---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 695"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "695"
heading: "Migratory waterfowl and other wildlife refuge in California; participation by State of California"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/695"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §695. Migratory waterfowl and other wildlife refuge in California; participation by State of California


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to purchase or rent not to exceed twenty thousand acres of land or interests therein in suitable locations in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California, for the management and control of migratory waterfowl and other wildlife in connection therewith, from moneys to be appropriated by Congress from time to time: Provided, That no sums appropriated under this authority for the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands shall be expended for such purpose unless and until the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California shall have set aside and made available for expenditure funds for the purchase of equivalent acreages as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(May 18, 1948, ch. 303, § 1, 62 Stat. 238.)