Securing Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs Act of 2013

Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Securing Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs Act of 2013”.

Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Appropriate Congressional committees— The term appropriate Congressional committees means the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.

Center— The term Center means the Research and Development Information Center established in section 101(b).

Department— The term Department means the Department of Energy.

Energy critical element— The term energy critical element means any of a class of chemical elements that are critical to one or more new, energy-related technologies such that a shortage of such element would significantly inhibit large-scale deployment of technologies that produce, transmit, store, or conserve energy.

Program— The term “program” means the program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application to assure the long-term, secure, and sustainable supply of energy critical elements sufficient to satisfy the national security, economic well-being, and industrial production needs of the United States established in section 101(a).

Rare earth materials— The term rare earth materials means any of the following chemical elements in any of their physical forms or chemical combinations:

Secretary— The term Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.