Notice2025-09607
Critical Material List; Addition of Metallurgical Coal Used for Steelmaking
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Published
May 29, 2025
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Energy Department
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing this notice to advise the public that DOE has added metallurgical coal used for steelmaking to the DOE Critical Material List. This notice also provides the link to the assessment that forms the justification for including metallurgical coal used in steelmaking on the Critical Material List. Meeting the policy goal of U.S. steel dominance will require dramatic increases in domestic metallurgical coal production and use and thereby supports the determination that metallurgical coal used for steelmaking is a DOE critical material.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 102 (Thursday, May 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22711-22712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09607]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Critical Material List; Addition of Metallurgical Coal Used for
Steelmaking
AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing this notice to
advise the public that DOE has added metallurgical coal used for
steelmaking to the DOE Critical Material List. This notice also
provides the link to the assessment that forms the justification for
including metallurgical coal used in steelmaking on the Critical
Material List. Meeting the policy goal of U.S. steel dominance will
require dramatic increases in domestic metallurgical coal production
and use and thereby supports the determination that metallurgical coal
used for steelmaking is a DOE critical material.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions may be addressed to David
Alleman or Burt Thomas, U.S. Department of Energy (FE-32), Office of
Research and Development, Office of Resource Sustainability, Office of
Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, Forrestal Building, Room 3E-042,
1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585; (202) 586-0147 or
(240) 243-3991; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#690d081f000d470805050c040807290118470d060c470e061f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5e3a3f28373a703f32323b333f301e362f703a313b70393128">[email protected]</span></a> or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aac8dfd8de84dec2c5c7cbd9eac2db84cec5cf84cdc5dc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="95f7e0e7e1bbe1fdfaf8f4e6d5fde4bbf1faf0bbf2fae3">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 7002(a)(2) of the Energy Act of 2020
defines ``critical materials'' to be: (A) any non-fuel mineral,
element, substance, or material that the Secretary of Energy determines
(i) has high risk for supply chain disruption; and (ii) serves an
essential function in one or more energy technologies, including
technologies that produce, transmit, store, and conserve energy
[referred to here as a critical material for energy]; or (B) a critical
mineral [as designated by the Secretary of the Interior].\1\
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\1\ Section 7002(a)(2) of the Energy Act of 2020 is codified at
30 U.S.C. 1606(a)(2).
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On August 4, 2023, DOE published its ``Notice of Final
Determination on 2023 DOE Critical Materials List'' (hereinafter
Critical Materials List).\2\ The Critical Materials List includes the
following:
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\2\ U.S. Dep't of Energy, Notice of Final Determination on 2023
DOE Critical Materials List, 88 FR 51792 (August 4, 2023), <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/04/2023-16611/notice-of-final-determination-on-2023-doe-critical-materials-list">https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/04/2023-16611/notice-of-final-determination-on-2023-doe-critical-materials-list</a>.
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<bullet> Critical materials for energy: aluminum, cobalt, copper*,
dysprosium, electrical steel* (grain-oriented electrical steel, non-
grain-oriented electrical steel, and amorphous steel), fluorine,
gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, natural graphite, neodymium,
nickel, platinum, praseodymium, terbium, silicon*, and silicon
carbide*.
<bullet> Critical minerals: The Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), published a
2022 final list of critical minerals that includes the following 50
minerals: ``Aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth,
cerium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, dysprosium, erbium, europium,
fluorspar, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, holmium,
indium, iridium, lanthanum, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese,
neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, praseodymium, rhodium,
rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium,
thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc,
and zirconium.'' \3\
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\3\ The asterisks (*) indicates materials not designated as
critical minerals by the Secretary of Interior.
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The critical materials for energy included on the Critical Material
List are based on the criticality assessed in the short- and medium-
term. A detailed description of DOE's methodology can
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be found in its Critical Minerals Assessment published on its website
in July 2023.\4\
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\4\ U.S. Dept't of Energy, Critical Materials Assessment (July
2023), <a href="https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/doe-critical-material-assessment_07312023.pdf">https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/doe-critical-material-assessment_07312023.pdf</a>.
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By this Notice, the Secretary of Energy advises the public of the
addition of metallurgical coal to DOE's Critical Material List. The
assessment \5\ that forms the justification for including metallurgical
coal used in the production of steel on the Critical Material List can
be found on DOE's website: <a href="https://www.energy.gov/cmm/what-are-critical-materials-and-critical-minerals">https://www.energy.gov/cmm/what-are-critical-materials-and-critical-minerals</a>. The assessment concludes that
the current U.S. steel market and its reliance on metallurgical coal
puts the industry on track for significant import reliance. Meeting the
policy goal of U.S. steel dominance will require dramatic increases in
domestic metallurgical coal production and use, and thereby supports
the determination that coal used for steelmaking is a DOE critical
material. Furthermore, this action directly supports the President's
policy goals of reinvigorating the U.S. coal industry and achieving
American energy dominance as explained in Executive Order 14261,
``Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending
Executive Order 14241''.\6\
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\5\ U.S. Dep't of Energy, The Intrinsic Role of Coal in
Achieving Steel Dominance (May 2025), [<a href="https://www.energy.gov/cmm/what-are-critical-materials-and-critical-minerals">https://www.energy.gov/cmm/what-are-critical-materials-and-critical-minerals</a>].
\6\ E.O. 14261 of April 8, 2025, Reinvigorating America's
Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241, 90
FR 15517 (April 14, 2025), <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-14/pdf/2025-06380.pdf">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-14/pdf/2025-06380.pdf</a>.
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Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on May 22,
2025, by Tala Goudarzi, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of
Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, pursuant to delegated authority
from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature
and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in
compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to
sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as
an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative
process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon
publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2025-09607 Filed 5-28-25; 8:45 am]
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