S.Amdt. 3684

SA 3684. Mr. SASSE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE
DEFINITION OF ``WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES''.

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 water policies, provided that such
legislation limits the term ``waters of the United States''
under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251
et seq.) to the jurisdictional water definition established
under the final rule of the Corps of Engineers and the
Environmental Protection Agency entitled ``The Navigable
Waters Protection Rule: Definition of `Waters of the United
States' '' (85 Fed. Reg. 22250 (April 21, 2020)) or prohibits
any expansion of the term ``waters of the United States''
under that Act to include non-jurisdictional waters such as
bodies of water or water features, groundwater, ephemeral
streams, gullies, rills and pools, stormwater and runoff,
ditches, prior converted cropland, artificial irrigated
areas, water storage reservoirs, and groundwater recharge, 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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