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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60

§1228 Interagency Cooperation

Title 30 › Chapter 25— SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION › Subchapter III— STATE MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTES › § 1228

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President must use whatever methods he thinks best to make clear which agencies handle federal mining and mineral resources research and to get those agencies to work together, including research allowed by this subchapter. The coordination must keep checking the overall program, cut overlapping work, find technical needs, recommend how to divide effort among agencies, review staff and management needs, and improve agency-level communication.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §1228

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The President shall, by such means as he deems appropriate, clarify agency responsibility for Federal mining and mineral resources research and provide for interagency coordination of such research, including the research authorized by this subchapter. Such coordination shall include—
(1)continuing review of the adequacy of the Government-wide program in mining and mineral resources research;
(2)identification and elimination of duplication and overlap between agency programs;
(3)identification of technical needs in various mining and mineral resources research categories;
(4)recommendations with respect to allocation of technical effort among Federal agencies;
(5)review of technical manpower needs, and findings concerning management policies to improve the quality of the Government-wide research effort; and
(6)actions to facilitate interagency communication at management levels.

Legislative History

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 1228, Pub. L. 95–87, title III, § 308, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 455, contained provisions similar to this section covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.

Reference

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 1228

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60