---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 552b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "552b"
heading: "Administration of withdrawn lands; rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/552b"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §552b. Administration of withdrawn lands; rules and regulations


Lands withdrawn under the provisions of [sections 552a to 552d](/usc/16/552a..552d.md) of this title shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture under such agreements for the protection of the watershed as he may make with the [municipality](/usc/16/2708.md?p=a-7) concerned, and the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture is authorized, in [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the rules and regulations adopted for the administration of the [national forests](/usc/16/5207.md?p=3), to adopt and prescribe such further rules and regulations as he considers necessary to effect the adequate protection of the watershed, including a rule or regulation forbidding [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) other than forest officers and [representatives](/usc/16/5609.md?p=13) of the [municipality](/usc/16/2708.md?p=a-7) from going on the lands so reserved or making any use whatever thereof.


## Source credit

(May 28, 1940, ch. 220, § 2, 54 Stat. 224.)