---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 543d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "543d"
heading: "Ecological studies; reports to Congressional committees and to Chief of Forest Service; progress reports"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/543d"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter II — Scenic Areas"
---

# §543d. Ecological studies; reports to Congressional committees and to Chief of Forest Service; progress reports


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall take such steps as may be necessary to, within one hundred and eighty days of September 28, 1984, enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences for the purpose of conducting a scientific study of the ecology of the [Scenic Area](/usc/16/460ffff.md?p=4). The study shall provide for consultation with knowledgeable local, [State](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2), Federal, and private [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) and organizations and shall provide findings and recommendations to the Congress. Such study shall be conducted in accordance with the best scientific methodology (as set forth by the National Academy of Sciences) and shall be transmitted by the National Academy of Sciences to the [Committee](/usc/16/941b.md?p=1) on Energy and Natural [Resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) of the United States Senate, to the [Committee](/usc/16/941b.md?p=1) on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of [Representatives](/usc/16/5609.md?p=13), and to the Chief of the Forest Service not later than January 1, 1987. Progress reports regarding the study shall be transmitted to the above [committees](/usc/16/941b.md?p=1) on January 1, 1985, and January 1 of each year thereafter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–425, title III, § 305, Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1636.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.