S.Amdt. 645

SA 645. Mr. BARRASSO 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 KEEPING
ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT UNDER THE FEDERAL WATER
POLLUTION CONTROL ACT FOCUSED ON THE PROTECTION
OF WATER QUALITY.

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

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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 keeping activities carried out under the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) focused
on the protection of water quality, maintaining bright lines
for Federal jurisdiction under that Act, and guaranteeing
clear and unambiguous exemptions under that Act for features
that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
or the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of
Engineers, claim that they are not seeking to regulate under
that Act 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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