---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 31i"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "31i"
heading: "Report on resource research activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/31i"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — United States Geological Survey"
---

# §31i. Report on resource research activities


Once every five years the National Academy of Sciences shall review and report on the resource research activities of the [Survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101(c) [title I], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–156, 1321–165; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327.)