Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§570 Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of Public Lands Valuable for Stream-flow Protection and Report Thereof
Title 16 › CHAPTER 3 — FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › SUBCHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 570
Summary
Secretary may identify public lands useful for protecting stream‑flow or for timber and report to the Commission (Act of March 1, 1911); if it finds federal control will protect navigation or irrigation streams or future timber, the President must send findings to Congress.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §570
Conservation, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
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 section 4 of the 1911 act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest Reservation Commission were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, by section 17(a)(1) of Pub.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.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 570
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102