§2808 Regulatory Constraints on Aquaculture

Summary

The Secretaries, using a coordinating group, must finish a study within twelve months after September 26, 1980. The study must review existing information, describe the main issues, list current and pending Federal rules that limit aquaculture, list current State rules in five States chosen at random from five different regions, do case studies of ten commercial aquaculture operations covering many marine and fresh water species to see real effects, and make a flow-chart timeline to show which rules hurt new operations most. When done, they must send the study to Congress. Within six months after the study is finished, the Secretaries must make a plan based on the study. The plan must give specific federal actions to remove unnecessarily burdensome regulatory barriers to starting and running commercial aquaculture businesses. They must send the plan to Congress.