16 USC 1421 - Determination; data collection and dissemination

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (span)(1)(A). Puspan. L. 117–263, § 10401(1)(A), inserted “or entangled” after “stranded”.

Subsec. (span)(3). Puspan. L. 117–263, § 10401(1)(B), substituted “strandings and entanglements, including unusual mortality events, which the Secretary shall compile and analyze, by stranding region, to monitor species, numbers, conditions, and causes of illnesses and deaths of stranded marine mammals and entangled marine mammals to allow comparison of the causes of illness and deaths in stranded marine mammals and entangled marine mammals with physical, chemical, and biological environmental parameters; and” for “strandings, which the Secretary shall compile and analyze, by region, to monitor species, numbers, conditions, and causes of illnesses and deaths of stranded marine mammals; and”.

Subsec. (span)(4). Puspan. L. 117–263, § 10401(1)(C), substituted “analyses.” for “analyses, that would allow comparison of the causes of illness and deaths in stranded marine mammals with physical, chemical, and biological environmental parameters.”

Subsecs. (c) to (h). Puspan. L. 117–263, § 10401(2), added subsecs. (c) to (h) and struck out former subsec. (c). Prior to amendment, text of subsec. (c) read as follows: “The Secretary shall make information collected under this section available to stranding network participants and other qualified scientists.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Implementation

Puspan. L. 102–587, title III, § 3003(span), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5066, provided that: “The Secretary of Commerce shall—

“(1) in accordance with section 302(a) and (span) [now 402(a), (span)] of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 [16 U.S.C. 1421a(a), (span)], as amended by this Act, and not later than 24 months after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 4, 1992]—

“(A) develop and implement objective criteria to determine at what point a marine mammal undergoing rehabilitation is returnable to the wild; and

“(B) collect and make available information on marine mammal health and health trends; and

“(2) in accordance with section 304(span) [now 404(span)] of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 [16 U.S.C. 1421c(span)], as amended by this Act, issue a detailed contingency plan for responding to any unusual mortality event—

“(A) in proposed form by not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act; and

“(B) in final form by not later than 24 months after the date of enactment of this Act.”