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[CITE: 50USC100]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
     CHAPTER 5--ARSENALS, ARMORIES, ARMS, AND WAR MATERIAL GENERALLY
 
 SUBCHAPTER III--ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIC RAW MATERIALS
 
Sec. 100. Nitrate plants


(a) Investigations; designation of sites; construction and operation of 
        dams, locks, improvements to navigation, etc.

    The President of the United States may make, or cause to be made, 
such investigation as in his judgment is necessary to determine the 
best, cheapest, and most available means for the production of nitrates 
and other products for munitions of war and useful in the manufacture of 
fertilizers and other useful products by water power or any other power 
as in his judgment is the best and cheapest to use; and is also 
authorized to designate for the exclusive use of the United States, if 
in his judgment such means is best and cheapest, such site or sites, 
upon any navigable or nonnavigable river or rivers or upon the public 
lands, as in his opinion will be necessary for national defense; and is 
further authorized to construct, maintain, and operate, at or on any 
site or sites so designated, dams, locks, improvements to navigation, 
power houses, and other plants and equipment or other means than water 
power as in his judgment is the best and cheapest, necessary or 
convenient for the generation of electrical or other power and for the 
production of nitrates or other products needed for munitions of war and 
useful in the manufacture of fertilizers and other useful products.

(b) Lease, purchase, or acquisition of lands and rights of way; purchase 
        or acquisition of materials, minerals, and processes

    The President is authorized to lease, buy, or acquire, by 
condemnation, gift, grant, or devise, such lands and rights of way as 
may be necessary for the construction and operation of such plants and 
to take from any lands of the United States, or to buy or acquire by 
condemnation materials, minerals, and processes, patented or otherwise, 
necessary for the construction and operation of such plants and for the 
manufacture of such products.

(c) Use of products of plants; disposal of surplus

    The products of such plants shall be used by the President for 
military and naval purposes to the extent that he may deem necessary, 
and any surplus which he shall determine is not required shall be sold 
and disposed of by him under such regulations as he may prescribe.

(d) Employment of officers, agents, or agencies

    The President is authorized to employ such officers, agents, or 
agencies as may in his discretion be necessary to enable him to carry 
out the purposes herein specified, and to authorize and require such 
officers, agents, or agencies to perform any and all of the duties 
imposed upon him by the provisions hereof.

(e) Government construction and operation

    The plant or plants provided for under this section shall be 
constructed and operated solely by the Government and not in conjunction 
with any other industry or enterprise carried on by private capital.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 37, 70A Stat. 634.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Strategic and Critical 
Materials Stock Piling Act which comprises this subchapter.
