---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1296"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1296"
heading: "Annual report to President and Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1296"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation"
  - "Subchapter VII — Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §1296. Annual report to President and Congress


The [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) shall submit annually to the President and the Congress a report concerning activities conducted by him, the Federal Government, and the [States](/usc/30/1291.md?p=24) pursuant to this chapter. Among other matters, the [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) shall include in such report recommendations for additional administrative or legislative action as he deems necessary and desirable to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–87, title VII, § 706, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 521.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Termination of Reporting Requirements

For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in this section relating to requirement to submit a report annually to Congress, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 109 of House Document No. 103–7.