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Union Calendar No. 224 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3617 
[Report No. 119–268] 
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 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 
Additional sponsors: Mr. DUNN of Florida and Mrs. HOUCHIN 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 29, 2025] 
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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. 
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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 Crit-
ical Minerals Supply Act’’. 
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 resource— 
‘‘(1) that is essential to the energy sector and en-
ergy 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 reliable 
supply of critical energy resources that are essential 
to the energy security of the United States.’’; and 
(3) in section 203(a), by adding at the end the 
following: 
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‘‘(12) Functions that relate to securing the sup-
ply of critical energy resources, including identifying 
and mitigating the effects of a disruption of such sup-
ply on— 
‘‘(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 en-
ergy 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 de-
velopment of energy technologies and the supply 
of energy; 
(B) the critical energy resource supply 
chain of the United States; 
(C) the vulnerability of such supply chain; 
(D) the diversity of domestic critical energy 
resource supply chains in the United States, in-
cluding the extent to which such diversity is suf-
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ficient to prevent monopolistic behavior, a single 
point of failure, or market manipulation; 
(E) capacity constraints on the domestic 
production of critical energy resources, including 
any such constraint caused by a shortage of ma-
terial or labor; 
(F) Federal regulations affecting the domes-
tic production or importation of critical energy 
resources; 
(G) 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 
(H) how adversarial nations seek to exploit 
critical energy resource markets to undermine 
investment in the United States, which may in-
clude the extent to which adversarial nations em-
ploy anti-competitive practices, price manipula-
tion, 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 
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