“Congress finds that—“(1) on March 16, 1934, Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed the Act of March 16, 1934 (16 U.S.C. 718a [718] et seq.) (popularly known as the ‘Duck Stamp Act’), which requires all migratory waterfowl hunters 16 years of age or older to buy a Federal migratory bird hunting and conservation stamp annually;
“(2) the Federal Duck Stamp program has become one of the most popular and successful conservation programs ever initiated;
“(3) because of that program, the United States again is teeming with migratory waterfowl and other wildlife that benefit from wetland habitats;
“(4) as of the date of enactment of this Act [Aug. 3, 2006], 1,700,000 migratory bird hunting and conservation stamps are sold each year;
“(5) as of 2003, those stamps have generated more than $600,000,000 in revenue that has been used to preserve more than 5,000,000 acres of migratory waterfowl habitat in the United States; and
“(6) many of the more than 540 national wildlife refuges have been paid for wholly or partially with that revenue.
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