---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2008"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2008"
heading: "Utilization of available information and data"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2008"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Soil and Water Resources Conservation"
---

# §2008. Utilization of available information and data


In the implementation of this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/16/2002.md?p=1) shall utilize information and data available from other Federal, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), tribal, and local governments, and private organizations and he shall coordinate his actions with the resource appraisal and planning efforts of other Federal agencies and avoid unnecessary duplication and overlap of planning and program efforts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–192, § 9, Nov. 18, 1977, 91 Stat. 1411; Pub. L. 113–79, title II, § 2508(d), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 756.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–79 inserted “, tribal” after “State”.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other official in Department of Agriculture under this chapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under section 2002 of this title.