; (C) the vulnerability of such supply chain; and (D) how the energy security of the United States is affected by the reliance of the United States on importation of critical energy resources; (2) facilitate development of strategies to strengthen critical energy resource supply chains in the United States, including by— (A) diversifying the sources of the supply of critical energy resources; and (B) increasing domestic production, separation, and processing of critical energy resources; (3) develop substitutes and alternatives to critical energy resources; and (4) improve technology that reuses and recycles critical energy resources. (b) Critical energy resource defined In this section, the term critical energy resource has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Department of Energy Organization Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7101 ).