§ 691c. — Acquisition of areas for Cheyenne Bottoms Refuge; title; rightsofway, easements, and reservations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC691c]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
Sec. 691c. Acquisition of areas for Cheyenne Bottoms Refuge;
title; rights-of-way, easements, and reservations
The Secretary of the Interior may do all things and make all
expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to
the areas which may be acquired under section 691 of this title,
including purchase of options when deemed necessary by the Secretary of
the Interior, and expenses incident to the location, examination, and
survey of such areas and the acquisition of title thereto, but no
payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall
be satisfactory to the Attorney General. That the acquisition of such
areas by the United States shall in no case be defeated because of
rights-of-way, easements, and reservations which from their nature will
in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior in no manner interfere
with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purpose of section 691a
of this title.
(June 12, 1930, ch. 469, Sec. 4, 46 Stat. 579; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II,
Sec. 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of
the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions
note set out under section 671 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 691d of this title.
