STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, AND CONSERVATION

SEC. 3311. STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, AND CONSERVATIONSection 8 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98g) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsections: “(c) The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the feasibility of— “(1) developing domestic sources of supply of materials (other than materials referred to in subsections (a) and (b)) determined pursuant to section 3(a) to be strategic and critical materials; and 103 STAT. 1687 “(2) developing or using alternative methods for the refining or processing of a material in the stockpile so as to convert such material into a form more suitable for use during an emergency or for storage. “(d) The President shall encourage the conservation of domestic sources of any material determined pursuant to section 3(a) to be a strategic and critical material by making grants or awarding contracts for research regarding the development of— “(1) substitutes for such material; or “(2) more efficient methods of production or use of such material,”.