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[CITE: 16USC581i-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
    SUBCHAPTER II--INVESTIGATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND TESTS AFFECTING 
                    REFORESTATION AND FOREST PRODUCTS
 
Sec. 581i-1. Advance of funds for cooperative research

    For the purpose of fostering and stimulating participation with the 
Forest Service in forest, range, and watershed management research 
through investigations, experiments, tests, or such other means as he 
may deem advisable, and in order to aid in obtaining the fullest 
cooperation from States and other public and private agencies, 
organizations, institutions, and individuals, in effectuating such 
research the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in accordance with 
such regulations as he may issue and when in his judgment such 
cooperative work will be stimulated or facilitated to make funds 
available to the cooperators without regard to the provisions of section 
3324(a) and (b) of title 31, prohibiting advances of public moneys.

(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, Sec. 20, as added Apr. 6, 1956, ch. 176, 70 
Stat. 100.)

                          Codification

    ``Section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31'' substituted in text for 
``section 3648, Revised Statutes [31 U.S.C. 529]'' on authority of Pub. 
L. 97-258, Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section 
of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.
