A bill to authorize the disposal of copper from the national stockpile and the supplemental stockpile.
PL 93-214 (S.2316), enacted 12/28/1973

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PUBLIC LAW 93-213-DEC. 28, 1973 
[87 STAT. 
December 28, 1973 
[S.1038] 
Public Law 93-213 
AN ACT 
To amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize travel and transportation 
allowances to certain members of the uniformed services in connection with 
leave. 
Uniformed 
services. 
Travel and 
transportation 
allowances. 
76 Stat. 469; 
85 Stat. 359. 
37 u s e 401. 
76 Stat. 472; 
83 Stat. 840. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 7 of 
title 37, United States Code, is amended: 
(1) By inserting the following new section: 
"§411b. Travel and transportation allowances: travel performed 
in connection with certain leave 
"(a) Under uniform regulations prescribed by the Secretaries con-
cerned, a member of a uniformed service stationed outside the forty-
eight contiguous States and the District of Columbia who is ordered 
to make a change of permanent station to another duty station outside 
the forty-eight contiguous States and the District of Columbia may 
be paid travel and transportation allowances in connection with 
authorized leave from his last duty station to a place approved by the 
Secretary concerned, or his designee, or to a place no farther distant 
than his home of record if he is a member without dependents, and 
from that place to his designated post of duty, if either his last duty 
station or his designated post of duty is a restricted area in which 
dependents are not authorized. 
"(b) The allowances prescribed under this section may not exceed 
the rate authorized under section 404(d) of this title. Authorized 
travel under this section is performed in a duty status.". 
(2) By inserting the following new item in the analysis: 
"411b, Travel and transportation allowances: travel performed in connection 
with certain leave." 
immediately below 
"411a. Travel and transportation allowances; 
with convalescent leave.''. 
Approved December 28, 1973. 
travel performed in connection 
December 28, 1973 
[S.2316] 
Public Law 93-214 
AN ACT 
copper from 
To axithorize the disposal of copper from the national stockpile and the 
siipplenieutrtl stockpile. 
Copper. 
Disposal, 
60 Stat, 596; 
85 Stat. 427, 
80 Stat, 1529; 
82 Stat. 450, 
7 u s e 1704. 
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 
negotiation or otherwise, approximately two hundred and fifty-one 
thousand six hundred short tons of copper now held in the national 
stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials 
Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h) and tlie supplemental stockpile 
established pursuant to section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade 
Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (68 Stat, 456, as amended by 
78 Stat. 607). Sucli disposition may be made without regard to the 
requii'ements 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 December 28, 1973.