Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation
• Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain
• Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands
• Geological Survey
• International fishing agreements
• Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes
• Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects and easements of public lands for irrigation projects; and acquisition of private lands when necessary to complete irrigation projects
• Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment of Native American lands and general and special measures relating to claims that are paid out of Native American funds
• Insular areas of the United States generally (except those affecting the revenue and appropriations)
• Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals
• Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder
• Mineral resources of public lands
• Mining interests generally
• Mining schools and experimental stations
• Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters)
• Oceanography
• Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of the radium supply in the United States
• Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain
• Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon
• Relations of the United States with Native Americans and Native American tribes
• Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking)

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Child labor
• Gallaudet University and Howard University and Hospital
• Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce
• Food programs for children in schools
• Labor standards and statistics
• Education or labor generally
• Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes
• Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers under contract
• Workers’ compensation
• Vocational rehabilitation
• Wages and hours of labor
• Welfare of miners
• Work incentive programs
• Organization, administration, and general management of the Department of Education
• Organization, administration, and general management of the Department of Labor

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Federal civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement
• Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general (other than appropriations)
• Federal paperwork reduction
• Government management and accounting measures generally
• Holidays and celebrations
• Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government operations and activities, including Federal procurement
• National archives
• Population and demography generally, including the Census
• Postal service generally, including transportation of the mails
• Public information and records
• Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and municipalities generally
• Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government