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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3617 
To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to secure the supply 
of critical energy resources, including critical minerals and other mate-
rials, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 29, 2025 
Mr. JAMES (for himself, Mr. OBERNOLTE, and Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce 
A BILL 
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, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing America’s 
Critical Minerals Supply Act’’. 
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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 
and mitigating the effects of a disruption of such 
supply on— 
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‘‘(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 sup-
ply of energy; 
(B) the critical energy resource supply 
chain of the United States; 
(C) the vulnerability of such supply chain; 
(D) 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 
(E) how adversarial nations seek to exploit 
critical energy resource markets to undermine 
investment in the United States, which may in-
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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 
(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) CRITICAL ENERGY RESOURCE DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘critical energy resource’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 2 of the Department 
of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101). 
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