§669b–1 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Starting with the 1956 fiscal year and each year after, the government may appropriate an amount equal to 20% of the unspent receipts that were in the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Fund on August 12, 1955, until those receipts from that date are fully used. The money must be given to the States under the rules and apportionment formula of the Act approved September 2, 1937 (16 U.S.C. 669–669i), and is additional to the funds provided under section 3 of that Act.

Title 16, §669b–1

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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund established by the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in wildlife-restoration projects, and for other purposes”, approved September 2, 1937, as amended (16 U.S.C., secs. 669–669i), for the 1956 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, an amount equal to 20 per centum of the accumulated unappropriated receipts in such fund on August 12, 1955, until the accumulated unappropriated receipts in such fund on such date have been appropriated and expended. Funds appropriated under the authority of this section shall be made available to the States in accordance with the provisions of, and under the apportionment formula set forth in, such Act of September 2, 1937, and shall be in addition to the funds appropriated under section 3 of such Act [16 U.S.C. 669b].

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The Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in wildlife-restoration projects, and for other purposes”, approved September 2, 1937, referred to in text, is act Sept. 2, 1937, ch. 899, 50 Stat. 917, known as the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and also popularly known as the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 669 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act which comprises this chapter.

§669b–1 Authorization of appropriation of accumulated unappropriated receipts