National Security Through America's Resources and Permitting Reform Act of 2021
This bill revises and expedites the environmental review process for projects that extract, recover, or process critical minerals, rare-earth elements, or carbon from coal, coal waste, coal processing waste, pre-or post-combustion coal byproducts, or acid mine drainage from coal mines.
To amend the FAST Act to add activities relating to the extraction, 
  recovery, or processing of certain materials to the definition of a 
               critical project, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Security Through America's 
Resources and Permitting Reform Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. PERMIT PROCESS FOR PROJECTS RELATING TO EXTRACTION, RECOVERY, 
              OR PROCESSING OF CRITICAL MATERIALS.

    (a) Definition of Covered Project.--Section 41001(6)(A) of the FAST 
Act (42 U.S.C. 4370m(6)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i)(III), by striking ``; or'' and inserting 
        a semicolon;
            (2) in clause (ii)(II), by striking the period and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) is related to the extraction, 
                        recovery, or processing from coal, coal waste, 
                        coal processing waste, pre-or post-combustion 
                        coal byproducts, or acid mine drainage from 
                        coal mines of one of the following materials:
                                    ``(I) Critical minerals (as such 
                                term is defined in section 7002 of the 
                                Energy Act of 2020).
                                    ``(II) Rare earth elements.
                                    ``(III) Microfine carbon or carbon 
                                from coal.''.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Committees 
on Energy and Natural Resources and Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate and the Committees on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, Natural Resources, and Energy and Commerce of the House 
of Representatives a report evaluating the timeliness of implementation 
of reforms of the permitting process required as a result of the 
amendments made by this Act on the following:
            (1) The economic and national security of the United 
        States.
            (2) Domestic production and supply of critical minerals, 
        rare earths, and microfine carbon or carbon from coal.
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National Security Through America’s Resources and Permitting Reform Act of 2021
To amend the FAST Act to add activities relating to the extraction, recovery, or processing of certain materials to the definition of a critical project, and for other purposes.
National Security Through America’s Resources and Permitting Reform Act of 2021
Rep. Barr, Andy