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[CITE: 50USC98h-1]

 
                   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. 98h-1. Advisory committees


(a) Membership

    The President may appoint advisory committees composed of 
individuals with expertise relating to materials in the stockpile or 
with expertise in stockpile management to advise the President with 
respect to the acquisition, transportation, processing, refining, 
storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of such materials 
under this subchapter.

(b) Expenses

    Each member of an advisory committee established under subsection 
(a) of this section while serving on the business of the advisory 
committee away from such member's home or regular place of business 
shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5 for persons 
intermittently employed in the Government service.

(c) Market Impact Committee

    (1) The President shall appoint a Market Impact Committee composed 
of representatives from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of 
Commerce, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the 
Department of the Interior, the Department of State, the Department of 
the Treasury, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and such 
other persons as the President considers appropriate. The 
representatives from the Department of Commerce and the Department of 
State shall be Cochairmen of the Committee.
    (2) The Committee shall advise the National Defense Stockpile 
Manager on the projected domestic and foreign economic effects of all 
acquisitions and disposals of materials from the stockpile that are 
proposed to be included in the annual materials plan submitted to 
Congress under section 98h-2(b) of this title, or in any revision of 
such plan, and shall submit to the manager the Committee's 
recommendations regarding those acquisitions and disposals.
    (3) The annual materials plan or the revision of such plan, as the 
case may be, shall contain--
        (A) the views of the Committee on the projected domestic and 
    foreign economic effects of all acquisitions and disposals of 
    materials from the stockpile;
        (B) the recommendations submitted by the Committee under 
    paragraph (2); and
        (C) for each acquisition or disposal provided for in the plan or 
    revision that is inconsistent with a recommendation of the 
    Committee, a justification for the acquisition or disposal.

    (4) In developing recommendations for the National Defense Stockpile 
Manager under paragraph (2), the Committee shall consult from time to 
time with representatives of producers, processors, and consumers of the 
types of materials stored in the stockpile.

(June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 10, as added Pub. L. 96-41, Sec. 2(a), July 
30, 1979, 93 Stat. 323; amended Pub. L. 102-484, div. C, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 3314, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2654.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 10 of act June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 10, was 
renumbered section 13 and is classified to section 98h-4 of this title.
    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in former 
section 98a(b) of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96-41.


                               Amendments

    1992--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102-484 added subsec. (c).

                         Delegation of Functions

    Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of 
Defense by section 1 of Ex. Ord. No. 12636, Feb. 25, 1988, 53 F.R. 6114, 
set out under section 98 of this title.


                   Termination of Advisory Committees

    Advisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not 
later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of 
their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by 
the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is 
renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year 
period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its 
duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-
463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees.


  Advisory Committee Regarding Operation and Modernization of Stockpile

    Section 3306 of Pub. L. 102-484 provided that:
    ``(a) Appointment.--Not later than March 15, 1993, the President 
shall appoint an advisory committee under section 10(a) of the Strategic 
and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98h-1(a)) to make 
recommendations to the President concerning the operation and 
modernization of the National Defense Stockpile.
    ``(b) Membership.--The committee shall consist of members who have 
expertise regarding strategic and critical materials, including--
        ``(1) employees of Federal agencies (including the Department of 
    Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, the 
    Department of Energy, the Department of the Treasury, the Department 
    of the Interior, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency);
        ``(2) representatives of mining, processing, and fabricating 
    industries and consumers that would be affected by the acquisition 
    of materials for the stockpile or the disposal of materials from the 
    stockpile; and
        ``(3) other interested persons or representatives of interested 
    organizations.''
