---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 580m"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "580m"
heading: "Development of reservoir areas for future resources of timber; Congressional declaration of policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/580m"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §580m. Development of reservoir areas for future resources of timber; Congressional declaration of policy


It is declared to be the policy of the United States to provide that reservoir [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) for flood control, navigation, hydroelectric power development, and other related purposes owned in fee and under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of the Army and the Chief of Engineers shall be developed and maintained so as to encourage, promote, and assure fully adequate and dependable future resources of readily available timber, through sustained yield programs, reforestation, and accepted conservation practices, and to increase the value of such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) for conservation, recreation, and other beneficial uses: Provided, That such development and management shall be accomplished to the extent practicable and compatible with other uses of the [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–717, § 1, Sept. 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 817.)