16 U.S.C. § 669g
16 U.S.C. § 669g
EDITORIAL NOTES
REFERENCES IN TEXTThe effective date of this subsection, referred to in subsec. (b)(4), probably means Oct. 23, 1970, the date of approval of Pub. L. 91-503 which added subsec. (b).
AMENDMENTS2019-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116-94, §501(e)(1), struck out "and public relations" after "(exclusive of law enforcement". Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 116-17 inserted subsec. heading, designated first, second, and third sentences of existing provisions as pars. (1), (3), and (4), respectively, and inserted par. headings, in par. (1), substituted "Except as provided in paragraph (2), each State" for "Each State" and "operation" for "construction, operation,", and added par. (2). Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 116-94, §501(e)(2), struck out ",as a part of such program" before period at end.2000-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-553 inserted at end "Funds from the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account may be used for a wildlife conservation education program, except that no such funds may be used for education efforts, projects, or programs that promote or encourage opposition to the regulated taking of wildlife." Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-408 substituted "section 669c(c) of this title" for "section 669c(b) of this title" in first sentence. 1972-Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 92-558 substituted "public target ranges" for "public outdoor target ranges" in two places. 1970- Pub. L. 91-503 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), struck out the 25 percent limitation on the use of Federal funds for wildlife restoration projects and the 30 percent limitation on the use of Federal funds for the management of wild life areas and resources, and added subsec. (b).1955-Act Aug. 12, 1955, permitted expenditure of funds for management of wildlife areas and resource. 1946-Act July 24, 1946, inserted proviso defining "wildlife-restoration project".
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1972 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 92-558, title I, §102(b), Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1173, provided that: "The amendments made by subsection (a) of this section [amending this section] shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 25, 1972]."
- Secretary
- the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior;
- conservation
- the term "conservation" means the use of methods and procedures necessary or desirable to sustain healthy populations of wildlife, including all activities associated with scientific resources management such as research, census, monitoring of populations, acquisition, improvement and management of habitat, live trapping and transplantation, wildlife damage management, and periodic or total protection of a species or population, as well as the taking of individuals within wildlife stock or population if permitted by applicable State and Federal law;
- public target range
- the term "public target range" means a specific location that-(A) is identified by a governmental agency for recreational shooting;(B) is open to the public;(C) may be supervised; and(D) may accommodate archery or rifle, pistol, or shotgun shooting;
- wildlife conservation education
- the term "wildlife conservation education" means projects, including public outreach, intended to foster responsible natural resource stewardship; and
- wildlife
- the term "wildlife" means any species of wild, free-ranging fauna including fish, and also fauna in captive breeding programs the object of which is to reintroduce individuals of a depleted indigenous species into previously occupied range;
- wildlife-restoration project
- the term "wildlife-restoration project" includes the wildlife conservation and restoration program and means the selection, restoration, rehabilitation, and improvement of areas of land or water adaptable as feeding, resting, or breeding places for wildlife, including acquisition of such areas or estates or interests therein as are suitable or capable of being made suitable therefor, and the construction thereon or therein of such works as may be necessary to make them available for such purposes and also including such research into problems of wildlife management as may be necessary to efficient administration affecting wildlife resources, and such preliminary or incidental costs and expenses as may be incurred in and about such projects.1So in original. The period probably should be a semicolon.2See References in Text note below.