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[CITE: 16USC556d]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 556d. Advances of public moneys to Forest Service for 
        fighting forest fires in emergency cases
        
    Advances of money under any appropriation for the Forest Service may 
be made to the Forest Service and by authority of the Secretary of 
Agriculture to chiefs of field parties for fighting forest fires in 
emergency cases and detailed accounts arising under such advances shall 
be rendered through and by the Department of Agriculture to the General 
Accounting Office.

(May 23, 1908, ch. 192, 35 Stat. 259; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, 
Sec. 304, 42 Stat. 24; Pub. L. 92-310, title II, Sec. 231(v), June 6, 
1972, 86 Stat. 211.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as a part of the Agricultural Appropriation Act 
for the fiscal year 1909, act May 23, 1908.
    Section was formerly classified to section 534 of Title 31 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by 
Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.


                               Amendments

    1972--Pub. L. 92-310 struck out provisions which required chiefs of 
field parties to give bonds.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``General Accounting Office'' substituted in text for ``Treasury 
Department'' pursuant to act June 10, 1921, which transferred all powers 
and duties conferred upon Comptroller, six auditors, and certain other 
officers of the Treasury to General Accounting Office. See section 701 
et seq. of Title 31, Money and Finance.
