* Act of May 28, 1940 (P.L. 76-532, Ch. 220, 54 Stat. 224,
as amended; 16 U.S.C. 552a-d)
Sec. 1. The President, upon recommendation of the Secretaries
of the Interior and Agriculture, may, be Executive order, when
in his judg-ment the public interest would best be served thereby
and after reason-able notice has been given through the Department
of the Inte-rior, re-store any reserved national forest lands
covered by a coopera-tive agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture
for the protection of a watershed within a national forest from
which water is secured, to appropriation under any applicable
public-land law. (16 U.S.C. 552a)
Administration of Withdrawn Lands; Rules and Regulations
Sec. 2. Lands withdrawn under the provisions of sections
552a to 552d of this title shall be adminis-tered by the Secretary
of Agriculture under such agreements for the protection of the
watershed as he may make with the municipality concerned, and
the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, in addition to the
rules and regulations adopted for the administration of the national
forests, to adopt and prescribe such further rules and regulations
as he considers necessary to effect the adequate protection of
the water-shed, including a rule or regulation forbidding persons
other than forest officers and representatives of the municipality
from going on the lands so reserved or making any use whatever
thereof. (16 U.S.C. 552b)
Reimbursement of United States for Loss of Revenue
Sec. 3. Whenever national-forest lands are withdrawn
under sections 552a to 552d of this title, and the municipality
concerned objects to the utilization of the timber or other resources
of lands withdrawn, and the Secretary of Agriculture agrees to
withhold such resources from utilization, said municipality shall
pay to the Forest Service annually an amount which the Secretary
of Agriculture shall determine is nec-es-sary to reimburse the
United States for the loss of net annual revenues which would
be derived from the resources so withheld from disposi-tion.
(16 U.S.C. 552c)
Punishment of Violations of Reg-u-lations
Sec. 4. Any violation of the regulations issued under
sections 552a to 552d of this title shall be punished as is provided
in section 1853 of Title 18. (16 U.S.C. 552d)