Source: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title30/html/USCODE-2011-title30-chap28.htm
Timestamp: 2013-05-22 11:39:19
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§1601', '§1602', '§3', '§6601', '§1603', '§4', '§1604', '§5', '§10', '§6601', '§2', '§98', '§1605', '§6']

1601.Congressional statement of findings; “materials” defined.
1602.Congressional declaration of policies.
1603.Implementation of policies.
1604.Program administration.
1605.Applicability to other statutory national mining and minerals policies.
§1601. Congressional statement of findings; “materials” defined
(b) As used in this chapter, the term “materials” means substances, including minerals, of current or potential use that will be needed to supply the industrial, military, and essential civilian needs of the United States in the production of goods or services, including those which are primarily imported or for which there is a prospect of shortages or uncertain supply, or which present opportunities in terms of new physical properties, use, recycling, disposal or substitution, with the exclusion of food and of energy fuels used as such.
Section 1 of Pub. L. 96–479 provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980’.”
§1602. Congressional declaration of policies
(Pub. L. 96–479, §3, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2305.)
The National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976, referred to in par. (4), is Pub. L. 94–282, May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 459, as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 79 (§6601 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6601 of Title 42 and Tables.
§1603. Implementation of policies
(1) direct that the responsible departments and agencies identify, assist, and make recommendations for carrying out appropriate policies and programs to ensure adequate, stable, and economical materials supplies essential to national security, economic well-being, and industrial production;
(2) support basic and applied research and development to provide for, among other objectives—
(A) advanced science and technology for the exploration, discovery, and recovery of nonfuel materials;
(B) enhanced methods or processes for the more efficient production and use of renewable and nonrenewable resources;
(C) improved methods for the extraction, processing, use, recovery, and recycling of materials which encourage the conservation of materials, energy, and the environment; and
(D) improved understanding of current and new materials performance, processing, substitution, and adaptability in engineering designs;
(3) provide for improved collection, analysis, and dissemination of scientific, technical and economic materials information and data from Federal, State, and local governments and other sources as appropriate;
(4) assess the need for and make recommendations concerning the availability and adequacy of supply of technically trained personnel necessary for materials research, development, extraction, harvest and industrial practice, paying particular regard to the problem of attracting and maintaining high quality materials professionals in the Federal service;
(5) establish early warning systems for materials supply problems;
(6) recommend to the Congress appropriate measures to promote industrial innovation in materials and materials technologies;
(7) encourage cooperative materials research and problem-solving by—
(A) private corporations performing the same or related activities in materials industries; and
(B) Federal and State institutions having shared interests or objectives;
(8) assess Federal policies which adversely or positively affect all stages of the materials cycle, from exploration to final product recycling and disposal including but not limited to, financial assistance and tax policies for recycled and virgin sources of materials and make recommendations for equalizing any existing imbalances, or removing any impediments, which may be created by the application of Federal law and regulations to the market for materials; and
(9) assess the opportunities for the United States to promote cooperative multilateral and bilateral agreements for materials development in foreign nations for the purpose of increasing the reliability of materials supplies to the Nation.
(Pub. L. 96–479, §4, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2306.)
§1604. Program administration
(a) President; preparation of plan and submission to Congress of report
(A) policy analysis and decision determination within the Executive Office of the President;
(B) continuing long-range analysis of materials use to meet national security, economic, industrial and social needs; the adequacy and stability of supplies; and the industrial and economic implications of supply shortages or disruptions;
(C) continuing private sector consultation in Federal materials programs; and
(D) interagency coordination at the level of the President's Cabinet;
(2) recommendations for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information concerning domestic and international long-range materials demand, supply and needs, including consideration of the establishment of a separate materials information agency patterned after the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and
(3) recommendations for legislation and administrative initiatives necessary to reconcile policy conflicts and to establish programs and institutional structures necessary to achieve the goals of a national materials policy.
(b) Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy; coordination, etc., activities
(1) through the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology coordinate Federal materials research and development and related activities in accordance with the policies and objectives established in this chapter;
(2) place special emphasis on the long-range assessment of national materials needs related to scientific and technological concerns and the research and development, Federal and private, necessary to meet those needs; and
(3) prepare an assessment of national materials needs related to scientific and technological changes over the next five years. Such assessment shall be revised on an annual basis. Where possible, the Director shall extend the assessment in 10- and 25-year increments over the whole expected lifetime of such needs and technologies.
(c) Secretary of Commerce; consultative, etc., requirements; identification and assessment activities
(1) within 3 months after October 21, 1980, identify and submit to the Congress a specific materials needs case related to national security, economic well-being and industrial production which will be the subject of the report required by paragraph (2) of this subsection;
(2) within 1 year after October 21, 1980, submit to the Congress a report which assesses critical materials needs in the case identified in paragraph (1) of this subsection, and which recommends programs that would assist in meeting such needs, including an assessment of economic stockpiles; and
(3) continually thereafter identify and assess additional cases, as necessary, to ensure an adequate and stable supply of materials to meet national security, economic well-being and industrial production needs.
The Secretary of Defense, together with such other members of the Cabinet as are deemed necessary by the President, shall prepare a report assessing critical materials needs related to national security and identifying the steps necessary to meet those needs. The report shall include an assessment of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. App. 98 et seq.) [50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.]. Such report shall be made available to the Congress within 1 year after October 21, 1980, and shall be revised periodically as deemed necessary.
(e) Secretary of the Interior; initiation of actions; report
(1) improve the capacity of the United States Bureau of Mines to assess international minerals supplies;
(2) increase the level of mining and metallurgical research by the United States Bureau of Mines in critical and strategic minerals; and
(3) improve the availability and analysis of mineral data in Federal land use decisionmaking.
(Pub. L. 96–479, §5, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2307; Pub. L. 102–285, §10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.)
The National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 94–282, May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 459, as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 79 (§6601 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6601 of Title 42 and Tables.
The Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is act June 7, 1939, ch. 190, as revised generally by Pub. L. 96–41, §2, July 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 319, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§98 et seq.) of chapter 5 of Title 50. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 98 of Title 50 and Tables.
§1605. Applicability to other statutory national mining and minerals policies
Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as changing in any manner or degree the provisions of and requirements of section 21a of this title. For the purposes of achieving the objectives set forth in section 1602 of this title, the Congress declares that the President shall direct (1) the Secretary of the Interior to act immediately within the Department's statutory authority to attain the goals contained in section 21a of this title and (2) the Executive Office of the President to act immediately to promote the goals contained in section 21a of this title among the various departments and agencies.
(Pub. L. 96–479, §6, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2309.)