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16 U.S.C. § 715k — Authorization of appropriations for purposes of subchapter; disposal; reservation protectors
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For the acquisition, including the location, examination, and survey, of suitable areas of land, water, or land and water, for use as migratory bird reservations, and necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the administration, maintenance, and development of such areas and other preserves, reservations, or breeding grounds frequented by migratory birds and under the administration of the Secretary of the Interior, including the construction of dams, dikes, ditches, flumes, spillways, buildings, and other necessary improvements, and for the elimination of the loss of migratory birds from alkali poisoning, oil pollution of waters, or other causes, for cooperation with local authorities in wildlife conservation, for investigations and publications relating to North American birds, for personal services, printing, engraving, and issuance of circulars, posters, and other necessary matter and for the enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all other amounts authorized by law to be appropriated, $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for each fiscal year thereafter. No part of any appropriation authorized by this section shall be used for payment of the salary, compensation, or expenses of any United States protector, except reservation protectors for the administration, maintenance and protection of such reservations and the birds thereon: Provided, That reservation protectors appointed under the provisions of this subchapter, shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the State in which they are to be employed. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make such expenditures and to employ such means, including personal services in the District
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For the acquisition, including the location, examination, and survey, of suitable areas of land, water, or land and water, for use as migratory bird reservations, and necessary expenses incident thereto, and for the administration, maintenance, and development of such areas and other preserves, reservations, or breeding grounds frequented by migratory birds and under the administration of the Secretary of the Interior, including the construction of dams, dikes, ditches, flumes, spillways, buildings, and other necessary improvements, and for the elimination of the loss of migratory birds from alkali poisoning, oil pollution of waters, or other causes, for cooperation with local authorities in wildlife conservation, for investigations and publications relating to North American birds, for personal services, printing, engraving, and issuance of circulars, posters, and other necessary matter and for the enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all other amounts authorized by law to be appropriated, $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for each fiscal year thereafter. No part of any appropriation authorized by this section shall be used for payment of the salary, compensation, or expenses of any United States protector, except reservation protectors for the administration, maintenance and protection of such reservations and the birds thereon: Provided, That reservation protectors appointed under the provisions of this subchapter, shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the State in which they are to be employed. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make such expenditures and to employ such means, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing objects.
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A commission to be known as the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, consisting of the Secretary of the Interior, as chairman, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Agriculture and two Members of the Senate, to be selected by the President of the Senate, and two Members of the House of Representatives to be selected by the Speaker, is created and authorized to consider and pass upon any area of land, water, or land and water that may be recommended by the Secretary of the Interior for purchase or rental under this subchapter, and to fix the price or prices at which such area may be purchased or rented; and no purchase or rental shall be made of any such area until it has been duly approved for purchase or rental by said commission. Any Member of the House of Representatives who is a member of the commission, if reelected to the succeeding Congress, may serve on the commission notwithstanding the expiration of a Congress. Any vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. The ranking officer of the branch or department of a State to which is committed the administration of its game laws, or his authorized representative, and in a State having no such branch or department, the governor thereof, or his authorized representative, shall be a member ex officio of said commission for the purpose of considering and voting on all questions relating to the acquisition, under this subchapter, of areas in his State. For purposes of this subchapter, the purchase or rental of any area of land, water, or land and water includes the purchase or rental of any interest in any such area of land, water, or land and water.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 715g
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to
Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939,
see Transfer of Functions note set out under section
715a of this title.
§ 715g. Jurisdiction of State over areas acquired
The jurisdiction of the State, both civil and
criminal, over persons upon areas acquired
under this subchapter shall not be affected or
changed by reason of their acquisition and ad-
ministration by the United States as migratory-
bird reservations, except so far as the punish-
ment of offenses against the United States is
concerned.
(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 8, 45 Stat. 1224.)
§ 715h. Operation of State game laws
Nothing in this subchapter is intended to
interfere with the operation of the game laws of
the several States applying to migratory game
birds insofar as they do not permit what is for-
bidden by Federal law.
(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 9, 45 Stat. 1224.)
§ 715i. Administration
(a) Treaty obligations; rules and regulations
Areas of lands, waters, or interests therein ac-
quired or reserved pursuant to this subchapter
shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be ad-
ministered by the Secretary of the Interior
under rules and regulations prescribed by him to
conserve and protect migratory birds in accord-
ance with treaty obligations with Mexico, Can-
ada, Japan, and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, and other species of wildlife found
thereon, including species that are listed pursu-
ant to section 1533 of this title as endangered
species or threatened species, and to restore or
develop adequate wildlife habitat.
(b) Management and public and private agency
agreements authorization
In administering such areas, the S
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