[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 23, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 994. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, 
and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title I of division C, insert 
     the following:
       Sec. 1__.  There is appropriated $2,000,000 to the Director 
     of the United States Geological Survey to coordinate with the 
     Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and 
     other Federal, State, Tribal, and local agencies, research 
     universities, nonprofit organizations, and other partners to 
     determine the science needs and develop an action plan for a 
     multiyear integrated program to assess, monitor, and conserve 
     saline lake ecosystems in Great Basin States and the wildlife 
     that depend on those ecosystems, and to begin implementation 
     of that program.
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