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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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