---
kind: "unit"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
key: "ch31/schV"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter V"
heading: "Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/ch31-schV"
sections_count: 12
---

# Subchapter V — Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response

Title 16 — Conservation › Chapter 31 — Marine Mammal Protection

## Sections

- [§1421. Establishment of Program](/usc/16/1421.md)
- [§1421a. Determination; data collection and dissemination](/usc/16/1421a.md)
- [§1421b. Stranding or entanglement response agreements](/usc/16/1421b.md)
- [§1421c. Unusual mortality event response](/usc/16/1421c.md)
- [§1421d. Unusual mortality event activity funding](/usc/16/1421d.md)
- [§1421e. Liability](/usc/16/1421e.md)
- [§1421f. National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank and tissue analysis](/usc/16/1421f.md)
- [§1421f–1. Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program and Rapid Response Fund](/usc/16/1421f-1.md)
- [§1421f–2. Marine Mammal Health Monitoring and Analysis Platform (Health MAP)](/usc/16/1421f-2.md)
- [§1421f–3. Reports to Congress](/usc/16/1421f-3.md)
- [§1421g. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/16/1421g.md)
- [§1421h. Definitions](/usc/16/1421h.md)