[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 17, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2891]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3968. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. 
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for 
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division A, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be obligated or expended to 
     regulate, either directly or indirectly and including by 
     requiring an environmental impact statement or similar 
     analysis required under the National Environmental Policy Act 
     of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the acquisition, use, 
     transfer, or disposal of property at an airport for airfield 
     or non-airfield development activities if--
        (a) the property was not financed with Federal funding; 
     and
       (b) the acquisition, use, transfer, or disposal of the 
     property does not impair the safety, utility, or efficiency 
     of aircraft operations at the airport.
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