[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10375-10376]
[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. 2822

                        Offered By: Mr. Poliquin

       Amendment No.  4: 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 or enforce section 63.7570(b)(2) of 
     title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the 
     date of enactment of this Act).

                               H.R. 2822

                       Offered By: Mrs. Blackburn

       Amendment No.  5: Page 70, line 3, after the dollar amount, 
     insert ``(reduced to $0)''.

                               H.R. 2822

                       Offered By: Mrs. Blackburn

       Amendment No.  6: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


                       across-the-board reduction

       Sec. __. Each amount made available by this Act is hereby 
     reduced by 1 percent.

                               H.R. 2822

                     Offered By: Mr. Weber of Texas

       Amendment No.  7: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


                       limitation on use of funds

       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used in contravention of Section 321(a) of the Clean Air 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 7621(a)).

                               H.R. 2822

                     Offered By: Mr. Weber of Texas

       Amendment No.  8: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


                       limitation on use of funds

       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to issue any final rule pursuant to the Clean Air Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) until the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency complies with Section 321(a) 
     of the such Act (42 U.S.C. 7621(a)).

                               H.R. 2822

                        Offered By: Mr. Walberg

       Amendment No.  9: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


                          limitation on funds

       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to lobby in 
     contravention of section 1913 of title 18, United States 
     Code, on behalf of the proposed rule entitled ``Definition of 
     `Waters of the United States' Under the Clean Water Act'' (79 
     Fed. Reg. 22188; April 21, 2014).

                               H.R. 2822

                         Offered By: Mr. Kildee

       Amendment No.  10: Page 68, strike lines 1 and 2 and insert 
     the following: ``: Provided further, That an entity shall not 
     be an eligible recipient for a grant under this paragraph 
     unless the entity has experienced at least 15 percent 
     population loss since 1970, as measured by data from the 2010 
     decennial census and has experienced prolonged population, 
     income, and employment loss resulting in substantial levels 
     of housing vacancy and abandonment and such housing vacancies 
     and abandonments are concentrated in more than one 
     neighborhood or geographic area within a jurisdiction or 
     jurisdictions.''.

                               H.R. 2822

                       Offered By: Mrs. Lawrence

       Amendment No.  11: Strike section 418.

                               H.R. 2822

                       Offered By: Mrs. Lawrence

       Amendment No.  12: Strike section 422.

                               H.R. 2822

                       Offered By: Mrs. Lawrence

       Amendment No.  13: Strike section 439.

                               H.R. 2822

                       Offered By: Mrs. Lawrence

       Amendment No.  14: Strike section 417.

                               H.R. 2822

                       Offered By: Mrs. Lawrence

       Amendment No.  15: Strike section 434.

                               H.R. 2822

                         Offered By: Mr. Amodei

       Amendment No.  16: At the end of the bill, before the short 
     title, add the following new section:


                              sage-grouse

       Sec. __.  (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to develop, 
     propose, finalize, implement, enforce, or administer any 
     action to withdraw lands pursuant to section 204 of the 
     Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
     1714) for the purpose of managing the greater sage-grouse or 
     greater sage-grouse habitat.
       (b) None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
     used by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
     Agriculture to finalize, approve, or implement the Great 
     Basin Region Greater Sage-Grouse Proposed Land Use Plan 
     Amendments for the Sub-Regions of Idaho and Southwestern 
     Montana, Nevada and Northeastern California, Oregon and Utah; 
     the Rocky Mountain Region Greater Sage-Grouse Proposed Land 
     Use Plan Amendments for the Wyoming, Northwest Colorado, 
     Lewistown, and North Dakota Sub-Regions; the Proposed 
     Resource Management Plan for the Billings and Pompeys Pillar 
     National Monument Resource Management Plan Revision; the

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     HiLine District Proposed Resource Management Plan; the Miles 
     City Field Office Proposed Resource Management Plan; Proposed 
     Resource Management Plan for the Bighorn Basin Resource 
     Management Plan Revision; the Proposed Resource Management 
     Plan for the Buffalo, Wyoming Resource Management Plan 
     Revision; and the South Dakota Field Office Proposed Resource 
     Management Plan developed pursuant to section 202 of the 
     Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
     1712) or section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable 
     Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604).

                               H.R. 2822

                Offered By: Mr. Duncan of South Carolina

       Amendment No.  17: Page 14, line 3, before the period 
     insert the following: ``: Provided further, That none of such 
     funds and appropriations may be used to enforce any 
     prohibition under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 
     703 et seq.) or the Act of June 8, 1940 (chapter 278; 16 
     U.S.C. 668 et seq.; popularly known as the Bald Eagle 
     Protection Act) on the accidental taking of birds, before the 
     date of the issuance of a rule that exempts such takings from 
     such prohibitions''.

                               H.R. 2822

                         Offered By: Mr. Hudson

       Amendment No.  18: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


 limitation on use of funds to remove oil and gas lease sale 260 from 
                            leasing program

       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to remove oil and gas lease sale 260 from the Draft 
     Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing 
     Program for 2017-2022 (DPP), or from any subsequent proposed 
     or final iteration of such Program.

                               H.R. 2822

                        Offered By: Mr. Newhouse

       Amendment No.  19: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following:


limitation on use of funds to treat gray wolves in washington, oregon, 
          and utah as endangered species or threatened species

       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used to used to treat any gray wolf (Canis lupus) in 
     Washington, Oregon, or Utah as an endangered species or 
     threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 
     (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).