---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 943"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "943"
heading: "Tissue bank"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/943"
units:
  - "Chapter 15C — Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank"
---

# §943. Tissue bank

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/943b.md?p=1) shall coordinate existing facilities for the storage, preparation, examination, and archiving of tissues from selected [Great Lakes fish and wildlife](/usc/16/943b.md?p=2), which shall be known as the “[Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife](/usc/16/943b.md?p=2) Tissue Bank”.
- (b) **Guidance—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/943b.md?p=1) shall, in consultation with appropriate Federal and [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) agencies and the Council of Great Lakes Research Managers, issue guidance, after an opportunity for public review and comment, for [Great Lakes fish and wildlife](/usc/16/943b.md?p=2) tissue collection, preparation, archiving, quality control procedures, and access that will ensure—
  - (1) appropriate uniform methods and standards for those activities to provide confidence in [Great Lakes fish and wildlife](/usc/16/943b.md?p=2) tissue samples used for research;
  - (2) documentation of procedures used for collecting, preparing, and archiving those samples; and
  - (3) appropriate scientific use of the tissues in the [Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife](/usc/16/943b.md?p=2) Tissue Bank.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–440, title II, § 202, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2233.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 102–440, title II, § 201, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2233, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter] may be cited as ‘The Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Tissue Bank Act’.”