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title: "16 U.S.C. § 558c"
description: "Authorization"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
chapter_number: "3"
chapter_name: "FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT"
section: "558c"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 558c"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 558c - Authorization
## Text
The Secretaries are authorized to recruit, train, and accept without regard to the civil service and classification laws, rules, or regulations the services of individuals without compensation as volunteers for or in aid of recreation access, trail construction or maintenance, facility construction or maintenance, educational uses (including outdoor classroom construction or maintenance), interpretive functions, visitor services, conservation measures and development, or other activities in and related to areas administered by the Secretaries. In carrying out this section, the Secretaries shall consider referrals of prospective volunteers made by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
(Pub. L. 92300, § 4, as added Pub. L. 118234, title III, § 341, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2913.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Prior ProvisionsA prior section 558c, Pub. L. 92300, § 3, May 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 147; Pub. L. 101286, title II, § 204(a), May 9, 1990, 104 Stat. 175; Pub. L. 114245, § 4(d)(1), Nov. 28, 2016, 130 Stat. 992, related to employment status of volunteers, prior to the general amendment of the Volunteers in the National Forests Act of 1972 by Pub. L. 118234. A prior section 4 of Pub. L. 92300, May 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 147, was classified to section 558d of this title, prior to the general amendment of the Volunteers in the National Forests Act of 1972 by Pub. L. 118234.