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Mark Warner: “A new section is added to my amendment: (5) No extraction or exploration plan under this provision shall be accepted by…”

On the recordJune 14, 2007
A new section is added to my amendment: (5) No extraction or exploration plan under this provision shall be accepted by the Secretary of the Interior if the Secretary of Defense determines that such a plan is inconsistent with critical military test or training activities off the Virginia coast. So this modification corrects that so that the Secretary of the Interior, acting under my amendment, would not take any such action unless he had the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing amendments related to military activities and environmental regulations.

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