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43 U.S.C. § 31a — Findings and purpose
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) although significant progress has been made in the production of geologic maps since the establishment of the national cooperative geologic mapping program in 1992, no modern, digital, geologic map exists for approximately 75 percent of the United States;
(2) geologic maps are the primary data base for virtually all applied and basic earth-science investigations, including—
(A) exploration for and development of mineral, energy, and water resources;
(B) screening and characterizing sites for toxic and nuclear waste disposal;
(C) land use evaluation and planning for homeland and environmental protection;
(D) earthquake hazards reduction;
(E) identifying volcanic hazards;
(F) design and construction of infrastructure requirements such as utility lifelines, transportation corridors, and surface-water impoundments;
(G) reducing losses from landslides and other ground failures;
(H) mitigating effects of coastal and stream erosion;
(I) siting of critical facilities;
(J) recreation and public awareness; and
(K) basic earth-science research;
(3) Federal agencies, State and local governments, private industry, and the general public depend on the information provided by geologic maps to determine the extent of potential environmental damage before embarking on projects that could lead to preventable, costly environmental problems or litigation;
(4) the combined capabilities of State, Federal, and academic groups to provide geologic mapping are not sufficient to meet the present and future needs of the United States for national security, environmental protection, and energy self-sufficiency of the Nation;
(5) States are willing to contribute 50 percent of the funding necessary to com
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) although significant progress has been made in the production of geologic maps since the establishment of the national cooperative geologic mapping program in 1992, no modern, digital, geologic map exists for approximately 75 percent of the United States;
(2) geologic maps are the primary data base for virtually all applied and basic earth-science investigations, including—
(A) exploration for and development of mineral, energy, and water resources;
(B) screening and characterizing sites for toxic and nuclear waste disposal;
(C) land use evaluation and planning for homeland and environmental protection;
(D) earthquake hazards reduction;
(E) identifying volcanic hazards;
(F) design and construction of infrastructure requirements such as utility lifelines, transportation corridors, and surface-water impoundments;
(G) reducing losses from landslides and other ground failures;
(H) mitigating effects of coastal and stream erosion;
(I) siting of critical facilities;
(J) recreation and public awareness; and
(K) basic earth-science research;
(3) Federal agencies, State and local governments, private industry, and the general public depend on the information provided by geologic maps to determine the extent of potential environmental damage before embarking on projects that could lead to preventable, costly environmental problems or litigation;
(4) the combined capabilities of State, Federal, and academic groups to provide geologic mapping are not sufficient to meet the present and future needs of the United States for national security, environmental protection, and energy self-sufficiency of the Nation;
(5) States are willing to contribute 50 percent of the funding necessary to complete the mapping of the geology within the State;
(6) the lack of proper geologic maps has led to the poor design of such structures as dams and waste-disposal facilities;
(7) geologic maps have proven indispensable in the search for needed fossil-fuel and mineral resources;
(8) geologic map information is required for the sustainable and balanced development of natural resources of all types, including energy, minerals, land, water, and biological resources;
(9) advances in digital technology and geographical information system science have made geologic map databases increasingly available as decision support tools for land and resource management; and
(10) a comprehensive nationwide program of geologic mapping of surficial and bedrock deposits is required in order to systematically build the Nation’s geologic-map data base at a pace that responds to increasing demand.
**(b) Purpose** The purpose of sections 31a to 31h of this title is to expedite the production of a geologic-map data base for the Nation, to be located within the United States Geological Survey, which can be applied to land-use management, assessment, and utilization, conservation of natural resources, groundwater management, and environmental protection and management.
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**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary is authorized, in carrying out the purposes of this chapter, to enter into leases with Indian tribes for periods not in excess of twenty years. Property leased by the Secretary from an Indian tribe may be reconstructed or renovated by the Secretary pursuant to an agreement with such Indian tribe.
**(b)** The Secretary may enter into leases, contracts, and other legal agreements with Indian tribes or tribal organizations which hold—
(1) title to;
(2) a leasehold interest in; or
(3) a beneficial interest in (where title is held by the United States in trust for the benefit of a tribe);
facilities used for the administration and delivery of health services by the Service or by programs operated by Indian tribes or tribal organizations to compensate such Indian tribes or tribal organizations for costs associated with the use of such facilities for such purposes. Such costs include rent, depreciation based on the useful life of the building, principal and interest paid or accrued, operation and maintenance expenses, and other expenses determined by regulation to be allowable.
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There is hereby established in the Department of the Interior a bureau of mining, metallurgy, and mineral technology, to be designated the United States Bureau of Mines, and there shall be a director of said bureau, who shall be thoroughly equipped for the duties of said office by technical education and experience and who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and there shall also be in the said bureau such experts and other employees, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, as may be required to carry out the purposes of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title in accordance with the appropriations made from time to time by Congress for such purposes.
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**(a) Establishment of office; appointment and duties; examination of geological structure, mineral resources, and products of national domain; prohibitions in respect to lands and surveys** The Director of the United States Geological Survey, which office is established, under the Interior Department, shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. This officer shall have the direction of the United States Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain. The Director and members of the United States Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations.
**(b) Examination of geological structure, mineral resources, and products outside national domain** The authority of the Secretary of the Interior, exercised through the United States Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior, to examine the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, is expanded to authorize such examinations outside the national domain where determined by the Secretary to be in the national interest.
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**(a) Establishment; administration; State funds** There is created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund (hereinafter referred to as the “fund”) which shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior. State abandoned mine reclamation funds (State funds) generated by grants from this subchapter shall be established by each State pursuant to an approved State program.
**(b) Sources of deposits to fund** The fund shall consist of amounts deposited in the fund, from time to time derived from—
(1) the reclamation fees levied under [section 1232 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section1232&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) any user charge imposed on or for land reclaimed pursuant to this subchapter after expenditures for maintenance have been deducted;
(3) donations by persons, corporations, associations, and foundations for the purposes of this subchapter;
(4) recovered moneys as provided for in this subchapter; and
(5) interest credited to the fund under subsection (e).
**(c) Use of moneys** Moneys in the fund may be used for the following purposes:
(1) reclamation and restoration of land and water resources adversely affected by past coal mining, including but not limited to reclamation and restoration of abandoned surface mine areas, abandoned coal processing areas, and abandoned coal refuse disposal areas; sealing and filling abandoned deep mine entries and voids; planting of land adversely affected by past coal mining to prevent erosion and sedimentation; prevention, abatement, treatment, and control of water pollution created by coal mine drainage including restoration of stream beds, and construction and operation of water treatment pl
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Under such terms and conditions as he shall determine, the President is hereby authorized to extend, or to enter into an agreement extending, to the representatives of member states (other than the United States) to the Organization of American States and to permanent observers to the Organization of American States, and to members of the staffs of said representatives and permanent observers, the same privileges and immunities, subject to corresponding conditions and obligations, as are enjoyed by diplomatic envoys accredited to the United States.
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**(a) Short title** This section may be cited as the “National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Act of 2005”.
**(b) Program** The Secretary shall carry out a National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program in accordance with this section—
(1) to archive geologic, geophysical, and engineering data, maps, well logs, and samples;
(2) to provide a national catalog of such archival material;
(3) to provide technical and financial assistance related to the archival material; and
(4) to provide for preservation of samples to track geochemical signatures from critical mineral (as defined in [section 1606(a) of title 30](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section1606/a&num=0&edition=prelim)) ore bodies for use in provenance tracking frameworks.
**(c) Plan** Not later than 1 year after August 8, 2005, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a plan for the implementation of the Program.
**(d) Data archive system**
(1) **Establishment** — The Secretary shall establish, as a component of the Program, a data archive system to provide for the storage, preservation, and archiving of subsurface, surface, geological, geophysical, and engineering data and samples. The Secretary, in consultation with the Advisory Committee, shall develop guidelines relating to the data archive system, including the types of data and samples to be preserved.
(2) **System components** — The system shall be comprised of State agencies that elect to be part of the system and agencies within the Department of the Interior that maintain geological and geophysical data and samples that are designated by the Secretary in accordance with this subsection. The Program shall provide for the storage of data and samples through data repositories
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In sections 31a to 31h of this title:
(1) **Advisory committee** — The term “advisory committee” means the advisory committee established under [section 31d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section31d&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Association** — The term “Association” means the Association of American State Geologists.
(3) **Director** — The term “Director” means the Director of the United States Geological Survey.
(4) **Education component** — The term “education component” means the education component of the geologic mapping program described in [section 31c(d)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section31c/d/3&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Federal component** — The term “Federal component” means the Federal component of the geologic mapping program described in [section 31c(d)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section31c/d/1&num=0&edition=prelim).
(6) **Geologic mapping program** — The term “geologic mapping program” means the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program established by [section 31c(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section31c/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
(7) **Secretary** — The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
(8) **State** — The term “State” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.
(9) **State component** — The term “State component” means the State component of the geologic mapping program described in [section 31c(d)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-t
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**(a) In general** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out sections 31a to 31h of this title $64,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2031.
**(b) Allocation of appropriations** Of any amounts appropriated for any fiscal year in excess of the amount appropriated for fiscal year 2005—
(1) 50 percent shall be available for the State component; and
(2) 4 percent shall be available for the education component.
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 31a
‘‘(G) a plan to develop beneficial cooperative rela-
tionships among the entities mentioned in subpara-
graph (F), to the extent that the Interagency Co-
ordinating Group deems practicable; and
‘‘(H) any other information or recommendations
that the Interagency Coordinating Group deems ap-
propriate; and
‘‘(6) submitting to the Congress annually, beginning
one year after the submission of a report under para-
graph (5), a report describing the levels of resources
and funding that would be required by each partici-
pating Federal agency for the next fiscal year to
carry out events pursuant to paragraph (5)(A) and
(B).’’
[For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions
of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual,
semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in
House Document No. 103–7 (in which a report required
under section 4(6) of Pub. L. 100–441, set out above, is
listed as the 10th item on page 149), see section 3003 of
Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, and section 1(a)(4) [div. A,
§ 1402(1)] of Pub. L. 106–554, set out as notes under sec-
tion 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance.]
Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 101(c) [title III, § 323], Oct. 12,
1984, 98 Stat. 1837, 1875, provided that: ‘‘It is the sense
of the Congress that the Continental Scientific Drilling
Program is an important national scientific endeavor,
benefiting the commerce of the Nation, which should
be vigorously pursued by Government and the private
sector. The Continental Scientific Drilling Program is
an important national scientific endeavor that is vital
to the understanding of the geologic evolution of the
Earth and the economic value of its resources; the most
effective and efficient means of realizing the fullest po-
te
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