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[CITE: 16USC665]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
           CHAPTER 5A--PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--GAME, FUR-BEARING ANIMALS, AND FISH
 
Sec. 665. Investigations as to effect of sewage, industrial 
        wastes; reports
        
    The Secretary of the Interior, through the Fish and Wildlife Service 
and the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized to make such 
investigations as he deems necessary to determine the effects of 
domestic sewage, mine, petroleum, and industrial wastes, erosion silt, 
and other polluting substances on wildlife, and to make reports to the 
Congress concerning such investigations and of recommendations for 
alleviating dangerous and undesirable effects of such pollution. These 
investigations shall include (1) the determination of standards of water 
quality for the maintenance of wildlife; (2) the study of methods of 
abating and preventing pollution, including methods for the recovery of 
useful or marketable products and byproducts of wastes; and (3) the 
collation and distribution of data on the progress and results of such 
investigations for the use of Federal, State, municipal, and private 
agencies, individuals, organizations, or enterprises.

(Mar. 10, 1934, ch. 55, Sec. 5, 48 Stat. 402; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, 
Sec. 3, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; Aug. 14, 1946, 
ch. 965, 60 Stat. 1080; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 
Stat. 172.)


                               Amendments

    1946--Act Aug. 14, 1946, amended section generally to provide for 
investigations as to the effect of sewage and industrial waste on 
wildlife.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States Bureau of Mines'' substituted in text for ``Bureau 
of Mines'' pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a 
note under section 1 of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.

                          Transfer of Functions

    See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 661 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 757f of this title; title 33 
section 1444.
