119-hr4781

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4781 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4781

 To amend the FAST Act to add activities relating to the extraction, 
 recovery, or processing of certain materials to the definition of a 
 critical project, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 July 29, 2025

 Mr. Barr (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mrs. Bice, 
 Mr. Harrigan, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Newhouse, 
 Mr. Nehls, and Mr. Downing) introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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 A BILL

 To amend the FAST Act to add activities relating to the extraction, 
 recovery, or processing of certain materials to the definition of a 
 critical project, 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 ``Rare Earth Solutions and Carbon 
Utilization Enhancement Act of 2025'' or the ``RESCUE Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. PERMIT PROCESS FOR PROJECTS RELATING TO EXTRACTION, RECOVERY, 
 OR PROCESSING OF CERTAIN MATERIALS.

 

Section 41001

    (6)
        (A) of the FAST Act (42 U.S.C. 4370m

    (6)
        (A) ) is 
amended--

    (1) in clause
            (iii) 
            (III) , by striking ``or'' at the end;

    (2) in clause
            (iv) 
            (II) , by striking the period at the end 
 and inserting ``; or''; and

    (3) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (v) is related to the extraction, 
 recovery, or processing from acid mine 
 drainage, mine tailings, coal, coal waste, coal 
 processing waste, or pre- or post-combustion 
 coal byproducts of--
 ``
            (I) a mineral of a kind that is 
 locatable under the Mining Law of 1872 
 (30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.), including such 
 a mineral located on lands acquired by 
 the United States (as that term is 
 defined in 

section 2 of the Mineral 
 Leasing Act for Acquired Lands (30 
 U.S.C. 351));
 ``
            (II) a rare earth element; or
 ``
            (III) microfine carbon or carbon 
 from coal.''.
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