---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1686"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1686"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1686"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning"
  - "Subchapter IV — Wood Residue Utilization"
---

# §1686. Definitions


For purposes of this subchapter, the term:

- (1) “Anticipated cost of removal” means the projected cost of removal of [wood residues](#6) from timber sales [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) to [points of prospective use](#3), as determined by the [Secretary](#5) at the time of advertisement of the timber sales contract in accordance with appropriate appraisal and sale procedures.
- (2) “Anticipated value” means the projected value of [wood residues](#6) as fuel or other merchantable wood products, as determined by the [Secretary](#5) at the time of advertisement of the timber sales contract in accordance with appropriate appraisal and sale procedures.
- (3) “Points of prospective use” means the locations where the [wood residues](#6) are sold or otherwise put to use, as determined by the [Secretary](#5) in accordance with appropriate appraisal and sale procedures.
- (4) “Person” means an individual, partnership, joint-stock company, corporation, association, [trust](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=4), estate, or any other legal entity, or any agency of Federal or [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) government or of a political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) of a [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a).
- (5) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- (6) “Wood residues” includes, but is not limited to, logging slash, down timber material, woody plants, and standing live or dead trees which do not meet utilization standards because of size, species, merchantable volume, or economic selection criteria and which, in the case of live trees, are surplus to growing stock needs.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–554, § 7, Dec. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 3258.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1981, see section 9 of Pub. L. 96–554, set out as a note under section 1681 of this title.