S.Amdt. 501

SA 501. Mr. CRUZ 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. DEVELOPMENT OF RARE EARTH MINERALS IN THE UNITED
STATES.

(a) Grants.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense may award grants
for the development of rare earth mining activities in the
United States.
(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized
to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be
necessary to award grants under paragraph (1).
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the President, acting through the Defense Logistics Agency,
should use the full authority provided under section 15 of
the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50
U.S.C. 98h-6) to ensure that the United States has sufficient
stockpile resources of rare earth minerals as required for
the national defense.
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