S.Amdt. 492

SA 492. Mr. COATS (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Blunt, and Ms. Heitkamp) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL EXEMPTION.

It is the sense of the Senate that the levels and reserve funds in this concurrent resolution assume in making appropriations and revenue decisions, the Senate supports the provision, to the Environmental Protection Agency, of adequate resources to enable the President to remain adequately informed and take prompt action to issue, on a case-by-case basis, Presidential exemptions for affected entities such as electric utility steam generating units under environmental laws such as section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(i)(4)).