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PUBLIC LAW 89-4-MAR. 9, 1965

(g) The Secretary of Agriculture shall be authorized to issue such rules and regulations as he determines are necessary to c any out the provisions of this section. (h) I n carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secretary of Agriculture shall utilize the services of the Soil Conservation Service, and the State and local committees provided for in section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590(b)), and is authorized to utilize the facilities, services, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation. The Corporation shall not make any expenditures to carry out the provisions of this subsection unless funds specifically appropriated for such purpose have been transferred to it. (i) Not to exceed $17,000,000 of the funds authorized in section 401 of this Act shall be available to carry out this section.

52 Stat. 3 1. 16 USC S90h.

Limitation.

TIMBER DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS

SEC. 204. (a) I n order that the region shall more fully benefit from the timber stands that are one of its prime assets, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to— (1) provide technical assistance in the organization and operation, under State laAV, of private timber development organizations having as their objective the carrying out of timber development programs to improve timber productivity and quality, and increase returns to landowners through establishment of private nonprofit corporations, which on a self-supporting basis may provide (A) continuity of management, good cutting practices, and marketing services, (B) physical consolidation of small holdings or administrative consolidation for efficient management under long-term agreement, (C) management of forest lands, donated to the timber development organizations for demonstrating good forest management, on a profitable and taxpaying basis, and (D) establishment pf a permanent fund for perpetuation of the work of the corporations to be composed of donations, real or personal, for educational purposes. (2) provide not more than one-half of the initial capital requirements of such timber development organizations through loans under the applicable provisions of the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961 (7 U.S.C. 1926 et seq.). Such loans shall not be used for the construction or acquisition of facilities for manufacturing, processing, or marketing forest products, or for physical consolidation of small timber holdings authorized by (1)(B) above except for the establishment of demonstration units. (b) Xot to exceed $5,000,000 of the funds authorized in section 401 of this Act shall be available to carry out this section. MINING

AREA

75 Stat, 307.

Limitation,

RESTORATION

SEC. 205. (a) In order to further the economic development of the region by rehabilitating areas presently damaged by deleterious mining practices, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to— (1) make financial contributions to States in the region to seal and fill voids in abandoned coal mines, and to reclaim and rehabilitate existing strip and surface mine areas, in accordance with provisions of the Act of July 15, 1955 (30 U.S.C. 571 et seq.), to the extent applicable, without regard to section 2(b) thereof (30 U.S.C. 572(b)) or to any provisions therein limiting assistance to anthracite coal formation, or to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Grants under this paragraph shall be made

69 Stat. 352. 76 Stat. 934.

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