16 U.S.C. § 742e — Transfer of functions to Secretary
submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1036 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 272 words · no verdicts yet
Functions mainly concerning commercial fisheries are transferred to the Secretary, while the State Department keeps its authority over international fisheries agreements and commissions. The necessary personnel, property, records, and funds also transfer, and other agencies may assist.
(a) Functions. Functions of the Agriculture Secretary, Commerce Secretary, and other department or agency heads that the Office of Management and Budget Director finds mainly concern developing, advancing, managing, conserving, or protecting commercial fisheries transfer to the Secretary. This does not change the State Department’s or State Secretary’s authority to negotiate or make international fisheries and wildlife agreements or conventions, or to deal with international commissions operating under conventions to which the United States belongs.
(b) Personnel and property. The personnel, property, facilities, records, and unspent appropriations, allocations, and other available or future funds that the OMB Director finds necessary for transferred functions must transfer to the Interior Department.
(c) Cooperation. The Secretary may request and obtain advice or help from any Government department or agency. An assisting department or agency may use its own funds, with or without reimbursement, as it and the Secretary agree.
There shall be transferred to the Secretary all functions of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the head of any other department or agency, as determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to relate primarily to the development, advancement, management, conservation, and protection of commercial fisheries; but nothing in this section shall be construed to modify the authority of the Department of State or the Secretary of State to negotiate or enter into any international agreements, or conventions with respect to the development, management, or protection of any fisheries and wildlife resources or with respect to international commissions operating under conventions to which the United States is a party.
There shall be transferred to the Department of the Interior so much of the personnel, property, facilities, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available) as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines to be necessary in connection with the exercise of any functions transferred to the Secretary pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
The Secretary may request and secure the advice or assistance of any department or agency of the Government in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and any such department or agency which furnishes advice or assistance to the Secretary may expend its own funds for such purposes, with or without reimbursement from the Secretary as may be agreed upon between the Secretary and the department or agency.
Source credit: (Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036, § 6, 70 Stat. 1122; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036 · 70 Stat. 1122
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