[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3512]
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  SA 495. Mr. ENZI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle B of title XIV, add the following:

     SEC. 1412. REPORT RELATING TO RARE EARTH ELEMENTS.

       Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Interior, shall 
     submit to Congress a report that assesses--
       (1) the threat presented by the dependence of the United 
     States on rare earth elements produced in foreign countries; 
     and
       (2) ways to revive and sustain the United States industrial 
     base with respect to such elements, specifically with respect 
     to--
       (A) traditional mining of such elements;
       (B) nontraditional corrosive extraction and refining of 
     such elements from ore and coal; and
       (C) nontraditional noncorrosive extraction and refining of 
     such elements from ore and coal.
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