16 U.S.C. § 4103
Apportionment
United States · Title 16 — CONSERVATION · Status: effective
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Funds appropriated under section 4107(a) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title shall be apportioned by the Secretary among the States on October 1 of each fiscal year, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
The amount of funds apportioned to each State shall be determined by the Secretary as the ratio which the equally weighted average of the volume and value of fishery resources harvested by domestic commercial fishermen and received within such State during the 3 most recent calendar years for which data satisfactory to the Secretary are available bears to the total equally weighted average of the volume and value of all fishery resources harvested by domestic commercial fishermen received within all of the States during those calendar years.
For any fiscal year after fiscal year 1988, no State may receive an apportionment under this section for any fiscal year if that State’s ratio under the apportionment formula in subsection (b) is less than one-third of one percent, unless the State—
Any part of an apportionment for any fiscal year to any State—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Program Authorization Act of 1985House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Fishery Conservation Amendments of 1990