30 U.S.C. § 401 — Establishment of research laboratory; duties
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 146 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 124 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Mines, must set up a research laboratory in North Dakota's lignite-coal region. The lab studies mining, preparing, and using lignite coal, and works to find new uses and markets for it. It also serves as an information center on conserving lignite resources and on safety, health, and sanitation in lignite mining.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain a research laboratory in the lignite-consuming region of North Dakota to conduct researches and investigations on the mining, preparation, and utilization of lignite coal and to develop new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new and extended markets and outlets for lignite coal and its products. Such laboratory shall be planned as a center for information and assistance in matters pertaining to conserving lignite coal resources for national defense and security; to the more efficient mining, preparation, and utilization of lignite coal; and pertaining to safety, health, and sanitation in mining operations and other matters relating to problems of the lignite industry.
Source credit: (Mar. 25, 1948, ch. 146, § 1, 62 Stat. 85.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of Mar. 25, 1948, ch. 146 · 62 Stat. 85
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