[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 137 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5662]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2257. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, 
Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. 
Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 
3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety 
programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of the amendment, add the following:

 DIVISION __--CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS RELATING TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

     SEC. __. ANNUAL REPORT ON NEW CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS RELATING 
                   TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.

       The head of each Federal agency shall submit to Congress an 
     annual report on any future category of actions or issues 
     that would support the adoption or deployment of emerging 
     technologies, as determined by the head of a Federal agency, 
     that have not been addressed in any environmental assessment 
     (as defined in section 1508.1 of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations (or a successor regulation)) conducted by that 
     Federal agency but that could meet the criteria for 
     consideration as a categorical exclusion from the 
     requirements of title I of the National Environmental Policy 
     Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq.).
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