Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§6705 Cooperation Between Institutes and Federal Agencies

Title 16 › CHAPTER 86 — SOUTHWEST FOREST HEALTH AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION › § 6705

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, working with the Secretary of the Interior, must provide money and technical help to the Institutes when funds are provided, and must encourage federal agencies to use the Institutes’ information and expertise. The Secretary must promote cooperation on ecological restoration, wildfire risk reduction, and wildfire management technology; may, notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, enter into contracts, cooperative and interagency personnel agreements and other transactions; may accept funds from other federal agencies; may support undergraduate and graduate internships; must encourage professional education and public outreach; and may create regulations needed to carry out the chapter.

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Title 16, §6705

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In carrying out this chapter, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior— (1)

(2)shall encourage Federal agencies to use, on a cooperative basis, information and expertise provided by the Institutes;

(3)shall encourage cooperation and coordination between Federal programs relating to—

(A)ecological restoration;

(B)wildfire risk reduction; and

(C)wildfire management technologies;

(4)notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, may—

(A)enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, and interagency personnel agreements to carry out this chapter; and

(B)carry out other transactions under this chapter;

(5)may accept funds from other Federal agencies to supplement or fully fund grants made, and contracts entered into, by the Secretaries;

(6)may support a program of internships for qualified individuals at the undergraduate and graduate levels to carry out the educational and training objectives of this chapter;

(7)shall encourage professional education and public information activities relating to the purposes of this chapter; and

(8)may promulgate such regulations as the Secretaries determine are necessary to carry out this chapter.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 6705

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102