---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 695e"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "695e"
heading: "Construction, operation, and maintenance of water supply development works"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/695e"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §695e. Construction, operation, and maintenance of water supply development works


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain such works on waterfowl management [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and refuges owned and operated by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California or the United States as may be necessary or desirable for the development of a water supply by means of wells and the recovery of drainage, and to furnish water available from such works, and water available from Central Valley [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) sources, for wildlife management purposes substantially in accordance with the recommendations set forth in the report of the United States Department of the Interior entitled “Waterfowl Conservation in the Lower San Joaquin Valley, Its Relation to the Grasslands and the Central Valley [Project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4),” dated October 1950, and such works should be developed in cooperation with the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California.


## Source credit

(Aug. 27, 1954, ch. 1012, § 2, 68 Stat. 879.)