[CHAPTER 172—3D SESSION]

[H. J. Res. 627]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Providing an additional appropriation for the Civilian Conservation Corps for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for an additional amount for all authorized and necessary expenses of the Civilian Conservation Corps in carrying into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes", approved June 28, 1937, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1939, the sum of $22,000,000, and in addition thereto there is hereby reappropriated and made available for such purpose the unobligated balance on June 80, 1988, of the appropriation "Civilian Conservation Corps, 1938", and of the total amount made available hereby not less than $30,000,000 shall be available only for pay, subsistence, clothing (and repair thereof), transportation, and hospitalization of enrollees. The foregoing appropriation and reappropriation shall be added to, and be available for the same objects of expenditure and within the limitations specified in, the appropriation for the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1939, and no part of the amounts made available hereby shall be used for the construction of any new camps.

Approved, April 25, 1938.

(81)

71-490 O-66-4

[H. R. 2881]

AN ACT

Authorizing the adjustment of contracts for the sale of timber on the national forests, 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 Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, upon application of the contracting parties involved, and after due notice publicly given, when such action is necessary in his judgment to prevent hardship or unemployment, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to terminate any contract made prior to June 30, 1934, for the sale of timber on national forests, without requiring the payment of damages for failure to cut all of the timber involved, except as the value of the remaining timber may have been reduced by the cutting and removal done by the purchaser: Provided, That all applications for action by the Secretary under the authority of this Act shall be submitted within one year from the date of its approval.

Approved, April 17, 1935.

(32)

[8. 82]

AN ACT

To authorize the disposal of surplus personal property, including buildings, of the Emergency Conservation Work.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Director of Procurement, United States Treasury Department, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to Federal agencies, either permanent or emergency, personal property which is no longer required for use by the Emergency Conservation Work, including equipment, tools, materials, and buildings, when so declared surplus by the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work: Provided, That upon the recommendation of the Department under which the technical work of the camp was organized and supervised any such surplus property that is not desired by any Federal agency may be transferred without cost, except for expenses incident to transfer, to the forestry, park, conservation, or educational departments of the States, or to counties or municipalities, or to organizations engaged in the promotion of education, recreation, and/or health.

SEC. 2. Surplus property of the Emergency Conservation Work not required to serve any of the above purposes will be disposed of by the Director of Procurement through sale or in any other manner he may direct.

Approved, May 29, 1935.

(38)

[H. R. 6914]

AN ACT

To authorize cooperation with the several States for the purpose of stimulating the acquisition, development, and proper administration and management of State forests and coordinating Federal and State activities in carrying out a national program of forest-land management, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of stimulating the acquisition, development, and proper administration and management of State forests and of insuring coordinated effort by Federal and State agencies in carrying out a comprehensive national program of forest-land management, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with appropriate officials of any State or States for acquiring in the name of the United States, by purchase or otherwise, such forest lands within the cooperating State as in his judgment the State is adequately prepared to administer, develop, and manage as State forests in accordance with the provisions of this Act and with such other terms not inconsistent therewith as he shall prescribe, such acquisition to include the mapping, examination, appraisal, and surveying of such lands and the doing of all things necessary to perfect title thereto in the United States: Provided, That, since it is the declared policy of Congress to maintain and, where it is in the national interest to extend the national-forest system, nothing herein shall be construed to modify, limit, or change in any manner whatsoever the future ownership and administration by the United States of existing national forests and related facilities, or hereafter to restrict or prevent their extension through the acquisition by purchase or otherwise of additional lands for any national-forest purpose: Provided further, That this Act shall not be construed to limit or repeal any legislation authorizing land exchanges by the Federal Government, and private lands acquired by exchange within the limits of any area subject to a cooperative agreement of the character herein authorized shall hereafter be subject to the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 2. No cooperative agreement shall be entered into or continued in force under the authority of this Act or any land acquired hereunder turned over to the cooperating State for administration, development, and management unless the State concerned, as a consideration for the benefits extended to it thereunder, complies in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture with the following conditions and requirements which shall constitute a part of every such agreement:

(a) In order to reduce the need for public expenditures in the acquisition of lands which may be brought into public ownership through the enforcement of appropriate tax delinquency laws, and, by bringing about the handling of such lands upon a sound social and economic basis, to terminate a system of indeterminate and

unsound ownership injurious to the private and public interest alike, no additional lands shall be acquired within any State by the United States under this Act after June 30, 1942, unless the State concerned has prior thereto provided by law for the reversion of title to the State or a political unit thereof of tax-delinquent lands and for blocking into State or other public forests the areas which are more suitable for public than private ownership, and which in the public interest should be devoted primarily to the production of timber crops and/or the maintenance of forests for watershed protection, and for the enforcement of such law: Provided, That in the administration of this Act prior to June 30, 1942, preference will be given to States applying for cooperation hereunder which provide by law for such reversion of title under tax delinquency laws.

(b) In order to insure a stable and efficient organization for the development and administration of the lands acquired under this Act, the State shall provide for the employment of a State forester, who shall be a trained forester of recognized standing.

(c) The Secretary of Agriculture and the appropriate authorities of each cooperating State shall work out a mutually satisfactory plan defining forest areas within the State which can be most effectively and economically administered by said State, which plan shall constitute a part of the cooperative agreement between the United States and the State concerned: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from later agreeing with the proper State authorities to desirable modifications in such plan.

(d) No payment of Federal funds shall be made for land selected for purchase by the United States under this Act until such proposed purchase has been submitted to and approved by the National Forest Reservation Commission created by section 4 of the Act approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 9661; U. S. C., title 16, sec. 513).

(e) Subject to the approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay out of any available money appropriated for carrying out the purposes of this Act any State, county, and/or town taxes, exclusive of penalties, due or accrued on any forest lands acquired by the United States under donations from the owners thereof and which lands are to be included in a State or other public forest pursuant to this Act. (f) The State shall prepare such standards of forest administration, development, and management as are necessary to insure maximum feasible utility for timber production and watershed protection, and are acceptable to the Secretary of Agriculture and shall apply the same to lands acquired and placed under the jurisdiction of the State pursuant to this Act.

(g) That with the exception of such Federal expenditures as may be made for unemployment relief, the State shall pay without assistapce from the Federal Government the entire future cost of administering, developing, and managing all forest lands acquired and over which it has been given jurisdiction under this Act.

(h) During the period any cooperative agreement made under this Act remains in force, one-half of the gross proceeds from all lands covered by said agreement and to which the United States holds title shall be paid by the State to the United States and cov