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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-723
CRITICAL MINERAL CONSISTENCY ACT OF 2024
NOVEMBER 1, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 8446]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 8446) to amend the Energy Act of 2020 to include critical
materials in the definition of critical mineral, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2024.
SEC. 2. CRITICAL MATERIALS INCLUDED AS CRITICAL MINERALS.
Section 7002 of the Energy Act of 2020 (30 U.S.C. 1606) is amended-
(1) in subsection (a)(3)(A), to read as follows:
(A) IN GENERAL.-The term 'critical mineral' means-
(i) any mineral, element, substance, or material designated as crit-
ical by the Secretary under subsection (c); and
(ii) a critical material as determined by the Secretary of Energy
under paragraph (2)(A).; and
(2) in subsection (c)(5), by adding at the end the following:
(C) INCLUSION OF CRITICAL MATERIALS.-Not later than 45 days after the
date on which the Secretary of Energy determines a non-fuel mineral, ele-
ment, substance, or material to be a critical material under subsection
(a)(2)(A), the Secretary shall update the list of critical minerals published
under paragraph (3) to include such critical material..
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