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118THCONGRESS
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DSESSION S. 3957
To require the Director of National Intelligence to develop a strategy to
improve the sharing of information and intelligence on foreign adversary
tactics and illicit activities affecting the ability of United States persons
to compete in foreign jurisdictions on projects relating to energy genera-
tion and storage, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH14, 2024
Mr. W
ARNER(for himself, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Mr. LANKFORD,
Mr. O
SSOFF, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. VANHOLLEN, and Mr. CORNYN) intro-
duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Select
Committee on Intelligence
A BILL
To require the Director of National Intelligence to develop
a strategy to improve the sharing of information and
intelligence on foreign adversary tactics and illicit activi-
ties affecting the ability of United States persons to
compete in foreign jurisdictions on projects relating to
energy generation and storage, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. ENHANCING PUBLIC-PRIVATE SHARING ON MA-1
NIPULATIVE ADVERSARY PRACTICES IN 2
CRITICAL MINERAL PROJECTS. 3
(a) S
TRATEGYREQUIRED.—Not later than 90 days 4
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 5
of National Intelligence shall, in consultation with the 6
heads of such Federal agencies as the Director considers 7
appropriate, develop a strategy to improve the sharing be-8
tween the Federal Government and private entities of in-9
formation and intelligence to mitigate the threat that for-10
eign adversary illicit activities and tactics pose to United 11
States persons in foreign jurisdictions on projects relating 12
to energy generation and storage, including with respect 13
to critical minerals inputs. 14
(b) E
LEMENTS.—The strategy required by subsection 15
(a) shall cover— 16
(1) how best to assemble and transmit informa-17
tion to United States persons— 18
(A) to protect against foreign adversary il-19
licit tactics and activities relating to critical 20
mineral projects abroad, including foreign ad-21
versary efforts to undermine such United States 22
projects abroad; 23
(B) to mitigate the risk that foreign adver-24
sary government involvement in the ownership 25
and control of entities engaging in deceptive or 26
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illicit activities pose to the interests of the 1
United States; and 2
(C) to inform on economic espionage and 3
other threats from foreign adversaries to the 4
rights of owners of intellectual property, includ-5
ing owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights, 6
and trade secrets, and other sensitive informa-7
tion, with respect to such property; and 8
(2) how best to receive information from United 9
States persons on threats to United States interests 10
in the critical mineral space, including 11
disinformation campaigns abroad or other suspicious 12
malicious activity. 13
(c) I
MPLEMENTATION PLANREQUIRED.—Not later 14
than 30 days after the date on which the Director com-15
pletes developing the strategy pursuant to subsection (a), 16
the Director shall submit to the congressional intelligence 17
committees (as defined in section 3 of the National Secu-18
rity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)), or provide such com-19
mittees a briefing on, a plan for implementing the strat-20
egy. 21
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