16 U.S.C. § 594
Protection of timber owned by United States from fire, disease, or insect ravages
United States · Title 16 — CONSERVATION · Status: effective
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- 16 U.S.C. § 594, Protection of timber owned by United States from fire, disease, or insect ravages, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/445955
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to protect and preserve, from fire, disease, or the ravages of beetles, or other insects, timber owned by the United States upon the public lands, national parks, national monuments, Indian reservations, or other lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior owned by the United States, either directly or in cooperation with other departments of the Federal Government, with States, or with owners of timber; and appropriations are authorized to be made for such purposes.
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