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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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