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[CITE: 16USC1421d]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                  CHAPTER 31--MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION
 
        SUBCHAPTER V--MARINE MAMMAL HEALTH AND STRANDING RESPONSE
 
Sec. 1421d. Unusual mortality event activity funding


(a) Establishment of Fund

    There is established in the Treasury an interest bearing fund to be 
known as the ``Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund'', which shall 
consist of amounts deposited into the Fund under subsection (c) of this 
section.

(b) Uses

                           (1) In general

        Amounts in the Fund--
            (A) shall be available only for use by the Secretary, in 
        consultation with the Secretary of the Interior--
                (i) to compensate persons for special costs incurred in 
            acting in accordance with the contingency plan issued under 
            section 1421c(b) of this title or under the direction of an 
            Onsite Coordinator for an unusual mortality event;
                (ii) for reimbursing any stranding network participant 
            for costs incurred in preparing and transporting tissues 
            collected with respect to an unusual mortality event for the 
            Tissue Bank; and
                (iii) for care and maintenance of marine mammal seized 
            under section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title; and

            (B) shall remain available until expended.

                         (2) Pending claims

        If sufficient amounts are not available in the Fund to satisfy 
    any authorized pending claim, such claim shall remain pending until 
    such time as sufficient amounts are available. All authorized 
    pending claims shall be satisfied in the order received.

(c) Deposits into Fund

    There shall be deposited into the Fund--
        (1) amounts appropriated to the Fund;
        (2) other amounts appropriated to the Secretary for use with 
    respect to unusual mortality events; and
        (3) amounts received by the United States in the form of gifts, 
    devises, and bequests under subsection (d) of this section.

(d) Acceptance of donations

    For purposes of carrying out this subchapter and section 
1374(c)(2)(D) of this title, the Secretary may accept, solicit, and use 
the services of volunteers, and may accept, solicit, receive, hold, 
administer, and use gifts, devises, and bequests.

(Pub. L. 92-522, title IV, Sec. 405, formerly title III, Sec. 305, as 
added Pub. L. 102-587, title III, Sec. 3003(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 
5064; renumbered title IV, Sec. 405, and amended Pub. L. 103-238, 
Secs. 6, 16(b), 24(b), (c)(2), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 542, 559, 565, 
566.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-238, Sec. 16(b), substituted ``an 
interest bearing fund'' for ``a fund''.
    Subsec. (b)(1)(A)(i). Pub. L. 103-238, Sec. 24(c)(2), made technical 
amendment to reference to section 1421c(b) of this title to reflect 
renumbering of corresponding section of original act.
    Subsec. (b)(1)(A)(iii). Pub. L. 103-238, Sec. 6(1), added cl. (iii).
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103-238, Sec. 6(2), inserted ``and section 
1374(c)(2)(D) of this title''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1421g, 1421h of this title.
