---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7803"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7803"
heading: "Authority and responsibility of the Secretary of State"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7803"
units:
  - "Chapter 97 — Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific"
---

# §7803. Authority and responsibility of the Secretary of State


The Secretary of State may—

- (1) receive and transmit, on behalf of the United States, reports, requests, recommendations, proposals, decisions, and other communications of and to the [Commission](/usc/16/7801.md?p=2);
- (2) in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/16/7801.md?p=10), act upon, or refer to other appropriate authority, any communication pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#1); and
- (3) with the concurrence of the [Secretary](/usc/16/7801.md?p=10), and in accordance with the [South Pacific Fishery Resources Convention](/usc/16/7801.md?p=11), object to decisions of the [Commission](/usc/16/7801.md?p=2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–327, title II, § 203, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1989.)