§ 1008. — Notification of Secretary of the Interior of approval of assistance; surveys and investigations; report and recommendations; consideration; cost of surveys, investigations and reports.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC1008]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 18--WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FLOOD PREVENTION
Sec. 1008. Notification of Secretary of the Interior of approval
of assistance; surveys and investigations; report and
recommendations; consideration; cost of surveys, investigations
and reports
When the Secretary approves the furnishing of assistance to a local
organization in preparing a plan for works of improvement as provided
for in section 1003 of this title:
(1) The Secretary shall so notify the Secretary of the Interior in
order that the latter, as he desires, may make surveys and
investigations and prepare a report with recommendations concerning the
conservation and development of wildlife resources and participate,
under arrangements satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture, in the
preparation of a plan for works of improvement that is acceptable to the
local organization and the Secretary of Agriculture.
(2) Full consideration shall be given to the recommendations
contained in any such report of the Secretary of the Interior as he may
submit to the Secretary of Agriculture prior to the time the local
organization and the Secretary of Agriculture have agreed on a plan for
works of improvement. The plan shall include such of the technically and
economically feasible works of improvement for wildlife purposes
recommended in the report by the Secretary of the Interior as are
acceptable to, and agreed to by, the local organization and the
Secretary of Agriculture, and such report of the Secretary of the
Interior shall, if requested by the Secretary of the Interior, accompany
the plan for works of improvement when it is submitted to the Secretary
of Agriculture for approval or transmitted to the Congress through the
President.
(3) The cost of making surveys and investigations and of preparing
reports concerning the conservation and development of wildlife
resources shall be borne by the Secretary of the Interior out of funds
appropriated to his Department.
(Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, Sec. 12, as added Pub. L. 85-624, Sec. 3, Aug.
12, 1958, 72 Stat. 567.)
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other
official in Department of Agriculture under this chapter to Federal
Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas
Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy,
see note set out under section 1002 of this title.
