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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1314 

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a global rare earth element 

assessment, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 1, 2011 

Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia (for himself, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 

LUJA ́N, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. HOLT, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. MICHAUD, and Mr. ELLISON) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a global 

rare earth element assessment, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Resource Assessment 

5 of Rare Earths Act of 2011’’ or the ‘‘RARE Act of 2011’’. 

6 SEC. 2. GLOBAL RARE EARTH ELEMENT RESOURCE AS7 SESSMENT. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after the 

9 date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the InteVerDate Mar 15 2010 01:47 Apr 05, 2011 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1314.IH H1314

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1 rior, acting through the Director of the United States Geo2 logical Survey and in coordination with the heads of na3 tional geological surveys where available, shall submit to 

4 the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Rep5 resentatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 

6 Resources of the Senate a comprehensive report on global 

7 rare earth element resources and potential future global 

8 supply. Such report shall use the best available data and 

9 include— 

10 (1) the identity and quantity of individual rare 

11 earth elements in known deposits; 

12 (2) models demonstrating the geologic condi13 tions necessary for the formation, and the variability 

14 in composition, of the most significant deposits of 

15 rare earth elements; 

16 (3) regional assessments of the likelihood of oc17 currence of undiscovered deposits and an estimate of 

18 the quantity of rare earth elements thought to be 

19 present; 

20 (4) recommendations, developed in consultation 

21 with other appropriate agencies, on areas of need for 

22 future geologic research related to— 

23 (A) rare earth elements; and 


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1 (B) other minerals that are critical based 

2 on the impact of a potential supply restriction 

3 and the likelihood of a supply restriction; and 

4 (5) analysis, developed with participation by the 

5 National Minerals Information Center and in con6 sultation with appropriate agencies, of the rare earth 

7 elements supply chain and associated processes and 

8 products, including mining, processing, separation, 

9 metal production, alloy production, and manufac10 turing of products sold to end users. 

11 (b) RARE EARTH ELEMENT.—In this section the 

12 term ‘‘rare earth element’’ means— 

13 (1) any element in the lanthanides group of ele14 ments, which consists of lanthanum, cerium, praseo15 dymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, euro16 pium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, 

17 erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium; 

18 (2) yttrium; and 

19 (3) scandium. 

20 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

21 authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Inte22 rior to carry out this section $10,000,000 for the period 

23 of fiscal years 2012 through 2014. 

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