dustry, institutions of higher education, Department 
of Energy national laboratories, professional and 
technical societies, and other entities, as determined 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 8. AMENDMENTS TO NATIONAL MATERIALS AND MIN-
ERALS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOP-
MENT ACT OF 1980. 
(a) PROGRAM PLAN.—Section 5 of the National Ma-
terials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development 
Act of 1980 (30 U.S.C. 1604) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘date of enactment of this Act’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘date of enact-
ment of the Rare Earths Supply Chain Technology 
and Resources Transformation Act of 2011’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘Federal Co-
ordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and 
Technology’’ and inserting ‘‘National Science and 
Technology Council,’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the Federal Emergency’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘Agency, and’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘appropriate shall’’ and in-
serting ‘‘appropriate, shall’’; 
(C) by striking paragraph (1); 
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(D) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘in the 
case’’ and all that follows through ‘‘sub-
section,’’; 
(E) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (1); and 
(F) by striking paragraph (3) and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(2) assess the adequacy, accessibility, and sta-
bility of the supply of materials necessary to main-
tain national security, economic well-being, and in-
dustrial production.’’; 
(4) by striking subsections (d) and (e); and 
(5) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (d). 
(b) POLICY.—Section 3 of such Act (30 U.S.C. 1602) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Congress declares that it’’ 
and inserting ‘‘It’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘The Congress further declares 
that implementation’’ and inserting ‘‘Implementa-
tion’’. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—Section 4 of such Act (30 
U.S.C. 1603) is amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘For the purpose’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘declares that the’’ and inserting 
‘‘The’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘departments and agencies,’’ 
and inserting ‘‘departments and agencies to imple-
ment the policies set forth in section 3’’. 
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ALLOY.—The terms ‘‘alloy’’ means a partial 
or complete solid solution of one or more elements 
in a metallic matrix. 
(2) ALLOYING.—The term ‘‘alloying’’ means the 
melting of metal to create a metallic matrix. 
(3) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Natural Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate. 
(4) PROCESS.—The term ‘‘process’’, in the case 
of a rare earth oxide, means the conversion of the 
oxide into usable rare earth metals and specialty al-
loys and powders for domestic magnet and other 
manufacturing. 
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(5) RARE
EARTH.—The term ‘‘rare earth’’ 
means any of the following chemical elements in any 
of their physical forms or chemical combinations: 
(A) Scandium. 
(B) Yttrium. 
(C) Lanthanum. 
(D) Cerium. 
(E) Praseodymium. 
(F) Neodymium. 
(G) Promethium. 
(H) Samarium. 
(I) Europium. 
(J) Gadolinium. 
(K) Terbium. 
(L) Dysprosium. 
(M) Holmium. 
(N) Erbium. 
(O) Thulium. 
(P) Ytterbium. 
(Q) Lutetium. 
Æ 
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