I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 5 and insert the following: SEC. 5. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN RULES. (a) Cross-State Air Pollution Rule/Transport Rule.-- (1) Earlier rules.--The rule entitled ``Federal Implementation Plans: Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone and Correction of SIP Approvals'', published at 76 Fed. Reg. 48208 (August 8, 2011), and any successor or substantially similar rule, shall be of no force or effect, and shall be treated as though such rule had never taken effect. (2) Continued applicability of clean air interstate rule.-- In place of any rule described in paragraph (1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as the ``Administrator'') shall continue to implement the Clean Air Interstate Rule. (3) Additional rulemakings.-- (A) Issuance of new rules.--The Administrator-- (i) shall not issue any proposed or final rule under section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) or section 126 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.…
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