[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11134-11136]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

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

                               H.R. 2609

                         Offered by: Mr. Turner

       Amendment No. 10: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to reduce the nuclear forces of the United States in 
     contravention of section 303(b) of the Arms Control and 
     Disarmament Act (22 U.S.C. 2573(b)).

                               H.R. 2609

                   Offered By: Ms. Castor of Florida

       Amendment No. 11: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(increased by $1,127,954,000)''.
       Page 22, line 8, before the period, insert the following:
     : Provided, That the amount made available under this heading 
     shall be allocated between programs, projects, and activities 
     previously funded under the heading ``Energy

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     Efficiency and Renewable Energy'' and programs, projects, and 
     activities previously funded under the heading ``Electricity 
     Delivery and Energy Reliability'' in the same proportion as 
     such funds were allocated between such accounts in fiscal 
     year 2013 by division F of Public Law 113-6

                               H.R. 2609

                          Offered By: Mr. Reed

       Amendment No. 12: Page 3, line 4, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $1)''.
       Page 25, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $18,956,000)''.
       Page 28, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $9,478,000)''.
       Page 31, line 1, after the second dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $9,477,999)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                          Offered By: Mr. Reed

       Amendment No. 13: Page 25, line 14, after the dollar 
     amount, insert ``(increased by $18,956,000)''.
       Page 28, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $9,478,000)''.
       Page 31, line 1, after the second dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $9,478,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Grayson

       Amendment No. 14: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), add the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to enter into a contract with any offeror or any of 
     its principals if the offeror certifies, as required by 
     Federal Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any of 
     its principals:
       (A) within a three-year period preceding this offer has 
     been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against it 
     for: commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection 
     with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public 
     (Federal, State, or local) contract or subcontract; violation 
     of Federal or State antitrust statutes relating to the 
     submission of offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, 
     forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, 
     making false statements, tax evasion, violating Federal 
     criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property; or
       (B) are presently indicted for, or otherwise criminally or 
     civilly charged by a governmental entity with, commission of 
     any of the offenses enumerated above in subsection (A); or
       (C) within a three-year period preceding this offer, has 
     been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in an amount 
     that exceeds $3,000 for which the liability remains 
     unsatisfied.

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Grayson

       Amendment No. 15: Page 6, line 15, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                   Offered By: Ms. Castor of Florida

       Amendment No. 16: Page 22, line 8, before the period, 
     insert the following:
     : Provided, That the amount made available under this heading 
     shall be allocated between programs, projects, and activities 
     previously funded under the heading ``Energy Efficiency and 
     Renewable Energy'' and programs, projects, and activities 
     previously funded under the heading ``Electricity Delivery 
     and Energy Reliability'' in the same proportion as such funds 
     were allocated between such accounts for fiscal year 2013 by 
     division F of Public Law 113-6.

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Burgess

       Amendment No. 17: 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--
       (1) to implement or enforce section 430.32(x) of title 10, 
     Code of Federal Regulations; or
       (2) to implement or enforce the standards established by 
     the tables contained in section 325(i)(1)(B) of the Energy 
     Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(i)(1)(B)) with 
     respect to BPAR incandescent reflector lamps, BR incandescent 
     reflector lamps, and ER incandescent reflector lamps.

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Burgess

       Amendment No. 18: Page 30, line 6, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $48,000,000)''.
       Page 30, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $48,000,000)''.
       Page 60, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $48,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                 Offered By: Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania

       Amendment No. 19: Page 3, line 16, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(increased by $3,000,000)''.
       Page 17, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $3,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                 Offered By: Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania

       Amendment No. 20: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to develop or submit a proposal to expand the 
     authorized uses of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
     described in section 9505(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986.

                               H.R. 2609

                 Offered By: Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania

       Amendment No. 21: Page 10, line 21, after the period insert 
     the following: ``Further, the Army Corps of Engineers, in 
     coordination with the Director of the United States Fish and 
     Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, and the United 
     States Geological Survey, shall lead a multiagency effort to 
     slow the spread of Asian Carp in the Ohio River basin and 
     tributaries by providing high-level technical assistance, 
     coordination, best practices, and support to State and local 
     government strategies to slow, and eventually eliminate, the 
     threat posed by Asian Carp. To the maximum extent 
     practicable, the multiagency effort shall apply lessons 
     learned and best practices such as those developed under the 
     Management and Control Plan for Bighead, Black, Grass, and 
     Silver Carps in the United States, November 2007, and the 
     Asian Carp Control Strategic Framework.''.

                               H.R. 2609

                       Offered By: Mr. McClintock

       Amendment No. 22: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $731,600,000)''.
       Page 22, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $362,329,000)''.
       Page 23, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $450,000,000)''.
       Page 23, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $115,753,000)''.
       Page 60, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,543,929,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

             Offered By: Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas

       Amendment No. 23: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(increased by $992,620,780)''.
       Page 26, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $430,029,400)''.
       Page 26, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $233,250,000)''.
       Page 31, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $1,655,900,180)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Grayson

       Amendment No. 24: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by reducing the amount made available for ``National 
     Nuclear Security Administration--Weapons Activities'', and 
     increasing the amount made available for ``Corps of 
     Engineers-Civil--Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies'', by 
     $10,000,000.

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Quigley

       Amendment No. 25: Page 29, line 21, after the dollar 
     amount, insert ``(reduced by $23,700,000)''.
       Page 60, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $23,700,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                   Offered By: Mr. Barrow of Georgia

       Amendment No. 26: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement, administer, or enforce any authority, 
     in any preceding provision of this Act, to use funds for the 
     purchase or hire of motor vehicles.

                               H.R. 2609

                       Offered By: Mr. Garamendi

       Amendment No. 27: Page 30, line 6, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                       Offered By: Mr. Garamendi

       Amendment No. 28: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by reducing the amount made available for ``Atomic 
     Energy Defense Activities--National Nuclear Security 
     Administration--Weapons Activities'', and increasing the 
     amount made available for ``Corps of Engineers-Civil--
     Construction'', by $100,000,000.

                               H.R. 2609

                          Offered By: Ms. Bass

       Amendment No. 29: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to implement, administer, or enforce, with respect to 
     hydraulic fracturing operations in the Inglewood Oil Field--
       (1) the exclusion in section 1421(d)(1)(B) of the Safe 
     Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300h(d)(1)(B));
       (2) section 261.4(b)(5) of title 40, Code of Federal 
     Regulations; or
       (3) the limitation in section 402(l)(2) of the Federal 
     Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342(l)(2)).

                               H.R. 2609

                 Offered By: Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania

       Amendment No. 30: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to develop or submit

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     a proposal to expand the authorized uses of the Harbor 
     Maintenance Trust Fund described in section 9505(c) of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9505(c)).

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Higgins

       Amendment No. 31: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, insert the following:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to relocate or consolidate general and administrative 
     functions, personnel, or resources of the Buffalo and Chicago 
     Districts of the Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio 
     River Division.

                               H.R. 2609

                        Offered By: Mr. Walberg

       Amendment No. 32: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to carry out section 801 of the Energy Independence 
     and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17281).

                               H.R. 2609

                       Offered By: Mr. Garamendi

       Amendment No. 33: Page 30, line 6, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.

                               H.R. 2609

                         Offered By: Mr. Lynch

       Amendment No. 34: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:
       Sec. __.  The amounts otherwise provided by this Act are 
     revised by reducing the amount made available for 
     ``Department of Energy--Energy Programs--Fossil Energy 
     Research and Development'' and by increasing the amount made 
     available for ``Corps of Engineers-Civil--Department of the 
     Army--Corps of Engineers-Civil--Construction'' by $29,425,000 
     and $19,425,000, respectively.

                               H.R. 2609

                         Offered By: Ms. Titus

       Amendment No. 35: Page 59, lines 10 through 16, strike 
     section 509.