---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 590i"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "590i"
heading: "Surveys and investigations; publication of information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/590i"
units:
  - "Chapter 3B — Soil Conservation"
---

# §590i. Surveys and investigations; publication of information


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the conditions and factors affecting, and methods of accomplishing most effectively, the policy and purposes of [section 590g(a) of this title](/usc/16/590g.md?p=a). Notwithstanding any provision of existing law, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to make public such information as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 9, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1150; amended June 28, 1937, ch. 395, § 2, 50 Stat. 329; Pub. L. 97–375, title I, § 103(c), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1819.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1982—Pub. L. 97–375 struck out requirement that the Secretary transmit to Congress a report on operations under this subchapter, including a statement by classes and amounts of expenditures and obligations, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for each fiscal year thereafter.

1937—Act June 28, 1937, inserted last sentence.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Functions respecting lands under jurisdiction of Department of the Interior, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 590a of this title.