Army Organic Industrial Base Mineral Partnerships Act of 2026

This bill would let Army industrial facilities enter contracts or cooperative arrangements with outside companies to extract, recover, and process minerals, including strategic or critical minerals such as rare earth elements and lithium, from Army land, facilities, waste streams, or byproducts. The outside company would have to follow federal, state, and local environmental laws, take responsibility for environmental cleanup and liability, protect the United States from those costs, and provide financial guarantees such as bonds or insurance. The Army would receive payment in cash, minerals, equipment, or services, and could keep and use cash payments for its industrial facilities without further approval from Congress. The Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands would not apply to these operations, Army personnel could not do the mining themselves, and the Army would report yearly to Congress on these agreements.

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Sponsors

• Nathaniel Moran Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors