[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 12 (Monday, January 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 221. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 11 submitted by Mr. Merkley and intended to be proposed 
to the 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:

       In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ____. SENSE OF CONGRESS ACKNOWLEDGING THE ENVIRONMENTAL 
                   IMPACT FINDINGS OF THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE 
                   PROJECT.

       It is the sense of Congress that Congress is in agreement 
     with the following findings of the Final Supplemental 
     Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Secretary of 
     State for the Keystone XL Project (referred to in this 
     section as the ``FSEIS''):
       (1) ``The analyses of potential impacts associated with 
     construction and normal operation of the proposed Project 
     suggest that significant impacts to most resources are not 
     expected along the proposed Project route'' (FSEIS page 4.16-
     1, section 4.16).
       (2) ``The total annual GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions 
     (direct and indirect) attributed to the No Action scenarios 
     range from 28 to 42 percent greater than for the proposed 
     Project'' (FSEIS page ES-34, section ES.5.4.2).
       (3) ``. . . approval or denial of any one crude oil 
     transport project, including the proposed Project, is 
     unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in 
     the oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at 
     refineries in the United States based on expected oil prices, 
     oil-sands supply costs, transport costs, and supply-demand 
     scenarios'' (FSEIS page ES-16, section ES.4.1.1).
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