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[CITE: 16USC583a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
            SUBCHAPTER IV--SUSTAINED-YIELD FOREST MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 583a. Cooperative agreements with private owners; 
        privileges of private owners; recordation of agreements
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to forest land under his 
jurisdiction, and the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to forest 
land under his jurisdiction, are severally authorized, for the purposes 
specified in section 583 of this title, to enter into cooperative 
agreements with private owners of forest land within a cooperative 
sustained-yield unit, established pursuant to said section, providing 
for the coordinated management of such private forest land and of 
federally owned or administered forest lands within the sustained-yield 
unit involved. Each cooperative agreement may give the cooperating 
private landowner the privilege of purchasing without competitive 
bidding at prices not less than their appraised value, subject to 
periodic readjustments of stumpage rates and to such other conditions 
and requirements as the Secretary may prescribe, timber and other forest 
products from federally owned or administered forest land within the 
unit, in accordance with the provisions of sustained-yield management 
plans formulated or approved by the Secretary for the unit; shall limit 
the time, rate, and method of cutting or otherwise harvesting timber and 
other forest products from the land of the cooperating private 
landowner, due consideration being given to the character and condition 
of the timber, to the relation of the proposed cutting to the sustained-
yield plan for the unit, and to the productive capacity of the land; 
shall prescribe the terms and conditions, but not the price, upon which 
the cooperating private landowner may sell to any person timber and 
other forest products from his land, compliance by the purchaser with 
such conditions to be required by the contract of sale; shall contain 
such provisions as the Secretary deems necessary to protect the 
reasonable interest of other owners of forest land within the unit; and 
shall contain such other provisions as the Secretary believes necessary 
to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
    Each cooperative agreement shall be placed on record in the county 
or counties in which the lands of the cooperating private landowner 
covered thereby are located, and the costs incident to such recordation 
may be paid out of any funds available for the protection or management 
of federally owned or administered forest land within the unit. When 
thus recorded, the agreement shall be binding upon the heirs, 
successors, and assigns of the owner of such land, and upon purchasers 
of timber or other forest products from such land, throughout the life 
of such cooperative agreement.

(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, Sec. 2, 58 Stat. 132.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 583, 583d of this title.
