[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 12 (Monday, January 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S475-S476]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 155. Mr. BOOKER 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 end of section 2, add the following:
       (f) Environmental Impact Statement Savings Clause.--Nothing 
     in subsection (b) relieves any Federal agency of the 
     obligation of the Federal agency to comply with the National 
     Environmental Policy Act of 1969

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     (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), including the obligation of the 
     Federal agency to prepare a supplement to the Final 
     Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement described in 
     subsection (b) in connection with the issuance of any permit 
     or authorization needed to construct, connect, operate, or 
     maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities described 
     in subsection (a) if there are significant new circumstances 
     or information relevant to environmental concerns and bearing 
     on the environmental impacts resulting from the construction, 
     connection, operation, and maintenance of the pipeline and 
     cross-border facilities, including from greenhouse gas 
     emissions associated with the crude oil being transported by 
     the pipeline.
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