---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 916b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "916b"
heading: "Acceptance or rejection by United States Government of regulations, etc.; acceptance of reports, recommendations, etc., of Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/916b"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — Regulation of Whaling"
  - "Subchapter II — Whaling Convention Act"
---

# §916b. Acceptance or rejection by United States Government of regulations, etc.; acceptance of reports, recommendations, etc., of Commission


The Secretary of State is authorized, with the concurrence of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Commerce, to present or withdraw any objections on behalf of the United States Government to such regulations or amendments of the schedule to the convention as are adopted by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) and submitted to the United States Government in accordance with article V of the convention. The Secretary of State is further authorized to receive on behalf of the United States Government reports, requests, recommendations, and other communications of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), and to act thereon either directly or by reference to the appropriate authority.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, § 4, 64 Stat. 422; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

## 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, see note set out under section 916 of this title.