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Services on the basis of the fair market value at the time of each transfer) an amount to be fixed by the appropriation Act or Acts relating to the acquisition of materials under this Act.

(b) Any transfer made pursuant to this section shall be made without charge against or reimbursement from the funds available under this Act, except that expenses incident to such transfer may be paid or reimbursed from such funds* **

(e) Section 22 of the Act of October 3, 1944 (58 Stat. 765), is hereby repealed: Provided, That any owning agency as defined in that Act having control of materials that, when determined to be surplus, are required to be transferred to the stock piles pursuant to subsection (a) hereof, shall make such determination as soon as such materials in fact become surplus to its needs and responsibilities.

SEC. 7. (a) The Secretary of the Interior, through the 50 U.S.C. 98f Director of the Bureau of Mines and the Director of Geological Survey, is hereby authorized and directed to make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the extent and mode of occurrence, the development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances found in the United States or its Territories or insular possessions, which are essential to the common defense or the industrial needs of the United States and the quantities or grades of which are inadequate from known domestic sources, in order to determine and develop domestic sources of supply, to devise new methods for the treatment and utilization of lower grade reserves, and to develop substitutes for such essential ores and mineral products; on public lands and on privately owned lands, with the consent of the owner, to explore and demonstrate the extent and quality of deposits of such minerals, including core drilling, trenching, testpitting, shaft sinking, drifting, cross-cutting sampling, and metallurgical investigations and tests as may be necessary to determine the extent and quality of such deposits, the most suitable methods of mining and beneficiating them, and the cost at which the minerals or metals may be produced.

(b) The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations of the feasibility of developing domestic sources of supplies of any agricultural material or for using agricultural commodities for the manufacture of any material determined pursuant to section 2 of this Act to be strategic and critical or substitutes therefor.

SEC. 8. For the procurement, transportation, mainte- 50 U.S.C. 98g nance, rotation, storage, and refining or processing of the materials to be acquired under this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any

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money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as the Congress, from time to time, may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. The funds so appropriated, including the funds heretofore appropriated, shall remain available to carry out the purposes for which appropriated until expended, and shall be expended under the direction of the President.

SEC. 9. Any funds heretofore or hereafter received on account of sales or other dispositions of materials under the provisions of this Act, except funds received on account of the rotation of stocks, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

SEC. 10. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after January 1, 1972, the President may not prohibit or regulate the importation into the United States of any material determined to be strategic and critical pursuant to the provisions of this Act, if such material is the product of any foreign country or area not listed as a Communist-dominated country or area in general headnote 3(d) of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202), for so long as the importation into the United States of material of that kind which is the product of such Communist-dominated countries or areas is not prohibited by any provision of law.

SEC. 11. This act may be cited as the "Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act”.

Approved June 7, 1939.

SUPPLEMENTAL STOCKPILE

68 Stat. 456, as amended by 73 Stat. 607

SEC. 104. Notwithstanding section 1415 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, or any other provision of law, the President may use or enter into agreements with friendly nations or organizations of nations to use the foreign currencies which accrue under this title for one or more of the following purposes:

(b) To purchase or contract to purchase, in such amounts as may be specified from time to time in appropriation acts, strategic or other materials for a supplemental United States stockpile of such materials as the President may determine from time to time. Such strategic or other materials acquired under this subsection shall be placed in the above named supplemental stockpile and shall be released therefrom only under the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act;* **

Approved July 10, 1954.

NOTE: Section 104(b) above was a part of Title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended. The Food for Peace Act of 1966, P.L. 89-808 (80 Stat. 1526), in amending Title I, omitted the foregoing provision relating to the supplemental stockpile. The material is, however, retained herein because of its significance with respect to the supplemental stockpile.

TRANSFERS TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL STOCKPILE
70 Stat. 200, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1856(a))

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SEC. 206. (a) Strategic and other materials acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of barter or exchange of agricultural commodities or products, unless acquired for the national stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h), or for other purposes shall be transferred to the supplemental stockpile established by section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1704); but no strategic or critical material shall be acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of such barter or exchange except for such national stockpile, for such supplemental stockpile, for foreign economic or military aid or assistance programs, or for offshore construction programs, or to meet requirements of Government agencies.

Approved May 28, 1956.

WILLIAM LANGER JEWEL BEARING PLANT

a. P.L. 89-784 (80 Stat. 1367)

*** the Jewel Bearing Plant operated and maintained by the General Services Administration at Rolla, North Dakota, shall hereafter be known as the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant, and any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such plant is designated or referred to shall be held to refer to such plant under and by the name of the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant. Approved November 6, 1966.

b. P.L. 90-469 (82 Stat. 666)

*** the Administrator of General Services is authorized to provide for the operation, by contract or otherwise, of the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant, located at Rolla, North Dakota, to produce jewel bearings and related items for Government use or for sale, at prices determined by the Administrator to be sufficient to cover the estimated or actual costs of production, including depreciation.

SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be established on the books of the Treasury a separate fund, which shall be available for use by or under the direction and control of the Administrator, without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary for the operation of the plant, including personal services and travel; advancement of production technology; materials, supplies, and services; maintenance, repair, improvement, and purchase of machinery, tools and equipment; transportation and other utility services; maintenance, repair, alteration, and improvement of existing buildings; provision of working capital, and other necessary manufacturing, general, and administrative expenses.

SEC. 3. Upon the termination of the existing lease of the plant, the Administrator is authorized to transfer to the said fund, at values established by him, the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant, including land, buildings, machinery, equipment, tools, raw materials, work in process, finished goods, accounts receivable, the balance of the direct order rental account established under said lease, and any other assets of the Government related to said plant. There are authorized to be appropriated to said fund any additional sums which may be required for the operation of the plant which together with the value of the assets transferred to the fund by the Administrator pursuant to this section, shall constitute the capital of the fund.

SEC. 4. The fund shall be credited with the proceeds of all transfers, sales, advances, refunds, and recoveries resulting from the operation of the plant and the fund, including the net proceeds of disposal of surplus personal property of the fund and receipts from carriers and others for loss of, or damage to, property of the fund.

SEC. 5. As of the close of each fiscal year, any net income of the fund, after making provision for prior year losses, if any, shall be transferred to the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.

SEC. 6. In the event the plant is operated by contract, advances from the fund may be made to the contractor for the purposes set forth in section 2, and the proceeds and receipts referred to in section 4 may initially be credited to a special subsidiary fund established by the contractor for that purpose in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Administrator.

Approved August 8, 1968.

5. FEDERAL SUPPLY

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General Procurement activities

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Waiver of certain laws in connection with the foreign aid program
Expenditures for motor vehicles and aircraft; official use
Federal Government motor vehicle safety standards

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Treasury, Postal Service and General Appropriations Act of 1976

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Clean Air Act; Development of low-emission vehicles

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Passenger motor vehicles; purchase of additional equipment

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Clean Air Act: Federal procurement

Small Business Emergency Relief Act

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Administration of Clean Air Act; Federal Contracts

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