[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3956 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3956

To include phosphate and potash on the final list of critical minerals 
                   of the Department of the Interior.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2024

  Mr. Tillis (for himself, Mr. Brown, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. 
Scott of Florida, and Ms. Baldwin) introduced the following bill; which 
  was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To include phosphate and potash on the final list of critical minerals 
                   of the Department of the Interior.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF PHOSPHATE AND POTASH AS CRITICAL MINERALS.

    (a) In General.--The list of critical minerals published in the 
notice of the Secretary of the Interior entitled ``2022 Final List of 
Critical Minerals'' (87 Fed. Reg. 10381 (February 24, 2022)) shall be 
deemed to include phosphate and potash.
    (b) Recommendations.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall evaluate 
current policies relating to permitting and leasing of projects to 
develop the minerals described in subsection (a) and submit to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 
recommendations to support domestic production of those minerals.
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