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Both industry and government are seeking ways to establish new 

 patterns and are exploring new measures to employ the scrap in 

 useful processes and products. 



Towards this end the scrap industry is making progress in provid- 

 ing a dependable market for junked automobiles and for the stripped 

 chassis that is the end product of the parts-salvaging business. 



The industry is also beginning to reestablish some markets for its 

 product by improving its processing and handling methods. 



The government, through the Department of the Interior, has 

 initiated two intensive programs designed, first, to develop and dem- 

 onstrate new uses for auto scrap and, second, to disclose incentives 

 that can be effective in stimulating a more rapid movement of scrap 

 within the traditional marketing pattern. 



Both efforts are now being substantially expanded. 



President Johnson has strongly endorsed these departmental pro- 

 grams and has recommended to the Congress the appropriation of 

 additional funds to support them. 



Under these programs, the department's Bureau of Mines already 

 has developed one process that promises a substantial new outlet for 

 automobile scrap in a system of concentrating and reducing low- 

 grade iron ores that so far have not been used commercially. 



A single commercial-size plant, employing this process and de- 

 signed to produce 5 million tons of usable iron concentrate annually 

 would require, for example, more than 600,000 tons of scrap per 

 year. 



All of this metal conserved would in this fashion be recovered, 

 together with the newly produced iron, and reenter the steelmaking 

 cycle at the initial stage. 



We propose to perfect this process and urge its commercial 

 adoption. 



The Department of the Interior, again through the Bureau of 

 Mines, also is getting ready to explore several entirely new ways for 

 effectively employing auto scrap. 



One process, for example, involves the production of an extremely 

 pure oxide that can be used in preparing a premium product for 

 blast-furnace or other forms of consumption. 



The volume of auto scrap marketable through this process would 

 be limited only by the range of economical transportation. 



Another process scheduled for development work involves the 

 preparation of auto scrap for use in the recovery of copper metal 



