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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 9A — Preservation of Fishery Resources

§ 757f. Studies on pollution; recommendations to Secretary of Health and Human Services

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior shall, on the basis of studies carried out pursuant to sections 757a to 757f of this title and section 665 of this title, make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services concerning the elimination or reduction of polluting substances detrimental to fish and wildlife in interstate or navigable waters or the tributaries thereof. Such recommendations and any enforcement measures initiated pursuant thereto by the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall be designed to enhance the quality of such waters, and shall take into consideration all other legitimate uses of such waters.

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. 89–304 § 6 · 79 Stat. 1125

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 757f

    Pub. L. 89–304, § 6, Oct. 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 1126

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 89–304, § 6, Oct. 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 1126

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Interior shall, on the basis of studies carried out pursuant to this Act and section 5 of the Fish and Wildlife 60 Stat. 1081. Coordination Act (48 Stat. 402), as amended (16 U.S.C. 665), make recommendations to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare concerning the elimination or reduction of polluting substances detrimental to fish and wildlife in interstate or navigable waters or the tributaries thereof. Such recommendations and any enforcement measures initiated pursuant thereto by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall be designed to enhance the quality of such waters, and shall take into consideration all other legitimate uses of such waters.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, see note set out under section 755 of this title.

Credits

1965–1979 · 2 acts
  1. 1965Pub. L. 89–304, § 6, , 79 Stat. 1126
  2. 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
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(Pub. L. 89–304, § 6, , 79 Stat. 1126; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)

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