Sec. 104. Required collaboration
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In carrying out the activities under this title, the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall coordinate the activities of the Center and the program established by section 103 with relevant Federal agencies and departments to leverage existing activities across the United States Government to strengthen the critical materials supply chain of the United States, including exchange of information regarding the United States critical materials supply chain, to the extent consistent with the protection of information under other applicable authorities.
Such relevant Federal agencies and departments shall include— the Department of Agriculture; the Department of Defense; the Department of Energy; the Department of Health and Human Services; the Department of Homeland Security; the Department of the Interior; the Department of Labor; the Department of the Treasury; the Export-Import Bank of the United States; the United States International Development Finance Corporation; the White House Council of Environmental Quality; the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; the White House Office of the United States Trade Representative; and other Federal agencies and departments that the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the activities in this title.
Not later than 4 years after the date of the disbursement of the first award under section 103, the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce, in consultation with the Inspector General of the Department of State, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report containing the results of an audit of whether the Secretary has sufficiently carried out the interagency coordination activities required by subsection
(a)and consulted with the Secretary of State as required under this title to support the development of secure critical material supply chains in the interest of the national, energy, and economic security of the United States.