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1 change to S.Con.Res. 13

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  1. Adds SEC. 2___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORY OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESOURCES at the appropriate place in title II

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    Inserted: SEC. 2___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORY OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESOURCES.

    Inserted: (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would--

    Inserted: (1) allow the Secretary of the Interior to conduct the comprehensive inventory of the outer Continental Shelf under section 357 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15912);

    Inserted: (2) provide that the inventory conducted under paragraph (1) would not affect the current 5-year program or the program for 2010-2015 developed under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344); and

    Inserted: (3) provide that the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a lease sale in any prospective area identified through the inventory and analysis conducted under paragraph (1).

    Inserted: (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

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    At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

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SA 770. Mr. SESSIONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 13, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. 2___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR A COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORY OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESOURCES.

(a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would--

(1) allow the Secretary of the Interior to conduct the comprehensive inventory of the outer Continental Shelf under section 357 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15912);

(2) provide that the inventory conducted under paragraph (1) would not affect the current 5-year program or the program for 2010-2015 developed under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344); and

(3) provide that the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a lease sale in any prospective area identified through the inventory and analysis conducted under paragraph (1).

(b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019.

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March 31, 2009