---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 742g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "742g"
heading: "Cooperation with State Department"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/742g"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Fish and Wildlife Service"
---

# §742g. Cooperation with State Department

- (a) **Representation at international meetings—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall cooperate to the fullest practicable extent with the Secretary of State in providing representation at all meetings and conferences relating to [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) in which representatives of the United States and foreign countries participate.

  The Secretary of State shall designate the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior or the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) for [Fish and Wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17), or a [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) designated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to represent the Department of the Interior, as a member of the United States delegation attending such meetings and conferences and also as a member of the negotiating team of any such delegation.

- (b) **Consultation with officials responsible for technical and economic aid—** The Secretary of State and all other officials having responsibilities in the fields of technical and economic aid to foreign nations shall consult with the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) in all cases in which the interests of [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) are involved, with a view to assuring that such interests are adequately represented at all times.
- (c) **International negotiations—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall be represented in all international negotiations conducted by the United States pursuant to [section 1351 of title 19](/usc/19/1351.md), in any case in which fish products are directly affected by such negotiations.
- (d) **Consultation with governmental, private nonprofit, and other organizations—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall consult periodically with the various governmental, private nonprofit, and other organizations and agencies which have to do with any phase of [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) with respect to any problems that may arise in connection with such [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17).

## Source credit

(Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036, § 8, 70 Stat. 1123.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090, see note set out under section 742b of this title.