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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2888 
To require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to incentivize 
investment in facilities that carry out the metallurgy of rare earth ele-
ments and the production of finished rare earth products, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2023 
Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Education and the Workforce, and 
Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program 
to incentivize investment in facilities that carry out the 
metallurgy of rare earth elements and the production 
of finished rare earth products, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Obtaining National 
and Secure Homeland Operations for Rare Earth Manu-
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facturing Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘ONSHORE Manufac-
turing Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Select Committee on Intelligence, 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources, the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation, the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, 
the Committee on Appropriations, the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-
fairs, the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on 
Finance of the Senate; and 
(B) the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
the Committee on Armed Services, the Com-
mittee on Science, Space, and Technology, the 
Committee on Appropriations, the Committee 
on Financial Services, the Committee on Home-
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land Security, and the Committee on Ways and 
Means of the House of Representatives. 
(2) COVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered en-
tity’’ means a private entity, a consortium of private 
entities, or a consortium of public and private enti-
ties with a demonstrated ability to substantially fi-
nance, construct, expand, or technologically upgrade 
a covered facility. 
(3) COVERED
FACILITY.—The term ‘‘covered 
facility’’ means a facility located in a State that car-
ries out the metallurgy of rare earth elements for 
the production of finished rare earth products. 
(4) COVERED INCENTIVE.—The term ‘‘covered 
incentive’’ means— 
(A) an incentive offered by a Federal, 
State, local, or Tribal governmental entity to a 
covered entity for the purposes of— 
(i) constructing within the jurisdiction 
of the governmental entity a covered facil-
ity; or 
(ii) expanding or technologically up-
grading an existing facility within that ju-
risdiction to be a covered facility; and 
(B) a workforce-related incentive (includ-
ing a grant agreement relating to workforce 
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