---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2107"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2107"
heading: "Financial, technical, and related assistance to States"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2107"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — Cooperative Forestry Assistance"
---

# §2107. Financial, technical, and related assistance to States

- (a) **Development of State organizations for protection and management of non-Federal forest lands; scope of assistance; request by officials—** To aid in achieving maximum effectiveness in the [programs](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) and activities conducted under this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to provide financial, technical, and related assistance to [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) foresters or equivalent [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) officials for the development of stronger and more efficient [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) organizations that will enable them to fulfill better their responsibilities for the protection and management of non-Federal [forest lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=f). Assistance under this subsection may include, but will not be limited to, assistance in matters related to organization management, [program](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) planning and management, budget and fiscal accounting services, personnel training and management, information services, and recordkeeping. Assistance under this subsection may be extended only upon request by [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) foresters or equivalent [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) officials.
- (b) **Assembly, analysis, display, and reporting of State forest resources data, resources planning, etc.; scope of assistance; other statutory provisions unaffected—** To ensure that data regarding [forest lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=f) are available for and effectively presented in [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) and Federal natural [resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) planning, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to provide financial, technical, and related assistance to [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) foresters or equivalent [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) officials in the assembly, analysis, display, and reporting of [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) [forest resources](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-2) data, in the training of [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) [forest resources](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-2) planners, and in participating in natural [resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) planning at the [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) and Federal levels. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall restrict assistance under this subsection to the implementation of the forestry aspects of [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) and Federal natural [resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) planning conducted under other laws. This subsection shall not be construed, in any way whatsoever, as extending, limiting, amending, repealing, or otherwise affecting any other law or authority.
- (c) **Technology implementation program; scope of program; availability of funds; use of forest resources planning committees—** To ensure that new technology is introduced, new information is integrated into existing technology, and [forest resources](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-2) research findings are promptly made available to [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) forestry personnel, private forest landowners and managers, vendors, forest operators, wood proc­essors, public agencies, and individuals, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to carry out a [program](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) of technology implementation.
  - (1) In implementing this subsection, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to work through [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) foresters or equivalent [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) officials, and, if the [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) forester or equivalent [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) official is unable to deliver these services, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to act through appropriate [United States](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) Department of Agriculture agencies, [subdivisions](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) of [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), agencies, institutions, organizations, or individuals to—
    - (A) strengthen technical assistance and service [programs](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) of cooperators participating in [programs](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) under this chapter by applying research results and conducting pilot [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) and field tests of management and utilization practices, equipment, and technologies, related to [programs](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) and activities authorized under this chapter;
    - (B) study the effects of tax laws, methods, and practices on forest management;
    - (C) develop and maintain technical information [systems](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) in support of [programs](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) and activities authorized under this chapter;
    - (D) test, evaluate, and seek registration of chemicals for use in implementing the [programs](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) and activities authorized under this chapter;
    - (E) conduct other activities, including training of [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) forestry personnel whom the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) deems necessary to ensure that the [programs](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1) and activities authorized under this chapter are responsive to special problems, unique situations, and changing conditions.
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may make [funds](/usc/16/1421h.md?p=2) available to cooperators under this chapter without regard to the provisions of section [3324(a)](/usc/31/3324.md?p=a) and [(b)](/usc/31/3324.md?p=b) of title 31, which prohibits advances of public money.
  - (3) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall use [forest resources](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-2) planning [committees](/usc/16/941b.md?p=1) at National and [State](/usc/16/2109.md?p=d-1) levels in implementing this subsection.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually such sums as may be needed to implement this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–313, § 11, formerly § 8, July 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 371; renumbered § 11, Pub. L. 101–624, title XII, § 1215(1), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3525.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In subsec. (c)(2), “section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31” substituted for “section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529)” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 11 of Pub. L. 95–313 was renumbered section 14 and is classified to section 2110 of this title.