An Act to authorize the disposal of amosite asbestos from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile
PL 92-104 (S.763), enacted 08/11/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92.104-AUG. 11, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
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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 by law. All 
bids may be rejected when it is in the public interest to do so. 
Exemptions. 
(jj>^ rpj^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 mar-
kets; 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 August 11, 1971. 
Public Law 92-104 
August 11. 1971 
AN ACT 
[S. 763] 
To authorize the disposal of amosite asbestos from the national stockpile and 
the supplemental stockpile. 
Amosite asbes-
tos. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representiatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis-
Disposai. 
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of approxi-
mately thirty-two thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine short tons 
of amosite asbestos now held in the national stockpile established 
pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act 
60 Stat. 596. 
(50 U.S.C. 98-98h) and the supplemental stockpile established pur-
suant to section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
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Assistance Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 456, as amended by 73 Stat. 607. Such 
disposition may be made without regard to the requirements of sec-
tion 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act: Pro-
vided, 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, 
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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 by law. All 
bids may be rejected when it is in the public interest to do so. 
Exemptions. 
(^b) x^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 mar-
kets; 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 August 11, 1971.