---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3922"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3922"
heading: "Federal acquisition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3922"
units:
  - "Chapter 59 — Wetlands Resources"
  - "Subchapter III — State and Federal Wetlands Acquisition"
---

# §3922. Federal acquisition


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to purchase [wetlands](/usc/16/3902.md?p=5) or interests in [wetlands](/usc/16/3902.md?p=5), which are not acquired under the authority of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 1929 ([16 U.S.C. 715–715s](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t16/s715–715s))), consistent with the [wetlands](/usc/16/3902.md?p=5) priority conservation plan established under [section 3921 of this title](/usc/16/3921.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–645, title III, § 304, Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3588.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 1929, referred to in text, is act Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, 45 Stat. 1222, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 715 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 715 of this title and Tables.