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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§3376 Administration

Title 16 › CHAPTER 53 — CONTROL OF ILLEGALLY TAKEN FISH AND WILDLIFE › § 3376

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, after consulting with the Treasury Secretary, may write rules needed to carry out sections 3372(f), 3373, and 3374, except where paragraph (2) sets specific requirements. The Interior and Commerce Secretaries must together write specific rules for marking and labeling containers or packages that hold fish or wildlife, and those rules must follow current commercial practices. The Secretary must also work with other federal and state agencies to write rules needed for section 3372(e). Starting in fiscal year 1983, if Congress provides money in advance, the Secretary may make contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, or other arrangements with federal or state agencies, Indian tribes, public or private institutions, or other persons to carry out this chapter. The Agriculture and Interior Secretaries must also jointly write rules that define the terms used in section 3371(g)(2)(A) for enforcement under this chapter.

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(a)Regulations
(1)The Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to issue such regulations, except as provided in paragraph (2), as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 3372(f), 3373, and 3374 of this title.
(2)The Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce shall jointly promulgate specific regulations to implement the provisions of section 3372(b) of this title for the marking and labeling of containers or packages containing fish or wildlife. These regulations shall be in accordance with existing commercial practices.
(3)The Secretary shall, in consultation with other relevant Federal and State agencies, promulgate any regulations necessary to implement section 3372(e) of this title.
(b)Contract authority
Beginning in fiscal year 1983, to the extent and in the amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Secretary may enter into such contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, or other transactions with any Federal or State agency, Indian tribe, public or private institution, or other person, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(c)Clarification of exclusions from definition of plant
The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, after consultation with the appropriate agencies, shall jointly promulgate regulations to define the terms used in section 3371(g)(2)(A) of this title for the purposes of enforcement under this chapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (b) and (c), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 97–79, Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1073, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 3371 of this title and Tables. Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

Amendments

to this section. The

Amendments

by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 117–243, § 6, added par. (3). Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 117–243, § 2(b)(2), substituted “section 3371(g)(2)(A)” for “section 3371(f)(2)(A)”. 2008—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 110–246, § 8204(e)(1), substituted “section 3372(f), 3373, and 3374” for “section 3373 and section 3374”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–246, § 8204(e)(2), added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 8701 of Title 7, Agriculture.

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to agricultural import and entry inspection activities under this chapter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 231, 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.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 3376

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110