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[CITE: 33USC858]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 858. Rules and regulations when cooperating with military 
        departments
        
    The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce shall jointly 
prescribe regulations governing the duties to be performed by the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in time of war, and for 
the cooperation of that service with the military departments in time of 
peace in preparation for its duties in war, which regulations shall not 
be effective unless approved by each of those Secretaries, and included 
therein may be rules and regulations for making reports and 
communications between a military department and the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration.

(May 22, 1917, ch. 20, Sec. 16, 40 Stat. 88; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 
title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. July 
13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; Pub. L. 89-657, Sec. 1(2), Oct. 
14, 1966, 80 Stat. 907; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 
F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

                          Codification

    Section is part of section 16 of act May 22, 1917. Section 16 is 
also classified to sections 854, 855, 856 and 857 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1966--Pub. L. 89-657 substituted the Secretary of Defense for the 
Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary 
designated to prescribe regulations jointly with the Secretary of 
Commerce, the Environmental Science Services Administration for the 
Coast and Geodetic Survey as the agency involved, and the military 
departments for the Department of the Army and the Navy Department as 
the departments with which the Environmental Science Services 
Administration shall cooperate.

                         Change of Name

    The Department of War was designated the Department of the Army and 
the title of the Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army 
by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. 
Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act 
Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, 
enacted ``Title 10, Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 
continued the Department of the Army under the administrative 
supervision of a Secretary of the Army.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Coast and Geodetic Survey consolidated with Weather Bureau to form a 
new agency in Department of Commerce to be known as Environmental 
Science Services Administration, and commissioned officers of Survey 
transferred to ESSA, by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 13, 1965, 
30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out as a note under section 851 of this 
title. The Reorg. Plan also transferred to Secretary of Commerce all 
functions of Coast and Geodetic Survey and Director of Survey. 
Subsequently, Environmental Science Services Administration abolished, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established, and 
Commissioned Officer Corps of ESSA redesignated Commissioned Officer 
Corps of NOAA by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 
15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees. For further details, see note set out under 
section 851 of this title.


                   Termination of War and Emergencies

    Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, Sec. 3, 61 Stat. 451, provided 
that in the interpretation of sections 855, 856, 857, and 858 of this 
title, the date July 25, 1947, shall be deemed to be the date of 
termination of any state of war theretofore declared by the Congress and 
of the national emergencies proclaimed by the President on Sept. 8, 
1939, and May 27, 1941.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 854a-1 of this title.
