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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 9 — Fish and Wildlife Service

§ 750. Station on Mississippi River for rescue of fishes and propagation of mussels

Statutory text

There shall be established on the Mississippi River, at a point to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce, as appropriate, a station for the rescue of fishes and the propagation of mussels in connection with fish-rescue operations throughout the Mississippi Valley.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 67–153 § 1 · 42 Stat. 501

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 750

    Apr. 28, 1922, ch. 153, § 1, 42 Stat. 501

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Apr. 28, 1922, ch. 153, § 1, 42 Stat. 501

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Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Secretary of Commerce also empowered to carry out statutory provisions in view of: creation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Department of Commerce and Office of Administrator of such Administration; abolition of Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in Department of the Interior and Office of Director of such Bureau; transfer of marine sport fish program of Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife; and certain transfers of functions, including functions formerly vested by law in Secretary of the Interior or Department of the Interior which were administered through Bureau of Commercial Fisheries or were primarily related to such Bureau, exclusive of certain enumerated functions with respect to Great Lakes fishery research, Missouri River Reservoir research, Gulf Breeze Biological Laboratory, and Trans-Alaska pipeline investigations by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.

Transfer and consolidation of bureaus and functions, see note set out under section 742 of this title.

Credits

1922–1940 · 3 acts
  1. 1922Apr. 28, 1922, ch. 153, § 1, 42 Stat. 501
  2. 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433
  3. 19401940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 3, eff. , 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232.
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(Apr. 28, 1922, ch. 153, § 1, 42 Stat. 501; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 3, eff. , 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232.)

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