---
kind: "unit"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
key: "ch25"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 25"
heading: "Surface Mining Control and Reclamation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/ch25"
sections_count: 99
---

# Chapter 25 — Surface Mining Control and Reclamation

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Statement of Findings and Policy](/usc/30/ch25-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement](/usc/30/ch25-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — State Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institutes](/usc/30/ch25-schIII.md)
- [Subchapter IV — Abandoned Mine Reclamations](/usc/30/ch25-schIV.md)
- [Subchapter V — Control of the Environmental Impacts of Surface Coal Mining](/usc/30/ch25-schV.md)
- [Subchapter VI — Designation of Lands Unsuitable for Noncoal Mining](/usc/30/ch25-schVI.md)
- [Subchapter VII — Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions](/usc/30/ch25-schVII.md)
- [Subchapter VIII — University Coal Research Laboratories](/usc/30/ch25-schVIII.md)
- [Subchapter IX — Energy Resource Graduate Fellowships](/usc/30/ch25-schIX.md)