An Act to authorize the disposal of lead from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.
PL 92-356 (S.764), enacted 07/26/1972

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PUBLIC LAW 92-355-JULY 26, 1972 
[86 STAT. 
Public Law 92-355 
July 26, 1972 
^"^ ACT 
[S.3086] 
Xo luithorize the disinosal of nickel from the national stockpile. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Dis'^os'ai 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Adminis-
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of approxi-
mately thirty-eight thousand ei^nt hundred and seventy-six short 
tons of nickel now held in the national stockpile established pursuant 
to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 
60 Stat. 596. 
5)8-98h). Such disposition may be made without regard to the require-
ments of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling 
Act: Provided^ That the time and method of disposition shall be fixed 
with due regard to the protection of the United States against avoid-
able loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers 
against avoidable disruption of their usual markets. 
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SEC. 2. (a) Disposals of the material covered by this Act may be 
made only after publicly advertising for bids, except as provided in 
subsection (b) of this section or as otherwise authorized oy law. All 
bids may be rejected when it is in the public interest to do so. 
Exceptions. 
(^s^ jj^g material covered by this Act may be disposed of without 
advertising for bids if— 
(1) the material is to be transferred to an agency of the 
United States; 
(2) the Administrator determines that methods of disposal 
other than by advertising are necessary to protect the United 
States against avoidable loss or to protect producers, processors, 
and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual 
markets; or 
(3) sales are to be made pursuant to requests received from 
other agencies of the United States in furtherance of authorized 
program objectives of such agencies. 
Approved July 26, 1972. 
Public Law 92-356 
July 26.1972 
AN ACT 
l^s- 764] 
To authorize the disposal of lead from the national stockpile and the 
supplemental stockpile. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Lfad. 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis-
Disposai. 
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of approxi-
mately four hundred ninety eight thousand short tons of lead now 
held m the national stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic 
60 Stat. 596. 
and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h) and the 
supplemental stockpile established pursuant to section 104(b) of 
the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, 68 
80 Stat. 1529. 
gtat. 456, as amended by 73 Stat. 607. Such disposition may be made 
Without regard to the requirements oi section 3 oi the strategic and 
Critical Materials Stock Piling Act: Provided, 
That the time and 
method of disposition shall be fixed with due regard to the protection 
of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of 
producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption 
of their usual markets. 
7 use 1704. 
86 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 92-358-JULY 28, 1972 
501 
SEC. 2. (a) Disposals of the material covered by this Act may be '^''^^• 
made only after publicly advertising for bids, except as provided in 
subsection (b) of this section or as otherwise authorized by law. 
All bids may be rejected when it is in the public interest to do so. 
(b) The material covered by this Act may be disposed of without 
Exceptions, 
advertising for bids if— 
(1) the material is to be transferred to an agency of the United 
States; 
(2) the Administrator determines that methods of disposal 
other than by advertising are necessary to protect the United 
States against avoidable loss or to protect producers, processors, 
and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual 
markets; or 
(3) sales are to be made pursuant to requests received from 
,, 
other agencies of the United States in furtherance of authorized 
program objectives of such agencies. 
Approved July 26, 1972. 
Public Law 92-357 
AN ACT 
j^ly 28, 1972 
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended, so as to i>ermit certain 
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persons undier twenty-one years of age to obtain insurance coverage under 
such Act. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of AmeHca in Congress assembled, That the Federal 
Crop Insurance Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1501-1519), is amended "'coverage 
by adding at the end thereof a new section as follows: 
52 stat. 72; 
55 Stat. 256. 
Federal crop 
Insurance. 
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• PERSONS UNDER TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE 
"SEC. 520. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person 
shall be denied insurance under this Act solely on the ground that 
he is under twenty-one years of age if such person is (1) over eighteen 
years of age, and (2) has a bona fide insurable interest in a crop as 
an owner-operator, landlord, tenant or sharecropper: Provided, 
That 
any such person who enters into a Federal Crop Insurance contract 
shall be subject to the same legal liability and have the same legal 
rights with respect to such contract as any person over the age of 
twenty-one years." 
Approved July 28, 1972. 
Public Law 92-358 
AN ACT 
July 28, 1972 
To (^arry into effect a provision of the Convention of Paris for the Protection 
[H. R. 5237] 
of Industrial Property, as revised at Stockholm, Sweden, July 14, 1967. 
Inventors' cer-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 119 
of title 35 of the United States Code, entitled "Patents", is amended "^pTtlntappuca-
by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: 
tions. 
"Applications for inventors' certificates filed in a foreign country 75^stat^7/8°°' 
in which applicants have a right to apply, at their discretion, either 
for a patent or for an inventor's certificate shall be treated in this 
country in the same manner and have the same effect for purpose of