---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 756"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "756"
heading: "Investigations, surveys, and experiments; construction and installation of conservation devices, etc."
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/756"
units:
  - "Chapter 9A — Preservation of Fishery Resources"
---

# §756. Investigations, surveys, and experiments; construction and installation of conservation devices, etc.


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Commerce is further authorized and directed (1) to conduct such investigations, and such engineering and biological surveys and experiments, as may be necessary to direct and facilitate [conservation](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) of the [fishery](/usc/16/1383a.md?p=o-1) [resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) of the Columbia River and its tributaries; (2) to construct and install devices in the Columbia River Basin for the improvement of feeding and spawning conditions for fish, for the protection of migratory fish from irrigation [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), and for facilitating free migration of fish over obstructions; and (3) to perform all other activities necessary for the [conservation](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) of fish in the Columbia River Basin in accordance with law.


## Source credit

(May 11, 1938, ch. 193, § 2, 52 Stat. 345; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 883, § 1, 60 Stat. 932; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1946—Act Aug. 8, 1946, struck out requirement to maintain conservation devices, etc.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior and prior transfers, see note set out under section 755 of this title.