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title: "30 U.S.C. § 1313"
description: "Limitation on payments"
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title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
chapter_number: "25"
chapter_name: "SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION"
section: "1313"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1313"
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# 30 U.S.C. § 1313 - Limitation on payments

## Text

(a) No institutions of higher education may receive more than $4,000,000 for the construction of its coal research laboratory, including initially installed fixed equipment, nor may it receive more than $1,500,000 for initially installed movable equipment, nor may it receive more than $500,000 for new program startup expenses.

(b) No institution of higher education may receive more than $1,500,000 per year from the Federal Government for operating expenses.

(Pub. L. 95–87, title VIII, § 803, Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 528.)