Volume 80
Public Law 89–421
To authorize the disposal of thorium from the supplemental stockpile.
Approved May 11, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the disposal of thorium from the supplemental stockpile.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Administrator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately three million five hundred thousand pounds (thorium oxide content) of thorium nitrate now held in the supplemental stockpile established pursuant to section 104(b) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act
of 1954, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1704(b)). Such disposition may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic
and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b): Provided, That the time and method of disposition shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Approved May 11, 1966.