---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1294"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1294"
heading: "Penalty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1294"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation"
  - "Subchapter VII — Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §1294. Penalty


Any [person](/usc/30/1291.md?p=19) who shall, except as permitted by law, willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with the [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) or any of his agents in the performance of duties pursuant to this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–87, title VII, § 704, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 520.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 704 of Pub. L. 95–87 also amended section 1114 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.