APPENDIX ITI APPENDIX II 
Fisheries and all functions of the Secretary of the Interior 
that previously were administered by the Bureau to the Secretary 
of Commerce. Four specific exceptions were made for interior 
waters that remained under the auspices of the Department of the 
Interior: Great Lakes fishery research, Missouri River research, 
research relating to the Gulf Breeze Biological Laboratory, and 
matters concerning the trans-Alaska pipeline investigations. 
The Secretary of Commerce was also given those responsibil- 
ities relating to migratory marine species of game fish. 16 
U.S.C. §760e-760g. Along the same lines, Marine Resource Develop- 
ment Programs previously carried out under the direction of the 
National Science Foundation were also transferred to NOAA, under 
the direction of the Secretary of Commerce. 33 U.S.C. §1121 
et seg. 
One difficult problem in the administration and control 
area iS ascertaining whether certain statutes are to be admin- 
istered by the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary of the 
Interior. Very few provisions of the United States Code have 
been amended to reflect the transfer of functions beyond the 
addition of a footnote to the section itself. The body of law 
still reads that the authority is in the Secretary of the Interior. 
As a result, it is often difficult to determine from the statute 
alone, and in some cases even by reference to the Reorganization 
Plan itself, whether the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary 
of the Interior is responsible for administration of the statutory 
duties. 
Two examples in particular point out this problem. 16 U.S.C. 
§742e (§6 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956) provides: 
"There shall be transferred to the Secre- 
tary [of Interior] all functions of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Commerce, and the head of any other Depart- 
ment or agency, aS determined by the director 
of the Office of Management and Budget to 
relate primarily to the development, advance- 
ment, management, conservation and protection 
of commercial fisheries; * * *" 
Only in the historical note at the end of the provision is it 
stated that these powers have now been transferred to the Secre- 
tary of Commerce. 
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