Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 1 — United States Bureau of Mines
§ 3. Duties of United States Bureau of Mines
Statutory text
It shall be the province and duty of the United States Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; to investigate explosives and peat; and on behalf of the Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use; and to disseminate information concerning these subjects in such manner as will best carry out the purposes of the provisions of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title.
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.
Pub. L. 61–240 § 2 · 36 Stat. 369
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 3
May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 2, 36 Stat. 370
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 2, 36 Stat. 370Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That it shall be the province and duty of said bureau and its director, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to make diligent investigation of the methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, and the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the treatment of ores and other mineral substances, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent Post, p. 883. to said industries, and from time to time make such public reports of the work, investigations, and information obtained as the Secretary of said department may direct, with the recommendations of such bureau.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
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.
Credits
1910–1992 · 5 acts
- 1910May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 2, 36 Stat. 370
- 1913Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, § 2, 37 Stat. 681
- 1925Ex. Ord. No. 4239,
- 1934Ex. Ord. No. 6611,
- 1992Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), , 106 Stat. 172.
Show as published
(May 16, 1910, ch. 240, § 2, 36 Stat. 370; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, § 2, 37 Stat. 681; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, ; Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), , 106 Stat. 172.)