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[CITE: 16USC574]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 574. Damages caused private property in protection, 
        administration, and improvement of national forests; 
        reimbursement
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to reimburse owners of 
private property for damage or destruction thereof caused by employees 
of the United States in connection with the protection, administration, 
or improvement of the national forests, payment to be made from any 
funds appropriated for the protection, administration, and improvement 
of the national forests: Provided, That no payment in excess of $2,500 
shall be made on any such claim.

(May 27, 1930, ch. 337, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 387; Pub. L. 87-869, Sec. 8, 
Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157.)


                               Amendments

    1962--Pub. L. 87-869 increased from $500 to $2,500 the authorization 
for reimbursement of owners of private property for damages caused in 
protection, administration, and improvement of national forests.
