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[CITE: 16USC568]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 568. Cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture with States in 
        establishing, etc., wood lots, shelter belts, windbreaks, etc.; 
        limitation on expenditure; authorization of appropriations
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed, in 
cooperation with the land grant colleges and universities of the various 
States or, in his discretion, with other suitable State agencies, to aid 
farmers through advice, education, demonstrations, and other similar 
means in establishing, renewing, protecting, and managing wood lots, 
shelter belts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, and in 
harvesting, utilizing, and marketing the products thereof. Except for 
preliminary investigations, the amount expended by the Federal 
Government under this section in cooperation with any State or other 
cooperating agency during any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount 
expended by the State or other cooperating agency for the same purpose 
during the same fiscal year, and the Secretary of Agriculture is 
authorized to make expenditures on the certificate of the appropriate 
State official that the State expenditures, as provided for in this 
section, have been made. There is authorized to be appropriated annually 
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not more 
than $500,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the 
provisions of this section.

(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, Sec. 5, 43 Stat. 654; Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 735, 
Sec. 3, 63 Stat. 910.)


                               Amendments

    1949--Act Oct. 26, 1949, enlarged and clarified the Federal-State 
educational program with small forest-land owners, and increased the 
annual appropriations from $100,000 to $500,000.


  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(2) of Pub. L. 94-274, Apr. 21, 
1976, 90 Stat. 392, set out as a note under section 2652 of Title 7, 
Agriculture.


                      Contributions by States, etc.

    Section 208 of act Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, 58 Stat. 736, 
provided: ``No part of any appropriation which is available for carrying 
out the Cooperative Farm Forestry Act (16 U.S.C. 568b) [repealed] and 
sections 4 and 5 of the Clarke-McNary Act (16 U.S.C. 567 [repealed], 
568) shall be expended in any State or Territory unless the State or 
Territory, or local subdivision thereof, or individuals, or associations 
contribute a sum equal to that to be allotted therefrom by the 
Government or make contributions other than money deemed by the 
Secretary to be the value equivalent thereof.''


                  Appropriations Available for 3 Years

    Section 209 of act Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, 58 Stat. 737, 
provided: ``Appropriations for carrying out the Cooperative Farm 
Forestry Act (16 U.S.C. 568b) [repealed] and sections 4 and 5 of the 
Clarke-McNary Act (16 U.S.C. 567 [repealed], 568) and Acts supplementary 
thereto allocated for the production or procurement of nursery stock by 
any Federal agency, or funds appropriated to any Federal agency for 
allocation to cooperating States for the production or procurement of 
nursery stock, shall remain available for expenditure for not more than 
three fiscal years.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 527, 566b, 568a of this 
title.
