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[CITE: 16USC590p-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                      CHAPTER 3B--SOIL CONSERVATION
 
Sec. 590p-1. Limitation on wetlands drainage assistance to aid 
        wildlife preservation; termination of limitation; 
        redetermination of need for assistance upon change of ownership 
        of lands
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture shall not enter into an agreement in 
the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota to provide 
financial or technical assistance for wetland drainage on a farm under 
authority of this chapter, if the Secretary of the Interior has made a 
finding that wildlife preservation will be materially harmed on that 
farm by such drainage and that preservation of such land in its 
undrained status will materially contribute to wildlife preservation and 
such finding, identifying specifically the farm and the land on that 
farm with respect to which the finding was made, has been filed with the 
Secretary of Agriculture within ninety days after the filing of the 
application for drainage assistance: Provided, That the limitation 
against furnishing such financial or technical assistance shall 
terminate (1) at such time as the Secretary of the Interior notifies the 
Secretary of Agriculture that such limitation should not be applicable, 
(2) one year after the date on which the adverse finding of the 
Secretary of the Interior was filed unless during that time an offer has 
been made by the Secretary of the Interior or a State government agency 
to lease or to purchase the wetland area from the owner thereof as a 
waterfowl resource, or (3) five years after the date on which such 
adverse finding was filed if such an offer to lease or to purchase such 
wetland area has not been accepted by the owner thereof: Provided 
further, That upon any change in the ownership of the land with respect 
to which such adverse finding was filed, the eligibility of such land 
for such financial or technical assistance shall be redetermined in 
accordance with the provisions of this section.

(Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, Sec. 16A, as added Pub. L. 87-732, Oct. 2, 1962, 
76 Stat. 696.)
