Materials Policy, Research, and Development Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy Resources and Materials Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2743 ... July 29 and 31, 1980 |
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Page 121 - ... (C) the appropriateness and feasibility of restricting the manufacture or use of categories of consumer products as a resource conservation strategy; (D) the appropriateness and feasibility of employing as a resource conservation strategy the imposition of solid waste management charges on consumer products, which charges would reflect the costs of solid waste management services, litter pickup, the value of recoverable components of such product, final disposal, and any social value associated...
Page 28 - Commission shall be entitled to reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. (g) FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMISSION. — It shall be the function of the Commission to make reports to the President and to the Congress with respect to — (1) the existence or possibility of any long- or short-term shortages; employment, price or business practices; or market adversities affecting the supply of any natural resources, raw agriculture commodities,...
Page 51 - The Congress declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government in the national interest to foster and encourage private enterprise in (1) the development of economically sound and stable domestic mining, minerals, metal and mineral reclamation industries...
Page 49 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 28 - ... necessary to increase the availability of the items referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection, to correct the adversity or practice affecting the availability of any such items, or otherwise to mitigate the adverse impact or possible adverse impact of shortages, practices, or adversities upon consumers referred to in paragraph (2) of this subsection; (4) existing policies and practices of Government which may tend to affect the supply of natural resources and other commodities; (5) necessary...
Page 121 - ... (6) the effect of existing public policies, including subsidies and economic incentives and disincentives, percentage depletion allowances, capital gains treatment and other tax incentives and disincentives, upon the recycling and reuse of...
Page 52 - Identified resources are defined as including reserves and materials other than reserves which are essentially well known as to location, extent and grade and which may be exploitable in the future under more favorable economic conditions or with improvements in technology.
Page 110 - OTA undertook the study at the request of the House Committee on Science and Technology. The study examines the technology and its social implications.
Page 114 - Commission" means the Federal Trade Commission. (c) As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Bureau of Standards shall develop test procedures for the determination of substantial equivalency of re-refined or otherwise processed used oil or blend of oil, consisting of such rerefined or otherwise processed used oil and new oil or additives, with new oil for a particular end use.
Page 59 - SEC. 2. (a) The Congress finds that the natural resources of the United States in certain strategic and critical materials...