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Executive Order 13817

A Federal Strategy To Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals

This executive order directs the federal government to identify critical minerals essential to U.S. economic and national security, then develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce reliance on foreign sources by expanding domestic mining, improving geological data access, streamlining permitting, and advancing recycling and alternative technologies.

Federal Register Open PDF 82 FR 60835

Impact dates

  1. Secretary of Commerce submits report to President (180 days after list publication)

  2. Secretary of Interior publishes critical minerals list in Federal Register

Key directives

  • Secretary of Interior to publish critical minerals list in Federal Register within 60 days
  • Secretary of Commerce to submit strategy report within 180 days of list publication
  • Streamline leasing and permitting processes for critical minerals
  • Improve topographic/geologic/geophysical mapping and make data electronically accessible
  • Develop recycling, reprocessing, and alternative technologies

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Secretary of Interior to publish critical minerals list in Federal Register

Near term (90d)

  • Critical minerals list publication deadline (60 days)
  • Commerce Secretary report due (180 days from list publication, so ~240 days from signing)

Long term

  • Implementation of streamlined permitting
  • Development of recycling/reprocessing technologies
  • Expanded geological mapping and data accessibility
  • Potential new domestic mining operations

Risks & tensions

  • Environmental review streamlining may conflict with environmental protection statutes; EO explicitly references EO 13807 (infrastructure permitting) and EO 13783 (energy independence), signaling regulatory rollback approach
  • Data accessibility mandate qualified by 'to the extent permitted by law' and privacy/security limitations, creating implementation uncertainty
  • No dedicated funding appropriated; implementation 'subject to availability of appropriations'
  • Potential tension with tribal sovereignty and sacred sites not explicitly addressed in permitting streamlining
  • International trade and alliance dimensions (Sec. 4(a)(iii)) may conflict with tariff or trade dispute policies
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