§ 1604. — Program administration.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC1604]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 28--MATERIALS AND MINERALS POLICY, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 1604. Program administration
(a) President; preparation of plan and submission to Congress of report
Within 1 year after October 21, 1980, the President shall submit to
the Congress--
(1) a program plan to implement such existing or prospective
proposals and organizational structures within the executive branch
as he finds necessary to carry out the provisions set forth in
sections 1602 and 1603 of this title. The plan shall include program
and budget proposals and organizational structures providing for the
following minimum elements:
(A) policy analysis and decision determination within the
Executive Office of the President;
(B) continuing long-range analysis of materials use to meet
national security, economic, industrial and social needs; the
adequacy and stability of supplies; and the industrial and
economic implications of supply shortages or disruptions;
(C) continuing private sector consultation in Federal
materials programs; and
(D) interagency coordination at the level of the President's
Cabinet;
(2) recommendations for the collection, analysis, and
dissemination of information concerning domestic and international
long-range materials demand, supply and needs, including
consideration of the establishment of a separate materials
information agency patterned after the Bureau of Labor Statistics;
and
(3) recommendations for legislation and administrative
initiatives necessary to reconcile policy conflicts and to establish
programs and institutional structures necessary to achieve the goals
of a national materials policy.
(b) Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy; coordination,
etc., activities
In accordance with the provisions of the National Science and
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C.
6601 et seq.), the Director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy shall:
(1) through the Federal Coordinating Council for Science,
Engineering, and Technology coordinate Federal materials research
and development and related activities in accordance with the
policies and objectives established in this chapter;
(2) place special emphasis on the long-range assessment of
national materials needs related to scientific and technological
concerns and the research and development, Federal and private,
necessary to meet those needs; and
(3) prepare an assessment of national materials needs related to
scientific and technological changes over the next five years. Such
assessment shall be revised on an annual basis. Where possible, the
Director shall extend the assessment in 10- and 25-year increments
over the whole expected lifetime of such needs and technologies.
(c) Secretary of Commerce; consultative, etc., requirements;
identification and assessment activities
The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Federal
Emergency Management Administration, the Secretary of the Interior, the
Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
and such other members of the Cabinet as may be appropriate shall--
(1) within 3 months after October 21, 1980, identify and submit
to the Congress a specific materials needs case related to national
security, economic well-being and industrial production which will
be the subject of the report required by paragraph (2) of this
subsection;
(2) within 1 year after October 21, 1980, submit to the Congress
a report which assesses critical materials needs in the case
identified in paragraph (1) of this subsection, and which recommends
programs that would assist in meeting such needs, including an
assessment of economic stockpiles; and
(3) continually thereafter identify and assess additional cases,
as necessary, to ensure an adequate and stable supply of materials
to meet national security, economic well-being and industrial
production needs.
(d) Secretary of Defense and other Cabinet members; assessment, etc.,
activities
The Secretary of Defense, together with such other members of the
Cabinet as are deemed necessary by the President, shall prepare a report
assessing critical materials needs related to national security and
identifying the steps necessary to meet those needs. The report shall
include an assessment of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C.
App. 2061 et seq.), and the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock
Piling Act (50 U.S.C. App. 98 et seq.) [50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.]. Such
report shall be made available to the Congress within 1 year after
October 21, 1980, and shall be revised periodically as deemed necessary.
(e) Secretary of the Interior; initiation of actions; report
The Secretary of the Interior shall promptly initiate actions to--
(1) improve the capacity of the United States Bureau of Mines to
assess international minerals supplies;
(2) increase the level of mining and metallurgical research by
the United States Bureau of Mines in critical and strategic
minerals; and
(3) improve the availability and analysis of mineral data in
Federal land use decisionmaking.
A report summarizing actions required by this subsection shall be made
available to the Congress within 1 year after October 21, 1980.
(f) Secretary of the Interior; collection, evaluation, and analysis
activities concerning information
In furtherance of the policies of this chapter, the Secretary of the
Interior shall collect, evaluate, and analyze information concerning
mineral occurrence, production, and use from industry, academia, and
Federal and State agencies. Notwithstanding the provisions of section
552 of title 5, data and information provided to the Department by
persons or firms engaged in any phase of mineral or mineral-material
production or large-scale consumption shall not be disclosed outside of
the Department of the Interior in a nonaggregated form so as to disclose
data and information supplied by a single person or firm, unless there
is no objection to the disclosure of such data and information by the
donor: Provided, however, That the Secretary may disclose nonaggregated
data and information to Federal defense agencies, or to the Congress
upon official request for appropriate purposes.
(Pub. L. 96-479, Sec. 5, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2307; Pub. L. 102-285,
Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.)
References in Text
The National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and
Priorities Act of 1976, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 94-282,
May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 459, as amended, which is classified principally
to chapter 79 (Sec. 6601 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and
Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out under section 6601 of Title 42 and Tables.
The Defense Production Act of 1950, referred to in subsec. (d), is
act Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, 64 Stat. 798, as amended, which is
classified to section 2061 et seq. of Title 50, Appendix, War and
National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code,
see section 2061 of Title 50, Appendix, and Tables.
The Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act, referred to
in subsec. (d), is act June 7, 1939, ch. 190, as revised generally by
Pub. L. 96-41, Sec. 2, July 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 319, which is classified
generally to subchapter III (Sec. 98 et seq.) of chapter 5 of Title 50.
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 98 of
Title 50 and Tables.
Change of Name
``United States Bureau of Mines'' substituted for ``Bureau of
Mines'' in subsec. (e)(1), (2) pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-
285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1603 of this title.
