[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 21, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S355]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 81. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2 proposed by Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. 
Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Flake, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Portman, Mr. Alexander, and Mrs. Capito) 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. __. APPLICATION.

       This Act shall not apply until the date on which the 
     President (or a designee) determines, in consultation with 
     the Chief of the Forest Service and other relevant Federal 
     agencies, that increased greenhouse gas emissions, including 
     emissions from the pipeline described in section 2(a), will 
     not contribute to any of the following:
       (1) An increased frequency of wildfires in the United 
     States.
       (2) An increased range of wildfires in the United States.
       (3) An increased severity of wildfires in the United 
     States.
       (4) An increased prevalence or frequency of invasive pests, 
     including the spruce beetle, the bark beetle, and the hemlock 
     woolly adelgid.
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