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The Strateqic and Critical Materials S.ockpile Will Be Deticient
for Many Years. END-78-82; B-125067. July 27, 1978, 19 pp. + 3
appendices (26 pp.).
Report by Elmer B. Staats, Comdptroller General.
Issue Area: Materials: Administration and Coordinaticn cf
Materials Policy (1812).
Contact: Energy and Minerals Div.
Budqet Function: Natural Resources, lnuiroment, ard Energy:
Other N .-ural Rescurcos (306).
Orqanization Coxcerned: General Services Idministration;
National Security Council; Federal Siuply ftzwiice4 Federal
Preparedness Aqency.
Conqressiondl Relevance: House Committee Gn Armed Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Services; C%. nqress,
Authority: Strategic and Critical Materials bock Fling Act '50
U.S.C. 98). Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50
U.S.C. App. 2093). Agricultural 1rade Development and
Assistance Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 454; 68 stat. 456). Fcod
for Peace Act of 1964 (7 U.S.C. 170t4(b)). 53 Stat. 811. S.
1198 (95th Cong.)° S. 1810 (95th Ccng.).
The United States stockpilcs 93 Ltrategic and critical
materials (metals, ores, and drugsl curreitly valued at about
$8.6 billion at 117 locations throughout the ccuntry. The
General Services Administrations (GSA's) Federal Freparedness
Agency (FPA) is responsible for planning, programir;, and
reportinq on the stockpile. The Naticnal Security Council gives
FPA quidance for develoring stockpile ;clicy. 2he Federal Supply
Service (FSS) is responsible for purchasing, sxorimg,
maintaining, transferring, rotating, distributing, and
protecting the materials, The estimated material requirements
qoals were increased for 72 of the 98 stockpile materials as of
October 1, 1976. Findings/Conclusicms- The present inventory of
many materials is far short of the goals. Shortages totaling $7
billion exist for 51 materials, including 33 fcr which
insufficient inventcry is on hand tc meet even the highest
priority needs. As lonq as goals remain at the present level,
the timeframe for attainment will be quite lengthy--15 c csore
years for many items. Attainment has been 'ampezed by such
factors as: an acquisition policy concerned primarily with
avoidinq market disrupxions, limiting the dcllar value of
acquisitions to less than the value of disposals, ccntivued
disposals of needed materials under lcnq-term sales ccuttacts,
loans of materials which reduce the available inventory needed
to sdtisfy goals, and budget3ry constraints. The practice cf
reportinq qoals as oeing satisfied by su-srecification inveAtory
significantly overstates stockpile readiness. Recsmendatio.s:
The Director of FPA should: formulate schedules for metlng
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