S.Amdt. 2796

SA 2796. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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, the following:

SEC. 855. REPORT ON DOMESTIC SHORTFALLS OF INDUSTRIAL
RESOURCES, MATERIALS, AND CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY
ITEMS ESSENTIAL TO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the
Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House
of Representatives a report that--
(1) identifies current or projected domestic shortfalls of
industrial resources, materials, or critical technology items
essential to the national defense;
(2) assesses strategic and critical materials for which the
United States relies on the People's Republic of China as the
sole or primary source; and
(3) includes recommendations relating to the use of
authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50
U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) to make investments to reduce the
reliance of the United States on the People's Republic of
China for strategic and critical materials.
(b) Form of Report.--The report required by subsection (a)
shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a
classified annex.
(c) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``critical
technology item'', ``industrial resources'', ``materials'',
and ``national defense'' have the meanings given those terms
in section 702 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50
U.S.C. 4552).
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