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[CITE: 16USC3923]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                     CHAPTER 59--WETLANDS RESOURCES
 
         SUBCHAPTER III--STATE AND FEDERAL WETLANDS ACQUISITION
 
Sec. 3923. Restriction on use of eminent domain in acquisitions

    The powers of condemnation or eminent domain shall not be used in 
the acquisition of wetlands under any provision of this chapter where 
such wetlands have been constructed for the purpose of farming or 
ranching, or result from conservation activities associated with farming 
or ranching.

(Pub. L. 99-645, title III, Sec. 305, Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3588.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 99-645, Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3582, known as the 
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3901 of 
this title and Tables.
