Request for Public Comments on the Potential Market Impact of the Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Materials Plan From the National Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee, 60633-60636 [2023-19057]
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I. Welcome and Chair Remarks
II. Debrief Presentation by the Scanlan
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IV. Adjournment
Dated: August 29, 2023.
David Mussatt,
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 230817–0198]
XRIN: 0694–XC099
Request for Public Comments on the
Potential Market Impact of the
Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 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) 2025 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
5, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submissions: You may
submit comments, identified by docket
number BIS–2023–0018 or XRIN 0694–
XC099, through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
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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:
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Background
The federal government operates
several different stockpiles that 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 is the Department of
Energy’s operation of 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).
During a war or national emergency,
this stockpile is meant to provide
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strategic and critical materials to
support national defense and essential
civilian requirements in a time of
national emergency. The stockpile
currently contains 57 materials (i.e.,
primarily 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—during a 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 for
operations expenses. Instead, the
stockpile has a revolving fund in what
the U.S. Treasury termed the National
Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.2
Whenever materials in the stockpile are
sold, the proceeds of that sale are added
to that fund. The DLA then uses that
money to pay for the operational
expenses accompanying the
maintenance of the stockpile and to
purchase new materials. Information
about stockpile disposals—what was
sold and at what value it was sold—is
publicly available in monthly
announcements 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 protect the U.S.
Government against avoidable loss. See
50 U.S.C. 98e(b)(2).
1 Defense Logistics Agency, ‘‘Strategic Materials:
Office,’’ U.S. Department of Defense, https://
www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/About.
2 Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling
Revision Act of 1979, Public Law 96–41, p. 5.
3 https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/
Announcements/.
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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
2025 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 2025 AMP.
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Attachment 1
PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2025 ANNUAL MATERIALS PLAN
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Material
Unit
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 & Concentrates ........................................................................................
Zinc ...................................................................................................................................
Potential Acquisitions:
Aluminum (High Purity) .....................................................................................................
Aluminum Alloys ...............................................................................................................
Antimony ...........................................................................................................................
Cadmium Zinc Telluride ....................................................................................................
Electrolytic Manganese Metal ...........................................................................................
Energetics .........................................................................................................................
Ferroniobium .....................................................................................................................
Grain Oriented Electric Steel ............................................................................................
Hafnium .............................................................................................................................
Iso-Molded Graphite .........................................................................................................
Lanthanum ........................................................................................................................
Magnesium ........................................................................................................................
Neodymium-Praseodymium Oxide ...................................................................................
NdFeB Magnet Block ........................................................................................................
Rayon ................................................................................................................................
Samarium-Cobalt Alloy .....................................................................................................
Tantalum ...........................................................................................................................
Tire Cord Steel ..................................................................................................................
Titanium ............................................................................................................................
Tungsten ...........................................................................................................................
Zirconium ..........................................................................................................................
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 .......................................................................................................
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Quantity
Footnote
ST .............................
Lbs ............................
ST .............................
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kg ..............................
ST .............................
SDT ..........................
Lbs ............................
Tr Oz ........................
Tr Oz ........................
Lbs ............................
Lbs ............................
MT ............................
Lbs ............................
Lbs W .......................
ST .............................
8
92,000
24,000
500
5,000
20,000
320,300
1,500,000
8,380
489
15,712
190
640
300,000
1,100,000
2,500
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MT ............................
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Lbs Ta ......................
MT ............................
ST .............................
Lbs W .......................
MT ............................
1,700
1,500
700
2,800
5,000
20,000,000
300,000
3,200
2,300
1,700
1,100
3,500
300
450
200
60
64,500
2,370
15,000
4,500,500
2,300
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MT ............................
kg ..............................
Lbs ............................
MT ............................
MT ............................
Lbs ............................
50,000
198,000
8
1,000
5,000
35
5,000
200
50
12
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PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2025 ANNUAL MATERIALS PLAN—Continued
Material
Unit
Quantity
Footnote
Triamino Trinitrobenzene (TATB) .....................................................................................
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 ............................
48,000
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Lbs ............................
MT ............................
MT ............................
Lbs ............................
MT ............................
kg ..............................
Lbs ............................
MT ............................
Lbs ............................
MT ............................
kg ..............................
1,500,000
100
300
50,000
100
5,000
200
25
20,000
10
250
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2
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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).
Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export
Administration.
cased pencils from the People’s
Republic of China (China).1 On
December 1, 2022, Commerce published
in the Federal Register a notice of
opportunity to request an administrative
review of the Order.2 Based on timely
requests for review, in accordance with
351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce published
the initiation of this administrative
review on February 2, 2023, with
respect to three companies: Tianjin
Tonghe, Ningbo Homey, and Wah
Yuen.3 The period of review (POR) is
December 1, 2021, through November
30, 2022. Accordingly, on February 3,
2023, Commerce released the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–827]
Certain Cased Pencils From the
People’s Republic of China:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2021–
2022
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily
determines that the single entity Wah
Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd./Shandong
Wah Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd. (Wah
Yuen) is part of the China-wide entity,
and continues to find that Tianjin
Tonghe Stationery Co., Ltd. (Tianjin
Tonghe) and Ningbo Homey Union Co.,
Ltd. (Ningbo Homey) are part of the
China-wide entity. We invite interested
parties to comment on these preliminary
results.
DATES: Applicable September 5, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katherine Johnson, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VIII, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–4929.
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AGENCY:
Background
On December 28, 1994, Commerce
published in the Federal Register the
antidumping duty order on certain
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1 See Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Cased
Pencils from the People’s Republic of China, 59 FR
66909 (December 28, 1994) (Order), see also Certain
Cased Pencils from the People’s Republic of China:
Continuation of Antidumping Duty Order, 82 FR
41608 (September 1, 2017).
2 See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order,
Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity
to Request Administrative Review and Join Annual
Inquiry Service List, 87 FR 73752 (December 1,
2022).
3 See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR
7060 (February 2, 2023) (Initiation Notice).
Commerce determined that Wah Yuen Stationery
Co. Ltd. and Shandong Wah Yuen Stationery Co.
Ltd. are affiliated, pursuant to section 771(33) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and
should be treated as a single entity, pursuant to 19
CFR 351.401(f), in a prior administrative review.
See Certain Cased Pencils from the People’s
Republic of China: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review; 2014–
2015, 81 FR 37573 (June 10, 2016), and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum
at 9–10, unchanged in Certain Cased Pencils from
the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review; 2014–
2015, 81 FR 74764 (October 27, 2016); see also
Certain Cased Pencils from the People’s Republic of
China: Amended Final Results of Antidumping
Duty New Shipper Review; 2014–2015, 81 FR 92784
(December 20, 2016) (Amended New Shipper
Review). Because there is no record evidence
indicating that Commerce should revisit this
determination, we are continuing to treat these two
companies as a single entity for purposes of this
administrative review.
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data to all interested parties under an
administrative protective order and
requested comments regarding the data
and respondent selection.4 We received
no comments on the CBP data.
Moreover, no party filed a claim of no
shipments, or a separate rate application
or certification, as appropriate, within
the time period specified in the
Initiation Notice.5
Scope of the Order
Imports covered by the Order are
shipments of certain cased pencils of
any shape or dimension (except as
described below) which are writing and/
or drawing instruments that feature
cores of graphite or other materials,
encased in wood and/or man-made
materials, whether or not decorated and
whether or not tipped (e.g., with erasers,
etc.) in any fashion, and either
sharpened or unsharpened. The pencils
subject to the Order are currently
classifiable under subheading
9609.10.00 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).
Specifically excluded from the scope of
the Order are mechanical pencils,
cosmetic pencils, pens, non-cased
crayons (wax), pastels, charcoals,
chalks, and pencils produced under
U.S. patent number 6,217,242, from
paper infused with scents by the means
covered in the above-referenced patent,
thereby having odors distinct from those
that may emanate from pencils lacking
the scent infusion. Also excluded from
the scope of the Order are pencils with
all of the following physical
characteristics: (1) length: 13.5 or more
inches; (2) sheath diameter: not less
4 See Memorandum, ‘‘Release of Customers and
Border Protection Data, dated February 3, 2023.
5 See Initiation Notice, 88 FR 7060, 7061. As
noted in the Initiation Notice, ‘‘Exporters and
producers must file a timely Separate Rate
Application or Certification if they want to be
considered for individual examination.’’
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 5, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60633-60636]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19057]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 230817-0198]
XRIN: 0694-XC099
Request for Public Comments on the Potential Market Impact of the
Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 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) 2025 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
5, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submissions: You may submit comments, identified by docket
number BIS-2023-0018 or XRIN 0694-XC099, through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. To submit comments via
https://www.regulations.gov, enter the docket
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number BIS-2023-0018 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 that
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 is the Department of Energy's operation of 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).
During 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 (i.e., primarily 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/Strategic-Materials/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--during a 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 for operations expenses. Instead,
the stockpile has a revolving fund in what the U.S. Treasury termed the
National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.\2\ Whenever materials in
the stockpile are sold, the proceeds of that sale are added to that
fund. The DLA then uses that money to pay for the operational expenses
accompanying the maintenance of the stockpile and to purchase new
materials. Information about stockpile disposals--what was sold and at
what value it was sold--is publicly available in monthly announcements
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\ https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Announcements/.
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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 2025 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 2025 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
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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. Commenters submitting
business confidential information are encouraged to scan a hard copy of
the non-confidential version to create an image of the file, rather
than submitting a digital copy with redactions applied, to avoid
inadvertent redaction errors which could enable the public to read
business confidential information.
Public comments will be available on regulations.gov, and 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.
Attachment 1
Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Materials Plan
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Material Unit Quantity Footnote
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Potential Disposals:
Beryllium Metal............................... ST.............................. 8 ..............
Carbon Fibers................................. Lbs............................. 92,000 1
Chromium, Ferro............................... ST.............................. 24,000 ..............
Chromium, Metal............................... ST.............................. 500 ..............
Germanium..................................... kg.............................. 5,000 ..............
Manganese, Ferro.............................. ST.............................. 20,000 1
Manganese, Metallurgical Grade................ SDT............................. 320,300 1
Aerospace Alloys.............................. Lbs............................. 1,500,000 ..............
Platinum...................................... Tr Oz........................... 8,380 1
PGM--Iridium.................................. Tr Oz........................... 489 1
Quartz Crystals............................... Lbs............................. 15,712 1
Tantalum...................................... Lbs............................. 190 1
Tin........................................... MT.............................. 640 ..............
Titanium Based Alloys......................... Lbs............................. 300,000 ..............
Tungsten Ores & Concentrates.................. Lbs W........................... 1,100,000 1
Zinc.......................................... ST.............................. 2,500 ..............
Potential Acquisitions:
Aluminum (High Purity)........................ MT.............................. 1,700 ..............
Aluminum Alloys............................... MT.............................. 1,500 ..............
Antimony...................................... MT.............................. 700 ..............
Cadmium Zinc Telluride........................ EA.............................. 2,800 ..............
Electrolytic Manganese Metal.................. MT.............................. 5,000 ..............
Energetics.................................... Lbs............................. 20,000,000 ..............
Ferroniobium.................................. Lbs Nb.......................... 300,000 ..............
Grain Oriented Electric Steel................. MT.............................. 3,200 ..............
Hafnium....................................... MT.............................. 2,300 ..............
Iso-Molded Graphite........................... MT.............................. 1,700 ..............
Lanthanum..................................... MT.............................. 1,100 ..............
Magnesium..................................... MT.............................. 3,500 ..............
Neodymium-Praseodymium Oxide.................. MT.............................. 300 ..............
NdFeB Magnet Block............................ MT.............................. 450 ..............
Rayon......................................... MT.............................. 200 ..............
Samarium-Cobalt Alloy......................... MT.............................. 60 ..............
Tantalum...................................... Lbs Ta.......................... 64,500 ..............
Tire Cord Steel............................... MT.............................. 2,370 ..............
Titanium...................................... ST.............................. 15,000 ..............
Tungsten...................................... Lbs W........................... 4,500,500 ..............
Zirconium..................................... MT.............................. 2,300 ..............
Potential Conversions (Upgrade, rotation,
reprocessing, etc.):
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.............................. 50 ..............
Rare Earths Elements.......................... MT.............................. 12 ..............
Silicon Carbide Fibers........................ Lbs............................. 875 ..............
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Triamino Trinitrobenzene (TATB)............... Lbs............................. 48,000 ..............
Potential Recovery from Government sources:
Aerospace Alloys.............................. Lbs............................. 1,500,000 ..............
Battery Materials............................. MT.............................. 100 ..............
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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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).
Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
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