Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act

This section gives the Act a short title: the Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act.

This section would require the Secretary of Commerce, no later than 1 year after the Act becomes law, to conduct a study that would identify, within each critical infrastructure sector, any product that is in high demand and is being imported because of a manufacturing, material, or supply chain constraint in the United States. For each such product, the study would have to analyze the costs and benefits of manufacturing it in the United States instead, including its effects on jobs, employment rates, and labor conditions in the United States and its effect on the product's cost. The study would also have to identify which of those high-demand imported products could feasibly be manufactured in the United States, and then analyze the feasibility of, and any impediments to, manufacturing each of those feasible products in a rural area, in an industrial park, or in an industrial park located in a rural area. No later than 18 months after enactment, the Secretary would have to submit a report to Congress containing the study's results and recommendations on manufacturing in the United States the products identified as feasible, and would have to make that report available to the public on the Department of Commerce's website. The section states that it does not give the Secretary of Commerce authority to compel any person to provide the information described in the section. For purposes of the section, a critical infrastructure sector means each of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors designated in Presidential Policy Directive 21 of February 12, 2013, on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience.