S.Amdt. 5367

SA 5367. Mr. CRAMER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5194 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill H.R. 5376, to
provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title V, add the following:

SEC. 5030_. PERMITTING AND REVIEW PROCESSES FOR DOMESTIC
HARDROCK MINERAL PRODUCTION.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) the United States is not only reliant on foreign
sources for many of the raw materials needed for the economic
and national

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security of the United States, but is also attracting a
decreasing share of global investment in the raw materials
sector, a sector important to the economic and national
security of the United States; and
(2) that trends of increased reliance on foreign sources
for raw materials and decreasing global investment in the
domestic raw materials sector have serious and negative
implications for the domestic mineral supply chains necessary
for technological innovation, modern infrastructure, and
national security.
(b) Permitting.--The Secretary of the Interior, the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the
Chief of the Forest Service shall work collaboratively to
reverse the trends described in subsection (a)(2) by--
(1) streamlining permitting and review processes to ensure
that all necessary use authorizations for domestic hardrock
mineral production are completed not later than 2 years after
receipt of the applicable request or application; and
(2) enhancing access to all hardrock mineral resources in
order to increase discovery, production, and domestic
refining of critical minerals by--
(A) evaluating and, where appropriate, reversing prior
withdrawals from location, entry, and patent under the mining
laws; and
(B) ensuring that future withdrawals from location, entry,
and patent under the mining laws can only occur if--
(i) updated geological assessments have been completed;
(ii) the Governors of relevant States have been consulted;
and
(iii) the acreage of any single withdrawal does not exceed
5,000 acres.
(c) Rulemaking.--The Chief of the Forest Service shall
revise all relevant regulations of the Forest Service
governing hardrock mineral production on Federal land in
order to ensure that those regulations are consistent with--
(1) the requirements of this section; and
(2) relevant regulations of the Bureau of Land Management.
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