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Chance of Name 

 The Bureau of the Budget was designated the Office of 

 Management and Budget and the offices of Director of the 

 Bureau of the Budget, Deputy Director of the Bureau of 

 the Budget, and Assistant Directors of the Bureau of the 

 Budget were designated Director of the Office of Manage- 

 ment and Budget, Deputy Director of the Office of Man- 

 agement and Budget, and Assistant Directors of the Office 

 of Management and Budget, respectively, by Reorg. Plan 

 No 2 of 1970, eir. July 1. 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2086, 

 set out In the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organiza- 

 tion and. Employees, which also transferred all records, 

 property, personnel, and funds of the Bureau to the 

 Office of Management and Budget. 



§ 742f. Policies, procedures, and recommendations. 



(a) The Secretary of the Interior, with such 

 advice and assistance as he may require from the 

 Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, shall con- 

 sider and determine the policies and procedures that 

 are necessary and desirable in carrying out effi- 

 ciently and in the public Interest the laws relating 

 to, fish and wildlife. The Secretary, with the 

 assistance of the departmental staff herein 

 authorized, shall — 



(1) develop and recommend measures which 

 are appropriate to assure the maximum sustain- 

 able production of fish and fishery products and 

 to prevent unnecessary and excessive fluctuations 

 in such production; 



(2) study the economic condition of the In- 

 dustry, and whenever he determines that any seg- 

 ment of the domestic fisheries has been seriously 

 disturbed either by wide fluctuation in the abun- 

 dance of the resource supporting it, or by imstable 

 market or fishing conditions or due to any other 

 factors he shall. make such recommendations to 

 the President and the Congress as he deems ap- 

 propriate to aid in stabilizing the domestic 

 fisheries; 



(3) develop and recommend special promo- 

 tional and Informational activities with a view to 

 stimulating the consumption of fishery products 

 whenever he determines that there is a prospec- 

 tive or actual surplus of such products; 



(4) take such steps as may be required for the 

 development, advancement, management, conser- 

 vation, and protection of the fisheries resources; 

 and 



(5) take such steps as may be required for the 

 development, management, advancement, conser- 

 vation, and protection of wildlife resources 

 through research, acquisition of refuge lands, de- 

 velopment of existing facilities, and other means. 



(Aug. 8. 1956, ch. 1036. { 7. 70 Stat. 1122.) 



§ 742b. Cooperation with State Department; repre- 

 sentation at international meetings; consultation*. 



(a) The Secretary shall cooperate to the fullest 

 practicable extent with the Secretarj- of State In 

 providing representation at all meetings and confer- 

 ences relating to fish and wildlife in which repre- 

 sentatives of the United States and foreign countries 

 participate. 



The Secretary of State shall designate the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior or the Assistant Secretary for 



Fish and Wildlife, or a person designated by the 

 Secretary of the Interior to represent the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, as a member of the United 

 States delegation attending such meetings and con- 

 ferences and also as a member of the negotiating 

 team of any such delegation. 



(b) The Secretary of State and all other officials 

 .having responsibilities in the fields of technical and 

 economic aid to foreign nations shall consult with 

 the Secretary in all cases in which the interests of 

 fish and wildlife are involved, with a view to assur- 

 ing that such interests are adequately represented 

 at all times. 



(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 

 the Secretary shall be represented in all interna- 

 tional negotiations conducted by the United States 

 pursuant to section 1351 of Title 19. in any case to 

 which fish products are directly affected by such 

 negotiations. 



'd> The Secretary shall consult periodically with 

 the various governmental, private nonprofit, and 

 other organizations and agencies which have to do 

 with any phase of fish and wildlife with respect to 

 any problems that may arise in connection with 

 such fish and wfldlife. (Aug. 8. 1956, ch. 1036, ( 8. 

 70 Stat. 1123.) 



§742h. Reports to Congress and the President. 



(a) The Secretary of the Interior shall make an 

 annual report to the Congress with respect to activi- 

 ties of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 

 tinder sections 742a to 742d, and 742e to 742J of this 

 title, and shall make such recommendations for 

 additional legislation as he deems necessary. 



(b) The Secretary is authorized to make a report 

 to the President and the Congress, and, when re- 

 quested by the United States Tariff Commission in 

 connection with section 1364 of Title 19, or when 

 an investigation is made under the Tariff Act of 

 1930, the Secretary is authorized to make a report 

 to such Commission, concerning the following mat- 

 ters with respect to any fishery product which is 

 Imported Into the United States, or such reports may 

 be made upon a request from any segment of the 

 domestic industry producing a like or directly com- 

 petitive product — 



(1) whether there has been a downward trend 

 in the production, employment in the production, 

 or prices, or a decline in the sales, of the like or 

 directly competitive product by the domestic in- 

 dustry; and 



(2) whether there has been an increase to the 

 Imports of the fishery products into the United 

 States, either actual or relative to the production 

 of the like or directly competitive product pro- 

 duced by the domestic Industry. 



(Aug. 8, 1956. ch. 1036, § 9. 70 Stat. 1123.) 



§ 742i. Effect on rights of States and international 

 commissions. 



Nothtog to secUons 742a to 742d. and 742e to 742j 

 of this title shall be construed (1) to interfere in any 

 manner with the rights of any State under the Sub- 



