Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection
§ 690. Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge; establishment; acquisition of lands
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, at Bear River Bay and vicinity, Utah, such dikes, ditches, spillways, buildings, and improvements as may be necessary, in his judgment, for the establishment of a suitable refuge and feeding and breeding grounds for migratory wild fowl; also to acquire, by purchase, gift, or lease, water rights and privately owned lands, including the improvements thereon, deemed necessary by him for the purpose, or, in lieu of purchase, to compensate any owner for any damage sustained by reason of the submergence of his lands.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 70–413 § 1 · 45 Stat. 448
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 690
Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 1, 45 Stat. 448
Source evidence
Code source credit
Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 1, 45 Stat. 448
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Executive Documents
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.
Credits
1928–1939 · 2 acts
- 1928Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 1, 45 Stat. 448
- 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.
Show as published
(Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 1, 45 Stat. 448; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)