To allow permitting agencies to consider new circumstances and new information.

SA 155. Mr. BOOKER 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 of section 2, add the following:
(f) Environmental Impact Statement Savings Clause.--Nothing
in subsection (b) relieves any Federal agency of the
obligation of the Federal agency to comply with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969

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(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), including the obligation of the
Federal agency to prepare a supplement to the Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement described in
subsection (b) in connection with the issuance of any permit
or authorization needed to construct, connect, operate, or
maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities described
in subsection (a) if there are significant new circumstances
or information relevant to environmental concerns and bearing
on the environmental impacts resulting from the construction,
connection, operation, and maintenance of the pipeline and
cross-border facilities, including from greenhouse gas
emissions associated with the crude oil being transported by
the pipeline.
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