**(a) Development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances**
(1) The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances that (A) are found in the United States, its territories or possessions, or in a reliable source 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma. (B) are essential to the national defense, industrial, and essential civilian needs of the United States, and (C) are found in known domestic sources in inadequate quantities or grades.
(2) Such investigations shall be carried out in order to develop new sources of strategic and critical materials, develop substitutes, or conserve domestic sources and reliable sources of supply for such strategic and critical materials.
(3) Investigations under paragraph (1) may be carried out on public lands and, with the consent of the owner, on privately owned lands for the purpose of exploring and determining the extent and quality of deposits of such minerals, the most suitable methods of mining and beneficiating such minerals, and the cost at which the minerals or metals may be produced.
**(b) Development of sources of supplies of agricultural materials; use of agricultural commodities for manufacture of materials** The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations of the feasibility of developing domestic sources of supplies of any agricultural material or for using agricultural commodities for the manufacture of any material determined pursuant to [section 98b(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98b/a&num=0&edition=prelim) to be a strategic a
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**(a) Development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances**
(1) The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the development, mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances that (A) are found in the United States, its territories or possessions, or in a reliable source 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma. (B) are essential to the national defense, industrial, and essential civilian needs of the United States, and (C) are found in known domestic sources in inadequate quantities or grades.
(2) Such investigations shall be carried out in order to develop new sources of strategic and critical materials, develop substitutes, or conserve domestic sources and reliable sources of supply for such strategic and critical materials.
(3) Investigations under paragraph (1) may be carried out on public lands and, with the consent of the owner, on privately owned lands for the purpose of exploring and determining the extent and quality of deposits of such minerals, the most suitable methods of mining and beneficiating such minerals, and the cost at which the minerals or metals may be produced.
**(b) Development of sources of supplies of agricultural materials; use of agricultural commodities for manufacture of materials** The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations of the feasibility of developing domestic sources of supplies of any agricultural material or for using agricultural commodities for the manufacture of any material determined pursuant to [section 98b(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98b/a&num=0&edition=prelim) to be a strategic and critical material or substitutes therefor.
**(c) Development of sources of supply of other materials; development or use of alternative methods for refining or processing materials in stockpile** The President shall make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations concerning the feasibility of—
(1) developing domestic sources of supply of materials (other than materials referred to in subsections (a) and (b)) determined pursuant to [section 98b(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98b/a&num=0&edition=prelim) to be strategic and critical materials; and
(2) developing or using alternative methods for the refining or processing of a material in the stockpile so as to convert such material into a form more suitable for use during an emergency or for storage.
**(d) Grants and contracts to encourage conservation of strategic and critical materials** The President shall encourage the conservation of domestic sources of any material determined pursuant to [section 98b(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98b/a&num=0&edition=prelim) to be a strategic and critical material by making grants or awarding contracts for research regarding the development of—
(1) substitutes for such material; or
(2) more efficient methods of production or use of such material.
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§ 98g. Materials development and research
(a) Development, mining, preparation, treatment,
and utilization of ores and other mineral
substances
(1)
The
President
shall
make
scientific,
technologic, and economic investigations con-
cerning the development, mining, preparation,
treatment, and utilization of ores and other
mineral substances that (A) are found in the
United States, its territories or possessions, or
in a reliable source 1 (B) are essential to the na-
tional defense, industrial, and essential civilian
needs of the United States, and (C) are found in
known domestic sources in inadequate quan-
tities or grades.
(2) Such investigations shall be carried out in
order to develop new sources of strategic and
critical materials, develop substitutes, or con-
serve domestic sources and reliable sources of
supply for such strategic and critical materials.
(3) Investigations under paragraph (1) may be
carried out on public lands and, with the con-
sent of the owner, on privately owned lands for
the purpose of exploring and determining the ex-
tent and quality of deposits of such minerals,
the most suitable methods of mining and
beneficiating such minerals, and the cost at
which the minerals or metals may be produced.
(b) Development of sources of supplies of agri-
cultural materials; use of agricultural com-
modities for manufacture of materials
The
President
shall
make
scientific,
technologic, and economic investigations of the
feasibility of developing domestic sources of
supplies of any agricultural material or for
using agricultural commodities for the manufac-
ture of any material determined pursuant to
section 98b(a) of this title to be a strategic and
critical material or substitutes therefor.
(c) Development of sources of