Volume 75
Public Law 87–152
To authorize the use of Commodity Credit Corporation owned surplus grain by the States for emergency use in the feeding of resident game birds and other resident wildlife; to authorize the use of such surplus grain by the Secretary of the Interior for emergency use in the feeding of migratory birds, and for other purposes.
Approved August 17, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the use of Commodity Credit Corporation owned surplus grain by the States for emergency use in the feeding of resident game birds and other resident wildlife; to authorize the use of such surplus grain by the Secretary of the Interior for emergency use in the feeding of migratory birds, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purpose
Agriculture.
Surplus grain for game birds, etc.
of meeting emergency situations caused by adverse weather conditions or other factors destructive of important wildlife resources, the States are hereby 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 this Act 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 this Act.
Sec. 2.
Upon a finding by the Secretary of the Interior that migratory
Migratory birds.
birds are threatened with starvation in any area of the United States, the Secretary is authorized to requisition from the Commodity Credit Corporation grain acquired by that Corporation through price support operations in such quantities as may be mutually agreed upon. The Corporation shall be reimbursed by the Secretary for its expense in packaging and transporting of such grain for purposes of this Act.
Sec. 3.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation
Appropriation.
for its investment in grain transferred pursuant to this Act.
Approved August 17, 1961.