S.Amdt. 4903

SA 4903. Mr. WARNER (for himself, Mr. Liberman, Mrs. Dole, and Mrs. Boxer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3036, to direct the Administrator of the Environment Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 481, strike lines 8 through 13 and insert the following:

(a) Declaration.--

(1) In general.--If the President determines that a national security, energy security, or economic security emergency exists, and that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to modify any requirement under this Act to minimize the effects of the emergency, the President may make an emergency declaration.

(2) Increase in price of transportation fuel.--In making a determination under paragraph (1), any increase in the price of transportation fuel that the President determines to be attributable to the implementation of this Act may serve as the basis for an emergency declaration under that paragraph if the increase amounts to a national security, energy security, or economic security emergency, as determined by the President.