---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3116"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3116"
heading: "Federal monitoring; reports to State and Congressional committees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3116"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation"
  - "Subchapter II — Subsistence Management and Use"
---

# §3116. Federal monitoring; reports to State and Congressional committees


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall monitor the provisions by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of the subsistence preference set forth in [section 3114 of this title](/usc/16/3114.md) and shall advise the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) and the Committees on Natural Resources and on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and Environment and Public Works of the Senate annually and at such other times as he deems necessary of his views on the effectiveness of the implementation of this subchapter including the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a)’s provision of such preference, any exercise of his closure or other administrative authority to protect subsistence resources or uses, the views of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), and any recommendations he may have.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title VIII, § 806, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2425; Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(y), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4587.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “the Committees on Natural Resources” for “Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Abolition of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of Representatives abolished and its jurisdiction transferred by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Jan. 4, 1995. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives in case of provisions relating to fisheries, wildlife, international fishing agreements, marine affairs (including coastal zone management) except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters, or oceanography by section 1(b)(3) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.