[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 20, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 57. Mrs. BOXER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       This Act shall not take effect until the President 
     determines that the Administrator of the Environmental 
     Protection Agency, in consultation with other relevant 
     Federal agencies, has completed a comprehensive study 
     analyzing the human health impacts of the pipeline described 
     in section 2(a), including--
       (1) increased air pollution in communities near refineries 
     that will process the up to 830,000 barrels per day of tar 
     sands crude that will be transported through the pipeline, 
     including assessment of the cumulative air pollution impacts 
     on the communities;
       (2) increased exposure of communities to particulate matter 
     and heavy metals from the disposal, storage, and use of 
     petroleum coke that results from the refining of the tar 
     sands crude that will be transported through the pipeline;
       (3) increased exposures in communities to benzene, volatile 
     organic compounds, hydrogen sulfide, and other toxic 
     substances that may result from spills or the contamination 
     of water supplies from tar sands crude transported through 
     the pipeline; and
       (4) increased cancer rates and exposures to elevated levels 
     of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (``PAHs''), mercury, and 
     other toxic pollutants, where the tar sands crude that will 
     be transported through the pipeline is mined, extracted, 
     upgraded, or refined.
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