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[CITE: 16USC1382]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                  CHAPTER 31--MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION
 
      SUBCHAPTER II--CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF MARINE MAMMALS
 
Sec. 1382. Regulations and administration


(a) Consultation with Federal agencies

    The Secretary, in consultation with any other Federal agency to the 
extent that such agency may be affected, shall prescribe such 
regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes 
of this subchapter.

(b) Cooperation by Federal agencies

    Each Federal agency is authorized and directed to cooperate with the 
Secretary, in such manner as may be mutually agreeable, in carrying out 
the purposes of this subchapter.

(c) Contracts, leases, and cooperative agreements

    The Secretary may enter into such contracts, leases, cooperative 
agreements, or other transactions as may be necessary to carry out the 
purposes of this subchapter or subchapter V of this chapter and on such 
terms as he deems appropriate with any Federal or State agency, public 
or private institution, or other person.

(d) Annual review; suspension of program

    The Secretary shall review annually the operation of each program in 
which the United States participates involving the taking of marine 
mammals on lands. If at any time the Secretary finds that any such 
program cannot be administered on lands owned by the United States or in 
which the United States has an interest in a manner consistent with the 
purposes of policies of this chapter, he shall suspend the operation of 
that program and shall include in the annual report to the public and 
the Congress required under section 1373(f) of this title his reasons 
for such suspension, together with recommendations for such legislation 
as he deems necessary and appropriate to resolve the problem.

(e) Measures to alleviate impacts on strategic stocks

    If the Secretary determines, based on a stock assessment under 
section 1386 of this title or other significant new information obtained 
under this chapter, that impacts on rookeries, mating grounds, or other 
areas of similar ecological significance to marine mammals may be 
causing the decline or impeding the recovery of a strategic stock, the 
Secretary may develop and implement conservation or management measures 
to alleviate those impacts. Such measures shall be developed and 
implemented after consultation with the Marine Mammal Commission and the 
appropriate Federal agencies and after notice and opportunity for public 
comment.

(Pub. L. 92-522, title I, Sec. 112, Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1042; Pub. 
L. 96-470, title II, Sec. 201(e), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2241; Pub. L. 
102-587, title III, Sec. 3004(a)(3), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5067; Pub. 
L. 103-238, Secs. 7(a), 24(c)(11), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 542, 566.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-238, Sec. 24(c)(11), made technical 
amendment to reference to subchapter V of this chapter to reflect 
renumbering of corresponding title of original act.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103-238, Sec. 7(a), added subsec. (e).
    1992--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102-587 inserted ``or subchapter V of 
this chapter'' after ``of this subchapter''.
    1980--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 96-470 substituted ``include in the 
annual report to the public and the Congress required under section 
1373(f) of this title'' for ``forthwith submit to Congress''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1371, 1379, 1421b, 1421e, 
1421h of this title.
