§556 — Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can hire people and make contracts to get temporary, part-time, or emergency help how they think is needed, even if normal civil service rules do not apply. The Secretary can rent or hire work animals, animal-drawn or motor vehicles, and equipment at rates the Secretary approves. The Secretary can also hire engineers or firms to do surveys, investigations, or control and extinguishment work, buy or otherwise acquire land or land rights when needed, and repair or replace private property damaged during these operations. The Secretary may accept money or property as gifts, bequests, or contributions to use for these activities and work with federal, state, or private partners. Any money received must go into the U.S. Treasury as an available trust fund, be paid out by the Secretary of the Treasury after the Secretary of the Interior certifies it, and stay available until it is spent for the purpose given.

Title 30, §556

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In carrying out the provisions of section 553 of this title the Secretary of the Interior is authorized—

(a)to secure, by contract or otherwise, and without regard to the civil service laws and chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, for work of a temporary, intermittent, or emergency character, such personal services as may be deemed necessary for the efficient and economical performance of the work;

(b)to hire, with or without personal services, work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment, at rates to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior and without regard to the provisions of section 6101 of title 41;

(c)to procure all or any part of the surveys, investigations, and control or extinguishment work by contracts with engineers, contractors, or firms or corporations thereof;

(d)to acquire lands or rights and interests therein, including improvements, by purchase, lease, gift, exchange, condemnation, or otherwise, whenever necessary for the purposes of this chapter;

(e)to repair, restore, or replace private property damaged or destroyed as a result of, or incident to, operations under this chapter; and

(f)to receive and accept money and property, real or personal, or interests therein, as a gift, bequest, or contribution, for use in any of the activities authorized under this chapter; and to conduct any of the activities authorized under this chapter in cooperation with any person or agency, Federal, State, or private. Any money so received shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States in an available trust fund to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Treasury upon certification by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the terms of the grant, and shall remain available until expended for the purposes for which received and accepted.

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Codification In subsec. (a), “chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted for “the Classification Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. In subsec. (b), “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C., sec. 5)” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

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