Directs the Energy Department to assess and strengthen the domestic supply of critical energy resources, including critical minerals, and adds that work to the department's official functions.

• Adds securing the supply of critical energy resources to the Department of Energy's functions and mission.
• Defines a critical energy resource as one essential to U.S. energy systems whose supply chain is vulnerable to disruption.
• Requires the Secretary of Energy to conduct ongoing assessments of supply chain vulnerabilities, domestic production capacity, and reliance on imports, including from adversarial nations.
• Directs work on diversifying supply sources, expanding domestic processing, developing substitutes, and improving recycling.
• Requires a report to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee within two years of enactment on the status of those assessments.

• Energy and Commerce Committee (House)
• Energy Subcommittee
• Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Senate)

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