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[CITE: 16USC567a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 567a. Cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture with States 
        in acquisition and administration of State forests
        
    For the purpose of stimulating the acquisition, development, and 
proper administration and management of State forests and of insuring 
coordinated effort by Federal and State agencies in carrying out a 
comprehensive national program of forest-land management, the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with 
appropriate officials of any State or States for acquiring in the name 
of the United States, by purchase or otherwise, such forest lands within 
the cooperating State as in his judgment the State is adequately 
prepared to administer, develop, and manage as State forests in 
accordance with the provisions of sections 567a to 567c of this title 
and with such other terms not inconsistent therewith as he shall 
prescribe, such acquisition to include the mapping, examination, 
appraisal, and surveying of such lands and the doing of all things 
necessary to perfect title thereto in the United States: Provided, That, 
since it is the declared policy of Congress to maintain and, where it is 
in the national interest to extend the national-forest system, nothing 
herein shall be construed to modify, limit, or change in any manner 
whatsoever the future ownership and administration by the United States 
of existing national forests and related facilities, or hereafter to 
restrict or prevent their extension through the acquisition by purchase 
or otherwise of additional lands for any national-forest purpose: 
Provided further, That sections 567a to 567c of this title shall not be 
construed to limit or repeal any legislation authorizing land exchanges 
by the Federal Government, and private lands acquired by exchange within 
the limits of any area subject to a cooperative agreement of the 
character herein authorized shall hereafter be subject to the provisions 
of sections 567a to 567c of this title.

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 808, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 963.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 567b, 567c of this title.
