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  2. Title 16 - CONSERVATION
  3. Chapter 3 - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
  4. Subchapter I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
  5. 16 USC § 575
16 USC § 575
Search for lost persons, and transportation of sick, injured, or dead persons, within national forests; authorization to incur expense
through Pub. L. 116-344, except Pub. Ls. 116-260 and 116-283
USC

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cases of emergency to incur such expenses as may be necessary in searching for persons lost in the national forests and in transporting persons seriously ill, injured, or who die within the national forests to the nearest place where the sick or injured person, or the body, may be transferred to interested parties or local authorities.
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