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[CITE: 16USC691]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
             CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
 
Sec. 691. Cheyenne Bottoms Migratory Bird Refuge; location; 
        acquisition of land
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by purchase, 
gift, or lease not to exceed twenty thousand acres of land in what is 
known as the Cheyenne Bottoms, in Barton County, Kansas, or, in lieu of 
purchase, to compensate any owner for any damage sustained by reason of 
submergence of his lands.

(June 12, 1930, ch. 469, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 579; 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 691a, 691c, 691d of this 
title.
