A strategic materials stockpiling statute of 1939 directed the Secretary of the Interior through the Director of the Bureau of Mines and the Director of the Geological Survey to make scientific, technological, and economic investigations concerning the extent and mode of occurrence, the development, mining, of ores and other mineral substances found in the United States which were considered essential to the common defense or the industrial needs of the United States.[537] Preparatory to enacting definitive post-war legislation establishing United States policy with regard to the domestic rubber-producing industry, Congress in 1947 provided for the conduct of a thorough study of the field.[538] Under the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Act of 1953 the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Commission was created and granted access to all available information concerning the Government-owned rubber-producing facilities in the possession of any department, agency, officer, Government corporation, or instrumentality of the United States concerned with Government-owned rubber-producing facilities.[539] Included in the data it was required to furnish the Congress was an inventory report concerning the Government’s current stocks of synthetic rubber and its component materials.[540] Endeavoring to expand production of abaca within the Western Hemisphere, Congress in 1950 authorized such surveys and research as were necessary or desirable to obtain the best available land in the Western Hemisphere for abaca production.[541] _Information-Gathering For the Aid of Agency Clientele_: In 1938 Congress set up the Mediterranean Fruit Fly Board to conduct a complete investigation and survey of all losses sustained by growers and farmers in the State of Florida resulting from the campaign to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly within the State.[542] It carefully stipulated that the Board’s report did not bind Congress legally or morally to grant relief to the affected farmers.[543]