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 1094 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 28, 1947 [61 STAT. between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of 398tat.702. migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and certain game mammals concluded 50 Stat. 1311. February 7, 1936: AMENDMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 16U.S.C.I 703- 711. 5U. .c. I133t note. 60 Stat. 237. 5U.S.0.II1001- 1011. 39 Stat. 1702 . 50 Stat. 1311. Ante, pp. 1077,1088 . By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), and having determined, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (Public Law No. 404-79th Congress), that the amendment adopted herein is corrective of an emergency condition and that further notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable and unnecessary, I, J. A. Krug Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have deter- mined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of the said Act and conventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, trans- portation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determinations, do hereby amend the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2739 of July 31, 1947, as amended by Proclamation No. 2747 of September 27, 1947, by adding to Regulation 4 under the heading "Woodcock" the following: "Provided, however, that in those States where hunting has been prohibited by State action by reason of emergency fire- hazard conditions, the open seasons specified in these regulations may be extended or reopened for periods not to exceed the number of days during which hunting has been prohibited by State action, and provided that such extension or reopening will not result in a diminution of the abundance of birds to any greater extent than that contemplated under the original hunting season. Any such extended or reopened season shall be determined, fixed, and announced by the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the conservation agency of the State in which the emergency condition has existed, in accordance with the provisions of this regulation." This amendment is in accordance with the recommendations of the several State conservation departments affected thereby, and in view of the nature of the emergency condition intended to be cor- rected, it has been determined that this amendment shall become effective immediately upon publication thereof in the Federal Register. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 24th day of October, 1947. [SEA] JAKRUG [SEAL] Secretary of the Interior.

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