; or (B) an increase in cost of transportation is temporary in character and threatens to impair maximum production or supply in any area at stable prices of any materials. (2) Subsidy payments authorized Upon a finding under paragraph (1), the Secretary may make provision for subsidy payments on any such domestically produced material in such amounts and in such manner (including purchases of such material and its resale at a loss), and on such terms and conditions, as the Secretary determines to be necessary to ensure that supplies from such high-cost sources are continued, or that maximum production or supply in such area at stable prices of such materials is maintained, as the case may be. (c) Incidental Authority The procurement power granted to the Secretary by this section shall include the power to transport and store and have processed and refined any materials procured under this section. (d) Installation of equipment in industrial facilities If the Secretary determines that such action will aid the pandemic response strategy of the United States, the Secretary is authorized— (1) to procure and install additional equipment, facilities, processes, or improvements to plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the Federal Government; (2) to procure and install equipment owned by the Federal Government in plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by private persons; (3) to provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes