79-10-602. Center objectives.
The center shall:
(1) serve as the state's primary partner for issues related to developing critical mineral extraction and processing from research to commercialization, including: workforce training; the testing and piloting of technology; federal grant coordination; and development of processing capacity;
(2) coordinate the center's operations with the strategic plan established by the council in accordance with Subsection; 79-10-302(1)
(3) partner with industry and academia to: develop processing and separation processes; provide technology benchmarking and performance validation; provide pilot-scale demonstrations and scale-up; integrate physical, chemical, electrochemical, and thermal processing; and provide for autonomous sampling and real-time analysis; and
(4) lay groundwork for securing federal designation of an entity within the state as a United States critical minerals national laboratory.