commission shall determine that the administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote a future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the commission before the Congress of the United States.

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The National Forest Reservation Commission, referred to in text, was established under 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 section 4 of the 1911 act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest Reservation Commission were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, by section 17(a)(1) of Pub.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.

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16 U.S.C. § 570

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73