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(c) AGREEMENTS.—The Director may enter into agree-
ments with, and to collect and expend funds or in-kind con-
tributions from, academic, Federal, State, or other tenants 
over the life of the facility described in subsection (a) for 
the purposes of— 
(1) facility planning; 
(2) design; 
(3) maintenance; 
(4) operation; or 
(5) facility improvements. 
(d) LEASES.—The Director may enter into a lease or 
other agreement with the academic partner with which the 
Director has entered into a cooperative agreement under 
subsection (a), at no cost to the Federal Government, to ob-
tain land on which to construct the facility described in 
that subsection for a term of not less than 99 years. 
(e) REPORTS.—The Director shall submit to Congress 
annual reports on— 
(1) the facility described in subsection (a); and 
(2) the authorities used under this section. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to carry out this section $167,000,000 for fiscal year 
2022, to remain available until expended.
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SEC. 40205. RARE EARTH ELEMENTS DEMONSTRATION FA-
CILITY. 
Section 7001 of the Energy Act of 2020 (42 U.S.C. 
13344) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘and annually 
thereafter while the facility established under sub-
section (c) remains in operation,’’ after ‘‘enactment of 
this Act,’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection 
(d); and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) RARE EARTH DEMONSTRATION FACILITY.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—In coordination with the 
research program under subsection (a)(1)(A), the Sec-
retary shall fund, through an agreement with an aca-
demic partner, the design, construction, and build-out 
of a facility to demonstrate the commercial feasibility 
of a full-scale integrated rare earth element extraction 
and separation facility and refinery. 
‘‘(2) FACILITY ACTIVITIES.—The facility estab-
lished under paragraph (1) shall— 
‘‘(A) provide environmental benefits through 
use of feedstock derived from acid mine drainage, 
mine waste, or other deleterious material;
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‘‘(B) separate mixed rare earth oxides into 
pure oxides of each rare earth element; 
‘‘(C) refine rare earth oxides into rare earth 
metals; and 
‘‘(D) provide for separation of rare earth 
oxides and refining into rare earth metals at a 
single site. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary to carry out this subsection $140,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2022, to remain available until ex-
pended.’’. 
SEC. 40206. CRITICAL MINERALS SUPPLY CHAINS AND RELI-
ABILITY. 
(a) DEFINITION OF CRITICAL MINERAL.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘critical mineral’’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 7002(a) of the Energy Act of 2020 (30 
U.S.C. 1606(a)). 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that— 
(1) critical minerals are fundamental to the 
economy, competitiveness, and security of the United 
States;
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(2) many critical minerals are only economic to 
recover when combined with the production of a host 
mineral; 
(3) to the maximum extent practicable, the crit-
ical mineral needs of the United States should be sat-
isfied by minerals responsibly produced and recycled 
in the United States; and 
(4) the Federal permitting process has been iden-
tified as an impediment to mineral production and 
the mineral security of the United States. 
(c) FEDERAL PERMITTING AND REVIEW PERFORM-
ANCE IMPROVEMENTS.—To improve the quality and timeli-
ness of Federal permitting and review processes with respect 
to critical mineral production on Federal land, the Sec-
retary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management, and the Secretary of Agri-
culture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretaries’’), to the max-
imum extent practicable, shall complete the Federal permit-
ting and review processes with maximum efficiency and ef-
fectiveness, while supporting vital economic growth, by— 
(1) establishing and adhering to timelines and 
schedules for the consideration of, and final decisions 
regarding, applications, operating plans, leases, li-
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censes, permits, and other use authorizations for crit-
ical mineral-related activities on Federal land; 
(2) establishing clear, quantifiable, and temporal 
permitting performance goals and tracking progress 
against those goals; 
(3) engaging in early collaboration among agen-
cies, project sponsors, and affected stakeholders— 
(A) to incorporate and address the interests 
of those parties; and 
(B) to minimize delays; 
(4) ensuring transparency and accountability by 
using cost-effective information technology to collect 
and disseminate information regarding individual 
projects and agency performance; 
(5) engaging in early and active consultation 
with State, local, and Tribal governments— 
(A) to avoid conflicts or duplication of ef-
fort; 
(B) to resolve concerns; and 
(C) to allow for concurrent, rather than se-
quential, reviews; 
(6) providing demonstrable improvements in the 
performance of Federal permitting and review proc-
esses, including lower costs and more timely decisions;
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(7) expanding and institutionalizing Federal 
permitting and review process improvements that 
have proven effective; 
(8) developing mechanisms to better commu-
nicate priorities and resolve disputes among agencies 
at the national, regional, State, and local levels; and 
(9) 
developing 
other 
practices, 
such 
as 
preapplication procedures. 
(d) REVIEW AND REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretaries shall sub-
mit to Congress a report that— 
(1) identifies additional measures, including reg-
ulatory and legislative proposals, if appropriate, that 
would increase the timeliness of permitting activities 
for the exploration and development of domestic crit-
ical minerals; 
(2) identifies options, including cost recovery 
paid by permit applicants, for ensuring adequate 
staffing and training of Federal entities and per-
sonnel responsible for the consideration of applica-
tions, operating plans, leases, licenses, permits, and 
other use authorizations for critical mineral-related 
activities on Federal land; 
(3) quantifies the period of time typically re-
quired to complete each step associated with the devel-