S.Amdt. 2510

SA 2510. Mr. CARPER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2477 submitted by Mr. Harkin (for himself, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Thune, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Bond) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 2996, making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 1, strike line 6 and all that follows through page 2, line 5, and insert the following:

Sec. 201. The funds made available for the Environmental Protection Agency under this title may be expended by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations for the renewable fuel program established under section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act (42U.S.C. 7545(o)) only if the regulations take into consideration an appropriate characterization of ranges, as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Energy, of the uncertainty in calculating the international indirect land use change emissions in the implementation of the renewable fuel program.