[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1134 Reported in Senate (RS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 264
112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1134

  To authorize the St. Croix River Crossing Project with appropriate 
              mitigation measures to promote river values.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 26, 2011

Ms. Klobuchar (for herself, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Johnson of Wisconsin, and Mr. 
   Franken) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

                           December 16, 2011

              Reported by Mr. Bingaman, with an amendment
                  [Insert the part printed in italic]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the St. Croix River Crossing Project with appropriate 
              mitigation measures to promote river values.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``St. Croix River Crossing Project 
Authorization Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF PROJECT WITH MITIGATION MEASURES.

    Notwithstanding section 7(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 
U.S.C. 1278(a)), the head of any Federal agency or department may 
authorize and assist in the construction of a new extradosed bridge 
crossing the St. Croix River approximately 6 miles north of the I-94 
crossing if the mitigation items described in paragraph 9 of the 2006 
St. Croix River Crossing Project Memorandum of Understanding for 
Implementation of Riverway Mitigation Items, signed by the Federal 
Highway Administration on March 28, 2006, and by the National Park 
Service on March 27, 2006 (including any subsequent amendments to the 
Memorandum of Understanding), are included as enforceable conditions.

SEC. 3. OFFSET.

    To provide an offset for the funds made available to carry out this 
Act, there is rescinded from the Department of the Interior franchise 
fund authorized under section 113 of division A of title I of Public 
Law 104-208 (31 U.S.C. 501 note; 110 Stat. 3009-181) $8,000,000.

SEC. 4. BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, provided that 
such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.
                                                       Calendar No. 264

112th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 1134

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To authorize the St. Croix River Crossing Project with appropriate 
              mitigation measures to promote river values.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           December 16, 2011

                       Reported with an amendment