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[CITE: 16USC715a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
 
               SUBCHAPTER III--MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION
 
Sec. 715a. Migratory Bird Conservation Commission; creation; 
        composition; duties; approval of areas of land and water 
        recommended for purchase or rental
        
    A commission to be known as the Migratory Bird Conservation 
Commission, consisting of the Secretary of the Interior, as chairman, 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary 
of Agriculture and two Members of the Senate, to be selected by the 
President of the Senate, and two Members of the House of Representatives 
to be selected by the Speaker, is created and authorized to consider and 
pass upon any area of land, water, or land and water that may be 
recommended by the Secretary of the Interior for purchase or rental 
under this subchapter, and to fix the price or prices at which such area 
may be purchased or rented; and no purchase or rental shall be made of 
any such area until it has been duly approved for purchase or rental by 
said commission. Any Member of the House of Representatives who is a 
member of the commission, if reelected to the succeeding Congress, may 
serve on the commission notwithstanding the expiration of a Congress. 
Any vacancy on the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the 
original appointment. The ranking officer of the branch or department of 
a State to which is committed the administration of its game laws, or 
his authorized representative, and in a State having no such branch or 
department, the governor thereof, or his authorized representative, 
shall be a member ex officio of said commission for the purpose of 
considering and voting on all questions relating to the acquisition, 
under this subchapter, of areas in his State. For purposes of this 
subchapter, the purchase or rental of any area of land, water, or land 
and water includes the purchase or rental of any interest in any such 
area of land, water, or land and water.

(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 1222; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 4(f), (h), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 
90-261, Mar. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 39; Pub. L. 94-215, Sec. 4, Feb. 17, 
1976, 90 Stat. 190; Pub. L. 101-233, Sec. 13, Dec. 13, 1989, 103 Stat. 
1977.)


                               Amendments

    1989--Pub. L. 101-233 substituted ``Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency'' for ``Secretary of Transportation''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-215 inserted provision including in the purchase or 
rental of any area of land, water, or land and water the purchase or 
rental of any interest in any such area of land, water, or land and 
water.
    1968--Pub. L. 90-261 substituted the Secretary of Transportation for 
the Secretary of Commerce in the membership of the Commission.

                          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, and provided that 
Secretary of the Interior should be chairman of Migratory Bird 
Conservation Commission and that Secretary of Agriculture should be a 
member thereof.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 715b, 4402 of this title.
