; and (B) about 80 percent of the gold mined in Venezuela is mined through illicit means and a large percentage of such gold is sold— (i) to the state mining company, Minerven, a gold processor that has been designated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury, pursuant to Executive Order 13850, and is operated by the Maduro regime; or (ii) through other trafficking and commercialization networks from which the Maduro regime benefits financially. (7) Illegal armed groups and foreign terrorist organizations, such as the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army—ELN), work with transnational criminal organizations in Venezuela that participate in the illicit mining, trafficking, and commercialization of gold. (8) Transnational criminal organizations based in Venezuela, such as El Tren de Aragua, have expanded their role in the illicit mining, trafficking, and commercialization of gold to increase their criminal profits. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate ; and (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. (2) Artisanal and small-scale mining; ASM The terms artisanal and small-scale mining and ASM refer to a form of mining common in the developing world that— (A) typically employs rudimentary, simple, and low-cost extractive technologies and manual labor-intensive techniques; (B) is frequently subject to limited regulation; and (C) often features harsh and dangerous working conditions. (3) Illicit actors The term illicit actors includes— (A) any person included on any list of— (i) United States-designated foreign terrorist organizations; (ii) specially designated global terrorists (as defined in section 594.310 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations); (iii) significant foreign narcotics traffickers (as defined in section 808 of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act ( 21 U.S.C. 1907 )