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[CITE: 16USC490]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 490. Deposits from timber purchasers to defray cost of 
        disposing of debris
        
    Purchasers of national-forest timber may be required by the 
Secretary of Agriculture to deposit the estimated cost to the United 
States of disposing of brush and other debris resulting from their 
cutting operations, such deposits to be covered into the Treasury and 
constitute a special fund, which is appropriated and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That any deposits in excess of the 
amount expended for disposals shall be transferred to miscellaneous 
receipts, forest-reserve fund, to be credited to the receipts of the 
year in which such transfer is made.

(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 313, 39 Stat. 462; Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, Sec. 6, 64 
Stat. 84.)


                               Amendments

    1950--Act Apr. 24, 1950, covered excess deposits into miscellaneous 
receipts instead of returning them to the depositors as was formerly the 
practice.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 580k of this title.
