§ 743a. — Detail of personnel and loan of equipment to Director of Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC743a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 9--FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Sec. 743a. Detail of personnel and loan of equipment to Director
of Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
(a) ``Agency'' defined
As used in this section, the term ``agency'' means the department in
which the Coast Guard is operating, the Department of the Army, the
Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Atomic
Energy Commission, and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
(b) Personnel and equipment available
The chief executive officer of each agency may from time to time--
(i) detail from the agency for duty under the Director of the
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the Interior,
such commissioned and enlisted personnel and civilian employees as
may be spared for such duty; and
(ii) consonant with the operational needs of the agency, loan
equipment of the agency to the Director.
(c) Reports to Congress
The Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service shall
make a report to Congress at the end of any fiscal year that the
provisions of this section are utilized, which describes the use of the
provisions of this section, and the additional cost, if any, to the
Federal Government resulting therefrom. Such report shall be referred in
the Senate to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and
in the House of Representatives to the Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries.
(Mar. 3, 1885, ch. 360, Sec. 1(2), as added Pub. L. 93-280, Sec. 1(3),
May 10, 1974, 88 Stat. 123; amended Pub. L. 96-470, title II,
Sec. 206(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2244; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(t),
Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4587.)
References in Text
The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, referred to in subsec.
(b), was replaced and succeeded by the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service. See section 742b(c) of this title.
Amendments
1994--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation'' for ``Committee on Commerce''.
1980--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 96-470 substituted provision requiring
that a report to Congress be made at the end of any fiscal year that
provisions of this section are utilized for provision requiring an
annual report to Congress be made on utilization of the provisions of
this section and struck out ``annual'' before ``report shall be''.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the
Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of
Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security,
and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d),
552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of
Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified,
set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by
sections 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. See
also Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections.
Abolition of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of
Representatives abolished and its jurisdiction transferred by House
Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Jan. 4, 1995. Committee
on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of Representatives treated as
referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives in case
of provisions relating to fisheries, wildlife, international fishing
agreements, marine affairs (including coastal zone management) except
for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters, or
oceanography by section 1(b)(3) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
