This bill establishes a new program within the Environmental Protection Agency to identify and recover critical materials like rare earth elements and metals from contaminated sites across the country. The EPA Administrator will investigate technologies and methods to find these valuable materials in polluted soil, groundwater, and waste, then support projects that extract them while cleaning up the contamination. The program will provide funding through contracts and grants to states, local governments, tribes, nonprofits, and private organizations, with a limit of $10 million total per year and $3 million maximum per recipient. The EPA will evaluate applications based on criteria including strengthening domestic supply chains, advancing national security, and protecting public health, with special priority for sites on the federal Superfund list. The program sunsets after 10 years unless Congress reauthorizes it.
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