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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. 860F

Sec. 860F. Critical and rare earth mineral supply chain study

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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Resilience, in coordination with the Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Energy, and the Director of the United States Geological Survey, shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services and Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a report on the feasibility of reshoring domestic critical and rare earth mineral mining and production. The report required under subsection
(a)shall include— an identification of the strategic and critical materials used by the Department of Defense; an assessment of the reliability of the domestic supply chains for critical and rare earth minerals and the reliance for such critical and rare earth minerals on sources that are located in People’s Republic of China or related to or subject to the control of People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party; an identification of the domestic and international sources for the strategic and critical materials identified under paragraph (1); an identification of domestic locations with existing commercial manufacturing interest that are verified as containing large supplies of strategic and critical materials identified under paragraph (1); a strategy to reshore critical and rare earth mineral production to the United States; and a plan to implement the strategy required by paragraph (5), including a timeline for such implementation. In this section, the term strategic and critical materials has the meaning given such term in section 12 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act ( 50 U.S.C. 98h-3 ).
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