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[CITE: 16USC715k-3]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
 
               SUBCHAPTER III--MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION
 
Sec. 715k-3. Authorization of appropriations for the 
        preservation of wetlands and other waterfowl habitat
        
    In order to promote the conservation of migratory waterfowl and to 
offset or prevent the serious loss of important wetlands and other 
waterfowl habitat essential to the preservation of such waterfowl, there 
is authorized to be appropriated for the period beginning on July 1, 
1961, and ending when all amounts authorized to be appropriated have 
been expended, not to exceed $200,000,000.

(Pub. L. 87-383, Sec. 1, Oct. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 813; Pub. L. 90-205, 
Sec. 1(a), Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 612; Pub. L. 94-215, Sec. 2(a), Feb. 
17, 1976, 90 Stat. 189; Pub. L. 98-200, Sec. 1, Dec. 2, 1983, 97 Stat. 
1378; Pub. L. 98-548, title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 26, 1984, 98 Stat. 2774; 
Pub. L. 99-645, title I, Sec. 101(a), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3584; 
Pub. L. 100-653, title III, Sec. 301, Nov. 14, 1988, 102 Stat. 3827.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Migratory Bird Conservation 
Act which comprises this subchapter.


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-653 substituted ``when all amounts authorized to 
be appropriated have been expended'' for ``at the close of September 30, 
1988''.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-645 substituted ``September 30, 1988'' for 
``September 30, 1986''.
    1984--Pub. L. 98-548 substituted ``September 30, 1986'' for 
``September 30, 1984''.
    1983--Pub. L. 98-200 substituted ``September 30, 1984'' for 
``September 30, 1983''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-215 substituted ``period beginning on July 1, 1961, 
and ending at the close of September 30, 1983, not to exceed 
$200,000,000'' for ``fifteen-year period beginning with fiscal year 
1962, not to exceed $105,000,000''.
    1967--Pub. L. 90-205 substituted ``fifteen-year period'' for 
``seven-year period''.


                               Short Title

    Pub. L. 87-383, which enacted this section and sections 715k-4 and 
715k-5 of this title, is popularly known as the ``Wetlands Loan Act''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 715k-4 of this title.
