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Bands issued to master permit holders remain the property of the U.S. and Canadian governments. The holder or the "responsible individual" of the master permit to whom the bands are issued is responsible for the bands until the data resulting from their use are reported, they are returned to the U.S. or Canadian Banding Offices, or the appropriate Bird Banding Office approves their transfer to another permittee.
Unused bands must be returned with a list of band spans to the Banding Office from which they were obtained when they are no longer needed.
Banders should leave a note attached to their wills directing where and/or to whom their banding records should go. The records could go to a relative, a subpermittee, or a state or regional banding organization.
