---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 293"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "293"
heading: "Duties of Secretary of the Interior"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/293"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Lease of Gold, Silver, or Quicksilver Deposits When Title Confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims"
---

# §293. Duties of Secretary of the Interior


The [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying this chapter into full force and effect.


## Source credit

(June 8, 1926, ch. 503, § 3, 44 Stat. 710.)