[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8238-8239]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of the rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted 
as follows:

                               H.R. 5384

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 1. At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. 753. Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     submit to Congress a report on the National Animal 
     Identification Plan, including the lessons learned and the 
     effectiveness of the pilot programs funded in fiscal year 
     2007, an analysis of the economic impact of the proposed 
     National Animal Identification System on the livestock 
     industry, and the expected cost of implementing the National 
     Animal Identification System.

                               H.R. 5384

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 2: Page 21, line 4, insert before the period 
     at the end the following: ``: Provided further, That 
     $1,000,000 of this appropriation shall not be available until 
     the Secretary of Agriculture submits to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate, the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives, and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate a report on the National Animal 
     Identification Plan, including the lessons learned and the 
     effectiveness of the pilot programs funded in fiscal year 
     2007, an analysis of the economic impact of the proposed 
     National Animal Identification System on the livestock 
     industry, and the expected cost of implementing the National 
     Animal Identification System''.

                               H.R. 5384

                  Offered By: Mr. Kennedy of Minnesota

       Amendment No. 3: Page 5, line 15, insert after the dollar 
     amount the following: ``(reduced by $500,000)''.
       Page 13, line 6, insert after the dollar amount the 
     following: ``(increased by $500,000)''.

                               H.R. 5384

                          Offered By: Mr. Paul

       Amendment No. 4: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new sections:
       Sec. _. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
     used to implement or administer the National Animal 
     Identification System.

                               H.R. 5384

                         Offered By: Mr. Carter

       Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), add the following new section:
       Sec. 7_. The Secretary of Agriculture may use not more than 
     $3,600,000 of funds made available under section 522(e) of 
     the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1522(e)) for program 
     integrity purposes, including the data mining project.

                               H.R. 5384

                       Offered By: Mr. Blumenauer

       Amendment No. 6: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), add the following new section:
       Sec. 7_. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to pay the salaries and 
     expenses of personnel who make loans available under section 
     156 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
     1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272) to processors of domestically grown 
     sugarcane at a rate in excess of 17 cents per pound for raw 
     cane sugar or to processors of domestically grown sugar beets 
     at a rate in excess of 21.6 cents per pound for refined beet 
     sugar.

                               H.R. 5384

                         Offered By: Mr. Hefley

       Amendment No. 7: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. _. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
     used for the National Animal Identification program.

                               H.R. 5384

                         Offered By: Mr. Hefley

       Amendment No. 8: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. _. Appropriations made in this Act are hereby reduced 
     in the amount of $178,120,000.

                               H.R. 5384

                         Offered By: Mr. Lucas

       Amendment No. 9: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), add the following new section:
       Sec. 7_. The amounts otherwise provided by title II of this 
     Act for ``Natural Resources Conservation Service--
     conservation operations'' are revised by reducing the amount 
     made available for National Headquarters salaries and 
     expenses, and by increasing the amount made available for 
     conservation technical assistance, by $50,000,000.

                               H.R. 5384

                  Offered By: Mr. Schwarz of Michigan

       Amendment No. 10: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. 7_. It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of 
     Agriculture should use the transfer authority provided by 
     section 442 of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7772) to 
     implement the strategic plan developed by the Animal and 
     Plant Health Inspection Service for the eradication of 
     Emerald Ash Borer in the States of Michigan, Ohio, and 
     Indiana.

                               H.R. 5384

                    Offered By: Ms. Bordallo of Guam

       Amendment No. 11: Page 13, line 19, after the dollar 
     amount, insert ``(decreased by $1,000,000)''.
       Page 15, line 2, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 5384

                         Offered By: Mr. Chabot

       Amendment No. 12: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title) insert the following new section:
       Sec. _. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to carry out section 203 of 
     the Agriculture Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) or to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out a market 
     program under such section.

                               H.R. 5386

                         Offered By: Mr. Hefley

       Amendment No. 1: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new title:
                TITLE VI--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
       Sec. 601. Each amount appropriated or otherwise 3 made 
     available by this Act that is not required to be appropriated 
     or otherwise made available by a provision of law is reduced 
     by 1 percent.

                               H.R. 5386

                         Offered By: Mr. Putnam

       Amendment No. 2: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
  TITLE ___--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
       Sec. __. No funds provided in title I may be expended by 
     the Department of the Interior--
       (1) for the conduct of offshore natural gas preleasing, 
     leasing, and related activities placed under restriction in 
     the President's moratorium statement of June 12, 1998, in the 
     areas of northern, central, and southern California; the 
     North Atlantic; Washington and Oregon; and the eastern Gulf 
     of Mexico south of 26 degrees north latitude and east of 86 
     degrees west longitude;

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       (2) to conduct offshore natural gas preleasing, leasing, 
     and related activities in the eastern Gulf of Mexico planning 
     area for any lands located outside Sale 181, as identified in 
     the final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing 
     Program, 1997-2002; or
       (3) to conduct natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related 
     activities in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning 
     areas.