---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 552b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "552b"
heading: "Administration of withdrawn lands; rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/552b"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §552b. Administration of withdrawn lands; rules and regulations


Lands withdrawn under the provisions of sections [552a](/usc/16/552a.md) to [552d](/usc/16/552d.md) of this title shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture under such agreements for the protection of the watershed as he may make with the municipality concerned, and the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture is authorized, in [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) 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 watershed, including a rule or regulation forbidding [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) other than forest officers and representatives of the municipality from going on the lands so reserved or making any use whatever thereof.


## Source credit

(May 28, 1940, ch. 220, § 2, 54 Stat. 224.)