---
kind: "unit"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
key: "ch25/schVII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter VII"
heading: "Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/ch25-schVII"
sections_count: 23
---

# Subchapter VII — Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining › Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation

## Sections

- [§1291. Definitions](/usc/30/1291.md)
- [§1292. Other Federal laws](/usc/30/1292.md)
- [§1293. Employee protection](/usc/30/1293.md)
- [§1294. Penalty](/usc/30/1294.md)
- [§1295. Grants to States](/usc/30/1295.md)
- [§1296. Annual report to President and Congress](/usc/30/1296.md)
- [§1297. Separability](/usc/30/1297.md)
- [§1298. Alaskan surface coal mine study](/usc/30/1298.md)
- [§1299. Study of reclamation standards for surface mining of other minerals](/usc/30/1299.md)
- [§1300. Indian lands](/usc/30/1300.md)
- [§1301. Experimental practices](/usc/30/1301.md)
- [§1302. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/30/1302.md)
- [§1303. Coordination of regulatory and inspection activities](/usc/30/1303.md)
- [§1304. Surface owner protection](/usc/30/1304.md)
- [§1305. Federal lessee protection](/usc/30/1305.md)
- [§1306. Effect on rights of owner of coal in Alaska to conduct surface mining operations](/usc/30/1306.md)
- [§1307. Water rights and replacement](/usc/30/1307.md)
- [§1308. Advance appropriations](/usc/30/1308.md)
- [§1308a. Use of civil penalty funds to reclaim lands](/usc/30/1308a.md)
- [§1308b. Transfer of computer hardware, software and other technical equipment](/usc/30/1308b.md)
- [§1309. Certification and training of blasters](/usc/30/1309.md)
- [§1309a. Subsidence](/usc/30/1309a.md)
- [§1309b. Research](/usc/30/1309b.md)