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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1068
To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to secure the supply
of critical energy resources, including critical minerals and other mate-
rials, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY17, 2023
Mr. B
UCSHON(for himself and Mr. WEBERof Texas) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to
secure the supply of critical energy resources, including
critical minerals and other materials, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing America’s 4
Critical Minerals Supply Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OR-1
GANIZATION ACT. 2
The Department of Energy Organization Act (42 3
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) is amended— 4
(1) in section 2, by adding at the end the fol-5
lowing: 6
‘‘(d) As used in sections 102(20) and 203(a)(12), the 7
term ‘critical energy resource’ means any energy resource 8
that— 9
‘‘(1) is essential to the energy sector and energy 10
systems of the United States; and 11
‘‘(2) the supply chain of which is vulnerable to 12
disruption.’’; 13
(2) in section 102, by adding at the end the fol-14
lowing: 15
‘‘(20) To ensure there is an adequate and reli-16
able supply of critical energy resources that are es-17
sential to the energy security of the United States.’’; 18
and 19
(3) in section 203(a), by adding at the end the 20
following: 21
‘‘(12) Functions that relate to securing the sup-22
ply of critical energy resources, including identifying 23
and mitigating the effects of a disruption of such 24
supply on— 25
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‘‘(A) the development and use of energy 1
technologies; and 2
‘‘(B) the operation of energy systems.’’. 3
SEC. 3. SECURING CRITICAL ENERGY RESOURCE SUPPLY 4
CHAINS. 5
(a) I
NGENERAL.—In carrying out the requirements 6
of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7
7101 et seq.), the Secretary of Energy, in consultation 8
with the appropriate Federal agencies, representatives of 9
the energy sector, States, and other stakeholders, shall— 10
(1) conduct ongoing assessments of— 11
(A) energy resource criticality based on the 12
importance of critical energy resources to the 13
development of energy technologies and the sup-14
ply of energy; 15
(B) the critical energy resource supply 16
chain of the United States; and 17
(C) the vulnerability of such supply chain; 18
(2) strengthen critical energy resource supply 19
chains in the United States, including by— 20
(A) diversifying the sources of the supply 21
of critical energy resources; and 22
(B) increasing domestic production, sepa-23
ration, and processing of critical energy re-24
sources; 25
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(3) develop substitutes and alternatives to crit-1
ical energy resources; 2
(4) improve technology that reuses and recycles 3
critical energy resources; and 4
(5) evaluate how the energy security of the 5
United States is affected by the reliance of the 6
United States on importing critical energy resources. 7
(b) C
RITICALENERGYRESOURCEDEFINED.—In 8
this section, the term ‘‘critical energy resource’’ has the 9
meaning given such term in section 2 of the Department 10
of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101). 11
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