Item Table 4.-Machine tools inventories, May 1964 Showing by item net changes during the month in terms of cost value and quantity Source: Compiled from reports submitted by the General Services Administration. Defense Production Act: Table 5.-Helium inventories, May 1964 (Showing by item net changes during the month in terms of cost value and quantity) Source: Compiled from reports submitted by the Department of the Interior. Net change during month 22, 500, 000 3, 512, 200, 000 +7,600,000 +286, 100, 000 3,534,700,000 +293,700,000 APPENDIXES APPENDIX A PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS AND STATUTORY CITATIONS National stockpile STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS The Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h) provides for the establishment and maintenance of a national stockpile of strategic and critical materials. The General Services Administration is responsible for making purchases of strategic and critical materials and providing for their storage, security, and maintenance. These functions are performed in accordance with directives issued by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning. The act also provides for the transfer from other Government agencies of strategic and critical materials which are excess to the needs of such other agencies and are required to meet the stockpile objectives established by OEP. In addition, the General Services Administration is responsible for disposing of those strategic and critical materials which OEP determines to be no longer needed for stockpile purposes. General policies for strategic and critical materials stockpiling are contained in DMO V-7, issued by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning and published in the Federal Register of December 19, 1959 (24 F.R. 10309). Portions of this order relate also to Defense Production Act inventories. Defense Production Act Under section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2093 and Executive Order 10480, as amended, the General Services Administration is authorized to make purchases of or commitments to purchase metals, minerals, and other materials, for Government use or resale, in order to expand productive capacity and supply, and also to store the materials acquired as a result of such purchases or commitments. Such functions are carried out in accordance with programs certified by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning. Supplemental-barter As a result of a delegation of authority from OEP (32A C.F.R., ch. I, DMO V-4) the General Services Administration is responsible for the maintenance and storage of materials placed in the supplemental stockpile. Section 206 of the Agricultural Act of 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1856) provides that strategic and other materials acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation as a result of barter or exchange of agricultural products, unless acquired for the national stockpile 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(b)). In addition to the materials which have been or may be so acquired, the materials obtained under the programs established pursuant to the Domestic Tungsten, Asbestos, Fluorspar, and Columbium-Tantalum Production and Purchase Act of 1956 (50 U.S.C. App. 2191-2195), which terminated December 31, 1958, have been transferred to the supplemental stockpile, as authorized by the provisions of said Production and Purchase Act. The price-support program AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES Price-support operations are carried out under the charter powers (15 U.S.C. 714) of the Commodity Credit Corporation, Department of Agriculture, in conformity with the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421), the Agricultural Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1741), which includes the National Wool Act of 1954, the Agricultural Act of 1956 (7 U.S.C. 1442), the Agricultural Act of 1958 and with rectores sovered by the report are tabulated in Tade I -Sorategic and critical materials tres grades), SET THE SCowing by commodity net changes ding the monta in terms of cost raize and quantity, and excesses over knockpile objectives in terms of quantity is of the end of the Tule 2-Agric Atural commodities Brectories, May 1964 sowing by commodity net changes during the month in tama of eet value and quantity. Tade 1-C3d defense supplies and equipment inventories, Mar 1964 Ahowing by item net changes during the month in terms of cost value and quantity). Cole 4.-Machine tools inventories. May 1964 (showing by tem net changes during the month in terms of cost value and Table 5. Helium inventories, May 1964 (showing by item net changes during the month in terms of cost value and quantity) Non dockpile objectives The Office of Emergency Planning is in the process of establishing new or entives for strategic and critical materials. Tanie I of this report reflects the new objectives established between May 1963 and April 1964 for 79 materials, based on essential needs in the event of a "conventional war emergency". Appendix B, beginning on page 22, contains excerpts from Office of Emergency Planning statements setting forth the new policy and murrent studies with respect to objectives for strategic and critical materials required for "conventional war emergency" and "nuclear war emergency." |