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114 STAT. 2762A-120 PUBLIC LAW 106-553—APPENDIX B "(2) the term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of the Interior; "(3) the term 'State fish and game department' or 'State fish and wildhfe department' means any department or division of department of another name, or commission, or official or officials, of a State empowered under its laws to exercise the functions ordinarily exercised by a State fish and game department or State fish and wildlife department. "(4) the term 'wildlife' means any species of wild, freeranging fauna including fish, and also fauna in captive breeding programs the object of which is to reintroduce individuals of a depleted indigenous species into previously occupied range; "(5) the term 'wildlife-associated recreation' means projects intended to meet the demand for outdoor activities associated with wildlife including, but not limited to, hunting and fishing, wildlife observation and photography, such projects as construction or restoration of wildlife viewing areas, observation towers, blinds, platforms, land and water trails, water access, field trialing, trail heads, and access for such projects; "(6) the term 'wildlife conservation and restoration program' means a program developed by a State fish and wildlife department and approved by the Secretary under section 304(d), the projects that constitute such a program, which may be implemented in whole or part through grants and contracts by a State to other State, Federal, or local agencies (including those that gather, evaluate, and disseminate information on wildlife and their habitats), wildlife conservation organizations, and outdoor recreation and conservation education entities from funds apportioned under this title, and maintenance of such projects; "(7) the term 'wildlife conservation education' means projects, including public outreach, intended to foster responsible natural resource stewardship; and "(8) the term 'wildlife-restoration project' includes the wildlife conservation and restoration program and means the selection, restoration, rehabilitation, and improvement of areas of land or water adaptable as feeding, resting, or breeding places for wildlife, including acquisition of such areas or estates or interests therein as are suitable or capable of being made suitable therefor, and the construction thereon or therein of such works as may be necessary to make them available for such purposes and also including such research into problems of wildlife management as may be necessary to efficient administration affecting wildlife resources, and such preliminary or incidental costs and expenses as may be incurred in and about such projects.". (d) WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION ACCOUNT.— Section 3 of the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669b) is amended— (1) in subsection (a) by inserting "(1)" after "(a)", and by adding at the end the following: "(2) There is established in the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund a subaccount to be known as the 'Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account'. There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account $50,000,000 in fiscal year 2001 for apportionment in accordance with this Act to carry out State