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Union Calendar No. 14
118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1068
[Report No. 118–22]
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
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ARCH23, 2023
Additional sponsors: Mr. O
BERNOLTE, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. GRIFFITH,
Mr. D
UNCAN, Mrs. LESKO, Mr. WALBERG, and Mr. CURTIS
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ARCH23, 2023
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 17, 2023]
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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.
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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 Crit-4
ical Minerals Supply Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OR-6
GANIZATION ACT. 7
The Department of Energy Organization Act (42 8
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) is amended— 9
(1) in section 2, by adding at the end the fol-10
lowing: 11
‘‘(d) As used in sections 102(20) and 203(a)(12), the 12
term ‘critical energy resource’ means any energy resource— 13
‘‘(1) that is essential to the energy sector and en-14
ergy systems of the United States; and 15
‘‘(2) the supply chain of which is vulnerable to 16
disruption.’’; 17
(2) in section 102, by adding at the end the fol-18
lowing: 19
‘‘(20) To ensure there is an adequate and reliable 20
supply of critical energy resources that are essential 21
to the energy security of the United States.’’; and 22
(3) in section 203(a), by adding at the end the 23
following: 24
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‘‘(12) Functions that relate to securing the sup-1
ply of critical energy resources, including identifying 2
and mitigating the effects of a disruption of such sup-3
ply on— 4
‘‘(A) the development and use of energy 5
technologies; and 6
‘‘(B) the operation of energy systems.’’. 7
SEC. 3. SECURING CRITICAL ENERGY RESOURCE SUPPLY 8
CHAINS. 9
(a) I
NGENERAL.—In carrying out the requirements 10
of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 11
7101 et seq.), the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with 12
the appropriate Federal agencies, representatives of the en-13
ergy sector, States, and other stakeholders, shall— 14
(1) conduct ongoing assessments of— 15
(A) energy resource criticality based on the 16
importance of critical energy resources to the de-17
velopment of energy technologies and the supply 18
of energy; 19
(B) the critical energy resource supply 20
chain of the United States; 21
(C) the vulnerability of such supply chain; 22
and 23
(D) how the energy security of the United 24
States is affected by the reliance of the United 25
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States on importation of critical energy re-1
sources; 2
(2) facilitate development of strategies to 3
strengthen critical energy resource supply chains in 4
the United States, including by— 5
(A) diversifying the sources of the supply of 6
critical energy resources; and 7
(B) increasing domestic production, separa-8
tion, and processing of critical energy resources; 9
(3) develop substitutes and alternatives to crit-10
ical energy resources; and 11
(4) improve technology that reuses and recycles 12
critical energy resources. 13
(b) C
RITICALENERGYRESOURCEDEFINED.—In this 14
section, the term ‘‘critical energy resource’’ has the meaning 15
given such term in section 2 of the Department of Energy 16
Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101). 17
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118
TH
CONGRESS
1
ST
S
ESSION
H. R. 1068
[Report No. 118–22]
A BILL
To amend the Department of Energy Organization
Act to secure the supply of critical energy re-
sources, including critical minerals and other ma-
terials, and for other purposes.
M
ARCH
23, 2023
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
and ordered to be printed
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