Critical Mineral Dominance Act

Key Provisions

• Requires federal agencies to identify and quickly approve priority mining projects on federal land.
• Mandates a review of all federal regulations to find and change or remove rules that make domestic mining too difficult.
• Requires the Secretary of the Interior to ask mining companies for feedback on regulatory delays and create a plan to fix them.
• Directs federal agencies to identify federal land best suited for hardrock mineral mining and report this to Congress each year.
• Prioritizes efforts to map the geology of the United States to find new hardrock mineral deposits.
• Requires a report to Congress on state and local rules that might slow down mining projects.