---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 583c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "583c"
heading: "Agreements between Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, or with other Federal agencies having jurisdiction over forest land"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/583c"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sustained-Yield Forest Management"
---

# §583c. Agreements between Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, or with other Federal agencies having jurisdiction over forest land


Each of the said [Secretaries](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) is further authorized in his discretion to enter into cooperative agreements with the other [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3), or with any Federal agency having jurisdiction over federally owned or administered forest land, or with any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) or local agency having jurisdiction over publicly owned or administered forest land, providing for the inclusion of such land in any coordinated plan of management otherwise authorized by the provisions of this subchapter when by such a cooperative agreement he may be aided in accomplishing the purposes of this subchapter; but no federally or publicly owned or administered forest land not under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) establishing the sustained-yield [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) concerned shall be included in any such plan except in pursuance of a cooperative agreement made under this section.


## Source credit

(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, § 4, 58 Stat. 133.)