Volume 80
Public Law 89–464
To authorize the disposal of opium from the national stockpile.
Approved June 21, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the disposal of opium from the national stockpile.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Administrator
Opium.
Disposal.
of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by negotiation or otherwise, approximately thirty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety pounds (morphine content) of stockpile grade gum opium and approximately two thousand two hundred pounds (morphine content) of nonstockpile grade material in various dosage forms now held in the national stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98–98h).
Such disposition may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act: 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 June 21, 1966.