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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§743a Detail of personnel and loan of equipment to Director of Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 9— - FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE › § 743a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Lets certain federal agencies send staff and loan gear to the Director of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. The agencies covered are the department where the Coast Guard operates, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Atomic Energy Commission, and NASA. They can assign military (officers and enlisted) and civilian employees and lend equipment, as long as it does not conflict with their own operational needs. If these transfers or loans are used in any fiscal year, the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service must report to Congress at the end of that year. The report must say how the authorities were used and any extra cost to the federal government. In the Senate the report goes to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and in the House it goes to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §743a

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(a)As used in this section, the term “agency” means the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
(b)The chief executive officer of each agency may from time to time—
(i)detail from the agency for duty under the Director of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the Interior, such commissioned and enlisted personnel and civilian employees as may be spared for such duty; and
(ii)consonant with the operational needs of the agency, loan equipment of the agency to the Director.
(c)The Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service shall make a report to Congress at the end of any fiscal year that the provisions of this section are utilized, which describes the use of the provisions of this section, and the additional cost, if any, to the Federal Government resulting therefrom. Such report shall be referred in the Senate to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and in the House of Representatives to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, referred to in subsec. (b), was replaced and succeeded by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. See section 742b(c) of this title.

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation” for “Committee on Commerce”. 1980—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 96–470 substituted provision requiring that a report to Congress be made at the end of any fiscal year that provisions of this section are utilized for provision requiring an annual report to Congress be made on utilization of the provisions of this section and struck out “annual” before “report shall be”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6. Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by section 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. See also

Transfer of Functions

notes set out under those sections. Abolition of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of Representatives abolished and its jurisdiction transferred by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Jan. 4, 1995. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives in case of provisions relating to fisheries, wildlife, international fishing agreements, marine affairs (including coastal zone management) except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters, or oceanography by section 1(b)(3) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 743a

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73