Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§667f Availability of Grain to Prevent Waterfowl Depredations; Payment of Packaging, Transporting, Handling, and Other Charges

Title 16 › CHAPTER 5A — PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE › SUBCHAPTER I — GAME, FUR-BEARING ANIMALS, AND FISH › § 667f

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commodity Credit Corporation must provide the Secretary of the Interior with wheat, corn, or other grain it got through price‑support programs when that grain is officially declared available to prevent waterfowl crop damage or is spoiled so it is not fit for people to eat, if the Secretary requests it under the related law. The Corporation may pay for packing, shipping, handling, and other charges up to delivery to one or more places designated in each State.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §667f

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For the purpose of preventing crop damage by migratory waterfowl, the Commodity Credit Corporation shall make available to the Secretary of the Interior such wheat, corn, or other grains, acquired through price support operations and certified by the Commodity Credit Corporation to be available for purposes of sections 667f to 667f–3 of this title or in such condition through spoilage or deterioration as not to be desirable for human consumption, as the Secretary of the Interior shall requisition pursuant to section 667f–1 of this title. With respect to any grain thus made available, the Commodity Credit Corporation may pay packaging, transporting, handling, and other charges up to the time of delivery to one or more designated locations in each State.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 442 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 667f

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102