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in such areas, by such agencies, at such terms and conditions, and in such manner, as may be prescribed in or pursuant to this Act. (40 U.S.C. 484)

(b) The care and handling of surplus property, pending its disposition, and the disposal of surplus property, may be performed by the General Services Administration or, when so determined by the Administrator, by the executive agency in possession thereof or by any other executive agency consenting thereto.

(c) Any executive agency designated or authorized by the Administrator to dispose of surplus property may do so by sale, exchange, lease, permit, or transfer, for cash, credit, or other property, with or without warranty, and upon such other terms and conditions as the Administrator deems proper, and it may execute such documents for the transfer of title or other interest in property and take such other action as it deems necessary or proper to dispose of such property under the provisions of this subchapter.

(d) A deed, bill of sale, lease, or other instrument executed by or on behalf of any executive agency purporting to transfer title or any other interest in surplus property under this subchapter shall be conclusive evidence of compliance with the provisions of this subchapter insofar as concerns title or other interest of any bona fide grantee or transferee for value and without notice of lack of such compliance.

Anderson-Mansfield Reforestation and
Revegetation

• Act of October 11, 1949 (Ch. 674, 63 Stat. 762; 16 U.S.C. 581j(note), 581k)

Whereas the national forests of the United States contain approximately eighty million acres of the Nation's commercial timber lands and approximately eighty-three million acres of the Nation's important grazing lands; and Whereas these national forest lands comprise the principal source of water supply for domestic, irrigation, and industrial purposes for thousands of communities, farms, and industries, and good forest and other vegetative cover is essential for watershed protection; and

Whereas these lands annually supply approximately four billion board-feet of forest products through twenty-seven thousand sales transactions and the demand for national forest timber is steadily increasing; and

Whereas these lands are the sole or main source of summer range for ten million cattle and sheep grazed by thirty thousand livestock permittees whose livelihood is wholly or partially dependent upon livestock grazed on national-forest ranges; and

Whereas these lands contain over four million acres of denuded and unsatisfactorily stocked timberlands and an additional four million acres of seriously depleted range lands; and

Whereas all of these lands are potentially capable of producing an important part of the timber and forage needs of local communities, and contributing to the protection of water sheds, thereby alleviating flood damage and insuring a continuing water supply, increasing opportunity for local employment, bringing greater stability to local communities, and increasing returns to counties in the national forests from their share of national forests receipts, together with other benefits; and

Whereas these lands will not restock or revegetate satisfactorily or within a reasonable time except through reforestation and revegetation or other measures to induce restocking or revegetation; and

Whereas it is practical to reforest these denuded and unsatisfactorily stocked timber lands and revegetate these seriously depleted range lands in a period of fifteen years; and

Whereas it is necessary to provide reasonable continuity of reforestation and revegetation programs in order to insure effective, efficient, and economical operations:

Therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is the declared policy of the Congress to accelerate and provide a continuing basis for the needed reforestation and revegetation of national forest lands and other lands under administration or control of the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture in order to obtain the benefits hereinbefore enumerated. (16 U.S.C. 581j (note))

Land Acquisition for Nurseries

Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution on national forest lands and other lands under the administration or control of the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, including the acquisition of land or interests therein for nurseries, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated to remain available until December 31 of the ensuing fiscal year,

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$10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, a like amount for each subsequent year through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and thereafter such amounts as may be needed for reforestation; and. . . . $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955; a like amount for each subsequent year through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, and thereafter such amounts as may be needed for range revegetation. (16 U.S.C. 581k)

Granger-Thye Act

• Act of April 24, 1950 (Ch. 97, 64 Stat. 82; 16 U.S.C. 490, 504, 504a, 555, 557, 571c, 572, 579a, 580c-5801, 581i-l)

Sec. 1.

Notwithstanding the provisions of existing law and without regard to section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended 940 U.S.C. 255), but within the limitations of cost otherwise applicable, appropriations of the Forest Service may be expended for the erection of buildings, lookout towers, and other structures on land owned by States, counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions, corporations, or individuals: Provided, That prior to such erection there is obtained the right to use the land for the estimated life of or need for the structure, including the right to remove any such such structure within a reasonable time after the termination of the right of use the land. (16 U.S.C. 571c)

Procurement of Nursery Stock

Sec. 2. That so much of the Act of June 30, 1914 (38 Stat. 415, 429, 16 U.S.C. 504), as provides: "That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may procure such seed, cones, and nursery stock by open purchase, without advertisements for proposals, whenever in his discretion such method is most economical and in the public interest and when the cost thereof will not exceed $500:", is hereby amended to read as follows: "That the provisions of section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5), shall not apply to any purchase by the Forest Service of forest-tree seed or cones or of forage plant seed when the amount involved does not exceed $10,000, nor to any purchase of forest-tree nursery stock when the amount involved does not exceed $500, whenever, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, such method is in the public interest". (16 U.S.C. 504)

Purchase of Experimentation Equipment

Sec. 3. The provisions of section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5), shall not apply to purchases by the Forest Service of (1) materials to be tested or upon which experiments are to be made or (2) special devices, test models, or parts thereof, to be used (a) for experimentation to determine their suitability for or adaptability to accomplishment of the work for which designed or (b) in the

designing or developing of new equipment: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 may be expended in any one fiscal year pursuant to this authority and not to exceed $10,000 on any one item or purchase. (16 U.S.C. 580c)

Aerial Operation Procurement

Sec. 4. Section 205 of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944, approved September 21, 1944 (58 Stat. 736), as amended by the Act of April 24, 1950 (64 Stat. 82), is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 205. The Forest Service by contract or

otherwise may provide for procurement and operation of aerial facilities and services for the protection and management of the national forests and other lands administered by it, including the furnishing, at the airbase, of facilities, equipment, materials and the preparation, mixing and loading into aircraft, with authority to renew any contract for such purpose annually, not more than twice, without additional advertising." (16 U.S.C. 579a)

Assisting to Perform Work on Other Jurisdictions

Sec. 5. Section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1132; 16 U.S.C. 572), is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, where the public interest justifies, to cooperate with or assist public and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and persons in performing work on land in State, county, municipal, or private ownership, situated within or near a national forest, for which the administering agency, owner, or other interested party deposits in one or more payments a sufficient sum to cover the total estimated cost of the work to be done for the benefit of the depositor, for administration, protection, improvement, reforestation, and such other kinds of work as the Forest Service is authorized to do on lands of the United States: Provided, That the United States shall not be liable to the depositor or land-owner for any damage incident to the performance of such work.

"(b) Cooperation and assistance on the same basis as that authorized in subsection (a) is authorized also in the performance of any such kinds of work in connection with the Occupancy or use of the national forests or other lands administered by the Forest Service.

"(c) Moneys deposited under this section shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby made available until expended for payment of the cost of work performed by the Forest Service and for refunds to depositors of amounts deposited by them

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