---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 777d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "777d"
heading: "Certification of funds deducted for expenses and amounts apportioned to States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/777d"
units:
  - "Chapter 10B — Fish Restoration and Management Projects"
---

# §777d. Certification of funds deducted for expenses and amounts apportioned to States


For each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall certify, at the time at which a deduction or apportionment is made, to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Treasury, and to each [State fish and game department](/usc/16/777a.md?p=1-D), the sum which he has estimated to be deducted for administering this chapter and the sum which he has apportioned to each [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) for such fiscal year.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 658, § 5, 64 Stat. 432; Pub. L. 98–369, div. A, title X, § 1014(a)(4), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1015; Pub. L. 106–408, title I, § 125, Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1775.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–408 inserted “, at the time at which a deduction or apportionment is made,” after “certify” and struck out “and executing” after “administering”.

1984—Pub. L. 98–369 struck out provisions relating to notice by the State to the Secretary of intention to accept, and use of funds where the State fails to accept.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–369 effective Oct. 1, 1984, and applicable with respect to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1984, see section 1014(b) of Pub. L. 98–369, set out as a note under section 777 of this title.

### 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 777 of this title.