---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 552c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "552c"
heading: "Reimbursement of United States for loss of revenue"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/552c"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §552c. Reimbursement of United States for loss of revenue


Whenever national-[forest lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=f) are withdrawn under sections [552a](/usc/16/552a.md) to [552d](/usc/16/552d.md) of this title, and the municipality concerned objects to the utilization of the timber or other resources of lands withdrawn, and the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture agrees to withhold such resources from utilization, said municipality shall pay to the Forest Service annually an amount which the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture shall determine is necessary to reimburse the United States for the loss of net annual revenues which would be derived from the resources so withheld from disposition.


## Source credit

(May 28, 1940, ch. 220, § 3, 54 Stat. 225.)