S.Amdt. 234

SA 234. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 115 submitted by Mr. Coons and intended to be proposed
to the 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:

In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the
following:

SEC. ____. SENSE OF CONGRESS ACKNOWLEDGING THE ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACT FINDINGS OF THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
PROJECT.

It is the sense of Congress that Congress is in agreement
with the following findings of the Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Secretary of
State for the Keystone XL Project (referred to in this
section as the ``FSEIS''):
(1) ``The analyses of potential impacts associated with
construction and normal operation of the proposed Project
suggest that significant impacts to most resources are not
expected along the proposed Project route'' (FSEIS page 4.16-
1, section 4.16).
(2) ``The total annual GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions
(direct and indirect) attributed to the No Action scenarios
range from 28 to 42 percent greater than for the proposed
Project'' (FSEIS page ES-34, section ES.5.4.2).
(3) ``. . . approval or denial of any one crude oil
transport project, including the proposed Project, is
unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in
the oil sands or the

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continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the
United States based on expected oil prices, oil-sands supply
costs, transport costs, and supply-demand scenarios'' (FSEIS
page ES-16, section ES.4.1.1).
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