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2.2.3 Forest Service

The Forest Service,1 an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, administers National Forests and Grasslands.2 Under FPA section 4(e), the Forest Service may require that a license for a project occupying lands or waters of a National Forest include those conditions necessary to assure the protection and use of the affected resources. Such conditions assure the high productivity of renewable resources as provided by the Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act and National Forest Management Act.3 The Forest Service requires a Special Use Permit for any new project not licensed as of the enactment of ECPA.4 Under FPA section 10(a), it may recommend environmental conditions for a project that affects a National Forest without occupying it.

 

  1. See the Forest Service website, at http://www.fs.fed.us.

  2. See Organic Act of 1897, 16 U.S.C. § 475.

  3. 16 U.S.C. §§ 472a, 521b, 1600, 1611 - 1614.

  4. 16 U.S.C. 797b, 823b.


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