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ests and national parks, and Bureau of Land 

 Management lands located in central California, 

 as well as lands under the jurisdiction of the 

 Secretary of Defense such as Camp Pendleton, 

 Camp Roberts, and Camp Hunter Liggett) 

 which, together with adjacent lands in public 

 and private ownership, offer a potential for 

 increasing the Tule ellc population in California 

 to the two thousand level envisioned by the Cali- 

 fornia Legislature: Now, therefore, be it 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Represent- 

 atives of the United States of America in Congress 

 assembled, That it is the sense of Congress that the 

 restoration and conservation of a Tule elk popula- 

 tion in California of at least two thousand, except 

 that the number of Tule elk in the Owens River 

 Watershed area shall at no time exceed four 

 hundred and ninety or such greater number which 

 is determined by the State of California to be the 

 maximum holding capacity of such area, Is an 

 appropriate national goal. 



Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior, the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of De- 

 fense shall cooperate with the State of California 

 in making the lands under their respective juris- 

 dictions reasonably available for the preservation 

 and grazing of Tule elk in such manner and to 

 such extent as may be consistent with Federal law. 



Sec. 3. The Secretary of the Interior shall sub- 

 mit, on or before the first of March of each year, 

 a report to the Congress as to the estimated size 

 and condition of the various Tule elk herds in 

 California and the nature and condition of their 

 respective habitats. The Secretary shall include 

 in such report his determination as to whether 

 or not the preservation of the Tule elk herd at its 

 then-existing level is, or may be endangered or 

 threatened by actual or proposed changes in land 

 use or land management practices on lands owned 

 by any Federal, State, or local agency, together 

 with his recommendations as to what Federal 

 actions, if any, should be taken in order to pre- 

 serve the Tule elk herds at the then-existing level 

 or such other level as may be determined from 

 time to time by the State of California. 



Sec 4. The Secretary of the Interior, in coordi- 

 nation with all Federal, State, and other ofiBcers 

 having jurisdiction over lands on which Tule elk 

 herds are located or lands which would provide 

 suitable Tule elk habitat, shall develop a plan for 

 Tule elk restoration and conservation, including 

 habitat management, which shall be integrated 

 with the comparable plans of State and local au- 

 thorities in California. The Secretary's annual 

 report to Congress shall describe the development 

 and implementation of such plan. 



Approved August 14, 1976. 



24. Waterfowl Depredations Prevention 



7 U.S.C. 



§ 442. Availability of grain to prevent waterfowl dep- 

 redations; payment of packaging, transporting, 

 handling, and other charges. 



For the purpose of preventing crop damage by 

 migratory waterfowl, the Commodity Credit Corpo- 

 ration shall make available to the Secretary of the 

 Interior such wheat, corn, or other grains, acquired 

 through price support operations and certified by 

 the Commodity Credit Corporation to be available 

 for purposes of sections 442 to 446 of this title or in 

 such condition through spoilage or deterioration as 

 not to be desirable for human consumption, as the 

 Secretary of the Interior shall requisition pursuant 

 to section 443 of this title. With respect to any 

 grain thus made available, the Commodity Credit 

 Corporation may pay packaging, transporting, han- 

 dling, and other charges up to the time of delivery 

 to one or more designated locations in each State. 

 (July 3, 1956. ch. 512, § 1, 70 Stat. 4&2.> 



§443. Same; requisition of grain upon finding of 

 threat to farmers' crops. 



Upon a finding by the Secretary of the Interior 

 that any area in the United States is threatened with 

 damage to farmers' croi>s by migratory waterfowl, 

 whether or not during the open season for such 

 migratory waterfowl, the Secretary of the Interior 

 is authorized and directed to requisition from the 

 Commodity Credit Corporation and to make avail- 

 able to Federal, State, or local governmental bodies 

 or otficials. or to private organizations or persons. 



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such grain acquired by the Commodity Credit Corpo- 

 ration through price-support operations in such 

 quantities and subject to such regulations as the 

 Secretary determines will most effectively lure 

 migratory waterfowl away from crop depredations 

 and at the same time not expose such migratory 

 waterfowl to shooting over areas to which the water- 

 fowl have been lured by such feeding programs 

 (July 3. 1956, ch. 512, § 2. 70 Stat. 492 ) 



§444. Same; reimbursement of packaging and trans- 

 porting expenses. 



With respect to all grain made available pursuant 

 to section 443 of this title, the Commodity Credit 

 Corporation shall be reimbursed by the Secretary of 

 the Interior for its expenses in packaging and trans- 

 porting such gram for purposes of sections 442 to 446 

 of this title. (July 3. 1956, ch. 512, § 3, 70 Stat. 492.) 



§4ij. Same; authorization of appropriation.s. 



There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 

 as may be necessary to reimburse the Commodity 

 Credit Corporation for its invectment in the grair. 

 transferred pursuant to sections 442 to 446 of this 

 title. (July 3, 1956, ch. 512, § 4, 70 Stat. 492.) 



§446. Repealed. Pub. L. 8S-133, Aug. 4, 1959, 73 Stat. 

 279. 

 Section, act July 3 1956. ch. 512. § 5. 70 Stat. 492. pre- 

 scribed three years following July 3. 1956. as the expira- 

 tion date for the availability of grain under sections 

 442—446 of this title 



