---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 50e"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "50e"
heading: "USGS energy and minerals research facility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/50e"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — United States Geological Survey"
---

# §50e. USGS energy and minerals research facility

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Director](/usc/43/31b.md?p=3) of the United States Geological [Survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) (referred to in this section as the “[Director](/usc/43/31b.md?p=3)”),[^1] shall fund, through a cooperative agreement with an academic partner, the design, construction, and tenant build-out of a facility to support energy and minerals research and appurtenant associated structures.
- (b) **Ownership—** The United States Geological [Survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) shall retain ownership of the facility and associated structures described in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Agreements—** The [Director](/usc/43/31b.md?p=3) may enter into agreements with, and to collect and expend funds or in-kind contributions from, academic, Federal, [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8), or other tenants over the life of the facility described in [subsection (a)](#a) for the purposes of—
  - (1) facility planning;
  - (2) design;
  - (3) maintenance;
  - (4) operation; or
  - (5) facility improvements.
- (d) **Leases—** The [Director](/usc/43/31b.md?p=3) may enter into a lease or other agreement with the academic partner with which the [Director](/usc/43/31b.md?p=3) has entered into a cooperative agreement under [subsection (a)](#a), at no cost to the Federal Government, to obtain land on which to construct the facility described in that subsection for a term of not less than 99 years.
- (e) **Reports—** The [Director](/usc/43/31b.md?p=3) shall submit to Congress annual reports on—
  - (1) the facility described in [subsection (a)](#a); and
  - (2) the authorities used under this section.
- (f) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior to carry out this section $167,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, to remain available until expended.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–58, div. D, title II, § 40204, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 960.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Wage Rate Requirements

For provisions relating to rates of wages to be paid to laborers and mechanics on projects for construction, alteration, or repair work funded under div. D or an amendment by div. D of Pub. L. 117–58, including authority of Secretary of Labor, see section 18851 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.