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30 U.S.C. § 551 — Declaration of policy

submitted 72 years ago by ch. 1156 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 84 words · no verdicts yet

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Congress states that coal outcrop and underground fires waste national fuel resources and threaten public health, safety, and surface property. Its policy is to control and extinguish those fires.

Congress declares that fires in coal outcrops and underground coal formations seriously waste the Nation’s fuel resources and threaten public health and safety and surface property. Congress therefore declares a policy of controlling and extinguishing those fires to prevent injury and death, protect public health, conserve natural resources, and preserve public and private surface property.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

It is recognized that outcrop and underground fires in coal formations involve serious wastage of the fuel resources of the Nation, and constitute a menace to the health and safety of the public and to surface property. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the Congress to provide for the control and extinguishment of outcrop and underground coal fires and thereby to prevent injuries and loss of life, protect public health, conserve natural resources, and to preserve public and private surface property.

Source credit: (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, § 1, 68 Stat. 1009.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1954Enacted · Act of Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156 · 68 Stat. 1009

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1156 on 1954-08-31.

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