16 U.S.C. § 1537 — International cooperation

submitted 53 years ago by Pub. L. 93-205 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 450 words · no verdicts yet

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The President may use available foreign currencies to help other countries conserve listed endangered and threatened species. The Secretary must encourage international conservation programs, may provide personnel and training, and may conduct necessary law-enforcement investigations and research abroad.

(a) Financial assistance. To demonstrate United States support for worldwide protection of endangered and threatened species, the President may, subject to section 1306 of title 31, use foreign currencies accruing under the Food for Peace Act or another law to assist, with its consent, any foreign country in developing and managing programs the Secretary determines are necessary or useful to conserve a species listed under section 1533. Assistance may include acquiring lands, waters, or interests in them by lease or otherwise. The President may set appropriate terms and conditions. When such foreign currencies are available, they must be used before funds appropriated under section 1542. (b) Encouragement of foreign programs. Through the Secretary of State, the Secretary must encourage—(1) foreign countries to conserve fish, wildlife, and plants, including listed endangered and threatened species; (2) bilateral or multilateral agreements for that conservation; and (3) foreign people who directly or indirectly take fish, wildlife, or plants abroad or on the high seas for import into the United States to develop and carry out, with assistance the Secretary may provide, conservation practices that improve those resources and their habitat. (c) Personnel. After consulting the Secretary of State, the Secretary may (1) assign or otherwise make department officers or employees available to cooperate with foreign countries and international organizations in developing personnel and programs that promote conservation; and (2) conduct or fund education and training for foreign personnel, in the United States or abroad, in management, research, and law enforcement involving fish, wildlife, or plants, and provide professional help abroad in those matters. (d) Investigations. After consulting the Secretaries of State and Treasury when appropriate, the Secretary may conduct or arrange law-enforcement investigations and research abroad that the Secretary considers necessary to carry out this chapter.

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(a) Financial assistance

As a demonstration of the commitment of the United States to the worldwide protection of endangered species and threatened species, the President may, subject to the provisions of section 1306 of title 31, use foreign currencies accruing to the United States Government under the Food for Peace Act [7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.] or any other law to provide to any foreign country (with its consent) assistance in the development and management of programs in that country which the Secretary determines to be necessary or useful for the conservation of any endangered species or threatened species listed by the Secretary pursuant to section 1533 of this title. The President shall provide assistance (which includes, but is not limited to, the acquisition, by lease or otherwise, of lands, waters, or interests therein) to foreign countries under this section under such terms and conditions as he deems appropriate. Whenever foreign currencies are available for the provision of assistance under this section, such currencies shall be used in preference to funds appropriated under the authority of section 1542 of this title.

(b) Encouragement of foreign programs

In order to carry out further the provisions of this chapter, the Secretary, through the Secretary of State, shall encourage—

(1)

foreign countries to provide for the conservation of fish or wildlife and plants including endangered species and threatened species listed pursuant to section 1533 of this title;

(2)

the entering into of bilateral or multilateral agreements with foreign countries to provide for such conservation; and

(3)

foreign persons who directly or indirectly take fish or wildlife or plants in foreign countries or on the high seas for importation into the United States for commercial or other purposes to develop and carry out with such assistance as he may provide, conservation practices designed to enhance such fish or wildlife or plants and their habitat.

After consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary may—

(1)

assign or otherwise make available any officer or employee of his department for the purpose of cooperating with foreign countries and international organizations in developing personnel resources and programs which promote the conservation of fish or wildlife or plants; and

(2)

conduct or provide financial assistance for the educational training of foreign personnel, in this country or abroad, in fish, wildlife, or plant management, research and law enforcement and to render professional assistance abroad in such matters.

(d) Investigations

After consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, as appropriate, the Secretary may conduct or cause to be conducted such law enforcement investigations and research abroad as he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 93–205, § 8, Dec. 28, 1973, 87 Stat. 892; Pub. L. 96–159, § 5, Dec. 28, 1979, 93 Stat. 1228; Pub. L. 110–246, title III, § 3001(b)(1)(A), (2)(N), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1820.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1973Enacted · Pub. L. 93-205 · 87 Stat. 892
1979Amended · Pub. L. 96-159 · 93 Stat. 1228
2008Amended · Pub. L. 110-246 · 122 Stat. 1820

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