---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 5011"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "5011"
heading: "Funding requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/5011"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — North Pacific Anadromous Stocks Convention"
---

# §5011. Funding requirements

- (a) **Authorization—** There are authorized to be appropriated from time to time such sums as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes and provisions of the [Convention](/usc/16/5002.md?p=5) and this chapter, including—
  - (1) necessary travel expenses of the United States Commissioners or Alternate Commissioners; and
  - (2) the United States’ share of the joint expenses of the [Commission](/usc/16/5002.md?p=4).
- (b) **Research—** Such funds as shall be made available to the [Secretary](/usc/16/5002.md?p=16) of Commerce for research and related activities shall be expended to carry out the program of the [Commission](/usc/16/5002.md?p=4) in accordance with the recommendations of the [United States Section](/usc/16/5002.md?p=17) and to carry out other research and observer programs pursuant to the [Convention](/usc/16/5002.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–567, title VIII, § 812, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4316; Pub. L. 102–587, title VIII, § 8012, Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5105; Pub. L. 106–562, title III, § 304(a), Dec. 23, 2000, 114 Stat. 2806.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Title VIII of Pub. L. 102–567 and Pub. L. 102–587 enacted substantially identical sections. Title VIII of Pub. L. 102–587 was repealed by Pub. L. 106–562.