---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 554c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "554c"
heading: "Care of employees’ graves"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/554c"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §554c. Care of employees’ graves


Appropriations for the Forest Service shall be available within such limitations as may be prescribed therein for the expenses of properly caring for the graves of [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) who have lost their lives as a result of fighting fires while employed by the Forest Service.


## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 206, 58 Stat. 736.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.