S.Amdt. 2607

SA 2607. Mrs. HYDE-SMITH submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema
(for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms.
Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the
bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway
safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title VIII of division D, add the following:

SEC. 408___. PILOT PROGRAM ON FEDERAL LAND DATA AND ANALYSIS
CONSORTIUM.

(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior
(referred to in this section as the ``Secretary''), in
partnership with eligible partners described in subsection
(b), shall carry out a pilot program (referred to in this
section as the ``program'') to develop a Federal Land Data
and Analysis Consortium for Orphaned and Abandoned Wells.
(b) Eligible Partners.--An eligible partner referred to in
subsection (a) is an institution of higher education or a
private sector partner that has demonstrated research
capabilities in the area of remote sensing, mesh networking,
data visualization monitoring, machine learning or artificial
intelligence, data capture, or data analysis.
(c) Authorized Activities.--Eligible partners with respect
to which the Secretary enters into a partnership under the
program may assist the Secretary in identifying,
categorizing, and prioritizing orphaned and abandoned wells
that are the greatest risk to public health and safety on
Federal land and Tribal land.
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