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[CITE: 16USC665a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
           CHAPTER 5A--PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--GAME, FUR-BEARING ANIMALS, AND FISH
 
Sec. 665a. Maintenance of adequate water levels in upper 
        Mississippi River
        
    In the management of existing facilities (including locks, dams, and 
pools) in the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois, and 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, administered by the United States Corps of 
Engineers of the Department of the Army, that Department is directed to 
give full consideration and recognition to the needs of fish and other 
wildlife resources and their habitat dependent on such waters, without 
increasing additional liability to the Government, and, to the maximum 
extent possible without causing damage to levee and drainage districts, 
adjacent railroads and highways, farm lands, and dam structures, shall 
generally operate and maintain pool levels as though navigation was 
carried on throughout the year.

(Mar. 10, 1934, ch. 55, Sec. 5A, as added June 19, 1948, ch. 528, 62 
Stat. 497.)
