[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 116 (Thursday, July 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5545]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2296. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2266 submitted by Mr. McConnell and intended to be 
proposed to the bill H.R. 22, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the 
Veterans Administration from being taken into account for purposes of 
determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under 
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title V of division A, add the following:

     SEC. 15___. LIMITATION ON WITHHOLDING OF APPORTIONMENTS FOR 
                   NONCOMPLIANCE WITH AIR QUALITY STANDARDS.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, 
     is amended by inserting after section 159 the following:

     ``Sec. 160. Noncompliance with air quality standards

       ``The Secretary may withhold amounts required to be 
     apportioned under section 104(b) or any other provision of 
     this title or title 49 for Federal-aid highway projects for a 
     fiscal year from a State that contains an area that has not 
     attained an applicable national primary or secondary ambient 
     air quality standard under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 
     et seq.) (including regulations promulgated pursuant to that 
     Act) only if--
       ``(1) the rule establishing the standard has been finalized 
     and implemented before the date of enactment of the DRIVE 
     Act; or
       ``(2) in a case in which the rule establishing the standard 
     is finalized and implemented on or after the date of 
     enactment of the DRIVE Act, the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency includes in each regulatory 
     impact analysis regarding the proposed and final rule at 
     least 1 analysis that does not include--
       ``(A) any other proposed rule;
       ``(B) any other rule that, as of the date of the analysis--
       ``(i) has been finalized by the Administrator; but
       ``(ii) has not been implemented; and
       ``(C) any calculation of benefits resulting from reducing 
     emissions of any other criteria pollutant.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--The analysis for title 23, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
     relating to section 159 the following:

``160. Noncompliance with air quality standards.''.
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