16 U.S.C. § 669i
Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
16 U.S.C. § 669i
EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONSReorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.
- Secretary
- the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior;
- conservation
- the term "conservation" means the use of methods and procedures necessary or desirable to sustain healthy populations of wildlife, including all activities associated with scientific resources management such as research, census, monitoring of populations, acquisition, improvement and management of habitat, live trapping and transplantation, wildlife damage management, and periodic or total protection of a species or population, as well as the taking of individuals within wildlife stock or population if permitted by applicable State and Federal law;
- wildlife
- the term "wildlife" means any species of wild, free-ranging fauna including fish, and also fauna in captive breeding programs the object of which is to reintroduce individuals of a depleted indigenous species into previously occupied range;