§ 20.142 - Applicability.

This subpart applies to persons of all ages engaged in waterfowl hunting in the established nontoxic shot zones and to all of the boroughs, counties, or parishes within the separate States, without exception. Possession and use of nontoxic shot (including shotshells and loose shot for use in muzzleloading), for all legal gauges of shotguns, is required for waterfowl hunting in nontoxic shot zones. The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Fish and Wildlife Service, will not open a zone to waterfowl hunting where the Fish and Wildlife Service is prevented from establishing the zone as a nontoxic shot zone under the criteria of this subpart.