I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1022 
To develop an energy critical elements program, to amend the National 
Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2013 
Mr. SWALWELL of California introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
A BILL 
To develop an energy critical elements program, to amend 
the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research 
and Development Act of 1980, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Securing Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs 
Act of 2013’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
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TITLE I—ENERGY CRITICAL ELEMENTS 
Sec. 101. Energy critical elements program. 
Sec. 102. Policy Coordination Committee. 
Sec. 103. Rare earth materials loan guarantee program. 
TITLE II—NATIONAL MATERIALS AND MINERALS POLICY, 
RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT 
Sec. 201. Amendments to National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research 
and Development Act of 1980. 
Sec. 202. Repeal. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate Congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Science, Space, 
and Technology of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Trans-
portation and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate. 
(2) CENTER.—The term ‘‘Center’’ means the 
Research and Development Information Center es-
tablished in section 101(b). 
(3) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 
means the Department of Energy. 
(4) ENERGY
CRITICAL
ELEMENT.—The term 
‘‘energy critical element’’ means any of a class of 
chemical elements that are critical to one or more 
new, energy-related technologies such that a short-
age of such element would significantly inhibit large- 
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scale deployment of technologies that produce, trans-
mit, store, or conserve energy. 
(5) PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘program’’ means 
the program of research, development, demonstra-
tion, and commercial application to assure the long- 
term, secure, and sustainable supply of energy crit-
ical elements sufficient to satisfy the national secu-
rity, economic well-being, and industrial production 
needs of the United States established in section 
101(a). 
(6) RARE EARTH MATERIALS.—The term ‘‘rare 
earth materials’’ means any of the following chem-
ical elements in any of their physical forms or chem-
ical combinations: 
(A) Scandium. 
(B) Yttrium. 
(C) Lanthanum. 
(D) Cerium. 
(E) Praseodymium. 
(F) Neodymium. 
(G) Promethium. 
(H) Samarium. 
(I) Europium. 
(J) Gadolinium. 
(K) Terbium. 
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(L) Dysprosium. 
(M) Holmium. 
(N) Erbium. 
(O) Thulium. 
(P) Ytterbium. 
(Q) Lutetium. 
(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Energy. 
TITLE I—ENERGY CRITICAL 
ELEMENTS 
SEC. 101. ENERGY CRITICAL ELEMENTS PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
Department a program of research, development, 
demonstration, and commercial application to assure 
the long-term, secure, and sustainable supply of en-
ergy critical elements sufficient to satisfy the na-
tional security, economic well-being, and industrial 
production needs of the United States. 
(2) PROGRAM ACTIVITIES.—The program shall 
support activities to— 
(A) better characterize and quantify virgin 
stocks of energy critical elements using theo-
retical geochemical research; 
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