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 91 STAT. 452

PUBLIC LAW 95-87—AUG. 3, 1977 to one such college or university designated by the Governor of the State; and (3) where a State does not have a public college or university with an eligible school of mines, or division, or department conducting a program of substantial instruction and research in mining or mineral extraction, said advisory committee may allocate the State's allotment to one private college or university which it determines to have an eligible school of mines, or division, or department as provided herein, (b) I t shall be the duty of each such institute to plan and conduct and / o r arrange for a component or components of the college or university with which it is affiliated to conduct competent research, inve.stigations, demonstrations, and experiments of either a basic or practical nature, or both, in relation to mining and mineral resources and to provide for the training of mineral engineers and scientists through such research, investigations, demonstrations, and experiments. Such r'esearch, investigations, demonstrations, experiments, and training may include, without being limited; exploration; extraction; processi n g; and development; production of mineral resources; mining and mineral technology; supply and demand for minerals; conservation and best use of available supplies of minerals; the economic, legal, social, engineering, recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other aspects of mining, mineral resources, and mineral reclamation, having due regard to the interrelation on the natural environment, the varying conditions and needs of the respective States, and to mining and mineral resources research projects being conducted by agencies of the Federal and State governments, and other institutes. RESEARCH FUNDS TO INSTITUTES

Appropriation authorization.

30 USC 1222.

Application, contents.

SEC. 302. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated annually for seven years to the Secretary of the Interior the sum of $15,000,000 in fiscal year 1978, said sum increased by $2,000,000 each fiscal year thereafter for six years, which shall remain available until expended. Such moneys when appropriated shall be made available to institutes to meet the necessary expenses for purposes of: (1) specific mineral research and demonstration projects of industrywide application, which could not otherwise be undertaken, including the expenses of planning and coordinating regional mining and mineral resources research projects by two or more institutes, and (2) research into any aspects of mining and mineral resources problems related to the mission of the Department of the Interior, which may be deemed desirable and are not otherwise being studied. (b) E a c h application for a g r a n t pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall, among other things, state the nature of the project to be undertaken, the period during which it will be pursued, the qualifications of the personnel who will direct and conduct it, the estimated costs, the importance of the project to the Nation, region, or State concerned, and its relation to other known research projects theretofore pursued or being pursued, and the extent to which it will provide opportunity for the t r a i n i n g of mining and mineral engineers and scientists, and the extent of participation by nongovernmental sources in the project. (c) The Secretary shall, insofar as it is practicable, utilize the facilities of institutes designated in section 301 of this title to perforin such special research, authorized by this section, and shall select the

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