Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 18 — Coal Research and Development
§ 666. Public-availability requirement; national defense; patent agreements
Statutory text
No research shall be carried out, contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this chapter, unless all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research will (with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense) be available to the general public. Whenever in the estimation of the Secretary the purposes of this chapter would be furthered through the use of patented processes or equipment, the Secretary is authorized to enter into such agreements as he deems necessary for the acquisition or use of such patents on reasonable terms and conditions.
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. 86–599 § 4 · 74 Stat. 336
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 666
Pub. L. 86–599, § 4, formerly § 6, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 337
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 86–599, § 4, formerly § 6, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 337Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. The Secretary may appoint a Director of Coal Research without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws, or the Classification 5 USC 1071 note. 70 Stat. 739. Act of 1949, as amended. Section 107(a) of the Federal Executive Pay Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2206(a)), which prescribes an annual rate of basic compensation of $17,500 for certain positions, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: “(23) Director of Coal Research, Department of the Interior”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 4 of Pub. L. 86–599 was classified to section 664 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 109–58, § 1009(a)(1)(C).
Credits
1960–2005 · 2 acts
- 1960Pub. L. 86–599, § 4, formerly § 6, , 74 Stat. 337
- 2005renumbered § 4, Pub. L. 109–58, title X, § 1009(a)(1)(D), , 119 Stat. 934.
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(Pub. L. 86–599, § 4, formerly § 6, , 74 Stat. 337; renumbered § 4, Pub. L. 109–58, title X, § 1009(a)(1)(D), , 119 Stat. 934.)