---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 554"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "554"
heading: "Lands subject to chapter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/554"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Control of Coal-Mine Fires"
---

# §554. Lands subject to chapter


The acts authorized in [section 553 of this title](/usc/30/553.md) may be performed—

- (a) on lands owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, with the cooperation of the agency having jurisdiction thereof; and
- (b) on any other lands, upon obtaining proper consent or the necessary rights or interests in such lands: Provided, however, That expenditure of Federal funds for this purpose in any privately owned operating coal mine shall be limited to the acts authorized in [section 553(a) of this title](/usc/30/553.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, § 4, 68 Stat. 1009.)