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50 U.S.C. § 98f — Special Presidential disposal authority
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**(a)** Materials in the stockpile may be released for use, sale, or other disposition—
(1) on the order of the President, at any time the President determines the release of such materials is required for purposes of the national defense;
(2) in time of war declared by the Congress or during a national emergency, on the order of any officer or employee of the United States designated by the President to have authority to issue disposal orders under this subsection, if such officer or employee determines that the release of such materials is required for purposes of the national defense; and
(3) on the order of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, if the President has designated the Under Secretary to have authority to issue release orders under this subsection and, in the case of any such order, if the Under Secretary determines that the release of such materials is required for use, manufacture, or production for purposes of national defense.
**(b)** Any order issued under subsection (a) shall be promptly reported by the President, or by the officer or employee issuing such order, in writing, to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
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**(a)** Materials in the stockpile may be released for use, sale, or other disposition—
(1) on the order of the President, at any time the President determines the release of such materials is required for purposes of the national defense;
(2) in time of war declared by the Congress or during a national emergency, on the order of any officer or employee of the United States designated by the President to have authority to issue disposal orders under this subsection, if such officer or employee determines that the release of such materials is required for purposes of the national defense; and
(3) on the order of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, if the President has designated the Under Secretary to have authority to issue release orders under this subsection and, in the case of any such order, if the Under Secretary determines that the release of such materials is required for use, manufacture, or production for purposes of national defense.
**(b)** Any order issued under subsection (a) shall be promptly reported by the President, or by the officer or employee issuing such order, in writing, to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
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**(a) Funds appropriated for acquisitions; proposed stockpile transactions; significant changes therein**
(1) Except for acquisitions made under the authority of paragraph (3) of this section 11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection”. or under the authority of paragraph (3) or (4) of [section 98e(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98e/a&num=0&edition=prelim), no funds may be obligated or appropriated for acquisition of any material under this subchapter unless funds for such acquisition have been authorized by law. Funds appropriated for any acquisition of materials under this subchapter (and for transportation and other incidental expenses related to such acquisition) shall remain available until expended, unless otherwise provided in appropriation Acts.
(2) If for any fiscal year the President proposes (or Congress requires) a significant change in any stockpile transactions proposed in the Annual Materials and Operations Plan for such fiscal year after the National Defense Stockpile Manager submits the report under [section 98h–2(b)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98h–2/b/2&num=0&edition=prelim) containing such plan, or a significant transaction not included in such plan, no amount may be obligated or expended for such transaction during such year until the President has submitted a full statement of the proposed transaction to the appropriate committees of Congress and a period of 30 days has passed from the date of the receipt of such statement by such committees.
(3) Using funds appropriated for acquisition of materials under this subchapter, the National Defense Stockpile Manager may acquire materials determined to be strategic and
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This subchapter may be cited as the “Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act”.
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**(a) Development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances**
(1) The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances that (A) are found in the United States, its territories or possessions, or in a reliable source 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma. (B) are essential to the national defense, industrial, and essential civilian needs of the United States, and (C) are found in known domestic sources in inadequate quantities or grades.
(2) Such investigations shall be carried out in order to develop new sources of strategic and critical materials, develop substitutes, or conserve domestic sources and reliable sources of supply for such strategic and critical materials.
(3) Investigations under paragraph (1) may be carried out on public lands and, with the consent of the owner, on privately owned lands for the purpose of exploring and determining the extent and quality of deposits of such minerals, the most suitable methods of mining and beneficiating such minerals, and the cost at which the minerals or metals may be produced.
**(b) Development of sources of supplies of agricultural materials; use of agricultural commodities for manufacture of materials** The President shall 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 98b(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98b/a&num=0&edition=prelim) to be a strategic a
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TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
§ 98f
1 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma.
of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling
Act which comprises this subchapter.
§ 98f. Special Presidential disposal authority
(a) Materials in the stockpile may be released
for use, sale, or other disposition—
(1) on the order of the President, at any time
the President determines the release of such
materials is required for purposes of the na-
tional defense;
(2) in time of war declared by the Congress
or during a national emergency, on the order
of any officer or employee of the United States
designated by the President to have authority
to issue disposal orders under this subsection,
if such officer or employee determines that
the release of such materials is required for
purposes of the national defense; and
(3) on the order of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, if
the President has designated the Under Sec-
retary to have authority to issue release or-
ders under this subsection and, in the case of
any such order, if the Under Secretary deter-
mines that the release of such materials is re-
quired for use, manufacture, or production for
purposes of national defense.
(b) Any order issued under subsection (a) shall
be promptly reported by the President, or by the
officer or employee issuing such order, in writ-
ing, to the Committee on Armed Services of the
Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of
the House of Representatives.
(June 7, 1939, ch. 190, § 7, as added Pub. L. 96–41,
§ 2(a), July 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 322; amended Pub. L.
104–106, div. A, title XV, § 1502(e)(2), Feb. 10, 1996,
110 Stat. 509; Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title X,
§ 1067(13), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 775; Pub. L.
112–23
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