Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§583b Establishment of Sustained-yield Units to Stabilize Sale of Timber and Forest Products
Title 16 › CHAPTER 3 — FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › SUBCHAPTER IV — SUSTAINED-YIELD FOREST MANAGEMENT › § 583b
Summary
Each Secretary may set up a sustained-yield unit on federal forest land they control when they decide a town’s survival depends mostly on timber sales and the usual sale methods won't work. They can define the unit's boundaries and sell federal timber and forest products to responsible local buyers without competitive bidding, at prices no lower than appraised values and with any conditions the Secretary requires.
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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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102