---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 936"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "936"
heading: "Secretary of the Interior; authority to transfer lamprey control projects and act on behalf of United States Section"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/936"
units:
  - "Chapter 15A — Great Lakes Fisheries"
---

# §936. Secretary of the Interior; authority to transfer lamprey control projects and act on behalf of United States Section


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, upon the request of the [United States Section](/usc/16/931.md?p=c)—

- (a) to transfer to the [United States Section](/usc/16/931.md?p=c) any lamprey control [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) or works under his jurisdiction now existing or now under construction; and
- (b) to act for or on behalf of the [United States Section](/usc/16/931.md?p=c) in the exercise of the powers granted by this chapter.

## Source credit

(June 4, 1956, ch. 358, § 7, 70 Stat. 243.)