Bipartisan Bill on Strategic Minerals Introduced
The HARD ROCK Act, or the Homeland Acceleration of Recovering Deposits and Renewing Onshore Critical Keystones, would require the Pentagon to report on the benefits and risks of proposed legislation to increase the availability of strategic and critical materials that are sourced primarily from China or Russia. That report also would talk about how it would be helpful to integrate the industrial base with allies "with respect to technology transfer, socioeconomic procurement requirements, and export controls."
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Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., introduced the bill, whose text was published Aug. 30.