Randy Weber: “I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is…”

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, line 18, strike ``pipeline.'' and insert ``pipeline, and-- (A) the Department of State assessments found that the Keystone XL pipeline ``is not likely to impact the amount of crude oil produced from the oil sands'' and that ``approval or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands''; (B) the Department of State found that incremental life- cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the Keystone XL project are estimated in the range of 0.07 to 0.83 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, with the upper end of this range representing twelve one-thousandths of one percent of the 6,702 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted in the United States in 2011; and (C) after extensive evaluation of potential impacts to land and water resources along the Keystone XL pipeline's 875 mile proposed route, the Department of State found that ``The analyses of potential impacts associated with construction and normal operation of the proposed Project suggest that there would be no significant impacts to most resources along the proposed Project route (assuming Keystone complies with all laws and required conditions and measures).''.''.…”