---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 667f–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "667f–1"
heading: "Requisition of grain to prevent crop depredation by migratory waterfowl"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/667f-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 5A — Protection and Conservation of Wildlife"
  - "Subchapter I — Game, Fur-Bearing Animals, and Fish"
---

# §667f–1. Requisition of grain to prevent crop depredation by migratory waterfowl


Upon a finding by the [Secretary](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=12) of the Interior that any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the [United States](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) is threatened with damage to farmers’ crops by migratory waterfowl, whether or not during the open season for such migratory waterfowl, the [Secretary](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=12) of the Interior is authorized and directed to requisition from the Commodity Credit Corporation and to make available to Federal, [State](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13), or local governmental bodies or officials, or to private organizations or [persons](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=8), such grain acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation through price-support operations in such quantities and subject to such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=12) 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](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) to which the waterfowl have been lured by such feeding programs.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 443 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.