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Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-110

§951a Health, Safety, and Mining Technology Research Program

Title 30 › CHAPTER 22 — MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH › SUBCHAPTER V — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 951a

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Every five years the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, must create a Health, Safety, and Mining Technology Research Plan. The Plan must name the program’s goals and guide research and technology work for that five-year period. While making the Plan, the Director must ask the mining industry, labor, colleges, and other interested people and groups for ideas, comments, and project proposals. Work on coal and other mine health under section 951(b) will also be done by the Secretary through the Director. This does not stop or duplicate ongoing research by the Bureau of Mines or the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health on coal mine safety and health effects.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §951a

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(a)Health, Safety, and Mining Technology Research Plan
(1)Every 5 years, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Director”), shall develop a Plan for Health, Safety, and Mining Technology Research (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the “Plan”).
(2)The Plan shall identify the goals and objectives of the Health, Safety, and Mining Technology program of the Bureau of Mines, and shall guide research and technology development under such program, over each 5-year period.
(3)In preparing the proposed Plan referred to in paragraph (1), the Director shall solicit suggestions, comments and proposals for research and technology development projects from the mining industry, labor, academia and other concerned groups and individuals.
(b)Technical amendment
For the purposes of section 951(b) of this title, as amended, activities in the field of coal or other mine health under such section shall also be carried out by the Secretary of the Interior acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines. Nothing in this subsection is intended to preclude or duplicate the ongoing research activities of the Bureau of Mines on health hazards safety technology or research conducted by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health on coal mine safety and health effects.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and not as part of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Bureau of Mines redesignated United States Bureau of Mines by 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. § 951a

Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110