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16 U.S.C. § 667bTransfer of certain real property for wildlife conservation purposes; reservation of rights

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 310 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 240 words · no verdicts yet

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A Federal agency may transfer unneeded Federal real property for specified wildlife-conservation uses when the required conditions are met. The United States keeps its oil, gas, and mineral rights, and the property returns to the United States if the required use ends or the property is needed for national defense.

When requested, a Federal agency may transfer real property under its control that it no longer needs if the property can be used for wildlife conservation by the State wildlife agency where the property is located or by the Secretary of the Interior, is valuable for that use, and the Administrator of General Services finds it available for that use. The transfer may be made without reimbursement or transfer of funds, with or without improvements as the Administrator decides, despite other laws. The agency must transfer it to the State agency when the conservation use concerns something other than migratory birds, or to the Secretary of the Interior when the property has special value for the national migratory-bird management program. A transfer to anyone other than the United States must reserve to the United States all oil, gas, and mineral rights. It must also require continued use for wildlife conservation or another stated purpose. If that use ends, or if the property is needed for national defense, ownership returns to the United States.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Upon request, real property which is under the jurisdiction or control of a Federal agency and no longer required by such agency, (1) can be utilized for wildlife conservation purposes by the agency of the State exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the State wherein the real property lies or by the Secretary of the Interior; and (2) is valuable for use for any such purpose, and which, in the determination of the Administrator of General Services, is available for such use may, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, be transferred without reimbursement or transfer of funds (with or without improvements as determined by said Administrator) by the Federal agency having jurisdiction or control of the property to (a) such State agency if the management thereof for the conservation of wildlife relates to other than migratory birds, or (b) to the Secretary of the Interior if the real property has particular value in carrying out the national migratory bird management program. Any such transfer to other than the United States shall be subject to the reservation by the United States of all oil, gas, and mineral rights, and to the condition that the property shall continue to be used for wildlife conservation or other of the above-stated purposes and in the event it is no longer used for such purposes or in the event it is needed for national defense purposes title thereto shall revert to the United States.

Source credit: (May 19, 1948, ch. 310, § 1, 62 Stat. 240; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, § 105, 63 Stat. 381; Pub. L. 92–432, Sept. 26, 1972, 86 Stat. 723.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of May 19, 1948, ch. 310 · 62 Stat. 240
  • 1949Amended · Act of June 30, 1949, ch. 288 · 63 Stat. 381
  • 1972Amended · Pub. L. 92-432 · 86 Stat. 723

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 310 on 1948-05-19.

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