[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4977 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4977

 To amend the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development 
  Act of 2018 to provide support in high-income economy countries for 
   projects involving development or processing of certain critical 
                               materials.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2023

   Mr. Carter of Georgia (for himself and Ms. Titus) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development 
  Act of 2018 to provide support in high-income economy countries for 
   projects involving development or processing of certain critical 
                               materials.

    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 ``Critical Mineral Access Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO BETTER UTILIZATION OF INVESTMENTS LEADING TO 
              DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2018.

    Section 1412(b) of the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to 
Development Act of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 9612(b)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The purpose'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--The purpose'';
            (2) by striking ``shall be to'' and inserting the 
        following: ``shall be--
                    ``(A) to'';
            (3) by striking ``the United States.'' and inserting the 
        following: ``the United States; and
                    ``(B) to provide support under title II in high-
                income economy countries for projects involving 
                development or processing of covered critical materials 
                if such support furthers the national security 
                interests of the United States.'';
            (4) by striking ``In carrying out'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(2) Consideration of certain criteria.--In carrying 
        out''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Definitions.--In paragraph (1)(B):
                    ``(A) Covered critical materials.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The term `covered 
                        critical materials' means aluminum (bauxite), 
                        antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, 
                        cesium, chromium, cobalt, fluorspar, gallium, 
                        germanium, graphite (natural), hafnium, helium, 
                        indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, niobium, 
                        platinum group metals, potash, the rare earth 
                        elements group, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, 
                        strontium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, 
                        tungsten, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium.
                            ``(ii) Rare earth elements group.--In 
                        clause (i), the term `rare earth elements 
                        group' means lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, 
                        neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, 
                        gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, 
                        erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, 
                        yttrium.
                    ``(B) High-income economy country.--The term `high-
                income economy country' means a country with a high-
                income economy, as defined by the International Bank 
                for Reconstruction and Development and the 
                International Development Association (collectively 
                referred to as the `World Bank').''.
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