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16 USC § 570 - Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof 

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title: "16 USC § 570 - Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "570"
section_name: "Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 8, 43 Stat. 655.)"
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# § 570. Ascertainment by Secretary of Agriculture of public lands valuable for stream-flow protection and report thereof

March 1, 1911

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 , 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.

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**Source Credit**: (June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 8, 43 Stat. 655.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The National Forest Reservation Commission, referred to in text, was established under section 4 of Act  (). Section 4 of the 1911 act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest Reservation Commission were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, by , , .