99 STAT. 1642
PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985 (A) by inserting "to" immediately after "determine" in paragraph (1); (B) by striking out "Secretaries deem" in paragraph (6) and inserting in heu thereof "Secretary deems"; and (C) by striking out "Secretaries" in the matter following pargigraph (6) and inserting in lieu thereof "Secretary". (3) Subsection (c) is amended— (A) by striking out "Secretaries determine" in paragraph (1) and inserting in lieu thereof "Secretary determines"; (B) by striking out "and" at the end of paragraph (2)(A); (C) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (2)(B) and inserting in lieu thereof "; and"; and (D) by inserting immediately after paragraph (2)(B) the following new subparagraph: "(C) the concurrence of the Secretaries.". FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF SECRETARIES
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SEC. 1735. Section 5 of the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 2804) is amended as follows: (1) Subsection (c) is amended to read as follows: "(c) INFORMATION SERVICES.—(1) In addition to performing such other mandatory functions under this Act— "(A) the Secretaries shall collect and analyze scientific, technical, legal, and economic information relating to aquaculture, including acreages, water use, production, marketing, culture techniques, and other relevant matters; "(B) the Secretary shall— "(i) establish, within the Department of Agriculture, a National Aquaculture Information Center that shall serve as a repository for the information generated under subparagraph (A) and other provisions of this Act and shall, on a request basis, make that information available to the public, "(ii) arrange with foreign nations for the exchange of information relating to aquaculture and support a translation service, and "(iii) conduct a study of the extent to which the United States aquaculture industry has access to relevant Federal programs which assist the agricultural sector and report to Congress on the findings of such study by December 31, 1986; "(C) the Secretary of Commerce shall conduct a study, and report to Congress thereon by December 31, 1987, to determine whether existing capture fisheries could be adversely affected by competition from products produced by commercial aquacultural enterprises and include in such study an assessment of any adverse effect, by species and by geographical region, on such fisheries and recommend measures to ameliorate any such effect; and "(D) the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of Commercej shall undertake a study, and report to Congress thereon by December 31, 1987, to identify exotic species introduced into the United States waters as a result of aquaculture activities, and to determine the potential benefits and impacts of the introduction of exotic species.
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