Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Securing Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs Act of 2019”.
Securing Energy Critical Elements and American Jobs Act of 2019
A BILL
To authorize an energy critical elements program, to amend the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Definitions
In this Act:
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 Critical Materials Information Center established under section 101(d).
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 have a high risk of a supply disruption and 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.
Institution of higher education— The term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given such term in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)).
Program— The term “program” means the program authorized in section 101(a).
Secretary— The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy.