Coordination Act Amendments: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12371, to Amend the Act of March 10, 1934, to Provide for More Effective Integration of a Fish and Wildlife Conservation Program with Federal Water-resource Developments, and for Other Purposes : H.R. 8631, to Amend the Act Entitled "An Act to Promote the Conservation of Wildlife, Fish, and Game, and for Other Purposes," Approved March 10, 1934, as Amended, Known as the Coordination Act : and Similar Bills H.R. 8744, H.R. 8747, H.R. 9053, H.R. 9308, and S. 2496U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 46 pages |
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85th Congress acquired Act of August ALLEN areas Association of Game August 14 bill Bird Management Program body of water BOYKIN Bureau of Reclamation Chairman CHILSON Congress conservation of wildlife Corps of Engineers cost damage to wildlife department or agency development and improvement DINGELL enactment Federal agencies Federal water fish and game fish and wildlife FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE game departments habitat impoundment improvement of wildlife Izaak Walton League JUNE 27 Lee Metcalf legislation McBROOM means and measures ment Migratory Bird Management MILLER mitigation of damage National Fisheries Institute National Migratory Bird National Wildlife Federation navigation planning present act present Coordination Act project or unit projects authorized proposed amendments public lands recommendations recreation resolution Secretary of Agriculture Senator Sport Fishing Institute Stat statement subcommittee Subsection tion TOLLEFSON United States Fish Washington water development water projects water resource development wildlife agencies wildlife conservation Wildlife Coordination Act wildlife resources Wildlife Service
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Page 5 - Act provides in part that : [W]henever the waters of any stream or other body of water are proposed or authorized to be impounded, diverted, the channel deepened, or the stream or other body of water otherwise controlled or modified for any purpose whatever, including navigation and drainage, by any department or agency of the United States, or by any public or private agency under Federal permit or license...
Page 6 - States, adequate provision, consistent with the primary purposes of such impoundment, diversion, or other control, shall be made for the use thereof, together with any areas of land, water, or interests therein, acquired or administered by a Federal agency in connection therewith, for the conservation, maintenance, and management of wildlife resources thereof, and its habitat thereon...
Page 6 - Interior is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto...
Page 5 - Interior is authorized (1) to provide assistance to, and cooperate with, Federal, State, and public or private agencies and organizations in the development, protection, rearing, and stocking of all species of wildlife, resources thereof, and their habitat, in controlling losses of the same from disease or other causes, in...
Page 2 - ... whenever the waters of any stream or other body of water are proposed or authorized to be impounded, diverted, the channel deepened, or the stream or other body of water otherwise controlled or modified for any purpose whatever, including navigation and drainage, by any department or agency of the United States, or by any public or private agency under Federal permit or license, such department or agency first shall consult with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior...
Page 2 - ... wildlife resources, as well as to provide concurrently for the development and improvement of such resources, shall be made an integral part of any report prepared or submitted by any agency of the Federal Government responsible for engineering surveys and construction of such projects when such reports are presented to the Congress or to any agency or person having the authority or the power, by administrative action or otherwise, (1) to authorize the construction of water-resource development...
Page 42 - Senate bill 627 should be passed and urge the favorable consideration of this matter which is now before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Page 33 - Except as hereafter stated in subsection (h) of this section [not applicable], whenever the waters of any stream or other body of water are proposed or authorized to be impounded, diverted, the channel deepened, or the stream or other body of water otherwise controlled or modified for any purpose whatever...
Page 2 - Federal agencies authorized to construct or operate watercontrol projects are hereby authorized to modify or add to the structures and operations of such projects, the construction of which has not been substantially completed on the date of enactment of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, and to acquire lands in accordance with section 3 of this Act, in order to accommodate the means and measures for such conservation of wildlife resources as an integral part of such projects...
Page 1 - For the purpose of recognizing the vital contribution of our wildlife resources to the Nation, the increasing public interest and significance thereof due to expansion of our national economy and other factors, and to provide that wildlife conservation shall receive equal consideration and be coordinated with other features of water-resource development programs...