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[CITE: 16USC570]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 570. Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public 
        lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to ascertain and 
determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow 
protection or for timber production, which can be economically 
administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to 
the National Forest Reservation Commission established under the Act of 
March 1, 1911, and if the commission shall determine that the 
administration of said lands by the Federal Government will protect the 
flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation, or will promote a 
future timber supply, the President shall lay the findings of the 
commission before the Congress of the United States.

(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, Sec. 8, 43 Stat. 655.)

                       References in Text

    The National Forest Reservation Commission, referred to in text, was 
established under section 4 of Act Mar. 1, 1911 (16 U.S.C. 513). Section 
4 of the 1911 act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest 
Reservation Commission were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, 
by section 17(a)(1) of Pub. L. 94-588, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2961.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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