Ed Markey: “I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as…”

“I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, after line 6, insert the following (and redesignate accordingly): ``(3) Other safety and environmental requirements.--The regulations required under paragraph (1) shall ensure that the proposed drilling operations meet requirements for-- ``(A) third-party certification of safety systems related to well control, such as blowout preventers; ``(B) performance of blowout preventers, including quantitative risk assessment standards, subsea testing, and secondary activation methods; ``(C) independent third-party certification of well casing and cementing programs and procedures; ``(D) mandatory safety and environmental management systems by operators on the outer Continental Shelf; ``(E) procedures and technologies to be used during drilling operations to minimize the risk of ignition and explosion of hydrocarbons; and ``(F) ensuring compliance with other applicable environmental and natural resource conservation laws, including the response plan requirements of section 311(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1321(j)).…”