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title: "16 U.S.C. § 791"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 791 - Repealed. Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847

## Notes

Section, act June 10, 1920, ch. 285, § 30, 41 Stat. 1077, designated the act as The Federal Water Power Act.