S.Amdt. 1791

SA 1791. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Barrasso)
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 end of title III of division F, add the following:

SEC. 63__. ROYALTY RATE ON SODIUM PRODUCED ON FEDERAL LAND.

Notwithstanding section 102(a)(9) of the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701(a)(9)),
section 24 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 262), and
the terms of any lease under that Act, beginning on the date
of enactment of this Act, the royalty rate on the quantity or
gross value of the output of sodium compounds and related
products at the point of shipment to market from Federal land
shall be 2 percent.
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