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12. Importation of certain mollusks..

13. National Fisheries Center and Aquarium.......

14. Admission of investigators to Marine Biological Station, Sarasota, Fla..

Fishing Vessels and Fishing:

1. General definition of "vessel”.

2. Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction....

3. Regulation of fishing voyages......

4. Registration of vessels...

5. Licensing of fishing vessels..

6. Construction assistance for fishing vessels

7. Federal ship mortgage insurance..

8. Use of surplus agricultural commodities.

9. Purchase and distribution of surplus fishery products..

10. Loans to fish farmers..

11. Fishermen's cooperative associations..

12. Medical care for seamen....

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13. Attachment of fishermen's wages..

14. Exemption from customs duties of supplies for certain vessels..

15. Increase of duty on importation of fish..

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16. Departure of vessels during a war.

17. Inapplicability to fishing contests of prohibitions on transportation and mailing of lottery tickets, and on broadcasting lottery information__-_18. Great Lakes fishing steamers-persons in addition to crew...

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19. Exemption of fishing vessels from laws governing inspection of steam vessels. 20. Exemption of vessels engaged in fishing as a regular business from certain inspections__

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21. Exemption of fishing vessels from requirement that pursers, surgeons, and nurses be registered......

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22. Transportation of catch of other fishing vessels

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23. Fishing vessels of Alaska, Oregon, and Washington carrying flammable cargo..

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24. Duty of fishing vessels to keep nets from cables..

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25. Load lines for vessels engaged in coast wise trade..

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26. Corporation as "citizen" for purposes of operating U.S. fishing vessels..
27. Fisheries zone contiguous to territorial sea of the United States..
28. Prohibition of foreign fishing vessels in the territorial waters of the United
States..

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29. Retaliation against foreign countries suspending or denying privileges to U.S. vessels..

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30. Privileges of vessels of the United States employed in fisheries; landing of catch by foreign-flag vessels; landing of foreign vessels in Virgin Islands; enrollment.__

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31. Fishing vessels touching and trading at foreign ports.

32. Seizure of vessels of the United States by foreign countries.

33. Exclusion from foreign aid of countries seizing U.S. fishing vessels..

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Fishing Vessels and Fishing-Continued

34. Exemption of fishermen from Fair Labor Standards Act..

35. Sections of Internal Revenue laws expressly related to fishermen or vessels.. General Water Resource Legislation Related to Fish and Wildlife:

1. Federal license of water resource projects; fishways___

2. Fish and wildlife conservation at small watershed projects.

3. Small reclamation projects.

4. Federal Water Project Recreation Act

5. Federal assistance, resource conservation and development projects.

6. Conservation facilities at water resource projects of the Corps of Engineers..

7. Wildlife conservation at water resource projects of the Secretary of the Army-
8. Fishways at rivers and harbor projects. - -

9. Water Bank Act

10. Control of obnoxious plants in navigable waters.

11. Statutes Relating to Specific Reservoirs under jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army:

a. Reservoirs in Mississippi..

b. Demopolis Lock and Dam project_

c. Jim Woodruff Reservoir, Florida and Georgia_

Water Resource Projects Constructed by the Secretary of the Interior:

1. Baker reclamation project, Oregon..

2. Central Valley project, California.

3. Colorado River Storage Project Act_

4. Columbia Basin project__

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20. Garrison diversion unit, Missouri River Basin project, North Dakota-South Dakota_

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21. Mid-State Division, Missouri River Basin Project, Nebraska..

22. Pecos River Basin....

23. Trinity River Division, Central Valley project, Calif.

Other Legislation Related to Fish and Wildlife:

1. Intergovernmental coordination..

2. Highway beautification...

3. Preserve wildlife refuges and maintenance of natural beauty on lands
traversed by highway projects

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3. Special rules for determining capital gains and losses.

1. Pollution control in navigable waters.

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5. Agricultural credit for pollution control.

8. Grants for public works and development facilities.

4. Exchanges in compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission orders__

Water Pollution:

2. Protection of navigable waters..

3. Pollution of the sea by oil..

4. Soil conservation___

6. Cropland adjustment for pollution control.

7. Basic water and sewer facilities.

9. Water pollution control in Appalachia....

Air Pollution:

1. Air pollution prevention and control..

2. Emission standards for moving sources..

3. General provisions..

Solid Waste Management:

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1. Solid Waste Disposal Act----

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Radiation Hazards:

1. Atomic energy, development and control.

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2. Transportation of hazardous materials, including radioactive substances.. 3. Electronic product radiation control..

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FISH AND WILDLIFE, GENERAL

1. Fish and Wildlife Service

16 U.S.C. 742(a)-754

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741, 742. Omitted.

742a. Declaration of policy.

742b. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. (a) Establishment; Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife; Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. (b) Administration and supervision. (c) Functions and responsibilities of Secretary of the Interior.

(d) Distribution of functions, powers and duties of former Fish and Wildlife Service.

(e) Rules and regulations.

(f) Administrative procedures.

742c. Loans for financing or refinancing of cost of purchasing, constructing, equipping, maintaining, repairing, or operating commercial fishing vessels or gear.

(a) Authorization.

(b) Conditions.

(c) Fisheries loan fund; interest payments on appropriations available as capital to the fund less average undispersed cash bal

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(d) Modification of loan contract.

(e) Chartering vessels; loans to Alaskan earthquake victims; termination date. 742d. Investigations; preparation and dissemination of information; reports.

742d-1. Studies of effects in use of chemicals. 742e. Transfer of functions, personnel, property, facilities, records, and funds; cooperation with other governmental agencies.

7421. Policies, procedures, and recommendations. 742g. Cooperation with State Department; representation at international meetings; consultations.

742h. Reports to Congress and the President.

7421. Effect on rights of States and international commissions.

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$$ 741, 742. Omitted.

CODIFICATION

Section 741, R. S. § 4395; act of Jan. 20, 1888, ch. 1, 25 Stat. 1; act of Feb. 27, 1925, ch. 364, 43 Stat. 1046, related to the appointment, etc., of a Commissioner of Fisheries.

Section 742, acts Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, § 1, 36 Stat. 1436; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736, provided for an acting Commissioner of Fisheries.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (e, f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred the Bureau of Fisheries in the Department of Commerce and its functions, and the Bureau of Biological Survey in the Department of Agriculture and its functions, to the Department of the Interior, to be administered under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.

1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 3, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F. R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. It was further provided that the functions of the consolidated agency should be administered under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior by a director and assistants, and that the offices of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries and the offices of Chief and Associate Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey should be abolished and their functions transferred to the consolidated agency.

Ex. ORD. No. 9634.

ESTABLISHMENT OF FISHERY
CONSERVATION ZONES

Ex. Ord. No. 9634, Sept. 28, 1945, 10 F. R. 12305, provided in part:

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time jointly recommend the establishment by Executive orders of fishery conservation zones in areas of the high seas contiguous to the coasts of the United States, pursuant to the proclamation entitled "Policy of the United States With Respect to Coastal Fisheries in Certain Areas of the High Seas" [Proc. No. 2668, Sept. 28, 1945, 10 F. R. 12304], this day signed by me, and said Secretaries shall in each case recommend provisions to be incorporated in such orders relating to the administration, regulation and control of the fishery resources of and fishing activities in such zones, pursuant to authority of law heretofore or hereafter provided.

§ 742a. Declaration of policy.

The Congress declares that the fish, shellfish, and wildlife resources of the Nation make a material contribution to our national economy and food supply, as well as a material contribution to the health, recreation, and well-being of our citizens; that such resources are a living, renewable form of national wealth that is capable of being maintained and greatly increased with proper management, but

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