Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16 : Section 758a
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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 758a - Notes
SOURCE
(Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 726; Pub. L. 86-624, Sec.
11(a), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 412; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff.
Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)
AMENDMENTS
1960 - Pub. L. 86-624 substituted "the United States and its
island possessions" for "the Territories and island possessions of
the United States".
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
"Secretary of Commerce" substituted for "Secretary of the
Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of
the Department of the Interior," in view of: creation of National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Department of Commerce
and Office of Administrator of such Administration; abolition of
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in Department of the Interior and
Office of Director of such Bureau; transfers of functions,
including functions formerly vested by law in Secretary of the
Interior or Department of the Interior which were administered
through Bureau of Commercial Fisheries or were primarily related to
such Bureau, exclusive of certain enumerated functions with respect
to Great Lakes fishery research, Missouri River Reservoir research,
Gulf Breeze Biological Laboratory, and Trans-Alaska pipeline
investigations; and transfer of marine sport fish program of Bureau
of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff.
Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix
to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, consisting of Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries and Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife,
succeeded and replaced Fish and Wildlife Service of Department of
the Interior under provisions of Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, as
originally provided in section 742b(a) and (d) of this title.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.
DOGFISH SHARKS: RESEARCH TO CONTROL AND ERADICATE OR TO DISCOVER
COMMERCIAL USES
Pub. L. 85-887, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1710, directed Secretary
of the Interior to prosecute, for a period of not to exceed four
years from Sept. 2, 1958, investigations of the abundance and
distribution of dogfish sharks, experiments to develop control
measures, and a vigorous program for the elimination and
eradication or development of economic uses of dogfish shark
populations.
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in sections 758b, 758d of this title.
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