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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§316n Administration

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 8A— - GRAZING LANDS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - ALASKA › § 316n

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must create the rules needed to run and carry out this part of the law. The Secretary can hire employees under the civil service laws and set their pay under chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, and can spend money as needed to run the program (for staff, rent, reference books, printing, and similar costs). The Secretary of Agriculture can continue research, tests, and demonstrations to help Alaska’s reindeer industry. If the Secretary of the Interior asks, the Agriculture Secretary can also help with care of plants and animals, including reindeer.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §316n

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(a)The Secretary shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to the administration of this subchapter,11 See References in Text note below. shall execute its provisions, and may (1) in accordance with the civil service laws appoint such employees and in accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 fix their compensation, and (2) make such expenditures (including expenditures for personal service and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books, books of reference, periodicals, and for printing and binding) as may be necessary efficiently to execute the provisions of this subchapter.1
(b)The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to continue investigations, experiments and demonstrations for the welfare, improvement, and increase of the reindeer industry in Alaska, and upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate in matters pertaining to the care of plant and animal life, including reindeer.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this title” and has been translated as if the reference was to “this Act” to reflect the probable intent of Congress inasmuch as the act of Mar. 4, 1927, was not divided into titles. Codification In subsec. (a), “chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted for “the Classification act of 1949, as amended” 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. Section was formerly classified to section 471n of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Amendments

1949—Subsec. (a). Act Oct. 28, 1949, substituted “Classification Act of 1949” for “Classification Act of 1923”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Repeals

Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89–554, § 8, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 655.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

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, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

43 U.S.C. § 316n

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73