S.Amdt. 81

SA 81. Mr. MERKLEY 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. APPLICATION.

This Act shall not apply until the date on which the
President (or a designee) determines, in consultation with
the Chief of the Forest Service and other relevant Federal
agencies, that increased greenhouse gas emissions, including
emissions from the pipeline described in section 2(a), will
not contribute to any of the following:
(1) An increased frequency of wildfires in the United
States.
(2) An increased range of wildfires in the United States.
(3) An increased severity of wildfires in the United
States.
(4) An increased prevalence or frequency of invasive pests,
including the spruce beetle, the bark beetle, and the hemlock
woolly adelgid.
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