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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | DSESSION H. R. 7807 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To create intergovernmental coordination between State, local, Tribal, and |
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| 6 | 6 | | territorial jurisdictions, and the Federal Government to combat United |
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| 7 | 7 | | States reliance on the People’s Republic of China and other covered |
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| 8 | 8 | | countries for critical minerals and rare earth metals, and for other |
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| 9 | 9 | | purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | MARCH22, 2024 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. O |
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| 13 | 13 | | BERNOLTEintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Committee on Natural Resources |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To create intergovernmental coordination between State, |
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| 17 | 17 | | local, Tribal, and territorial jurisdictions, and the Fed- |
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| 18 | 18 | | eral Government to combat United States reliance on |
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| 19 | 19 | | the People’s Republic of China and other covered coun- |
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| 20 | 20 | | tries for critical minerals and rare earth metals, and |
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| 21 | 21 | | for other purposes. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Intergovernmental 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Critical Minerals Task Force Act’’. 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Congress finds that— 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) current supply chains of critical minerals 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | pose a great risk to the national security of the 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | United States; 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) critical minerals are necessary for transpor-6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | tation, technology, renewable energy, military equip-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ment and machinery, and other relevant sectors cru-8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | cial for the homeland and national security of the 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | United States; 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (3) in 2022, the United States was 100 percent 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | import reliant for 12 out of 50 critical minerals and 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | more than 50 percent import reliant for an addi-13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | tional 31 critical mineral commodities classified as 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘critical’’ by the United States Geological Survey, 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | and the People’s Republic of China was the top pro-16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ducing nation for 30 of those 50 critical minerals; 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (4) as of July 2023, companies based in the 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | People’s Republic of China that extract critical min-19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | erals around the world have received hundreds of 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | charges of human rights violations; and 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (5) on March 26, 2014, the World Trade Orga-22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | nization ruled that the export restraints by the Peo-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ple’s Republic of China on rare earth metals violated 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | obligations under the protocol of accession to the 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | World Trade Organization, which harmed manufac-1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | turers and workers in the United States. 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | SEC. 3. INTERGOVERNMENTAL CRITICAL MINERALS TASK 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | FORCE. 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (a) I |
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| 63 | 63 | | NGENERAL.—Section 5 of the National Mate-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | rials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | of 1980 (30 U.S.C. 1604) is amended by adding at the 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | end the following: 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘(g) I |
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| 68 | 68 | | NTERGOVERNMENTAL CRITICALMINERALS 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | T |
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| 70 | 70 | | ASKFORCE.— 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ‘‘(1) P |
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| 72 | 72 | | URPOSES.—The purposes of the task 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | force established under paragraph (3)(B) are— 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(A) to assess the reliance of the United 13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | States on the People’s Republic of China, and 14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | other covered countries, for critical minerals, 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | and the resulting national security risks associ-16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ated with that reliance, at each level of the Fed-17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | eral Government, Indian Tribes, and State, 18 |
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| 80 | 80 | | local, and territorial governments; 19 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ‘‘(B) to make recommendations to the 20 |
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| 82 | 82 | | President for the implementation of this Act 21 |
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| 83 | 83 | | with regard to critical minerals, including— 22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | ‘‘(i) the congressional declarations of 23 |
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| 85 | 85 | | policies in section 3; and 24 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ‘‘(ii) revisions to the program plan of 1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | the President and the initiatives required 2 |
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| 91 | 91 | | under this section; 3 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ‘‘(C) to make recommendations to secure 4 |
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| 93 | 93 | | United States and global supply chains for crit-5 |
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| 94 | 94 | | ical minerals; 6 |
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| 95 | 95 | | ‘‘(D) to make recommendations to reduce 7 |
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| 96 | 96 | | the reliance of the United States, and partners 8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | and allies of the United States, on critical min-9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | eral supply chains involving covered countries; 10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | and 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | ‘‘(E) to facilitate cooperation, coordination, 12 |
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| 101 | 101 | | and mutual accountability among each level of 13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | the Federal Government, Indian Tribes, and 14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | State, local, and territorial governments, on a 15 |
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| 104 | 104 | | holistic response to the dependence on covered 16 |
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| 105 | 105 | | countries for critical minerals across the United 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | States. 18 |
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| 107 | 107 | | ‘‘(2) D |
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| 108 | 108 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 19 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ‘‘(A) A |
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| 110 | 110 | | PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -20 |
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| 111 | 111 | | GRESS.—The term ‘appropriate committees of 21 |
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| 112 | 112 | | Congress’ means— 22 |
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| 113 | 113 | | ‘‘(i) the Committees on Homeland Se-23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | curity and Governmental Affairs, Energy 24 |
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| 115 | 115 | | and Natural Resources, Armed Services, 25 |
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| 119 | 119 | | Environment and Public Works, Com-1 |
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| 120 | 120 | | merce, Science, and Transportation, Fi-2 |
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| 121 | 121 | | nance, and Foreign Relations of the Sen-3 |
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| 122 | 122 | | ate; and 4 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ‘‘(ii) the Committees on Oversight and 5 |
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| 124 | 124 | | Accountability, Natural Resources, Armed 6 |
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| 125 | 125 | | Services, Ways and Means, Foreign Af-7 |
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| 126 | 126 | | fairs, and Energy and Commerce of the 8 |
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| 127 | 127 | | House of Representatives. 9 |
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| 128 | 128 | | ‘‘(B) C |
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| 129 | 129 | | HAIR.—The term ‘Chair’ means a 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | member of the Executive Office of the Presi-11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | dent, designated by the President pursuant to 12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | paragraph (3)(A). 13 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ‘‘(C) C |
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| 134 | 134 | | OVERED COUNTRY .—The term ‘cov-14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ered country’ means— 15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ‘‘(i) a covered nation (as defined in 16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | section 4872(d) of title 10, United States 17 |
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| 138 | 138 | | Code); and 18 |
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| 139 | 139 | | ‘‘(ii) any other country determined by 19 |
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| 140 | 140 | | the task force to be a geostrategic compet-20 |
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| 141 | 141 | | itor or adversary of the United States with 21 |
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| 142 | 142 | | respect to critical minerals. 22 |
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| 143 | 143 | | ‘‘(D) C |
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| 144 | 144 | | RITICAL MINERAL.—The term ‘crit-23 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ical mineral’ has the meaning given the term in 24 |
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| 149 | 149 | | section 7002(a) of the Energy Act of 2020 (30 1 |
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| 150 | 150 | | U.S.C. 1606(a)). 2 |
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| 151 | 151 | | ‘‘(E) I |
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| 152 | 152 | | NDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian 3 |
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| 153 | 153 | | Tribe’ has the meaning given the term in sec-4 |
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| 154 | 154 | | tion 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and 5 |
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| 155 | 155 | | Education Assistance Act ( 25 U.S.C. 5304). 6 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ‘‘(F) T |
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| 157 | 157 | | ASK FORCE.—The term ‘task force’ 7 |
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| 158 | 158 | | means the task force established under para-8 |
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| 159 | 159 | | graph (3)(B). 9 |
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| 160 | 160 | | ‘‘(3) E |
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| 161 | 161 | | STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days 10 |
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| 162 | 162 | | after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 11 |
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| 163 | 163 | | President shall— 12 |
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| 164 | 164 | | ‘‘(A) designate a Chair for the task force; 13 |
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| 165 | 165 | | and 14 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ‘‘(B) acting through the Executive Office 15 |
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| 167 | 167 | | of the President, establish a task force. 16 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ‘‘(4) C |
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| 169 | 169 | | OMPOSITION; MEETINGS.— 17 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ‘‘(A) A |
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| 171 | 171 | | PPOINTMENT.—The Chair, in con-18 |
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| 172 | 172 | | sultation with key intergovernmental, private, 19 |
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| 173 | 173 | | and public sector stakeholders, shall appoint to 20 |
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| 174 | 174 | | the task force representatives with expertise in 21 |
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| 175 | 175 | | critical mineral supply chains from Federal 22 |
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| 176 | 176 | | agencies, Indian Tribes, and State, local, and 23 |
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| 177 | 177 | | territorial governments, including not less than 24 |
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| 178 | 178 | | 1 representative from each of— 25 |
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| 182 | 182 | | ‘‘(i) the Bureau of Indian Affairs; 1 |
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| 183 | 183 | | ‘‘(ii) the Bureau of Land Manage-2 |
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| 184 | 184 | | ment; 3 |
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| 185 | 185 | | ‘‘(iii) the Critical Minerals Sub-4 |
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| 186 | 186 | | committee of the National Science and 5 |
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| 187 | 187 | | Technology Council; 6 |
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| 188 | 188 | | ‘‘(iv) the Department of Agriculture; 7 |
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| 189 | 189 | | ‘‘(v) the Department of Commerce; 8 |
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| 190 | 190 | | ‘‘(vi) the Department of Defense; 9 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ‘‘(vii) the Department of Energy; 10 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ‘‘(viii) the Department of Homeland 11 |
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| 193 | 193 | | Security; 12 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ‘‘(ix) the Department of the Interior; 13 |
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| 195 | 195 | | ‘‘(x) the Department of Labor; 14 |
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| 196 | 196 | | ‘‘(xi) the Department of State; 15 |
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| 197 | 197 | | ‘‘(xii) the Department of Transpor-16 |
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| 198 | 198 | | tation; 17 |
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| 199 | 199 | | ‘‘(xiii) the Environmental Protection 18 |
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| 200 | 200 | | Agency; 19 |
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| 201 | 201 | | ‘‘(xiv) the Export-Import Bank of the 20 |
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| 202 | 202 | | United States; 21 |
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| 203 | 203 | | ‘‘(xv) the Forest Service; 22 |
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| 204 | 204 | | ‘‘(xvi) the General Services Adminis-23 |
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| 205 | 205 | | tration; 24 |
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| 209 | 209 | | ‘‘(xvii) the National Science Founda-1 |
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| 210 | 210 | | tion; 2 |
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| 211 | 211 | | ‘‘(xviii) the Office of the United 3 |
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| 212 | 212 | | States Trade Representative; 4 |
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| 213 | 213 | | ‘‘(xix) the United States International 5 |
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| 214 | 214 | | Development Finance Corporation; 6 |
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| 215 | 215 | | ‘‘(xx) the United States Geological 7 |
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| 216 | 216 | | Survey; and 8 |
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| 217 | 217 | | ‘‘(xxi) any other relevant Federal enti-9 |
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| 218 | 218 | | ty, as determined by the Chair. 10 |
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| 219 | 219 | | ‘‘(B) C |
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| 220 | 220 | | ONSULTATION.—The task force 11 |
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| 221 | 221 | | shall consult individuals with expertise in crit-12 |
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| 222 | 222 | | ical mineral supply chains, individuals from 13 |
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| 223 | 223 | | States whose communities, businesses, and in-14 |
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| 224 | 224 | | dustries are involved in aspects of critical min-15 |
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| 225 | 225 | | eral supply chains, including mining and proc-16 |
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| 226 | 226 | | essing operations, and individuals from a di-17 |
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| 227 | 227 | | verse and balanced cross-section of— 18 |
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| 228 | 228 | | ‘‘(i) intergovernmental consultees, in-19 |
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| 229 | 229 | | cluding— 20 |
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| 230 | 230 | | ‘‘(I) State governments; 21 |
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| 231 | 231 | | ‘‘(II) local governments; 22 |
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| 232 | 232 | | ‘‘(III) territorial governments; 23 |
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| 233 | 233 | | and 24 |
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| 234 | 234 | | ‘‘(IV) Indian Tribes; and 25 |
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| 238 | 238 | | ‘‘(ii) other stakeholders, including— 1 |
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| 239 | 239 | | ‘‘(I) academic research institu-2 |
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| 240 | 240 | | tions; 3 |
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| 241 | 241 | | ‘‘(II) corporations; 4 |
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| 242 | 242 | | ‘‘(III) nonprofit organizations; 5 |
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| 243 | 243 | | ‘‘(IV) private sector stakeholders; 6 |
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| 244 | 244 | | ‘‘(V) trade associations; 7 |
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| 245 | 245 | | ‘‘(VI) mining industry stake-8 |
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| 246 | 246 | | holders; and 9 |
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| 247 | 247 | | ‘‘(VII) labor representatives. 10 |
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| 248 | 248 | | ‘‘(C) M |
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| 249 | 249 | | EETINGS.— 11 |
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| 250 | 250 | | ‘‘(i) I |
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| 251 | 251 | | NITIAL MEETING.—Not later 12 |
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| 252 | 252 | | than 90 days after the date on which all 13 |
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| 253 | 253 | | representatives of the task force have been 14 |
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| 254 | 254 | | appointed, the task force shall hold the 15 |
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| 255 | 255 | | first meeting of the task force. 16 |
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| 256 | 256 | | ‘‘(ii) F |
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| 257 | 257 | | REQUENCY.—The task force 17 |
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| 258 | 258 | | shall meet not less than once every 90 18 |
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| 259 | 259 | | days. 19 |
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| 260 | 260 | | ‘‘(5) D |
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| 261 | 261 | | UTIES.— 20 |
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| 262 | 262 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 263 | 263 | | N GENERAL.—The duties of the task 21 |
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| 264 | 264 | | force shall include— 22 |
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| 265 | 265 | | ‘‘(i) facilitating cooperation, coordina-23 |
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| 266 | 266 | | tion, and mutual accountability for the 24 |
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| 267 | 267 | | Federal Government, Indian Tribes, and 25 |
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| 271 | 271 | | State, local, and territorial governments to 1 |
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| 272 | 272 | | enhance data sharing and transparency to 2 |
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| 273 | 273 | | build more robust and secure domestic 3 |
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| 274 | 274 | | supply chains for critical minerals in sup-4 |
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| 275 | 275 | | port of the purposes described in para-5 |
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| 276 | 276 | | graph (1); 6 |
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| 277 | 277 | | ‘‘(ii) providing recommendations with 7 |
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| 278 | 278 | | respect to— 8 |
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| 279 | 279 | | ‘‘(I) increasing capacities for 9 |
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| 280 | 280 | | mining, processing, refinement, reuse, 10 |
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| 281 | 281 | | and recycling of critical minerals in 11 |
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| 282 | 282 | | the United States to facilitate the en-12 |
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| 283 | 283 | | vironmentally responsible production 13 |
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| 284 | 284 | | of domestic resources to meet national 14 |
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| 285 | 285 | | critical mineral needs, in consultation 15 |
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| 286 | 286 | | with Tribal and local communities; 16 |
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| 287 | 287 | | ‘‘(II) identifying how statutes, 17 |
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| 288 | 288 | | regulations, and policies related to the 18 |
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| 289 | 289 | | critical mineral supply chain, such as 19 |
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| 290 | 290 | | stockpiling and development finance, 20 |
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| 291 | 291 | | could be modified to accelerate envi-21 |
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| 292 | 292 | | ronmentally responsible domestic and 22 |
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| 293 | 293 | | international production of critical 23 |
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| 294 | 294 | | minerals, in consultation with Indian 24 |
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| 295 | 295 | | Tribes and local communities; 25 |
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| 299 | 299 | | ‘‘(III) strengthening the domestic 1 |
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| 300 | 300 | | workforce to support growing critical 2 |
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| 301 | 301 | | mineral supply chains with good-pay-3 |
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| 302 | 302 | | ing, safe jobs in the United States; 4 |
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| 303 | 303 | | ‘‘(IV) identifying alternative do-5 |
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| 304 | 304 | | mestic and global sources to critical 6 |
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| 305 | 305 | | minerals that the United States cur-7 |
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| 306 | 306 | | rently relies on the People’s Republic 8 |
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| 307 | 307 | | of China or other covered countries 9 |
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| 308 | 308 | | for mining, processing, refining, and 10 |
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| 309 | 309 | | recycling, including the availability, 11 |
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| 310 | 310 | | cost, and quality of those domestic al-12 |
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| 311 | 311 | | ternatives; 13 |
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| 312 | 312 | | ‘‘(V) identifying critical minerals 14 |
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| 313 | 313 | | and critical mineral supply chains that 15 |
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| 314 | 314 | | the United States can onshore, at a 16 |
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| 315 | 315 | | competitive availability, cost, and 17 |
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| 316 | 316 | | quality, for those minerals and supply 18 |
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| 317 | 317 | | chains that the United States relies 19 |
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| 318 | 318 | | on the People’s Republic of China or 20 |
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| 319 | 319 | | other covered countries to provide; 21 |
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| 320 | 320 | | ‘‘(VI) opportunities for the Fed-22 |
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| 321 | 321 | | eral Government, Indian Tribes, and 23 |
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| 322 | 322 | | State, local, and territorial govern-24 |
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| 323 | 323 | | ments to mitigate risks to the national 25 |
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| 328 | 328 | | spect to supply chains for critical min-2 |
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| 329 | 329 | | erals that the United States currently 3 |
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| 330 | 330 | | relies on the People’s Republic of 4 |
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| 331 | 331 | | China or other covered countries for 5 |
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| 332 | 332 | | mining, processing, refining, and recy-6 |
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| 333 | 333 | | cling; and 7 |
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| 334 | 334 | | ‘‘(VII) evaluating and integrating 8 |
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| 335 | 335 | | the recommendations of the Critical 9 |
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| 336 | 336 | | Minerals Subcommittee of the Na-10 |
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| 337 | 337 | | tional Science and Technology Council 11 |
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| 338 | 338 | | into the recommendations of the task 12 |
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| 339 | 339 | | force; 13 |
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| 340 | 340 | | ‘‘(iii) prioritizing the recommendations 14 |
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| 341 | 341 | | in clause (ii), taking into consideration eco-15 |
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| 342 | 342 | | nomic costs and focusing on the critical 16 |
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| 343 | 343 | | mineral supply chains with vulnerabilities 17 |
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| 344 | 344 | | posing the most significant risks to the na-18 |
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| 345 | 345 | | tional security of the United States; 19 |
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| 346 | 346 | | ‘‘(iv) recommending specific strate-20 |
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| 347 | 347 | | gies, to be carried out in coordination with 21 |
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| 348 | 348 | | the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 22 |
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| 349 | 349 | | Commerce, to strengthen international 23 |
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| 350 | 350 | | partnerships in furtherance of critical min-24 |
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| 355 | 355 | | national allies and partners, including a 1 |
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| 356 | 356 | | strategy to collaborate with governments of 2 |
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| 357 | 357 | | the allies and partners described in sub-3 |
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| 358 | 358 | | paragraph (B) to develop advanced mining, 4 |
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| 359 | 359 | | refining, separation and processing tech-5 |
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| 360 | 360 | | nologies; and 6 |
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| 361 | 361 | | ‘‘(v) other duties, as determined by 7 |
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| 362 | 362 | | the Chair. 8 |
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| 363 | 363 | | ‘‘(B) A |
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| 364 | 364 | | LLIES AND PARTNERS .—The allies 9 |
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| 365 | 365 | | and partners referred to in subparagraph (A) 10 |
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| 366 | 366 | | include— 11 |
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| 367 | 367 | | ‘‘(i) countries participating in the 12 |
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| 368 | 368 | | Quadrilateral Security Dialogue; 13 |
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| 369 | 369 | | ‘‘(ii) countries that are— 14 |
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| 370 | 370 | | ‘‘(I) signatories to the Abraham 15 |
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| 371 | 371 | | Accords; or 16 |
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| 372 | 372 | | ‘‘(II) participants in the Negev 17 |
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| 373 | 373 | | Forum; 18 |
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| 374 | 374 | | ‘‘(iii) countries that are members of 19 |
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| 375 | 375 | | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 20 |
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| 376 | 376 | | and 21 |
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| 377 | 377 | | ‘‘(iv) other countries or multilateral 22 |
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| 378 | 378 | | partnerships the task force determines to 23 |
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| 379 | 379 | | be appropriate. 24 |
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| 385 | 385 | | ‘‘(i) not later than 60 days after the 1 |
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| 386 | 386 | | date of enactment of this subsection, and 2 |
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| 387 | 387 | | every 60 days thereafter until the require-3 |
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| 388 | 388 | | ments under subsection (a) are satisfied, 4 |
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| 389 | 389 | | brief the appropriate committees of Con-5 |
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| 390 | 390 | | gress on the status of the compliance of 6 |
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| 391 | 391 | | the President with completing the require-7 |
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| 392 | 392 | | ments under that subsection; 8 |
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| 393 | 393 | | ‘‘(ii) not later than 2 years after the 9 |
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| 394 | 394 | | date of enactment of this Act, submit to 10 |
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| 395 | 395 | | the appropriate committees of Congress a 11 |
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| 396 | 396 | | report, which shall be submitted in unclas-12 |
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| 397 | 397 | | sified form, but may include a classified 13 |
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| 398 | 398 | | annex, that describes any findings, guide-14 |
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| 399 | 399 | | lines, and recommendations created in per-15 |
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| 400 | 400 | | forming the duties under subparagraph 16 |
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| 401 | 401 | | (A); 17 |
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| 402 | 402 | | ‘‘(iii) not later than 120 days after 18 |
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| 403 | 403 | | the date on which the Chair submits the 19 |
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| 404 | 404 | | report under clause (ii), publish that report 20 |
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| 405 | 405 | | in the Federal Register and on the website 21 |
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| 406 | 406 | | of the Office of Management and Budget, 22 |
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| 407 | 407 | | except that the Chair shall redact informa-23 |
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| 408 | 408 | | tion from the report that the Chair deter-24 |
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| 409 | 409 | | mines could pose a risk to the national se-25 |
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| 414 | 414 | | licly available; and 2 |
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| 415 | 415 | | ‘‘(iv) brief the appropriate committees 3 |
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| 416 | 416 | | of Congress twice per year. 4 |
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| 417 | 417 | | ‘‘(6) S |
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| 418 | 418 | | UNSET.—The task force shall terminate 5 |
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| 419 | 419 | | on the date that is 90 days after the date on which 6 |
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| 420 | 420 | | the task force completes the requirements under 7 |
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| 421 | 421 | | paragraph (5)(C).’’. 8 |
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| 422 | 422 | | (b) GAO S |
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| 423 | 423 | | TUDY.— 9 |
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| 424 | 424 | | (1) S |
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| 425 | 425 | | TUDY REQUIRED.—The Comptroller Gen-10 |
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| 426 | 426 | | eral of the United States shall conduct a study ex-11 |
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| 427 | 427 | | amining the Federal and State regulatory landscape 12 |
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| 428 | 428 | | related to improving domestic supply chains for crit-13 |
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| 429 | 429 | | ical minerals in the United States. 14 |
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| 430 | 430 | | (2) R |
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| 431 | 431 | | EPORT.—Not later than 18 months after 15 |
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| 432 | 432 | | the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 16 |
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| 433 | 433 | | General of the United States shall submit to the ap-17 |
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| 434 | 434 | | propriate committees of Congress a report that de-18 |
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| 435 | 435 | | scribes the results of the study under paragraph (1). 19 |
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| 436 | 436 | | (3) D |
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| 437 | 437 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 20 |
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| 438 | 438 | | (A) A |
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| 439 | 439 | | PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -21 |
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| 440 | 440 | | GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of 22 |
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| 441 | 441 | | Congress’’ means— 23 |
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| 442 | 442 | | (i) the Committees on Homeland Se-24 |
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| 443 | 443 | | curity and Governmental Affairs, Energy 25 |
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| 448 | 448 | | Environment and Public Works, Com-2 |
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| 449 | 449 | | merce, Science, and Transportation, Fi-3 |
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| 450 | 450 | | nance, and Foreign Relations of the Sen-4 |
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| 451 | 451 | | ate; and 5 |
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| 452 | 452 | | (ii) the Committees on Oversight and 6 |
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| 453 | 453 | | Accountability, Natural Resources, Armed 7 |
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| 454 | 454 | | Services, Ways and Means, Foreign Af-8 |
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| 455 | 455 | | fairs, and Energy and Commerce of the 9 |
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| 456 | 456 | | House of Representatives. 10 |
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| 457 | 457 | | (B) C |
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| 458 | 458 | | RITICAL MINERAL.—The term ‘‘crit-11 |
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| 459 | 459 | | ical mineral’’ has the meaning given the term in 12 |
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| 460 | 460 | | section 7002(a) of the Energy Act of 2020 (30 13 |
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| 461 | 461 | | U.S.C. 1606(a)). 14 |
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