---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1221"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1221"
heading: "Authorization of State allotments to institutes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1221"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation"
  - "Subchapter III — State Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institutes"
---

# §1221. Authorization of State allotments to institutes

- (a)
  - (1) There are authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) of the Interior (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23)”) [funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7) adequate to provide for each participating [State](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24) $400,000 for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1990, through September 30, 1994, to assist the [States](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24) in carrying on the work of a competent and qualified mining and mineral resources [research](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1) institute or center (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “institute”) at one public college or university in the [State](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24) which meets the eligibility criteria established in [section 1230 of this title](/usc/30/1230.md).
  - (2)
    - (A) [Funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7) 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](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24), [funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7) appropriated under this subchapter shall, in the absence of a designation to the contrary by act of the legislature of the [State](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24), be granted to one such college or university designated by the Governor of the [State](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24).
    - (C) Where a [State](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24) does not have a public college or university eligible under [section 1230 of this title](/usc/30/1230.md), the Committee on Mining and Mineral Resources [Research](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1) established in [section 1229 of this title](/usc/30/1229.md) (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Committee”) may allocate the [State](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24)’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](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1), 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](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1), investigations, demonstrations, and experiments. The subject of such [research](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1), 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](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1), investigation, demonstration, experiment and training shall consider the interrelationship with the natural environment, the varying conditions and needs of the respective [States](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24), and mining and mineral resources [research](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1) projects being conducted by agencies of the Federal and [State](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24) governments and other institutes.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–409, § 1, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1536; Pub. L. 100–483, §§ 2–4, Oct. 12, 1988, 102 Stat. 2339.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### 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, § 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, § 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, § 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, § 4, substituted “production of fuel and nonfuel mineral resources” for “production of mineral resources”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.