§1052 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must operate the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium. The Secretary may build, buy, lease, run, and keep boats to collect specimens, and may contract for specimen collection and buy or trade specimens and display items (without regard to section 6101 of title 41). The Secretary may make and give away or sell at cost catalogs, brochures, films, photos, and other materials about the Center and aquariums, with sales receipts sent to the U.S. Treasury. The Secretary may hire experts or consultants under section 3109 of title 5 at up to $50 per day plus expenses. The Secretary may allow groups with related fish and wildlife purposes to use public meeting and exhibit spaces on terms that serve the public interest. The Secretary should encourage people from any country that has diplomatic relations with the United States to use the Center’s educational and scientific facilities if that country gives the same access to U.S. citizens.

Title 16, §1052

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(a)The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) shall operate the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium.

(b)The Secretary is further authorized to—

(1)construct, purchase or lease, and operate and maintain vessels for specimen collecting purposes and, without regard to section 6101 of title 41, to contract for such collection of specimens and to purchase or exchange specimens and exhibit materials;

(2)prepare for free distribution or exhibit or to offer for sale at cost illustrated catalogs of specimens, brochures, and other printed matter and films, animations and photographic and other material pertaining to the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium and its objectives and to aquariums generally, all or any of which may be reproduced by any printing or other process without regard to existing regulations, the proceeds of sales to be covered into the United States Treasury;

(3)employ, as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, but at rates not to exceed $50 per diem plus expenses, experts, consultants, or organizations thereof, as required to assist with the planning, design, construction, and operation of the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium;

(4)permit on such terms and conditions as he shall consider to be in the public interest the use of auditorium and other areas for meetings and exhibits of societies and groups whose purposes are related to fish and wildlife generally; and

(5)encourage the use of the educational and scientific facilities and equipment at the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium by individuals of any nation with which the United States maintains diplomatic relations and which extends similar use of its educational and scientific facilities and equipment to citizens of the United States.

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Codification In subsec. (b)(1), “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (41 U.S.C. 5)” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. In subsec. (b)(3), “section 3109 of title 5” substituted for “section 15 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a)” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§1052 Authorization of Secretary of the Interior

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Title 16, §1052

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