Sec. 102. National center for secure and transparent critical material supply chains
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The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State, and through the collaboration required under section 104, shall establish a national center (in this title referred to as the Center ) in the Department of Commerce to support the security and resilience of the critical material supply chain by advancing policy recommendations, best practices, and other activities to create a critical material supply chain with the following characteristics: Security and resiliency against supply chain disruptions.
Environmental sustainability. Workforce security and safety. Innovativeness. The functions of the Center shall be as follows: To study and report on emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges of the critical material supply chain to provide the Federal Government a robust understanding of such supply chain, including— market dynamics; pricing and availability dynamics; and transparency and traceability. To study, report, and provide recommendations to the Federal Government on current and future policies that the United States and the partners and allies of the United States should evaluate to promote the security and resilience of the critical material supply chain.
To promote environmental sustainability in the critical material supply chain by— disseminating information on relevant best practices; and providing technical assistance and other resources, as determined by the head of the Center as appropriate and not duplicative of other technical assistance and resources provided by the Federal Government, to such industry to support the adoption of— environmental protection practices, including the use of emerging technologies, to prevent environmental degradation within extraction processes; industrial decarbonization practices; innovative downstream applications of critical materials, including qualified substitutes to decrease reliance on supply chains vulnerable to foreign disruptions; and practices that improve the ability of critical materials to be recycled and reused to support circular economies (as defined in section 2 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act ( 33 U.S.C. 4201 )).
To strengthen the workforce for the critical material supply chain industry, including through education and workforce pathways and the dissemination of best practices, in collaboration with the Secretary of Labor, that ensure wage rates are determined by free bargaining between labor and management. To strengthen the innovation ecosystem related to the critical material supply chain industry. To collaborate with allies of the United States to support the development of resilient supply chains for critical materials, including through creating innovative partnerships with such allies and other organizations.
The head of the Center shall make publicly available on a website of the Center each report created by the Center pursuant to paragraph
(1)or
(2)of subsection (b).
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