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[CITE: 16USC1674]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 36--FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES PLANNING
 
                   SUBCHAPTER III--EXTENSION PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 1674. Renewable Resources Extension Program plan


(a) Preparation and submission to Congress; purposes; contents

    The Secretary shall prepare a five-year plan for implementing this 
subchapter, which is to be called the ``Renewable Resources Extension 
Program'' and shall submit such plan to the Committee on Agriculture of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate no later than the last day of the 
first half of the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and the last 
day of the first half of each fifth fiscal year thereafter. The 
Renewable Resources Extension Program shall provide national emphasis 
and direction as well as guidance to State directors and administrative 
heads of extension for eligible colleges and universities in the 
development of their respective State renewable resources extension 
programs, which are to be appropriate in terms of the conditions, needs, 
and opportunities in each State. The Renewable Resources Extension 
Program shall contain, but not be limited to, brief outlines of general 
extension programs for fish and wildlife management (for both game and 
nongame species), range management, timber management (including brief 
outlines of general extension programs for timber utilization, timber 
harvesting, timber marketing, wood utilization, and wood products 
marketing), and watershed management (giving special attention to water 
quality protection), as well as brief outlines of general extension 
programs for recognition and enhancement of forest- and range-based 
outdoor recreation opportunities, for urban and community forestry 
activities, and for planting and management of trees and shrubs in 
shelterbelts, and give special attention to water quality protection and 
natural resource and environmental education for landowners and 
managers, public officials, and the public.

(b) Considerations governing preparation

    In preparing the Renewable Resources Extension Program, the 
Secretary shall take into account the respective capabilities of private 
forests and rangelands for yielding renewable resources and the relative 
needs for such resources identified in the periodic Renewable Resource 
Assessment provided for in section 1601 of this title and the periodic 
appraisal of land and water resources provided for in section 2004 of 
this title.

(c) Omitted

(d) Review of activities and evaluation of progress

    To assist Congress and the public in evaluating the Renewable 
Resources Extension Program, the program shall include a review of 
activities undertaken in response to the preceding five-year plan and an 
evaluation of the progress made toward accomplishing the goals and 
objectives set forth in such preceding plan. Such review and evaluation 
shall be displayed in the program, for the Nation as a whole, and for 
each State.

(Pub. L. 95-306, Sec. 5, June 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 351; Pub. L. 100-231, 
Sec. 3, Jan. 5, 1988, 101 Stat. 1565; Pub. L. 101-624, title XII, 
Secs. 1219(b)(2), 1251(c), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3539, 3553.)

                          Codification

    Subsec. (c) of this section, which required the Secretary to prepare 
an annual report on the Renewable Resources Extension Program, to be 
furnished to Congress at the time of submission of each annual fiscal 
budget, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of 
Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of 
Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 45 of House Document No. 
103-7.


                               Amendments

    1990--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1251(c), inserted before 
period at end ``, and give special attention to water quality protection 
and natural resource and environmental education for landowners and 
managers, public officials, and the public''.
    Pub. L. 101-624, Sec. 1219(b)(2), substituted ``for urban and 
community forestry activities'' for ``for planting and management of 
trees and forests in urban areas''.
    1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-231, Sec. 3(1), substituted ``the 
Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate'' for 
``Congress''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 100-231, Sec. 3(2), added subsec. (d).
