---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 572a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "572a"
heading: "Deposits from timber purchasers to defray cost of scaling services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/572a"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §572a. Deposits from timber purchasers to defray cost of scaling services


The Forest Service may accept money from timber purchasers for deposit into the Treasury in the [trust](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=4) account, “Forest Service cooperative fund”, which moneys are made available for scaling services requested by purchasers in [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to those required by the Forest Service, and for refunds of amounts deposited in excess of the cost of such work.


## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 210, 58 Stat. 737.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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