[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 116 (Thursday, July 23, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5552]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2317. Mr. TOOMEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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 subtitle A of title I, add the following:

     SEC. 10__. EMERGENCY EXEMPTIONS.

       Any road, highway, railway, bridge, or transit facility 
     that is damaged by an emergency that is declared by the 
     Governor of the State and concurred in by the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security or declared as an emergency by the 
     President pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
     and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and 
     that is in operation or under construction on the date on 
     which the emergency occurs--
       (1) may be reconstructed in the same location with the same 
     capacity, dimensions, and design as before the emergency; and
       (2) shall be exempt from any environmental reviews, 
     approvals, licensing, and permit requirements under--
       (A) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
     U.S.C. 4321 et seq.);
       (B) sections 402 and 404 of the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342, 1344);
       (C) division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States 
     Code;
       (D) the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.);
       (E) the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1271 et 
     seq.);
       (F) the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 U.S.C. 661 
     et seq.);
       (G) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
     seq.), except when the reconstruction occurs in designated 
     critical habitat for threatened and endangered species;
       (H) Executive Order 11990 (42 U.S.C. 4321 note; relating to 
     the protection of wetland); and
       (I) any Federal law (including regulations) requiring no 
     net loss of wetland.
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