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PUBLIC LAW 85-686-AUG. 1, 1958

served, or set apart for the use of the Department of the Interior as an inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds under any law, proclamation, or Executive order may be administered by the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, as a wildlife management area within which the taking of migratory game birds or resident species may be permitted under such regulations as he may prescribe: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the fact that such lands constitute public property, the Secretary of the Interior shall comply with the requirements of section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act (60 Stat. 238) in issuing regulations pursuant to the preceding proviso." SEC. 3. Section 4 of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: "(c) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to utilize funds made available under subsection (b) of this section for the purposes of such subsection, and such other funds as may be appropriated for the purposes of such subsection, or of this subsection, to acquire, or defray the expense incident to the acquisition by gift, devise, lease, purchase, or exchange of, small wetland and pothole areas, interests therein, and rights-of-way to provide access thereto. Such small areas, to be designated as 'Waterfowl Production Areas', may be acquired without regard to the limitations and requirements of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, but all of the provisions of such Act which govern the administration and protection of lands acquired thereunder, except the inviolate sanctuary provisions of such Act, shall be applicable to areas acquired pursuant to this subsection." SEC. 4. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall become effective on July 1, 1959. The amendment made by section 2 of this Act making available the net proceeds of all moneys received in the migratory bird conservation fund for the location, ascertainment, and acquisition of Waterfowl Production Areas and suitable areas for migratorjr bird refuges shall become effective on July 1, 1960. The remaining amendments made by this Act shall become effective on the date of the enactment of this Act. Any unobligated balance remaining in the migratory bird conservation fund on June 30, 1960, shall thereafter be available for expenditure only for the purposes specified in the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, as amended by this Act. Approved August 1, 1958,

5 USC 1003. "Waterfowl Production A r e a s ",

45 Stat. 1222. 16 USC 715.

Effective dates.

48 Stat. 4 5 1. 16 USC 7 1 8 718h.

Public Law 85-586 AN ACT To authorize refunds by the Veterans' Administration of amounts collected from former servicemen by the Government pursuant to guaranty of life insurance premiums under the original Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940.

Be it eTUwted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized to make refunds, without interest, which are due on account of amounts collected by the United States Government by offset or otherwise from persons who made valid application for and were legally entitled to the protection of article IV of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as it existed prior to the amendments of October 6, 1942. No refund shall be made pursuant to this Act unless application therefor is made to the Veterans' Administration, within two years after the date of enactment of this Act and refund hereunder shall not be denied by reason of any other statutory time limitations, judgments heretofore rendered, or any other technical defense.

August 1, 1958 pT. R. 9369]

Veterans. L i f e insurance refunds.

54 Stat. 1183. 50 USC 540-554.

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