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Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must set up a Strategic Resources Mineral Technology Center to improve and develop technologies that cut U.S. reliance on strategic and critical minerals. The center will study better ways to extract and refine minerals, find substitutes, boost conservation through recycling and advanced processing, locate new deposits, and share its work with private industry. The center must be placed at a university that does not already host a similar center, that offers advanced geology and mining/metallurgical programs and has materials and processing research, and that is located west of the 100th meridian. Money needed to run the center may be appropriated.

Title 30, §1230a

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(a)Establishment

The Secretary of Interior is authorized and directed to establish a Strategic Resources Mineral Technology Center (hereinafter referred to as the “center”) for the purpose of improving existing, and developing new, technologies that will decrease the dependence of the United States on supplies of strategic and critical minerals.

(b)Functions

The center shall—

(1)provide for studies and technology development in the areas of mineral extraction and refining processes, product substitution and conservation of mineral resources through recycling and advanced processing and fabrication methods;

(2)identify new deposits of strategic and critical mineral resources; and

(3)facilitate the transfer of information, studies, and technologies developed by the center to the private sector.

(c)Criteria

The Secretary shall establish the center referred to in subsection (a) at a university that—

(1)does not currently host a generic mineral technology center;

(2)has established advanced degree programs in geology and geological engineering, and metallurgical and mining engineering;

(3)has expertise in materials and advanced processing research; and

(4)is located west of the 100th meridian.

(d)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

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.

§1230a Strategic Resources Generic Mineral Technology Center

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Title 30, §1230a

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