S.Amdt. 424

SA 424. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2022 through 2030; 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
PROHIBITING FEDERAL AGENCIES FROM USING THE
SOCIAL COST OF GREENHOUSE GASES UNLESS THE
AGENCY COMPLIES WITH CIRCULAR A-4.

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
prohibiting each Federal agency from using the social cost of
carbon, the social cost of methane, the social cost of
nitrous oxide, or the social cost of any other greenhouse gas
in any regulation unless the calculation complies with the
requirements

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of the document of the Office of Management and Budget
entitled ``Circular A-4'' and dated September 17, 2003,
regarding the use of discount rates and the consideration of
only domestic costs and benefits of the activity in
developing the regulation 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 2021 through 2025 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2021 through 2030.
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