S. 3521 (111th): Rare Earths Supply Technology and Resources Transformation Act of 2010

Introduced:
Jun 22, 2010 (111th Congress, 2009–2010)
Sponsor:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)

The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. S. stands for Senate bill.

(About Ads | Advertise Here)
Status

This bill was introduced on June 22, 2010, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced Jun 22, 2010
Referred to Committee Jun 22, 2010
Cosponsors
5 cosponsors (5R) (show)
Committees

Senate Energy and Natural Resources

The committee chair determines whether a bill will move past the committee stage.

Full Title

A bill to provide for the reestablishment of a domestic rare earths materials production and supply industry in the United States, and for other purposes.

Summary

No summaries available.

Text

Read Bill Text »

Last updated Jun 22, 2010.
15 pages

Primary Source

View on THOMAS (The Library of Congress)

GovTrack gets most information from THOMAS, which is updated generally one day after events occur. Activity since the last update may not be reflected here.

Citation

Click a format for a citation suggestion:

GovTrack’s Bill Summary

We don’t have a summary available yet.

Library of Congress Summary

The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.

6/22/2010--Introduced.
Rare Earths Supply Technology and Resources Transformation Act of 2010 or RESTART Act - Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Rare Earth Policy Task Force to monitor and assist federal agencies in expediting the review and approval of permits to accelerate the completion of projects that will increase investment in, exploration for, and development of domestic rare earths.
Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Energy to assess and report to Congress on:
(1) the domestic rare earth supply chain;
(2) rare earth elements critical to clean energy technologies and the national security; and
(3) whether critical rare earth materials should be stockpiled.
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to:
(1) report to industry describing available mechanisms for obtaining government loan guarantees to reestablish a domestic rare earth supply chain; and
(2) issue guidance for the rare earth industry on obtaining federal loan guarantees.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on past, current, and future projects to support the domestic rare earth supply chain.
Expresses the sense of Congress that:
(1) the United States faces a shortage of key rare earth materials that form the backbone of both the defense and energy supply chains;
(2) the urgent need to reestablish a domestic rare earth supply chain warrants a statutory prioritization of projects to support such reestablishment;
(3) there is a pressing need to support innovation, training, and workforce development in the domestic rare earth supply chain; and
(4) the Departments of Energy, of the Interior, of Commerce, and of Defense should each provide funds to academic institutions, federal laboratories, and private entities for innovation, training, and workforce development in the domestic rare earth supply chain.

House Republican Conference Summary

The summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives.

No summary available.

House Democratic Caucus Summary

The House Democratic Caucus does not provide summaries of bills.

So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference’s summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. That’s because we feel it is better to give you as much information as possible, even if we cannot provide every viewpoint.

We’ll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile.

The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:

Slip Laws

Slip laws refer to enacted bills and joint resolutions in their original form as enacted by Congress, that is, before other laws amend them. Slip laws are cited as “Public Law XXX-YYY”, where XXX is the number of the Congress in which the bill or resolution was introduced.

United States Code

The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)