| Environmental policy - 1977 - 338 pages
...Geological Survey was established by an Act of Congress in 1879, and charged with responsibility for ". . . the classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources and products of the national domain... ." Taken in their broadest sense, those terms still describe our responsibilities pretty well. In its... | |
| United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter) - Presidents - 1977 - 1252 pages
...Geological Survey. On this day in 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes approved legislation authorizing "the classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources, and products of the national domain." The Geological Survey has had a rich history. It grew from the necessity of our forebears to explore... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1977 - 378 pages
...for Federal involvement in scientific pursuits. The US Geological Survey, established in 1879 41 for the "classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources and products of the national domain," was the result of the need to administer a variety of formal and informal arrangements for the exploration... | |
| Kenneth A. Hammond, George Macinko, Wilma B. Fairchild - Nature - 1978 - 632 pages
...Geological Survey was created by this legislation. The Survey's mission was "the classification of public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the public domain." (20 Stat. 394) 7590. Rivers and Harbors Act. This act required specific Congressional... | |
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