Cyrus is the former Assistant Director for Clean Energy & Materials R & D with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he advised the White House and Executive Branch leadership in the design of national policy in energy, climate, advanced materials, manufacturing, and critical minerals.
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In this role, which he held from 2010-2015, Cyrus was responsible for the creation and expansion of more than $ 1 billion in new budgetary initiatives, including the Materials Genome Initiative, and he led the development of the nation s first policy framework and strategy on critical minerals.
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The organization argues that ( 1 ) most mining is being done by foreign companies, who will not be paying appropriate royalties to the federal government under the new law; ( 2 ) that an old mining law the General Mining Act of 1872 should be rewritten instead; and ( 3 ) that the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2013 would place too many restrictions on legal actions that could be taken against federal agencies when they fail to do their jobs properly, by adding time limits for actions and limits on damages.
