---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2602"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "2602"
heading: "Cooperative agreements with other agencies or private owners for coordinated administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/2602"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration"
---

# §2602. Cooperative agreements with other agencies or private owners for coordinated administration


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to make cooperative agreements with other Federal or [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) forest administrative agencies or with private forest owners or operators for the coordinated administration, with respect to time, rate, method of cutting, and sustained yield, of forest units comprising parts of revested or reconveyed lands, together with lands in private ownership or under the administration of other public agencies, when by such agreements he may be aided in accomplishing the purposes mentioned in sections [2601](/usc/43/2601.md) and 2602 of this title.


## Source credit

(Aug. 28, 1937, ch. 876, title I, § 2, 50 Stat. 874.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1181b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.