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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 5948. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle E of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1050. REPORT ON CRITICAL MINERALS FOR USE BY DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE.
Not later than October 1, 2026, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the
Senate and the House of Representatives a report that
includes—
(1) for each mineral on the most recent list of critical
minerals required by section 7002(c) of the Energy Act of
2020 (30 U.S.C. 1606(c))—
(A) an assessment of whether the mineral is an input
required for production of a material integral to the defense
industrial base;
(B) a description of the geographical dispersion of
deposits of the mineral, refining and processing facilities
for the mineral, and recycling facilities for the mineral;
and
(C) an assessment of the potential for byproduct recovery
of the mineral at existing mines by foreign countries, with
particular attention to portions of the supply chain that are
concentrated in countries of concern such as the People's
Republic of China;
(2) a description of strategic investments, loans and loan
guarantees, procurement policy reforms, grants, and other
methods available to the Secretary to accelerate materials
science, extraction and processing technologies, recycling,
and tailing and byproduct recovery of critical minerals in
the United States, and development of a mining workforce in
the United States, to reduce the dependence of the Department
of Defense on the People's Republic of China or other
countries of concern;
(3) an assessment of opportunities for strategic
international partnerships to increase the security of supply
chains for critical minerals; and
(4) an assessment of opportunities for the Secretary to
maximize recycling of decommissioned military waste to obtain
critical materials.