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RCED-83-7 1 (1983-02-18)

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REPORT BY THE


Comptroller General


OF THE UNITED STATES




Unresolved Issues Concerning

The Disposal Of Stockpile Silver




The fiscal year 1982 Defense Appropriation Act sus-
pended the weekly auctions of stockpile silver pend-
ing (1) a redetermination that the silver to be disposed
of is excess to stockpile requirements and (2) congres-
sional approval of any proposed disposal method. In
the interim, comments by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and the Department of Defense
on a January 11,1 982, GAO report raise new issues
that GAO believes must be addressed and resolved in
reevaluating the need for the stockpile silver and in
exploring alternative disposal methods, Unresolved
issues include

   --lack of consideration of defense-related mone-
   tary uses of silver;

   --inadequacies in the decision-making data base
   relating to legislatively mandated supply factors;

   --lack of consideration of the estimated cost of
   alternative sources of silver and the impact of
   proposed disposal methods on foreign relations;
   and

   --the viability of various alternative disposal
   methods, such as bullion coins and convertible
   bonds backed by silver.



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                                                                FEBRUARY 18, 1983

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