To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to prohibiting the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency from promulgating rules or guidance that bans hydraulic fracturing in the United States.

SA 833. Mr. BRAUN (for himself, Mr. Moran, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Hoeven,
Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Inhofe) proposed an amendment 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; as
follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
PROHIBITING THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
FROM PROMULGATING RULES OR GUIDANCE THAT BANS
FRACKING IN 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 the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and environmental
laws and policies, which may include limiting or prohibiting
the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from
proposing, finalizing, or implementing a rule or guidance
that bans fracking in the United States 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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