---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 4502"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "4502"
heading: "Tropical deforestation assessment and assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/4502"
units:
  - "Chapter 65 — International Forestry Cooperation"
---

# §4502. Tropical deforestation assessment and assistance


In support of the Tropical Forestry Action Plan and to specifically address tropical deforestation and degradation, the [Secretary](/usc/16/4503d.md?p=2) may—

- (1) support and actively participate in global and regional meetings that seek to reform such Plan;
- (2) together with the United States Agency for International Development,[^1] and other Federal agencies, provide technical assistance to tropical countries for the formulation of national forestry sector development strategies; and
- (3) cooperate with tropical countries on research, training, and technical programs aimed at implementing national forestry sector development strategies.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–513, title VI, § 603, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2071.)