---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1312"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1312"
heading: "Financial assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1312"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation"
  - "Subchapter VIII — University Coal Research Laboratories"
---

# §1312. Financial assistance

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) of Energy is authorized to make grants to any [institution of higher education](/usc/30/1291.md?p=32) designated under [section 1311 of this title](/usc/30/1311.md) to pay the Federal share of the cost of establishing (including the construction of such facilities as may be necessary) and maintaining a [coal laboratory](/usc/30/1291.md?p=31).
- (b) Each [institution of higher education](/usc/30/1291.md?p=32) designated pursuant to [section 1311 of this title](/usc/30/1311.md) shall submit an application to the [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) of Energy. Each such application shall—
  - (1) set forth the program to be conducted at the [coal laboratory](/usc/30/1291.md?p=31) which includes the purposes set forth in [section 1311(d) of this title](/usc/30/1311.md?p=d);
  - (2) provide assurances that the university will pay from non-Federal sources the remaining costs of carrying out the program set forth;
  - (3) provide such fiscal control and [fund](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7) accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure the proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal [funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7) received under this subchapter;
  - (4) provide for making an annual report which shall include a description of the activities conducted at the [coal laboratory](/usc/30/1291.md?p=31) and an evaluation of the success of such activities, and such other necessary reports in such form and containing such information as the [Secretary](/usc/30/1291.md?p=23) of Energy may require, and for keeping such records and affording such access thereto as may be necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; and
  - (5) set forth such policies and procedures as will insure that Federal [funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7) made available under this section for any fiscal year will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practical, increase the level of [funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7) that would, in the absence of such Federal [funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7), be made available for the purposes of the activities described in subsections (d)(1), (2), and (3) of [section 1311 of this title](/usc/30/1311.md), and in no case supplant such [funds](/usc/30/1291.md?p=7).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–87, title VIII, § 802, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 527; Pub. L. 95–617, title VI, § 604(c), Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3167.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–617 substituted “Secretary of Energy” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.