---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1443"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1443"
heading: "Protection of interim investments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1443"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources"
  - "Subchapter II — Transition to International Agreement"
---

# §1443. Protection of interim investments


In order to further the objectives set forth in [section 1441 of this title](/usc/30/1441.md), the [Administrator](/usc/30/1403.md?p=12), not more than one year after June 28, 1980—

- (1) shall submit to the Congress proposed legislation necessary for the [United States](/usc/30/1403.md?p=13) to implement a system for the protection of interim investments that has been adopted as part of an [international agreement](/usc/30/1403.md?p=7) and any resolution relating to such [international agreement](/usc/30/1403.md?p=7); or
- (2) if a system for the protection of interim investments has not been so adopted, shall report to the Congress on the status of negotiations relating to the establishment of such a system.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–283, title II, § 203, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 576.)