---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 581"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "581"
heading: "Repealed. [Pub. L. 95–307, § 8(a)](/us/pl/95/307/s8/a), June 30, 1978, [92 Stat. 356](/us/stat/92/356)"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/581"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter II — Investigations, Experiments, and Tests Affecting Reforestation and Forest Products"
---

# [§581. Repealed. [Pub. L. 95–307, § 8(a)](/us/pl/95/307/s8/a), June 30, 1978, [92 Stat. 356](/us/stat/92/356) — repealed]



## Notes

Section 581, acts May 22, 1928, ch. 678, § 1, 45 Stat. 699; Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 17(a), 64 Stat. 87, authorized investigations, experiments, and tests affecting reforestation and forest products through cooperation with State and other agencies.

Section 581a, acts May 22, 1928, ch. 678, § 2, 45 Stat. 700; June 15, 1936, ch. 553, 49 Stat. 1515, set forth provisions establishing and authorizing appropriations for specific forest experiment stations.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 9 of Pub. L. 95–307, set out as an Effective Date note under section 1641 of this title.