PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary decides when and how much federal money goes to the institutes each fiscal year and pays it after approving requests. Each institute must have a training plan for mineral engineers and scientists with a suitable curriculum. Each must have rules to make sure federal funds add to, and do not replace, other money that would be available. Each must appoint an officer to handle the funds and send an annual report to the Secretary by September 1 showing work done, projects underway, the amounts received in the last fiscal year, and how the money was spent on forms the Secretary requires. If money paid to an institute is lost, stolen, or used wrongly, the State must replace it, and no new federal payments will be made to that State’s institutes until it is replaced. Institutes are encouraged to work together and with other agencies or people on mining and mineral problems, and the federal funds may pay for the costs of planning, coordinating, and running that joint research.

Title 30, §1223

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(a)Funds available to institutes under section 1221 and 1222 of this title shall be paid at such times and in such amounts during each fiscal year as determined by the Secretary, and upon vouchers approved by him. Each institute shall—

(1)set forth its plan to provide for the training of individuals as mineral engineers and scientists under a curriculum appropriate to the field of mineral resources and mineral engineering and related fields;

(2)set forth policies and procedures which assure that Federal funds made available under this subchapter for any fiscal year will supplement and, to the extent practicable, increase the level of funds that would, in the absence of such Federal funds, be made available for purposes of this subchapter, and in no case supplant such funds; and

(3)have an officer appointed by its governing authority who shall receive and account for all funds paid under the provisions of this subchapter and shall make an annual report to the Secretary on or before the first day of September of each year, on work accomplished and the status of projects underway, together with a detailed statement of the amounts received under any provisions of this subchapter during the preceding fiscal year, and of its disbursements on schedules prescribed by the Secretary.

If any of the funds received by the authorized receiving officer of any institute under the provisions of this subchapter shall by any action or contingency be found by the Secretary to have been improperly diminished, lost, or misapplied, such funds shall be replaced by the State concerned and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be allotted or paid to any institute of such State.

(b)The institutes are authorized and encouraged to plan and conduct programs under this subchapter in cooperation with each other and with such other agencies and individuals as may contribute to the solution of the mining and mineral resources problems involved. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this subchapter shall be available for paying the necessary expenses of planning, coordinating, and conducting such cooperative research.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification 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 1223, Pub. L. 95–87, title III, § 303, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 453, contained provisions similar to this section covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.

§1223 Funding Criteria

Summary

Title 30, §1223

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

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