2014 US Code
Title 16 - Conservation (Sections 1 - 7304)
Chapter 2 - National Forests (Sections 471 - 546b-1)
Subchapter I - Establishment and Administration (Sections 471 - 539r)
Sec. 473 - Revocation, modification, or vacation of orders or proclamations establishing national forests
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 16 - CONSERVATION |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 16 - CONSERVATION CHAPTER 2 - NATIONAL FORESTS SUBCHAPTER I - ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Sec. 473 - Revocation, modification, or vacation of orders or proclamations establishing national forests |
Contains | section 473 |
Date | 2014 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Short Titles | Organic Administration Act. |
Source Credit | June 4, 1897, ch. 2, §1, 30 Stat. 34, 36. |
Statutes at Large References | 30 Stat. 34 90 Stat. 2792 |
Public and Private Laws | Public Law 94-579 |
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The President of the United States is authorized and empowered to revoke, modify, or suspend any and all Executive orders and proclamations or any part thereof issued under section 471 1 of this title, from time to time as he shall deem best for the public interests. By such modification he may reduce the area or change the boundary lines or may vacate altogether any order creating a national forest.
(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, §1, 30 Stat. 34, 36.)
REFERENCES IN TEXTSection 471 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, §704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.
CODIFICATIONThe two sentences of this section are from provisions in section 1 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1898, act June 4, 1897.
The first sentence is a portion of the third paragraph and was prefaced by the words "To remove any doubt which may exist pertaining to the authority of the President thereunto." Other provisions of the same paragraph have been omitted as temporary.
The second sentence is a portion of the seventh paragraph the whole of which reads as follows: "The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve."
SHORT TITLECertain provisions of act June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 34, under the headings "under the department of the interior." and "surveying the public lands.", which enacted sections 473 to 478, 479 to 482, and 551 of this title, are popularly known as the Organic Administration Act.
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