Volume 86 · 907
Public Law 92–504
To amend the Sockeye Salmon or Pink Salmon Fishery Act of 1947 to authorize the restoration and extension of the sockeye and pink salmon stocks of the Fraser Elver system, and for other purposes.
Approved October 18, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Sockeye Salmon or Pink Salmon Fishery Act of 1947 to authorize the restoration and extension of the sockeye and pink salmon stocks of the Fraser Elver system, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 8 of
Salmon stocks, Fraser River system.
Restoration and extension.
the Sockeye Salmon or Pink Salmon Fishery Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 514; 16 U.S.C. 776f) is amended by (a) designating existing section 8 as “section 8(a)”; and (b) inserting at the end thereof the following new section:
“(b) In addition to the amounts authorized in subsection (a) of this
Appropriation.
section, there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $7,000,000 for the share of the United States of costs and expenses incident to the development and construction of salmon enhancement facilities pursuant to the program for the restoration and extension of the sockeye and pink salmon stocks of the Fraser River system as approved by the Commission, to remain available until expended.”
Approved October 18, 1972.