16 U.S.C. § 691 — Cheyenne Bottoms Migratory Bird Refuge; location; acquisition of land
submitted 96 years ago by ch. 469 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 54 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of the Interior may acquire up to 20,000 acres in Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas, by purchase, gift, or lease, or compensate owners for damage caused by submerging their land instead of purchasing it.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by purchase, gift, or lease not to exceed twenty thousand acres of land in what is known as the Cheyenne Bottoms, in Barton County, Kansas, or, in lieu of purchase, to compensate any owner for any damage sustained by reason of submergence of his lands.
Source credit: (June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 1, 46 Stat. 579; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)
- 1930Enacted · Act of June 12, 1930, ch. 469 · 46 Stat. 579
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