# § 1224. Duties of Secretary
**(a)** **Consulting with other agencies; prescribing rules and regulations; furnishing advice and assistance; coordinating research** The Secretary, acting through the Director of the United States Bureau of Mines, shall administer this subchapter and, after full consultation with other interested Federal agencies, shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provisions. The Secretary shall furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this subchapter, shall participate in coordinating research initiated under this subchapter by the institutes, shall indicate to them such lines of inquiry that seem most important, and shall encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and between the institutes and between them and other research organizations, the United States Department of the Interior, and other Federal establishments.
**(b)** **Annual ascertainment of compliance** August 29, 1984section 1223(a) of this title
On or before the first day of July in each year beginning after , the Secretary shall ascertain whether the requirements of have been met as to each institute and State.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 98–409, § 4, Aug. 29, 1984, 98 Stat. 1538; Pub. L. 100–483, § 6, Oct. 12, 1988, 102 Stat. 2340; Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.)
## Editorial Notes
### Codification
Subsec. (c) of this section, which required the Secretary to make an annual report to Congress on the receipts, expenditures, and work of the institutes in all States under the provisions of this subchapter, terminated, effective , pursuant to , as amended, set out as a note under , Money and Finance. See, also, page 109 of House Document No. 103–7.
Section was enacted as part of the Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute Act of 1984, and not as part of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.
### Prior Provisions
A prior section 1224, , , , contained provisions similar to this section covering fiscal years 1978 through 1984.
### Amendments
1988—Subsec. (a). inserted “, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines,” after “The Secretary”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Change of Name
“United States Bureau of Mines” substituted for “Bureau of Mines” in subsec. (a) 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 .