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title: "16 U.S.C. § 6591"
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description: "Forest stands inventory and monitoring program to improve detection of and response to environmental threats"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 16
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title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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chapter_number: "84"
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chapter_name: "HEALTHY FOREST RESTORATION"
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section: "6591"
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citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6591"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 6591 - Forest stands inventory and monitoring program to improve detection of and response to environmental threats
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## Text
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(a) In general The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out a comprehensive program to inventory, monitor, characterize, assess, and identify forest stands (with emphasis on hardwood forest stands) and potential forest stands—
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(1) in units of the National Forest System (other than those units created from the public domain); and
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(2) on private forest land, with the consent of the owner of the land.
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(b) Issues to be addressed In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall address issues including—
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(1) early detection, identification, and assessment of environmental threats (including insect, disease, invasive species, fire, and weather-related risks and other episodic events);
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(2) loss or degradation of forests;
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(3) degradation of the quality forest stands caused by inadequate forest regeneration practices;
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(4) quantification of carbon uptake rates; and
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(5) management practices that focus on preventing further forest degradation.
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(c) Early warning system In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall develop a comprehensive early warning system for potential catastrophic environmental threats to forests to increase the likelihood that forest managers will be able to—
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(1) isolate and treat a threat before the threat gets out of control; and
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(2) prevent epidemics, such as the American chestnut blight in the first half of the twentieth century, that could be environmentally and economically devastating to forests.
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(d) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 through 2008.
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(Pub. L. 108–148, title VI, § 601, Dec. 3, 2003, 117 Stat. 1914.)
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