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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS. - CH. 204-MAY 26, 1944 [CHAPTER 204] AN ACT To amend the Acts of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 866), May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347), June 15, 1938 (52 Stat. 699), and June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1205), which authorizes the appropriation of receipts from certain national forests for the purchase of lands within the boundaries of such forests, to provide that any such receipts not appropriated or appropriated but not expended or obligated shall be disposed of in the same manner as other national-forest receipts, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 866), which authorizes the appropriation of receipts from the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests for the purchase of lands in the State of Utah within the boundaries of said national forests, is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission established by section 4 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U. S. C. 513), is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase any lands within the boundaries of the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, in the State of Utah, which, in his judgment, should become the property of the United States in order that they may be so managed with other lands of the United States as to minimize soil erosion and flood damage, and to pay for said lands from the receipts derived from the sale of natural resources, other than mineral, and the occupancy of publicly owned lands within said national forests, which receipts are hereby authorized to be appropriated for that purpose until said lands have been acquired; all lands so acquired thereafter to be subject to and administered under the laws applicable to lands acquired under the provisions of said Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U. S. C . 519, 520, 521), as amended: Provided,That the provisions of sections 500 and 501 of title 16 of the United States Code shall not be applicable to receipts so appropriated and expended. Nothing contained in this Act, however, shall diminish payments to or expendi- tures within the State of Wyoming under the provisions of said sections; and any appropriated amounts which are, or which hereto- fore have been, unexpended and unobligated at the close of the fiscal year for which appropriated shall be transferred to the national- forest receipts of that fiscal year, and amounts so transferred and such portions of the receipts of any fiscal year as are not, or heretofore have not been, appropriated for the ensuing fiscal year shall be disposed of in the same manner as other national-forest receipts." SEw. 2. The Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347), which authorizes the appropriation of receipts from the Cache National Forest for the purchase of lands in the State of Utah within the boundaries of said national forest, is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission established by section 4 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (16 U. S . C . 513), is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase any lands within the boundaries of the Cache National Forest in the State of Utah which, in his judgment, should become the property of the United States in order that they may be so managed with other lands of the United States to minimize soil erosion and flood damage; and to pay for said lands from that pro- portion of the receipts derived from the sale of natural resources, other than mineral, and the occupancy of publicly owned lands within said national forest which is equal to that proportion of the gross area of said national forest situated in the State of Utah which receipts are hereby authorized to be appropriated for expenditure 227 May 26, 1944 [s. 1618] [Public Law 310] National forests. Soil erosion and flood control. Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah. Purchase of lands. 36 Stat. 962. Payments. Administration. 36 Stat. 962; 39 Stat. 1150. Pod,p. 737. Disposition of un- obligated funds. Cache National Forest, Utah. Purchase of lands. 36 Stat. 986 Payment.

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