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the landowner, and other entities, as mutually agreed on by the affected interests; and
Editorial Notes
Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, and also as part of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997, and not as part of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2003—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 108–7 inserted “including appropriations for the Wildland Fire Management account allocated to the National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs” after “appropriations made for the Bureau of Land Management”.

1998—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–277 substituted “with the heads of other Federal agencies, tribal, State, and local governments, private and nonprofit entities, and landowners for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resources on public or private land and the reduction of risk from natural disaster where public safety is threatened” for “with willing private landowners for restoration and enhancement of fish, wildlife, and other biotic resources on public or private land or both”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Federal and State Cooperative Watershed Restoration and Protection

Pub. L. 106–291, title III, § 331, Oct. 11, 2000, 114 Stat. 996, as amended by Pub. L. 108–447, div. E, title III, § 336, Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 3102; Pub. L. 111–88, div. A, title IV, § 422, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2961; Pub. L. 113–76, div. G, title IV, § 417, Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 341, authorized the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, through Sept. 30, 2018, to use cooperative agreements and contracts to permit State forestry programs to perform watershed restoration and protection services on National Forest System and Bureau of Land Management lands when similar and complementary services were being performed on adjacent State or private lands.

Watershed Agreements

Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(e) [title III, § 323], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–231, 2681–290, as amended, formerly set out as a note under this section, was transferred and is classified to section 1011a of this title.