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its game department of any wildlife-restoration project proposed. 
If, finding that such project meets with the adopted standards, the 
Secretary approves it, the State game department then furnishes 
such surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates therefor as may be 
required. When these are approved, a project agreement is entered 
into between the ey of Agriculture and the State game 
department. 
As soon as the agreement is executed, the Secretary of the Treasury 
is requested to set aside the funds necessary to meet the Government’s 
share of the project costs from the sum apportioned to the State. 
When the project is completed, or from time to time as work progres- 
ses, reimbursement. is claimed by the State for work satisfactorily 
accomplished to the extent of 75 percent of the actual expenditures. 
PRELIMINARY OR INCIDENTAL COSTS 
The act authorizes the use of funds for meeting the proportionate 
share of the United States for preliminary or incidental costs of ap- 
proved projects. It is, however, impossible for the Federal Govern- 
ment to participate in such costs unless the projects are finally ap- 
proved and unless preliminary expenditures were anticipated and 
requested by the State at the time the project was submitted for 
consideration. 
EMPLOYMENT OF COMPETENT PERSONNEL 
It is anticipated that the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act 
will prove of great value to the State game departments in building 
a competent force of permanent employees to administer their game- 
restoration programs. The Secretary’s regulations require that all 
personnel employed from funds apportioned to the States shall be 
selected on the basis of competency for services to be performed 
and that they shall conduct their duties in an acceptable manner. 
The substantial interest of the Federal Government in the program 
will encourage the development and maintenance in each State of a 
staff of permanent workers qualified by training and experience to 
carry each project forward in a high degree of efficiency. 
TEXT OF FEDERAL LAW AND REGULATIONS 
FEDERAL AID TO WILDLIFE RESTORATION ACT 
[Approved. September 2, 1937—50 Stat. 917; 16 U. S. C. 669-6693] 
An Act To provide that the United States shall aid the States in wildlife-restoration 
projects, and for other purposes 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is author- 
ized to cooperate with the States, through their respective State fish and game 
departments, in wildlife-restoration projects as hereinafter set forth; but no 
money apportioned under this Act to any State shall be expended therein until 
its legislature, or other State agency authorized by the State constitution to 
make laws governing the conservation of wildlife, shall have assented to the 
provision of this Act and shall have passed laws for the conservation of wildlife 
which shall include a prohibition against the diversion of license fees paid by 
hunters for any other purpose than the administration of said State fish and 
game department, except that, until the final adjournment of the first regular 
session of the legislature held after the passage of this Act, the assent of the 
Governor of the State shall be sufficient. The Secretary of Agriculture and the 
