[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR24.5]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 24--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FISH AND WILDLIFE POLICY: STATE-FEDERAL RELATIONSHIPS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 24.5  International agreements.

    (a) International conventions have increasingly been utilized to 
address fish and wildlife issues having dimensions beyond national 
boundaries. The authority to enter into such agreements is reserved to 
the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. However, 
while such agreements may be valuable in the case of other nations, in a 
Federal system such as ours sophisticated fish and wildlife programs 
already established at the State level may be weakened or not enhanced.
    (b) To ensure that effective fish and wildlife programs already 
established at the State level are not weakened, the policy of the 
Department of the Interior shall be to recommend that the United States 
negotiate and accede to only those international agreements that give 
strong consideration to established State programs designed to ensure 
the conservation of fish and wildlife populations.
    (c) It shall be the policy of the Department to actively solicit the 
advice of affected State agencies and to recommend to the U.S. 
Department of State that representatives of such agencies be involved 
before and during negotiation of any new international conventions 
concerning fish and wildlife.