---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 538"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "538"
heading: "User fees fund for delayed payments to grantors"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/538"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §538. User fees fund for delayed payments to grantors


Whenever the agreement under which the United States has obtained for the use of, or in connection with, the [national forests](/usc/16/5207.md?p=3) and other lands administered by the Forest Service a right-of-way or easement for a road or an existing road or the right to use an existing road provides for delayed payments to the Government’s grantor, any fees or other collections received by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) for the use of the road may be placed in a [fund](/usc/16/1421h.md?p=2) to be available for making payments to the grantor.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–657, § 7, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1090.)