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[CITE: 16USC477]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 477. Use of timber and stone by settlers

    The Secretary of Agriculture may permit, under regulations to be 
prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon national 
forests, free of charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and 
prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, 
prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by such 
persons for such purposes; such timber to be used within the State or 
Territory, respectively, where such national forests may be located.

(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 35; Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, 
Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 628.)

                          Codification

    ``National forests'' substituted in text for ``reservations'' on 
authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided 
that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Enforcement functions of Secretary or other official in Department 
of Agriculture, insofar as they involve lands and programs under 
jurisdiction of that Department, related to compliance with provisions 
of sections 473, 474 to 482, and 551 of this title with respect to pre-
construction, construction, and initial operation of transportation 
system for Canadian and Alaskan natural gas transferred to Federal 
Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas 
Transportation System, until first anniversary of date of initial 
operation of Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, see Reorg. Plan 
No. 1 of 1979, Secs. 102(f), 203(a), 44 F.R. 33663, 33666, 93 Stat. 
1373, 1376, effective July 1, 1979, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees. Office of Federal Inspector for 
the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System abolished and functions and 
authority vested in Inspector transferred to Secretary of Energy by 
section 3012(b) of Pub. L. 102-486, set out as an Abolition of Office of 
Federal Inspector note under section 719e of Title 15, Commerce and 
Trade. Functions and authority vested in Secretary of Energy 
subsequently transferred to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas 
Transportation Projects by section 720d(f) of Title 15.
    Act Feb. 1, 1905 transferred certain functions with regard to 
administration of public forests from Secretary of the Interior to 
Secretary of Agriculture.