[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 25, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3551. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147, making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 22, line 10, strike the period at the end and 
     insert the following: ``: Provided further, That of the 
     amounts made available under this heading, not less than 
     $200,000 shall be used for activities to better understand 
     mechanisms that result in toxins being present in harmful 
     algal blooms.''.
       On page 65, line 5, strike the period at the end and insert 
     the following: ``: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
     available under this heading, not less than $5,000,000 shall 
     be used to investigate health impacts from exposure to 
     harmful algal blooms and cyanobacteria toxins, and to develop 
     innovative methods to monitor, characterize, and predict 
     blooms for early action.''.
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