An Act to authorize the disposal of battery-grade synthetic manganese dioxide from the national stockpile
PL 89-726 (H.R.13661), enacted 11/02/1966

77 Stat. 462. 
80 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-726-NOV. 2, 1966 
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tion of such mail matter may be authorized by aircraft other than 
scheduled United States air carriers. This paragraph shall not affect 
the operation of section 4169 (a) of this title. 
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"(6) Paragraphs (4) and (6) of this subsection shall be adminis-
tered under such conditions and regulations as the Postmaster General 
and the Secretary of Defense severally may prescribe to carry out their 
respective functions under such paragraphs.". 
SEC. 3. Paragraph (4) of section 4303(d) of title 39, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a 
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comma and the following: "except that the rate of postage applicable 
to air parcel post transported directly between (1) Hawaii, Alaska, 
or the territories and possessions of the United States in the Pacific 
area, and (2) an Army, Air Force, or fleet post office served by the 
postmaster at San Francisco, California, or Seattle, Washington, shall 
be the rate which would be applicable if the parcel were in fact mailed 
from or delivered to that city, as the case may be". 
SEC. 4. Section 4303 of title 39, United States Code, is amended 
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by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(f) The Department of Defense shall reimburse the Post Office 
Department, out of any appropriations or funds available to the 
Department of Defense, as a necessary expense of the appropriations 
or funds and of the activities concerned, sums equal to the expenses 
incurred by the Post Office Department, as determined hj the Post-
master General, in providing air transportation of mail between 
Armed Forces post offices established under section 705 (d) of this title 
which are not located within the fifty States of the United States, the 
territories and possessions of the United States in the Pacific area, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Eico, the Virgin Islands or the Canal Zone, 
or between any such Armed Forces post office and the point of embar-
kation or debarkation within the fifty States, the territories and 
possessions of the United States in the Pacific area, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or the Canal Zone." 
Approved November 2, 1966. 
Public Law 89-726 
A N A C T 
November 2, 1966 
To authorize the disposal of battery-grade synthetic manganese dioxide from 
[H. R.13661] 
the national stockpile. 
Be it en((cted hy the Senate and IlouHe of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Adminis- ^ nthe^ic^'man'^a-
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by nese dioxide. 
negotiation or otherwise, approximately fourteen thousand five hun- 
Disposal. 
dred and seventy-two short dry tons of battery-grade synthetic man-
ganese dioxide now held in the national stockpile established pursuant 
to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 
98-98h). 
Such disposition may be made without regard to the pro- 
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visions 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 
avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and con-
sumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets. 
Approved November 2, 1966.