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to fisheries. Perhaps section 94 should be amended to preclude 
the Coast Guard from doing any research related to fisheries 
that the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to pursue. The 
Commission on Marine Science, Engineering, and Resources is 
also directed to do oceanographic research under 33 U.S.C. §1104. 
Several statutes--l6 U.S.C. §§742d-1 and 665 and 33 U.S.C. 
§§1441 and 1442--overlap in dealing with research on the effects 
of pollution and other environmental factors on fish. It might 
be appropriate to combine these into one statute providing for 
one or more research programs to be conducted by the Administrator 
of EPA. 
Section 304(e) of the 1976 Act encompasses several other 
research statutes--16 U.S.C. §§742d, 744, 758a and 33 U.S.C. 
§§1441, 1442. Section 304(e) might be a good place in which to 
centralize research laws. 
In addition to overlaps and inconsistencies, the problem 
of determining whether a statute is to be administered by the 
Secretary of Commerce or by the Secretary of the Interior exists 
among “research statutes. For example, 16 U.S.C. §742d(5), directs 
the Secretary of the Interior to collect statistics on the nature 
and availability of wildlife and it is not clear whether the 
Secretary of Commerce may be authorized by this section to collect 
certain statistics. Although most of the research called for by 
section 742d appears, under the Reorganization Plan, to be the 
responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce, the statute makes 
reference only to the Secretary of Interior. 
Another problem area, alluded to above, has resulted from 
the relatively recent enactment of the Fish Conservation and 
Management Act of 1976. The problem is to properly coordinate 
existing laws with the 1976 Act. Section 760a of Title 16, which 
provides for certain studies to recommend to the States measures 
to be taken to protect and develop fish resources, could be 
coordinated with the 1976 Act by amending it to refer to the 
appropriate regional councils. These problems will be discussed 
more generally below. 
Congress might want to consider reorganization and recodifi- 
cation of the research laws, clearly setting out duties and powers. 
The second category of statutes dealing with protection 
of the resource is conservation. Conservation statutes include 
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