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 106 STAT. 4200 PUBLIC LAW 102-558—OCT. 28, 1992 "(A) improve domestic defense industrial base efficiency and responsiveness; " (B) reduce the time required for industrial mobilization in the event of an attack on the United States; or "(C) to respond to actions occurring outside of the . United States which could result in the termination or reduction of the availability of strategic and critical materials, including energy, and which could adversely affect the national defense preparedness of the United States; "(7) in order to ensure national defense preparedness, which is essential to national security, it is necessary and appropriate to assure the availabihty of domestic energy supplies for national defense needs; "(8) to further assure the adequate maintenance of the defense industrial base, to the maximum extent possible, such supphes should be augmented through reliance on renewable fuels, including solar, geothermal, and wind energy and ethanol and its derivatives, and on energy conservation measures; "(9) the domestic defense industrigd base is a component part of the core industrial capacity of the Nation; "(10) much of the industrial capacity which is relied upon by the Federal Government for military production and otner defense-related purposes is deeply and directlv influenced by— "(A) the overall competitiveness of the United States industrial economy; and "(B) the ability of United States industry, in general, to produce internationaly competitive products and operate profitably while maintaining adequate research and development to preserve that competitive edge in the future, with respect to military and civiHan production; "(11) the domestic defense industrial base is developing a growing dependency on foreign sources for critical components and materials used in mani:facturing and assembling m£gor weapons systems for the national defense; (12) such dependence is threatening the capability of many critical industries to respond rapidly to defense production needs in the event of war or other hostilities or diplomatic confrontation; and "(13) the inability of United States industry, especially smaller subcontractors and suppliers, to provide vital parts and components and other materials would impair our ability to sustain United States Armed Forces in combat for longer than a short period. "(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY. —It is the policy of the United States that— "(1) in order to ensure productive capacity in the event of an attack on the United States, the United States should encourage the geographic dispersal of industrial facilities in the United States to discourage the concentration of such productive facilities within limited geographic areas which are vulnerable to attack by an enemy of the United States; "(2) to ensure that essential mobilization requiremente are met, consideration should also be given to stockpiling strategic materials to the extent that aucn stockpiling is economical and feasible; "(3) in the construction of aiw Government-owned industrial facihty, in the rendition of any Government financial

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