S.Amdt. 140

SA 140. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2 proposed by Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr.
Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Flake, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr.
Cassidy, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Portman, Mr. Alexander, and Mrs. Capito) to
the bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end, add the following:

SEC. __. EFFECTIVE DATE.

Notwithstanding subsections (2)(a) and (2)(b), this Act
shall not take effect until any consultation, analysis or
review required by the National Environmental Policy Act,
Endangered Species Act, or any other provision of law that
requires Federal agency consultation or review, is completed
with respect to whether increased greenhouse gas emissions,
including the indirect greenhouse gas emissions over the
lifecycle of oil sands crude oil production, and
transportation from the diluted bitumen and other bituminous
mixtures derived from tar sands or oil sands transported
through the pipeline, described in section 2(a), are likely
to contribute to higher sea levels.
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