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 PUBLIC LAW 96-41—JULY 30, 1979 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) 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 3(a) of this Act to be a strategic and critical material or substitutes therefor.

93 STAT. 323

Purpose.

Investigations on public or private lands.

Domestic sources of supplies of agricultural material or commodities, development.

NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE TRANSACTION FUND

"SEC. 9. (a) There is established in the Treasury of the United States a separate fund to be known as the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'fund'). "(b)(1) All moneys received from the sale of materials in the stockpile under paragraphs (5) and (6) of section 6(a) shall be covered into the fund. Such moneys shall remain in the fund until appropriated or until the end of the third fiscal year following the fiscal year in which they are received. Any such moneys remaining in the fund after the end of such third fiscal year that have not been appropriated shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Any of such moneys that are appropriated shall be disbursed from the fund in the order in which they were covered into the fund. "(2) Moneys covered into the fund under paragraph (1) shall be available, when appropriated therefor, only for the acquisition of strategic and critical materials under section 6(a)(1) of this Act (and for transportation related to such acquisition). "(3) If so provided in appropriation Acts, moneys in the fund, when appropriated, shall remain available for a period of five fiscal years. "(c) All moneys received from the sale of materials being rotated under the provisions of section 6(a)(4) or disposed of under section 7(a) shall be covered into the fund and shall be available only for the acquisition of replacement materials.

Fund establishment. 50 USC 98h.

ADVISORY COMMITTEES

"SEC. 10. (a) The President may appoint advisory committees Presidential composed of individuals with expertise relating to materials in the appointment. stockpile or with expertise in stockpile management to advise the 50 USC 98h-l. President with respect to the acquisition, transportation, processing, refining, storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of such materials under this Act. "(b) Each member of an advisory committee established under Travel expenses, subsection (a) while serving on the business of the advisory committee

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