§1421d — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Creates a Treasury account called the Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund that earns interest. Money in the fund can only be used by the Secretary, working with the Secretary of the Interior, and only after the Secretary approves a budget. The money can pay advance or progress payments for contracts and other costs (like supplies, salaries, services, and travel) needed to follow the contingency plan or to work under an Onsite Coordinator during an unusual mortality event. It can also pay stranding network participants for collecting and handling tissue samples for the Tissue Bank and pay for care of a seized marine mammal. The fund gets money from amounts appropriated to the fund, other appropriations to the Secretary for unusual mortality events, and gifts, devises, and bequests. The Secretary may accept and use volunteers and may solicit, receive, hold, and use gifts, devises, and bequests to carry out these duties.

Title 16, §1421d

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(a)There is established in the Treasury an interest bearing fund to be known as the “Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund”, which shall consist of amounts deposited into the Fund under subsection (c).

(b)Amounts in the Fund shall be available only for use by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, and dispersed among claimants based on budgets approved by the Secretary prior to expenditure—

(1)to make advance, partial, or progress payments under contracts or other funding mechanisms for property, supplies, salaries, services, and travel costs incurred in acting in accordance with the contingency plan issued under section 1421c(b) of this title or under the direction of an Onsite Coordinator for an unusual mortality event designated under section 1421c(a)(2)(B)(iii) of this title;

(2)for reimbursing any stranding network participant for costs incurred in the collection, preparation, analysis, and transportation of marine mammal tissues and samples collected with respect to an unusual mortality event for the Tissue Bank; and

(3)for the care and maintenance of a marine mammal seized under section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title; and 11 So in original. The “; and” probably should be a period.

(c)There shall be deposited into the Fund—

(1)amounts appropriated to the Fund;

(2)other amounts appropriated to the Secretary for use with respect to unusual mortality events; and

(3)amounts received by the United States in the form of gifts, devises, and bequests under subsection (d).

(d)For purposes of carrying out this subchapter and section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title, the Secretary may accept, solicit, and use the services of volunteers, and may accept, solicit, receive, hold, administer, and use gifts, devises, and bequests.

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2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–263 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) related to uses of amounts in the Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund and payment of pending claims. 1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–238, § 16(b), substituted “an interest bearing fund” for “a fund”. Subsec. (b)(1)(A)(i). Pub. L. 103–238, § 24(c)(2), made technical amendment to reference to section 1421c(b) of this title to reflect renumbering of corresponding section of original act. Subsec. (b)(1)(A)(iii). Pub. L. 103–238, § 6(1), added cl. (iii). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–238, § 6(2), inserted “and section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title”.

§1421d Unusual mortality event activity funding

Summary

Title 16, §1421d

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