Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Feb 12, 2026

This bill assigns the Department of Energy responsibility for securing the supply of critical energy resources—defined as energy resources essential to U.S. energy systems whose supply chains face disruption risk. The DOE must conduct ongoing assessments of energy resource criticality, domestic and international supply chain vulnerabilities, domestic production capacity, federal regulations affecting supply and imports, impacts of import reliance on energy security, and adversarial efforts to exploit critical resource markets. The bill also directs the DOE to develop strategies to strengthen supply chains, create substitutes and alternatives for critical resources, and improve technology for reusing and recycling critical materials.

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Securing America's Critical Minerals Supply Act This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to secure the supply of critical energy resources that are essential to the energy security of the United States. A critical energy resource means an energy resource (1) that is essential to the energy sector and energy systems of the United States, and (2) the supply chain of which is vulnerable to disruption. As part of its duties, DOE must conduct ongoing assessments of energy resource criticality, the U.S. supply chain of critical energy resources and its vulnerabilities, the diversity of domestic critical energy resource supply chains, capacity constraints on the domestic production of critical energy resources, federal regulations affecting the domestic production or importation of critical energy resources, how energy security is affected by reliance on imports of critical energy resources, and how adversarial nations seek to exploit critical energy resource markets to undermine investment in the United States. DOE must also facilitate the development of strategies to strengthen critical energy resource supply chains, develop substitutes and alternatives to critical energy resources, and improve technology that reuses and recycles critical energy resources.