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Selling the Nation's Helium Reserve (Paperback, New)
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Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and
management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its
unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its
market has several anomalous characteristics. Shortly after sources
of helium were discovered at the beginning of the last century, the
U.S. government recognized helium's potential importance to the
nation's interests and placed its production and availability under
strict governmental control. In the 1960s, helium's strategic value
in cold war efforts was reflected in policies that resulted in the
accumulation of a large reserve of helium owned by the federal
government. The latest manifestation of public policy is expressed
in the Helium Privatization Act of 1996 (1996 12 Act), which
directs that substantially all of the helium accumulated as a
result of those earlier policies be sold off by 2015 at prices
sufficient to repay the federal government for its outlays
associated with the helium program. The present volume assesses
whether the interests of the United States have been well served by
the 1996 Act and, in particular, whether selling off the helium
reserve has had any adverse effect on U.S. scientific, technical,
biomedical, and national security users of helium. Table of
Contents Front Matter Executive Summary Summary 1 Overview,
Conclusions, and Recommendations 2 The Helium Supply Chain 3 Demand
for Helium 4 Helium Sourcing and Reserves 5 Operation of the
Federal Helium Reserve Facilities References Appendixes Appendix A:
Statement of Task Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix C: Meeting Agendas Appendix D: The Economics of a Typical
Recycling System Appendix E: Auction Types Appendix F: Extraction
Path Alternatives Appendix G: Executive Summary of *The Impact of
Selling the Federal Helium Reserve* (the 2000 Report)
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