[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5451-S5452]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3648. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 section 846, add the following:
       (c) Amendments Related to Sourcing of Material.--
       (1) Notification requirements.--
       (A) In general.--Section 4872 of title 10, United States 
     Code, as amended by this section, is further amended--
       (i) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and
       (ii) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(f) Notification.--
       ``(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the 
     selection or award of a contract, grant, loan, or use of 
     other transaction authority to address strategic and critical 
     materials production of a covered material or for integration 
     into a covered material as described in paragraph (2), the 
     Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Acquisition and Sustainment, shall notify the congressional 
     defense committees.
       ``(2) Applicability of requirement.--The notification 
     requirement under paragraph (1) applies to the selection or 
     award of a contract, grant, loan, or use of other transaction 
     authority if the underlying project is--
       ``(A) located outside of the United States;
       ``(B) not anticipated to use primarily domestic feedstock; 
     or
       ``(C) not anticipated to use entirely domestic processing 
     and refining capacity.
       ``(3) Elements.--The notification required under paragraph 
     (1) shall include--
       ``(A) identification of the investment, including the 
     location and amount;
       ``(B) the anticipated location and sources of processing 
     and refining; and
       ``(C) for processing, refining, manufacturing, and 
     recycling, a description of the anticipated sources and 
     locations of feedstock.''.
       (B) Applicability to germanium and gallium.--For the 
     purposes of subsection (f) of section 4872 of title 10, 
     United States Code, as added subparagraph (A), covered 
     material shall include germanium and gallium regardless of 
     the delayed effective date specified under subsection (b) of 
     this section.
       (2) Preference for domestic integrated sourcing.--Section 
     848 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283; 
     10 U.S.C. 4811 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(c) Preference for Domestic Integrated Sourcing of 
     Critical Minerals.--The Secretary of Defense shall, to the 
     maximum extent practicable, when investing in strategic and 
     critical mineral production, prioritize defense industrial 
     base investment in integrated sources that currently, or as a 
     result of the investment, produce minerals in the United 
     States and process and refine

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     such minerals in the United States. Such prioritization shall 
     include--
       ``(1) investments made via the Industrial Base Fund 
     established under section 4817 of title 10, United States 
     Code;
       ``(2) the use of authorities under title III of the Defense 
     Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4531 et seq.); and
       ``(3) programs such as the National Defense Stockpile.''.
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