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[CITE: 16USC709a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY
 
Sec. 709a. Authorization of appropriations

    There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from time to time, 
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such 
amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and to 
accomplish the purposes of said conventions and of this subchapter and 
regulations made pursuant thereto, and the Secretary of the Interior is 
authorized out of such moneys to employ in the city of Washington and 
elsewhere such persons and means as he may deem necessary for such 
purpose and may cooperate with local authorities in the protection of 
migratory birds and make the necessary investigations connected 
therewith.

(July 3, 1918, ch. 128, Sec. 9, as added June 20, 1936, ch. 634, Sec. 5, 
49 Stat. 1556; amended 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 4(f), eff. July 1, 
1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective June 30, 1937, see section 1 of act June 30, 1936, 
set out as a note under section 703 of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other 
official in Department of the Interior under this subchapter to Federal 
Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas 
Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, 
see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 706 of this title.
    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 701 of this title.


                          Availability of Funds

    Section 6 of act June 20, 1936, provided: ``That all moneys now or 
hereafter available for administration and enforcement of said Act 
approved July 3, 1918 [this subchapter], shall be equally available for 
the administration and enforcement of said Act as hereby amended.''
