---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 917b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "917b"
heading: "Cooperation of other Federal agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/917b"
units:
  - "Chapter 14A — Whale Conservation and Protection"
---

# §917b. Cooperation of other Federal agencies


All Federal agencies shall cooperate, to the fullest extent possible, with the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Commerce in preparing the study and recommendations required by [section 917a of this title](/usc/16/917a.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–532, § 4, Oct. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 2492.)