---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 667g–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "667g–1"
heading: "Requisition and use of grain for prevention of starvation of migratory birds; reimbursement for packaging and transporting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/667g-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 5A — Protection and Conservation of Wildlife"
  - "Subchapter I — Game, Fur-Bearing Animals, and Fish"
---

# §667g–1. Requisition and use of grain for prevention of starvation of migratory birds; reimbursement for packaging and transporting


Upon a finding by the [Secretary](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=12) of the Interior that migratory birds are threatened with starvation in any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of the [United States](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13), the [Secretary](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=12) is authorized to requisition from the Commodity Credit Corporation grain acquired by that Corporation through price support operations in such quantities as may be mutually agreed upon. The Corporation shall be reimbursed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=12) for its expense in packaging and transporting of such grain for purposes of sections [667g](/usc/16/667g.md) to [667g–2](/usc/16/667g–2.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–152, § 2, Aug. 17, 1961, 75 Stat. 389.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 448 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.