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[CITE: 16USC556]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 556. Appropriations for Forest Service; use for 
        transportation or traveling expenses; preparation or publication 
        of newspaper or magazine articles
        
    No part of any funds appropriated for the Forest Service shall be 
used to pay the transportation or traveling expenses of any forest 
officer or agent except he be traveling on business directly connected 
with the Forest Service and in furtherance of the works, aims, and 
objects specified and authorized by law; nor shall any such funds be 
paid or used for the purpose of paying for, in whole or in part, the 
preparation or publication of any newspaper or magazine article, but 
this shall not prevent the giving out to all persons, without 
discrimination, including newspapers and magazine writers and 
publishers, of any facts or official information of value to the public: 
Provided, That this prohibition shall not apply to scientific or 
technical articles prepared for or published in scientific publications.

(May 11, 1922, ch. 185, 42 Stat. 521; Pub. L. 85-464, Sec. 8, June 20, 
1958, 72 Stat. 218.)


                               Amendments

    1958--Pub. L. 85-464 made prohibition inapplicable to scientific or 
technical articles prepared for or published in scientific publications.
