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 PUBLIC LAW 99-500—OCT. 18, 1986

100 STAT. 1783-120

SEC. 9108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, appropriations available in this Act may be used for the procurement, product improvement and modification of the Copperhead and five-inch guided projectiles, without regard to whether or not a second production source program or contract has been established for those programs, provided that the Secretary of Defense determines that such expenditures are in the interest of the Government of the United States. SEC. 9109. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of General Services shall release to the Virginia Port Authority, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Virginia, all residuary rights of use held by the United States in three warehouses located in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, within the area operated as a public port facility and known as the Norfolk International Terminals. (b) TIME LIMITATION; COMPENSATION.—The Administrator of General Services shall execute such documents and take such other actions as may be necessary to release, within one hundred and eighty days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the rights referred to in subsection (a). The release shall be made without any compensation in addition to compensation paid to the United States for such warehouses and other facilities by the city of Norfolk, Virginia, in 1968. SEC. 9110. (a) IN GENERAL.—During fiscal year 1987 and during each of the six succeeding fiscal years, the Administrator of General Services shall obtain bids from domestic producers of high carbon ferrochromium and of high carbon ferromanganese and award contracts for the conversion of chromium and manganese ores held in the National Defense Stockpile into high carbon ferrochromium and high carbon ferromanganese, respectively. (b) STOCKPILE GOALS.—(1) Contracts awarded under subsection (a) shall provide for the addition of not less than 53,500 short tons of high carbon ferrochromium and 67,500 short tons of high carbon ferromanganese to the National Defense Stockpile in each of the fiscal years referred to in the preceding sentence. (2) If, in any fiscal year referred to in subsection (a), the minimum quantity of high carbon ferrochromium or high carbon ferromanganese to be added to the National Defense Stockpile, as prescribed in paragraph (1), is not met, the quantity of such material to be added to such stockpile in the succeeding fiscal year shall be increased by the quantity of the deficiency. (c) SEVEN-YEAR MINIMUM QUANTITIES.—The total quantities of high carbon ferrochromium and high carbon ferromanganese to be added to the National Defense Stockpile over the seven fiscal years referred to in subsection (a) shall be as follows: (1) High carbon ferrochromium, 374,000 short tons. (2) High carbon ferromanganese, 472,000 short tons. (d) In this section, the term "National Defense Stockpile" means the stockpile provided for in section 4 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act (50 U.S.C. 98c). SEC. 9111. None of the funds appropriated or made available by this Act shall be used to implement or enforce the rule proposed on May 7, 1986 (51 Fed. Reg. 16988-16991), or section 8.304-91 of the Air Force FAR Supplement issued on June 24, 1985. SEC. 9112. (a) It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the capabilities inherent in the technologies associated with the Advanced Technology Bomber Program and the Advanced Cruise Missile Program are a critical national security

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