50 U.S.C. § 98a — Congressional findings and declaration of purpose

submitted 87 years ago by Pub. L. 96-41 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 194 words · no verdicts yet

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Congress finds that the U.S. lacks enough of certain strategic materials for defense needs. This law's goal is to stockpile those materials, encourage domestic sources, and cut reliance on foreign supply — but only for national defense, not economic reasons.

(a) Congress finds that the United States doesn't have enough — or hasn't developed enough — of certain strategic and critical materials within its own natural resources to meet the country's military, industrial, and essential civilian needs for national defense. (b) The purpose of this subchapter is to get and keep stockpiles of certain strategic and critical materials. It also aims to encourage people to conserve and develop domestic sources of those materials. The goal is to reduce, and where possible prevent, a dangerous and costly dependence on foreign sources, or on a single point of failure, for supplies of these materials during a national emergency. (c) The National Defense Stockpile exists only to serve national defense. It is not to be used for economic or budget purposes. (d) As much as practical, and to reduce how much the National Defense Stockpile program relies on money Congress appropriates, the National Defense Stockpile Manager must try to achieve positive cash flow by recovering strategic and critical materials under section 98e(a)(5) of this title.

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(a)

The Congress finds that the natural resources of the United States in certain strategic and critical materials are deficient or insufficiently developed to supply the military, industrial, and essential civilian needs of the United States for national defense.

(b)

It is the purpose of this subchapter to provide for the acquisition and retention of stocks of certain strategic and critical materials and to encourage the conservation and development of sources of such materials within the United States and thereby to decrease and to preclude, when possible, a dangerous and costly dependence by the United States upon foreign sources or a single point of failure for supplies of such materials in times of national emergency.

(c)

The purpose of the National Defense Stockpile is to serve the interest of national defense only. The National Defense Stockpile is not to be used for economic or budgetary purposes.

(d)

To the maximum extent practicable and to reduce the reliance of the National Defense Stockpile program on appropriated funds, the National Defense Stockpile Manager shall seek to achieve positive cash flows from the recovery of strategic and critical materials pursuant to section 98e(a)(5) of this title.

Source credit: (June 7, 1939, ch. 190, § 2, as added Pub. L. 96–41, § 2(a), July 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 319; amended Pub. L. 100–180, div. C, title II, § 3202(b), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1245; Pub. L. 103–160, div. C, title XXXIII, § 3311, Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1961; Pub. L. 104–201, div. C, title XXXIII, § 3311(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2857; Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title XIV, § 1412, Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 2048; Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XIV, § 1411(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 523.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1939Enacted · Pub. L. 96-41 · 93 Stat. 319
1987Amended · Pub. L. 100-180 · 101 Stat. 1245
1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-160 · 107 Stat. 1961
1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-201 · 110 Stat. 2857
2013Amended · Pub. L. 112-239 · 126 Stat. 2048
2023Amended · Pub. L. 118-31 · 137 Stat. 523

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 96-41 on 1939-06-07.

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