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[CITE: 16USC563]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 563. Cooperation with States for fire protection on private 
        or State forest lands upon the watersheds of navigable rivers
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, and on such conditions 
as he deems wise, to stipulate and agree with any State or group of 
States to cooperate in the organization and maintenance of a system of 
fire protection on any private or State forest lands within such State 
or States and situated upon the watershed of a navigable river. No such 
stipulation or agreement shall be made with any State which has not 
provided by law for a system of forest-fire protection. In no case shall 
the amount expended in any State exceed in any fiscal year the amount 
appropriated by that State for the same purpose during the same fiscal 
year.

(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, Sec. 2, 36 Stat. 961.)


  Fiscal Year Transition Period of July 1, 1976, Through September 30, 
     1976, Deemed Fiscal Year for Purposes of Matching Requirements

    Fiscal year transition period of July 1, 1976, through Sept. 30, 
1976, deemed fiscal year for purposes of this section relating to 
matching requirements, see section 202(1) of Pub. L. 94-274, Apr. 21, 
1976, 90 Stat. 390, set out as a note under section 2652 of Title 7, 
Agriculture.
