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Sec. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal 

 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 there- 

 after, 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 addi- 

 tional protection, care, and improvement of the resulting plantations 

 or young growth. 



Sec. 3. The Secretary of Agriculture may, when in his judgment 

 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 unde- 

 sirable trees or other growth, on the national-forest land cut over by 

 the purchaser, in order to improve the future stand of timber: Pro- 

 vided, That the total amount so required to be deposited by any pur- 

 chaser shall not exceed, on an acreage basis, the average cost of plant- 

 ing (including the production or purchase of young trees) other com- 

 parable national-forest lands during the previous three years. Such 

 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 Agri- 

 culture may direct : Provided, That any portion of any deposit found 

 to be in excess of the cost of doing said work shall, upon the deter- 

 mination 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 the 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. 



Forest roads and trails. 



Act of November 9, 1921 (42 Stat. 218) ; sec. 23, title 23, U. S. C. 



That fifty per centum, but not to exceed $3,000,000 for any one 

 fiscal year, of the appropriation made or that may hereafter be made 

 for expenditures under the provisions of this section shall be ex- 

 pended under the direct supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture 

 in the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of 

 roads and trails of primary importance for the protection, admin- 

 istration, and utilization of the national forests, or when necessary, 

 for the use and development of the resources upon which com- 

 munities within or adjacent to the national forests are dependent, 

 and shall be apportioned among the several States, Alaska, and 

 Porto Rico by the Secretary of Agriculture, according to the relative 

 needs of the various national forests, taking into consideration the 



