16 U.S.C. § 742g — Cooperation with State Department

submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1036 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 263 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary must work with the State Department on international fish-and-wildlife meetings and negotiations and consult with aid officials and relevant organizations. The Secretary must be represented in trade negotiations that directly affect fish products.

(a) At international meetings, the Secretary must cooperate as fully as practicable with the State Secretary. The State Secretary must designate the Interior Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, or an Interior designee to the United States delegation and its negotiating team. (b) The State Secretary and officials responsible for technical or economic aid to foreign countries must consult the Secretary whenever fish-and-wildlife interests are involved, so those interests are represented. (c) Despite other law, the Secretary must be represented in United States negotiations under 19 U.S.C. § 1351 whenever fish products are directly affected. (d) The Secretary must periodically consult governmental, private nonprofit, and other organizations and agencies involved in fish and wildlife about related problems.

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(a) Representation at international meetings

The Secretary shall cooperate to the fullest practicable extent with the Secretary of State in providing representation at all meetings and conferences relating to fish and wildlife in which representatives of the United States and foreign countries participate.

The Secretary of State shall designate the Secretary of the Interior or the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, or a person designated by the Secretary of the Interior to represent the Department of the Interior, as a member of the United States delegation attending such meetings and conferences and also as a member of the negotiating team of any such delegation.

(b) Consultation with officials responsible for technical and economic aid

The Secretary of State and all other officials having responsibilities in the fields of technical and economic aid to foreign nations shall consult with the Secretary in all cases in which the interests of fish and wildlife are involved, with a view to assuring that such interests are adequately represented at all times.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall be represented in all international negotiations conducted by the United States pursuant to section 1351 of title 19, in any case in which fish products are directly affected by such negotiations.

(d) Consultation with governmental, private nonprofit, and other organizations

The Secretary shall consult periodically with the various governmental, private nonprofit, and other organizations and agencies which have to do with any phase of fish and wildlife with respect to any problems that may arise in connection with such fish and wildlife.

Source credit: (Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036, § 8, 70 Stat. 1123.)

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1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036 · 70 Stat. 1123

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