7 U.S.C. § 1010
Land conservation and land utilization
The Secretary is authorized and directed to develop a program of land conservation and land utilization, in order thereby to correct maladjustments in land use, and thus assist in controlling soil erosion, reforestation, preserving natural resources, protecting fish and wildlife, developing and protecting recreational facilities, mitigating floods, preventing impairment of dams and reservoirs, developing energy resources, conserving surface and subsurface moisture, protecting the watersheds of navigable streams, and protecting the public lands, health, safety, and welfare, but not to build industrial parks or establish private industrial or commercial enterprises.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1940–2023 · leading case: Minard Run Oil Co. v. United States Forest Serv., 670 F.3d 236 (3rd Cir. 2011).
Minard Run Oil Co. v. United States Forest Serv., 670 F.3d 236 (3rd Cir. 2011). “525 (1937) (BJFTA), codified as amended at 7 U.S.C. § 1010 , et seq., was required to obtain authorization from the Service before beginning mining operations.”
Diana Douglas v. Agric. Stabilization & Conservation Serv., 33 F.3d 784 (7th Cir. 1994). “7 U.S.C. § 1010 . Local agents of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service administer this Conservation Reserve Program.”
United States v. 2.74 Acres of Land in Williamson Cnty., 32 F. Supp. 55 (E.D. Ill. 1940). “An examination of the Bankhead-Jones Act discloses that by its provisions (7 U.S. C.A. §§ 1010 and 1011) the Secretary is authorized and directed to develop a program of land conservation and land utilization for the very purposes set forth in the petition herein as the purposes…”
Smith v. City of Cookeville, 381 F. Supp. 100 (M.D. Tenn. 1974). “Background A study of the Cane Creek basin was made by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) of the United States Department of Agriculture, for the Hull-York Lake-land Resource Conservation and Development Project, which was created under the authority of the Food and Agriculture…”
Duncan Energy Co. v. United States Forest Serv., 50 F.3d 584 (8th Cir. 1995). “The Forest Service, acting under the Secretary’s direction, manages the surface lands here as part of the National Grasslands, which are part of the National Forest System.”
Herman McVay v. United States, 481 F.2d 615 (5th Cir. 1973). “See 7 U.S.C. §§ 1010 , 1011(f); 16 U.S.C. § 551 .”
Winter v. United States, 624 F. Supp. 38 (D.N.D. 1985). “In both cases the landowners traded the land to the United States pursuant to the grasslands program of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, Title 7 U.S.C. § 1010 , et seq. Plaintiff argues that Judge Register, at the time of his writing of McKenzie County, supra, deplored the…”
United States v. 813.96 Acres of Land, 45 F. Supp. 535 (W.D. Ark. 1942). “” The options were obtained by the United States under the provisions of Title 3 of the Bankhead-J'ones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937, 7 U.S.C.A. §§ 1010— 1013, in connection with the Southern Arkansas Land Use Adjustment Project.”
Temple v. Lawrence Roberts (D.S.D. 2023). “See 7 U.S.C. §§ 1010 , 1011(f); 16 U.S.C. § 551 .”
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