---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3313"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3313"
heading: "Grants for reports and plans for coordinated research, enforcement, etc."
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3313"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Salmon and Steelhead Conservation and Enhancement"
  - "Subchapter II — Coordinated Management of Salmon and Steelhead"
---

# §3313. Grants for reports and plans for coordinated research, enforcement, etc.


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, is authorized to establish a program to provide grants to prepare reports and plans provided for in this subchapter and subchapter III in order to promote coordinated research, enforcement, [enhancement](/usc/16/3302.md?p=8), and management of the [salmon](/usc/16/3302.md?p=11) and [steelhead](/usc/16/3302.md?p=13) resources within the Washington and [Columbia River conservation areas](/usc/16/3302.md?p=4) consistent with the purposes of this chapter. Such grants shall be available for use by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Washington, the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon, [appropriate tribal coordinating bodies](/usc/16/3302.md?p=1), or any joint governmental entity established for undertaking research, or providing advice on or mechanisms for coordinating management or enforcement, or preparing the reports and plans described in this subchapter and subchapter III.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–561, title I, § 112, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3279.)