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; 
(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) 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, ex-
traction, and industrial production, with a particular 
focus on the problem of attracting and maintaining 
high-quality professionals for maintaining an ade-
quate supply of energy critical elements; and 
(7) 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 2015’’; 
(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) 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); 
(F) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 
paragraph (2); and 
(G) by amending paragraph (2), as redes-
ignated, 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 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’’. 
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(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—The matter before para-
graph (1) of section 4 of such Act (30 U.S.C. 1603) is 
amended— 
(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. 202. REPEAL. 
The National Critical Materials Act of 1984 (30 
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) is repealed. 
Æ 
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