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Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal ActSection 4 › Proposal

Bronze duplicates may be struck and sold at cost

To award 3 Congressional Gold Medals to the members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, in recognition of their extraordinary achievement at the 1980 Winter Olympics where, being comprised of amateur collegiate players, they defeated the dominant Soviet hockey team in the historic “Miracle on Ice”, revitalizing American morale at the height of the Cold War, inspiring generations and transforming the sport of hockey in the United States, section 4, Sec. 4. Written by .

Bronze duplicates may be struck and sold at cost

The document says “canWho acts: Secretary of the TreasuryHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says

“The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medals struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.”

To award 3 Congressional Gold Medals to the members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, in recognition of their extraordinary achievement at the 1980 Winter Olympics where, being comprised of amateur collegiate players, they defeated the dominant Soviet hockey team in the historic “Miracle on Ice”, revitalizing American morale at the height of the Cold War, inspiring generations and transforming the sport of hockey in the United States, Sec. 4

The whole of section 4. It permits the Secretary of the Treasury, the term section 3 defines, to strike duplicates of the gold medals in bronze and to sell them. The price must be sufficient to cover the costs, and the section lists five things that count toward those costs: labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. The section grants a power and imposes no duty.

What the document actually says

“The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medals struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.”

To award 3 Congressional Gold Medals to the members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, in recognition of their extraordinary achievement at the 1980 Winter Olympics where, being comprised of amateur collegiate players, they defeated the dominant Soviet hockey team in the historic “Miracle on Ice”, revitalizing American morale at the height of the Cold War, inspiring generations and transforming the sport of hockey in the United States, Sec. 4
That sentence, in plain words

The Treasury may make copies of the gold medals in bronze. It may sell them. The price must cover what they cost to make.

What this is about

Bronze is a cheaper metal than gold. The costs counted here include pay, metal, tools and machine time. The law says may, so this need not happen.

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