Utah Code § 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:

(a) workforce training;

(b) the testing and piloting of technology;

(c) federal grant coordination; and

(d) 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:

(a) develop processing and separation processes;

(b) provide technology benchmarking and performance validation;

(c) provide pilot-scale demonstrations and scale-up;

(d) integrate physical, chemical, electrochemical, and thermal processing; and

(e) 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.