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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 9A — Preservation of Fishery Resources

§ 756. Investigations, surveys, and experiments; construction and installation of conservation devices, etc.

Statutory text

The Secretary of Commerce is further authorized and directed (1) to conduct such investigations, and such engineering and biological surveys and experiments, as may be necessary to direct and facilitate conservation of the fishery resources of the Columbia River and its tributaries; (2) to construct and install devices in the Columbia River Basin for the improvement of feeding and spawning conditions for fish, for the protection of migratory fish from irrigation projects, and for facilitating free migration of fish over obstructions; and (3) to perform all other activities necessary for the conservation of fish in the Columbia River Basin in accordance with law.

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. 75–193 § 2 · 52 Stat. 345

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 756

    May 11, 1938, ch. 193, § 2, 52 Stat. 345

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 11, 1938, ch. 193, § 2, 52 Stat. 345

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. The Secretary of Commerce is further authorized and Investigations, surveys, etc., to facilitate conservation of fishery resources. directed (1) to conduct such investigations, and such engineering and biological surveys and experiments, as may be necessary to direct and facilitate conservation of the fishery resources of the Columbia River and its tributaries; (2) to construct, install, and maintain devices in Protective devices, etc. the Columbia River Basin for the improvement of feeding and spawning conditions for fish, for the protection of migratory fish from irrigation projects, and for facilitating free migration of fish over obstructions; and (3) to perform all other activities necessary for Other necessary activities. the conservation of fish in the Columbia River Basin in accordance with law.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1946—Act , struck out requirement to maintain conservation devices, etc.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior and prior transfers, see note set out under section 755 of this title.

Credits

1938–1970 · 4 acts
  1. 1938May 11, 1938, ch. 193, § 2, 52 Stat. 345
  2. 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433
  3. 1946Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 883, § 1, 60 Stat. 932
  4. 19701970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.
Show as published

(May 11, 1938, ch. 193, § 2, 52 Stat. 345; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 883, § 1, 60 Stat. 932; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

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