Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§558c Authorization
Title 16 › CHAPTER 3 — FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › SUBCHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 558c
Summary
The Secretaries may recruit, train, and accept unpaid volunteers—ignoring federal hiring and classification rules—to help with trails, facilities, education, visitor services, and conservation work in areas they manage and must consider referrals from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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Title 16, §558c
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The Secretaries are authorized to recruit, train, and accept without regard to the civil service and classification laws, rules, or regulations the services of individuals without compensation as volunteers for or in aid of recreation access, trail construction or maintenance, facility construction or maintenance, educational uses (including outdoor classroom construction or maintenance), interpretive functions, visitor services, conservation measures and development, or other activities in and related to areas administered by the Secretaries. In carrying out this section, the Secretaries shall consider referrals of prospective volunteers made by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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Prior Provisions
A prior section 558c, Pub. L. 92–300, § 3,
May 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 147; Pub. L. 101–286, title II, § 204(a),
May 9, 1990, 104 Stat. 175; Pub. L. 114–245, § 4(d)(1), Nov. 28, 2016, 130 Stat. 992, related to employment status of volunteers, prior to the general amendment of the Volunteers in the National Forests Act of 1972 by Pub. L. 118–234. A prior section 4 of Pub. L. 92–300,
May 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 147, was classified to section 558d of this title, prior to the general amendment of the Volunteers in the National Forests Act of 1972 by Pub. L. 118–234.
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16 U.S.C. § 558c
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102