§ 1801. — Congressional findings and declaration of purposes.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC1801]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 30--NATIONAL CRITICAL MATERIALS COUNCIL
Sec. 1801. Congressional findings and declaration of purposes
(a) The Congress finds that--
(1) the availability of adequate supplies of strategic and
critical industrial minerals and materials continues to be essential
for national security, economic well-being, and industrial
production;
(2) the United States is increasingly dependent on foreign
sources of materials and vulnerable to supply interruption in the
case of many of those minerals and materials essential to the
Nation's defense and economic well-being;
(3) together with increasing import dependence, the Nation's
industrial base, including the capacity to process minerals and
materials, is deteriorating--both in terms of facilities and in
terms of a trained labor force;
(4) research, development, and technological innovation,
especially related to improved materials and new processing
technologies, are important factors which affect our long-term
capability for economic competitiveness, as well as for adjustment
to interruptions in supply of critical minerals and materials;
(5) while other nations have developed and implemented specific
long-term research and technology programs to develop high-
performance materials, no such policy and program evolution has
occurred in the United States;
(6) establishing critical materials reserves, by both the public
and private sectors and with proper organization and management,
represents one means of responding to the genuine risks to our
economy and national defense from dependency on foreign sources;
(7) there exists no single Federal entity with the authority and
responsibility for establishing critical materials policy and for
coordinating and implementing that policy; and
(8) the importance of materials to national goals requires an
organizational means for establishing responsibilities for materials
programs and for the coordination, within and at a suitably high
level of the Executive Office of the President, with other existing
policies within the Federal Government.
(b) It is the purpose of this chapter--
(1) to establish a National Critical Materials Council under and
reporting to the Executive Office of the President which shall--
(A) establish responsibilities for and provide for necessary
coordination of critical materials policies, including all
facets of research and technology, among the various agencies
and departments of the Federal Government, and make
recommendations for the implementation of such policies;
(B) bring to the attention of the President, the Congress,
and the general public such materials issues and concerns,
including research and development, as are deemed critical to
the economic and strategic health of the Nation; and
(C) ensure adequate and continuing consultation with the
private sector concerning critical materials, materials research
and development, use of materials, Federal materials policies,
and related matters;
(2) to establish a national Federal program for advanced
materials research and technology, including basic phenomena through
processing and manufacturing technology; and
(3) to stimulate innovation and technology utilization in basic
as well as advanced materials industries.
(Pub. L. 98-373, title II, Sec. 202, July 31, 1984, 98 Stat. 1249.)
Short Title
Section 201 of Pub. L. 98-373 provided that: ``This title [enacting
this chapter] may be cited as the `National Critical Materials Act of
1984'.''
