22 U.S.C. § 2655a — Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs within Department of State; Assistant Secretary of State as head of Bureau
submitted 53 years ago by Pub. L. 93-126 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 88 words · no verdicts yet
This section establishes a State Department Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. It makes an Assistant Secretary, appointed by the President with Senate consent, the Bureau’s head and assigns that official responsibility for specified affairs and other duties the Secretary designates.
The Department of State must have a Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. The President must appoint, with the Senate’s advice and consent, an Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs to head the Bureau. The Assistant Secretary is responsible for oceans, environmental, scientific, fisheries, wildlife, and conservation matters, plus related duties the Secretary assigns from time to time.
There is established within the Department of State a Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. There shall be an Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be the head of the Bureau and who shall have responsibility for matters relating to oceans, environmental, scientific, fisheries, wildlife, and conservation affairs and for such other related duties as the Secretary may from time to time designate.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 93–126, § 9(a), formerly § 9, Oct. 18, 1973, 87 Stat. 453, renumbered Pub. L. 93–312, § 9, June 8, 1974, 88 Stat. 238; Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 162(q)(1), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 410; Pub. L. 103–415, § 1(f)(4)(B), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4300.)
- 1973Enacted · Pub. L. 93-126 · 87 Stat. 453
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-236 · 108 Stat. 410
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-415 · 108 Stat. 4300
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 93-126 on 1973-10-18.
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