Chapter 416. Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to enlarge tree-planting operations on national forests, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 416.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to enlarge tree-planting operations on national forests, and for other purposes. June 9, 1930.[[S. 3531](/us/bill/71/s/3531).][[Public, No. 319](/us/pl/71/319).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryNational Forests.Tree nurseries to be established, for reforestation of. of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish forest tree nurseries and do all other things needful in preparation for planting on national forests on the scale possible under the appropriations authorized by this Act: *Provided*, That nothing in this Act shall*Proviso*.Authority of Secretary not affected. be deemed to restrict the authority of the said Secretary under other authority of law.
Sec. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscalSums authorized for operation of nurseries, reforestation, etc. year ending June 30, 1932, not to exceed $250,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, not to exceed $300,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, not to exceed $400,000; and for each fiscal year thereafter, not to exceed $400,000, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and operate nurseries, to collect or to purchase tree seed or young trees, to plant trees, and to do all other things necessary for reforestation by planting or seeding national forests and for the additional protection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations or young growth.
Sec. 3. The Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his judgmentDeposit by purchaser of national forest timber, for replanting, etc., cut over lands. such action will be in the public interest, require any purchaser of national-forest timber to make deposits of money, in addition to the payments for the timber, to cover the cost to the United States of
(1)planting (including the production or purchase of young trees),
(2)sowing with tree seeds (including the collection or purchase of such seeds), or
(3)cutting, destroying, or otherwise removing undesirable trees or other growth, on the national-forest land cut over by the purchaser, in order to improve the future stand of timber: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Limit on total amount of deposit. That the total amount so required to be deposited by any purchaser shall not exceed, on an acreage basis, the average cost of planting (including the production or purchase of young trees) other comparable national-forest lands during the previous three years. SuchTo be covered into Treasury, as special fund. deposits shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, to cover the cost to the United States of such tree planting, seed sowing, and forest improvement work, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct: *Provided*, That any portion of any deposit foundDisposition of excess covered in. to be in excess of the cost of doing said work shall, upon the determination that it is so in excess, be transferred to miscellaneous receipts, forest reserve fund, as a national-forest receipt of the fiscal year in which such transfer is made: *Provided further*, That theSeedlings, etc., for burned over areas. Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, upon application of the Secretary of the Interior, to furnish seedlings and/or young trees for replanting of burned-over areas in any national park. Approved, June 9, 1930.