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112TH CONGRESS REPT.112-583
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
NATIONAL STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS
PRODUCTION ACT OF 2012
JULY 9, 2012.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 4402]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4402) to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to more efficiently develop domestic sources of
the minerals and mineral materials of strategic and critical impor-
tance to United States economic and national security and manu-
facturing competitiveness, having considered the same, report fa-
vorably thereon with an amendment and recommend 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 National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production
Act of 2012.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The industrialization of China and India has driven demand for nonfuel
mineral commodities, sparking a period of resource nationalism exemplified by
China's reduction in exports of rare-earth elements necessary for telecommuni-
cations, military technologies, healthcare technologies, and conventional and re-
newable energy technologies.
(2) The availability of minerals and mineral materials are essential for eco-
nomic growth, national security, technological innovation, and the manufac-
turing and agricultural supply chain.
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