To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to preventing electricity blackouts and improving electricity reliability.

SA 3243. Mr. HOEVEN (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, and Mr. Cramer)
proposed an amendment to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14,
setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government
for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels
for fiscal years 2023 through 2031; as follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PREVENTING ELECTRICITY BLACKOUTS AND IMPROVING
ELECTRICITY RELIABILITY.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
Federal environmental and energy policies, which may include
promoting the increased deployment and use of, or supporting
the expansion of, baseload power resources in the United
States, including coal-fired and natural gas-fired power
plants with carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration
technologies and nuclear power to prevent blackouts and
improve electric reliability, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2022 through 2031.
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