Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§490 Deposits From Timber Purchasers to Defray Cost of Disposing of Debris
Title 16 › CHAPTER 2 — NATIONAL FORESTS › SUBCHAPTER I — ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION › § 490
Summary
The Secretary of Agriculture can require people who buy timber from national forests to pay an estimated amount up front to cover removing brush and other debris from their cutting. Those payments go into a special Treasury fund that stays available until spent; any leftover money is moved into the miscellaneous receipts, forest‑reserve fund and counted as receipts for the year it is transferred.
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Title 16, §490
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Purchasers of national-forest timber may be required by the Secretary of Agriculture to deposit the estimated cost to the United States of disposing of brush and other debris resulting from their cutting operations, such deposits to be covered into the Treasury and constitute a special fund, which is appropriated and shall remain available until expended: Provided, That any deposits in excess of the amount expended for disposals shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest-reserve fund, to be credited to the receipts of the year in which such transfer is made.
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1950—Act Apr. 24, 1950, covered excess deposits into miscellaneous receipts instead of returning them to the depositors as was formerly the practice.
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16 U.S.C. § 490
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102