{"id":62067,"date":"2022-09-21T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/09\/21\/senate-to-move-pentagon-nominees-amid-critical-minerals-row\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:41:21","slug":"senate-to-move-pentagon-nominees-amid-critical-minerals-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2022\/09\/21\/senate-to-move-pentagon-nominees-amid-critical-minerals-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to move Pentagon nominees amid critical minerals row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Senate Armed Services Committee has reached an agreement aimed at advancing Pentagon nominees who would oversee acquisitions and defense industrial-base policy following controversy over a road in an Alaskan mining district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, blocked three Pentagon nominees from advancing out of the committee in July in protest over the Interior Department\u2019s decision to stall his state\u2019s Ambler Mining District industrial access road. Sullivan argued the department\u2019s move would inhibit the mining of critical minerals \u2014 a market where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2022\/06\/08\/the-us-is-heavily-reliant-on-china-and-russia-for-its-ammo-supply-chain-congress-wants-to-fix-that\/\">China\u2019s domination has created several vulnerabilities in the U.S. defense supply chain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sullivan told Defense News on Tuesday he received an update on the issue from the Biden administration last week but that the Interior Department has done nothing to address his concerns. However, he noted that he would allow two nominees to advance out of committee by voice vote in the near future as \u201ca showing of good faith\u201d to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are making sure that Sen. Sullivan has access and discussions with critical people because he\u2019s trying to do his job for the people of Alaska,\u201d Reed told Defense News on Tuesday. \u201cThen at some point though, we\u2019re going to have to take a vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two nominations that are slated to receive voice votes out of committee in the upcoming weeks are Laura Taylor-Kale as assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy and Brendan Owens as assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the committee will also have to convene a quorum to conduct a recorded vote on Radha Plumb to serve as deputy undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no question about the quality of these people and also the need for them over at [the Defense Department],\u201d Reed said. \u201cEvery time we have a hearing, someone will say our industrial base needs revamping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/07\/26\/after-years-of-inattention-congress-scrambles-to-save-defense-supply-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\">advanced legislation in recent months to bolster the domestic supply of critical minerals for the defense-industrial base<\/a> in order to lessen Washington\u2019s reliance on the supply chains of potential adversaries, such as China and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sullivan argues that allowing the construction of the industrial access road to the Ambler Mining District would increase the U.S. critical minerals supply. He and fellow Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski made the case to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in a letter obtained by Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They wrote that blocking access to the mine by failing to approve the access road would \u201cjeopardize U.S. economic and national security by prolonging our reliance on foreign adversaries for needed minerals and metals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ambler Mining District contains large reserves of copper, silver, gold, lead and zinc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe area has been characterized as one of the world\u2019s largest undeveloped copper-zinc mineral belts, which is particularly crucial in light of recent forecasts of shortfalls in global copper supply,\u201d Sullivan and Murkowski wrote. \u201cThese minerals are necessary for the manufacture of electric vehicles, renewable energy sources and are crucial to most modern defense systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2020 report from the U.S. Geological Survey noted the United States is the world\u2019s fourth-largest producer of refined copper, after China, Chile and Japan. Copper is alloyed with the critical mineral beryllium for a wide array of aerospace and defense applications, such as radar, telecommunications satellites and infrared target acquisition systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration approved construction of the access road in 2020 after the Bureau of Land Management issued its final environmental impact statement. But the Biden administration in February asked a U.S. District Court for a voluntary remand on the project, which it received in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sullivan and Murkowski have asked the Interior Department for a concrete time frame in which it will complete its review of the project. They\u2019ve also asked that the department allow baseline scientific data gathering and design work to proceed, as well as for the approval of geotechnical drilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Interior Department declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, the critical minerals supply chain is one that Plumb and Taylor-Kale will have to contend with should the Senate approve their nominations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even after the nominees clear the committee, any senator \u2014 including Sullivan and Murkowski \u2014 can delay their nomination on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/08\/08\/dozen-pentagon-nominees-stalled-as-senate-leaves-for-august-recess\/\" target=\"_blank\">other Pentagon nominees remain stalled on the Senate floor<\/a> as a result of Sen. 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