---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6707"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6707"
heading: "Urban forestry demonstration projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6707"
units:
  - "Chapter 96 — Global Climate Change"
---

# §6707. Urban forestry demonstration projects


The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) is authorized to undertake, through the Forest Service’s Northeastern Area [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) and Private Forestry program, a study and pilot implementation project to demonstrate the benefits of retaining and integrating forests in urban development. The focus of such a study and implementation project should be to protect the environment and associated natural resource values, for current and future generations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–624, title XXIV, § 2409, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4061.)