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[CITE: 16USC742d-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                  CHAPTER 9--FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
 
Sec. 742d-1. Studies of effects in use of chemicals

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized and directed to undertake comprehensive continuing studies on 
the effects of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides, upon 
the fish and wildlife resources of the United States, for the purpose of 
determining the amounts, percentages, and formulations of such chemicals 
that are lethal to or injurious to fish and wildlife and the amounts, 
percentages, mixtures, or formulations that can be used safely, and 
thereby prevent losses of fish and wildlife from such spraying, dusting, 
or other treatment.

(Pub. L. 85-582, Sec. 1, Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 479; 1970 Reorg. Plan 
No. 3, Sec. 2(a)(2)(i), eff. Dec. 2, 1970, 35 F.R. 15623, 84 Stat. 
2086.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency'' substituted 
in text for ``Secretary of the Interior'' pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 3 
of 1970, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees, which abolished the Federal Water Quality Administration in 
Department of the Interior and transferred to Administrator of 
Environmental Protection Agency all functions vested in Secretary of the 
Interior by this section.


                             Appropriations

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 85-582, Aug. 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 479, as amended 
by Pub. L. 86-279, Sept. 16, 1959, 73 Stat. 563; Pub. L. 89-232, Oct. 1, 
1965, 79 Stat. 902; Pub. L. 90-394, July 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 338, 
provided that: ``In order to carry out the provisions of this Act [this 
section], there is authorized to be appropriated $3,500,000 for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and for each of the two fiscal years 
immediately following such year. Such sums shall remain available until 
expended.''
