[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 17 (Thursday, January 28, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3092. Mrs. GILLIBRAND 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. ____. ENERGY ACTION PLAN FOR PUERTO RICO.

       Section 9 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing 
     Appropriations Act, 2015 (48 U.S.C. 1492a), is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (5) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(5) Secretary.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
     the term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior.
       ``(B) Application to puerto rico.--With respect to Puerto 
     Rico, the term `Secretary' means the Secretary of Energy.''; 
     and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by inserting ``, or, in the case of Puerto Rico, not 
     later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the Energy 
     Policy Modernization Act of 2015,'' after ``of this Act''; 
     and
       (B) by inserting ``(except in the case of Puerto Rico)'' 
     after ``Empowering Insular Communities activity''.
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