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11. Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 

 16 U.S.C. 1601-1610 



Sec. 

 1601. 



1602. 



1603. 



1604. 



1605. 



1606. 



Renewable Resource Assessment; preparation by 

 Secret>ary of Agriculture; time of preparation, 

 updating and contents. 



Renewable Resource Program; preparation by 

 Secretary of Agriculture and transmittal to 

 President; purpose and development of program; 

 time of preparatlr .i. updating and contents. 



National Forest System resource Inventories; de- 

 velcpment, maintenance, and updating by Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture as part of Assessment. 

 National Forest System land and resource manage- 

 ment plans; development, maintenance and re- 

 vision by Secretary of Agriculture as part of 

 Program; coordination; criteria. 



Protection, use and manogement of renewable 

 resources on non-Federal lands; utilization of 

 Assessment, survevs and Program by Secretary of 

 Agriculture to assist States, etc. 



Budget requests by President for Forest Service 

 activities. 



(a) Transmittal to Sneaker of Ho'ise and 



President of Senate of Ass»ssment, 

 Program aid Statement of Policy used 

 in framlne requests: time for trans- 

 mittal- Implementation hv President of 

 nrograms established under Statement 

 of PoUcv unless Statement subse- 

 quentjv disapproved by Congress; time 

 frvr disapproval. 



(b) Oonten's of requests to show extent of 



compliance of prolected programs and 

 policies with policies approved bv Con- 

 gres's: reou-^ts not conforming to ap- 

 proved policies; expenditure of appro- 

 priations. 



(c) Annual C'aluatlon reoort to Congress of 



ProTram components; time of sub- 

 mission. 



(d) Required contents of annual evaluation 



report. 



(e) Addltlomal required contents of annual 



evaliuitlon report. 

 (f1 Form of a-'nual evaluation report. 



1607. National Pr-rest Svstem renewable resoiirces; de- 



velopment and admlilstratlop by Secretary of 

 Aerlculture In accnrdin'-e with multiple use and 

 sustained vleld concepts for products and serv- 

 ices; tarcet ve^r for operational posture of re- 

 sources: budeet reouests. 



1608. National Forest Transportation Svstem; Congres- 



sional declaration of policy: time for develop- 

 ment; method of financing; financing of forest 

 devel'-pment roads. 



1609. National F.irest S\'stem: Cr^ngresslonal declaration 



of constituent elements and purposes; lands, 

 etc., Included within; location of Forest Service 

 offices. 



1610. Implementation of previsions bv Secretary of 



Agriculture; utilization of Informatl-in and data 

 of other organizations: avoidance of duplication 

 of planning, etc., deflnltlon of "renewable 

 resource". 



§ 1611. Ronewabln Resorirce .Assespment: preparation 

 by Spcrptary of .Agriculture; time of preparation, 

 updatinf; and contents. 



In recognition of the vital lmp)ortance of America's 

 renewable resources of the forest, range, and other 

 associated lands to the Natlon's.socl.^1 and economic 

 well-being, and of the necessity for a long term per- 

 spective in plTiuiing and undertaking related na- 



tlo"al renewable resource programs administered by 

 the Forest Sei-vlce, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 

 prepare a Rene'vable Resource A-isessment (herein- 

 after called the "Assessment") . The Assessment shall 

 be prepared not later than December 31, 1975, and 

 sh^ll be updated during 1979 and each tenth year 

 thereafter, and shall include but not be limited to — 



(1) an analysis of pre.sent and anticipated uses, 

 demand for, nnd supply of the renewable resources, . 

 with consideration of the International resource 

 situation, and an emphasis of pertinent supply 

 and demand and price relationship trends; 



(2) an inventory, based on information devel- 

 oped by the Forest Service and other Federal 

 agencies, of present and potentlrl renewable re- 

 sources, and an evaluation of opportunities for 

 Improving their yield of tangible and i^t^ngible 

 goods and services, together with estimates of 

 Investment costs and direct and indirect returns 

 to the Federal Government; 



(3) a description of Forest Service programs 

 and responsibilities in research, cooperative pro- 

 grams and management of the National Forest 

 System, their interrelationshii>s, and the relation- 

 ship of these programs and responsibilities to 

 public and private activities; and 



(4) a discussion of important policy considera- 

 tions, laws, regulations, and other factors expected 

 to influence and affect significantly the use, owner- 

 ship, and management of forest, range, and other 

 associated lands. 



(Pub. L. 93-378, § 2(a), Aug. 17, 1974, 88 Stat. 476.) 

 Short Tttle 

 Section 1 of Pub. L. 93-378 provided: "That this Act 

 (which enacted this chapter and amended section 581h 

 Cxf this title] may be cited as the 'Forest and Rangeland 

 Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974'." 



Section Refiiibed to in Other Sections 

 This section Is referred to In section 1606 of this title. 



§ 1G02. Renewable Re.=ource Program ; preparation by 

 Secretary of .\griculture and transmittal to Presi- 

 dent; purpose and development of program; time 

 of preparation, updating and contents. 



In order to provide for periodic review of programs 

 for management and administration of the National 

 Forest System, for research, for cooperative State 

 and private Forest Service prcgrams, and for con- 

 duct of other Forest Service activities in relation to 

 the findings of the Assessment, the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, utilizing information available to the 

 Forest Service and other agencies within the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, including data prepared 

 pursuant to section 1010a of Title 7, shall prepare 

 and transmit to the President a recommended Re- 

 newable Resource Program (hereinafter called the 

 "Program") . The Program transmitted to the Presi- 

 dent may include alternatives, and shall provide in 

 appropriate detail for protection, management, and 

 development of the National Forest System, includ- 



