Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§695e Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Water Supply Development Works
Title 16 › CHAPTER 6 — GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION › § 695e
Summary
Interior Secretary may build, operate, and maintain wells and drainage works on California or federal waterfowl refuges to supply water for wildlife, using those works and Central Valley Project water, following the Department of the Interior's October 1950 report on Lower San Joaquin Valley waterfowl and working with 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 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102