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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation

§ 1227. Center for cataloging

Statutory text

The Secretary shall establish a center for cataloging current and projected scientific research in all fields of mining and mineral resources. Each Federal agency doing mining and mineral resources research shall cooperate by providing the cataloging center with information on work underway or scheduled by it. The cataloging center shall classify and maintain for public use a catalog of mining and mineral resources research and investigation projects in progress or scheduled by all Federal agencies and by such non-Federal agencies of government, colleges, universities, private institutions, firms, and individuals as may make such information available.

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 § 7 · 98 Stat. 1536

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1227

    (Pub. L. 98–409, § 7, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1540.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 98–409, § 7, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1540.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. center for cataloging The Secretary shall establish a center for cataloging current and projected scientific research in all fields of mining and mineral resources. Each Federal agency doing mining and mineral resources research shall cooperate by providing the cataloging center with information on work underway or scheduled by it. The cataloging center shall classify and maintain for public use a catalog of mining and mineral resources research and investigation projects in progress or scheduled by all Federal agencies and by such non-Federal agencies of government, colleges, universities, private institutions, firms, and individuals as may make such information available.

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 1227, Pub. L. 95–87, title III, § 307, , 91 Stat. 455, contained provisions similar to this section covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.

Credits

(Pub. L. 98–409, § 7, , 98 Stat. 1540.)

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