---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 644"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "644"
heading: "Advice and assistance by Government departments and agencies; expenditure of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/644"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Exploration Program for Discovery of Minerals"
---

# §644. Advice and assistance by Government departments and agencies; expenditure of funds


Departments and agencies of the Government are authorized to advise and assist the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior, upon his request, in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and may expend their funds for such purposes, with or without reimbursement, in accordance with such agreements as may be necessary.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–701, § 4, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 701.)