---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 557"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "557"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/557"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Control of Coal-Mine Fires"
---

# §557. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior may issue rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, § 7, 68 Stat. 1011.)