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[CITE: 16USC690]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
             CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
 
Sec. 690. Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge; establishment; 
        acquisition of lands
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, at Bear 
River Bay and vicinity, Utah, such dikes, ditches, spillways, buildings, 
and improvements as may be necessary, in his judgment, for the 
establishment of a suitable refuge and feeding and breeding grounds for 
migratory wild fowl; also to acquire, by purchase, gift, or lease, water 
rights and privately owned lands, including the improvements thereon, 
deemed necessary by him for the purpose, or, in lieu of purchase, to 
compensate any owner for any damage sustained by reason of the 
submergence of his lands.

(Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 448; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of 
the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions 
note set out under section 671 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 690a, 690c, 690d, 690f of 
this title.
