[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 145 (Tuesday, August 10, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S6330]
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  SA 3245. Mr. HOEVEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO 
                   STREAMLINING FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING 
                   OR ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY ACTION FOR THE 
                   PRODUCTION OF CRITICAL MINERALS AND RARE EARTH 
                   ELEMENTS.

       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 
     streamlining Federal environmental permitting or 
     environmental regulatory action for the production of 
     critical minerals and rare earth elements, including lignite 
     coal, 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.
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