[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 4, 2026)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 50465-50466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-15859]



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Vol. 91

Tuesday,

No. 148

August 4, 2026

Part V





The President





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Presidential Determination No. 2026-19 of July 30, 2026--Presidential 
Determination Pursuant to Section 101 of the Defense Production Act of 
1950, as Amended, on Recoverable Critical Minerals and Materials



Presidential Permit of July 30, 2026--Authorizing Cameron County, 
Texas, To Own, Operate, and Maintain the Brownsville and Matamoros 
Bridge in Brownsville, Texas


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 91 , No. 148 / Tuesday, August 4, 2026 / 
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Title 3--
The President

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                Presidential Determination No. 2026-19 of July 30, 2026

                
Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 
                101 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, 
                on Recoverable Critical Minerals and Materials

                Memorandum for the Secretary of Commerce

                Section 1. Policy and General Findings. (a) Recoverable 
                critical minerals and materials (CMMs) are industrial 
                resources necessary to promote the national defense.

                    (b) America's inadequate supply of CMMs poses an 
                increasing risk to our national defense and security. 
                The United States relies heavily on imports of certain 
                CMMs from foreign sources, and this reliance threatens 
                serious, sustained supply chain disruptions.
                    (c) It is imperative that the United States takes 
                immediate action to secure the supply of recoverable 
                CMMs.

                Sec. 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this 
                determination:

                    (a) The term ``recoverable critical minerals and 
                materials'' includes black mass, end-of-life, rare-
                earth permanent magnets or other goods that have fully 
                completed the manufacturing process; swarf; and other 
                waste and scrap containing critical minerals and 
                materials. The term ``recoverable critical minerals and 
                materials'' does not include copper scrap, which is 
                already covered under Proclamation 10962 of July 30, 
                2025 (Adjusting Imports of Copper Into the United 
                States).
                    (b) The term ``critical minerals and materials'' 
                includes minerals as defined in Executive Order 14241 
                of March 20, 2025 (Immediate Measures to Increase 
                American Mineral Production); strategic and critical 
                materials, as defined by 50 U.S.C. 98h-3; critical 
                materials, as defined by section 7002(a)(2) of the 
                Energy Act of 2020, Public Law 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182, 
                2562; and, notwithstanding Executive Order 13603 of 
                March 16, 2012 (National Defense Resources 
                Preparedness), any other mineral or material designated 
                by the Secretary of Commerce.

                Sec. 3. Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Recoverable 
                CMMs. (a) By the authority vested in me as President by 
                the Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including section 101 of the Defense 
                Production Act of 1950, as amended (the ``Act'') (50 
                U.S.C. 4511), I hereby find, pursuant to section 101 of 
                the Act, that:

(i) recoverable CMMs are scarce and critical materials essential to the 
national defense; and

(ii) the requirements of the national defense for recoverable CMMs cannot 
otherwise be met without creating a significant dislocation of the normal 
distribution of such material in the civilian market to such a degree as to 
create appreciable hardship.

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                    (b) You are authorized and directed to implement 
                this determination by taking all appropriate action 
                under section 101 of the Act pursuant to the authority 
                delegated to the Secretary of Commerce in Executive 
                Order 13603, including by issuing regulations, rules, 
                guidance, and procedures, and to publish this 
                determination in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, July 30, 2026

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