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[CITE: 16USC579c]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 579c. Availability of funds received from forfeitures, 
        judgments, compromises, or settlements
        
    Any moneys received by the United States with respect to lands under 
the administration of the Forest Service (1) as a result of the 
forfeiture of a bond or deposit by a permittee or timber purchaser for 
failure to complete performance of improvement, protection, or 
rehabilitation work required under the permit or timber sale contract or 
(2) as a result of a judgment, compromise, or settlement of any claim, 
involving present or potential damage to lands or improvements, shall be 
covered into the Treasury and are hereby appropriated and made available 
until expended to cover the cost to the United States of any 
improvement, protection, or rehabilitation work on lands under the 
administration of the Forest Service rendered necessary by the action 
which led to the forfeiture, judgment, compromise, or settlement: 
Provided, That any portion of the moneys so received in excess of the 
amount expended in performing the work necessitated by the action which 
led to their receipt shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts.

(Pub. L. 85-464, Sec. 7, June 20, 1958, 72 Stat. 217.)
