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    16 USC Sec. 460k-1                                          01/08/2008

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER LXVIII - NATIONAL CONSERVATION RECREATIONAL AREAS

HEAD

    Sec. 460k-1. Acquisition of lands for recreational development;
      funds

STATUTE

      The Secretary is authorized to acquire areas of land, or
    interests therein, which are suitable for -
        (1) incidental fish and wildlife-oriented recreational
      development,
        (2) the protection of natural resources,
        (3) the conservation of endangered species or threatened
      species listed by the Secretary pursuant to section 1533 of this
      title, or
        (4) carrying out two or more of the purposes set forth in
      paragraphs (1) through (3) of this section, and are adjacent to,
      or within, the said conservation areas, except that the
      acquisition of any land or interest therein pursuant to this
      section shall be accomplished only with such funds as may be
      appropriated therefor by the Congress or donated for such
      purposes, but such property shall not be acquired with funds
      obtained from the sale of Federal migratory bird hunting stamps.
    Lands acquired pursuant to this section shall become a part of the
    particular conservation area to which they are adjacent.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 87-714, Sec. 2, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 653; Pub. L. 92-
    534, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1063; Pub. L. 93-205, Sec. 13(d),
    Dec. 28, 1973, 87 Stat. 902.)

AMENDMENTS

      1973 - Pub. L. 93-205 inserted references to the acquisition of
    interest in land the conservation of endangered species or
    threatened species listed by the Secretary pursuant to section 1533
    of this title.
      1972 - Pub. L. 92-534 substituted provisions authorizing the
    Secretary to acquire lands suitable for fish and wildlife oriented
    recreational development, or for the protection of natural
    resources and adjacent to conservation areas, for provisions
    authorizing the Secretary to acquire limited areas of land for
    recreational development adjacent to conservation areas in
    existence or approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission
    as of September 28, 1962.
                     EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1973 AMENDMENT
      Amendment by Pub. L. 93-205 effective Dec. 28, 1973, see section
    16 of Pub. L. 93-205, set out as a note under section 1531 of this
    title.