[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6304]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 3105. Mr. CRAMER (for himself, Mr. Braun, Mr. Hoeven, and Mr.
Inhofe) proposed an amendment to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res.
14, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States
Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031; as follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO PROHIBIT THE
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY FROM
PROMULGATING RULES OR GUIDANCE THAT BANS
FRACKING IN THE UNITED STATES.
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 the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and environmental
laws and policies, which may include limiting or prohibiting
the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from
proposing, finalizing, or implementing a rule or guidance
that bans fracking in the United States 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 2022 through
2026 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2022 through
2031.
______