S.Amdt. 495

SA 495. Mr. ENZI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 B of title XIV, add the following:

SEC. 1412. REPORT RELATING TO RARE EARTH ELEMENTS.

Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Interior, shall
submit to Congress a report that assesses--
(1) the threat presented by the dependence of the United
States on rare earth elements produced in foreign countries;
and
(2) ways to revive and sustain the United States industrial
base with respect to such elements, specifically with respect
to--
(A) traditional mining of such elements;
(B) nontraditional corrosive extraction and refining of
such elements from ore and coal; and
(C) nontraditional noncorrosive extraction and refining of
such elements from ore and coal.
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