---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 693c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "693c"
heading: "Administration by Secretary of Agriculture of the Robert S. Kerr Center"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/693c"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §693c. Administration by Secretary of Agriculture of the Robert S. Kerr Center


The [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated as the Robert S. Kerr [Memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) Arboretum and Nature Center shall be administered, protected, and developed within and as a part of the Ouachita [National Forest](/usc/16/5207.md?p=3) by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to [national forests](/usc/16/5207.md?p=3) in such manner as in his judgment will best provide for the purposes of [sections 693b to 693d](/usc/16/693b..693d.md) of this title and to provide for such management, utilization, and disposal of the natural [resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) as in his judgment will promote or is compatible with and does not significantly impair the purposes for which the Robert S. Kerr [Memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) Arboretum and Nature Center is established.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–327, § 2, June 4, 1968, 82 Stat. 169.)