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16 U.S.C. § 722 — Acquisition of lands and water
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, by purchase, gift, or lease, such areas of land, or of land and water, situated between Rock Island, Illinois, and Wabasha, Minnesota, on either side of or upon islands in the Mississippi River which are not used for agricultural purposes, as he determines suitable for the purposes of this chapter, and any such area when acquired shall become a part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (referred to in this chapter as the “refuge”).
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, by purchase, gift, or lease, such areas of land, or of land and water, situated between Rock Island, Illinois, and Wabasha, Minnesota, on either side of or upon islands in the Mississippi River which are not used for agricultural purposes, as he determines suitable for the purposes of this chapter, and any such area when acquired shall become a part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (referred to in this chapter as the “refuge”).
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**(a) Designation; administration; continuance of resources-management-programs for refuge lands in Alaska; disposal of acquired lands; proceeds**
(1) For the purpose of consolidating the authorities relating to the various categories of areas that are administered by the Secretary for the conservation of fish and wildlife, including species that are threatened with extinction, all lands, waters, and interests therein administered by the Secretary as wildlife refuges, areas for the protection and conservation of fish and wildlife that are threatened with extinction, wildlife ranges, game ranges, wildlife management areas, or waterfowl production areas are hereby designated as the “National Wildlife Refuge System” (referred to herein as the “System”), which shall be subject to the provisions of this section, and shall be administered by the Secretary through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. With respect to refuge lands in the State of Alaska, those programs relating to the management of resources for which any other agency of the Federal Government exercises administrative responsibility through cooperative agreement shall remain in effect, subject to the direct supervision of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, as long as such agency agrees to exercise such responsibility.
(2) The mission of the System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans.
(3) With respect to the System, it is the policy of the United States that—
(A) each refuge shall be managed to fulfill the mission of the System, as well as the specific pu
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 721
Program $350,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006
through 2010.
(b) Limitations on use for distribution to State
and regional coordinators to implement com-
petitions
Of the amount appropriated under this section
for a fiscal year—
(1) not more than $100,000 may be used by the
Secretary to administer the Program; and
(2) not more than $250,000 may be distributed
to State and regional coordinators to imple-
ment competitions under the Program.
(Pub. L. 103–340, § 6, formerly § 5, Oct. 6, 1994, 108
Stat. 3120; renumbered § 6 and amended Pub. L.
106–316, §§ 1, 2(2), Oct. 19, 2000, 114 Stat. 1276; Pub.
L. 109–166, § 3, Jan. 10, 2006, 119 Stat. 3577.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Another section 6 of Pub. L. 103–340 was renumbered
section 7 and enacted provisions listed in a table of Na-
tional Wildlife Refuges set out under section 668dd of
this title.
AMENDMENTS
2006—Pub. L. 109–166 designated existing provisions as
subsec. (a), inserted subsec. (a) heading, substituted
‘‘$350,000’’ for ‘‘$250,000’’ and ‘‘fiscal years 2006 through
2010’’ for ‘‘fiscal years 2001 through 2005’’, and added
subsec. (b).
2000—Pub. L. 106–316, § 1, substituted ‘‘for each of the
fiscal years 2001 through 2005’’ for ‘‘for each of the fis-
cal years 1995 through 2000’’.
CHAPTER 8—UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER
NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE
Sec.
721.
Short title; ‘‘person’’ defined.
722.
Acquisition of lands and water.
723.
Purposes of refuge; regulations by Secretary
of the Interior.
724.
Consent of States to acquisition; existing
rights-of-way, easements, etc.
725.
Regulations, etc., by Secretary of the Inte-
rior.
726.
Acts prohibited in refuge; commercial fishing.
727.
Powers of employees of Department of the In-
terio
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