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4	4	STSESSION S. 823
5	5	To create intergovernmental coordination between State, local, Tribal, and
6	6	territorial jurisdictions, and the Federal Government to combat United
7	7	States reliance on the People’s Republic of China and other covered
8	8	countries for critical minerals and rare earth metals, and for other
9	9	purposes.
10	10	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
11	11	MARCH3, 2025
12	12	Mr. P
13	13	ETERS(for himself and Mr. LANKFORD) introduced the following bill;
14	14	which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Secu-
15	15	rity and Governmental Affairs
16	16	A BILL
17	17	To create intergovernmental coordination between State,
18	18	local, Tribal, and territorial jurisdictions, and the Fed-
19	19	eral Government to combat United States reliance on
20	20	the People’s Republic of China and other covered coun-
21	21	tries for critical minerals and rare earth metals, and
22	22	for other purposes.
23	23	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
24	24	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
25	25	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
26	26	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Intergovernmental 4
27	27	Critical Minerals Task Force Act’’. 5
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31	31	SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1
32	32	Congress finds that— 2
33	33	(1) current supply chains of critical minerals 3
34	34	pose a great risk to the national security of the 4
35	35	United States; 5
36	36	(2) critical minerals are necessary for transpor-6
37	37	tation, technology, renewable energy, military equip-7
38	38	ment and machinery, and other relevant sectors cru-8
39	39	cial for the homeland and national security of the 9
40	40	United States; 10
41	41	(3) in 2022, the United States was 100 percent 11
42	42	import reliant for 12 out of 50 critical minerals and 12
43	43	more than 50 percent import reliant for an addi-13
44	44	tional 31 critical mineral commodities classified as 14
45	45	‘‘critical’’ by the United States Geological Survey, 15
46	46	and the People’s Republic of China was the top pro-16
47	47	ducing nation for 30 of those 50 critical minerals; 17
48	48	(4) as of July 2023, companies based in the 18
49	49	People’s Republic of China that extract critical min-19
50	50	erals around the world have received hundreds of 20
51	51	charges of human rights violations; and 21
52	52	(5) on August 29, 2014, the World Trade Or-22
53	53	ganization Dispute Settlement Body adopted find-23
54	54	ings that the export restraints by the People’s Re-24
55	55	public of China on rare earth metals, which harmed 25
56	56	manufacturers and workers in the United States, 26
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60	60	violated obligations under the General Agreement on 1
61	61	Tariffs and Trade 1994 and China’s Protocol of Ac-2
62	62	cession to the World Trade Organization. 3
63	63	SEC. 3. INTERGOVERNMENTAL CRITICAL MINERALS TASK 4
64	64	FORCE. 5
65	65	(a) I
66	66	NGENERAL.—Section 5 of the National Mate-6
67	67	rials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act 7
68	68	of 1980 (30 U.S.C. 1604) is amended by adding at the 8
69	69	end the following: 9
70	70	‘‘(g) I
71	71	NTERGOVERNMENTAL CRITICALMINERALS 10
72	72	T
73	73	ASKFORCE.— 11
74	74	‘‘(1) P
75	75	URPOSES.—The purposes of the task 12
76	76	force established under paragraph (3)(B) are— 13
77	77	‘‘(A) to assess the reliance of the United 14
78	78	States on the People’s Republic of China, and 15
79	79	other covered countries, for critical minerals, 16
80	80	and the resulting national security risks associ-17
81	81	ated with that reliance; 18
82	82	‘‘(B) to make recommendations to the 19
83	83	President for the implementation of this Act 20
84	84	with regard to critical minerals, including— 21
85	85	‘‘(i) the congressional declarations of 22
86	86	policies in section 3; and 23
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90	90	‘‘(ii) revisions to the program plan of 1
91	91	the President and the initiatives required 2
92	92	under this section; 3
93	93	‘‘(C) to make recommendations to secure 4
94	94	United States supply chains for critical min-5
95	95	erals; 6
96	96	‘‘(D) to make recommendations to reduce 7
97	97	the reliance of the United States, and partners 8
98	98	and allies of the United States, on critical min-9
99	99	eral supply chains involving covered countries; 10
100	100	and 11
101	101	‘‘(E) consistent with ongoing efforts of 12
102	102	other Federal departments, agencies, and other 13
103	103	entities, to facilitate co-operation, coordination, 14
104	104	and mutual accountability among each level of 15
105	105	the Federal Government, Indian Tribes, and 16
106	106	State, local, and territorial governments, on a 17
107	107	holistic response to the dependence on covered 18
108	108	countries for critical minerals across the United 19
109	109	States. 20
110	110	‘‘(2) D
111	111	EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 21
112	112	‘‘(A) A
113	113	PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -22
114	114	GRESS.—The term ‘appropriate committees of 23
115	115	Congress’ means— 24
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119	119	‘‘(i) the Committees on Homeland Se-1
120	120	curity and Governmental Affairs, Energy 2
121	121	and Natural Resources, Armed Services, 3
122	122	Environment and Public Works, Com-4
123	123	merce, Science, and Transportation, Fi-5
124	124	nance, and Foreign Relations of the Sen-6
125	125	ate; and 7
126	126	‘‘(ii) the Committees on Oversight and 8
127	127	Government Reform, Natural Resources, 9
128	128	Armed Services, Ways and Means, Foreign 10
129	129	Affairs, and Energy and Commerce of the 11
130	130	House of Representatives. 12
131	131	‘‘(B) C
132	132	HAIRPERSON; CO-CHAIRPERSON.— 13
133	133	The terms ‘Chairperson’ and ‘Co-Chairperson’, 14
134	134	respectively, mean the Chairperson or Co-Chair-15
135	135	person of the task force designated by the 16
136	136	President pursuant to paragraph (3)(A). 17
137	137	‘‘(C) C
138	138	OVERED COUNTRY .—The term ‘cov-18
139	139	ered country’ means— 19
140	140	‘‘(i) a covered nation (as defined in 20
141	141	section 4872(d) of title 10, United States 21
142	142	Code); and 22
143	143	‘‘(ii) any other country determined by 23
144	144	the task force to be a geostrategic compet-24
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148	148	itor or adversary of the United States with 1
149	149	respect to critical minerals. 2
150	150	‘‘(D) C
151	151	RITICAL MINERAL.—The term ‘crit-3
152	152	ical mineral’ has the meaning given the term 4
153	153	‘critical material’ in section 7002(a) of the En-5
154	154	ergy Act of 2020 (30 U.S.C. 1606(a)). 6
155	155	‘‘(E) I
156	156	NDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian 7
157	157	Tribe’ has the meaning given the term in sec-8
158	158	tion 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and 9
159	159	Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 10
160	160	‘‘(F) T
161	161	ASK FORCE.—The term ‘task force’ 11
162	162	means the task force established under para-12
163	163	graph (3)(B). 13
164	164	‘‘(3) E
165	165	STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days 14
166	166	after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 15
167	167	President shall— 16
168	168	‘‘(A) designate a Chairperson, or 2 individ-17
169	169	uals as Co-Chairpersons, for the task force, who 18
170	170	shall be— 19
171	171	‘‘(i) the Assistant to the President for 20
172	172	National Security Affairs; 21
173	173	‘‘(ii) the Assistant to the President for 22
174	174	Economic Policy; or 23
175	175	‘‘(iii) another relevant member of the 24
176	176	Executive Office of the President; and 25
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180	180	‘‘(B) acting through the Executive Office 1
181	181	of the President, establish a task force. 2
182	182	‘‘(4) C
183	183	OMPOSITION; MEETINGS.— 3
184	184	‘‘(A) A
185	185	PPOINTMENT.—The Chairperson or 4
186	186	Co-Chairpersons, in consultation with key inter-5
187	187	governmental, private, and public sector stake-6
188	188	holders, shall appoint to the task force rep-7
189	189	resentatives with expertise in critical mineral 8
190	190	supply chains from Federal agencies, including 9
191	191	not less than 1 representative from each of— 10
192	192	‘‘(i) the Bureau of Indian Affairs; 11
193	193	‘‘(ii) the Bureau of Land Manage-12
194	194	ment; 13
195	195	‘‘(iii) the Critical Minerals Sub-14
196	196	committee of the National Science and 15
197	197	Technology Council; 16
198	198	‘‘(iv) the Department of Agriculture; 17
199	199	‘‘(v) the Department of Commerce; 18
200	200	‘‘(vi) the Department of Defense; 19
201	201	‘‘(vii) the Department of Energy; 20
202	202	‘‘(viii) the Department of Homeland 21
203	203	Security; 22
204	204	‘‘(ix) the Department of the Interior; 23
205	205	‘‘(x) the Department of Labor; 24
206	206	‘‘(xi) the Department of State; 25
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210	210	‘‘(xii) the Department of Transpor-1
211	211	tation; 2
212	212	‘‘(xiii) the Environmental Protection 3
213	213	Agency; 4
214	214	‘‘(xiv) the Export-Import Bank of the 5
215	215	United States; 6
216	216	‘‘(xv) the Forest Service; 7
217	217	‘‘(xvi) the General Services Adminis-8
218	218	tration; 9
219	219	‘‘(xvii) the National Economic Coun-10
220	220	cil; 11
221	221	‘‘(xviii) the National Science Founda-12
222	222	tion; 13
223	223	‘‘(xix) the National Security Council; 14
224	224	‘‘(xx) the Office of Management and 15
225	225	Budget; 16
226	226	‘‘(xxi) the Office of the United States 17
227	227	Trade Representative; 18
228	228	‘‘(xxii) the United States Inter-19
229	229	national Development Finance Corpora-20
230	230	tion; 21
231	231	‘‘(xxiii) the United States Geological 22
232	232	Survey; and 23
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236	236	‘‘(xxiv) any other relevant Federal en-1
237	237	tity, as determined by the Chairperson or 2
238	238	Co-Chairpersons. 3
239	239	‘‘(B) C
240	240	ONSULTATION.—The task force 4
241	241	shall consult individuals with expertise in crit-5
242	242	ical mineral supply chains, individuals from 6
243	243	States whose communities, businesses, and in-7
244	244	dustries are involved in aspects of critical min-8
245	245	eral supply chains, including mining and proc-9
246	246	essing operations, and individuals from a di-10
247	247	verse and balanced cross-section of— 11
248	248	‘‘(i) intergovernmental consultees, in-12
249	249	cluding— 13
250	250	‘‘(I) State governments; 14
251	251	‘‘(II) local governments; 15
252	252	‘‘(III) territorial governments; 16
253	253	and 17
254	254	‘‘(IV) Indian Tribes; and 18
255	255	‘‘(ii) other stakeholders, including— 19
256	256	‘‘(I) academic research institu-20
257	257	tions; 21
258	258	‘‘(II) corporations; 22
259	259	‘‘(III) nonprofit organizations; 23
260	260	‘‘(IV) private sector stakeholders; 24
261	261	‘‘(V) trade associations; 25
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265	265	‘‘(VI) mining industry stake-1
266	266	holders; and 2
267	267	‘‘(VII) labor representatives. 3
268	268	‘‘(C) M
269	269	EETINGS.— 4
270	270	‘‘(i) I
271	271	NITIAL MEETING.—Not later 5
272	272	than 90 days after the date on which all 6
273	273	representatives of the task force have been 7
274	274	appointed, the task force shall hold the 8
275	275	first meeting of the task force. 9
276	276	‘‘(ii) F
277	277	REQUENCY.—The task force 10
278	278	shall meet not less than once every 90 11
279	279	days. 12
280	280	‘‘(5) D
281	281	UTIES.— 13
282	282	‘‘(A) I
283	283	N GENERAL.—The duties of the task 14
284	284	force shall include— 15
285	285	‘‘(i) facilitating co-operation, coordina-16
286	286	tion, and mutual accountability for the 17
287	287	Federal Government, Indian Tribes, and 18
288	288	State, local, and territorial governments to 19
289	289	enhance data sharing and transparency to 20
290	290	build more robust and secure domestic 21
291	291	supply chains for critical minerals in sup-22
292	292	port of the purposes described in para-23
293	293	graph (1); 24
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297	297	‘‘(ii) providing recommendations with 1
298	298	respect to— 2
299	299	‘‘(I) increasing capacities for 3
300	300	mining, exploration, beneficiation, 4
301	301	processing, refinement, reuse, and re-5
302	302	cycling of critical minerals in the 6
303	303	United States to facilitate the envi-7
304	304	ronmentally responsible production of 8
305	305	domestic resources to meet national 9
306	306	critical mineral needs, in consultation 10
307	307	with Tribal and local communities; 11
308	308	‘‘(II) identifying how statutes, 12
309	309	regulations, and policies related to the 13
310	310	critical mineral supply chain, such as 14
311	311	stockpiling and development finance, 15
312	312	could be modified to accelerate envi-16
313	313	ronmentally responsible domestic and 17
314	314	international production of critical 18
315	315	minerals, in consultation with Indian 19
316	316	Tribes and local communities; 20
317	317	‘‘(III) strengthening the domestic 21
318	318	workforce to support growing critical 22
319	319	mineral supply chains with good-pay-23
320	320	ing, safe jobs in the United States; 24
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324	324	‘‘(IV) identifying alternative do-1
325	325	mestic sources to critical minerals 2
326	326	that the United States currently relies 3
327	327	on the People’s Republic of China or 4
328	328	other covered countries for mining, 5
329	329	processing, refining, and recycling, in-6
330	330	cluding the availability, capacity, cost, 7
331	331	and quality of those domestic alter-8
332	332	natives; 9
333	333	‘‘(V) identifying critical minerals 10
334	334	and critical mineral supply chains that 11
335	335	the United States can onshore, in 12
336	336	whole or in part, at a competitive 13
337	337	value and quality, for those minerals 14
338	338	and supply chains that the United 15
339	339	States relies on the People’s Republic 16
340	340	of China or other covered countries to 17
341	341	provide; 18
342	342	‘‘(VI) opportunities for the Fed-19
343	343	eral Government, Indian Tribes, and 20
344	344	State, local, and territorial govern-21
345	345	ments to mitigate risks to the national 22
346	346	security of the United States with re-23
347	347	spect to supply chains for critical min-24
348	348	erals that the United States currently 25
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352	352	relies on the People’s Republic of 1
353	353	China or other covered countries for 2
354	354	mining, processing, refining, and recy-3
355	355	cling; and 4
356	356	‘‘(VII) evaluating and integrating 5
357	357	the recommendations of the Critical 6
358	358	Minerals Subcommittee of the Na-7
359	359	tional Science and Technology Council 8
360	360	into the recommendations of the task 9
361	361	force; 10
362	362	‘‘(iii) prioritizing the recommendations 11
363	363	in clause (ii), taking into consideration eco-12
364	364	nomic costs and focusing on the critical 13
365	365	mineral supply chains with vulnerabilities 14
366	366	posing the most significant risks to the na-15
367	367	tional security of the United States; 16
368	368	‘‘(iv) recommending specific strate-17
369	369	gies, to be carried out in coordination with 18
370	370	the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 19
371	371	Commerce, to strengthen international 20
372	372	partnerships in furtherance of critical min-21
373	373	erals supply chain security with inter-22
374	374	national allies and partners, including a 23
375	375	strategy to collaborate with governments of 24
376	376	the allies and partners described in sub-25
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380	380	paragraph (B) to develop advanced mining, 1
381	381	refining, separation and processing tech-2
382	382	nologies; and 3
383	383	‘‘(v) other duties, as determined by 4
384	384	the Chairperson or Co-Chairpersons. 5
385	385	‘‘(B) A
386	386	LLIES AND PARTNERS .—The allies 6
387	387	and partners referred to in subparagraph (A) 7
388	388	include— 8
389	389	‘‘(i) countries participating in the 9
390	390	Quadrilateral Security Dialogue; 10
391	391	‘‘(ii) countries that are signatories to 11
392	392	the Abraham Accords; and 12
393	393	‘‘(iii) countries that are members of 13
394	394	the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 14
395	395	‘‘(C) R
396	396	EPORT.—The Chairperson or Co- 15
397	397	Chairpersons shall— 16
398	398	‘‘(i) not later than 60 days after the 17
399	399	date of enactment of this subsection, and 18
400	400	every 60 days thereafter until the require-19
401	401	ments under subsection (a) are satisfied, 20
402	402	brief the appropriate committees of Con-21
403	403	gress on the status of the compliance of 22
404	404	the President with completing the require-23
405	405	ments under that subsection; 24
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409	409	‘‘(ii) not later than 2 years after the 1
410	410	date of enactment of this subsection, sub-2
411	411	mit to the appropriate committees of Con-3
412	412	gress a report, which shall be submitted in 4
413	413	unclassified form, but may include a classi-5
414	414	fied annex, that describes any findings, 6
415	415	guidelines, and recommendations created 7
416	416	in performing the duties under subpara-8
417	417	graph (A); 9
418	418	‘‘(iii) not later than 120 days after 10
419	419	the date on which the Chairperson or Co- 11
420	420	Chairpersons submits the report under 12
421	421	clause (ii), publish that report in the Fed-13
422	422	eral Register, except that the Chairperson 14
423	423	or Co-Chairpersons shall redact informa-15
424	424	tion from the report that the Chairperson 16
425	425	or Co-Chairpersons determines could pose 17
426	426	a risk to the national security of the 18
427	427	United States by being publicly available; 19
428	428	and 20
429	429	‘‘(iv) brief the appropriate committees 21
430	430	of Congress twice per year. 22
431	431	‘‘(6) D
432	432	UPLICATION OF EFFORT .—The Chair-23
433	433	person or Co-Chairpersons, to the maximum extent 24
434	434	practicable, shall carry out the task force in a man-25
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438	438	ner that does not duplicate the efforts of other Fed-1
439	439	eral departments, agencies, or other entities. 2
440	440	‘‘(7) S
441	441	UNSET.—The task force shall terminate 3
442	442	on the date that is 90 days after the date on which 4
443	443	the task force completes the requirements under 5
444	444	paragraph (5)(C). 6
445	445	‘‘(8) N
446	446	O ADDITIONAL FUNDS .—No additional 7
447	447	funds are authorized to be appropriated for the pur-8
448	448	pose of carrying out this subsection.’’. 9
449	449	(b) GAO S
450	450	TUDY.— 10
451	451	(1) S
452	452	TUDY REQUIRED.—The Comptroller Gen-11
453	453	eral of the United States shall conduct a study ex-12
454	454	amining the Federal and State regulatory landscape 13
455	455	related to improving domestic supply chains for crit-14
456	456	ical minerals in the United States. 15
457	457	(2) R
458	458	EPORT.—Not later than 18 months after 16
459	459	the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 17
460	460	General of the United States shall submit to the ap-18
461	461	propriate committees of Congress a report that de-19
462	462	scribes the results of the study under paragraph (1). 20
463	463	(3) D
464	464	EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 21
465	465	(A) A
466	466	PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -22
467	467	GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of 23
468	468	Congress’’ means— 24
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472	472	(i) the Committees on Homeland Se-1
473	473	curity and Governmental Affairs, Energy 2
474	474	and Natural Resources, Armed Services, 3
475	475	Environment and Public Works, Com-4
476	476	merce, Science, and Transportation, Fi-5
477	477	nance, and Foreign Relations of the Sen-6
478	478	ate; and 7
479	479	(ii) the Committees on Oversight and 8
480	480	Government Reform, Natural Resources, 9
481	481	Armed Services, Ways and Means, Foreign 10
482	482	Affairs, and Energy and Commerce of the 11
483	483	House of Representatives. 12
484	484	(B) C
485	485	RITICAL MINERAL.—The term ‘‘crit-13
486	486	ical mineral’’ has the meaning given the term 14
487	487	‘‘critical material’’ in section 7002(a) of the 15
488	488	Energy Act of 2020 (30 U.S.C. 1606(a)). 16
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