S.Amdt. 409

SA 409. Ms. MURKOWSKI 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:

Beginning on page 73, line 18, strike ``regional
transmission'' and all that follows through ``formation of''
on page 74, line 2, and insert ``transmission plans,
including regional transmission plans, the Office of
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability within the
Department of Energy is provided $80,000,000 within the
available funds to conduct a resource assessment and an
analysis of future demand and transmission requirements:
Provided further, That the Office of

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Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability will provide
technical assistance to the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation, the regional reliability entities,
the States, and other transmission owners and operators for
the formation of transmission plans, including''.
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