To ensure domestic sources of the critical mineral vanadium necessary for the steel, infrastructure, energy, and defense needs of the United States, and for other purposes.

Key Provisions

• Lets the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) change hazardous waste rules for companies that reclaim valuable metals, like vanadium, from spent petroleum catalysts.
• Clarifies that these new rules would apply to specific types of recycling equipment, such as roasters and furnaces.
• Clarifies that companies can send spent petroleum catalyst to other businesses for metal recovery without it being classified as solid waste.
• Makes the new rules take effect immediately once the EPA publishes them.
• Allows the EPA to create these new rules without the usual public comment period.