[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 27, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S283]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3028. Mr. COATS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to 
provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. RELIEF PENDING REVIEW.

       Section 705 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``When'' and inserting the following:
       ``(a) In General.--When''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(b) High-Impact Rules.--
       ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection--
       ``(A) the term `Administrator' means the Administrator of 
     the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the 
     Office of Management and Budget; and
       ``(B) the term `high-impact rule' means any rule that the 
     Administrator determines may impose an annual cost on the 
     economy of not less than $1,000,000,000.
       ``(2) Relief.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
     an agency shall postpone the effective date of a high-impact 
     rule of the agency pending judicial review.
       ``(B) Failure to timely seek judicial review.--
     Notwithstanding section 553(d), if no person seeks judicial 
     review of a high-impact rule during the 60-day period 
     beginning on the date on which the high-impact rule is 
     published in the Federal Register, the high-impact rule shall 
     take effect on the date that is 60 days after the date on 
     which the high-impact rule is published.''.
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