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16 U.S.C. § 715d — Purchase or rental of approved areas or interests therein; gifts and devises; United States lands
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The Secretary of the Interior may—
(1) purchase or rent such areas or interests therein as have been approved for purchase or rental by the Commission at the price or prices fixed by the Commission; and
(2) acquire, by gift or devise, any area or interests therein;
which he determines to be suitable for use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds. The Secretary may pay, when deemed necessary by him and from moneys authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this subchapter (A) the purchase or rental price of any such area or interest therein, and (B) the expenses incident to the location, examination, survey, and acquisition of title (including options) of any such area or interest therein. No lands acquired, held, or used by the United States for military purposes shall be subject to any provisions of this subchapter.
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The Secretary of the Interior may—
(1) purchase or rent such areas or interests therein as have been approved for purchase or rental by the Commission at the price or prices fixed by the Commission; and
(2) acquire, by gift or devise, any area or interests therein;
which he determines to be suitable for use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds. The Secretary may pay, when deemed necessary by him and from moneys authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this subchapter (A) the purchase or rental price of any such area or interest therein, and (B) the expenses incident to the location, examination, survey, and acquisition of title (including options) of any such area or interest therein. No lands acquired, held, or used by the United States for military purposes shall be subject to any provisions of this subchapter.
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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
§ 715a
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SHORT TITLE OF 1976 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 94–215, § 1, Feb 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 189, provided:
‘‘That this Act [amending sections 668dd, 715a, 715k–3,
715k–5, 718a, 718b, and 718d of this title] may be cited as
the ‘Wetlands Loan Extension Act of 1976’.’’
§ 715a. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission;
creation; composition; duties; approval of
areas of land and water recommended for
purchase or rental
A commission to be known as the Migratory
Bird Conservation Commission, consisting of the
Secretary of the Interior, as chairman, the Ad-
ministrator 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 Sec-
retary 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 commis-
sion notwithstanding the expiration of a Con-
gress. Any vacancy on the commission shall be
filled in the same manner as the original ap-
pointment. The ranking officer of the branch or
department of a State to which is committed
the administration of its game laws, or his au-
thorized representative, and in a State having
no such branch or department, the
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