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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§742e Transfer of functions to Secretary

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 9— - FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE › § 742e

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget must move any federal duties that are mainly about developing, improving, managing, conserving, or protecting commercial fisheries to the Secretary of the Interior. This includes duties now done by the Agriculture and Commerce departments and any other agencies the Director names. The State Department still keeps its power to make international treaties or agreements about fisheries and wildlife. The OMB Director must also transfer the staff, property, facilities, records, and unused funds needed for those duties to the Department of the Interior. The Secretary can ask other federal agencies for advice or help. Those agencies may spend their own money to help and can be paid back if the Secretary and the agency agree.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §742e

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)There shall be transferred to the Secretary all functions of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the head of any other department or agency, as determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to relate primarily to the development, advancement, management, conservation, and protection of commercial fisheries; but nothing in this section shall be construed to modify the authority of the Department of State or the Secretary of State to negotiate or enter into any international agreements, or conventions with respect to the development, management, or protection of any fisheries and wildlife resources or with respect to international commissions operating under conventions to which the United States is a party.
(b)There shall be transferred to the Department of the Interior so much of the personnel, property, facilities, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available) as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines to be necessary in connection with the exercise of any functions transferred to the Secretary pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
(c)The Secretary may request and secure the advice or assistance of any department or agency of the Government in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and any such department or agency which furnishes advice or assistance to the Secretary may expend its own funds for such purposes, with or without reimbursement from the Secretary as may be agreed upon between the Secretary and the department or agency.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036, 70 Stat. 1119, known as the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, which is classified generally to sections 742a to 742d and 742e to 742j–2 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 742a of this title and Tables.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

All functions vested by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget were transferred to the President of the United States by section 101 of 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. section 102 of 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2 redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget.

Transfer of Functions

to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, see note set out under section 742b of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 742e

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73