S.Amdt. 2760

SA 2760. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr.
McCain) to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of subtitle D of title X, add the following:

SEC. 103____. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO ISSUE ELECTRIC
GRID ORDERS.

None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act
or otherwise made available for any fiscal year may be
obligated or expended to issue any order pursuant to section
101 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4511) or
section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824a(c))
that requires any entity--
(1) to purchase electric energy based on the fuel used to
generate the electric energy; or
(2) to generate or sell electric energy unless the electric
energy is required to meet an existing or imminent shortage
of electric energy and the demand for electric energy cannot
otherwise be met.
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