EconDefense
IND-22 / Materials and strategic stockpiles

Co-fund bankable feasibility studies for reliable mineral sources

Help fund technical/economic studies for strategic-material projects; associated project loans or debt purchases require separate DPA congressional authorization and Presidential determination.

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Authority / instrument · IND-22

Minerals project development

Materials and strategic stockpiles

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

National Defense Stockpile Manager

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Study authority alone is NOT authority to issue project loans or buy debt

Recorded executor

DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions. Use the responsible program’s process.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-22 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: National Defense Stockpile Manager

Other statutory tools

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Reliable-source project
  • Government share no more than 50% of study
  • Federal liability capped at provided funding; no obligation to purchase output
  • Annual-plan inclusion

Limits & exclusions

  • Study authority alone is NOT authority to issue project loans or buy debt
  • Contracts/commitments generally no more than 10 years

Funding conditions

  • Adequate Stockpile Transaction Fund funds; subsequent credit requires DPA/appropriations gate.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • DLA Strategic Materials
  • Military Departments supplying requirement data
  • USD(A&S)
    Office profile

Resources

  • National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund
  • DLA finance

Approval

  • National Defense Stockpile Manager; President for reserved functions

Execution

  • DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

Partners & review

  • Strategic and Critical Materials Board
  • Commerce / State / Energy as applicable
  • Private miners, processors, recyclers

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions. Use the responsible program’s process.

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

Review scope: Original research target October 2, 2026; no record-specific last-review date supplied. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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