2020 US Code
Title 16 - Conservation
Chapter 9A - Preservation of Fishery Resources
Sec. 758d - Pacific Ocean activities; future appropriations

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time in fiscal years after 1947—1948 such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of Commerce to carry out the purposes of sections 758 to 758d of this title, including personal services, traveling expenses, transportation of things, purchase, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles, miscellaneous equipment, and supplies, communications, other contractual services, necessary printing locally, and maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of vessels and buildings or other structures.

(Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 451, §6, 61 Stat. 726; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

Words "personal services, traveling expenses, transportation of things, purchase, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles, miscellaneous equipment, and supplies, communications, other contractual services, necessary printing locally, and maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of vessels and buildings or other structures", appearing in text, were inserted in place of words "all the classes of expenditures enumerated in the foregoing section". The "foregoing section" referred to section 5 of Act Aug. 4, 1947, which is set out as a note under this section.

Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section 758a of this title.

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Section 5 of act Aug. 4, 1947, authorized appropriation of additional sums for expenses during the fiscal year 1947–1948 to carry out the purposes of sections 758 to 758d of this title.