---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 666f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "666f"
heading: "Wildlife conservation and agricultural, industrial, recreational, and related uses for certain Federal lands; transfer of lands to Secretary of the Interior; administration, development, and disposition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/666f"
units:
  - "Chapter 5A — Protection and Conservation of Wildlife"
  - "Subchapter I — Game, Fur-Bearing Animals, and Fish"
---

# §666f. Wildlife conservation and agricultural, industrial, recreational, and related uses for certain Federal lands; transfer of lands to Secretary of the Interior; administration, development, and disposition


In order to promote the orderly development and use of the lands and interests therein acquired by the [United States](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) in connection with the Crab Orchard Creek [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) and the Illinois Ordnance [Plant](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=9) in Williamson, Jackson, and Union [Counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d), Illinois, consistent with the needs of agriculture, industry, recreation, and [wildlife](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7) [conservation](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=4), all of the interests of the [United States](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) in and to such lands are hereby transferred to the [Secretary](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=12) of the Interior for administration, development, and disposition, in accordance with the provisions of this section and [section 666g of this title](/usc/16/666g.md).


## Source credit

(Aug. 5, 1947, ch. 489, § 1, 61 Stat. 770.)