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PUBLIC LAW 89-9-APR. 2, 1965

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Public Law 89-9 April 2. 1965 [H. R. 1496]

Zinc, lead, copper

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60 Stat. 59 6.

73 Stat. 607.

AN ACT To authorize the release of certain quantities of zinc, lead, and copper from either the national stockpile or the supplemental stockpile, or both.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of^ by negotiation or otherwise, from either the national stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materialsi Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h) or the supplemental stockpile established pursuant to section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1704(b)), or from both such stockpiles, (1) approximately one hundred and fifty thousand short tons of zinc, (2) approximately one hundred and fifty thousand short tons of lead, and (3) approximately one hundred thousand short tons of copper (part or all of which may be supplied in the form of brass and bronze, taking into account onl^ the copper content thereof). The disposals authorized by this section may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, but the time and method of the disposals shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets. SEC. 2. The Administrator is also authorized, without regard to the provisions of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, to make available an additional fifty thousand short tons of zinc and an additional fifty thousand short tons of lead now held in either the national stockpile or the supplemental stockpile, or both such stockpiles, for direct use by agencies of the United States Government. Approved April 2, 1965.

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