---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 583g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "583g"
heading: "Rules and regulations; delegation of powers and duties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/583g"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sustained-Yield Forest Management"
---

# §583g. Rules and regulations; delegation of powers and duties


The [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of the Interior may severally prescribe such rules and regulations as may be appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter. Each [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) may delegate any of his powers and duties under this subchapter to other officers or employees of his Department.


## Source credit

(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, § 8, 58 Stat. 134.)