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

# §667g. Requisition of surplus grain; prevention of starvation of resident game birds and other resident wildlife; utilization by State agencies; reimbursement for packaging and transporting


For the purpose of meeting emergency situations caused by adverse weather conditions or other factors destructive of important [wildlife](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7) resources, the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) are authorized, upon the request of the [State](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) [fish](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7) and game authority or other [State](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) agency having similar authority and 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) of the [United States](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) is threatened with serious damage or loss to resident game birds and other resident [wildlife](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=7) from starvation, to requisition from the Commodity Credit Corporation grain acquired by the Corporation through price support operations. Such grain may thereafter be furnished to the particular [State](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) for direct and sole utilization by the appropriate [State](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) agencies for purposes of sections 667g to [667g–2](/usc/16/667g–2.md) of this title in such quantities as mutually agreed upon by the [State](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) and the Commodity Credit Corporation and subject to such regulations as may be considered desirable by the Corporation. The Corporation shall be reimbursed by the particular [State](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=13) in each instance for the expense of the Corporation in packaging and transporting such grain for purposes of sections 667g to [667g–2](/usc/16/667g–2.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–152, § 1, Aug. 17, 1961, 75 Stat. 389.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 447 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.