§1643 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

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The Secretary can set up and run experiment stations, research labs, test areas, and other forest and rangeland research sites. The Secretary can buy, lease, accept as gifts, or trade for land or land rights in the United States when needed. The Secretary can also pay to inspect, appraise, and survey those properties and take steps to make sure the United States has clear legal ownership. The Secretary can take gifts, donations, or bequests of money, land, or other property from lawful sources and use them to start or run research sites or to carry out research. Those funds go into a special Treasury account. The Treasury may invest extra money from that account in U.S. government bonds. Money can be spent from the account as Congress allows in yearly appropriation laws and stays available until used. The Secretary can work with governments, universities, businesses, organizations, and people here and abroad and accept contributions from them; those contributions are credited to the proper fund and kept until spent for authorized research or returned to contributors.

Title 16, §1643

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(a)In implementing this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized to establish and maintain a system of experiment stations, research laboratories, experimental areas, and other forest and rangeland research facilities. The Secretary is authorized, with donated or appropriated funds, to acquire by lease, donation, purchase, exchange, or otherwise, land or interests in land within the United States needed to implement this subchapter, to make necessary expenditures to examine, appraise, and survey such property, and to do all things incident to perfecting title thereto in the United States.

(b)In implementing this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized to accept, hold, and administer gifts, donations, and bequests of money, real property, or personal property from any source not otherwise prohibited by law and to use such gifts, donations, and bequests to (1) establish or operate any forest and rangeland research facility within the United States, or (2) perform any forest and rangeland renewable resource research activity authorized by this subchapter. Such gifts, donations, and bequests, or the proceeds thereof, and money appropriated for these purposes shall be deposited in the Treasury in a special fund. At the request of the Secretary, the Secretary of the Treasury may invest or reinvest any money in the fund that in the opinion of the Secretary is not needed for current operations. Such investments shall be in public debt securities with maturities suitable for the needs of the fund and bearing interest at prevailing market rates. There are hereby authorized to be expended from such fund such amounts as may be specified in annual appropriation Acts, which shall remain available until expended.

(c)In implementing this subchapter, the Secretary may cooperate with international, Federal, State, and other governmental agencies, with public or private agencies, institutions, universities, and organizations, and with businesses and individuals in the United States and in other countries. The Secretary may receive money and other contributions from cooperators under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe. Any money contributions received under this subsection shall be credited to the applicable appropriation or fund to be used for the same purposes and shall remain available until expended as the Secretary may direct for use in conducting research activities authorized by this subchapter and in making refunds to contributors.

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1990—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–513, which directed amendment of “the first section of” this subsection by inserting “international,” before “Federal”, was executed by making the insertion in the first sentence of this subsection to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

§1643 Implementation of Provisions

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