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[CITE: 50USC98a]

 
                   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. 98a. Congressional findings and declaration of purpose

    (a) The Congress finds that the natural resources of the United 
States in certain strategic and critical materials are deficient or 
insufficiently developed to supply the military, industrial, and 
essential civilian needs of the United States for national defense.
    (b) It is the purpose of this subchapter to provide for the 
acquisition and retention of stocks of certain strategic and critical 
materials and to encourage the conservation and development of sources 
of such materials within the United States and thereby to decrease and 
to preclude, when possible, a dangerous and costly dependence by the 
United States upon foreign sources for supplies of such materials in 
times of national emergency.
    (c) The purpose of the National Defense Stockpile is to serve the 
interest of national defense only. The National Defense Stockpile is not 
to be used for economic or budgetary purposes.

(June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 2, as added Pub. L. 96-41, Sec. 2(a), July 
30, 1979, 93 Stat. 319; amended Pub. L. 100-180, div. C, title II, 
Sec. 3202(b), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1245; Pub. L. 103-160, div. C, 
title XXXIII, Sec. 3311, Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1961; Pub. L. 104-201, 
div. C, title XXXIII, Sec. 3311(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2857.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 98a, acts June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 2, 53 Stat. 
811; July 23, 1946, ch. 590, 60 Stat. 596; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 3, 
Sec. 2(b), eff. June 12, 1953, 18 F.R. 3375, 67 Stat. 634; 1958 Reorg. 
Plan No. 1, Sec. 2, eff. July 1, 1958, 23 F.R. 4991, 72 Stat. 1799; Oct. 
21, 1968, Pub. L. 90-608, Sec. 402, 82 Stat. 1194; Ex. Ord. No. 11725, 
Sec. 3, eff. June 29, 1973, 38 F.R. 17175, related to determination of 
strategic and critical materials, the quantity and quality to be 
purchased, formation and functions of industry advisory committees, and 
the subsistence and traveling expenses of members of those committees, 
prior to repeal by section 2(a) of Pub. L. 96-41.
    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in former 
section 98 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96-41.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-201 added subsec. (c) and struck out 
former subsec. (c) which read as follows: ``In providing for the 
National Defense Stockpile under this subchapter, Congress establishes 
the following principles:
        ``(1) The purpose of the National Defense Stockpile is to serve 
    the interest of national defense only. The National Defense 
    Stockpile is not to be used for economic or budgetary purposes.
        ``(2) Before October 1, 1994, the quantities of materials 
    stockpiled under this subchapter should be sufficient to sustain the 
    United States for a period of not less than three years during a 
    national emergency situation that would necessitate total 
    mobilization of the economy of the United States for a sustained 
    conventional global war of indefinite duration.
        ``(3) On and after October 1, 1994, the quantities of materials 
    stockpiled under this subchapter should be sufficient to meet the 
    needs of the United States during a period of a national emergency 
    that would necessitate an expansion of the Armed Forces together 
    with a significant mobilization of the economy of the United States 
    under planning guidance issued by the Secretary of Defense.''
    1993--Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 103-160, Sec. 3311(1), substituted 
``Before October 1, 1994, the quantities'' for ``The quantities''.
    Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 103-160, Sec. 3311(2), added par. (3).
    1987--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100-180 added subsec. (c).


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Section 3311(c) of Pub. L. 104-201 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [amending this section and section 98h-5 of this 
title] shall take effect on October 1, 1996.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 98b, 98h-2 of this title.
