16 U.S.C. § 670g — Wildlife, fish, and game conservation and rehabilitation programs
submitted 52 years ago by Pub. L. 86-797 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 192 words · no verdicts yet
The Interior and Agriculture Secretaries must plan and coordinate conservation and rehabilitation programs with State agencies under comprehensive plans. The programs must include habitat projects and protection for threatened or endangered fish, wildlife, and plants.
(a) Required programs. The Interior and Agriculture Secretaries must each, with State agencies and under comprehensive plans developed under 16 U.S.C. § 670h, plan, develop, maintain, and coordinate programs conserving and rehabilitating wildlife, fish, and game. The programs must include specific habitat-improvement projects and related activities and adequate protection for fish, wildlife, and plant species considered threatened or endangered. (b) Implementation. The Interior Secretary must implement these programs on public land* under the Secretary’s jurisdiction. The Secretary may adopt, change, and implement them on land under the Chairman’s jurisdiction only with the Atomic Energy Commission’s prior written approval, and on land under the Administrator’s jurisdiction only with the Administrator’s prior written approval. The Agriculture Secretary must implement them on public land under that Secretary’s jurisdiction.
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each, in cooperation with the State agencies and in accordance with comprehensive plans developed pursuant to section 670h of this title, plan, develop, maintain, and coordinate programs for the conservation and rehabilitation of wildlife, fish, and game. Such conservation and rehabilitation programs* shall include, but not be limited to, specific habitat improvement projects and related activities and adequate protection for species of fish, wildlife, and plants considered threatened or endangered.
The Secretary of the Interior shall implement the conservation and rehabilitation programs required under subsection (a) of this section on public land* under his jurisdiction. The Secretary of the Interior shall adopt, modify, and implement the conservation and rehabilitation programs required under such subsection (a) on public land under the jurisdiction of the Chairman*, but only with the prior written approval of the Atomic Energy Commission, and on public land under the jurisdiction of the Administrator*, but only with the prior written approval of the Administrator. The Secretary of Agriculture shall implement such conservation and rehabilitation programs on public land under his jurisdiction.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 86–797, title II, § 201, as added Pub. L. 93–452, § 2, Oct. 18, 1974, 88 Stat. 1369; amended Pub. L. 97–396, § 3, Dec. 31, 1982, 96 Stat. 2005; Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title III, § 312(b)(7), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1354.)
- 1974Enacted · Pub. L. 86-797 · 88 Stat. 1369
- 1982Amended · Pub. L. 97-396 · 96 Stat. 2005
- 2011Amended · Pub. L. 112-81 · 125 Stat. 1354
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