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title: "16 U.S.C. § 760–5"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 760–5 - Establishment of fish hatchery at Paint Bank, Virginia

## Text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to construct, equip, maintain, and operate a new fish hatchery in the vicinity of Paint Bank, Virginia.

(Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 943, § 1, 70 Stat. 1020.)