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§695e Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Water Supply Development Works

Title 16 › Chapter 6— GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION › § 695e

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can build, operate, and keep up wells and drainage-recovery works on California or federal waterfowl areas and refuges to supply water for wildlife (including Central Valley Project sources) following the October 1950 Interior report, and should do this in cooperation with the State of California.

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Title 16, §695e

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain such works on waterfowl management areas and refuges owned and operated by the State of California or the United States as may be necessary or desirable for the development of a water supply by means of wells and the recovery of drainage, and to furnish water available from such works, and water available from Central Valley project sources, for wildlife management purposes substantially in accordance with the recommendations set forth in the report of the United States Department of the Interior entitled “Waterfowl Conservation in the Lower San Joaquin Valley, Its Relation to the Grasslands and the Central Valley Project,” dated October 1950, and such works should be developed in cooperation with the State of California.

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16 U.S.C. § 695e

Title 16Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60