---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 582"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "582"
heading: "Puerto Rico; application of forest protection laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/582"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter II — Investigations, Experiments, and Tests Affecting Reforestation and Forest Products"
---

# §582. Puerto Rico; application of forest protection laws


The provisions of sections 515, 564, 565,[^1] and 569 of this title are extended to the Territory of Puerto Rico, and the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture is authorized to cooperate with the appropriate officials of Puerto Rico on the same terms and conditions as with the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r): Provided, That not to exceed fifty thousand acres of land may be acquired in Puerto Rico under [section 515 of this title](/usc/16/515.md).


## Footnotes

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

## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 452, 46 Stat. 1516; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 564 and 565 of this title, referred to in text, were repealed by Pub. L. 95–313, § 13(a)(1), July 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 374.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Puerto Rico” substituted in text for “Porto Rico” pursuant to act May 17, 1932, which is classified to section 731a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.