Minerals strategy for U.S.
NZPA Washington President Reagan has unveiled a plan to reduce United States dependence on overseas supplies of strategic minerals. The Administration had been developing the plan for almost a year with the Interior Secretary (Mr James Watt) directing the effort, which involved about 20 departments and agencies. The plan is a statement of policy detailing broad goals that the Administration hopes to reach to find new sources of minerals in the United States and conduct research to provide substitutes for minerals. Environmentalists attacked the 33-page policy statement, saying that .it grossly exaggerated United States dependence on key minerals. President Reagan said that the Administration would continue its inventory of Federal lands for potential minerals and would press for wilderness legislation that would allow the United States to re-examine.whether those lands should remain closed to mining after the year 2000.
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