1. Short title This Act may be cited as the “ Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act ”. 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Resolution Copper is jointly owned by two foreign mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP. (2) The largest shareholder of Rio Tinto is a foreign mining entity, Shining Prospect Private Limited Company, that is based in Singapore and is owned by the company Chinalco. (3) Chinalco is a holding company of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) of the People’s Republic of China. (4) Rio Tinto has a long record of human rights violations and environmental devastation, harming Indigenous and other communities around the world, including in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Namibia. (5) In 2020, Rio Tinto used explosives to blow up a site sacred to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples in Western Australia, including the Juukan Gorge Rock Dwellings which have evidence of human habitation dating back 46,000 years, resulting in immeasurable cultural and spiritual loss and pain for Indigenous communities. (6) Oak Flat is located in the Tonto National Forest, which was established in 1905 from the ancestral homelands of American Indians who were forcibly removed at gunpoint from Oak Flat and other areas of the Forest by the United States Army during the 1880s and held as prisoners of war until the early 1900s. (7) Oak Flat is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Traditional Cultural Property of Chí’chil Biłdagoteel Historic District. (8) Despite significant opposition in the United States Congress, section 3003 was included as a rider in the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 ( 16 U.S.C. 539p ) that mandates the transfer of 2,422 acres of the sacred Oak Flat area to foreign-owned Resolution Copper within 60 days of publication of an Environmental Impact Statement. (9) To maximize shareholder profits through the monetization of