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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 Secre- 
tary 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 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 coordi- 
nated with the 1976 Act by amending it to refer to the appro- 
priate regional councils. 
Congress might want to consider reorganization and recodi- 
fication of the research laws, clearly setting out duties and 
powers. 
B. Conservation measures 
While there does not appear to be much inconsistency or 
overlapping among the conservation-related laws, a few should 
be mentioned: 
(1) 26 -UsS 2G. §755 .and 16.U.8.C., ,§1221, et 4seqg..», overlap 
to the extent that section 755 makes for the Columbia River 
Basin the specific provision that section 1221 makes generally 
applicable to the Nation's entire estuary system. 
(2) 16 U.S.C. §§757a and b authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior (apparently transferred to Commerce), in cooperation 
with the States, to undertake conservation measures with regard 
to anadromous fisheries, while 16 U.S.C. §1221 et seqg., directs 
the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the States, 
to take conservation measures with regard to resources in the 
estuaries of the U.S. Since anadromous fisheries are present in 
some U.S. estuaries, management functions potentially overlap 
between the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior. Congress might 
want to reconcile this by qualifying 16 U.S.C. §1221 et seg. to 
exclude regulation of anadromous fisheries, thus consolidating 
the functions in the Secretary of Commerce. It has already been 
suggested that Congress might want to consider transferring 
Management of the estuaries, to the extent it affects fisheries, 
to the Secretary of Commerce. 
