16 U.S.C. § 691c: Acquisition of areas for…

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The Secretary of the Interior can spend money and take the steps needed to get clear legal ownership for the United States of lands the law allows. That includes buying options and paying to find, check, and survey the land, but no purchase money will be paid until the Attorney General is satisfied with the title. If land has rights-of-way, easements, or reservations that the Secretary thinks will not interfere with the land’s intended public use, those rights will not block the United States from acquiring the land.

Title 16, §691c

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The Secretary of the Interior may do all things and make all expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the areas which may be acquired under section 691 of this title, including purchase of options when deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, and expenses incident to the location, examination, and survey of such areas and the acquisition of title thereto, but no payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General. That the acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no case be defeated because of rights-of-way, easements, and reservations which from their nature will in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior in no manner interfere with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purpose of section 691a of this title.

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Transfer of Functions

Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.

§691c Acquisition of Areas for Cheyenne Bottoms Refuge; Title; Rights-of-way, Easements, and Reservations

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Title 16, §691c

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