An Act to authorize the disposal of nickel from the national stockpile
PL 89-740 (H.R.17376), enacted 11/02/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-740-NOV. 2, 1966 
[80 
STAT. 
November 2, 1966 
[H. R. 17376] 
Public Law 89-740 
AN ACT 
To authorize the disposal of nickel from the national stockpile. 
Nickel. 
Disposal. 
60 Stat. 596. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Adminis-
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by nego-
tiation or otherwise, approximately twenty-four million five hundred 
thousand pounds of nickel now held in the national stockpile estab-
lished 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 provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Mate-
rials Stock Piling Act: Provided^ That the time and method of disposi-
tion shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United 
States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, proc-
essors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual 
markets. 
Approved November 2, 1966. 
November 2, 1966 
[H. R.17451] 
Public Law 89-741 
AN ACT 
To preserve the pay and retirement privileges for certain former chiefs of Navy 
bureaus and to preserve the pay privileges of certain former deputy chiufs of 
Navy bureaus. 
Navy Depart-
ment. 
Retirement ben-
efits of certain 
officers. 
70A Stat. 285. 
10 u s e 5133. 
76 Stat. 454. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress 
assembled, 
(a) An officer who on the day before the effective date of this Act 
was serving as the Chief of the Bureau of Ships or the Bureau of 
Yards and Docks, and who on that eft'ective date was detailed to serve 
as the commander of one of the six principal subordinate commands of 
the Naval Material Command, continues, from that date, to be eligible 
for the rank, pay, and retirement privileges he was entitled to receive 
as a bureau chief under chapter 513 of title 10, United States Code, 
and under section 202(h) of title 37, United States Code. If any such 
officer is retired while serving in the office to which so detailed, he may 
be retired in the grade of rear admiral, w4th retired pay based on the 
upper half of that grade; if retired after serving in that office, his eligi-
bility for the retirement privileges authorized by chapter 513 of title 
10, United States Code, is to be determined by adding his service as 
a bureau chief and all service performed in the office to which detailed 
on the effective date of this Act. 
(b) An officer who on the day before the effective date of this Act 
Avas serving as the Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Ships, the Bureau 
of Supplies and Accounts, or the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and 
who on that effective date was detailed to serve as the vice commander 
of one of the six principal subordinate commands of the Naval Material 
Command, is entitled to the pay authorized by section 202(i) of title 
37, United States Code, from the effective date of this Act and as long 
as he continues to serve in the office to which then detailed. 
SEC. 2. This Act shall be effective on May 1,1966. 
Approved November 2, 1966.