A national plan would be created to recover important minerals from waste, strengthening US supply chains.
This bill would ask the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a national plan for getting important minerals back from waste. The idea is for federal agencies to work together to find and reuse these key minerals. This would help make America's supply chains for these materials stronger. The EPA would also tell Congress every two years how the plan is going.
Today, there is no explicit federal strategy that directs the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate efforts to recover critical minerals from discarded materials. If this bill becomes law, the EPA would be required to develop and carry out a National Critical Mineral Recovery Strategy, coordinating with other federal agencies, and would report on its activities to Congress and the public every two years.
HR 9617 · 119th Congress · July 9, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 10/10
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