Materials Research and Development Policy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Materials of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, May 17, 18; June 24, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 364 páginas |
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Página 48 - Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to use export controls to the extent necessary (a) to protect the domestic economy from the excessive drain of scarce materials and to reduce the inflationary impact of abnormal foreign demand...
Página 49 - Act of 1970) when the volume of such exports in relation to domestic supply contributes, or may contribute, to an increase in domestic prices or a domestic shortage, and such price increase or shortage has, or may have, a serious adverse impact on the economy or any sector thereof.
Página 31 - States or to fulfill its declared international obligations; and (C) to restrict the export of goods where necessary to protect the domestic economy from the excessive drain of scarce materials and to reduce the serious inflationary impact of foreign demand.
Página 184 - Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends*-- the energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the mineral treasure house of central and southern Africa.
Página 138 - States, and thereby decrease and prevent wherever possible a dangerous and costly dependence of the United States upon foreign nations for supplies of these materials in times of national emergency.
Página 31 - ... thereof." A worsening supply situation would require imposition of a system of priorities, under Title I of the Defense Production Act, whereby rated orders would have to be filled first. If priorities proved to be inadequate, they would be followed by a system of allocations, also authorized by Title I. The Bureau of Mines and the Department of Commerce would implement priorities and allocations in their respective areas of responsibility. At some point in a serious shortage situation recourse...
Página 49 - Materials in the stockpile may be released for use, sale, or other disposition — (1) on the order of the President, at any time the President determines the release of such materials is required for purposes of the national defense; and (2) in time of war declared by the Congress or during a national emergency, on the order of any officer or employee of the United States designated by the President to have authority to issue disposal orders under this subsection, if such officer or employee determines...
Página 83 - The committee will come to order. This is the second day of hearings on the minority enterprise programs of the Federal Government.
Página 5 - National Materials and Minerals Policy Research and Development Act of 1980...
Página 210 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the subcommittee, I thank you for this opportunity to testify on this bill.