An Act to authorize the disposal of the Government-owned rubber-producing facilities, and for other purposes
PL 83-205 (H.R.5728), enacted 08/07/1953

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Public Law 205 
CHAPTER 338 
August?, 1953 
[H. R. 5728] 
rpQ 
AN ACT 
authorize the disposal of the Government-owned rubber-producing facilities, 
and for other purposes. 
Rub b e r Produc-
ing Facilities Dis-
posal Act of 1953. 
Commission. 
Sales contracts, 
etc. 
C o n s u l t a t i o n 
vith Attorney Gen-
eral, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall 
be known as the "Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Act of 1953" 
SEC. 2. It is hereby declared that disposal of the Government-owned 
rubber-producing facilities pursuant to the provisions of this Act is 
consistent with the national security and will further effectuate the 
policy set forth in section 2 of the Rubber Act of 1948, as amended 
(62 Stat. 101, 50 U. S. C. App. 1921), with respect to the development 
within the United States of a free, competitive, synthetic rubber 
industry. 
SEC. 3. (a) There is hereby established a Rubber Producing Facili-
ties Disposal Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission, 
to be composed of three persons, to be appointed by the President. 
Members of the Commission shall be appointed from civilian life and 
shall receive compensation at the rate of $50 per diem for each day 
engaged in the business of the Commission, and shall be allowed 
transportation and a per diem of $9 while away from their homes or 
places of business pursuant to such business. 
No person who is em-
ployed in or at any time since January 1, 1950, has been an employee 
of, or who receives a substantial part of his income from, the rubber 
or petroleum industry, or that part of the chemical industry which 
supplies, or is capable of supplying, feedstocks for the manufacture 
of synthetic rubber, shall serve as a Commissioner. 
(b) With respect to the Government-owned rubber-producing facil-
ities it shall be the duty of the Commission, and it is authorized in 
accordance with the provisions of this Act (1) to invite and receive 
proposals for the purchase of the facilities; to negotiate for their sale 
and make recommendations therefor to the Congress; to enter into 
appropriate contracts for their sale, which contracts shall be binding 
upon the Government and the prospective purchasers upon their exe-
cution subject only to the further provisions of this Act; and in the 
performance of such contracts to execute and deliver such deeds or 
other instruments appropriate to effectively transfer to the purchaser 
thereof title to the facilities, no matter by what officer, agent, depart-
ment. Government corporation, or instrumentality of the United States 
the same is held; (2) to lease and thereunder deliver possession of the 
alcohol butadiene facilities, if practicable; and (3) to take such action 
and exercise such powers as may be necessary or appropriate to 
effectuate the purposes of this Act. 
(c) From the time of its appointment and throughout the course of 
the performance of its duties, the Commission shall consult and advise 
with the Attorney General in order (1) to secure guidance as to the 
type of disposal program which would best foster the development of a 
free competitive synthetic rubber industry, and (2) to supply the 
Attorney General with such information as he may deem requisite to 
enable him to provide the advice contemplated by this section and sec-
tions 9 (a) (4) and 9 (f) of this Act. 
(d) Before submission of its proposed disposal report to the Con-
gress, as provided for in section 9 of this Act, the Commission shall 
submit it to the Attorney General, who shall within a reasonable time, 
in no event to exceed ninety days, after receiving such report, advise 
the Commission whether, in his opinion, the proposed disposition will 
violate the antitrust laws. 
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(e) Nothing in this Act shall impair^ amend, or modify the antitrust 
laws or limit and prevent their application to persons who acquire 
property under the provisions of this Act. As used in this section, the 
term "antitrust laws" includes the Act of July 2, 1890 (ch. 647, 26 
Stat. 209), as amended; the Act of October 15, 1914 (ch. 323, 38 Stat. 
730), as amended; the Federal Trade Commission Act; and the Act 
of August 27,1894 (ch. 349, sees. 73, 74, 28 Stat. 570), as amended. 
SEC. 4. The Commission shall be furnished upon its request all 
available information concerning the Government-owned rubber-
producing facilities in the possession of any department, agency, 
officer, Government corporation, or instrumentality of the United 
States concerned with Government-owned rubber-producing facilities. 
SEC. 5. The Commission shall proceed as promptly as practicable, 
conducting such hearings as may be necessary, with the disposal of the 
rubber-producing facilities in compliance w^ith the provisions of this 
Act. 
SEC. 6. (a) Without regard to the civil-service laws or the Classifi-
cation Act of 1949, the Commission shall be authorized to employ pro-
fessional, clerical, and stenographic assistance, and shall be further 
authorized to request and, with the consent of the head of any depart-
ment, agency. Government corporation, or instrumentality of the 
United States concerned with the Government-owned rubber-pro-
ducing facilities, receive the assistance of any employee thereof: 
Provided^ That rates of pay for personnel employed by the Commis-
sion shall be in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949. 
(b) No member of the Commission and no person employed by the 
Commission as an attorney, agent, or employee in activities involving 
discretion with respect to negotiations or contracts of sale of the Gov-
ernment-owned rubber-producing facilities, shall, during the period of 
such employment, or for a period of two years thereafter, be employed 
in any capacity by any purchaser, or affiliate thereof. 
No purchaser 
or affiliate thereof shall employ in any capacity any person, who has 
served as a member of the Commission or who was employed by the 
Commission and served the Commission as an attorney, agent, or 
employee in activities involving discretion with respect to negotiations 
or contracts of sale of the Government-owned rubber-producing facil-
ities, while any such person is serving as a member or employee of the 
Commission or for a period of two years thereafter. 
Any person 
violating the provisions of this subsection shall be fined not more than 
$10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. 
SEC. 7. (a) The Commission shall invite, upon adequate notice and 
advertisement, proposals for the purchase of the Government-owned 
rubber-producing facilities, hereafter referred to as the "facilities". 
The period for the receipt of proposals shall be determined and pub-
licly announced by the Commission, and in no event shall be less than 
six months after the first day on which proposals may be received 
pursuant to the advertisement. 
The advertisement shall be in such 
form, contain such specifications and reservations, and be published in 
such manner as the Commission in its discretion determines will best 
effectuate the purposes of this Act. 
All data concerning such facili-
ties which in the judgment of the Commission may be reasonably 
required for the suomission of a bona fide proposal shall be furnished 
by the Commission upon request by any prospective purchaser unless 
the Commission has reason to believe that such prospective purchaser 
has not identified his principal, or is not financially responsible, or is 
a poor security risk. 
(b) Proposals shall be in writing, and shall contain, among other 
things— 
(1) identification of the person in whose behalf the proposal is 
submitted, including the business affiliation of such person; 
Antitrust laws. 
Information. 
Hearings. 
Employees. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
Restriction. 
P r o p o s a l s for 
purchase. 
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(2) the facility or facilities which are proposed to be purchased, 
and the order of preference if more than one facility is proposed 
to be purchased; or the order of preference if proposals are sub-
mitted on more than one facility, if only one facility is proposed 
to be purchased; 
(3) the arrangements or plans, if any, formal or informal, for 
the supplj^ of feedstock to, and the disposition of the end products 
of, the respective facilities proposed to be purchased; 
(4) the amount proposed to be paid for each of the facilities, 
and, if such amount is not to be paid in cash, then the principal 
terms of the financing arrangement proposed; 
(5) the general terms and conditions which the prospective pur-
chaser of a copolymer facility would be willing to accept in order 
to make the end product of such facility available for sale to small 
business enterprises, and the general terms and conditions w^hich 
the prospective purchaser of a butadiene or styrene facility would 
be willing to accept in order to make the end product of such 
facility available for sale to purchasers of copolymer facilities; 
and 
(6) such other information as the Commission in its notice and 
advertisement for proposals shall require be set forth in pro-
posals including the prospective purchaser's acceptance of the 
terms, conditions, restrictions and reservations contained in sub-
section (h) of this section, and the interest rate to be charged on 
the purchase-money mortgage referred to in subsection (e) of 
this section, 
(c) Should it become necessary to the effective prosecution of the 
disposal program, the Commission may, after the termination of the 
period for the submission of proposals provided for in subsection (a) 
of this section, disclose the contents of the proposals at such time, in 
such manner, and to such extent as it deems appropriate. 
Cash deposit. 
^^j^ Proposals sliall be accompanied by a deposit of cash or United 
States Government bonds of face amount equal to ^1/2 P^r centum of 
the gross amount proposed to be paid but not exceeding $250,000 for 
each facility: Provided^ however^ That the deposit required in the 
case of a proposal for one of a number of facilities on an alternative 
basis shall be the same as would be required if such proposal were for 
only the facility for which the particular prospective purchaser pro-
posed to pay the highest amount. Except in the case of purchasers, 
deposits made hereunder shall be refunded Avithout interest and not 
later than upon the termination of the period for congressional review-
as provided in section 9 of this Act. In the case of purchasers, depos-
its made hereunder shall be applied without interest to the purchase 
price: Provided^ however^ That upon the closing of the contract of 
sale the purchaser shall be required to substitute cash equal to the face 
amount of the Government bonds then held in connection with such 
purchaser's proposal. 
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(^) Payment of the purchase price may be made in part by a first 
lien purchase-money mortgage, in an amount not to exceed 75 per 
centum of the i:)urchase price. The terms of any such mortgage obli-
gation, to be determined by negotiation, shall provide among other 
things for a maturity of not more than ten years, periodic amortiza-
tion, and a uniform interest rate of not less than 3 per centum per 
annum. 
(f) Promptly after the termination of the period for the receipt of 
proposals, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, and for such 
period thereafter not less than seven months as may be determined 
and publicly announced by the Commission, it shall negotiate w^ith 
those submitting proposals for the purpose of entering into definitive 
contracts of sale. 
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(g) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to prevent the 
Commission from securing such additional information from those 
submitting proposals at any time as the Commission may deem neces-
sary or appropriate to fulfill its responsibilities under this Act. 
(h) All contracts of sale and instruments in execution thereof shall 
contain a national security clause having terms, conditions, restric-
tions and reservations which will assure the prompt availability of the 
rubber-producing facilities, or facilities of equivalent capacity, for 
the production of synthetic rubber and the component materials 
thereof for a period of ten years from the date of the contract. 
(i) Subject to the conditions prescribed in section 24 of this Act, 
any contract of sale shall become fully effective upon the expiration of 
the period for congressional review provided for in section 9 of this 
Act unless the Congress within such period has disapproved such sale. 
The transfer of possession of all of the rubber-producing facilities to 
be sold shall be made as promptly as is practicable after the effective 
date, in accordance with the terms of the contracts, but in any event 
within a period terminating sixty days after the expiration of the 
period for congressional review as provided in section 9 (b) of this 
Act. 
The failure to complete transfer of possession prior to said 
termination date shall not give rise to or be the basis of rescission of 
the contract of sale. 
(j) Upon termination of the transfer period, as provided in sub-
section (i) of this section, the operating agency last designated by the 
President shall make no further sales of synthetic rubber and its 
component materials except as otherwise provided in this Act. 
(k) During the period of one year following the termination of the 
transfer period, the operating agency last designated by the President 
shall offer for sale to the purchasers of the facilities the synthetic 
rubber and its component materials held by it at a price determined 
in accordance with its pricing policy prevailing at the close of the 
transfer period, in amounts prorated in accordance with the ratio of 
the capacity of each such facility purchased to the total capacity of all 
facilities of the same type sold- Any synthetic rubber or component 
materials not purchased by an eligible purchaser during periodic 
intervals, as determined by the operating agency, shall be made avail-
able to other eligible purchasers on a like equitable basis. Any syn-
thetic rubber or component materials not sold during such one-year 
period shall thereafter be disposed of in such manner as said agency 
deems advisable. 
SEC. 8. (a) Upon the termination of the transfer period, the operat-
ing agency last designated by the President, shall, as promptly as 
possible consistent with sound operating procedures, take out of pro-
duction and place in adequate standby condition the rubber-producing 
facilities which shall not have been sold. 
At any time after the ter-
mination of production, such facilities may be transferred without 
reimbursement or transfer of funds to the General Services Admin-
istration and administered in accordance with the provisions of sections 
6, 7, and 8 of the National Industrial Reserve Act of 1948, as amended 
(62 Stat. 1227, 50 U. S. C. 456-458), or to such other agency as the 
President may designate for administration in such manner as he may 
direct. In such event (1) no such facility shall thereafter be operated 
as a rubber-producing facility for the account of, or by, the Govern-
ment except pursuant to further Act of Congress; (2) no such facility, 
other than alcohol-butadiene facilities, shall be leased for operation as 
a rubber-producing facility at any time: Provided^ That nothing con-
tained in this Act shall preclude the leasing of alcohol-butadiene 
facilities for purposes other than the manufacture of alcohol butadiene 
so long as such leases are in accordance with the provisions of section 
National s e c u -
rity clause. 
Entry into effect 
of sales contracts. 
Transfer of pos-
ession. 
Fac i 1 it i e s not 
sold. 
62 Stat. 1226. 
50 u s e 455. 
A l c o h o l - buta-
diene facilities. 
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A d v i c e of At-
torney General. 
Standby funds. 
Report 
grass. 
to C oi>-
E x p i r a t i o n o f 
60-day period. 
62 Stat. 104. 
5 0 u s e 
a p p , 
1926. 
8 (a) or section 9 (f) of this Act; and (3) no such facility shall be 
disposed of by sale within a period of three years from the termina-
tion of the transfer period, and in any subsequent lease or sale, the 
Government agency acting under authority of this section shall with-
in a reasonable time and in no event less than sixty days prior to the 
lease or sale, request the advice of the Attorney General as to whether 
the proposed lease or sale w^ould tend to create or maintain a situation 
inconsistent with the antitrust laws. The Attorney General shall give 
his advice within forty-five days of the receipt of such request. Upon 
the request of the Attorney General, the Government agency shall 
furnish, or cause to be furnished, such information as it may possess 
which the Attorney General determines to be appropriate or necessary 
to enable him to give the advice called for by this section. 
(b) Whenever any transfer to any Government agency is made pur-
suant to this section, all unexpended funds budgeted as provided in 
section 9 (e) for standby and maintenance in such condition shall 
also be transferred. 
SEC. 9. (a) Not Ikier than thirty days after the termination of the 
negotiating period provided in section 7 of this Act, and in no event 
later than January 31,1955, the Commission shall prepare and submit 
to the Congress a report setting forth— 
(1) the steps taken to elicit proposals and the proposals which 
have been received; 
(2) the principal terms of all sales contracted for and the 
Commission's recommendations in respect thereto; 
(3) in the event that there may have been a financially more 
advantageous proposal for any rubber-producing facility than the 
sale recommended, a statement of the reasons why such sale is 
nevertheless proposed; 
(4) the statement from the Attorney General setting forth 
findings approving the proposed disposals in accordance with the 
standards set forth in section 3 (c) of this Act; 
(5) the program to be followed to place in standby condition 
the rubber-producing facilities not sold; 
(6) an inventory report concerning the Government's current 
stocks of synthetic rubber and its component materials; 
(7) a program for the continuance, to the extent it deems neces-
sary, during the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the 
transfer period terminates, of the research program on synthetic 
rubber and its component materials then being carried on by the 
operating agency; and 
(8) the names of persons w^ho have represented the Govern-
ment or the purchasers in conducting negotiations or in making 
contracts for disposal of the rubber-producing facilities. 
(b) The report shall be submitted to both Houses of Congress on 
the same day. 
Upon the expiration of sixty days of continuous ses-
sion of the Congress following the date upon which the report is 
submitted to it, the Commission shall proceed to carry out the con-
tracts and proposals, as outlined in its report, to the extent that such 
contracts and proposals are not disapproved by either House of Con-
gress by a resolution within the sixty-day period. 
(c) For the purposes of subsection (b) of this section— 
(1) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by 
an adjournment of the Congress sine die; but 
(2) in the computation of the sixty-day period there shall be 
excluded the days on which either House is not in session because 
of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain, 
(d) No rubber-producing facility shall be sold or leased except in 
accordance with this Act, or in accordance with section 7 (d) (4) of 
the Rubber Act of 1948, as amended. 
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(e) Such sums as may be required for the foregoing purposes may 
be provided out of the proceeds of disposal, and annual budgets for the 
expenses necessary for such purposes shall be submitted in accordance 
with the Government Corporation Control Act of 1945, as amended 
(59 Stat. 597, 31 U. S. C. 841). 
(f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the Com-
mission may, after securing the advice of the Attorney General as to 
whether the proposed lease would tend to create or maintain a situ-
ation inconsistent with the antitrust laws, enter into leases for the 
alcohol-butadiene facilities for a period of not less than one year, nor 
more than three years: Provided^ That any such lease shall contain 
among other things (1) a national security clause, and (2) provisions 
for the recapture of such facilities by the Government and the ter-
mination of the lease, if the President determines that the national 
interest so requires. 
Not less than sixty days prior to said lease the 
Commission shall request such advice from the Attorney General who 
shall give the same within forty-five days of the receipt of such request. 
SEC. 10. At the expiration of one year after the transfer period or 
as soon thereafter as the Congress is in session, the President shall 
report to the Congress concerning the Nation's rubber requirements 
and resources, and the need, if any, for further research by the Gov-
ernment relative to the production or use of synthetic rubbe'r and its 
component materials. 
SEC. 11. The term "rubber-producing facilities" as used in this Act 
shall not include the Government-owned evaluation laboratory at 
Akron, Ohio. 
SEC. 12. All final net proceeds from disposal of the rubber-producing 
facilities shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts 
except as otherwise provided by this Act. 
SEC. 13. The sales, leases, or other dispositions made prior to the 
enactment of this Act, pursuant to section 9 (b) of the Rubber Act 
of 1948, as amended, shall not be affected by this Act. 
SEC. 14. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 20 of the Rubber 
Act of 1948, as amended, (1) if no report is submitted by the Com-
mission, or if the report submitted by the Commission pursuant to 
section 9 of this Act is disapproved in its entirety, then the Rubber 
Act of 1948, as amended, shall be extended until March 31, 1956; and 
(2) if the Commission submits a report and it is not disapproved in its 
entirety, the Rubber Act of 1948, as amended, shall terminate at the 
termination of the transfer period as provided in section 7 (i) of 
this Act. 
SEC. 15. Thirty days following the receipt of proposals, as provided 
in section 7 of this Act, the Commission shall submit to the Congress a 
report stating the amount of funds expended by or obligated by the 
operating agency for the repair, replacement, additions, improve-
ments, or maintenance of each synthetic rubber-producing facility 
for which proposals have been submitted. Thereafter reports shall 
be made monthly until such "time as the Congress shall have permitted 
or disapproved in whole or in part the disposal recommended by the 
Commission. 
SEC. 16. In arriving at its recommendations for the disposal of the 
facilities, the Commission shall use, as the basis for negotiating the 
sale of each facility the highest amount proposed to be paid for each 
facility, if, in the opinion of the Commission, the highest amount 
proposed to be paid was a bona fide proposal and was submittted by 
a person competent to operate a rubber-producing facility : Provided^ 
That the words "competent to operate a rubber-producing facility" 
shall not be interpreted so as to require prior experience in the opera-
tion of a rubber-producing facility: Provided further^ That in using 
Annual budget. 
Leases. 
Requirements. 
Report to 
Con-
gress. 
Laboratory, Ak-
ron, Ohio. 
62 Stat. 105. 
5 0 u s e 
a p p . 
1928. 
R u b b e r Act of 
1948. 
E x t e n s i o n or 
termination. 
50 
u s e 
app. 
1938. 
R e p o r t of e X • 
penditures, etc. 
Basis for nego-
tiating sale. 
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such highest proposed amount as a basis for negotiations the Com-
mission may negotiate with respect to any facility with any person 
who submitted a proposal on that or any similar facility and may 
recommend sale of any facility to any person who submitted a pro-
posal on that or any similar facility at a price which is equal to, higher 
than, or lower than the highest amount proposed to be paid for each 
facility as the Commission determines will best effectuate the pur-
poses of this Act. 
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^^^- li^-The following criteria, together with such other criteria as 
the Commission deems necessary or desirable to best effectuate the pur-
poses of this Act, shall be used by the Commission in arriving at its 
recommendations for disposal: 
(1) That the disposal program be designed best to afford small-
business enterprises and users, other than the purchser of a 
facility, the opportunity to obtain a fair share of the end products 
of the facilities sold and at fair prices; 
(2) That the prospective purchaser has the technical compe-
tence necessary to operate a rubber-producing facility, except that 
prior experience in operating a rubber-producing facility shall 
not be required as a basis for determining whether a prospective 
purchaser has the technical competence necessary to operate a 
rubber-producing facility; 
(3) That the recommended sales shall provide for the develop-
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ment within the United States of a free, competitive, synthetic 
rubber industry, and do not permit any person to possess unrea-
sonable control over the manufacture of synthetic rubber or its 
component materials; 
(4) That the prospective purchaser is acting in good faith, and 
actually intends to operate the facility or facilities for the purpose 
of manufacturing synthetic rubber or its component materials; 
(5) That full fair value for the facility or facilities will be 
received by the Government, taking into consideration the policy 
set forth in section 2 of this Act; 
(6) That disposal of the facility or facilities to the purchasers 
is consistent with national security; and 
(7) That the facilities recommended for sale will in the aggre-
gate be capable of annually producing not less than five hundred 
thousand long tons of general-purpose synthetic rubber, and not 
less than forty-three thousand lon^ tons annually of butyl rubber. 
SEC. 18. Unless otherwise provided in this Act, the disposal of the 
Government-owned rubber-producing facilities shall be authorized 
62 Stat. 101. ^ notwithstanding the provisions of the Rubber Act of 1948, as amended. 
note. ^^^ 
SEC. 19. Unless otherwise provided in this Act, all costs incurred by 
the Commission or any other department, agency, officer. Government 
corporation, or instrumentality of the United States pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act shall, so long as synthetic rubber is produced 
for the account of the Government in the Government-owned rubber-
producing facilities, be paid from and charged against the operating 
income of the Government-owned synthetic rubber program, adminis-
tered by the operating agency. 
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^^^' 2^- The Commission shall cease to exist thirty days after the 
termination of the transfer period as provided by section 7 (i) of this 
Act, but nothing contained in this section shall be construed in any way 
so as to abrogate, modify, or adversely affect any contract of sale or 
lease of the Government-owned rubber-producing facilities pursuant 
to this Act. After the Commission ceases to exist, such contracts and 
leases and other matters involving the Commission shall be adminis-
tered by such agency of the Government as the President may 
designate. 
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SEC. 21. (a) The term "synthetic rubber" means any product of 
Definitions, 
chemical synthesis similar in general properties and applications to 
natural rubber, and specifically capable of vulcanization, produced in 
the United States, not including reclaimed synthetic rubber. 
(b) The term "general-purpose synthetic rubber'" means a synthetic 
rubber of the butadiene-styrene type generally suitable for use in the 
manufacture of transportation items such as tires or camelback, as 
well as any other type of synthetic rubber equally or better suited for 
use in the manufacture of transportation items such as tires or camel-
back as determined from time to time by the President. 
(c) The term "rubber-producing facilities" means facilities, in whole 
or in part, for the manufacture of synthetic rubber, and the component 
materials thereof, including, but not limited to, buildings and land in 
w^hich or on which such facilities may be located and all machinery 
and utilities associated therewith. 
(d) The term "component materials" means the material, raw, semi-
finished, and finished, necessary for the manufacture of synthetic 
rubber. 
(e) The term "standby condition" means the condition in which 
rubber-producing facilities, in whole or in part, are placed if not sold 
or leased in accordance with this Act, but are maintained so as to be 
readily available for the production of synthetic rubber or component 
materials. 
(f) The term "person" means any individual, firm, copartnership, 
business trust, corporation, or any organized group of persons whether 
incorporated or not. 
(g) The term "operating agency" means the Department, agency, 
officer. Government corporation, or instrumentality of the United 
States designated from time to time by the President pursuant to sec-
tion 7 (a) of the Rubber Act of 1948, as amended. 
(h) The term "small business enterprise" means an enterprise inde-
pendently owned and operated which is not dominant in its field of 
operation, due regard being given to the number of its employees and 
dollar volume of business. 
SEC. 22. Section 20 of the Rubber Act of 1948, as amended, is further 
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amended as follows: In lieu of the date "March 31,1954" insert the date 1^38. 
"May 1,1955". 
SEC. 23. (a) The provisions of this section are enacted by the 
congressional 
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r e s o l u t 1 o n s r e-
C o n g r e S S : 
s p e c t i n g 
f a c i l -
(1) As an exercise of the rule-making power of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be con-
sidered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable 
only with respect to the procedure to be followed in such House in the 
case of resolutions (as defined in subsection (b)) ; and such rules shall 
supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent 
therewith; and 
(2) With full recognition of the constitutional right of either House 
to change such rules (so far as relating to the procedure in such 
House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in 
the case of any other rule of such House. 
(b) As used in this section, the term "resolution" means only a reso-
lution of either of the two Houses of Congress, the matter after the 
resolving clause of which is as follows: (1) "That the 
does not favor sale of the facilities as recommended in the report of 
the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Commission.", the blank 
therein being filled with the name of the resolving House; or (2) 
"That the 
does not favor the sale of the 
as recommended in the report of the Rubber Producing Facilities 
Disposal Commission.", the first blank therein being filled with the 
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name of the resolving House and the other blank being filled with a 
description of the facility or facilities proposed to be sold. 
(c) A resolution with respect to a facility or facilities shall be 
referred to a committee (and all such resolutions shall be referred to 
the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives, as the case may be. 
(d) (1) If the committee to which has been referred a resolution 
with respect to a facility or facilities has not reported it before the 
expiration of ten calendar days after its introduction, it shall then 
(but not before) be in order to move either to discharge the committee 
from further consideration of such resolution, or to discharge the 
committee from further consideration of any other resolution with 
respect to such facility or facilities which has been referred to the 
committee. 
(2) Such motion may be made only by a person favoring the reso-
lution, shall be highly privileged (except that it may not be made 
after the committee has reported a resolution with respect to the same 
facility or facilities), and debate thereon shall be limited to not to 
exceed one hour, to be equally divided between those favoring and 
those opposing the resolution. 
No amendment to such motion shall 
be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote 
by which such motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 
(3) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, such 
motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the 
committee be made with respect to any other resolution with respect 
to the same facility or facilities. 
(e) (1) Where the committee has reported, or has been discharged 
from further consideration of, a resolution with respect to a facility 
or facilities, it shall at any time thereafter be in order (even though 
a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move 
to proceed to the consideration of such resolution. Such motion shall 
be highly privileged and shall not be debatable. No amendment to 
such motion shall be in order and it shall not be in order to move to 
reconsider the vote by which such motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 
(2) Debate on the resolution shall be limited to not to exceed ten 
hours, which shall be equally divided between those favoring and those 
opposing the resolution. 
A motion further to limit debate shall not 
be debatable. 
No amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution 
shall be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the 
vote by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to. 
(f) (1) All motions to postpone, made with respect to the discharge 
from committee, or the consideration of, a resolution with respect to a 
facility or facilities, and all motions to proceed to the consideration of 
other business, shall be decided without debate. 
(2) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the appli-
cation of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as 
the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution with respect 
to a facility or facilities, shall be decided without debate. 
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^EO. 24. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Act, in the event 
contract. 
that the recommended sale of any facility is disapproved by either 
House of the Congress, any prospective purchaser oi any other facility 
shall have a period of chirty days after the termination of the period 
for review by the Congress in which to reject the recommended sales 
contract with regard to the facility or facilities which he has agreed 
to purchase: Provided^ That if as a result of the disapproval by either 
House of the Congress of the sale of any facility or facilities, or as a 
result of the rejection of one or more sales contracts by any pros-
pective purchaser as provided in this section, the remaining facilities 
to be sold will in the aggregate not be capable of annually producing 
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at least 500,000 long tons of general purpose synthetic rubber and at 
least 43,000 long tons of butyl rubber, then no facility shall be sold 
under this Act, and for the purposes of this Act the report of the 
Commission shall be deemed to have been disap'^proved in its entirety. 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
Public Law 206 
CHAPTER 339 
AN ACT 
Aueust 7, 1953 
To encourage the discovery, development, and production of tungsten, manga- —[H. R. 2824]— 
nese, chromite, mica, asbestos, beryl, and columbium-tantalum-bearing ores and 
concentrates in the United States, its Territories, and possessions, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be 
cited as the "Domestic Minerals Program Extension Act of 1953". 
DECLARATION OF POLICY 
SEC. 2. It is hereby recognized that the continued dependence on 
overseas sources of supply for strategic or critical minerals and metals 
during periods of threatening world conflict or of political instability 
within those nations controlling the sources of supply of such mate-
rials gravely endangers the present and future economy and security 
of the United States. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the 
Congress that each department and agency of the Federal Government 
charged with responsibilities concerning the discovery, development, 
production, and acquisition of strategic or critical minerals and metals 
shall undertake to decrease further and to eliminate where possible 
the dependency of the United States on overseas sources of supply of 
each such material. 
SEC. 3. In accordance with the declaration of policy set forth in sec- nafiom"'**** termt. 
tion 2 of this Act, the termination dates of all purchase programs 
designed to stimulate the domestic production of tungsten, manganese, 
chromite, mica, asbestos, beryl, and columbium-tantalum-bearing ores 
and concentrates and established by regulations issued pursuant to the 
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, shall be extended an f^ 
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additional two years: Provided, That this section is not intended and 2061. 
shall not be construed to limit or restrict the regulatory agencies from 
extending the termination dates of these programs beyond the two-year 
extension periods provided by this section or from increasing the quan-
tity of materials that may be delivered and accepted under these pro-
grams as permitted by existing statutory authority: Provided 
further, 
That the extended termination date provided by this section for the 
columbium-tantalum purchase program shall not apply to the pur-
chase of columbium-tantalum-bearing ores and concentrates of foreign 
origin. 
SEC. 4. In order that those persons who produce or who plan to ^Quarterly ore re-
produce under purchase programs established pursuant to Public 
Law 774 (Eighty-first Congress) and Public Law 96 (Eighty-second joeil " ^ ^ ° ^ ^ 
Congress) may be in position to plan their investment and production 
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with due regard to requirements, the responsible agencies controlling 2071 note. 
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such purchase programs are directed to publish at the end of each 
calendar quarter the amounts of each of the ores and concentrates 
referred to in section 3 purchased in that quarter and the total amounts 
of each which have been purchased under the program. 
Approved August 7, 1953.