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Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102

§8 Additional Mining Experiment Stations and Mine Safety Stations Authorized

Title 30 › CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES › § 8

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must set up and run ten mining experiment stations and seven mine safety stations in major mining areas of the United States and in Alaska, if Congress provides the money needed. The U.S. Bureau of Mines will operate them and they must follow rules from earlier parts of the law. The stations can be movable or fixed. Their job is to study and share information to improve mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral work, protect workers’ lives, prevent waste of resources, and help these industries advance. These are in addition to stations created before March 3, 1915. No more than three of these stations (counting both types) may be started in any one fiscal year with the funds provided.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §8

Mineral Lands and Mining, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain in the several important mining regions of the United States and the Territory of Alaska, as Congress may appropriate for the necessary employees and other expenses, under the United States Bureau of Mines and in accordance with the provisions of section 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title, ten mining experiment stations and seven mine safety stations, movable or stationary, in addition to those established prior to March 3, 1915, the province and duty of which shall be to make investigations and disseminate information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, safeguarding life among employees, preventing unnecessary waste of resources, and otherwise contributing to the advancement of these industries. Not more than three mining experiment stations and mine safety stations authorized in this section shall be established in any one fiscal year under the appropriations made therefor.

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.

Executive Documents

Admission of Alaska as StateAdmission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by section 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Reference

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 8

Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102