Jul. 14, 2005
This act (16 USC 666c, last amended in July 1965), is the Federal legislation that coordinates programs and activities regarding the conservation and rehabilitation of fish and wildlife in the United States.
Unless provided for otherwise, whenever the waters of any stream or other body
of water are proposed or authorized to be impounded, diverted, the channel
deepened, or the stream or other body of water otherwise controlled or modified
for any purpose whatever, including navigation and drainage, by any department
or agency of the United States, or by any public or private agency under Federal
permit or license, such department or agency first must consult with the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior (DOI), and the head of the
agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the particular
state where the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be
constructed, with a view to the conservation of wildlife resources by preventing
loss of and damage to such resources as well as providing for the development
and improvement thereof in connection with such water-resource development (16
USC 662(a)). Full text of the Act available
here.