S.Amdt. 1966

SA 1966. Mr. HAGERTY 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 subtitle B of title II of division E, add
the following:

SEC. 5214. MODIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC SOURCE
UNDER DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950.

(a) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate
that--
(1) rare earth elements are among the materials the United
States domestic industrial base requires to produce modern
high-tech devices;
(2) the People's Republic of China possesses more than 80
percent of the world's capacity to process raw ore for rare
earth elements, and is the world's biggest reserve, producer,
consumer, processor, importer, and exporter of rare earth
elements;
(3) Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark in
North America, sits on vast, untapped reserves of critical
minerals, including rare earth elements; and
(4) rare earth elements are critically important inputs for
the United States domestic industrial base.
(b) Modification of Definition.--Section 702(7)(A) of the
Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4552(7)(A)) is
amended by striking ``or Canada'' and inserting ``, Canada,
or Greenland''.
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