S.Amdt. 1579

SA 1579. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Mr. Burr, and Ms. Hassan)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502
proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new
Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research,
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical
supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title III of division F,
insert the following:

SEC. 63__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES
AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY COMPONENTS.

It is the sense of Congress that the Federal Government and
public and private institutions in the United States should
pursue a national strategy for the responsible sourcing of
electric vehicle batteries and electric vehicle battery
components that includes the following goals:
(1) Increasing the extraction and processing of critical
materials for electric vehicle batteries in the United
States.
(2) Increasing the recycling of electric vehicle batteries
in the United States.
(3) Preventing the use or procurement of electric vehicles
with batteries or battery components that are processed,
extracted, or manufactured in China.
(4) Preventing the use or procurement of electric vehicles
with batteries or battery components that are processed,
extracted, or manufactured using forced or child labor.

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(5) Increasing transparency from electric vehicle
manufacturers about where the critical materials for the
batteries in electric vehicles are extracted and processed.
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