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[CITE: 50USC98g]

 
                   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. 98g. Materials development and research


(a) Development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores 
        and other mineral substances

    (1) The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic 
investigations concerning the development, mining, preparation, 
treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances that (A) 
are found in the United States, or in its territories or possessions, 
(B) are essential to the national defense, industrial, and essential 
civilian needs of the United States, and (C) are found in known domestic 
sources in inadequate quantities or grades.
    (2) Such investigations shall be carried out in order to--
        (A) determine and develop new domestic sources of supply of such 
    ores and mineral substances;
        (B) devise new methods for the treatment and utilization of 
    lower grade reserves of such ores and mineral substances; and
        (C) develop substitutes for such essential ores and mineral 
    products.

    (3) Investigations under paragraph (1) may be carried out on public 
lands and, with the consent of the owner, on privately owned lands for 
the purpose of exploring and determining the extent and quality of 
deposits of such minerals, the most suitable methods of mining and 
beneficiating such minerals, and the cost at which the minerals or 
metals may be produced.

(b) Development of sources of supplies of agricultural materials; use of 
        agricultural commodities for manufacture of materials

    The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic 
investigations of the feasibility of developing domestic sources of 
supplies of any agricultural material or for using agricultural 
commodities for the manufacture of any material determined pursuant to 
section 98b(a) of this title to be a strategic and critical material or 
substitutes therefor.

(c) Development of sources of supply of other materials; development or 
        use of alternative methods for refining or processing materials 
        in stockpile

    The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic 
investigations concerning the feasibility of--
        (1) developing domestic sources of supply of materials (other 
    than materials referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this 
    section) determined pursuant to section 98b(a) of this title to be 
    strategic and critical materials; and
        (2) developing or using alternative methods for the refining or 
    processing of a material in the stockpile so as to convert such 
    material into a form more suitable for use during an emergency or 
    for storage.

(d) Grants and contracts to encourage conservation of strategic and 
        critical materials

    The President shall encourage the conservation of domestic sources 
of any material determined pursuant to section 98b(a) of this title to 
be a strategic and critical material by making grants or awarding 
contracts for research regarding the development of--
        (1) substitutes for such material; or
        (2) more efficient methods of production or use of such 
    material.

(June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 8, as added Pub. L. 96-41, Sec. 2(a), July 
30, 1979, 93 Stat. 322; amended Pub. L. 101-189, div. C, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 3311, Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1686.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 98g, act June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 8, as added 
July 23, 1946, ch. 590, 60 Stat. 600; amended 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, authorized appropriations for 
procurement, transportation, maintenance, rotation, storage, and 
refining or processing of materials acquired under this subchapter, 
prior to repeal by section 2(a) of Pub. L. 96-41. See section 98d(c) of 
this title.
    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in former 
section 98f of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96-41.


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 101-189 added subsecs. (c) and (d).

                         Delegation of Functions

    Functions of President under subsec. (a) of this section delegated 
to Secretary of the Interior and functions of President under subsec. 
(b) of this section delegated to Secretary of Agriculture by section 1 
of Ex. Ord. No. 12636, Feb. 25, 1988, 53 F.R. 6114, set out under 
section 98 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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