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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 3838 (Engrossed in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 816

Sec. 816. Additional materials prohibited from non-allied foreign nations

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Section 4872 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— by redesignating subsection
(f)as subsection (h); by inserting after subsection
(e)the following new subsection: The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a notice of a designation under subsection (h)(1)(F) not later than 30 days prior to the date on which such designation is published in the Federal Register. The designation of a mineral, material, substrate, metal, or alloy as a covered material under subsection (h)(1)(F)— shall take effect on the date that is one year after the date on which the Secretary of Defense publishes a notice of such designation in the Federal Register and submits to the congressional defense committees the notice required under paragraph
(1)with respect to such notice; and shall apply only with respect to contracts or other agreements entered into after the date on which such designation takes effect under subparagraph (A). ; and in subsection (h), as so redesignated— in subparagraph (D), by striking and at the end; in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: any other mineral, material, substrate, metal, or alloy designated by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to a determination by the Secretary of Defense that such designation is in the interest of national security. .
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