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On the recordJanuary 26, 2023
I have an amendment at the desk, No. 66. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, line 20, strike ``and gas''. Page 2, line 24, strike ``limitation'' and insert ``limitations''. Page 3, strike lines 1 through 5, and insert the following: ``(2) Limitations.-- ``(A) Total increase.--The plan required by paragraph (1) shall not provide for a total increase in the percentage of Federal lands described in paragraph (1) leased for oil production in excess of 10 percent. ``(B) Participation by fossil industry entities.-- ``(i) In general.--The plan required by paragraph (1) shall not allow for the participation of a fossil industry entity in oil production activities on Federal lands described in paragraph (1) leased for oil production as a result of such plan unless such fossil industry entity submits to the Secretary a plan for-- ``(I) reducing the total global warming pollution of the fossil industry entity by 2030 by not less than 50 percent of the total global warming pollution of the fossil industry entity in calendar year 2022, without the use of offsets; ``(II) eliminating the total global warming pollution of the fossil industry entity by 2050, without the use of offsets; and ``(III) allowing, in any given calendar year, the release into the atmosphere of not more than 1 percent of the methane brought to the surface through such oil production activities.…
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Sean Casten
Democratic · Illinois

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