PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Director must work toward specific goals when running Fish and Wildlife Service programs for the Great Lakes. The goals are to bring back and keep healthy fish and wildlife that can survive on their own, cut pollution damage, protect and rebuild habitats (including creating more wetlands), stop illegal acts that harm wildlife, help threatened and endangered species recover, and care for migrating birds.

Title 16, §941d

Conservation, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

In administering programs of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service related to the Great Lakes Basin, the Director shall seek to achieve the following goals:

(1)Restoring and maintaining self-sustaining fish and wildlife resources.

(2)Minimizing the impacts of contaminants on fishery and wildlife resources.

(3)Protecting, maintaining, and, where degraded and destroyed, restoring fish and wildlife habitat, including the enhancement and creation of wetlands that result in a net gain in the amount of those habitats.

(4)Stopping illegal activities adversely impacting fishery and wildlife resources.

(5)Restoring threatened and endangered species to viable, self-sustaining levels.

(6)Protecting, managing, and conserving migratory birds.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Title I of Pub. L. 101–537 and title II of Pub. L. 101–646 enacted identical sections. Title II of Pub. L. 101–646 was repealed by Pub. L. 105–265.

Amendments

2006—Par. (1). Pub. L. 109–326 added par. (1) and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: “Restoring and maintaining self-sustaining fishery resource populations.” 1996—Pub. L. 104–332 made technical amendment to Pub. L. 101–646, § 2006, which enacted this section.

§941d Goals of United States Fish and Wildlife Service Programs Related to Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Resources

Summary

Title 16, §941d

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

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