Uranium for Energy Independence Act of 2025

Uranium for Energy Independence Act of 2025

This bill includes uranium on the critical minerals list. In 2018, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published a list of critical minerals, including uranium, in response to an executive order that called for a federal strategy to ensure secure and reliable supplies of critical minerals. The USGS updates the list every three years and includes certain minerals that are essential to economic or national security and have a supply chain vulnerable to disruption. In 2022, USGS removed uranium from the list. The bill reinstates uranium as a critical mineral and requires uranium to be treated as if it were included on that list at the time of publication.

[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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