30 U.S.C. § 1604 : US Code - Section 1604: Program administration

Search 30 U.S.C. § 1604 : US Code - Section 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.