IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3617 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 12, 2026 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to 
secure the supply of critical energy resources, including 
critical minerals and other materials, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing America’s 
Critical Minerals Supply Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OR-
GANIZATION ACT. 
The Department of Energy Organization Act (42 
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 2, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(d) As used in sections 102(20) and 203(a)(12), the 
term ‘critical energy resource’ means any energy re-
source— 
‘‘(1) that is essential to the energy sector and 
energy systems of the United States; and 
‘‘(2) the supply chain of which is vulnerable to 
disruption.’’; 
(2) in section 102, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(20) To ensure there is an adequate and reli-
able supply of critical energy resources that are es-
sential to the energy security of the United States.’’; 
and 
(3) in section 203(a), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(12) Functions that relate to securing the sup-
ply of critical energy resources, including identifying 
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and mitigating the effects of a disruption of such 
supply on— 
‘‘(A) the development and use of energy 
technologies; and 
‘‘(B) the operation of energy systems.’’. 
SEC. 3. SECURING CRITICAL ENERGY RESOURCE SUPPLY 
CHAINS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the requirements 
of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 
7101 et seq.), the Secretary of Energy, in consultation 
with the appropriate Federal agencies, representatives of 
the energy sector, States, and other stakeholders, shall— 
(1) conduct ongoing assessments of— 
(A) energy resource criticality, based on 
the importance of critical energy resources to 
the development of energy technologies and the 
supply of energy; 
(B) the critical energy resource supply 
chain of the United States; 
(C) the vulnerability of such supply chain; 
(D) the diversity of domestic critical en-
ergy resource supply chains in the United 
States, including the extent to which such di-
versity is sufficient to prevent monopolistic be-
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havior, a single point of failure, or market ma-
nipulation; 
(E) capacity constraints on the domestic 
production of critical energy resources, includ-
ing any such constraint caused by a shortage of 
material or labor; 
(F) Federal regulations affecting the do-
mestic production or importation of critical en-
ergy resources; 
(G) how the energy security of the United 
States is affected by the reliance of the United 
States on importation of critical energy re-
sources; and 
(H) how adversarial nations seek to exploit 
critical energy resource markets to undermine 
investment in the United States, which may in-
clude the extent to which adversarial nations 
employ anti-competitive practices, price manipu-
lation, or human rights abuses in critical energy 
resource production and exportation; 
(2) facilitate development of strategies to 
strengthen critical energy resource supply chains in 
the United States, including by— 
(A) diversifying the sources of the supply 
of critical energy resources; and 
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(B) increasing domestic production, sepa-
ration, and processing of critical energy re-
sources; 
(3) develop substitutes and alternatives to crit-
ical energy resources; and 
(4) improve technology that reuses and recycles 
critical energy resources. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than two years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall 
submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on the sta-
tus of the assessments under subsection (a)(1), including 
a description of any regulation prescribed, guidance 
issued, or other action taken as a result of such an assess-
ment. 
(c) CRITICAL ENERGY RESOURCE DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘critical energy resource’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 2 of the Department of 
Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101). 
Passed the House of Representatives February 11, 
2026. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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