An Act to extend the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, and for other purposes.
PL 84-632 (H.R.9852), enacted 06/29/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 63a-JUNE 29, 1956 
[70 ST A T . 
SO u s e 
app. 
2032. 
I r o n a n d steel 
scrE^. 
Survey; reports 
to Congress. 
64 Stat. 819. 
50 U S C a p p . 
2160. 
the Export Control Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 7), as amended by Public 
Law 33, Eighty-second Congress (65 Stat. 43), and Public Law 62, 
Eighty-third Congress (67 Stat. 62), is hereby amended by striking out 
"1956" and inserting in lieu thereof ''"1958". 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of Commerce is hereby directed to immediately 
make a complete survey of the iron and steel scrap available and poten-
tially available and to file with the Congress an interim report within 
three months and a final report not later than January 31, 1957. The 
Secretary may contract with any private organization for the collection 
of information necessary to such survey, but any conclusions or recom-
mendations in any report to the Congress under this section shall be 
made by a full-time officer or employee of the Department of Com-
merce, and no person employed under section 710 (b) of the Defense 
Production Act of 1950, as amended, shall in any manner participate 
in such survey. 
Approved June 29, 1956. 
Public Law 632 
CHAPTER 474 
June 29, 1956 
AN A C T 
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i— To extend the Defense Production Act of 11)50, as amended, and for other purposes. 
Defense Produc-
tion Act of 1950, 
amendments. 
65 Stat. 144; 64 
Stat. 822. 
5 0 u s e 
app. 
2166. 
50 u s e 
app. 
2093. 
50 U S C app. 
2162. 
Nickel. 
Report to C o n -
gress. 
5 0 u s e a p p . 
2062. 
Dispersal of in-
dustrial facilities. 
Be it enaoted hy the Senate and Home of Reirresentatives 
of the 
Vnited States of America in Conffress assembled^ That the first sen-
tence of subsection (a) of section 717 of the Defense Production Act of 
1950, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out "June 30, 1956" 
and inserting in lieu tliereof "June 30,1958". 
SEC. 2. Subsection (b) of section 303 of the Defense Production Act 
of 1950, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out "June 30,1963" 
and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1965". 
SEC. 3. Section 712 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(f) The Secretary of Commerce shall make a special investigation 
and study of the production, allocation, distribution, use of nickel, of 
its resale as scrap, and of other aspects of the current situation with 
respect to supply and marketing of nickel, with particular attention to, 
among other things, the adequacy of the present system of nickel allo-
cation betMeen defense and civilian users. The Secretary of Com-
merce shall consult with the Joint Committee on Defense Production 
during the course of such investigation and study with respect to the 
progress achieved and the results of the investigation and study, and 
shall make an interim report on the results of the investigation and 
study on or before August 15,1956, and shall, on or before December 31, 
1956, make a final report on the results of such investigation and study, 
together with such recommendations as the Secretary of Commerce 
deems advisable. 
Such reports shall be made to the Senate (or to the 
Secretary of the Senate if the Senate is not in session) and to the House 
of Representatives (or to the Clerk of the House of Representatives if 
the House is not in session)." 
SEC. 4. Section 2 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, 
is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new 
paragraph: 
"In order to insure productive capacity in the event of such an 
attack on the United States, it is the policy of the Congress to encour-
age the geographical dispersal of the industrial facilities of the United 
States in the interest of the national defense, and to discourage the con-
centration of such productive facilities within limited geographical 
areas which are vulnerable to attack by an enemy of the United States. 
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In the construction of any Government-owned industrial facilities, in 
the rendition of any Government financial assistance for the construc-
tion, expansion, or improvement of any industrial facilities, and in 
the procurement of g^oods and services, under this or any other Act, 
each department and agency of the Executive Branch shall apply, 
under the coordination of tlie OiRce of Defense Mobilization, when 
practicable and consistent with existing law and the desirability for 
maintaining a sound economy, the principle of the geographical dis-
persal of such facilities in the interest of national defense. 
Nothing 
contained in this paragraph shall preclude the use of existing indus-
trial facilities."' 
SEC. 5. Effective July 1, 1956, section 712 (e) of the Defense Pro-
duction Act of 1950, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"(e) The expenses of the committee under this section, which shall 
not exceed $65,000 in any fiscal year, shall be paid from the contingent 
fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the 
Chairman or Vice Chairman." 
Approved June 29, 1956. 
50 U S C 
2162. 
Public Law 633 
CHAPTER 475 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an additional contract 
with the Yuma County Water Users' Association with respect to payment of 
construction charges on the Valley division, Yuma reclamation project, Ari-
zona, and for other purposes. 
June 29, 1956 
[S.2202] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary ^^"6" us^ers^'yvs-
of the Interior, hereinafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary, is sociauon, Ariz, 
hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the Yuma County Water 
Contract. 
Users* Association, an Arizona corporation providing for the collec-
tion and retention by the association of all construction charge pay-
ments made subsequent to the date of such contract under water-right 
applications on the Valley division of the Yuma reclamation project 
outstanding on the date of said contract and water-right applications 
thereafter approved on said division and the release of the association 
from its guaranty to the United States of all amounts then due or 
thereafter to become due on said applications in consideration of the 
assumption by the association of the general repayment obligation 
defined in section 2 hereof payable to the United States without 
interest in annual installments not smaller than the aggregate of the 
payments which, in the opinion of the Secretary, would have become 
due pursuant to the provisions of said water-right applications. 
SEC. 2. The general repayment obligation payable under the contract 
authorized by section 1 of this Act shall be ascertained by the Secre-
tary (a) by adding to $165,605.46 any operation and maintenance costs 
incurred on or after January 1,1955, which are unpaid on the date of 
the contract, (b) by subtracting from the sum thereof (i) any pay-
ments under water-right applications heretofore or hereafter ap-
proved by the Secretary on the Valley division which have become due 
and payable and which have been received beginning with January 1, 
1955, and prior to the date of the contract, and (ii) net profits earned 
on or after January 1,1955, and prior to June 30 preceding the date of 
the contract which are determined by the Secretary to be properly 
allocable to the Valley division, all as provided in section 3 of this 
Act, and (c) by adjusting the difference between (a) and (b) to 
reflect an appropriate share, as determined by the Secretary, of any 
Basis for repaj^ 
Southern Pacific 
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