Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§583b Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize sale of timber and forest products

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - SUSTAINED-YIELD FOREST MANAGEMENT › § 583b

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior may create a sustained-yield unit of federally managed forest land when they judge a town or towns depend mostly on selling timber or forest products and regular sale rules won’t keep the community stable. They can draw the unit’s boundaries and sell timber and other forest products from it to responsible local buyers without competitive bidding, at prices at least equal to appraised value, and with any conditions they think are needed.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §583b

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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.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 583b

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73