---
type: Body
title: "Secretary of the Interior"
classification: "executive-office"
chamber: "executive"
code: "EXEC-INTERIOR-SECRETARY"
parent: "us/executive/interior"
schedule_level: "I"
sources:
  - field: definition
    source: "5 U.S.C. § 5312 (Executive Schedule, Level I)"
confidence: official
tags: [body, executive, executive-office]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---

# Secretary of the Interior

Cabinet-rank office (Executive Schedule Level I, 5 U.S.C. § 5312), head of the [Department of the Interior](/us/executive/interior/index.md).

## Empowered by the U.S. Code

2,646 sections of the U.S. Code vest authority in this office. A sample:

- [2 U.S.C. § 1942](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-29/section-1942.md)
- [3 U.S.C. § 19](/legal/us/code/title-03/chapter-1/section-19.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 2902](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-29/section-2902.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 3307](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3307.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5316](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5316.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5343](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5343.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5545c](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-55/section-5545c.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 6324](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-63/section-6324.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 8401](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-84/section-8401.md)
- [6 U.S.C. § 665g](/legal/us/code/title-06/chapter-1/section-665g.md)
- [6 U.S.C. § 822](/legal/us/code/title-06/chapter-2/section-822.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 1006b](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-33/section-1006b.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 1035](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-33/section-1035.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 1359dd](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-35/section-1359dd.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 1860](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-46/section-1860.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 1985](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-50/section-1985.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2814](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-61/section-2814.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 302](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-13/section-302.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 305](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-13/section-305.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 389](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-14/section-389.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 389a](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-14/section-389a.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5402](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-85/section-5402.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5608](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-87/section-5608.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5925](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-88/section-5925.md)
- …and 2,621 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)