§ 715a. — Migratory Bird Conservation Commission; creation; composition; duties; approval of areas of land and water recommended for purchase or rental.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC715a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
SUBCHAPTER III--MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION
Sec. 715a. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission; creation;
composition; duties; approval of areas of land and water
recommended for purchase or rental
A commission to be known as the Migratory Bird Conservation
Commission, consisting of the Secretary of the Interior, as chairman,
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary
of Agriculture and two Members of the Senate, to be selected by the
President of the Senate, and two Members of the House of Representatives
to be selected by the Speaker, is created and authorized to consider and
pass upon any area of land, water, or land and water that may be
recommended by the Secretary of the Interior for purchase or rental
under this subchapter, and to fix the price or prices at which such area
may be purchased or rented; and no purchase or rental shall be made of
any such area until it has been duly approved for purchase or rental by
said commission. Any Member of the House of Representatives who is a
member of the commission, if reelected to the succeeding Congress, may
serve on the commission notwithstanding the expiration of a Congress.
Any vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the
original appointment. The ranking officer of the branch or department of
a State to which is committed the administration of its game laws, or
his authorized representative, and in a State having no such branch or
department, the governor thereof, or his authorized representative,
shall be a member ex officio of said commission for the purpose of
considering and voting on all questions relating to the acquisition,
under this subchapter, of areas in his State. For purposes of this
subchapter, the purchase or rental of any area of land, water, or land
and water includes the purchase or rental of any interest in any such
area of land, water, or land and water.
(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 1222; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II,
Sec. 4(f), (h), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L.
90-261, Mar. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 39; Pub. L. 94-215, Sec. 4, Feb. 17,
1976, 90 Stat. 190; Pub. L. 101-233, Sec. 13, Dec. 13, 1989, 103 Stat.
1977.)
Amendments
1989--Pub. L. 101-233 substituted ``Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency'' for ``Secretary of Transportation''.
1976--Pub. L. 94-215 inserted provision including in the purchase or
rental of any area of land, water, or land and water the purchase or
rental of any interest in any such area of land, water, or land and
water.
1968--Pub. L. 90-261 substituted the Secretary of Transportation for
the Secretary of Commerce in the membership of the Commission.
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, and provided that
Secretary of the Interior should be chairman of Migratory Bird
Conservation Commission and that Secretary of Agriculture should be a
member thereof.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 715b, 4402 of this title.
