[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1803]
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  SA 422. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ENSURING 
                   THAT THE CONSERVATION OF NORTHERN LONG-EARED 
                   BAT POPULATIONS AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 
                   ARE COMPATIBLE.

       The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate 
     may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution 
     for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, 
     amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports 
     relating to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
     1531 et seq.), which may include requirements that State 
     conservation plans relating to the northern long-eared bat 
     are given maximum flexibility to be successful so as to 
     preserve and protect local and rural economies before any 
     Federal listing decision is made with respect to the northern 
     long-eared bat, by the amounts provided in such legislation 
     for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not 
     increase the deficit over either the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2016 through 2020 or the period of the total of 
     fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
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