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other circumstances or persons shall not be affected 

 thereby." 



§971a. Commissioners. 



(a) The United States shall be represented by not 

 more than three Commissioners who sliall serve as 

 delegates of the United States on the Commission, 

 and who may serve on the Council and Panels of 

 the Commission as provided for in the Convention. 

 Such Commissioners shall be appointed by and serve 

 at the pleasure of the President. Not more than one 

 such Commissioner shall be a salaried employee of 

 any State or political subdivision thereof, or the 

 Federal Government. The Commissioners shall be 

 entitled to select a Chairman and to adopt such rules 

 of procedure as they find necessary. 



(b> The Secretary of State, in consultation with 

 the Secretary, may designate from time to time and 

 for periods of time deemed appropriate Alternate 

 United States Commissioners to the Commission. 

 Any Alternate United States Commissioner may ex- 

 ercise at any meeting of the Commission, Council, 

 any Panel, or the advisory committee established 

 pursuant to section 971b of this title, all powers and 

 duties of a United States Commissioner in the ab- 

 sence of any Commissioner appointed pursuant to 

 subsection (a) of this section for whatever reason. 

 The number of such Alternate United States Com- 

 missioners that may be designated for any such 

 meeting shall be limited to the number of United 

 States Commissioners appointed pursuant to sub- 

 section (a) of this section who will not be present 

 at such meeting. 



(c) The United States Commissioners or Alternate 

 Commissioners, although officers of the United 

 States while so serving, shall receive no compensa- 

 tion for their services as such Commissioners or 

 Alternate Commissioners. ^Pub. L. 94-70, § 3, Aug. 5, 

 1975, 89 Stat. 385.) 



§971b. Advisory committee. 



The United States Commissioners shall appoint 

 an advisory committee which shall be composed of 

 not less than five nor more than twenty individuals 

 who shall be selected from the various groups con- 

 cerned with the fisheries covered by the Convention. 

 Each member of the advisory committee shall serve 

 for a term of two years and be eligible for reappoint- 

 ment. Members of the advisory committee may at- 

 tend all public meetings of the Commission, Council, 

 or any Panel and any other meetings to which they 

 are invited by the Commission, Council, or any Panel. 

 The advisory committee shall be invited to attend all 

 nonexecutive meetings of the United States Commis- 

 sioners and at such meetings shall be given oppor- 

 tunity to examine and to be heard on all proposed 

 programs of investigation, reports, recommendations, 

 and regulations of the Commission. Members of the 

 advisory committee shall receive no compensation 

 for their services as such members. On approval by 

 the United States Commissioners — 



(1) if not more than three members of the 

 advisory committee are designated by the commit- 

 tee to attend any meeting of the Commission, 

 Council, or advisory committee, or of any Panel, 

 each of such members shall be paid for his actual 



transportation expenses and per diem incident to 

 his attendance; and 



(2) in any case in which more than three mem- 

 bers are designated by the advisory committee to 

 attend any such meeting, each such member to 

 whom paragraph ( 1 ) does not apply may be paid 

 for his actual transportation expenses and per 

 diem incident to his attendance. 

 iPub. L. 94-70, § 4, Aug. 5, 1975, 89 Stat. 386.) 

 Section Referred to in Other Sections 

 This section Is referred to In section 971a of this title. 



§971c. Authority of Secretary of State; cooperative 

 enforcement agreements. 



(a) The Secretary of State is authorized to receive 

 on behalf of the United States, reports, requests, and 

 other communications of the Commission, and to act 

 thereon directly or by reference to the appropriate 

 authorities. The Secretary of State, with the concur- 

 rence of the Secretary and, for matters relating to 

 enforcement, the Secretary of the department in 

 which the Coast Guard is operating, is authorized to 

 take appropriate action on behalf of the United 

 States with regard to recommendations received 

 from the Commission pursuant to article VIII of the 

 Convention. The Secretary and. when appropriate, 

 the Secretary of the department in which the Coast 

 Guard is operating, shall inform the Secretary of 

 State as to what action he considers appropriate 

 within five months of the date of the notification of 

 the recommendation from the Commission, and 

 again within forty-five days of the additional sixty- 

 day period provided by the Convention if any objec- 

 tion is presented by another contracting party to 

 the Convention, or within thirty days of the date of 

 the notification of an objection made within the ad- 

 ditional sixty-day period, whichever date shall be 

 the later. After any notification from the Commis- 

 sion that an objection of the United States is to be 

 considered as having no effect, the Secretary shall 

 inform the Secretary of State as to what action he 

 considers appropriate within forty-five day.s of the 

 sixty-day period provided by the Convention for 

 reaffirming objections. The Secretary of State shall 

 take steps under the Convention to insure that a 

 recommendation pursuant to article VIII of the Con- 

 vention does not become effective for the United 

 States prior to its becoming effective for all con- 

 tracting parties conducting fisheries affected by such 

 recommendation on a meaningful scale in terms of 

 their effect upon the success of the conservation pro- 

 gram, unless he determines, with the concurrence of 

 the Secretary, and, for matters relating to enforce- 

 ment, the Secretary of the department in which the 

 Coast Guard is operating, that the purposes of the 

 Convention would be served by allowing a recom- 

 mendation to take effect for the United States at 

 Fome earlier time. 



(b) The Secretary of State, in consultation with 

 the Secretary and the Secretary of the department in 

 which the Coast Guard is operating, is authorized to 

 enter into agreements with any contracting party, 

 pursuant to paragraph 3 of article DC of the Con- 

 vention, relating to cooperative enforcement of the 

 provisions of the Convention, recommendations in 

 force for the United States and such party or parties 



