S.Amdt. 4997

SA 4997. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 4983 proposed by Mr. Reid (for Mr. Dodd (for himself
and Mr. Shelby)) to the bill H.R. 3221, moving the United States toward
greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new
technologies, reducing carbon missions, creating green jobs, protecting
consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, and
modernizing our energy infrastructure, and to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of
renewable energy and energy conservation; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

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(C) establish land banks for homes that have been
foreclosed upon;
(D) demolish blighted structures;
(E) establish or support land banks for homes that have
been damaged or destroyed as a result of Hurricanes Katrina
or Rita of 2005, or to rehabilitate or redevelop such damaged
or destroyed homes which have been conveyed by the State or
unit of local government; and
(F) redevelop demolished or vacant properties.
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