119-hr1622

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1622 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1622

 To provide for the inclusion of uranium on the list of critical 
 minerals, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 26, 2025

 Mr. McGuire (for himself, Ms. Maloy, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. McCormick, Mr. 
 Haridopolos, and Mr. Gosar) introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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 A BILL

 To provide for the inclusion of uranium on the list of critical 
 minerals, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Uranium for Energy Independence Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. URANIUM CRITICAL MINERAL STATUS.

 Notwithstanding the exclusion of fuel minerals from the definition 
of the term ``critical mineral'' under any Federal law, regulation, or 
Executive order, uranium--

    (1) is deemed to be included on the 2022 final list of 
 critical minerals in the notice entitled ``2022 Final List of 
 Critical Minerals'' published by the United States Geological 
 Survey (87 Fed. Reg. 10381; February 24, 2022), and shall be 
 treated as if included on that list at the time of publication; 
 and

    (2) shall be included on each subsequent list of critical 
 minerals published pursuant to 

section 7002 of the Energy Act 
 of 2020 (30 U.S.C. 1606).
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