Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 17 — Exploration Program for Discovery of Minerals
§ 641. Establishment and maintenance of program for exploration; financial assistance
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, in order to provide for discovery of additional domestic mineral reserves, to establish and maintain a program for exploration by private industry within the United States, its Territories and possessions for such minerals, excluding organic fuels, as he shall from time to time designate, and to provide Federal financial assistance on a participating basis for that purpose.
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. 85–701 § 1 · 72 Stat. 700
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 641
(Pub. L. 85–701, § 1, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 700.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 85–701, § 1, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 700.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Section. 1. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, in order to provide for discovery of additional domestic mineral reserves, to establish and maintain a program for exploration by private industry within the United States, its Territories and possessions for such minerals, excluding organic fuels, as he shall from time to time designate, and to provide Federal financial assistance on a participating basis for that purpose.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Congressional Declaration of Policy
The recital clause of Pub. L. 85–701, , 72 Stat. 700, which preceded section 1, provided: “That it is declared to be the policy of the Congress to stimulate exploration for minerals within the United States, its Territories and possessions.”