Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102

§1a Transfer of Activities, Employees, Records, Etc., From Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the United States Bureau of Mines

Title 30 › CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES › § 1a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Immediately transfers Minerals Division economic and statistical work on minerals, plus its employees and related records, equipment, publications, and funds, from the Department of Commerce to the Department of the Interior’s United States 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

Citations & Metadata

Citation

30 U.S.C. § 1a

Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102