(A) serve as the repository for scientific 
and technical data generated by the research 
and development activities funded under this 
section; 
(B) assist scientists and engineers in mak-
ing the fullest possible use of the Center’s data 
holdings; 
(C) seek and incorporate other information 
on energy critical elements to enhance the Cen-
ter’s utility for program participants and other 
users; and 
(D) provide advice to the Secretary con-
cerning the program. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this Act 
the following sums: 
(A) For fiscal year 2020, $30,000,000. 
(B) For fiscal year 2021, $31,500,000. 
(C) For fiscal year 2022, $33,075,000. 
(D) For fiscal year 2023, $34,728,750. 
(E) For fiscal year 2024, $36,465,188. 
(2) AVAILABILITY.—Such sums shall remain 
available until expended. 
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SEC. 102. SUPPLY OF ENERGY CRITICAL ELEMENTS. 
The President, acting through the Critical Material 
Supply Chain Subcommittee of the Committee on Envi-
ronment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Council, shall— 
(1) coordinate the actions of applicable Federal 
agencies to promote an adequate and stable supply 
of energy critical elements necessary to maintain na-
tional security, economic well-being, and industrial 
production with appropriate attention to a long-term 
balance between resource production, energy use, a 
healthy environment, natural resources conservation, 
and social needs; 
(2) identify energy critical elements and estab-
lish scenario modeling systems for supply problems 
of energy critical elements; 
(3) establish a mechanism for the coordination 
and evaluation of Federal programs with energy crit-
ical element needs, including Federal programs in-
volving research and development, in a manner that 
complements related efforts carried out by the pri-
vate sector and other domestic and international 
agencies and organizations; 
(4) promote and encourage private enterprise in 
the development of an economically sound and stable 
domestic energy critical elements supply chain; 
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(5) promote and encourage the recycling of en-
ergy critical elements, taking into account the logis-
tics, economic viability, environmental sustainability, 
and research and development needs for completing 
the recycling process; 
(6) promote and encourage the development of 
substitute materials and processes that lower the de-
pendence of the United States on energy critical ele-
ments; 
(7) assess the need for, and make recommenda-
tions concerning, the availability and adequacy of 
the supply of technically trained personnel necessary 
for energy critical elements research, development, 
extraction, and industrial production, with a par-
ticular focus on the problem of attracting and main-
taining high-quality professionals for maintaining an 
adequate supply of energy critical elements; and 
(8) report to the appropriate Congressional 
committees on activities and findings under this sec-
tion. 
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TITLE II—NATIONAL MATERIALS 
AND MINERALS POLICY, RE-
SEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT 
SEC. 201. AMENDMENTS TO NATIONAL MATERIALS AND 
MINERALS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVEL-
OPMENT 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 Securing Energy Critical Elements and 
American Jobs Act of 2019’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘Federal 
Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and 
Technology’’ and inserting ‘‘National Science and 
Technology Council’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘the Federal Emer-
gency’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Agen-
cy, and’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘appropriate shall’’ 
and inserting ‘‘appropriate, shall’’; 
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(B) by striking paragraph (1); 
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘in the 
case’’ and all that follows through ‘‘sub-
section,’’; 
(D) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and 
(3) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; and 
(E) by amending paragraph (2), as so re-
designated, to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) assess the adequacy and stability of the 
supply of materials necessary to maintain national 
security, economic well-being, and industrial produc-
tion.’’; 
(4) by striking subsection (d); and 
(5) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively. 
(b) POLICY.—Section 3 of the National Materials and 
Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980 
(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 the National 
Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development 
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Act of 1980 (30 U.S.C. 1603) is amended, in the matter 
preceding paragraph (1)— 
(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 policy specified in section 3’’. 
SEC. 202. CONFORMING REPEAL. 
The National Critical Materials Act of 1984 (30 
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is repealed. 
Æ 
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