[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4740]
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  SA 2412. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 855. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND 
                   PRODUCTION OF CRITICAL AND STRATEGIC MINERALS 
                   UNDER DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950.

       There are authorized to be appropriated to the Defense 
     Production Act Fund under section 304 of the Defense 
     Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4534) $250,000,000 for 
     fiscal year 2025 for activities related to the development 
     and production of critical and strategic minerals within the 
     United States by the Department of Defense pursuant to 
     section 303 of that Act (50 U.S.C. 4533).
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