30 U.S.C. § 1a — Transfer of activities, employees, records, etc., from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the United States Bureau of Mines

This section moves a specific government function from one federal agency to another. Before this law, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce had a Minerals Division. That division handled economic and statistical analysis of mineral commodities, both domestic and foreign. This section transfers all of that work to the Department of the Interior's United States Bureau of Mines. The transfer covers everything connected to the work, not just the tasks themselves. It includes the employees who did the work, the government's records and files about it, the equipment used, and any publications produced. It also includes the funds set aside for that work. The transfer took effect immediately when this law was passed. No separate action or waiting period is described.