there is an urgent national need for the mineral activity; and

such national need outweighs the other public values of the public lands involved and the potential adverse environmental impacts which are likely to result from the activity.

a report setting forth in detail the relevant factual background and the reasons for his findings and recommendation;

a statement of the conditions and stipulations which would govern the activity if approved by the Congress; and

in any case in which an environmental impact statement is required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.], a statement which complies with the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of such Act [42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)]. In the case of any recommendation for which an environmental impact statement is not required under section 102(2)(C) of the National environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)], the President may, if he deems it desirable, include such a statement in his transmittal to the Congress.

continuity of session of Congress is broken only by an adjournment sine die; and

the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the one-hundred-and-twenty-day calendar period.