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16 U.S.C. § 1421d — Unusual mortality event activity funding
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**(a) Establishment of Fund** There is established in the Treasury an interest bearing fund to be known as the “Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund”, which shall consist of amounts deposited into the Fund under subsection (c).
**(b) Uses** Amounts in the Fund shall be available only for use by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, and dispersed among claimants based on budgets approved by the Secretary prior to expenditure—
(1) to make advance, partial, or progress payments under contracts or other funding mechanisms for property, supplies, salaries, services, and travel costs incurred in acting in accordance with the contingency plan issued under [section 1421c(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1421c/b&num=0&edition=prelim) or under the direction of an Onsite Coordinator for an unusual mortality event designated under [section 1421c(a)(2)(B)(iii) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1421c/a/2/B/iii&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) for reimbursing any stranding network participant for costs incurred in the collection, preparation, analysis, and transportation of marine mammal tissues and samples collected with respect to an unusual mortality event for the Tissue Bank; and
(3) for the care and maintenance of a marine mammal seized under [section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1374/c/2/D&num=0&edition=prelim); and 11 So in original. The “; and” probably should be a period.
**(c) Deposits into Fund** There shall be deposited into the Fund—
(1) amounts appropriated to the Fund;
(2) other amounts appropriated to the Secretary for use with respect to unus
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**(a) Establishment of Fund** There is established in the Treasury an interest bearing fund to be known as the “Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund”, which shall consist of amounts deposited into the Fund under subsection (c).
**(b) Uses** Amounts in the Fund shall be available only for use by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, and dispersed among claimants based on budgets approved by the Secretary prior to expenditure—
(1) to make advance, partial, or progress payments under contracts or other funding mechanisms for property, supplies, salaries, services, and travel costs incurred in acting in accordance with the contingency plan issued under [section 1421c(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1421c/b&num=0&edition=prelim) or under the direction of an Onsite Coordinator for an unusual mortality event designated under [section 1421c(a)(2)(B)(iii) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1421c/a/2/B/iii&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) for reimbursing any stranding network participant for costs incurred in the collection, preparation, analysis, and transportation of marine mammal tissues and samples collected with respect to an unusual mortality event for the Tissue Bank; and
(3) for the care and maintenance of a marine mammal seized under [section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1374/c/2/D&num=0&edition=prelim); and 11 So in original. The “; and” probably should be a period.
**(c) Deposits into Fund** There shall be deposited into the Fund—
(1) amounts appropriated to the Fund;
(2) other amounts appropriated to the Secretary for use with respect to unusual mortality events; and
(3) amounts received by the United States in the form of gifts, devises, and bequests under subsection (d).
**(d) Acceptance of donations** For purposes of carrying out this subchapter and [section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1374/c/2/D&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary may accept, solicit, and use the services of volunteers, and may accept, solicit, receive, hold, administer, and use gifts, devises, and bequests.
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Notwithstanding [section 1373(f) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1373/f&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall submit annual reports to the Congress which include—
(1) results of research conducted pursuant to [section 1414a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1414a&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) a description of the status and trends of stocks of tuna;
(3) a description of the efforts to assess, avoid, reduce, and minimize the bycatch of juvenile yellowfin tuna and bycatch of nontarget species;
(4) a description of the activities of the International Dolphin Conservation Program and of the efforts of the United States in support of the Program’s goals and objectives, including the protection of dolphin stocks in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and an assessment of the effectiveness of the Program;
(5) actions taken by the Secretary under [section 1371(a)(2)(B) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1371/a/2/B&num=0&edition=prelim) and [section 1371(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1371/d&num=0&edition=prelim);
(6) copies of any relevant resolutions and decisions of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, and any regulations promulgated by the Secretary under this subchapter; and
(7) any other information deemed relevant by the Secretary.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 1421d
1 So in original. The ‘‘; and’’ probably should be a period.
the affected populations of marine mam-
mals; and
(iv) identify any roles played in an un-
usual mortality event by physical, chem-
ical, and biological factors, including con-
taminants.
(c) Onsite coordinators
(1) Designation
(A) The Secretary shall, in consultation
with the Secretary of the Interior, designate
one or more Onsite Coordinators for an un-
usual mortality event, who shall make imme-
diate recommendations to the stranding net-
work participants on how to proceed with re-
sponse activities.
(B) An Onsite Coordinator so designated
shall be one or more appropriate Regional Di-
rectors of the National Marine Fisheries Serv-
ice or the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, or their designees.
(C) If, because of the wide geographic dis-
tribution, multiple species of marine mam-
mals involved, or magnitude of an unusual
mortality event, more than one Onsite Coordi-
nator is designated, the Secretary shall, in
consultation with the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, designate which of the Onsite Coordina-
tors shall have primary responsibility with re-
spect to the event.
(2) Functions
(A) An Onsite Coordinator designated under
this subsection shall coordinate and direct the
activities of all persons responding to an un-
usual mortality event in accordance with the
contingency plan issued under subsection (b),
except that—
(i) with respect to any matter that is not
covered by the contingency plan, an Onsite
Coordinator shall use his or her best profes-
sional judgment; and
(ii) the contingency plan may be tempo-
rarily modified by an Onsite Coordinator,
consulting as expeditiously as possible with
the Secretary, the Secretary of the Interior
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