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[CITE: 16USC756]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
              CHAPTER 9A--PRESERVATION OF FISHERY RESOURCES
 
Sec. 756. Investigations, surveys, and experiments; construction 
        and installation of conservation devices, etc.
        
    The Secretary of Commerce is further authorized and directed (1) to 
conduct such investigations, and such engineering and biological surveys 
and experiments, as may be necessary to direct and facilitate 
conservation of the fishery resources of the Columbia River and its 
tributaries; (2) to construct and install devices in the Columbia River 
Basin for the improvement of feeding and spawning conditions for fish, 
for the protection of migratory fish from irrigation projects, and for 
facilitating free migration of fish over obstructions; and (3) to 
perform all other activities necessary for the conservation of fish in 
the Columbia River Basin in accordance with law.

(May 11, 1938, ch. 193, Sec. 2, 52 Stat. 345; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Aug. 8, 1946, 
ch. 883, Sec. 1, 60 Stat. 932; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 
1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)


                               Amendments

    1946--Act Aug. 8, 1946, struck out requirement to maintain 
conservation devices, etc.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the 
Interior and prior transfers, see note set out under section 755 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 755, 757, 757e of this 
title.
