---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 4728"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "4728"
heading: "Brown tree snake control program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/4728"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter III — Prevention and Control of Aquatic Nuisance Species Dispersal"
---

# §4728. Brown tree snake control program


The [Task Force](/usc/16/4702.md?p=15) shall, within the program developed under [section 4722(a) of this title](/usc/16/4722.md?p=a), undertake a comprehensive, environmentally sound program in coordination with regional, territorial, [State](/usc/16/4702.md?p=13) and local entities to control the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) in Guam and other [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) where the species is established outside of its historic range.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–646, title I, § 1209, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4772; Pub. L. 104–332, § 2(h)(1), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4091; Pub. L. 117–263, div. K, title CXIII, § 11327(e)(5), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 4098.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “section 4722(a) of this title” for “subsection (a)”.

1996—Pub. L. 104–332 made technical amendment to Pub. L. 101–646, § 1209, which enacted this section.