Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 15C — Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank
§ 943. Tissue bank
Statutory text
In general
The Secretary shall coordinate existing facilities for the storage, preparation, examination, and archiving of tissues from selected Great Lakes fish and wildlife, which shall be known as the “Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank”.
Guidance
The Secretary shall, in consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies and the Council of Great Lakes Research Managers, issue guidance, after an opportunity for public review and comment, for Great Lakes fish and wildlife tissue collection, preparation, archiving, quality control procedures, and access that will ensure—
appropriate uniform methods and standards for those activities to provide confidence in Great Lakes fish and wildlife tissue samples used for research;
documentation of procedures used for collecting, preparing, and archiving those samples; and
appropriate scientific use of the tissues in the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank.
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.
The Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank Act
Pub. L. 102–440 title II § 202 · 106 Stat. 2224
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 943
(Pub. L. 102–440, title II, § 202, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2233.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 102–440, title II, § 202, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2233.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 202. TISSUE BANK (a) In General.— The Secretary shall coordinate existing facilities for the storage, preparation, examination, and archiving of tissues from selected Great Lakes fish and wildlife, which shall be known as the “Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank”. (b) Guidance.— The Secretary shall, in consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies and the Council of Great Lakes Research Managers, issue guidance, after an opportunity for public review and comment, for Great Lakes fish and wildlife tissue collection, preparation, archiving, quality control procedures, and access that will ensure— (1) appropriate uniform methods and standards for those activities to provide confidence in Great Lakes fish and wildlife tissue samples used for research; (2) documentation of procedures used for collecting, preparing, and archiving those samples; and (3) appropriate scientific use of the tissues in the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank.
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 102–440, title II, § 201, , 106 Stat. 2233, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter] may be cited as ‘The Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank Act’.”