---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 10"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "10"
heading: "Headquarters of mine rescue cars; site for experimental work; leases and donations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/10"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — United States Bureau of Mines"
---

# §10. Headquarters of mine rescue cars; site for experimental work; leases and donations


The [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands, buildings, or improvements that may be donated for the headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the site of an experimental mine and plant for studying explosives, and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress.


## Source credit

(June 5, 1920, ch. 235, § 1, 41 Stat. 912; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

See note set out under section 1 of this title.