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114TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 114–683 

PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 5538) MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, 

AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 

30, 2017, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; PROVIDING FOR PROCEEDINGS 

DURING THE PERIOD FROM JULY 15, 2016, THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5, 

2016; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 

JULY 11, 2016.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. NEWHOUSE, from the Committee on Rules, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany H. Res. 820] 

The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration House 

Resolution 820, by a record vote of 7 to 2, report the same to the 

House with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted. 

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE RESOLUTION

The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 5538, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, under a structured rule. The resolution provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by 

the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The resolution provides that the bill shall be 

considered as read through page 184, line 21. The resolution 

waives points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to 

comply with clause 2 of rule XXI, except on page 71, line 19, 

through page 71, line 25. The resolution makes in order only those 

amendments printed in this report, amendments en bloc described 

in section 3 of the resolution, and pro forma amendments described 

in section 4 of the resolution. Each such amendment printed in the 

report may be offered only in the order printed in this report, may 

be offered only by a Member designated in this report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in this report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject 

to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the 

Committee of the Whole. The resolution waives all points of order 


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against the amendments printed in this report or against amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution. 

Section 3 of the resolution provides that it shall be in order at 

any time for the chair of the Committee on Appropriations or his 

designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments 

printed in this report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc 

shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes 

equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 

member of the Committee on Appropriations or their designees, 

shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a 

demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 

Section 4 of the resolution provides that the chair and ranking 

minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees may offer up to 10 pro forma amendments each 

at any point for the purpose of debate. The resolution provides one 

motion to recommit with or without instructions. 

Section 6 of the resolution provides that section 454 of H.R. 5538 

shall be considered to be a spending reduction account for purposes 

of section 3(d) of House Resolution 5. 

Section 7 of the resolution provides that during consideration of 

H.R. 5538, section 3304 of Senate Concurrent Resolution 11 shall 

not apply. 

Section 8 of the resolution provides that on any legislative day 

during the period from July 15, 2016, through September 5, 2016: 

the Journal of the proceedings of the previous day shall be considered as approved; and the Chair may at any time declare the 

House adjourned to meet at a date and time to be announced by 

the Chair in declaring the adjournment. 

Section 9 of the resolution provides that the Speaker may appoint Members to perform the duties of the Chair for the duration 

of the period addressed by section 8 of the resolution as though 

under clause 8(a) of rule I. 

Section 10 of the resolution provides that each day during the period addressed by section 8 of the resolution shall not constitute 

calendar days for the purposes of section 7 of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1546). 

Section 11 of the resolution provides that each day during the period addressed by section 8 of the resolution shall not constitute a 

legislative day for purposes of clause 7 of rule XIII (resolutions of 

inquiry). 

Section 12 of the resolution provides that for each day during the 

period addressed by section 8 shall not constitute a calendar or legislative day for purposes of clause 7(c)(1) of rule XXII (motions to 

instruct conferees). 

Section 13 of the resolution provides that it shall be in order at 

any time on the legislative day of July 14, 2016 or July 15, 2016, 

for the Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the 

rules and that the Speaker or his designee shall consult with the 

Minority Leader or her designee on the designation of any matter 

for consideration pursuant to this section. 

Section 14 of the resolution provides that the Committee on Appropriations may, at any time before 5 p.m. on Friday, July 29, 

2016, file privileged reports to accompany measures making appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017. 


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EXPLANATION OF WAIVERS

Although the resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill, the Committee is not aware of any points of 

order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature. 

The resolution includes a waiver of points of order against provisions for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI, which prohibits unauthorized appropriations or legislative provisions in an 

appropriations bill. The waiver applies to all provisions in the bill 

except on page 71, line 19, through page 71, line 25. 

Although the resolution waives all points of order against the 

amendments printed in this report or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution, the Committee is not aware 

of any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature. 

COMMITTEE VOTES

The results of each record vote on an amendment or motion to 

report, together with the names of those voting for and against, are 

printed below: 

Rules Committee record vote No. 200 

Motion by Ms. Slaughter to report an open rule. Defeated: 2–7 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Ms. Foxx ............................................................ ................... Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Yea 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Nay Mr. McGovern ................................................... Yea 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Nay Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... ...................

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Nay Mr. Polis ........................................................... ...................

Mr. Stivers ........................................................ Nay 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Nay 

Mr. Byrne .......................................................... ...................

Mr. Newhouse ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Nay 

Rules Committee record vote No. 201 

Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #36, offered by Rep. Maloney 

(NY) and Rep. Ros-Lehtinen (FL) and Rep. Peters (CA) and Rep. 

Hanna (NY), which would prohibit funds from being used to contravene the President’s Executive Order pertaining to equal employment in Federal government contracting. Defeated: 2–7 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Ms. Foxx ............................................................ ................... Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Yea 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Nay Mr. McGovern ................................................... Yea 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Nay Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... ...................

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Nay Mr. Polis ........................................................... ...................

Mr. Stivers ........................................................ Nay 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Nay 

Mr. Byrne .......................................................... ...................

Mr. Newhouse ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Nay 

Rules Committee record vote No. 202 

Motion by Mr. Cole to report the rule. Adopted: 7–2 

Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Ms. Foxx ............................................................ ................... Ms. Slaughter .................................................. Nay 


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Majority Members Vote Minority Members Vote 

Mr. Cole ............................................................ Yea Mr. McGovern ................................................... Nay 

Mr. Woodall ...................................................... Yea Mr. Hastings of Florida ................................... ...................

Mr. Burgess ...................................................... Yea Mr. Polis ........................................................... ...................

Mr. Stivers ........................................................ Yea 

Mr. Collins ........................................................ Yea 

Mr. Byrne .......................................................... ...................

Mr. Newhouse ................................................... Yea 

Mr. Sessions, Chairman ................................... Yea 

SUMMARY OF THE AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

1. Castor (FL): Matches the budget request for Law Enforcement 

of the National Wildlife Refuge System. (10 minutes) 

2. Cicilline (RI): Increases funding for the Operation of the Na- tional Park System (ONPS) account by $2,500,000, and decreases 

funding for the Departmental Operations Account for the Department of Interior by $2,500,000. (10 minutes) 

3. Courtney (CT), McGovern (MA), DeLauro (CT), Larson, John 

(CT), Himes (CT), Esty (CT), Neal (MA): Funds the New England 

National Scenic Trail at $300,000 within the Operation of the National Park System. (10 minutes) 

4. Griffith (VA): Provides a distribution of funds among Appalachian states for reclamation of abandoned mine lands in conjunction with economic and community development, offset by funds 

from the Environmental Programs and Management account. (10 

minutes) 

5. Luja ́n (NM): Decreases and increases funding to the Bureau 

of Indian Affairs (BIA) by $1 million to require that the BIA to report, identify and adjudicate to landowners egress and ingress 

easements where they do not exist for landowners on land parcels 

adjudicated under the Pueblo Lands Act of 1924. (10 minutes) 

6. Luja ́n (NM): Decreases and increases funding to the Bureau 

of Indian Affairs (BIA) by $1 million to require the BIA to update 

and digitize its inventory of rights-of-way records and to make 

them publicly available in a commonly used mapping format. (10 

minutes) 

7. Cleaver (MO): Reduces the amount appropriated to the Department of the Interior—Office of the Secretary—Departmental 

Operations by $6,000,000 in order to fund the World War I Centennial Commission authorized by the World War I Centennial Commission Act (36 U.S.C. 1 note). (10 minutes) 

8. Ellison (MN), Grijalva (AZ): Reprograms already appropriated 

funds to create an Office of Good Jobs for the Department of Interior. (10 minutes) 

9. Norcross (NJ): Adds $13,060,000 to the Hazardous Substance 

Superfund (equal to President’s Budget request) and reduces Payments In Lieu of Taxes by the same amount. (10 minutes) 

10. Beyer (VA), Cartwright (PA), Lawrence (MI): Strikes lines 4 

through 19 on page 67. (10 minutes) 

11. Lujan Grisham (NM), Polis (CO), DeGette (CO), Cartwright 

(PA), Lowenthal (CA), Sarbanes (MD), Huffman (CA): Strikes Section 122. (10 minutes) 

12. Castor (FL): Strikes section 124. (10 minutes) 

13. Huffman (CA): Strikes Section 127 of the Act, which would 

delay the finalization and implementation of the proposed rule for 


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air quality control, reporting, and compliance in specific offshore 

areas of the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean. (10 minutes) 

14. Smith, Jason (MO): Eliminates funding for the Air, Climate 

and Energy Research Program under EPA. (10 minutes) 

15. Chaffetz (UT): Increases the EPA’s Inspector General fund by 

$10,038,000 to bring up to President’s request and decreases the 

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Programs 

and Management fund by $14,000,000. (10 minutes) 

16. Gosar (AZ), LaMalfa (CA), Zinke (MT), Franks (AZ), McClintock (CA): Redirects funds from EPA bureaucracy to the Forest 

Service Hazardous Fuels account in order to prevent dangerous 

wildfires. (10 minutes) 

17. Westerman (AR): Removes funds from the EPA bureaucracy, 

and places them into the US Forest Service’s Forest and Rangeland 

Research Account, which funds the Forest Products Laboratory and 

Forest Inventory and Analysis, among other programs. (10 minutes) 

18. Johnson, Hank (GA), Conyers (MI), Hastings, Alcee (FL): Ensures implementation of the EPA’s Final Rule on the Disposal of 

Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities is consistent 

with Executive Order 12898. (10 minutes) 

19. Esty (CT), Courtney (CT): Directs $10,000,000 to Brownfields 

projects within State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) from 

Superfund cleanup to help states leverage $18 for $1 expended for 

the purpose of cleaning up brownfield properties, such as abandoned factories or former dry cleaning establishments, in their 

communities. (10 minutes) 

20. Palmer (AL): Eliminates funding for Diesel Emission Reduction Grants and sends the savings to the spending reduction account. (10 minutes) 

21. Luja ́n (NM): Decreases and increases State and Tribal Assistance Grants by $6 million to direct the EPA to work with the affected States and Indian tribes to implement a long-term monitoring program for water quality of the Animas and San Juan Rivers in response to the Gold King Mine spill. (10 minutes) 

22. Dingell (MI): Removes language that would exempt a number 

of potentially damaging activities in National Forests from consideration, including public notice and comment and alternatives analysis, under the National Environmental Policy Act. (10 minutes) 

23. Sanford (SC): Transfers $4,762,000 from the Commission of 

Fine Arts and the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs grant 

program to the bill’s Spending Reduction Account. (10 minutes) 

24. Blumenauer (OR): Strikes Section 418, which would prevent 

EPA from monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems. (10 minutes) 

25. Cartwright (PA), Lawrence (MI), Beyer (VA): Strikes section 

425, which prohibits the EPA from acting on changes to the definition of ‘‘fill material’’ and ‘‘discharge of fill material’’ under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (10 minutes) 

26. Lawrence (MI), Beyer (VA), Cartwright (PA): Strikes Section 

427. (10 minutes) 

27. Lowey (NY), Cartwright (PA), Quigley (IL), Ellison (MN): 

Strikes language that would delay implementation of the EPA 

Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule. (10 minutes) 


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28. Becerra (CA), Pallone (NJ), Lowenthal (CA), Roybal-Allard 

(CA): Strikes section 430 of Interior Appropriations bill for FY 17. 

(10 minutes) 

29. Pallone (NJ), Esty (CT): Strikes section 431. (10 minutes) 

30. Peters, Scott (CA), Esty (CT): Strikes Section 434 to allow the 

EPA to regulate ozone-depleting substances under the Significant 

New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program to improve public health 

and fight the root causes of climate change (10 minutes) 

31. Peters, Scott (CA), Lowenthal (CA), Beyer (VA), Polis (CO), 

Esty (CT), Welch (VT): Strikes Section 436 to allow federal agencies to use the social cost of carbon in rule makings and guidance 

documents (10 minutes) 

32. Grijalva (AZ), Sa ́nchez, Linda (CA): Strikes Section 437 of the 

Act. (10 minutes) 

33. Polis (CO), DeGette (CO), Cartwright (PA), Lowenthal (CA), 

Sarbanes (MD), Huffman (CA), Lujan Grisham (NM): Strikes section 439, regarding methane emissions. (10 minutes) 

34. Lowenthal (CA): Allows the Interior Department to proceed 

with updating royalty rates and valuation for federal coal, oil, and 

gas by striking Section 440. (10 minutes) 

35. McNerney (CA): Strikes section 447. (10 minutes) 

36. McNerney (CA): Strikes section 448. (10 minutes) 

37. McNerney (CA): Strikes section 449. (10 minutes) 

38. McNerney (CA): Strikes section 450. (10 minutes) 

39. McNerney (CA): Strikes section 451. (10 minutes) 

40. McNerney (CA): Strikes section 452. (10 minutes) 

41. Grijalva (AZ), Tsongas (MA), O’Rourke (TX), Polis (CO): 

Strikes section 453. (10 minutes) 

42. Black (TN): Prohibits the EPA from using funds to implement, administer, or enforce the agency’s ‘‘Phase 2’’ fuel-efficiency 

and emissions standards, or any rule with respect to glider kits and 

glider vehicles. (10 minutes) 

43. Blackburn (TN): Imposes a 1 percent across-the-board spending cut to the bill. (10 minutes) 

44. Boustany (LA): Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior to implement, administer, or enforce any rule or guidance substantially 

similar to the proposed guidance that the Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management made available for public comment on September 22, 

2015, regarding financial assurances for oil and gas operations on 

the Outer Continental Shelf. (10 minutes) 

45. Boustany (LA), Scalise (LA), Abraham (LA), Walters, Mimi 

(CA), Rouzer (NC), Gohmert (TX), Duncan (SC), Zinke (MT), 

Farenthold (TX), Byrne (AL), Lamborn (CO), Westerman (AR), 

Fleming (LA), Cramer, Kevin (ND), Hensarling (TX): Ensures that 

no money is permitted for the implementation of the Well Control 

Rule. (10 minutes) 

46. Brat (VA): Sunsets Land and Water Conservation Fund 

grants with states or local government units after 20 years. (10 

minutes) 

47. Buck (CO): Prevents the Department of Interior from 

partnering with private organizations to create or expand national 

heritage areas in southeast Colorado. (10 minutes) 

48. Burgess (TX): Restricts funds from being used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to hire new employees under 

the Title 42 Special Pay Program or transfer existing employees 


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into the Title 42 Special Pay Program authorized for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (10 minutes) 

49. Byrne (AL), Boustany (LA), Graves, Garret (LA): Prohibits 

any funds from being used to develop or propose legislation to redirect funds allocated from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act 

(GOMESA). (10 minutes) 

50. Byrne (AL), Flores (TX), Fleming (LA): Prohibits funding 

from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the Obama 

administration’s National Ocean Policy. (10 minutes) 

51. Cramer, Kevin (ND): Ensures no funds are provided to finalize or implement the Fish and Wildlife Service rule entitled ‘‘Management of Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights.’’ (10 minutes) 

52. Crawford (AR): Prohibits the EPA from enforcing or implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure 

(SPCC) rule on farming and ranching operations. (10 minutes) 

53. Crawford (AR), Newhouse (WA): Prohibits the use of funds in 

support of grassroots advocacy campaigns intended to persuade the 

outcome of legislation pending in Congress or state legislatures. (10 

minutes) 

54. Davis, Rodney (IL): Prevents any funds from being used for 

the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations at the 

EPA and reduces the Environmental Programs and Management 

account by $4,235,000. (10 minutes) 

55. Duffy (WI): Prohibits funds from being used to implement, 

administer, or enforce a new regulatory action of $100 million or 

more. (10 minutes) 

56. Duffy (WI): Requires the EPA to satisfy regulatory planning 

and review requirements established by the Clinton and Obama 

Administrations. (10 minutes) 

57. Goodlatte (VA), Thompson, Glenn (PA): Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from using any funds to take retaliatory, or EPA described ‘‘backstop’’ actions, against any of the six 

states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the event that a state 

does not meet the goals mandated by the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay 

Total Maximum Daily Load. (10 minutes) 

58. Gosar (AZ), Zinke (MT), Franks (AZ): Prohibits the use of 

funds to implement, administer, or enforce the draft EPA-USGS 

Technical Report entitled ‘‘Protecting Aquatic Life from Effects of 

Hydrologic Alteration.’’ (10 minutes) 

59. Hartzler (MO): Prohibits the installation of new ozone monitors by the Environmental Protection Agency. (10 minutes) 

60. Hudson (NC): Prohibits officers and employees of the EPA 

from official travel by airplane. (10 minutes) 

61. Huizenga (MI), LaMalfa (CA), Yoho (FL): Prohibits the use 

of funds to pay attorney fees in a civil suit under the Endangered 

Species Act pursuant to a court order that states such fees were 

calculated at an hourly rate in excess of $125 per hour. (10 minutes) 

62. Jenkins, Evan (WV): Prohibits funding for the EPA to develop, finalize, promulgate, implement, administer, or enforce any 

rule under section 112 of the Clean Air Act that applies to glass 

manufacturers that do not use continuous furnaces. (10 minutes) 

63. Jolly (FL), Clawson (FL), Graham (FL): Ensures none of the 

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tigate, or study offshore drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico 

Planning Area. (10 minutes) 

64. King, Steve (IA): Ensures that no funds appropriated by this 

Act can be used to implement, administer, or enforce Davis-Bacon 

prevailing rate wage requirements. (10 minutes) 

65. LaMalfa (CA): Prohibits the use of federal funds to remove 

four privately-owned dams on the Klamath River in California and 

Oregon. (10 minutes) 

66. Lamborn (CO): Prohibits the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled ‘‘Hydraulic Fracturing on 

Federal and Indian Lands’’. (10 minutes) 

67. Lamborn (CO): Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the threatened species or endangered species listing of any 

plant or wildlife that has not undergone a periodic 5 year review 

as required by section 4(c)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 

1973. (10 minutes) 

68. Lamborn (CO): Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the threatened species listing of the Preble’s meadow jumping 

mouse. (10 minutes) 

69. Loudermilk (GA): Prohibits funds from being used to regulate 

trailers under the Clean Air Act. (10 minutes) 

70. Lummis (WY): Prohibits funding to finalize, implement, or 

enforce EPA proposed rulemaking regarding in situ uranium production (10 minutes) 

71. MacArthur (NJ), LoBiondo (NJ): Limits permit inspection 

regulations with respect to the export of squid, octopus, and cuttlefish products. (10 minutes) 

72. Murphy, Patrick (FL), Jolly (FL), Clawson (FL), Hastings, 

Alcee (FL), Posey (FL), Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Deutch (FL), Graham 

(FL): Provides that none of the funds from this act shall be used 

to carry out seismic airgun testing or seismic airgun surveys in the 

OCS Planning Areas located within the EEZ bordering the State of 

Florida. (10 minutes) 

73. Newhouse (WA), Walden (OR), McMorris Rodgers (WA): Prohibits the use of funds by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the 

Department of Interior to treat any Gray Wolf in the 48 contiguous 

states as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act after June 13, 2017. (10 minutes) 

74. Newhouse (WA): Prohibits the use of funds by EPA to issue 

and expand new regulations under the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act (RCRA) that would apply to Animal Feeding Operations. (10 minutes) 

75. Newhouse (WA): Restores $1,000,000 for the Wolf Livestock 

Loss Demonstration Program and is offset by reducing funds for 

EPA Environmental Programs & management by $1,000,000. (10 

minutes) 

76. Palmer (AL): Ensures that none of the funds made available 

by this Act may be used for the Environmental Protection Agency’s 

Criminal Enforcement Division. (10 minutes) 

77. Pearce (NM): Removes federal protections for the New Mexico 

Meadow Jumping Mouse under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). 

(10 minutes) 

78. Pearce (NM), Gosar (AZ): Removes federal protections for the 

Mexican Wolf under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and would 


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prevent the expansion of the species habitat outside of its historic 

range. (10 minutes) 

79. Perry (PA): Ensures none of the funds made available by this 

Act may be used to develop, administer, purchase, acquire, or operate an unmanned aircraft system owned by the Department of Interior or the Environmental Protection Agency to perform surveying, mapping, or collecting remote sensing data. (10 minutes) 

80. Perry (PA): Reduces Appropriations made in this Act for the 

Environmental Protection Agency by 17 percent. (10 minutes) 

81. Perry (PA), Brat (VA): Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act shall be used to give formal notification under, or 

prepare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule or recommendation pursuant to, section 115 of the Clean Air Act. (10 

minutes) 

82. Pompeo (KS): Prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer or enforce EPA’s proposed rule on Accidental 

Release Prevention Requirements: Rink Management Program 

Under the Clean Air Act. (10 minutes) 

83. Price, Tom (GA): Ensures none of the funds in the underlying 

bill will be made available to carry out any new major rule as described in subparagraph (A) of section 804(2) of title 5, United 

States Code. (10 minutes) 

84. Ratcliffe (TX): Prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Clean 

Energy Incentive Program Design Details.’’ (10 minutes) 

85. Smith, Jason (MO): Blocks the use of funds to carry out the 

third sentence of section 107(f)(1) (CERCLA). (10 minutes) 

86. Smith, Jason (MO): Blocks funding from going towards environmental education grants under section 6 of the the national environmental education act. (10 minutes) 

87. Westerman (AR): Prevents funds from being used to enforce 

a federal court decision that stopped implementation of the 2014 

EA and take permit plan for double-crested cormorants. (10 minutes) 

88. Westmoreland (GA), Collins (GA), Smith, Jason (MO): Restricts federal agencies from using funds to pay legal fees under 

any lawsuit settlement regarding a case that arises under the 

Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species 

Act. (10 minutes) 

89. Young, Don (AK): Prohibits funds to be used to finalize, implement, or enforce new regulations on offshore Arctic energy exploration and development. (10 minutes) 

90. Young, Don (AK): Prohibits funds to be used to implement a 

final plan to designate areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 

in Alaska as wilderness. (10 minutes) 

91. Young, Don (AK): Prohibits funds to be used to implement a 

final rule by the Fish and Wildlife Service and a proposed rule 

from the National Park Service. (10 minutes) 

92. Young, Don (AK): Prohibits funds to be used to remove 3 Arctic Sales from the 2017 2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas 

Leasing Proposed Program. (10 minutes) 

93. Young, Don (AK): Prohibits funds from this Act to be used 

by the Department of Interior to change existing placer mining 

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94. Zeldin (NY): Prohibits funds from being used to designate a 

National Marine Monument in the EEZ via presidential proclamation. (10 minutes) 

95. Beyer (VA), DeFazio (OR): Prevents funds from being used to 

block science-based protections for imperiled wildlife that has or 

may need Endangered Species Act protections. (10 minutes) 

96. Beyer (VA), Welch (VT): Requires that no funds made available by this Act be used in contravention of Executive Order 13653 

or Executive Order 13693. (10 minutes) 

97. Beyer (VA), LoBiondo (NJ), Price, David (NC), Van Hollen 

(MD), Pallone (NJ), Langevin (RI), Sanford (SC): Requires that no 

funds made available by this Act be used authorize, permit, or conduct geological or geophysical activities in support of oil, gas, or 

methane hydrate exploration and development in the Atlantic. (10 

minutes) 

98. Beyer (VA), Cartwright (PA), Lawrence (MI): States none of 

the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or 

enforce section 120, 425, 426, or 427. (10 minutes) 

99. Capps (CA): Prohibits funds to be used to process any application for a permit to drill or a permit to modify that would authorize use of hydraulic fracturing or acid well stimulation treatment 

in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf. (10 minutes) 

100. Grijalva (AZ), Huffman (CA): Prevents funds in the bill from 

being used to abolish law enforcement offices at the Bureau of 

Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. (10 minutes) 

101. Higgins (NY): Prohibits the use of funds by a State in contravention of the Great Lakes Compact, an interstate compact ratified by Congress detailing how the States will work together to 

manage and protect the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin. (10 

minutes) 

102. Lowenthal (CA): Prevents funds from being used in contravention to a 2009 Interior Department Secretarial Order on climate change. (10 minutes) 

103. Pocan (WI), Welch (VT): Protects the Administration’s climate change and environmental sustainability executive order to 

ensure that no funds be used to weaken the executive order within 

this Act. (10 minutes) 

104. Polis (CO), Grijalva (AZ): Prohibits use of funds to pursue 

any additional legal ways to transfer Federal lands to private owners in contravention of existing law. (10 minutes) 

105. Speier (CA), Denham (CA): Prohibits any funds from being 

made available to implement the proposed rule for dog management in the Golden Gate National Recreational Area. (10 minutes) 

106. Tsongas (MA): Prevents a provision of the bill that would 

block BLM resource management plans from going into effect if 

failing to implement the plans would limit BLM’s ability to meet 

its multiple use obligations, including providing opportunities for 

hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. (10 minutes) 

107. Yoho (FL): Appropriates funds to conduct a study with existing funds on how Coastal Barrier Resource Area zones affect the 

value of private property. (10 minutes) 

108. Blumenauer (OR): Increases funding for the Historic Preservation Fund by $1,000,000 to be directed to the State historic preservation offices. Reduces funding for the Department of Interior 

Departmental Operations by $1,000,000. (10 minutes) 


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109. Clyburn (SC): Increases funds for historic preservation grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities by $2 million 

and reduces Office of the Secretary by the same amount. (10 minutes) 

110. Cohen (TN), Byrne (AL): Increases the Department of the Interior’s Historic Preservation Fund account by $2M, specifically 

for use in awarding competitive grants to preserve the sites and 

stories of the Civil Rights movement. (10 minutes) 

111. Chaffetz (UT): Increases BIA funding for dirt school bus routes by $1.5M. The cost is offset by decreasing EPA’s Environment Programs & Management fund by $1.75M. (10 minutes) 

112. Kildee (MI): Provides funding to help provide fresh drinking 

water to communities that have been impacted by lead in their 

drinking water. (10 minutes) 

113. Grayson (FL): Increases funding for the National Estuary Program by $468,000. (10 minutes) 114. Norcross (NJ): Adds $15,282,000 to the Hazardous Substance Superfund. (10 minutes) 

115. Kildee (MI): Allows states with communities that have declared an emergency related to lead in drinking water to use more 

of their Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to address lead in 

drinking water public health issues. (10 minutes) 

116. Polis (CO), King, Peter (NY), Ruiz (CA): Increases and then 

decreases the amount provided for Wildland Fire Management by 

$2 million in order to apply additional funds to the Volunteer Fire 

Assistance grant program. (10 minutes) 

117. Meng (NY): Reduces funding for the Smithsonian Institution by $300,000 then increases funding by the same amount to ensure 

that the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center receives the 

$300,000 increase requested in the President’s FY17 Budget. (10 

minutes) 

118. Duncan (TN): Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to destroy any buildings or structures 

on Midway Island. (10 minutes) 

119. Gosar (AZ), Amodei (NV), Buck (CO), Cook (CA), Cramer, 

Kevin (ND), Duncan (SC), Franks (AZ), Kirkpatrick (AZ), Jones 

(NC), McClintock (CA), Schweikert (AZ), Sinema (AZ), Zinke (MT), 

Salmon, (AZ), Heck (NV): Prohibits funds for the Fish and Wildlife 

Service to continue to prohibit tubing, waterskiing and wake boarding in an area on Lake Havasu. (10 minutes) 

120. Weber (TX): Prohibits the use of funds by EPA in contravention of the Clean Air Act provision requiring EPA to evaluate the 

impact of its actions with respect to jobs in America. (10 minutes) 

121. Engel (NY): Prohibits funds made available by this Act from 

being used to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles unless 

those vehicles meet the requirements of President Obama’s May 

24, 2011 Executive Order on Federal Fleet Performance. (10 minutes) 

122. Gallego (AZ): Prohibits funds from being used to issue grazing permits or leases in contravention of BLM regulations. (10 minutes) 

123. Grayson (FL): Prohibits the government from entering into 

a contract with an entity that discloses, as it is required to by the 

Federal Acquisition Regulation, that it has been convicted of fraud 

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with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public contract or subcontract. Prohibits the government from contracting 

with entities that have been notified of any delinquent Federal 

taxes for which the liability remains unsatisfied. (10 minutes) 

124. Jackson Lee (TX): Amendment expresses support for National Historic Areas and for continuation of national policy of preserving for public use historic sites, buildings, and objects of national significance. (10 minutes) 

125. Jackson Lee (TX): Prohibits the use of funds to be used to 

eliminate the Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership. (10 minutes) 

126. Jackson Lee (TX): Prohibits funds to be used to limit outreach programs administered by the Smithsonian Institution. (10 

minutes) 

127. Westerman (AR): Prevents funds from being used to destroy 

records regarding, related to, or generated by the recently closed 

Inorganic Section of the USGS Energy Geochemistry Lab in Lakewood, CO, which has a 20-year track record of data manipulation. 

(10 minutes) 

128. Grothman (WI): Eliminates $100 million in funding for the 

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants. (10 minutes) 

129. Rohrabacher (CA): Prevents funds in the underlying bill 

from being used to take steps to significantly change operations at 

the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. (10 minutes) 

130. Polis (CO): Prevents funds from being used for Surgical 

Sterilization of Wild Horses. (10 minutes) 

131. Cartwright (PA), Beyer (VA), Lawrence (MI): Strikes section 

426, which prohibits Federal Water Pollution Control Act funds 

from being used to require permits for certain discharge of dredged 

or fill material activities. (10 minutes) 

TEXT OF AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER

1. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CASTOR OF

FLORIDA OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 8, line 22, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$2,434,000)’’. 

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$2,434,000)’’. 

2. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CICILLINE

OF RHODE ISLAND OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 15, line 13, after the first dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased 

by $2,500,000)’’. 

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$2,500,000)’’. 

3. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE COURTNEY

OF CONNECTICUT OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 15, line 13, after the first dollar amount, insert ‘‘(decreased 

by $300,000)(increased by $300,000)’’. 


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4. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRIFFITH

OF VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 28, line 3, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$15,000,000)’’. 

Page 28, line 16, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$15,000,000)’’. 

Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$15,000,000)’’. 

5. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LUJA ́ N OF

NEW MEXICO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 29, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(decreased by 

$1,000,000)(increased by $1,000,000)’’. 

6. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LUJA ́ N OF

NEW MEXICO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 29, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(decreased by 

$1,000,000)(increased by $1,000,000)’’. 

7. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CLEAVER

OF MISSOURI OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$6,000,000)’’. 

Page 124, line 2, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$6,000,000)’’. 

8. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE ELLISON

OF MINNESOTA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)’’. 

9. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE NORCROSS

OF NEW JERSEY OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$13,060,000)’’. 

Page 40, line 7, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$13,060,000)’’. 

Page 74, line 25, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$13,060,000)’’. 

10. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BEYER OF

VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 67, strike lines 4 through 19. 


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11. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LUJAN

GRISHAM OF NEW MEXICO OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Page 68, strike lines 3 through 8. 

12. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CASTOR

OF FLORIDA OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 69, beginning at line 3, strike section 124. 

13. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE HUFFMAN

OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 70, strike line 1 and all that follows through page 71, line 

18. 

14. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE SMITH OF

MISSOURI OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 72, line 11, after the aggregate dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by $88,282,000)’’. 

Page 184, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$88,282,000)’’. 

15. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CHAFFETZ

OF UTAH OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by $14,000,000)’’. 

Page 74, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by $10,038,000)’’. 

16. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GOSAR OF

ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$70,000,000)’’. 

Page 95, line 13, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$70,000,000)’’. 

Page 96, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$70,000,000)’’. 

17. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

WESTERMAN OF ARKANSAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$12,000,000)’’. 

Page 90, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$10,000,000)’’. 


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18. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE JOHNSON

OF GEORGIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 73, line 17, insert ‘‘, consistent with Executive Order 

12898,’’ after ‘‘implementation’’. 

19. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE ESTY OF

CONNECTICUT OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 74, line 25, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$10,000,000)’’. 

Page 76, line 18, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$10,000,000)’’. 

Page 83, line 6, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$10,000,000)’’. 

20. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PALMER

OF ALABAMA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 76, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$100,000,000)’’. 

Page 84, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$100,000,000)’’. 

Page 184, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$100,000,000)’’. 

21. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LUJA ́ N OF

NEW MEXICO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 76, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$6,000,000)(reduced by $6,000,000)’’. 

22. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE DINGELL

OF MICHIGAN OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 106, strike lines 8 through 22. 

23. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE SANFORD

OF SOUTH CAROLINA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MIN- UTES

Page 126, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$2,762,000)’’. 

Page 126, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$2,000,000)’’. 

Page 184, line 21, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$4,762,000)’’. 

24. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BLUMENAUER OF OREGON OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 144, strike lines 14 through 19. 


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25. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CARTWRIGHT OF PENNSYLVANIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Strike section 425. 

26. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LAWRENCE OF MICHIGAN OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 147, strike lines 10 through 21. 

27. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LOWEY OF

NEW YORK OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 149, strike lines 3 through 17. 

28. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BECERRA

OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 149, strikes lines 18 through 25. 

29. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PALLONE

JR. OF NEW JERSEY OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 150, strike line 1 and all that follows through page 151, line 

2. 

30. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PETERS

OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 152, strike lines 14 through 24. 

31. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PETERS

OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 154, strike line 22 and all that follows through page 155, 

line 8. 

32. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRIJALVA

OF ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 155, strike lines 9 through 15. 

33. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE POLIS OF

COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 156, strike line 23 and all that follows through page 157, 

line 11. 


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34. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

LOWENTHAL OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Page 157, strike lines 13 through 16. 

35. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCNERNEY OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 162, beginning on line 14, strike section 447. 

36. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCNER- NEY OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MIN- UTES

Page 166, beginning on line 19, strike section 448. 

37. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCNERNEY OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 172, beginning on line 4, strike section 449. 

38. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCNER- NEY OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MIN- UTES

Page 182, beginning on line 18, strike section 450. 

39. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCNERNEY OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 182, beginning on line 24, strike section 451. 

40. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MCNER- NEY OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MIN- UTES

Page 183, beginning on line 3, strike section 452. 

41. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRIJALVA

OF ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 183, strike line 23 and all that follows through page 184, 

line 15. 

42. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BLACK OF

TENNESSEE OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

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ment, administer, or enforce section 1037.601(a)(1) of title 40, Code 

of Federal Regulations, as proposed to be revised under the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency 

Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and VehiclesPhase 2’’ published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 

Federal Register on July 13, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 40138 et seq.), or 

any rule of the same substance, with respect to glider kits and glider vehicles (as defined in section 1037.801 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, as proposed to be revised under such proposed 

rule). 

43. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BLACKBURN OF TENNESSEE OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. Each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act that is not required to be appropriated or otherwise made available by a provision of law is hereby reduced by 1 

percent. 

44. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BOUSTANY JR. OF LOUISIANA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Secretary of the Interior to implement, administer, or 

enforce any rule or guidance of the same substance as the proposed 

rule regarding Risk Management, Financial Assurance and Loss 

Prevention for which advanced notice of proposed rulemaking was 

published by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on August 

19, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 49027) or the National Notice to Lessees 

and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas and Sulphur Leases, Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) issued by such Bureau (NTL No. 2016– 

N03). 

45. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BOUSTANY JR. OF LOUISIANA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may 

used by the Secretary of the Interior to implement, administer, or 

enforce any rule of the same substance as the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in the Outer Continental 

Shelf-Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control’’ and published 

April 17, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 21504), the final rule issued by the 

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement with that title 

(Docket ID: BSEE-2015-0002; 15XE1700DX EEEE500000 

EX1SF0000.DAQ000), or any rule of the same substance as such 

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46. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BRAT OF

VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to enforce contracts or other agreements under the Land and 

Water Conservation Fund program that were entered into with 

States or units of local government more than 20 years before the 

date of the enactment of this Act. 

47. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BUCK OF

COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, add the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available under this Act may 

be used to enter into a cooperative agreements with or make any 

grant or loan to an entity to establish in any of Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers, and Pueblo 

counties, Colorado, a national heritage area, national heritage corridor, national heritage canal way, national heritage tour route, national historic district, or cultural heritage corridor. 

48. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BURGESS

OF TEXAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following 

new section: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 

to hire or pay the salary of any officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agency under subsection (f) or (g) of section 207 

of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 209) who is not already 

receiving pay under either such subsection on the date of enactment of this Act. 

49. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BYRNE OF

ALABAMA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to propose or develop legislation to redirect funds allocated 

under section 105(a)(2)(A) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security 

Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 1331 note). 

50. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BYRNE OF

ALABAMA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR EXECUTIVE ORDER RELATING TO

STEWARDSHIP OF OCEANS, COASTS, AND THE GREAT LAKES

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order No. 

13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 43023, relating to the stewardship of oceans, 


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coasts, and the Great Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy 

developed under such Executive Order. 

51. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CRAMER

OF NORTH DAKOTA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to develop, propose, finalize, implement or enforce the rule entitled ‘‘Management of Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights’’ and published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on December 

11, 2015 (80 Fed Reg. 77200), or any rule of the same substance. 

52. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

CRAWFORD OF ARKANSAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 

to enforce the requirements of part 112 of title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, with respect to any farm (as that term is defined in 

section 112.2 of such title). 

53. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

CRAWFORD OF ARKANSAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used in contravention of section 1913 of title 18, United States 

Code. 

54. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE DAVIS OF

ILLINOIS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act under 

the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs and Management’’ may be 

used for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations of the Environmental Protection Agency. 

(b) The amount otherwise provided by this Act for ‘‘Environmental Programs and Management’’ is hereby reduced by 

$4,235,000. 

55. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE DUFFY OF

WISCONSIN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement, administer, or enforce a new regulatory action 

for which the aggregate costs of State, local, and tribal government 

compliance or private sector compliance, as estimated under section 


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202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1532), 

will be $100,000,000 or more. 

56. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE DUFFY OF

WISCONSIN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Environmental Protection Agency in contravention of— 

(1) section 4 of Executive Order 12866 (5 U.S.C. 601 note) 

(relating to regulatory planning and review) and Executive 

Order 13563 (5 U.S.C. 601 note) (relating to improving regulation and regulatory review); 

(2) section 602 of title 5, United States Code; 

(3) section 8 of Executive Order 13132 (5 U.S.C. 601 note) 

(relating to federalism); or 

(4) section 202(a) of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 

1995 (2 U.S.C. 1532(a)). 

57. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GOODLATTE OF VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Environmental Protection Agency to take any of the actions described as a ‘‘backstop’’ in the December 29, 2009, letter 

from EPA’s Regional Administrator to the States in the Watershed 

and the District of Columbia in response to the development or implementation of a State’s watershed implementation and referred 

to in enclosure B of such letter. 

58. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GOSAR OF

ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement, administer, or enforce the draft technical report 

entitled ‘‘Protecting Aquatic Life from Effects of Hydrologic Alteration’’ published by the Environmental Protection Agency and the 

United States Geological Survey on March 1, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 

10620). 

59. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE HARTZLER

OF MISSOURI OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Environmental Protection Agency to install new ozone 

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60. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE HUDSON

OF NORTH CAROLINA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MIN- UTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to pay the costs of any officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agency for official travel by airplane. 

61. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE HUIZENGA

OF MICHIGAN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to pay attorney fees in a civil suit under section 11(g) of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1540(g)) except to a prevailing party in accordance with section 2412 of title 28, United 

States Code. 

62. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE JENKINS

OF WEST VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Environmental Protection Agency to develop, finalize, 

promulgate, implement, administer, or enforce any rule under section 112 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412) that applies to glass 

manufacturers that do not use continuous furnaces. 

63. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE JOLLY OF

FLORIDA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to research, investigate, or study offshore drilling in any portion of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area of the Outer Continental Shelf that under section 104 of the Gulf of Mexico Energy 

Security Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 1331 note) may not be offered for 

leasing, preleasing, or any related activity. 

64. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE KING OF

IOWA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act, including the amendments made by this Act, may be used to implement, 

administer, or enforce the prevailing rate of wage requirements in 

subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Davis-Bacon Act). 

65. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LAMALFA

OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 


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SEC. ll. No funds made available by this Act shall be used to 

remove or deconstruct the Copco 1 Dam, Copco 2 Dam, Iron Gate 

Dam, or the John C. Boyle Dam on the Klamath River. 

66. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LAMBORN

OF COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled 

‘‘Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands’’ as published 

in the Federal Register on March 26, 2015 and March 30, 2015 (80 

Fed. Reg. 16127 and 16577, respectively). 

67. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LAMBORN

OF COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement or enforce the threatened species or endangered 

species listing of any plant or wildlife that has not undergone a review as required by section 4(c)(2) of the Endangered Species Act 

of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c)(2) et seq.). 

68. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LAMBORN

OF COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement or enforce the threatened species listing of the 

Preble’s meadow jumping mouse under the Endangered Species Act 

of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 

69. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

LOUDERMILK OF GEORGIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed 

rule entitled ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency 

Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and VehiclesPhase 2’’ published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 

Federal Register on July 13, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 40138 et seq.), with 

respect to trailers. 

70. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE LUMMIS

OF WYOMING OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed 

rule entitled ‘‘Health and Environmental Protection Standards for 

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mental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on January 26, 

2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 4156 et seq.), or any rule of the same substance. 

71. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MACARTHUR OF NEW JERSEY OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds in this Act may be used to enforce 

permit requirements pursuant to part 14 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, with respect to the export of squid, octopus, and 

cuttlefish products. 

72. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MURPHY

OF FLORIDA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to carry out seismic airgun testing or seismic airgun surveys 

in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Planning 

Area, the Straits of Florida Outer Continental Shelf Planning Area, 

or the South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Planning Area located within the exclusive economic zone (as defined in section 107 

of title 46, United States Code) bordering the State of Florida. 

73. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

NEWHOUSE OF WASHINGTON OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR

10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Secretary of the Interior to treat any gray wolf in any 

of the 48 contiguous States or the District of Columbia as an endangered species or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) after June 13, 2017. 

74. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

NEWHOUSE OF WASHINGTON OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR

10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. lll. None of the funds made available by this Act may 

be used by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 

Agency to issue any regulation under the Solid Waste Disposal Act 

(42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) that applies to an animal feeding operation, including a concentrated animal feeding operation and a 

large concentrated animal feeding operation, as such terms are defined in section 122.23 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations. 

75. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

NEWHOUSE OF WASHINGTON OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR

10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 


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SEC. ll. For ‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Service–Resource 

Management’’ to reinstate the wolf-livestock loss demonstration 

program as authorized by Public Law 111–11, there is hereby appropriated, and the amount otherwise provided by this Act for ‘‘Environmental Protection Agency–Environmental Programs and Management’’ is hereby reduced by, $1,000,000. 

76. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PALMER

OF ALABAMA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out the powers granted under section 3063 of title 18, United States Code. 

77. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PEARCE

OF NEW MEXICO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to treat the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 

78. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PEARCE

OF NEW MEXICO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to treat the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) as an endangered species or threatened species under the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) or to implement a recovery 

plan for such species that applies in any area outside the historic 

range of such species. 

79. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PERRY OF

PENNSYLVANIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to develop, administer, purchase, acquire, or operate an unmanned aircraft system owned by the Department of Interior or 

the Environmental Protection Agency to perform surveying, mapping, or collecting remote sensing data. 

80. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PERRY OF

PENNSYLVANIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. Appropriations made in this Act for the Environmental Protection Agency are hereby reduced by 17 percent. 


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81. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PERRY OF

PENNSYLVANIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 

used to give formal notification under, or prepare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule or recommendation pursuant 

to, section 115 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7415). 

82. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE POMPEO

OF KANSAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed 

rule entitled ‘‘Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk 

Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act’’ published by the 

Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on March 

14, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 13638 et seq.). 

83. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE PRICE OF

GEORGIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to carry out any rule issued after the date of the enactment 

of this Act that is a major rule described in subparagraph (A) of 

section 804(2) of title 5, United States Code. 

84. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

RATCLIFFE OF TEXAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MIN- UTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed 

rule entitled ‘‘Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details’’ 

published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 

Register on June 30, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 42939 et seq.), or any rule 

of the same substance. 

85. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE SMITH OF

MISSOURI OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to carry out the third sentence of section 107(f)(1) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9607(f)(1)) (relating to use of recovered sums 

by the United States Government without further appropriation). 

86. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE SMITH OF

MISSOURI OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 


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SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants pursuant to section 6 of the National Environmental Education Act (20 

U.S.C. 5505). 

87. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

WESTERMAN OF ARKANSAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used enforce the decision in Civil Action No. 14–1807 (JDB), United 

States District Court for the District of Columbia, issued March 29, 

2016. 

88. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE WESTMORELAND OF GEORGIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to pay legal fees pursuant to a settlement in any case, in 

which the Federal Government is a party, that arises under— 

(1) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.); 

(2) the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 

et seq.); or 

(3) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 

seq.). 

89. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE YOUNG OF

ALASKA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule entitled 

‘‘Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations on the Outer Continental 

Shelf–Requirements for Exploratory Drilling on the Arctic Outer 

Continental Shelf’’ as published February 24, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 

9916). 

90. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE YOUNG OF

ALASKA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement the Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan for 

the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska for which notice of 

availability was published in the Federal Register on April 13, 

2015 (80 Fed. 19678). 

91. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE YOUNG OF

ALASKA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 


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SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service— 

(1) to issue a final rule for the proposed regulations listed 

under docket number FWS–R7–WRS–2014–0005; or 

(2) to implement the final rule entitled ‘‘Alaska; Hunting and 

Trapping in National Preserves’’ and dated (80 Fed. Reg. 64325 

(October 23, 2015)). 

92. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE YOUNG OF

ALASKA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. lll. None of the funds made available by this Act may 

be used to remove Arctic Sales 255, 258, and 262 from the 2017– 

2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Program for which notice of availability was published on March 18, 

2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 14881). 

93. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE YOUNG OF

ALASKA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Department of the Interior to require changes to an existing placer mining plan of operations with regard to reclamation 

activities, including revegetation, or to modify the bond requirements for the mining operation. 

94. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE ZELDIN

OF NEW YORK OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to declare a national monument under section 320301 of title 

54, United States Code, in the exclusive economic zone of the 

United States established by Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated 

March 10, 1983. 

95. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BEYER OF

VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT OR ENFORCE SPECIFIC

SECTIONS

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement or enforce section 114, 119, or 445. 

96. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BEYER OF

VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 


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SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used in contravention of— 

(1) Executive Order 13653; or 

(2) Executive Order 13693. 

97. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BEYER OF

VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to authorize, permit, or conduct geological or geophysical activities (as those terms are used in the final programmatic environmental impact statement of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management entitled ‘‘Atlantic OCS Proposed Geological and Geophysical 

Activities, Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic Planning Areas’’ and 

completed February 2014) in support of oil, gas, or methane hydrate exploration and development in any area located in the North 

Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Straits of Florida Outer 

Continental Shelf Planning Area. 

98. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BEYER OF

VIRGINIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to implement or enforce section 120, 425, 426, or 427. 

99. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CAPPS OF

CALIFORNIA OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to process any application under the Outer Continental Shelf 

Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) for a permit to drill or a permit 

to modify, that would authorize use of hydraulic fracturing or acid 

well stimulation treatment in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf. 

100. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRI- JALVA OF ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MIN- UTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following 

new section: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to terminate— 

(1) the Law Enforcement and Investigations unit of the Forest Service; or 

(2) the Office of Law Enforcement and Security of the Bureau of Land Management. 

101. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE HIGGINS

OF NEW YORK OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 


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COMPLIANCE WITH GREAT LAKES COMPACT

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by a State in contravention of the interstate compact regarding water resources in the Great Lakes—St. Lawrence River Basin 

consented to and approved by Congress in Public Law 110–342. 

102. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

LOWENTHAL OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used in contravention of Secretarial Order 3289, issued by the Secretary of the Interior on September 14, 2009, and addressing the 

impacts of climate change on America’s water, land, and other natural and cultural resources. 

103. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE POCAN

OF WISCONSIN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used in contravention of Executive Order 13693. 

104. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE POLIS OF

COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. 441. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used in contravention of section 102(a)(1) of Public Law 94–579 (43 

U.S.C. 1701(a)(1)). 

105. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE SPEIER

OF CALIFORNIA OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed 

rule entitled ‘‘Special Regulations, Areas of the National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Dog Management’’ published by the National Park Service in the Federal Register on February 24, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 9139 et seq.; Regulation Identifier No. 

1024–AE16). 

106. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE TSONGAS

OF MASSACHUSETTS OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 

used in contravention of section 302(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 

U.S.C. 1732(a)). 


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107. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE YOHO OF

FLORIDA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 8, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)’’. 

108. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE BLUMENAUER OF OREGON OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 16, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$1,000,000)’’. 

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$1,000,000)’’. 

109. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CLYBURN OF SOUTH CAROLINA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Page 16, lines 4 and 24, after each dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by $2,000,000)’’. 

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$2,000,000)’’. 

110. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE COHEN

OF TENNESSEE OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 16, lines 4 and 23, after each dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by $2,000,000)’’. 

Page 38, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$2,000,000)’’. 

111. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

CHAFFETZ OF UTAH OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 29, line 12, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$1,500,000)’’. 

Page 30, line 3, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(increased by 

$1,500,000)’’. 

Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(decreased by 

$1,750,000)’’. 

112. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE KILDEE

OF MICHIGAN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 72, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by 

$3,000,000)’’. 

Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$3,000,000)’’. 


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113. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRAY- SON OF FLORIDA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$468,000) (increased by $468,000)’’. 

114. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE NORCROSS OF NEW JERSEY OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Page 74, line 25, after the dollar amount insert ‘‘(reduced by $15,282,000) (increased by $15,282,000)’’. 

115. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE KILDEE

OF MICHIGAN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 81, line 18, insert ‘‘or if a Federal or State emergency declaration has been issued due to a threat to public health from 

heightened exposure to lead in a municipal drinking water supply 

before the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That in 

a State in which such an emergency declaration has been issued, 

the State may use more than 20 percent of the funds made available under this title to the State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants to provide additional subsidy to eligible recipients’’ before the semicolon at the end. 

116. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE POLIS OF

COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 91, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$2,000,000)’’. 

Page 95, line 13, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by $2,000,000)’’. 

Page 96, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(increased by $2,000,000)’’. 

117. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE MENG

OF NEW YORK OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

Page 120, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert the following: 

‘‘(reduced by $300,000) (increased by $300,000)’’. 

118. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE DUNCAN

JR. OF TENNESSEE OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to destroy any buildings or structures on Midway Island. 

119. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GOSAR

OF ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: 


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SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by the Act may be 

used to implement, administer, or enforce the modification to boating restrictions contained in the news release issued by the United 

States Fish and Wildlife Service entitled ‘‘Minor Modification to 

Boating Restrictions at Havasu Wildlife Refuge’’ and dated May 20, 

2015. 

120. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE WEBER

OF TEXAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS

SEC. ll. 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)). 

121. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE ENGEL

OF NEW YORK OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, or any other Federal agency to lease or purchase new 

light duty vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet 

inventory, except in accordance with Presidential Memorandum— 

Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011. 

122. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

GALLEGO OF ARIZONA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following: 

SEC. lll. None of the funds made available by this Act may 

be used to issue a grazing permit or lease in contravention of section 4110.1 or 4130.1–1(b) of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations. 

123. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRAYSON OF FLORIDA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. 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— 

(1) 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, 


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tax evasion, violating Federal criminal tax laws, or receiving 

stolen property; 

(2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with, commission of any 

of the offenses enumerated above in paragraph (1); or 

(3) 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. 

124. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE JACKSON LEE OF TEXAS OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of bill, before the short title, add the following new 

section: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act for the 

‘‘DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR—NATIONAL PARK SERVICE—NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION’’ may be used in contravention of section 320101 of title 54, United States Code. 

125. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE JACKSON LEE OF TEXAS OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 

used may be used to eliminate the Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership. 

126. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE JACKSON

LEE OF TEXAS OR HER DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 

used to limit outreach programs administered by the Smithsonian 

Institution. 

127. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

WESTERMAN OF ARKANSAS OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Department of the Interior for the purpose of destroying any records regarding, related to, or generated by the Inorganic 

Section of the United States Geological Survey Energy Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado. 


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128. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE

GROTHMAN OF WISCONSIN OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Page 76, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced by 

$100,000,000)’’. 

Page 84, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ‘‘(reduced to $0)’’. 

129. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE ROHRABACHER OF CALIFORNIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

At the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used to consult with the National Science Foundation with respect 

to section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 or 

section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 with respect to any 

Environmental Impact Statement prepared pursuant to the ‘‘Notice 

of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Initiate Section 106 Consultation for Proposed Changes to Arecibo Observatory Operations, Arecibo, Puerto Rico and Notice of Public 

Scoping Meetings and Comment Period’’, published in the Federal 

Register May 23, 2016. 

130. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE POLIS OF

COLORADO OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 MINUTES

At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: 

SEC. ll. None of the funds made available by this Act may be 

used by the Bureau of Land Management to study or test the feasibility of, or implement, any sterilization program for wild horse and 

burro management with surgical sterilization. 

131. AN AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED BY REPRESENTATIVE CARTWRIGHT OF PENNSYLVANIA OR HIS DESIGNEE, DEBATABLE FOR 10 

MINUTES

Strike section 426. 

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