---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 8202"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "8202"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/8202"
units:
  - "Chapter 101 — National Fish Habitat Conservation Through Partnerships"
---

# §8202. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Appropriate congressional committees—** The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
  - (A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate; and
  - (B) the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
- (2) **Board—** The term “Board” means the National Fish Habitat Board established by [section 8203 of this title](/usc/16/8203.md).
- (3) **Director—** The term “Director” means the Director of the United States [Fish and Wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) Service.
- (4) **Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator—** The term “Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator” means the Assistant [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a) for Water of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- (5) **Indian Tribe—** The term “Indian Tribe” has the meaning given to the term “Indian tribe” in [section 5304 of title 25](/usc/25/5304.md).
- (6) **National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Assistant Administrator—** The term “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Assistant Administrator” means the Assistant [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a) for Fisheries of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- (7) **Partnership—** The term “Partnership” means an entity designated by Congress as a Fish Habitat Partnership under [section 8204 of this title](/usc/16/8204.md).
- (8) **Real property interest—** The term “real property interest” means an ownership interest in—
  - (A) land; or
  - (B) water (including water rights).
- (9) **Marine Fisheries Commissions—** The term “Marine Fisheries Commissions” means—
  - (A) the Atlantic [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) Marine Fisheries [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c);
  - (B) the Gulf [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) Marine Fisheries [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c); and
  - (C) the Pacific [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) Marine [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c).
- (10) **Secretary—** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
- (11) **State—** The term “State” means each of the several [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia.
- (12) **State agency—** The term “State agency” means—
  - (A) the [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) agency of a [State](#11); and
  - (B) any department or division of a department or agency of a [State](#11) that manages in the public [trust](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=4) the inland or marine fishery resources of the [State](#11) or sustains the habitat for those fishery resources pursuant to [State](#11) law or the constitution of the [State](#11).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–188, title II, § 202, Oct. 30, 2020, 134 Stat. 925.)