S.Amdt. 537

SA 537. Ms. SNOWE 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 21, strike ``funds'' and all
that follows through ``policies'' on page 74, line 7, and
insert ``funds to work with regional transmission
organizations, or the equivalent regional planning
authorities, to conduct a resource assessment and an analysis
of future demand and transmission requirements: Provided
further, That the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability will provide technical assistance to the North
American Electric Reliability Corporation, regional
transmission organizations, regional reliability entities,
States, and other transmission owners and operators for the
coordination of regional plans so as to establish efficient
and effective interconnection-wide transmission plans for the
Eastern and Western Interconnections and ERCOT: Provided
further, That such assistance may include modeling, support
to regions and States for the development of coordinated
State electricity, and environmental policies''.
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