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• United States Code
• TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
• CHAPTER 8 - UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE

                                   SOURCE
    (June 7, 1924, ch. 346, Secs. 2, 3, 43 Stat. 650; June 18, 1934,
    ch. 602, 48 Stat. 1015; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 4(f), eff.
    July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 105-312, title
    II, Sec. 202(b), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2957.)
                               CODIFICATION                           
      Section is a combination provision, the latter portion beginning
    with the words "and any such area," being from section 3, and the
    remainder of the section from section 2 of act June 7, 1924.
                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1998 - Pub. L. 105-312, which directed the amendment of section 2
    of the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act by
    substituting "National Wildlife" for "Wild Life", was executed to
    the part of this section based on section 3 of the act, to reflect
    the probable intent of Congress. See Codification note above.
      1934 - Act June 18, 1934, struck out "which are subject to
    overflow by such river" after "Mississippi River".
                           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.
    LAND CONVEYANCE, UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH
                                  REFUGE
      Pub. L. 105-312, title II, Sec. 202(a), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat.
    2957, provided that: "In accordance with section 4(a)(5) of the
    National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16
    U.S.C. 668dd(a)(5)), there are transferred to the Corps of
    Engineers, without reimbursement, approximately 37.36 acres of land
    of the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish Refuge in the
    State of Minnesota, as designated on the map entitled 'Upper
    Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge lands transferred to
    Corps of Engineers', dated January 1998, and available, with
    accompanying legal descriptions of the land, for inspection in
    appropriate offices of the United States Fish and Wildlife
    Service."