---
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"
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/16/6456.md?p=2) 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](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) 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/16/6456.md?p=2) of California.


## Source credit

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