§715k — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Provides $200,000 each year, starting with the fiscal year that ends June 30, 1940, on top of other money already allowed by law, to buy and survey lands and waters for migratory bird refuges and to pay the costs of running, improving, and protecting those refuges and other breeding grounds. Money can be used for building water works and buildings, stopping bird losses from alkali poisoning, oil pollution, or similar causes, working with local authorities, and funding research and public information. None of the money can pay the salary or expenses of any U.S. protector except reservation protectors who run, maintain, and protect the refuges and birds. When possible, those protectors should be hired from qualified citizens of the state where they will work. The Secretary of the Interior is allowed and must spend the funds and hire staff, including in Washington, D.C., as needed to carry out these duties.

Title 16, §715k

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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.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Provisions of this section which related to appropriations for the fiscal year ending

June 30, 1930, to

June 30, 1939, were omitted.

Amendments

1966—Pub. L. 89–669 substituted “grounds frequented by migratory birds” for “grounds frequented by migratory game birds”, and “United States protector” for “United States game protector”.

Executive Documents

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.

§715k Authorization of appropriations for purposes of subchapter; disposal; reservation protectors

Summary

Title 16, §715k

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of Functions

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