---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 576d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "576d"
heading: "Expenditure of Supplemental National Forest Reforestation Fund moneys; availability of moneys from other sources unaffected"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/576d"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §576d. Expenditure of Supplemental National Forest Reforestation Fund moneys; availability of moneys from other sources unaffected


Moneys transferred to the National Forest Reforestation Fund under the provisions of sections [576c](/usc/16/576c.md) to [576e](/usc/16/576e.md)[^1] of this title shall be available to the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture, for expenditure upon appropriation, for the purpose of supplementing programs of tree planting and seeding of national [forest lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=f) determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) to be in need of reforestation. Such moneys shall be available until expended, and shall be provided without prejudice to appropriations or funds available from other sources for the same purposes, including those available pursuant to [section 576b of this title](/usc/16/576b.md).


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–421, § 2, Sept. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 678.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 576e of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 96–470, title I, § 102(b), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2237.