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[CITE: 16USC551a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 551a. Cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture with States 
        and political subdivisions in law enforcement
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture, in connection with the administration 
and regulation of the use and occupancy of the national forests and 
national grasslands, is authorized to cooperate with any State or 
political subdivision thereof, on lands which are within or part of any 
unit of the national forest system, in the enforcement or supervision of 
the laws or ordinances of a State or subdivision thereof. Such 
cooperation may include the reimbursement of a State or its subdivision 
for expenditures incurred in connection with activities on national 
forest system lands. This section shall not deprive any State or 
political subdivision thereof of its right to exercise civil and 
criminal jurisdiction, within or on lands which are a part of the 
national forest system.

(Pub. L. 92-82, Aug. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 303.)
