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16 U.S.C. § 715e — Examination of title; easements and reservations
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The Secretary of the Interior may do all things and make all expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the areas which may be acquired under this subchapter, but no payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General or his designee, but the acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no case be defeated because of rights-of-way, easements, and reservations which from their nature will in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior in no manner interfere with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purposes of this subchapter, but such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations retained by the grantor or lessor from whom the United States receives title under this subchapter or any other Act for the acquisition by the Secretary of the Interior of areas for wildlife refuges shall be subject to rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the occupation, use, operation, protection, and administration of such areas as inviolate sanctuaries for migratory birds or as refuges for wildlife; and it shall be expressed in the deed or lease that the use, occupation, and operation of such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations shall be subordinate to and subject to such rules and regulations as are set out in such deed or lease or, if deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him from time to time.
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The Secretary of the Interior may do all things and make all expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the areas which may be acquired under this subchapter, but no payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General or his designee, but the acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no case be defeated because of rights-of-way, easements, and reservations which from their nature will in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior in no manner interfere with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purposes of this subchapter, but such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations retained by the grantor or lessor from whom the United States receives title under this subchapter or any other Act for the acquisition by the Secretary of the Interior of areas for wildlife refuges shall be subject to rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the occupation, use, operation, protection, and administration of such areas as inviolate sanctuaries for migratory birds or as refuges for wildlife; and it shall be expressed in the deed or lease that the use, occupation, and operation of such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations shall be subordinate to and subject to such rules and regulations as are set out in such deed or lease or, if deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him from time to time.
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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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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, act June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title III, § 304, 49 Stat. 382, applying [section 715e of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section715e&num=0&edition=prelim) to exchanges effected under former sections 715d–1 and 715d–2, has been omitted due to the repeal of sections 715d–1 and 715d–2 by Pub. L. 89–669, § 8(a), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 930.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 715f
rental by the Commission at the price or
prices fixed by the Commission; and
(2) acquire, by gift or devise, any area or in-
terests therein;
which he determines to be suitable for use as an
inviolate sanctuary, or for any other manage-
ment purpose, for migratory birds. The Sec-
retary may pay, when deemed necessary by him
and from moneys authorized to be appropriated
for the purposes of this subchapter (A) the pur-
chase or rental price of any such area or interest
therein, and (B) the expenses incident to the lo-
cation, examination, survey, and acquisition of
title (including options) of any such area or in-
terest therein. No lands acquired, held, or used
by the United States for military purposes shall
be subject to any provisions of this subchapter.
(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 5, 45 Stat. 1223; 1939
Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R.
2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 95–616, § 5(a), Nov. 8,
1978, 92 Stat. 3113.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1978—Pub. L. 95–616 incorporated existing provisions
in pars. (1) and (2) and cls. (A) and (B), made provisions
applicable to interests in approved areas, and inserted
authority for purchase or acquisition for other manage-
ment purposes.
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.
§§ 715d–1, 715d–2. Repealed. Pub. L. 89–669, § 8(a),
Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 930
Sections, act June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title III, §§ 302, 303,
49 Stat. 382, provided for acceptance of land in exchange
for other land or timber, etc. rights and for acceptance
of land in exchange for patent to non
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