Request for Public Comments on the Potential Market Impact of the Proposed Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Materials Plan From the National Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee, 58058-58061 [2022-20687]
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BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 220916–0192]
RIN 0694–XC091
Request for Public Comments on the
Potential Market Impact of the
Proposed Fiscal Year 2024 Annual
Materials Plan From the National
Defense Stockpile Market Impact
Committee
Bureau of Industry and
Security, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of inquiry; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The National Defense
Stockpile Market Impact Committee, cochaired by the Departments of
Commerce and State, is seeking public
comments on the potential market
impact of proposed changes of the
Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Annual Materials
Plan (AMP). Potential changes to the
AMP are decided by the National
Defense Stockpile Market Impact
Committee who advise the Defense
Logistics Agency in its role as the
National Defense Stockpile Manager on
the projected domestic and foreign
economic effects of all acquisitions,
conversions, and disposals involving
the National Defense Stockpile.
DATES: To be considered, written
comments must be received by October
24, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submissions: You may
submit comments, identified by docket
number BIS–2022–0024 or RIN 0694–
XC091, through the Federal
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publisher of the notice, will be receiving
the comments and disseminating them
to the National Defense Stockpile
Market Impact Committee. While BIS
encourages the submissions of
comments via https://
www.regulations.gov, comments may
also be submitted via email to the
following: Katherine Reid, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of
Industry and Security, Office of
Strategic Industries and Economic
Security, email: MIC@bis.doc.gov. All
comments submitted through email to
Commerce must include the phrase
‘‘Market Impact Committee Notice of
Inquiry’’ in the subject line and will be
added to the docket on regulations.gov.
Public comments are an important
element of the Committee’s market
impact review process.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marina Youssef, Office of Strategic
Industries and Economic Security,
Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S.
Department of Commerce, telephone:
(202) 482–3504, (Attn: Marina Youssef),
email: MIC@bis.doc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The federal government operates
several different stockpiles, and these
are managed by different federal
agencies depending on the stockpile’s
purpose. For example, the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS)
manages the Strategic National
Stockpile, which contains medicines
and medical equipment. HHS’ stockpile
can supplement medical
countermeasures needed by states, tribal
nations, territories and the largest
metropolitan areas during public health
emergencies. Another example, the
Department of Energy operates the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve for use
when the international oil market is
severely disrupted.
The Department of Defense (DOD)
maintains a stockpile of critical and
strategic materials known as the
National Defense Stockpile (NDS). In a
war or national emergency, this
stockpile is meant to provide strategic
and critical materials to support
national defense and essential civilian
requirements in a time of national
emergency. The stockpile currently
contains 57 materials, primarily
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minerals, that are deemed strategic and
critical to national security.1
Under the authority of the Strategic
and Critical Materials Stock Piling
Revision Act of 1979, as amended (the
Stock Piling Act) (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.),
the Department of Defense’s Defense
Logistics Agency (DLA) is the National
Defense Stockpile Manager. The NDS is
a strategic stockpile, not an economic
stockpile. It is not intended to influence
prices in the market or insulate private
industry from supply shocks. Rather, its
purpose is to ensure the defense and
essential civilian industrial base has
consistent access to the materiel it
needs—and the private industries
making products have the raw materials
they need—in war or national
emergency.
Congress authorizes the sale of excess
materials in the stockpile, and proceeds
of the sales are transferred to the
National Defense Stockpile Transaction
Fund. The NDS does not receive annual
appropriations in the defense budget—
neither for new purchases of materials
nor for operations expenses. Instead, the
stockpile has a revolving fund in the US
Treasury called the National Defense
Stockpile Transaction Fund.2 Whenever
materials in the stockpile are sold, the
proceeds of that sale are added to the
fund. The DLA then uses that money to
pay for the operational expenses of
maintaining the stockpile and to
purchase new materials. Information
about stockpile transactions—what was
bought, what was sold, at what value it
was sold—is publicly available in
annual and monthly reports published
by DLA.3
Section 3314 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993
(FY 1993 NDAA) (50 U.S.C. 98h–1)
formally established a Market Impact
Committee (the Committee) to ‘‘advise
the National Defense Stockpile Manager
on the projected domestic and foreign
economic effects of all acquisitions and
disposals of materials from the
stockpile. . . .’’ The Committee must
also balance market impact concerns
with the statutory requirement to
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1 Defense Logistics Agency, ‘‘Strategic Materials:
Office,’’ U.S. Department of Defense, https://
www.dla.mil/HQ/Acquisition/StrategicMaterials/
About/.
2 Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling
Revision Act of 1979, Public Law 96–41, p. 5.
3 Strategic Materials Reports (dla.mil).
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protect the U.S. Government against
avoidable loss. See 50 U.S.C. 98e (b)(2).
The Committee is comprised of
representatives from the Departments of
Commerce, State, Agriculture, Defense,
Energy, Interior, the Treasury, and
Homeland Security. The FY 1993 NDAA
directs the Committee to consult with
industry representatives that produce,
process, or consume the types of
materials stored in the Stockpile as the
National Defense Stockpile Manager, the
DLA must produce an Annual Materials
Plan (AMP) proposing the maximum
quantity of each listed material that may
be acquired, disposed of, upgraded,
converted, recovered, or sold by the
DLA in a particular fiscal year. With this
notice, Commerce, on behalf of DLA,
lists the quantities and types of
activity—potential disposals, potential
acquisitions, potential conversions
(upgrade, rotation, reprocessing, etc.) or
potential recovery (from government
sources)—associated with each material
in its proposed FY 2024 AMP.
The quantities listed in Attachment 1
are not acquisition, disposal, upgrade,
conversion, recovery, reprocessing, or
sales target quantities, but rather a
statement of the proposed maximum
quantity of each listed material that may
be acquired, disposed of, upgraded,
converted, recovered, or sold in a
particular fiscal year by the DLA. The
quantity of each material that will
actually be acquired or offered for sale
will depend on the market for the
material at the time of the acquisition or
offering, as well as on the quantity of
each material approved by Congress for
acquisition, disposal, conversion, or
recovery.
Additional Instructions for Comments
The Committee is interested in any
supporting data and documentation on
the potential market impact of the
quantities associated with the proposed
FY 2024 AMP.
While regulations.gov allows users to
provide comments by filling in a ‘‘Type
Comment’’ field or by attaching a
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Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export
Administration.
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PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2024 ANNUAL MATERIALS PLAN
Material
Unit
Quantity
Footnote
Potential Disposals
Beryllium Metal ..........................................................................................
Carbon Fibers ............................................................................................
Chromium, Ferro ........................................................................................
Chromium, Metal .......................................................................................
Germanium ................................................................................................
Manganese, Ferro .....................................................................................
Manganese, Metallurgical Grade ...............................................................
Aerospace Alloys .......................................................................................
Platinum .....................................................................................................
PGM—Iridium ............................................................................................
Quartz Crystals ..........................................................................................
Tantalum ....................................................................................................
Tin ..............................................................................................................
Titanium Based Alloys ...............................................................................
Tungsten Ores and Concentrates .............................................................
Zinc ............................................................................................................
ST ....................................................
Lbs ...................................................
ST ....................................................
ST ....................................................
kg .....................................................
ST ....................................................
SDT .................................................
Lbs ...................................................
Tr Oz ...............................................
Tr Oz ...............................................
Lbs ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
MT ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
Lbs W ..............................................
ST ....................................................
8
98,000
24,000
500
5,000
50,000
322,238
1,500,000
8,380
489
15,759
190
640
1,000,000
2,000,000
2,500
(1)
(1)
(1)
( 1)
(1)
(1)
Potential Acquisitions
Aluminum (High Purity) ..............................................................................
Aluminum Alloys ........................................................................................
Antimony ....................................................................................................
Cadmium Zinc Telluride .............................................................................
Cerium .......................................................................................................
Electrolytic Manganese Metal ....................................................................
Energetics ..................................................................................................
Ferroniobium ..............................................................................................
Grain Oriented Electric ..............................................................................
Iso-Molded Graphite ..................................................................................
Lanthanum .................................................................................................
Magnesium ................................................................................................
Neodymium-Praseodymium Oxide ............................................................
NdFeB Magnet Block .................................................................................
Rayon .........................................................................................................
Samarium-Cobalt Alloy ..............................................................................
Tantalum ....................................................................................................
Tire Cord Steel ..........................................................................................
Titanium .....................................................................................................
Tungsten ....................................................................................................
Zirconium ...................................................................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
EA ....................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
Lbs Nb .............................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
KG ...................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
Lbs Ta .............................................
MT ...................................................
ST ....................................................
Lbs W ..............................................
MT ...................................................
17,000
1,500
1,100
1,000
550
5,000
20,000,000
300,000
3,200
1,300
1,300
3,500
300
286,000
600
200
53,000
2,370,000
15,000
587,000
230
Potential Conversions (Upgrade, rotation, reprocessing, etc.)
Aerospace Alloys .......................................................................................
Antimony ....................................................................................................
Beryllium Metal ..........................................................................................
CZT (Cadmium Zinc Tellurium substrates) ...............................................
Carbon Fibers ............................................................................................
Europium ....................................................................................................
Germanium ................................................................................................
Iridium Catalyst ..........................................................................................
Lithium Ion Materials .................................................................................
Rare Earths Elements ...............................................................................
Silicon Carbide Fibers ...............................................................................
Triamino Trinitrobenzene (TATB) ..............................................................
Lbs ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
ST ....................................................
EA ....................................................
Lbs ...................................................
MT ...................................................
kg .....................................................
Lbs ...................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
50,000
198,000
8
1,000
5,000
35
5,000
200
25
12
875
48,000
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Potential Recovery From Government Sources
Aerospace Alloys .......................................................................................
Battery Materials ........................................................................................
Boron Carbide ............................................................................................
Cobalt .........................................................................................................
E-Waste .....................................................................................................
Germanium ................................................................................................
Iridium Catalyst ..........................................................................................
Magnesium Metal ......................................................................................
Rare Earths ................................................................................................
Tantalum ....................................................................................................
Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Rods .................................................................
Lbs ...................................................
MT ...................................................
MT ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
MT ...................................................
kg .....................................................
Lbs ...................................................
MT ...................................................
Lbs ...................................................
MT ...................................................
kg .....................................................
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50
300
50,000
100
5,000
200
25
20,000
10
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1 Actual
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quantity will be limited to remaining excess inventory.
and Critical Materials collected from E-Waste (Strategic Materials collected from electronics waste).
2 Strategic
request made by the petitioner.1
Consequently, the final CVD
determination will be issued on the
same date as the final AD
determination, which is currently
scheduled to be issued no later than
January 10, 2023, unless postponed.’’
[FR Doc. 2022–20687 Filed 9–22–22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–33–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Background
[C–357–826]
White Grape Juice Concentrate From
Argentina: Preliminary Affirmative
Countervailing Duty Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination With
the Final Antidumping Duty
Determination; Correction
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Commerce (Commerce) published a
notice in the Federal Register on
September 6, 2022, in which Commerce
announced the preliminary affirmative
determination in the countervailing
duty (CVD) investigation of white grape
juice concentrate (WGJC) from
Argentina. In that notice, Commerce did
not state that it is aligning the final CVD
determination in this investigation with
the final determination in the
companion antidumping duty (AD)
investigation of WGJC from Argentina.
We are correcting this error with this
notice, as described below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gene H. Calvert, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VII, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–3586.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Correction
In the Federal Register of September
6, 2022, in FR Doc 2022–19190, on page
54455, after the paragraph,
‘‘Methodology,’’ add the following
paragraph regarding alignment:
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‘‘Alignment
As noted in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum, in accordance with
section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.210(b)(4), Commerce is aligning the
final CVD determination in this
investigation with the final
determination in the companion
antidumping duty (AD) investigation of
WGJC from Argentina, based on a
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On September 6, 2022, Commerce
published in the Federal Register the
Preliminary Determination in the CVD
investigation on WGJC from Argentina.2
In that notice, Commerce did not state,
as it had in the accompanying
Preliminary Decision Memorandum,
that it is aligning the final CVD
determination in this investigation with
the final determination in the
companion AD investigation of WGJC
from Argentina. Commerce is hereby
correcting the Preliminary
Determination.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published in
accordance with sections 703(f) and
777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended, and 19 CFR 351.205(c).
(CCR) under the antidumping duty (AD)
investigation of urea ammonium nitrate
solutions (UAN) from the Russian
Federation (Russia), in which
Commerce was examining whether
Russia has remained a market economy
(ME) country for purposes of the AD
law. The examination of whether Russia
has remained an ME country for
purposes of the AD law is now being
continued within the context of the
emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber
(ESBR) investigation from Russia.
DATES: Applicable September 23, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Leah Wils-Owens, Office of Policy,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4203,
email: Leah.Wils-Owens@trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
AGENCY:
On June 30, 2021, Commerce received
petitions for the imposition of AD and
countervailing duties (CVD) on UAN
imported into the United States from
Russia and the Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago. In the petitions,1 the petitioner
stated that information that was
reasonably available to it indicated that
Russia does not operate on market
principles. As such, the petitioner
argued that Commerce should initiate
an investigation into whether, and
should determine that, Russia is a nonmarket economy (NME) country. After
finding that the petitioner’s allegation
met the requirements of section 732 of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), on July 30, 2021, Commerce
initiated an AD investigation of UAN
from Russia, as well as an examination
of Russia’s status as an ME country.2
On October 29, 2021, based on the
information on the record, Commerce
determined that Russia remained an ME
country for purposes of AD law.3
However, in its determination,
Commerce noted that,
1 See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Petitioner’s Request for
Alignment of the CVD Determination with the AD
Determination,’’ dated June 27, 2022.
2 See White Grape Juice Concentrate from
Argentina: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing
Duty Determination, 87 FR 54455 (September 6,
2022) (Preliminary Determination).
1 The petitioner in the UAN proceedings was CF
Industries Nitrogen, LLC and its subsidiaries, Terra
Nitrogen, Limited Partnership and Terra
International (Oklahoma) LLC (collectively, the
petitioner).
2 See Investigation of Urea Ammonium Nitrate
Solutions from the Russian Federation: Opportunity
to Comment on the Russian Federation’s Status as
a Market Economy Country Under the Antidumping
Duty Laws, 86 FR 41008 (July 30, 2021).
3 See Memorandum, ‘‘Review of Russia’s Status as
a Market Economy Country,’’ dated October 29,
2021.
Dated: September 16, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2022–20664 Filed 9–22–22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–821–831, A–821–835]
Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions
From the Russian Federation:
Termination of Antidumping Duty
Changed Circumstances Review;
Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber
From the Russia Federation:
Notification of Intent To Investigate
Whether the Russian Federation is a
Market Economy
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Commerce (Commerce) is terminating
the changed circumstances review
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 220916-0192]
RIN 0694-XC091
Request for Public Comments on the Potential Market Impact of the
Proposed Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Materials Plan From the National
Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee
AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of inquiry; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The National Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee, co-
chaired by the Departments of Commerce and State, is seeking public
comments on the potential market impact of proposed changes of the
Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Annual Materials Plan (AMP). Potential changes to
the AMP are decided by the National Defense Stockpile Market Impact
Committee who advise the Defense Logistics Agency in its role as the
National Defense Stockpile Manager on the projected domestic and
foreign economic effects of all acquisitions, conversions, and
disposals involving the National Defense Stockpile.
DATES: To be considered, written comments must be received by October
24, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submissions: You may submit comments, identified by docket
number BIS-2022-0024 or RIN 0694-XC091, through the Federal eRulemaking
Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. To submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov, enter the docket number BIS-2022-0024 on the home
page and click ``Search.'' The site will provide a search results page
listing all documents associated with this docket. Find a reference to
this notice and click the button entitled ``Comment.'' Further
Instructions on how to submit a comment on regulations.gov can be found
on the FAQ page. BIS also requests commenters review the instructions
in the Additional Instructions for Comments section further in this
notice. BIS, as the publisher of the notice, will be receiving the
comments and disseminating them to the National Defense Stockpile
Market Impact Committee. While BIS encourages the submissions of
comments via https://www.regulations.gov, comments may also be
submitted via email to the following: Katherine Reid, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Strategic
Industries and Economic Security, email: [email protected]. All comments
submitted through email to Commerce must include the phrase ``Market
Impact Committee Notice of Inquiry'' in the subject line and will be
added to the docket on regulations.gov. Public comments are an
important element of the Committee's market impact review process.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marina Youssef, Office of Strategic
Industries and Economic Security, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S.
Department of Commerce, telephone: (202) 482-3504, (Attn: Marina
Youssef), email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The federal government operates several different stockpiles, and
these are managed by different federal agencies depending on the
stockpile's purpose. For example, the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) manages the Strategic National Stockpile, which contains
medicines and medical equipment. HHS' stockpile can supplement medical
countermeasures needed by states, tribal nations, territories and the
largest metropolitan areas during public health emergencies. Another
example, the Department of Energy operates the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve for use when the international oil market is severely
disrupted.
The Department of Defense (DOD) maintains a stockpile of critical
and strategic materials known as the National Defense Stockpile (NDS).
In a war or national emergency, this stockpile is meant to provide
strategic and critical materials to support national defense and
essential civilian requirements in a time of national emergency. The
stockpile currently contains 57 materials, primarily
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minerals, that are deemed strategic and critical to national
security.\1\
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\1\ Defense Logistics Agency, ``Strategic Materials: Office,''
U.S. Department of Defense, https://www.dla.mil/HQ/Acquisition/StrategicMaterials/About/.
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Under the authority of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock
Piling Revision Act of 1979, as amended (the Stock Piling Act) (50
U.S.C. 98 et seq.), the Department of Defense's Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA) is the National Defense Stockpile Manager. The NDS is a
strategic stockpile, not an economic stockpile. It is not intended to
influence prices in the market or insulate private industry from supply
shocks. Rather, its purpose is to ensure the defense and essential
civilian industrial base has consistent access to the materiel it
needs--and the private industries making products have the raw
materials they need--in war or national emergency.
Congress authorizes the sale of excess materials in the stockpile,
and proceeds of the sales are transferred to the National Defense
Stockpile Transaction Fund. The NDS does not receive annual
appropriations in the defense budget--neither for new purchases of
materials nor for operations expenses. Instead, the stockpile has a
revolving fund in the US Treasury called the National Defense Stockpile
Transaction Fund.\2\ Whenever materials in the stockpile are sold, the
proceeds of that sale are added to the fund. The DLA then uses that
money to pay for the operational expenses of maintaining the stockpile
and to purchase new materials. Information about stockpile
transactions--what was bought, what was sold, at what value it was
sold--is publicly available in annual and monthly reports published by
DLA.\3\
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\2\ Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act
of 1979, Public Law 96-41, p. 5.
\3\ Strategic Materials Reports (dla.mil).
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Section 3314 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1993 (FY 1993 NDAA) (50 U.S.C. 98h-1) formally established a
Market Impact Committee (the Committee) to ``advise the National
Defense Stockpile Manager on the projected domestic and foreign
economic effects of all acquisitions and disposals of materials from
the stockpile. . . .'' The Committee must also balance market impact
concerns with the statutory requirement to protect the U.S. Government
against avoidable loss. See 50 U.S.C. 98e (b)(2).
The Committee is comprised of representatives from the Departments
of Commerce, State, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, the
Treasury, and Homeland Security. The FY 1993 NDAA directs the Committee
to consult with industry representatives that produce, process, or
consume the types of materials stored in the Stockpile as the National
Defense Stockpile Manager, the DLA must produce an Annual Materials
Plan (AMP) proposing the maximum quantity of each listed material that
may be acquired, disposed of, upgraded, converted, recovered, or sold
by the DLA in a particular fiscal year. With this notice, Commerce, on
behalf of DLA, lists the quantities and types of activity--potential
disposals, potential acquisitions, potential conversions (upgrade,
rotation, reprocessing, etc.) or potential recovery (from government
sources)--associated with each material in its proposed FY 2024 AMP.
The quantities listed in Attachment 1 are not acquisition,
disposal, upgrade, conversion, recovery, reprocessing, or sales target
quantities, but rather a statement of the proposed maximum quantity of
each listed material that may be acquired, disposed of, upgraded,
converted, recovered, or sold in a particular fiscal year by the DLA.
The quantity of each material that will actually be acquired or offered
for sale will depend on the market for the material at the time of the
acquisition or offering, as well as on the quantity of each material
approved by Congress for acquisition, disposal, conversion, or
recovery.
Additional Instructions for Comments
The Committee is interested in any supporting data and
documentation on the potential market impact of the quantities
associated with the proposed FY 2024 AMP.
While regulations.gov allows users to provide comments by filling
in a ``Type Comment'' field or by attaching a document using an
``Upload File'' field, BIS prefers comments be provided in an attached
document--preferably in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf).
If the submission is in an application format other than Microsoft Word
or Adobe Acrobat, please indicate the name of the application in the
``Type Comment'' field. Please do not attach separate cover letters to
electronic submissions; rather, include any information that might
appear in a cover letter within the comments. Please include any
exhibits, annexes, or other attachments in the same file, so the
submission consists of one instead of multiple files. All filers should
name their files using the name of the person or entity submitting the
comments.
Submitted materials properly marked as business confidential
information with a valid statutory basis for confidentiality and which
is accepted as such by BIS will not be disclosed publicly. Commenters
submitting business confidential information should clearly identify
the business confidential portion at the time of submission, include a
statement justifying nondisclosure and referring to the specific legal
authority claimed with the submission, and provide a non-confidential
version of the submission which will be placed in the public file on
https://www.regulations.gov. For comments containing business
confidential information, the file name of the business confidential
version should begin with the characters ``BC''. Any page containing
business confidential information must be clearly marked ``BUSINESS
CONFIDENTIAL'' on the top of that page. The file name of the non-
confidential version should begin with the character ``P''. The non-
confidential version must be clearly marked ``PUBLIC'' on the top of
the first page. The ``BC'' and ``P'' should be followed by the name of
the person or entity submitting the comments.
The Office of Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S.
Department of Commerce, displays public comments on the BIS Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) website at https://efoia.bis.doc.gov/. This
office does not maintain a separate public inspection facility. If you
have technical difficulties accessing this website, please call BIS's
Office of Administration at (202) 482-1900 for assistance.
Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
Attachment 1
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Proposed Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Materials Plan
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Material Unit Quantity Footnote
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Potential Disposals
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Beryllium Metal.............................. ST.............................. 8
Carbon Fibers................................ Lbs............................. 98,000
Chromium, Ferro.............................. ST.............................. 24,000
Chromium, Metal.............................. ST.............................. 500
Germanium.................................... kg.............................. 5,000
Manganese, Ferro............................. ST.............................. 50,000
Manganese, Metallurgical Grade............... SDT............................. 322,238 (\1\)
Aerospace Alloys............................. Lbs............................. 1,500,000
Platinum..................................... Tr Oz........................... 8,380 (\1\)
PGM--Iridium................................. Tr Oz........................... 489 (\1\)
Quartz Crystals.............................. Lbs............................. 15,759 (\1\)
Tantalum..................................... Lbs............................. 190 (\1\)
Tin.......................................... MT.............................. 640
Titanium Based Alloys........................ Lbs............................. 1,000,000
Tungsten Ores and Concentrates............... Lbs W........................... 2,000,000 (\1\)
Zinc......................................... ST.............................. 2,500
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Potential Acquisitions
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Aluminum (High Purity)....................... MT.............................. 17,000
Aluminum Alloys.............................. MT.............................. 1,500
Antimony..................................... MT.............................. 1,100
Cadmium Zinc Telluride....................... EA.............................. 1,000
Cerium....................................... MT.............................. 550
Electrolytic Manganese Metal................. MT.............................. 5,000
Energetics................................... Lbs............................. 20,000,000
Ferroniobium................................. Lbs Nb.......................... 300,000
Grain Oriented Electric...................... MT.............................. 3,200
Iso-Molded Graphite.......................... MT.............................. 1,300
Lanthanum.................................... MT.............................. 1,300
Magnesium.................................... MT.............................. 3,500
Neodymium-Praseodymium Oxide................. MT.............................. 300
NdFeB Magnet Block........................... KG.............................. 286,000
Rayon........................................ MT.............................. 600
Samarium-Cobalt Alloy........................ MT.............................. 200
Tantalum..................................... Lbs Ta.......................... 53,000
Tire Cord Steel.............................. MT.............................. 2,370,000
Titanium..................................... ST.............................. 15,000
Tungsten..................................... Lbs W........................... 587,000
Zirconium.................................... MT.............................. 230
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Potential Conversions (Upgrade, rotation, reprocessing, etc.)
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Aerospace Alloys............................. Lbs............................. 50,000
Antimony..................................... Lbs............................. 198,000
Beryllium Metal.............................. ST.............................. 8
CZT (Cadmium Zinc Tellurium substrates)...... EA.............................. 1,000
Carbon Fibers................................ Lbs............................. 5,000
Europium..................................... MT.............................. 35
Germanium.................................... kg.............................. 5,000
Iridium Catalyst............................. Lbs............................. 200
Lithium Ion Materials........................ MT.............................. 25
Rare Earths Elements......................... MT.............................. 12
Silicon Carbide Fibers....................... Lbs............................. 875
Triamino Trinitrobenzene (TATB).............. Lbs............................. 48,000
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Potential Recovery From Government Sources
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Aerospace Alloys............................. Lbs............................. 1,500,000
Battery Materials............................ MT.............................. 50
Boron Carbide................................ MT.............................. 300
Cobalt....................................... Lbs............................. 50,000
E-Waste...................................... MT.............................. 100 (\2\)
Germanium.................................... kg.............................. 5,000
Iridium Catalyst............................. Lbs............................. 200
Magnesium Metal.............................. MT.............................. 25
Rare Earths.................................. Lbs............................. 20,000
Tantalum..................................... MT.............................. 10
Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Rods................. kg.............................. 250
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Footnote Key:
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\1\ Actual quantity will be limited to remaining excess inventory.
\2\ Strategic and Critical Materials collected from E-Waste (Strategic Materials collected from electronics
waste).
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