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44 STSESSION S. 257
55 To improve the resilience of critical supply chains, and for other purposes.
66 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
77 JANUARY27, 2025
88 Ms. C
99 ANTWELL(for herself, Mrs. BLACKBURN, and Ms. BLUNTROCHESTER)
1010 introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
1111 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
1212 A BILL
1313 To improve the resilience of critical supply chains, and for
1414 other purposes.
1515 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
1616 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1717 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
1818 (a) S
1919 HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
2020 ‘‘Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025’’. 5
2121 (b) T
2222 ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6
2323 this Act is as follows: 7
2424 Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
2525 Sec. 2. Additional responsibilities of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for In-
2626 dustry and Analysis.
2727 Sec. 3. Critical supply chain resilience and crisis response working group.
2828 Sec. 4. Department of Commerce capability assessment.
2929 Sec. 5. No additional funds.
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3333 Sec. 6. Sunset.
3434 Sec. 7. Definitions.
3535 SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASSISTANT SEC-
3636 1
3737 RETARY OF COMMERCE FOR INDUSTRY AND 2
3838 ANALYSIS. 3
3939 In addition to the responsibilities of the Assistant 4
4040 Secretary on the day before the date of the enactment of 5
4141 this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall have the following 6
4242 responsibilities: 7
4343 (1) Promote the stability and resilience of crit-8
4444 ical supply chains and critical and emerging tech-9
4545 nologies that strengthen the national security of the 10
4646 United States. 11
4747 (2) Lead the Working Group established pursu-12
4848 ant to section 3 and consult covered nongovern-13
4949 mental representatives, industry, institutions of 14
5050 higher education, and State and local governments 15
5151 in order to— 16
5252 (A) promote resilient critical supply chains; 17
5353 and 18
5454 (B) identify, prepare for, and respond to 19
5555 supply chain shocks to— 20
5656 (i) critical industries; 21
5757 (ii) critical supply chains; and 22
5858 (iii) critical and emerging tech-23
5959 nologies. 24
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6363 (3) Encourage the growth and competitiveness 1
6464 of United States production and manufacturing in 2
6565 the United States of emerging technologies. 3
6666 (4) Assess the resilience, diversity, and strength 4
6767 of critical supply chains and critical and emerging 5
6868 technologies. 6
6969 (5) In consultation with the Secretary of State 7
7070 and the United States Trade Representative, sup-8
7171 port the availability of critical goods from domestic 9
7272 manufacturers, domestic enterprises, and manufac-10
7373 turing operations in countries that are allies or key 11
7474 international partner nations. 12
7575 (6) Assist the Federal Government in preparing 13
7676 for and responding to supply chain shocks to critical 14
7777 supply chains, including by improving flexible manu-15
7878 facturing capacities and capabilities in the United 16
7979 States. 17
8080 (7) Consistent with United States obligations 18
8181 under international agreements, encourage and 19
8282 incentivize the reduced reliance of domestic enter-20
8383 prises and domestic manufacturers on critical goods 21
8484 from countries that are described in section 7(2)(B). 22
8585 (8) Encourage the relocation of manufacturing 23
8686 facilities that manufacture critical goods from coun-24
8787 tries that are described in section 7(2)(B) to the 25
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9191 United States and countries that are allies or key 1
9292 international partner nations to strengthen the resil-2
9393 ience, diversity, and strength of critical supply 3
9494 chains. 4
9595 SEC. 3. CRITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE AND CRISIS 5
9696 RESPONSE WORKING GROUP. 6
9797 (a) E
9898 STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 120 days after 7
9999 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Sec-8
100100 retary shall establish a working group to be known as the 9
101101 ‘‘Supply Chain Resilience Working Group’’ (in this Act re-10
102102 ferred to as the ‘‘Working Group’’) composed of the Fed-11
103103 eral agencies that rely upon the Industry and Analysis 12
104104 Business unit analysis, including agencies enumerated in 13
105105 subsection (c). 14
106106 (b) A
107107 CTIVITIES.—Not later than 1 year after the date 15
108108 of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall 16
109109 carry out the following activities— 17
110110 (1) in consultation with the Working Group— 18
111111 (A) assessing, mapping, and modeling crit-19
112112 ical supply chains, including for critical and 20
113113 emerging technologies, which may include— 21
114114 (i) modeling the impact of supply 22
115115 chain shocks on critical industries (includ-23
116116 ing for critical and emerging technologies), 24
117117 and critical supply chains; 25
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121121 (ii) assessing the demand for and sup-1
122122 ply of critical goods, production equipment, 2
123123 and manufacturing technology needed for 3
124124 critical supply chains, including critical 4
125125 goods, production equipment, and manu-5
126126 facturing technology obtained by or pur-6
127127 chased from a person outside of the United 7
128128 States or imported into the United States; 8
129129 and 9
130130 (iii) assessing manufacturing, 10
131131 warehousing, transportation, and distribu-11
132132 tion related to critical supply chains; 12
133133 (B) identifying high priority gaps and 13
134134 vulnerabilities in critical supply chains and crit-14
135135 ical industries (including critical industries for 15
136136 critical and emerging technologies) that— 16
137137 (i) exist as of the date of the enact-17
138138 ment of this Act; or 18
139139 (ii) are anticipated to occur after the 19
140140 date of the enactment of this Act; 20
141141 (C) identifying potential supply chain 21
142142 shocks to a critical supply chain that may dis-22
143143 rupt, strain, or eliminate the critical supply 23
144144 chain; 24
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148148 (D) evaluating the capability and capacity 1
149149 of domestic manufacturers or manufacturers lo-2
150150 cated in countries that are allies or key inter-3
151151 national partner nations to serve as sources for 4
152152 critical goods, production equipment, or manu-5
153153 facturing technology needed in critical supply 6
154154 chains; 7
155155 (E) evaluating the effect on market sta-8
156156 bility that may result from the disruption, 9
157157 strain, or elimination of a critical supply chain; 10
158158 (F) evaluating the state of the manufac-11
159159 turing workforce, including by— 12
160160 (i) identifying the needs of domestic 13
161161 manufacturers; and 14
162162 (ii) identifying opportunities to create 15
163163 high-quality manufacturing jobs; and 16
164164 (G) identifying and describing necessary 17
165165 tools, including commercially available risk as-18
166166 sessment tools, that leverage data and industry 19
167167 expertise to provide insights into critical supply 20
168168 chain vulnerabilities, including how such tools 21
169169 fulfill the requirements described in subpara-22
170170 graphs (A) through (E); and 23
171171 (2) in consultation with State and local govern-24
172172 ments, the Working Group, and (as appropriate) 25
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176176 countries that are allies or key international partner 1
177177 nations— 2
178178 (A) identifying opportunities to reduce 3
179179 gaps and vulnerabilities in critical supply chains 4
180180 and critical industries; 5
181181 (B) encouraging consultation between the 6
182182 Federal Government, industry, covered non-7
183183 governmental representatives, institutions of 8
184184 higher education, and State and local govern-9
185185 ments to— 10
186186 (i) better respond to supply chain 11
187187 shocks to critical supply chains and critical 12
188188 industries (including critical industries for 13
189189 emerging technologies); and 14
190190 (ii) coordinate response efforts to sup-15
191191 ply chain shocks; 16
192192 (C) encouraging consultation between the 17
193193 Federal Government and the governments of 18
194194 countries that are allies or key international 19
195195 partner nations; 20
196196 (D) identifying opportunities to build the 21
197197 capacity of the United States in critical supply 22
198198 chains, critical industries, and emerging tech-23
199199 nologies; 24
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203203 (E) identifying opportunities to build the 1
204204 capacity of countries that are allies or key 2
205205 international partner nations in critical indus-3
206206 tries (including critical industries for emerging 4
207207 technologies) and critical supply chains; and 5
208208 (F) developing and assessing contingency 6
209209 plans and coordination mechanisms to improve 7
210210 the response of critical supply chains and crit-8
211211 ical industries to supply chain shocks. 9
212212 (c) W
213213 ORKINGGROUPMEMBERSHIP.—The Working 10
214214 Group shall include a representative from each Federal 11
215215 agency that relies on the analysis of the Industry and 12
216216 Analysis business unit, including— 13
217217 (1) the Department of State; 14
218218 (2) the Department of Defense; 15
219219 (3) the Department of Homeland Security; 16
220220 (4) the Department of Transportation; 17
221221 (5) the Department of Energy; 18
222222 (6) the Department of Agriculture; 19
223223 (7) the Department of the Interior; 20
224224 (8) the Department of Health and Human 21
225225 Services; 22
226226 (9) the Office of the Director of National Intel-23
227227 ligence; and 24
228228 (10) the Small Business Administration. 25
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232232 (d) DESIGNATIONS.—The Assistant Secretary shall— 1
233233 (1) not later than 120 days after the date of 2
234234 the enactment of this Act, designate— 3
235235 (A) critical industries; 4
236236 (B) critical supply chains; and 5
237237 (C) critical goods; 6
238238 (2) provide for a period of public comment and 7
239239 review in carrying out paragraph (1); and 8
240240 (3) update the designations made pursuant to 9
241241 paragraph (1) not less frequently than once every 4 10
242242 years, including designations for technologies that 11
243243 are not described in section 7(12)(B) that the As-12
244244 sistant Secretary considers necessary. 13
245245 (e) I
246246 MPLEMENTATION REPORT.—Not later than 1 14
247247 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the As-15
248248 sistant Secretary shall submit to the appropriate commit-16
249249 tees of Congress a report that— 17
250250 (1) details supply chain activities, including ap-18
251251 plicable activities described in subsection (b) and re-19
252252 sponsibilities described in section 2, that the Assist-20
253253 ant Secretary has conducted over the past year; 21
254254 (2) describes supply chain data collected, re-22
255255 tained, and analyzed by the Assistant Secretary over 23
256256 the past year; 24
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260260 (3) identifies and describes necessary tools, in-1
261261 cluding commercially available risk assessment tools, 2
262262 that leverage data and industry expertise to provide 3
263263 insights into critical supply chain vulnerabilities, in-4
264264 cluding how such tools fulfill each responsibility de-5
265265 scribed in subsection (b); 6
266266 (4) identifies and describes all Federal agencies 7
267267 with authorities or responsibilities described in sub-8
268268 section (b); and 9
269269 (5) identifies Federal agencies, programs, and 10
270270 bureaus with duplicative purposes to fulfill any of 11
271271 the authorities or responsibilities described in sub-12
272272 section (b). 13
273273 (f) N
274274 ATIONALSTRATEGY ANDREVIEW ONCRITICAL 14
275275 S
276276 UPPLYCHAINRESILIENCY AND MANUFACTURING IN 15
277277 THEUNITEDSTATES.— 16
278278 (1) I
279279 N GENERAL.—Not later than 18 months 17
280280 after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-18
281281 nually thereafter, the Assistant Secretary, in con-19
282282 sultation with the Working Group, covered non-20
283283 governmental representatives, industries, institutions 21
284284 of higher education, and State and local govern-22
285285 ments, shall submit to the relevant committees of 23
286286 Congress a report that— 24
287287 (A) identifies— 25
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291291 (i) critical infrastructure that may as-1
292292 sist in fulfilling the responsibilities de-2
293293 scribed in section 2; 3
294294 (ii) critical and emerging technologies 4
295295 that may assist in fulfilling the responsibil-5
296296 ities described in section 2, including such 6
297297 technologies that may be critical to ad-7
298298 dressing preparedness, weaknesses, and 8
299299 vulnerabilities relating to critical supply 9
300300 chains; 10
301301 (iii) critical industries, critical supply 11
302302 chains, and critical goods designated pur-12
303303 suant to subsection (d); 13
304304 (iv) other supplies and services that 14
305305 are critical to the crisis preparedness of 15
306306 the United States; 16
307307 (v) substitutes for critical goods, pro-17
308308 duction equipment, and manufacturing 18
309309 technology; 19
310310 (vi) methods and technologies, includ-20
311311 ing blockchain technology, distributed ledg-21
312312 er technology, and other critical and 22
313313 emerging technologies, as appropriate, for 23
314314 the authentication and traceability of crit-24
315315 ical goods; and 25
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319319 (vii) countries that are allies or key 1
320320 international partner nations; 2
321321 (B) describes the matters identified and 3
322322 evaluated under subsection (b)(1), including— 4
323323 (i) the manufacturing base, critical 5
324324 supply chains, and emerging technologies 6
325325 in the United States, including the manu-7
326326 facturing base and critical supply chains 8
327327 for— 9
328328 (I) critical goods; 10
329329 (II) production equipment; and 11
330330 (III) manufacturing technology; 12
331331 and 13
332332 (ii) the ability of the United States 14
333333 to— 15
334334 (I) maintain readiness with re-16
335335 spect to preparing for and responding 17
336336 to supply chain shocks; and 18
337337 (II) in response to a supply chain 19
338338 shock— 20
339339 (aa) surge production in 21
340340 critical industries; 22
341341 (bb) surge production of 23
342342 critical goods and production 24
343343 equipment; and 25
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347347 (cc) maintain access to crit-1
348348 ical goods, production equipment, 2
349349 and manufacturing technology; 3
350350 (C) assesses and describes— 4
351351 (i) the demand and supply of critical 5
352352 goods, production equipment, and manu-6
353353 facturing technology; 7
354354 (ii) the production of critical goods, 8
355355 production equipment, and manufacturing 9
356356 technology by domestic manufacturers; 10
357357 (iii) the capability and capacity of do-11
358358 mestic manufacturers and manufacturers 12
359359 in countries that are allies or key inter-13
360360 national partner nations to manufacture 14
361361 critical goods, production equipment, and 15
362362 manufacturing technology; and 16
363363 (iv) how supply chain shocks could af-17
364364 fect rural, Tribal, and underserved commu-18
365365 nities; 19
366366 (D) identifies threats and supply chain 20
367367 shocks that may disrupt, strain, or eliminate 21
368368 critical supply chains, critical goods, and critical 22
369369 industries (including critical industries for 23
370370 emerging technologies); 24
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374374 (E) with regard to any threat identified 1
375375 under subparagraph (D), lists any threat or 2
376376 supply chain shock that may originate from a 3
377377 country, or a company or individual from a 4
378378 country, that is described in section 7(2)(B); 5
379379 (F) assesses— 6
380380 (i) the resilience and capacity of the 7
381381 manufacturing base, critical supply chains, 8
382382 and workforce of the United States and 9
383383 countries that are allies or key inter-10
384384 national partner nations that can sustain 11
385385 critical industries (including critical indus-12
386386 tries for emerging technologies) through a 13
387387 supply chain shock; and 14
388388 (ii) the effect innovation has on do-15
389389 mestic manufacturers; 16
390390 (G) assesses the flexible manufacturing ca-17
391391 pacity and capability available in the United 18
392392 States in the case of a supply chain shock; and 19
393393 (H) develops a strategy for the Depart-20
394394 ment of Commerce to support the resilience, di-21
395395 versity, and strength of critical supply chains 22
396396 and critical and emerging technologies to— 23
397397 (i) support sufficient access to critical 24
398398 goods by mitigating vulnerabilities in crit-25
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402402 ical supply chains, including critical supply 1
403403 chains concentrated in countries that are 2
404404 described in section 7(2)(B); 3
405405 (ii) consult with other relevant agen-4
406406 cies to assist countries that are allies or 5
407407 key international partner nations in build-6
408408 ing capacity for manufacturing critical 7
409409 goods; 8
410410 (iii) recover from supply chain shocks; 9
411411 (iv) identify, in consultation with the 10
412412 Working Group and other relevant agen-11
413413 cies, actions relating to critical supply 12
414414 chains or emerging technologies that the 13
415415 United States may take to improve re-14
416416 sponses to supply chain shocks; 15
417417 (v) protect against supply chain 16
418418 shocks relating to critical supply chains 17
419419 from countries that are described in sec-18
420420 tion 7(2)(B); and 19
421421 (vi) make specific recommendations to 20
422422 implement the strategy under this section 21
423423 and improve the security and resiliency of 22
424424 manufacturing capacity and supply chains 23
425425 for critical industries (including critical in-24
426426 dustries for emerging technologies) by— 25
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430430 (I) developing long-term strate-1
431431 gies; 2
432432 (II) increasing visibility into the 3
433433 networks and capabilities of domestic 4
434434 manufacturers and suppliers of do-5
435435 mestic manufacturers; 6
436436 (III) identifying and mitigating 7
437437 risks, including— 8
438438 (aa) significant 9
439439 vulnerabilities to supply chain 10
440440 shocks; and 11
441441 (bb) exposure to gaps and 12
442442 vulnerabilities in domestic capac-13
443443 ity or capabilities and sources of 14
444444 imports needed to sustain critical 15
445445 industries (including critical in-16
446446 dustries for emerging tech-17
447447 nologies) or critical supply 18
448448 chains; 19
449449 (IV) identifying opportunities to 20
450450 reuse and recycle critical goods, in-21
451451 cluding raw materials, to increase re-22
452452 silient critical supply chains; 23
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456456 (V) consulting with countries 1
457457 that are allies or key international 2
458458 partner nations on— 3
459459 (aa) sourcing critical goods, 4
460460 production equipment, and man-5
461461 ufacturing technology; and 6
462462 (bb) developing, sustaining, 7
463463 and expanding production and 8
464464 availability of critical goods, pro-9
465465 duction equipment, and manufac-10
466466 turing technology during a supply 11
467467 chain shock; and 12
468468 (VI) providing guidance to other 13
469469 relevant agencies with respect to crit-14
470470 ical goods, supply chains, and critical 15
471471 industries (including critical industries 16
472472 for emerging technologies) that should 17
473473 be prioritized to support United 18
474474 States leadership in the deployment of 19
475475 such technologies. 20
476476 (2) P
477477 ROHIBITION.—The report submitted pur-21
478478 suant to paragraph (1) may not include— 22
479479 (A) critical supply chain information that 23
480480 is not aggregated; 24
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484484 (B) confidential business information of a 1
485485 private sector entity; or 2
486486 (C) classified information. 3
487487 (3) F
488488 ORM.—The report submitted pursuant to 4
489489 paragraph (1), and any update submitted thereafter, 5
490490 shall be submitted to the relevant committees of 6
491491 Congress in unclassified form and may include a 7
492492 classified annex. 8
493493 (4) P
494494 UBLIC COMMENT .—The Assistant Sec-9
495495 retary shall provide for a period of public comment 10
496496 and review in developing the report submitted pursu-11
497497 ant to paragraph (1). 12
498498 (g) C
499499 ONSULTATION.—Not later than 1 year after the 13
500500 date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary 14
501501 shall enter into an agreement with the head of any rel-15
502502 evant agency to obtain any information, data, or assist-16
503503 ance that the Assistant Secretary determines necessary to 17
504504 conduct the activities described in subsection (b). 18
505505 (h) R
506506 ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-19
507507 tion may be construed to require any private entity— 20
508508 (1) to share information with the Secretary or 21
509509 Assistant Secretary; 22
510510 (2) to request assistance from the Secretary or 23
511511 Assistant Secretary; or 24
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515515 (3) to implement any measure or recommenda-1
516516 tion suggested by the Secretary or Assistant Sec-2
517517 retary in response to a request by the private entity. 3
518518 (i) P
519519 ROTECTION OF VOLUNTARILYSHAREDCRIT-4
520520 ICALSUPPLYCHAININFORMATION.— 5
521521 (1) P
522522 ROTECTION.— 6
523523 (A) I
524524 N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 7
525525 other provision of law, critical supply chain in-8
526526 formation (including the identity of the submit-9
527527 ting person or entity) that is voluntarily sub-10
528528 mitted under this section to the Department of 11
529529 Commerce for use by the Department for pur-12
530530 poses of this section, when accompanied by an 13
531531 express statement described in subparagraph 14
532532 (B)— 15
533533 (i) shall be exempt from disclosure 16
534534 under section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United 17
535535 States Code (commonly referred to as the 18
536536 ‘‘Freedom of Information Act’’); 19
537537 (ii) is not subject to any agency rules 20
538538 or judicial doctrine regarding ex parte 21
539539 communications with a decision-making of-22
540540 ficial; 23
541541 (iii) may not, without the written con-24
542542 sent of the person or entity submitting 25
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546546 such information, be used directly by the 1
547547 Department of Commerce, any other Fed-2
548548 eral, State, or local authority, or any third 3
549549 party, in any civil action arising under 4
550550 Federal or State law if such information is 5
551551 submitted in good faith; 6
552552 (iv) may not, without the written con-7
553553 sent of the person or entity submitting 8
554554 such information, be used or disclosed by 9
555555 any officer or employee of the United 10
556556 States for purposes other than the pur-11
557557 poses of this section, except— 12
558558 (I) in furtherance of an investiga-13
559559 tion or the prosecution of a criminal 14
560560 act; or 15
561561 (II) when disclosure of the infor-16
562562 mation would be— 17
563563 (aa) to either House of Con-18
564564 gress, or to the extent of matter 19
565565 within its jurisdiction, any com-20
566566 mittee or subcommittee thereof, 21
567567 any joint committee thereof, or 22
568568 any subcommittee of any such 23
569569 joint committee; or 24
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573573 (bb) to the Comptroller Gen-1
574574 eral of the United States, or any 2
575575 authorized representative of the 3
576576 Comptroller General, in the 4
577577 course of the performance of the 5
578578 duties of the Government Ac-6
579579 countability Office; 7
580580 (v) may not, if provided to a State or 8
581581 local government or government agency— 9
582582 (I) be made available pursuant to 10
583583 any State or local law requiring dis-11
584584 closure of information or records; 12
585585 (II) otherwise be disclosed or dis-13
586586 tributed to any party by such State or 14
587587 local government or government agen-15
588588 cy without the written consent of the 16
589589 person or entity submitting such in-17
590590 formation; or 18
591591 (III) be used other than for the 19
592592 purpose of carrying out this section, 20
593593 or in furtherance of an investigation 21
594594 or the prosecution of a criminal act; 22
595595 and 23
596596 (vi) does not constitute a waiver of 24
597597 any applicable privilege or protection pro-25
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601601 vided under law, such as trade secret pro-1
602602 tection. 2
603603 (B) E
604604 XPRESS STATEMENT .—The express 3
605605 statement described in this subparagraph, with 4
606606 respect to information or records, is— 5
607607 (i) in the case of written information 6
608608 or records, a written marking on the infor-7
609609 mation or records substantially similar to 8
610610 the following: ‘‘This information is volun-9
611611 tarily submitted to the Federal Govern-10
612612 ment in expectation of protection from dis-11
613613 closure as provided by the provisions of the 12
614614 Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 13
615615 2024.’’; or 14
616616 (ii) in the case of oral information, a 15
617617 written statement similar to the statement 16
618618 described in clause (i) submitted within a 17
619619 reasonable period following the oral com-18
620620 munication. 19
621621 (2) L
622622 IMITATION.—No communication of critical 20
623623 supply chain information to the Department of Com-21
624624 merce made pursuant to this section may be consid-22
625625 ered to be an action subject to the requirements of 23
626626 chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code. 24
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630630 (3) INDEPENDENTLY OBTAINED INFORMA -1
631631 TION.—Nothing in this subsection may be construed 2
632632 to limit or otherwise affect the ability of a State, 3
633633 local, or Federal Government entity, agency, or au-4
634634 thority, or any third party, under applicable law to 5
635635 obtain critical supply chain information in a manner 6
636636 not covered by paragraph (1), including any infor-7
637637 mation lawfully and properly disclosed generally or 8
638638 broadly to the public and to use such information in 9
639639 any manner permitted by law. For purposes of this 10
640640 subsection, a permissible use of independently ob-11
641641 tained information includes the disclosure of such in-12
642642 formation under section 2302(b)(8) of title 5, 13
643643 United States Code. 14
644644 (4) T
645645 REATMENT OF VOLUNTARY SUBMITTAL OF 15
646646 INFORMATION.—The voluntary submittal to the De-16
647647 partment of Commerce of information or records 17
648648 that are protected from disclosure by this section 18
649649 may not be construed to constitute compliance with 19
650650 any requirement to submit such information to an 20
651651 agency under any other provision of law. 21
652652 (5) I
653653 NAPPLICABILITY TO SEMICONDUCTOR IN -22
654654 CENTIVE PROGRAM.—This subsection does not apply 23
655655 to the voluntary submission of critical supply chain 24
656656 information in an application for Federal financial 25
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660660 assistance under section 9902 of the William M. 1
661661 (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization 2
662662 Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283). 3
663663 SEC. 4. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CAPABILITY ASSESS-4
664664 MENT. 5
665665 (a) R
666666 EPORTREQUIRED.—The Secretary shall 6
667667 produce a report— 7
668668 (1) identifying the duties, responsibilities, re-8
669669 sources, programs, and expertise within the offices 9
670670 and bureaus of the Department of Commerce rel-10
671671 evant to critical supply chain resilience and manu-11
672672 facturing innovation; 12
673673 (2) identifying and assessing the purpose, legal 13
674674 authority, effectiveness, efficiency, and limitations of 14
675675 each office or bureau identified under paragraph (1); 15
676676 and 16
677677 (3) providing recommendations to enhance the 17
678678 activities related to critical supply chain resilience 18
679679 and manufacturing innovation of the Department of 19
680680 Commerce, including— 20
681681 (A) improving the effectiveness, efficiency, 21
682682 and impact of the offices and bureaus identified 22
683683 under paragraph (1); 23
684684 (B) coordinating across offices and bu-24
685685 reaus identified under paragraph (1); and 25
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689689 (C) consulting with agencies implementing 1
690690 similar activities related to critical supply chain 2
691691 resilience and manufacturing innovation. 3
692692 (b) S
693693 UBMISSION OFREPORT.—Not later than 2 years 4
694694 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 5
695695 shall submit to the relevant committees of Congress the 6
696696 report required by subsection (a), along with a strategy 7
697697 to implement, as appropriate and as determined by the 8
698698 Secretary, the recommendations contained in the report. 9
699699 SEC. 5. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS. 10
700700 No additional funds are authorized to be appro-11
701701 priated to carry out this Act. 12
702702 SEC. 6. SUNSET. 13
703703 This Act and all requirements, responsibilities, and 14
704704 obligations under this Act shall terminate on the date that 15
705705 is 10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 16
706706 SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 17
707707 In this Act: 18
708708 (1) A
709709 GENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 19
710710 meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, 20
711711 United States Code. 21
712712 (2) A
713713 LLY OR KEY INTERNATIONAL PARTNER 22
714714 NATION.—The term ‘‘ally or key international part-23
715715 ner nation’’— 24
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719719 (A) means a country that is critical to ad-1
720720 dressing critical supply chain weaknesses and 2
721721 vulnerabilities; and 3
722722 (B) does not include— 4
723723 (i) a country that poses a significant 5
724724 risk to the national security or economic 6
725725 security of the United States; or 7
726726 (ii) a country that is described in sec-8
727727 tion 503(b) of the RANSOMWARE Act 9
728728 (title V of division BB of the Consolidated 10
729729 Appropriations Act, 2023; Public Law 11
730730 117–328; 136 Stat. 5564). 12
731731 (3) A
732732 SSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-13
733733 ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 14
734734 Commerce assigned by the Secretary to direct the 15
735735 office of Industry and Analysis. 16
736736 (4) C
737737 OVERED NONGOVERNMENTAL REPRESENT -17
738738 ATIVE.—The term ‘‘covered nongovernmental rep-18
739739 resentative’’ means a representative as specified in 19
740740 the second sentence of section 135(b)(1) of the 20
741741 Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2155(b)(1)), except 21
742742 that such term does not include a representative of 22
743743 a non-Federal Government. 23
744744 (5) C
745745 RITICAL GOOD.—The term ‘‘critical good’’ 24
746746 means any raw, in process, or manufactured mate-25
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750750 rial (including any mineral, metal, or advanced proc-1
751751 essed material), article, commodity, supply, product, 2
752752 or item for which an absence of supply would have 3
753753 a debilitating impact on— 4
754754 (A) the national security or economic secu-5
755755 rity of the United States; and 6
756756 (B) either— 7
757757 (i) critical infrastructure; or 8
758758 (ii) an emerging technology. 9
759759 (6) C
760760 RITICAL INDUSTRY.—The term ‘‘critical 10
761761 industry’’ means an industry that— 11
762762 (A) is critical for the national security or 12
763763 economic security of the United States; and 13
764764 (B) produces or procures a critical good. 14
765765 (7) C
766766 RITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE .—The term 15
767767 ‘‘critical infrastructure’’ has the meaning given that 16
768768 term in section 1016 of the Critical Infrastructures 17
769769 Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c). 18
770770 (8) C
771771 RITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN.—The term ‘‘crit-19
772772 ical supply chain’’ means a supply chain for a crit-20
773773 ical good. 21
774774 (9) C
775775 RITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN INFORMATION .— 22
776776 The term ‘‘critical supply chain information’’ means 23
777777 information that is not customarily in the public do-24
778778 main and relates to— 25
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782782 (A) sustaining and adapting a critical sup-1
783783 ply chain during a supply chain shock; 2
784784 (B) critical supply chain risk mitigation 3
785785 and recovery planning with respect to a supply 4
786786 chain shock, including any planned or past as-5
787787 sessment, projection, or estimate of a vulner-6
788788 ability within the critical supply chain, includ-7
789789 ing testing, supplier network assessments, pro-8
790790 duction flexibility, supply chain risk evaluations, 9
791791 supply chain risk management planning, or risk 10
792792 audits; or 11
793793 (C) operational best practices, planning, 12
794794 and supplier partnerships that enable enhanced 13
795795 resilience of a critical supply chain during a 14
796796 supply chain shock, including response, repair, 15
797797 recovery, reconstruction, insurance, or con-16
798798 tinuity. 17
799799 (10) D
800800 OMESTIC ENTERPRISE .—The term ‘‘do-18
801801 mestic enterprise’’ means an enterprise that con-19
802802 ducts business in the United States and procures a 20
803803 critical good. 21
804804 (11) D
805805 OMESTIC MANUFACTURER .—The term 22
806806 ‘‘domestic manufacturer’’ means a business that 23
807807 conducts in the United States the research and de-24
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811811 velopment, engineering, or production activities nec-1
812812 essary for manufacturing a critical good. 2
813813 (12) E
814814 MERGING TECHNOLOGY .—The term 3
815815 ‘‘emerging technology’’ means a technology that is 4
816816 critical for the national security or economic security 5
817817 of the United States, including the following: 6
818818 (A) Technologies included in the American 7
819819 COMPETE Act (title XV of division FF of the 8
820820 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; Public 9
821821 Law 116–260; 134 Stat. 3276). 10
822822 (B) The following technologies: 11
823823 (i) Artificial intelligence. 12
824824 (ii) Automated vehicles and unmanned 13
825825 delivery systems. 14
826826 (iii) Blockchain and other distributed 15
827827 ledger, data storage, data management, 16
828828 and cybersecurity technologies. 17
829829 (iv) Quantum computing and quan-18
830830 tum sensing. 19
831831 (v) Additive manufacturing. 20
832832 (vi) Advanced manufacturing and the 21
833833 Internet of Things. 22
834834 (vii) Nano technology. 23
835835 (viii) Robotics. 24
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839839 (ix) Microelectronics, optical fiber ray, 1
840840 and high performance and advanced com-2
841841 puter hardware and software. 3
842842 (x) Semiconductors. 4
843843 (xi) Advanced materials science, in-5
844844 cluding composition 2D, other next genera-6
845845 tion materials, and related manufacturing 7
846846 technologies. 8
847847 (13) I
848848 NSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .— 9
849849 The term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 10
850850 meaning given that term in section 101 of the High-11
851851 er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 12
852852 (14) M
853853 ANUFACTURE.—The term ‘‘manufac-13
854854 ture’’— 14
855855 (A) means any activity that is necessary 15
856856 for the development, production, processing, 16
857857 distribution, or delivery of any raw, in process, 17
858858 or manufactured material (including any min-18
859859 eral, metal, and advanced processed material), 19
860860 article, commodity, supply, product, critical 20
861861 good, or item of supply; and 21
862862 (B) does not include software unrelated to 22
863863 the manufacturing process. 23
864864 (15) M
865865 ANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY .—The 24
866866 term ‘‘manufacturing technology’’ means a tech-25
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870870 nology that is necessary for the manufacturing of a 1
871871 critical good. 2
872872 (16) P
873873 RODUCTION EQUIPMENT .—The term 3
874874 ‘‘production equipment’’ means any component, sub-4
875875 system, system, equipment, tooling, accessory, part, 5
876876 or assembly necessary for the manufacturing of a 6
877877 critical good. 7
878878 (17) P
879879 ROGRAM.—The term ‘‘program’’ means 8
880880 the critical supply chain resiliency and crisis re-9
881881 sponse program established pursuant to section 10
882882 103(a). 11
883883 (18) R
884884 ELEVANT COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS .— 12
885885 The term ‘‘relevant committees of Congress’’ means 13
886886 the following: 14
887887 (A) The Committee on Commerce, Science, 15
888888 and Transportation of the Senate. 16
889889 (B) The Committee on Energy and Com-17
890890 merce of the House of Representatives. 18
891891 (19) R
892892 ESILIENT CRITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN .—The 19
893893 term ‘‘resilient critical supply chain’’ means a crit-20
894894 ical supply chain that— 21
895895 (A) ensures that the United States can 22
896896 sustain critical industry, including emerging 23
897897 technologies, production, critical supply chains, 24
898898 services, and access to critical goods, production 25
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902902 equipment, and manufacturing technology dur-1
903903 ing a supply chain shock; and 2
904904 (B) has key components of resilience that 3
905905 include— 4
906906 (i) effective private sector risk man-5
907907 agement and mitigation planning to sus-6
908908 tain critical supply chains and supplier 7
909909 networks during a supply chain shock; and 8
910910 (ii) minimized or managed exposure to 9
911911 a supply chain shock. 10
912912 (20) S
913913 ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ 11
914914 means the Secretary of Commerce. 12
915915 (21) S
916916 TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 13
917917 the several States, the District of Columbia, each 14
918918 commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United 15
919919 States, and each federally recognized Indian Tribe. 16
920920 (22) S
921921 UPPLY CHAIN SHOCK.—The term ‘‘supply 17
922922 chain shock’’— 18
923923 (A) means an event causing severe or seri-19
924924 ous disruption to normal operations or capacity 20
925925 in a supply chain; and 21
926926 (B) includes— 22
927927 (i) a natural disaster; 23
928928 (ii) a pandemic; 24
929929 (iii) a biological threat; 25
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933933 (iv) a cyber attack; 1
934934 (v) a geopolitical conflict; 2
935935 (vi) a terrorist or geopolitical attack; 3
936936 (vii) a trade disruption caused by— 4
937937 (I) a country described in para-5
938938 graph (2)(B); or 6
939939 (II) an entity or an individual 7
940940 subject to the jurisdiction of such a 8
941941 country; and 9
942942 (viii) an event for which the President 10
943943 declares a major disaster or an emergency 11
944944 under section 401 or 501, respectively, of 12
945945 the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 13
946946 Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 14
947947 5170; 42 U.S.C. 5191). 15
948948 Æ
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