---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1227"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1227"
heading: "Center for cataloging"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1227"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation"
  - "Subchapter III — State Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institutes"
---

# §1227. Center for cataloging


The [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) shall establish a center for cataloging current and projected scientific [research](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1) in all fields of mining and mineral resources. Each Federal agency doing mining and mineral resources [research](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1) shall cooperate by providing the cataloging center with information on work underway or scheduled by it. The cataloging center shall classify and maintain for public use a catalog of mining and mineral resources [research](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-1) and investigation projects in progress or scheduled by all Federal agencies and by such non-Federal agencies of government, colleges, universities, private institutions, firms, and individuals as may make such information available.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–409, § 7, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1540.)

## 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 1227, Pub. L. 95–87, title III, § 307, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 455, contained provisions similar to this section covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.