Title: National Security Through America’s Resources and Permitting Reform Act of 2020
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
National Security Through America's Resources and Permitting Reform Act of 2020
This bill revises the federal permitting approval process for projects related to the extraction, recovery, or processing of critical minerals, rare-earth elements, microfine carbon, or carbon from coal, coal waste, coal processing waste, pre-or post-combustion coal byproducts, or acid mine drainage from coal mines for the purposes of securing the economic and national security of the United States.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8198 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8198

  To amend the FAST Act to add activities relating to the extraction, 
  recovery, or processing of certain materials to the definition of a 
               critical project, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2020

   Mr. Barr introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the FAST Act to add activities relating to the extraction, 
  recovery, or processing of certain materials to the definition of a 
               critical project, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Security Through America's 
Resources and Permitting Reform Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PERMIT PROCESS FOR PROJECTS RELATING TO EXTRACTION, RECOVERY, 
              OR PROCESSING OF CRITICAL MATERIALS.

    (a) Definition of Covered Project.--Section 41001(6)(A) of the FAST 
Act (42 U.S.C. 4370m(6)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i)(III), by striking ``; or'' and inserting 
        a semicolon;
            (2) in clause (ii)(II), by striking the period and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) is related to the extraction, 
                        recovery, or processing from coal, coal waste, 
                        coal processing waste, pre-or post-combustion 
                        coal byproducts, or acid mine drainage from 
                        coal mines of one of the following materials 
                        for the purposes of securing the economic and 
                        national security of the United States:
                                    ``(I) Critical minerals (as such 
                                term is defined in Executive Order 
                                13817 (30 U.S.C. 1601 note)).
                                    ``(II) Rare earth elements.
                                    ``(III) Microfine carbon or carbon 
                                from coal.''.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Committees 
on Energy and Natural Resources and Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate and the Committees on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce of the House 
of Representatives a report evaluating the timeliness of implementation 
of reforms of the permitting process required for activities described 
in section 41001(6)(A)(iii) of the FAST Act (42 U.S.C. 4370m(6)(A)).
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