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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation

§ 1225. Effect on colleges and universities

Statutory text

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relationship existing between any of the colleges or universities under whose direction an institute is established and the government of the State in which it is located, and nothing in this subchapter shall in any way be construed to authorize Federal control or direction of education at any college or university.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 98–409 § 5 · 98 Stat. 1536

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1225

    (Pub. L. 98–409, § 5, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1539.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 98–409, § 5, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1539.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. autonomy Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair or modify 30 USC 1225. the legal relationship existing between any of the colleges or universities under whose direction an institute is established and the government of the State in which it is located, and nothing in this Act shall in any way be construed to authorize Federal control or direction of education at any college or university.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

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 1225, Pub. L. 95–87, title III, § 305, , 91 Stat. 454, contained provisions similar to this section covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.

Credits

(Pub. L. 98–409, § 5, , 98 Stat. 1539.)

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