US Congress House Bill 2090 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on June 2 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-06-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Energy Critical Elements Advancement Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Secretary of Energy (DOE), acting through the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, to collaborate to improve assessments of energy critical elements. Requires the Director of the USGS to designate as a Principal Statistical Agency the entity within USGS that gathers information for such assessments. Directs the DOE Secretary to: (1) establish a research program to advance basic knowledge and enable expanded availability of designated energy critical elements, and (2) develop and update biennially an integrated research plan to guide program activities. Requires the Critical and Strategic Mineral Supply Chain Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council to report to certain congressional committees on the recycling of energy critical elements.

Energy Critical Elements Advancement Act of 2011

Rep. Randy Hultgren [R-IL]	Rep. Judy Biggert [R-IL]	Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]	Rep. Donald Manzullo [R-IL]
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher [R-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-06-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
2011-06-08	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
2011-06-03	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
2011-06-02	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-06-02	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2011-06-02	House	Referred to House Science, Space, and Technology
2011-06-02	House	Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/2090/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr2090/BILLS-112hr2090ih.pdf