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LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 1421d Unusual mortality event activity funding us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 31 MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION 1421d 16 U.S.C. § 1421d current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip /us/usc/t16/s1421d data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml bbd7852093f41476b2f9b72ac77945c45aa4cf054969597fbd83072550ba6b43 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 cc34f095c653691de8fb549d3f37dd707c8f57d28208d071348ccb230484afc8 2026-07-04 official
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16 U.S.C. § 1421d - Unusual mortality event activity funding

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(a) Establishment of Fund There is established in the Treasury an interest bearing fund to be known as the “Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund”, which shall consist of amounts deposited into the Fund under subsection (c).

(b) Uses Amounts in the Fund shall be available only for use by the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, and dispersed among claimants based on budgets approved by the Secretary prior to expenditure—

(1) to make advance, partial, or progress payments under contracts or other funding mechanisms for property, supplies, salaries, services, and travel costs incurred in acting in accordance with the contingency plan issued under section 1421c(b) of this title or under the direction of an Onsite Coordinator for an unusual mortality event designated under section 1421c(a)(2)(B)(iii) of this title;

(2) for reimbursing any stranding network participant for costs incurred in the collection, preparation, analysis, and transportation of marine mammal tissues and samples collected with respect to an unusual mortality event for the Tissue Bank; and

(3) for the care and maintenance of a marine mammal seized under section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title; and 11 So in original. The “; and” probably should be a period.

(c) Deposits into Fund There shall be deposited into the Fund—

(1) amounts appropriated to the Fund;

(2) other amounts appropriated to the Secretary for use with respect to unusual mortality events; and

(3) amounts received by the United States in the form of gifts, devises, and bequests under subsection (d).

(d) Acceptance of donations For purposes of carrying out this subchapter and section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title, the Secretary may accept, solicit, and use the services of volunteers, and may accept, solicit, receive, hold, administer, and use gifts, devises, and bequests.

(Pub. L. 92522, title IV, § 405, formerly title III, § 305, as added Pub. L. 102587, title III, § 3003(a), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5064; renumbered title IV, § 405, and amended Pub. L. 103238, §§ 6, 16(b), 24(b), (c)(2), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 542, 559, 565, 566; Pub. L. 117263, div. J, title CIV, § 10403, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3983.)

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Amendments2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117263 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) related to uses of amounts in the Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Fund and payment of pending claims. 1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103238, § 16(b), substituted “an interest bearing fund” for “a fund”. Subsec. (b)(1)(A)(i). Pub. L. 103238, § 24(c)(2), made technical amendment to reference to section 1421c(b) of this title to reflect renumbering of corresponding section of original act. Subsec. (b)(1)(A)(iii). Pub. L. 103238, § 6(1), added cl. (iii). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103238, § 6(2), inserted “and section 1374(c)(2)(D) of this title”.