Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16 : Section 758a


   

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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