# § 1a. Transfer of activities, employees, records, etc., from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the United States Bureau of Mines
There is hereby transferred from the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, to the Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Mines, all those activities of the Minerals Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce concerned with economic and statistical analyses of mineral commodities, domestic and foreign, together with all employees, records, files, equipment, publications, and funds pertaining thereto, effective immediately.
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**Source Credit**: (May 9, 1935, ch. 101, § 1, 49 Stat. 205; Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.)
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Change of Name
“United States Bureau of Mines” substituted in text for “Bureau of Mines” pursuant to , set out as a note under . For provisions relating to closure and transfer of functions of the United States Bureau of Mines, see Transfer of Functions note set out under .