Title: To require the Comptroller General of the United States to assess the efforts of the Secretary of Defense with respect to the National Defense Stockpile, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report on the efforts of the Department of Defense with respect to the National Defense Stockpile. The GAO must also provide a briefing on the findings and recommendations of the report.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8898 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8898

 To require the Comptroller General of the United States to assess the 
   efforts of the Secretary of Defense with respect to the National 
               Defense Stockpile, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2022

 Ms. Slotkin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Comptroller General of the United States to assess the 
   efforts of the Secretary of Defense with respect to the National 
               Defense Stockpile, 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. NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE ASSESSMENT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than April 1, 2023, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives a report assessing the efforts 
of the Secretary of Defense with respect to the National Defense 
Stockpile, including--
            (1) the assumptions used by the Secretary to make the 
        recommendations with respect to the requirements of the 
        National Defense Stockpile in the most recent report submitted 
        under section 14 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock 
        Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98h-5);
            (2) the extent to which the Secretary has assessed whether 
        the reserves of strategic and critical materials that are 
        contained in the National Defense Stockpile reduce the 
        dependence of the United States on foreign sources or single 
        sources for supplies of such strategic and critical materials 
        in times of national emergency;
            (3) the risks identified by the Secretary of Defense 
        arising from insufficient reserves of certain strategic and 
        critical materials in the National Defense Stockpile; and
            (4) recommendations for improvements with respect to the 
        items described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).
    (b) Briefing.--Not later than April 30, 2023, the Comptroller 
General shall provide to the Committee On Armed Services of the House 
of Representatives a briefing on the findings and recommendations of 
the report required by subsection (a).
    (c) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) National emergency.--The term ``national emergency'' 
        has the meaning given such term in section 12 of the Strategic 
        and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98h-3).
            (2) Strategic and critical material.--The term ``strategic 
        and critical materials'' means a material determined to be 
        strategic and critical material by the President pursuant to 
        section 3(a) of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock 
        Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b(a)).
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