Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73
§1a Transfer of activities, employees, records, etc., from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the United States Bureau of Mines
Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES › § 1a
Summary
Immediately transfers the Minerals Division’s mineral economics/statistics work and all staff and assets from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the Bureau of Mines.
Full Legal Text
Title 30, §1a
Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
There is hereby transferred from the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, to the Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Mines, all those activities of the Minerals Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce concerned with economic and statistical analyses of mineral commodities, domestic and foreign, together with all employees, records, files, equipment, publications, and funds pertaining thereto, effective immediately.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“United States Bureau of Mines” substituted in text for “Bureau of Mines” 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
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Citation
30 U.S.C. § 1a
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73