Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§667f–1 Requisition of Grain to Prevent Crop Depredation by Migratory Waterfowl
Title 16 › CHAPTER 5A — PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE › SUBCHAPTER I — GAME, FUR-BEARING ANIMALS, AND FISH › § 667f–1
Summary
If waterfowl are threatening crops, the Interior Secretary must get grain from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and give it to government or private parties. The grain must be used to feed the birds away from crops and keep them from being shot, even during open season.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §667f–1
Conservation, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Upon a finding by the Secretary of the Interior that any area in the United States is threatened with damage to farmers’ crops by migratory waterfowl, whether or not during the open season for such migratory waterfowl, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to requisition from the Commodity Credit Corporation and to make available to Federal, State, or local governmental bodies or officials, or to private organizations or persons, such grain acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation through price-support operations in such quantities and subject to such regulations as the Secretary determines will most effectively lure migratory waterfowl away from crop depredations and at the same time not expose such migratory waterfowl to shooting over areas to which the waterfowl have been lured by such feeding programs.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 443 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 667f–1
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102