S.Amdt. 2412

SA 2412. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 855. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND
PRODUCTION OF CRITICAL AND STRATEGIC MINERALS
UNDER DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950.

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Defense
Production Act Fund under section 304 of the Defense
Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4534) $250,000,000 for
fiscal year 2025 for activities related to the development
and production of critical and strategic minerals within the
United States by the Department of Defense pursuant to
section 303 of that Act (50 U.S.C. 4533).
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