Australian Embassy, Washington, D.C.... Barnard, Robert C., representing the Antiknock Compound Producers. Fletcher, Aubrey, executive vice president, C. Tennant, Sons, Inc.; also representing Australian Mining Industry.. Green, Kenneth W., representing the Association of American Battery Henning, Gustav E., president, Henning Bros. & Smith, Inc.. Jordan, Hon. Len B., a U.S. Senator from the State of Idaho_ Koenig, Robert P., chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Cerro de Pasco Corp., of Peru. Laine, David, secretary, American Die Casting Institute. Mack, James E., representing the Rolled Zinc Manufacturing Association.. Montoya, Hon. Joseph M., a U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico__ Moss, Hon. Frank E., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah.. COMMUNICATIONS Anderson, Eskil, president, Northwest Mining Association: Letter to Hon. Henry M. Jackson, chairman, Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, dated April 7, 1967_ 109 Antonioli, Peter J., secretary-manager, Mining Association of Montana: 108 Arthur, Edward, California Mine Operators Association: Letter to Hon. Henry M. Jackson, chairman, Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, dated April 11, 1967___ Barber, Charles F., American Smelting and Refining Co.: Letter to Hon. Bauer, Richard J., president, Independent Zinc Alloyers Association: Bladergroen, Frank H., Jr., Wolverine Die Casting Corp., Detroit, Mich. : 115 111 111 106 Boyd, Benton, U.S. Refining & Mining Co.: Letter to Hon. Henry M. Jackson, chairman, Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, dated Page April 8, 1967_. Carter, D. R., vice president, The Eagle-Picher Co., Cincinnati, Ohio: Darmitzel, William F., executive director, New Mexico Mining Association: Ehrhorn, Jack M., mining engineer: Letter to Hon. Henry M. Jackson, Gardiner, H. E., The Anaconda Co.: Letter to Hon. Lee Metcalf, U.S. Hand, Bill, vice president, Southwest Montana Mining Co.: Letter to Johnson, Lindsay, president, The New Jersey Zinc Co.: Letter to Hon. Knight, Frank P., director, State of Arizona Department of Mineral Mugdan, E., vice president, The Ore & Chemical Corp., New York, N.Y.: Romney, Miles P., manager, Utah Mining Association: Letter to Hon. Sterns, David, Acme Metal Co.: Letter to Hon. Henry M. Jackson, Watkins, T. J., chairman, Citizens Committee for Stabilization: Letter 114 114 110 107 113 19 108 19 19 110 107 113 105 109 112 107 114 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Senate Joint Memorial No. 10 (Idaho). 14 "Zinc Price Cut by Three Producers," from the Journal of Commerce, May 2, 1967... 116 "Zinc Producers Make First Price Cuts Since 1962," from the Wall Street Journal, May 2, 1967. 115 LEAD-ZINC STABILIZATION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1967 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON MINERALS, MATERIALS, AND FUELS OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a.m., in room 3110, New Senate Office Building, Senator Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico, presiding. Present: Senators Clinton P. Anderson, New Mexico; Frank E. Moss, Utah; Len B. Jordan, Idaho; Gordon Allott, Colorado; and Paul J. Fannin, Arizona. Also present: Senators Frank Church, Idaho; and Clifford P. Hansen, Wyoming. Staff members present: Jerry T. Verkler, staff director; Stewart French, chief counsel; and E. Lewis Reid, minority counsel. Senator ANDERSON. The Committee will be in order, please. This is an open, public hearing by the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee on S. 289, a bill to protect the domestic economy, promote the general welfare, and assist in the national defense by providing for an adequate supply of lead and zinc for consumption in the United States from domestic and foreign sources. It should be noted that I am serving as chairman of these hearings today at the request of the able junior Senator from Alaska, Senator Ernest Gruening, who is the duly constituted chairman of the Minerals, Materials, and Fuels Subcommittee. Senator Gruening has been immersed in other urgent public business, and I am the sponsor of the proposed legislation, so he asked me to take over. S. 289 is the latest of a long series of efforts on the part of the legislative branch of the Federal Government, which theoretically, at least, has the constitutional responsibility for establishing policy, to bring some degree of stability and some degree of order to our domestic leadzinc industry, assuring us an adequate supply of these basic industrial metals, preserving our domestic producing capacity, and at the same time working no undue hardship on our foreign allies who export these metals to us. S. 289, I am happy to be able to state, has a very distinguished list of cosponsors from both political parties who represent most of the principal lead-zinc producing States of the Union. Without objection, I will direct that the names of all of the sponsors of this farseeing bill be printed in the record at this point, to be followed by the text of the proposed legislation and the reports of the administrative agencies concerned with our lead-zinc industry and our imports from foreign nations. The cosponsors who joined me in sponsoring this measure are Senators Allott, Bartlett, Bennett, Bible, Cannon, Carlson, Church, Clark, Dirksen, Dominick, Fannin, Gruening, Harris, Hayden, Jackson, Jordan of Idaho, Long of Missouri, Magnuson, Metcalf, Monroney, Montoya, Moss, Nelson, Pearson, Proxmire, Scott, and Symington. (The data referred to follow :) [S. 289, 90th Cong., first sess.] A BILL To protect the domestic economy, to promote the general welfare, and to assist in the national defense by providing for an adequate supply of lead and zine for consumption in the United States from domestic and foreign sources, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Lead and Zinc Act of 1967". TITLE I-LEAD SEC. 101. As used in this title (a) The term "lead" means lead metal, as defined in subsection (b), plus lead ore, as defined in subsection (c). (b) The term "lead metal" means the dutiable lead content of all unwrought lead and lead waste and scrap which, if imported into the United States, are subject to duty under part 2G of schedule 6, Tariff Schedules of the United States. (c) The term "lead ore" means the dutiable lead content of lead-bearing ores and other materials which, if imported into the United States, are subject to duty under part 1 of schedule 6, Tariff Schedules of the United States. (d) The term "imported into the United States" means entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption within the meaning of the Tariff Classification Act of 1962, as amended. (e) The term "Tariff Schedules of the United States" means the Tariff Schedules of the United States established pursuant to section 201, Tariff Classification Act of 1962. (f) The term "ton" means two thousand pounds. (h) The term "quarterly quota for lead" means 80 per centum of the quarterly average of the total general imports as reported by the Bureau of the Census of lead imported as lead metal and lead ore during a quota base period consisting of the ten consecutive quarters prior to the quarter preceding the effective date of such quota as provided in section 103. SEC. 102. No lead shall be imported into the United States in any quarter after the amount of lead imported into the United States during such quarter equals the import quota for lead for such quarter established under section 103. SEC. 103. For purposes of section 102- (a) If for any period of three consecutive calendar months, the stocks of refined soft lead and lead content of antimonial lead owned by the United States primary producers, at their own plants and elsewhere, at the close of each month exceeds 250 per centum of the average monthly domestic shipments of refined lead by such producers during the same three-month period, a quarterly quota for lead metal and lead ore shall be applied effective the first day of the quarter following this determination, as provided in section 101 (h). (b) The import quota for lead ore shall in no event be less than thirty thousand tons. (c) Except as provided in section 103 (b), 50 per centum of the total quarterly quota for lead established under the provisons of this section shall be allocated to lead ore. (d) The quarterly quotas for lead ore and for lead metal established under the provisions of this section shall be allocated by the Secretary of the Interior to principal supplying countries in proportion to imports from such countries during the quota base period described in section 101 (h). Specific quotas shall be established for lead ore or lead metal as the case may be, for each country sup plying more than 10 per centum of the total such lead ore or lead metal imported during such period and the unallocated balance of the lead ore quota and the lead metal quota shall be assigned to all other countries. (e) If, while the import quota established under section 103 (a) is in effect, stocks of refined soft lead and lead content of antimonial lead owned by the United States primary producers, at their own plants and elsewhere, at the close of any three consecutive months are less than 100 per centum of average monthly |