---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1382"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1382"
heading: "Regulations and administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1382"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Marine Mammal Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Conservation and Protection of Marine Mammals"
---

# §1382. Regulations and administration

- (a) **Consultation with Federal agencies—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/1362.md?p=12-A), in consultation with any other Federal agency to the extent that such agency may be affected, shall prescribe such regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
- (b) **Cooperation by Federal agencies—** Each Federal agency is authorized and directed to cooperate with the [Secretary](/usc/16/1362.md?p=12-A), in such manner as may be mutually agreeable, in carrying out the purposes of this subchapter.
- (c) **Contracts, leases, and cooperative agreements—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/1362.md?p=12-A) may enter into such contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, or other transactions as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter or subchapter V and on such terms as he deems appropriate with any Federal or [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) agency, public or private institution, or other [person](/usc/16/1362.md?p=10).
- (d) **Annual review; suspension of program—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/1362.md?p=12-A) shall review annually the operation of each program in which the [United States](/usc/16/1362.md?p=14) participates involving the [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) of [marine mammals](/usc/16/1362.md?p=6) on lands. If at any time the [Secretary](/usc/16/1362.md?p=12-A) finds that any such program cannot be administered on lands owned by the [United States](/usc/16/1362.md?p=14) or in which the [United States](/usc/16/1362.md?p=14) has an interest in a manner consistent with the purposes of[^1] policies of this chapter, he shall suspend the operation of that program and shall include in the annual report to the public and the Congress required under [section 1373(f) of this title](/usc/16/1373.md?p=f) his reasons for such suspension, together with recommendations for such legislation as he deems necessary and appropriate to resolve the problem.
- (e) **Measures to alleviate impacts on strategic stocks—** If the [Secretary](/usc/16/1362.md?p=12-A) determines, based on a [stock](/usc/16/1362.md?p=11) assessment under [section 1386 of this title](/usc/16/1386.md) or other significant new information obtained under this chapter, that impacts on rookeries, mating grounds, or other [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of similar ecological significance to [marine mammals](/usc/16/1362.md?p=6) may be causing the decline or impeding the recovery of a [strategic stock](/usc/16/1362.md?p=19), the [Secretary](/usc/16/1362.md?p=12-A) may develop and implement [conservation](/usc/16/1362.md?p=2) or [management](/usc/16/1362.md?p=2) measures to alleviate those impacts. Such measures shall be developed and implemented after consultation with the [Marine Mammal](/usc/16/1362.md?p=6) [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) and the appropriate Federal agencies and after notice and opportunity for public comment.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–522, title I, § 112, Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1042; Pub. L. 96–470, title II, § 201(e), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2241; Pub. L. 102–587, title III, § 3004(a)(3), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5067; Pub. L. 103–238, §§ 7(a), 24(c)(11), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 542, 566.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–238, § 24(c)(11), made technical amendment to reference to subchapter V of this chapter to reflect renumbering of corresponding title of original act.

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103–238, § 7(a), added subsec. (e).

1992—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–587 inserted “or subchapter V” after “of this subchapter”.

1980—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 96–470 substituted “include in the annual report to the public and the Congress required under section 1373(f) of this title” for “forthwith submit to Congress”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of the sixty-day period following Oct. 21, 1972, see section 4 of Pub. L. 92–522, set out as a note under section 1361 of this title.