S.Amdt. 1226

SA 1226. Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Mrs.
Feinstein, and Ms. Harris) submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R.
3055, making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title I of division C, insert
the following:

oil and gas program lease sale requirement

Sec. 1__.
None of the funds made available to the Secretary of the
Interior by this or any other Act may be used to conduct a
lease sale pursuant to section 20001(c)(1) of Public Law 115-
97 (16 U.S.C. 3143 note) that does not contain a national
minimum acceptable bid amount sufficient to produce Federal
receipts to the Treasury, net of any State share, of not less
than an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount required by
section 2001(b) of H. Con. Res. 71, the concurrent resolution
on the budget for fiscal year 2018, as agreed to on October
26, 2017.
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