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[CITE: 16USC669e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                    CHAPTER 5B--WILDLIFE RESTORATION
 
Sec. 669e. Submission and approval of plans and projects


(a) Setting aside funds

    Any State desiring to avail itself of the benefits of this chapter 
shall, by its State fish and game department, submit programs or 
projects for wildlife restoration in either of the following two ways:
    (1) The State shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of the 
Interior a comprehensive fish and wildlife resource management plan 
which shall insure the perpetuation of these resources for the economic, 
scientific, and recreational enrichment of the people. Such plan shall 
be for a period of not less than five years and be based on projections 
of desires and needs of the people for a period of not less than fifteen 
years. It shall include provisions for updating at intervals of not more 
than three years and be provided in a format as may be required by the 
Secretary of the Interior. If the Secretary of the Interior finds that 
such plans conform to standards established by him and approves such 
plans, he may finance up to 75 per centum of the cost of implementing 
segments of those plans meeting the purposes of this chapter from funds 
apportioned under this chapter upon his approval of an annual agreement 
submitted to him.
    (2) A State may elect to avail itself of the benefits of this 
chapter by its State fish and game department submitting to the 
Secretary of the Interior full and detailed statements of any wildlife-
restoration project proposed for that State. If the Secretary of the 
Interior finds that such project meets with the standards set by him and 
approves said project, the State fish and game department shall furnish 
to him such surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates therefor as he 
may require. If the Secretary of the Interior approves the plans, 
specifications, and estimates for the project, he shall notify the State 
fish and game department and immediately set aside so much of said fund 
as represents the share of the United States payable under this chapter 
on account of such project, which sum so set aside shall not exceed 75 
per centum of the total estimated cost thereof.
    The Secretary of the Interior shall approve only such comprehensive 
plans or projects as may be substantial in character and design and the 
expenditure of funds hereby authorized shall be applied only to such 
approved comprehensive wildlife plans or projects and if otherwise 
applied they shall be replaced by the State before it may participate in 
any further apportionment under this chapter. No payment of any money 
apportioned under this chapter shall be made on any comprehensive 
wildlife plan or project until an agreement to participate therein shall 
have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

(b) ``Project'' defined

    If the State elects to avail itself of the benefits of this chapter 
by preparing a comprehensive fish and wildlife plan under option (1) of 
subsection (a) of this section, then the term ``project'' may be defined 
for the purposes of this chapter as a wildlife program, all other 
definitions notwithstanding.

(c) Costs

    Administrative costs in the form of overhead or indirect costs for 
services provided by State central service activities outside of the 
State agency having primary jurisdiction over the wildlife resources of 
the State which may be charged against programs or projects supported by 
the fund established by section 669b of this title shall not exceed in 
any one fiscal year 3 per centum of the annual apportionment to the 
State.

(Sept. 2, 1937, ch. 899, Sec. 6, 50 Stat. 918; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 91-
503, title I, Sec. 102, Oct. 23, 1970, 84 Stat. 1099.)


                               Amendments

    1970--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91-503 inserted an alternative method of 
application for funds by the submission of a comprehensive fish and 
wildlife resource management plan for a period of five years based on 
projections for fifteen years, to be updated every three years, laid 
down a maximum limit of federal assistance of 75 percent of the 
estimated cost of the implementation of the plan, and, in the existing 
method of application, now contained in par. (2), struck out reference 
to Secretary of the Treasury and the requirement that the State pay 10 
percent of the costs.
    Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 91-503 added subsecs. (b) and (c).

                          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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 669f, 669h, 2904, 2905 of 
this title.
