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[CITE: 16USC724]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
  CHAPTER 8--UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE
 
Sec. 724. Consent of States to acquisition; existing rights-of-
        way, easements, etc.
        
    (a) No such area shall be acquired by the Secretary of the Interior 
until the legislature of each State in which is situated any part of the 
areas to be acquired under this chapter has consented to the acquisition 
of such part by the United States for the purposes of this chapter, and, 
except in the case of a lease, no payment shall be made by the United 
States for any such area until title thereto is satisfactory to the 
Attorney General and is vested in the United States.
    (b) The existence of a right of way, easement, or other reservation 
or exception in respect of such area shall not be a bar to its 
acquisition (1) if the Secretary of the Interior determines that any 
such reservation or exception will in no manner interfere with the use 
of the area for the purposes of this chapter, or (2) if in the deed or 
other conveyance it is stipulated that any reservation or exception in 
respect of such area, in favor of the person from whom the United States 
receives title, shall be subject to regulations prescribed under 
authority of this chapter.

(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, Sec. 4, 43 Stat. 650; 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 723 of this title.
