Lanterna Rally

Author: United States Congress Transportation

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780332207117

Excerpt from The National Critical Materials Act of 1984: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation and Materials of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives I think I ought to read my opening statement since we have not had a good materials hearing in some time. Today's hearing is the first of 2 days to consider national efforts in critical materials. In particular, we will be looking closely at the implementation of Title II of Public Law 98 - 37 3, the National Griti cal Materials Act of 1984. Today, we will look at broad materials policy questions. On the second day, we will focus on the important issue of critical materials in South Africa. Congressional concern for critical materials goes back many years. The oil embargo of the seventies made us all aware of import vulnerabilities with other critical materials such as cobalt, chromium, or manganese. More recently, we have seen the advent of new, advanced materials which will determine in large part the products and industries of the next several decades. Such materials will be vital to the Nation's economic competitiveness as well as to maintaining our strategic strength. Recognizing this importance, Congress passed a number of laws, including the 1984 Materials Act, to take specific steps to deal with these matters. Unfortunately, despite a few sporadic though appar ently well-intentioned efforts, the executive branch in the past 5 years has failed in implementing these laws. For instance, though the 1984 act was signed by President Reagan more than a year ago, he has yet to appoint the three-member National Critical Materials Council or to carry out any of the required programs considered central to the act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.