---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1311"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1311"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1311"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Water Bank Program for Wetlands Preservation"
---

# §1311. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall prescribe such regulations as he determines necessary and desirable to carry out the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–559, § 12, Dec. 19, 1970, 84 Stat. 1471.)