§ 750. — Station on Mississippi River for rescue of fishes and propagation of mussels.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC750]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 9--FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Sec. 750. Station on Mississippi River for rescue of fishes and
propagation of mussels
There shall be established on the Mississippi River, at a point to
be selected by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of
Commerce, as appropriate, a station for the rescue of fishes and the
propagation of mussels in connection with fish-rescue operations
throughout the Mississippi Valley.
(Apr. 28, 1922, ch. 153, Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 501; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II,
Sec. 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; 1940 Reorg.
Plan No. III, Sec. 3, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232.)
Transfer of Functions
Secretary of Commerce also empowered to carry out statutory
provisions in view of: creation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration in Department of Commerce and Office of Administrator of
such Administration; abolition of Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in
Department of the Interior and Office of Director of such Bureau;
transfer of marine sport fish program of Bureau of Sport Fisheries and
Wildlife; and certain transfers of functions, including functions
formerly vested by law in Secretary of the Interior or Department of the
Interior which were administered through Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
or were primarily related to such Bureau, exclusive of certain
enumerated functions with respect to Great Lakes fishery research,
Missouri River Reservoir research, Gulf Breeze Biological Laboratory,
and Trans-Alaska pipeline investigations by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970,
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix
to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5.
Transfer and consolidation of bureaus and functions, see note set
out under section 742 of this title.
