{
  "id": "IND-22",
  "category": "Minerals project development",
  "capability": "Co-fund bankable feasibility studies for reliable mineral sources",
  "summary": "Help fund technical/economic studies for strategic-material projects; associated project loans or debt purchases require separate DPA congressional authorization and Presidential determination.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 98h-6",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98h-6&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "National Defense Stockpile Manager",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "DLA Strategic Materials",
      "Military Departments supplying requirement data",
      "USD(A&S)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund",
      "DLA finance"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "National Defense Stockpile Manager; President for reserved functions"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Strategic and Critical Materials Board",
      "Commerce / State / Energy as applicable",
      "Private miners, processors, recyclers"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DLA FY2025 National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund Agency Financial Report",
      "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/J8Finance/DLA%20FY25%20NDSTF%20AFR.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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": [
    "Study authority alone is NOT authority to issue project loans or buy debt",
    "Contracts/commitments generally no more than 10 years"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Adequate Stockpile Transaction Fund funds; subsequent credit requires DPA/appropriations gate."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.",
  "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.",
  "family": "Materials and strategic stockpiles",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(A&S)"
    }
  ]
}