§719 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can run the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. It aims to teach school children about protecting and managing migratory birds and to help schools, States, and other education programs offer conservation education. The program includes, in any State that wants it, the same activities that were part of the program on October 5, 1994, plus other activities allowed by law or needed to meet its goals. The Secretary must try to have the program in every State and must send Congress a yearly report on how the program is doing in each State.

Title 16, §719

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(a)The Secretary of the Interior (in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”) may carry out in accordance with this subchapter a program to be known as the “Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program” (in this subchapter referred to as the “Program”) to accomplish the goals of—

(1)providing to school children environmental education opportunities relating to the conservation and management of migratory birds; and

(2)increasing the capacity for schools, States, and other educational programs to conduct conservation and education programs.

(b)The Program shall consist of—

(1)conducting in all interested States the activities which on the day before October 6, 1994, are conducted under the program known as the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program;

(2)other activities authorized under the Program by this subchapter or any other Act; and

(3)any other activity necessary to carry out the conservation and education goals of the Program.

(c)(1)The Secretary shall take appropriate steps to seek to conduct the Program in all of the States.

(2)The Secretary shall annually submit a report to the Congress on the status of the Program in each of the States.

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Amendments

2000—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–316 struck out “50” before “States” in pars. (1) and (2).

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of 2006 Amendment Pub. L. 109–166, § 1, Jan. 10, 2006, 119 Stat. 3576, provided that: “This Act [amending section 719a and 719c of this title and provisions listed in a table of National Wildlife Refuges set out under section 668dd of this title] may be cited as the ‘Junior Duck Stamp Reauthorization

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Act of 2005’.”

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Pub. L. 103–340, § 1, Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3119, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter and provisions listed in a table of National Wildlife Refuges set out under section 668dd of this title] may be cited as the ‘Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program Act of 1994’.”

§719 Establishment of Program

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Title 16, §719

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