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[CITE: 16USC1202]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
 CHAPTER 25--JELLYFISH OR SEA NETTLES, OTHER SUCH PESTS, AND SEAWEED IN 
                 COASTAL WATERS: CONTROL OR ELIMINATION
 
Sec. 1202. Authority of Secretary; studies, research, and 
        investigations; control measures; execution of program; other 
        actions; costs
        
    In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the Secretary, in 
cooperation with the States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is 
authorized (1) to conduct, directly or by contract, such studies, 
research, and investigations, as he deems desirable, to determine the 
abundance and distribution of jellyfish and other such pests and their 
effects on fish and shellfish and water-based recreation, (2) to conduct 
studies of control measures of such pests and of floating seaweed, (3) 
to carry out, based on studies made pursuant to this chapter, a program 
of controlling or eliminating such pests and such seaweed, and (4) to 
take such other actions as the Secretary deems desirable: Provided, That 
the costs of such actions shall be borne equally by the Federal 
Government and by the States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, acting 
jointly or severally.

(Pub. L. 89-720, Sec. 2, Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1149.)
