Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests

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  4. NATIONAL FORESTS
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  6. Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests

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§504. Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests

The provisions of section 6101 of title 41 shall not apply to any purchase by the Forest Service of forest-tree seed or cones or of forage plant seed when the amount involved does not exceed $10,000, nor to any purchase of forest-tree nursery stock when the amount involved does not exceed $500, whenever, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, such method is in the public interest.

(June 30, 1914, ch. 131, 38 Stat. 429 ; Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, §2, 64 Stat. 83 .)

Codification

In text, "section 6101 of title 41" substituted for "section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5)," on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, §6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854 , which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

Amendments

1950-Act Apr. 24, 1950, increased open market purchase limitation from $500 to $10,000 on forest-tree seed or cones or forage plant seed.


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