---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 583b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "583b"
heading: "Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize sale of timber and forest products"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/583b"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sustained-Yield Forest Management"
---

# §583b. Establishment of sustained-yield units to stabilize sale of timber and forest products


The [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of the Interior are further severally authorized, whenever in their respective judgments the maintenance of a stable community or communities is primarily dependent upon the sale of timber or other forest products from federally owned or administered forest land and such maintenance cannot effectively be secured by following the usual procedures in selling such timber or other forest products, to establish by formal declaration for the purpose of maintaining the stability of such community or communities a sustained-yield [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) consisting of forest land under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) establishing such [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), to determine and define the boundaries of the community or communities for whose benefit such [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) is created, and to sell, subject to such conditions and requirements as the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) believes necessary, federally owned or administered timber and other forest products from such [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) without competitive bidding at prices not less than their appraised values, to responsible purchasers within such community or communities.


## Source credit

(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, § 3, 58 Stat. 133.)