§691c — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

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The Secretary of the Interior can take whatever steps and spend money needed to get clear ownership of lands bought under section 691. That can include buying option agreements and paying for finding, inspecting, and surveying the land, but no payment for any land can be made until the Attorney General approves the title. The United States can still acquire land even if it has rights-of-way, easements, or reservations, as long as the Secretary believes those do not interfere with the land’s use under section 691a.

Title 16, §691c

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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 section 691 of this title, including purchase of options when deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, and expenses incident to the location, examination, and survey of such areas and the acquisition of title thereto, but no payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General. That 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 purpose of section 691a of this title.

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Transfer of Functions

Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.

§691c Acquisition of areas for Cheyenne Bottoms Refuge; title; rights-of-way, easements, and reservations

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Title 16, §691c

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