§ 1221. — Authorization of State allotments to institutes.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC1221]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 25--SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION
SUBCHAPTER III--STATE MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Sec. 1221. Authorization of State allotments to institutes
(a)(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of
the Interior (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the
``Secretary'') funds adequate to provide for each participating State
$400,000 for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1990, through
September 30, 1994, to assist the States in carrying on the work of a
competent and qualified mining and mineral resources research institute
or center (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the
``institute'') at one public college or university in the State which
meets the eligibility criteria established in section 1230 of this
title.
(2)(A) Funds appropriated under this section shall be made available
for grants to be matched on a basis of no less than 2 non-Federal
dollars for each Federal dollar.
(B) If there is more than one such eligible college or university in
a State, funds appropriated under this subchapter shall, in the absence
of a designation to the contrary by act of the legislature of the State,
be granted to one such college or university designated by the Governor
of the State.
(C) Where a State does not have a public college or university
eligible under section 1230 of this title, the Committee on Mining and
Mineral Resources Research established in section 1229 of this title
(hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the ``Committee'') may
allocate the State's allotment to one private college or university
which it determines to be eligible under such section.
(b) It shall be the duty of each institute to plan and conduct, or
arrange for a component or components of the college or university with
which it is affiliated to conduct research, investigations,
demonstrations, and experiments of either, or both, a basic or practical
nature in relation to mining and mineral resources, and to provide for
the training of mineral engineers and scientists through such research,
investigations, demonstrations, and experiments. The subject of such
research, investigation, demonstration, experiment, and training may
include exploration; extraction; processing; development; production of
fuel and nonfuel mineral resources; mining and mineral technology;
supply and demand for minerals; conservation and best use of available
supplies of minerals; the economic, legal, social, engineering,
recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other aspects of
mining, mineral resources, and mineral reclamation. Such research,
investigation, demonstration, experiment and training shall consider the
interrelationship with the natural environment, the varying conditions
and needs of the respective States, and mining and mineral resources
research projects being conducted by agencies of the Federal and State
governments and other institutes.
(Pub. L. 98-409, Sec. 1, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1536; Pub. L. 100-483,
Secs. 2-4, Oct. 12, 1988, 102 Stat. 2339.)
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Mining and Mineral Resources
Research Institute Act of 1984, and not as part of the Surface Mining
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 1221, Pub. L. 95-87, title III, Sec. 301, Aug. 3,
1977, 91 Stat. 451, contained provisions similar to this section
covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.
Amendments
1988--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100-483, Sec. 2, substituted
``$400,000 for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1990,
through September 30, 1994'' for ``$300,000 for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1985, and $400,000 to each participating State for each
fiscal year thereafter for a total of five years''.
Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 100-483, Sec. 3, amended subpar. (A)
generally. Prior to amendment, subpar. (A) read as follows: ``Funds
appropriated under this section shall be made available for grants to be
matched on a basis of no less than one and one-half non-Federal dollars
for each Federal dollar during the fiscal years ending September 30,
1985, and September 30, 1986, and no less than two non-Federal dollars
for each Federal dollar during the fiscal years ending September 30,
1987, September 30, 1988, and September 30, 1989.''
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100-483, Sec. 4, substituted ``production of
fuel and nonfuel mineral resources'' for ``production of mineral
resources''.
Short Title
For short title of Pub. L. 98-409, which enacted this subchapter, as
the Mining and Mineral Resources Institutes Act, see section 11 of Pub.
L. 98-409, as amended, set out as a note under section 1201 of this
title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1223, 1226 of this title.
