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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73

§1224 Duties of Secretary

Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 25— - SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - STATE MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTES › § 1224

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, through the Director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, must run and enforce the programs under this subchapter. After talking with other federal agencies, the Secretary must make any rules needed. The Secretary must give advice and help to carry out the subchapter, help coordinate research by the institutes, point out important research topics, and help the institutes work together and with other research organizations, the Department of the Interior, and other federal agencies. By July 1 each year, starting after August 29, 1984, the Secretary must check whether each institute and State has met the requirements in section 1223(a).

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §1224

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the Director of the United States Bureau of Mines, shall administer this subchapter and, after full consultation with other interested Federal agencies, shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions. The Secretary shall furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this subchapter, shall participate in coordinating research initiated under this subchapter by the institutes, shall indicate to them such lines of inquiry that seem most important, and shall encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the institutes and between them and other research organizations, the United States Department of the Interior, and other Federal establishments.
(b)On or before the first day of July in each year beginning after August 29, 1984, the Secretary shall ascertain whether the requirements of section 1223(a) of this title have been met as to each institute and State.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Subsec. (c) of this section, which required the Secretary to make an annual report to Congress on the receipts, expenditures, and work of the institutes in all States under the provisions of this subchapter, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 109 of House Document No. 103–7. Section was enacted as part of the Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute Act of 1984, and not as part of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1224, Pub. L. 95–87, title III, § 304, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 454, contained provisions similar to this section covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.

Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–483 inserted “, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines,” after “The Secretary”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“United States Bureau of Mines” substituted for “Bureau of Mines” in subsec. (a) pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102–285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. For provisions relating to closure and

Transfer of Functions

of the United States Bureau of Mines, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 1 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

30 U.S.C. § 1224

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73