[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 6, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S1017]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 138. Mr. BARRASSO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 111 submitted by Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. 
Manchin) and intended to be proposed to the bill S. 47, to provide for 
the management of the natural resources of the United States, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title IX, add the following:

     SEC. 90__. REDUCTION IN ROYALTY RATE ON SODA ASH.

       Notwithstanding section 102(a)(9) of the Federal Land 
     Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701(a)(9)), 
     section 24 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 262), and 
     the terms of any lease under that Act, the royalty rate on 
     the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds 
     and related products at the point of shipment to market from 
     Federal land in the 1-year period beginning on the date of 
     enactment of this Act shall be 4 percent.
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