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[CITE: 16USC559g]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 559g. Designation authority of Secretary of Agriculture


(a) Purpose

    It is the purpose of this section to authorize the Secretary of 
Agriculture to make law enforcement operations more efficient in 
connection with the administration and use of the National Forest 
System.

(b) Officers of other agencies

    The Secretary is authorized to designate law enforcement officers of 
any other Federal agency, when the Secretary determines such designation 
to be economical and in the public interest, and with the concurrence of 
that agency, to exercise the powers and authorities of the Forest 
Service while assisting the Forest Service in the National Forest 
System, or for activities administered by the Forest Service.

(c) Acceptance by Forest Service

    The Forest Service is authorized to accept law enforcement 
designation from any other Federal agency or agency of a State or 
political subdivision thereof for the purpose of cooperating in the 
investigation and enforcement of any Federal or State law or ordinance 
and regulation of any such agency, when such investigation or 
enforcement is mutually beneficial to the National Forest System and the 
cooperating agency or jurisdiction, upon entering into a memorandum of 
understanding or cooperative agreement with such agency or jurisdiction.

(Pub. L. 99-570, title XV, Sec. 15008, as added Pub. L. 100-690, title 
VI, Sec. 6254(e), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4365.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 460lll-12, 698v-6 of this 
title.
