[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 167 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S6488]
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SA 1145. Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Ms. Cantwell) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1116 proposed by Mr.
Enzi to the concurrent resolution H. Con. Res. 71, establishing the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2019 through 2027; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
INCREASING FUNDING FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
Federal investments in the Office of Environmental Management
of the Department of Energy, which may include measures to
meet the Federal Government's legacy responsibilities for
cleanup of liquid radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel and
nuclear materials, transuranic and mixed or low-level waste,
or contaminated soil and water, and which may also include
measures to deactivate, decontaminate, and decommission
excess facilities at 16 sites created by the Manhattan
Project or Cold War programs, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2022 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2027.
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