Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§667g Requisition of Surplus Grain; Prevention of Starvation of Resident Game Birds and Other Resident Wildlife; Utilization by State Agencies; Reimbursement for Packaging and Transporting

Title 16 › Chapter 5A— PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE › Subchapter I— GAME, FUR-BEARING ANIMALS, AND FISH › § 667g

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

States can get surplus grain from the Commodity Credit Corporation when bad weather or other harms threaten resident game birds and other wildlife with starvation. A state wildlife agency must ask for the grain and the Secretary of the Interior must find the area is at risk. The grain comes from the CCC’s price‑support stock, is for use only by the state agencies under sections 667g to 667g–2, is given in amounts the State and the CCC agree on, and must follow the CCC’s rules. The State must pay the CCC for packing and shipping.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §667g

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For the purpose of meeting emergency situations caused by adverse weather conditions or other factors destructive of important wildlife resources, the States are authorized, upon the request of the State fish and game authority or other State agency having similar authority and a finding by the Secretary of the Interior that any area of the United States is threatened with serious damage or loss to resident game birds and other resident wildlife from starvation, to requisition from the Commodity Credit Corporation grain acquired by the Corporation through price support operations. Such grain may thereafter be furnished to the particular State for direct and sole utilization by the appropriate State agencies for purposes of sections 667g to 667g–2 of this title in such quantities as mutually agreed upon by the State and the Commodity Credit Corporation and subject to such regulations as may be considered desirable by the Corporation. The Corporation shall be reimbursed by the particular State in each instance for the expense of the Corporation in packaging and transporting such grain for purposes of sections 667g to 667g–2 of this title.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 447 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 667g

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60