[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2069]
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  SA 1031. Mr. TESTER 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 DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF LAND 
                   MANAGEMENT, IN COLLABORATION WITH WESTERN 
                   STATES, HAS SUFFICIENT RESOURCES TO AVOID THE 
                   NEED TO LIST THE SAGE-GROUSE UNDER THE 
                   ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT OF 1973.

       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 improving the management of public land and 
     natural resources, which may include providing adequate 
     resources to avoid the need to list the sage-grouse under the 
     Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 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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