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House Calendar No. 185 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 672 
[Report No. 108–540] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4513) to provide that in pre-
paring an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement 
required under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 with respect to any action authorizing a renewable energy 
project, no Federal agency is required to identify alternative project 
locations or actions other than the proposed action and the no action 
alternative, and for other purposes, and for consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 4529) to provide for exploration, development, and production 
of oil and gas resources on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska, to 
resolve outstanding issues relating to the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977, to benefit the coal miners of America, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 14, 2004 
Mr. REYNOLDS, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4513) to provide 
that in preparing an environmental assessment or envi-
ronmental impact statement required under section 102 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with 
respect to any action authorizing a renewable energy 
project, no Federal agency is required to identify alter-
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native project locations or actions other than the pro-
posed action and the no action alternative, and for other 
purposes, and for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4529) 
to provide for exploration, development, and production 
of oil and gas resources on the Arctic Coastal Plain 
of Alaska, to resolve outstanding issues relating to the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
to benefit the coal miners of America, and for other 
purposes. 
Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution 
it shall be in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 
4513) to provide that in preparing an environmental as-
sessment or environmental impact statement required 
under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 with respect to any action authorizing a re-
newable energy project, no Federal agency is required to 
identify alternative project locations or actions other than 
the proposed action and the no action alternative, and for 
other purposes. The bill shall be considered as read for 
amendment. The previous question shall be considered as 
ordered on the bill and on any amendment thereto to final 
passage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour 
of debate on the bill equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on Resources; (2) the amendment printed in part A of the 
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this reso-
lution, if offered by Representative Pombo of California
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or his designee, which shall be in order without interven-
tion of any point of order or demand for division of the 
question, shall be considered as read, and shall be sepa-
rately debatable for ten minutes equally divided and con-
trolled by the proponent and an opponent; and (3) one 
motion to recommit with or without instructions. 
SEC. 2. Upon the adoption of this resolution it shall 
be in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 4529) 
to provide for exploration, development, and production of 
oil and gas resources on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alas-
ka, to resolve outstanding issues relating to the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, to benefit 
the coal miners of America, and for other purposes. The 
bill shall be considered as read for amendment. The pre-
vious question shall be considered as ordered on the bill 
and on any amendment thereto to final passage without 
intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate on the 
bill, with 50 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on Resources and 10 minutes equally divided and con-
trolled by chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Ways and Means; (2) the amendment in 
the nature of a substitute printed in part B of the report 
of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution, 
if offered by Representative Pombo of California or his
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designee, which shall be in order without intervention of 
any point of order, shall be considered as read, and shall 
be separately debatable for ten minutes equally divided 
and controlled by the proponent and an opponent; and (3) 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
House Calendar No. 185 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 672 
[Report No. 108–540] 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4513) 
to provide that in preparing an environmental as-
sessment or environmental impact statement re-
quired under section 102 of the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to any 
action authorizing a renewable energy project, no 
Federal agency is required to identify alternative 
project locations or actions other than the pro-
posed action and the no action alternative, and 
for other purposes, and for consideration of the 
bill (H.R. 4529) to provide for exploration, devel-
opment, and production of oil and gas resources 
on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska, to resolve 
outstanding issues relating to the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, to benefit 
the coal miners of America, and for other pur-
poses. 
JUNE 14, 2004 
Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
printed