§ 1224. — Duties of Secretary.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC1224]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 25--SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION
SUBCHAPTER III--STATE MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Sec. 1224. Duties of Secretary
(a) Consulting with other agencies; prescribing rules and regulations;
furnishing advice and assistance; coordinating research
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the United States
Bureau of Mines, shall administer this subchapter and, after full
consultation with other interested Federal agencies, shall prescribe
such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its
provisions. The Secretary shall furnish such advice and assistance as
will best promote the purposes of this subchapter, shall participate in
coordinating research initiated under this subchapter by the institutes,
shall indicate to them such lines of inquiry that seem most important,
and shall encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of
cooperation by and between the institutes and between them and other
research organizations, the United States Department of the Interior,
and other Federal establishments.
(b) Annual ascertainment of compliance
On or before the first day of July in each year beginning after
August 29, 1984, the Secretary shall ascertain whether the requirements
of section 1223(a) of this title have been met as to each institute and
State.
(Pub. L. 98-409, Sec. 4, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1538; Pub. L. 100-483,
Sec. 6, Oct. 12, 1988, 102 Stat. 2340; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May
18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.)
Codification
Subsec. (c) of this section, which required the Secretary to make an
annual report to Congress on the receipts, expenditures, and work of the
institutes in all States under the provisions of this subchapter,
terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L.
104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31,
Money and Finance. See, also, page 109 of House Document No. 103-7.
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.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 1224, Pub. L. 95-87, title III, Sec. 304, Aug. 3,
1977, 91 Stat. 454, contained provisions similar to this section
covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.
Amendments
1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-483 inserted ``, acting through the
Director of the Bureau of Mines,'' after ``The Secretary''.
Change of Name
``United States Bureau of Mines'' substituted for ``Bureau of
Mines'' in subsec. (a) pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set
out as a note under section 1 of this title.
