Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025 in plain language
1: Short title
This section would allow the Act to be referred to as the Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Critical Mineral Consistency Act of 2025 .
2: Critical materials included as critical minerals
This section would change the definition of "critical mineral" in the Energy Act of 2020 (30 U.S.C. 1606). Under the new definition, a "critical mineral" would be either (1) any mineral, element, substance, or material that the Secretary designates as critical under subsection (c) of that section, or (2) a critical material that the Secretary of Energy determines under paragraph (2)(A) of that section. This section would also add a requirement that, not later than 45 days after the Secretary of Energy determines that a non-fuel mineral, element, substance, or material is a critical material, the Secretary must update the published list of critical minerals to add that critical material to it.
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2. Critical materials included as critical minerals Section 7002 of the Energy Act of 2020 ( 30 U.S.C. 1606 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(3)(A), to read as follows: (A) In general The term critical mineral means— (i) any mineral, element, substance, or material designated as critical by the Secretary under subsection (c); or (ii) a critical material as determined by the Secretary of Energy under paragraph (2)(A). ; and (2) in subsection (c)(5), by adding at the end the following: (C) Inclusion of critical materials Not later than 45 days after the date on which the Secretary of Energy determines a non-fuel mineral, element, substance, or material to be a critical material under subsection (a)(2)(A), the Secretary shall update the list of critical minerals published under paragraph (3) to include such critical material. .