S.Amdt. 137

SA 137. Mr. REID (for Mr. Kennedy (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Kerry,
Ms. Collins, Mr. Reed, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mrs. Shaheen)) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 98 proposed by Mr.
Inouye (for himself and Mr. Baucus) to the bill H.R. 1, making
supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation,
infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to
the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal
year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 57, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following:
Sec. 203. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any existing or proposed
regulation and subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of
Commerce--
(A) shall adopt a final interim rule that will carry out
the recommendations described in section 9g of the summary of
motions for the meeting of the New England Fishery Management
Council held on September 4, 2008, in Providence, Rhode
Island; and
(B) may not implement any provision of the proposed rule
published on January 16,

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2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 2959; relating to the Northeast
Multispecies Fishery) that is inconsistent with the
recommendations referred to in paragraph (1).
(2) The final interim rule required by paragraph (1)(A)
shall require that if the total allowable catch for any stock
described in such section 9g is exceeded during the effective
period described in subsection (b), the amount of the excess
shall be deducted from the total allowable catch for that
stock during the period beginning May 1, 2010 and ending
April 30, 2011.
(b) The final interim rule described in subsection (a)
shall be in effect for the period beginning on May 1, 2009
and ending on April 30, 2010.
(c) The Secretary of Commerce shall publish the final
interim rule required by subsection (a)(1)(A) in the Federal
Register.
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