# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001576873
**File Stem:** 0000000000-23-000987
**Filing Date:** 2023-1
**Character Count:** 8610
**Document Hash:** 846d88028fa8fb5fa3ee9ee800148260
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000000000-23-000987

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: UPLOAD

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230131

**FILED FOR**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001576873
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** METAL MINING [1000]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 331227980
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** NV
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0630

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** UPLOAD

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 401 S RYLAND STREET, SUITE 138
- **CITY:** RENO
- **STATE:** NV
- **ZIP:** 89502
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 775-473-4744

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 401 S RYLAND STREET, SUITE 138
- **CITY:** RENO
- **STATE:** NV
- **ZIP:** 89502

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** AMERICAN BATTERY METALS CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20190515

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Oroplata Resources, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20130514

## Text-Extract

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United States securities and exchange commission logo

                            January 31, 2023

       Kimberly Eckert
       Chief Financial Officer
       American Battery Technology Company
       100 Washington Street, Suite 100
       Reno, NV 89503

                                                        Re: American Battery
Technology Company
                                                            Form 10-K for the
Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022
                                                            Filed September 12,
2022
                                                            File No. 000-55088

       Dear Kimberly Eckert:

              We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. In
some of our
       comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your
       disclosure.

              Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

       Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022

       Item 1. Business
       Industry Collaborations, page 7

   1.                                                   You disclose that you
along with Dupont Water Solutions were awarded a $4.5 million
                                                        competitive grant from
the US Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office
                                                        and at page 6 that you
also received, as a co-grantee, a $2 million grant award from the
                                                        US Advanced Battery
Consortium in October 2021. Disclosure in your most recent Form
                                                        10-Q appears to
indicate that you have only received or were entitled to receive $0.3
                                                        million of these
amounts as of the quarter ended September 30, 2022. Please address the
                                                        following points:

                                                              Clarify the
amounts you have received for each of these grants for the year ended
                                                            June 30, 2022 and
the quarter ended September 30, 2022 and to date,
 Kimberly Eckert
American Battery Technology Company
January 31, 2023
Page 2

                Disclose where the amounts received, if any, are captured in
your statement of cash
              flows, and
                For each of these grants, disclose the total amounts that you
are entitled to and any
              conditions or requirements that must be fulfilled to receive
these amounts.
2.       We note disclosure in two Form 8-Ks filed on October 21, 2022 and
November 17, 2022
         that you, in collaboration with grant partners DuPont Water Solutions,
University of
         Nevada, Reno, and Argonne National Laboratory, were awarded $57
million towards a
         project from the U.S. Department of Energy and a $10 million grant
under the Bipartisan
         Infrastructure Law. Explain how these grants are related, and for each
of these grants,
         disclose the amounts that ABTC is entitled to and any conditions or
requirements that
         must be fulfilled to receive these amounts.
        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.

       You may contact Joanna Lam, Staff Accountant at 202-551-3476 or Craig
Arakawa,
Branch Chief at 202-551-3650 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial
statements and related matters.

FirstName LastNameKimberly Eckert                Sincerely,
Comapany NameAmerican Battery Technology Company
                                                 Division of Corporation
Finance
January 31, 2023 Page 2                          Office of Energy &
Transportation
FirstName LastName

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DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

January 31, 2023

Kimberly Eckert
Chief Financial Officer
American Battery Technology Company
100 Washington Street, Suite 100
Reno, NV 89503

**Re: American Battery Technology Company**
**Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022**
**Filed September 12, 2022**
**File No. 000-55088**

Dear Kimberly Eckert:

We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.

Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.

After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2022

Item 1. Business

Industry Collaborations, page 7

1. You disclose that you along with Dupont Water Solutions were awarded a $4.5 million competitive grant from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office and at page 6 that you also received, as a co-grantee, a $2 million grant award from the US Advanced Battery Consortium in October 2021. Disclosure in your most recent Form 10-Q appears to indicate that you have only received or were entitled to receive $0.3 million of these amounts as of the quarter ended September 30, 2022. Please address the following points:

- Clarify the amounts you have received for each of these grants for the year ended June 30, 2022 and the quarter ended September 30, 2022 and to date,

Kimberly Eckert
American Battery Technology Company
January 31, 2023
Page 2

- Disclose where the amounts received, if any, are captured in your statement of cash flows, and
- For each of these grants, disclose the total amounts that you are entitled to and any conditions or requirements that must be fulfilled to receive these amounts.

2. We note disclosure in two Form 8-Ks filed on October 21, 2022 and November 17, 2022 that you, in collaboration with grant partners DuPont Water Solutions, University of Nevada, Reno, and Argonne National Laboratory, were awarded $57 million towards a project from the U.S. Department of Energy and a $10 million grant under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Explain how these grants are related, and for each of these grants, disclose the amounts that ABTC is entitled to and any conditions or requirements that must be fulfilled to receive these amounts.

We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff.

You may contact Joanna Lam, Staff Accountant at 202-551-3476 or Craig Arakawa, Branch Chief at 202-551-3650 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters.

Sincerely,

Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation