Designation To Exercise Authority Over the National Defense Stockpile

• Published date: 03 November 2021
• Record Number: 2021-24183
• Section: Presidential Documents
• Court: Executive Office Of The President

Presidential Documents

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Title 3—

The President

Executive Order 14051 of October 31, 2021

Designation To Exercise Authority Over the National Defense

Stockpile

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the

laws of the United States of America, including the Strategic and Critical

Materials Stock Piling Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.), section 1413

of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (Public

Law 112–239), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby

ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. The United States needs resilient, diverse,

and secure supply chains to ensure our economic prosperity, national secu-

rity, and national competitiveness. In Executive Order 14017 of February

24, 2021 (America’s Supply Chains), I directed a comprehensive review

of America’s supply chains to ensure that they are resilient in the face

of a range of risks. One critical component of safeguarding supply chain

resilience and industrial base health is ensuring that both the Federal Govern-

ment and the private sector maintain adequate quantities of supplies, equip-

ment, or raw materials on hand to create a buffer against potential shortages

and import dependencies. Some of the Federal Government’s key tools to

maintain adequate quantities of supplies to guard against such shortages

and dependencies are the United States national stockpiles, including the

National Defense Stockpile. By strengthening the National Defense Stockpile,

the Federal Government will both ensure that it is keeping adequate quan-

tities of goods on hand and provide a model for the private sector, while

recognizing that private sector stockpiles and reserves can differ from govern-

ment ones. This order confers authority related to the release of strategic

and critical materials from the National Defense Stockpile to improve Federal

Government efforts around stockpiling for national defense purposes.

Sec. 2. Designation. In accordance with section 98f of title 50, United States

Code, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (Under

Secretary) is designated to have authority to release strategic and critical

materials from the National Defense Stockpile.

Sec. 3. Execution and Consultation. In executing the authority conferred

by this order, the Under Secretary may release strategic and critical materials

from the National Defense Stockpile for use, sale, or other disposition only

when required for use, manufacture, or production for purposes of national

defense. No release is authorized for economic or budgetary purposes. Prior

to ordering the release of strategic and critical materials from the National

Defense Stockpile, the Under Secretary shall consult with the heads of

relevant executive departments and agencies.

Sec. 4. Authority. (a) All previously issued orders, regulations, rulings, certifi-

cates, directives, and other actions relating to any function affected by this

order shall remain in effect except to the extent that they are inconsistent

with this order or are subsequently amended or revoked under proper author-

ity. Nothing in this order shall affect the validity or force of anything

done under previous delegations or another assignment of authority under

the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act.

(b) Nothing in this order shall affect the authorities assigned under Execu-

tive Order 13603 of March 16, 2012 (National Defense Resources Prepared-

ness).

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Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed

to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency,

or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and

subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,

employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 31, 2021.

[FR Doc. 2021–24183

Filed 11–2–21; 11:15 am]

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