Amendment No. 270

Adopted Lost | Adopted Lost

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Receded Not | Receded Not

Amend the resolution, pages 2 and 3, by deleting lines 31 through 41 on page 2 and lines 1 through 10 on page 3, and inserting:

"volume 62, number 147, page 41137 of the Federal Register and submitted to the United States Office of Management and Budget in February 1999; and be it further

Resolved, That the United States Environmental Protection Agency is hereby urged to refrain from adopting the proposed regulations unless the proposed regulations are amended to address issues concerning:

1. The control of regional haze that is caused by emissions from motor vehicles, fires and air pollution that originates outside the United States; and

2. The cost of complying with the proposed regulations; and be it further

Resolved, That Congress is hereby urged to take any action that is appropriate to prohibit the United States Environmental Protection Agency from adopting the proposed regulations unless the proposed regulations are amended by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to address those issues; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy of this resolution to the Vice President of the United States as the presiding officer of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, each member of the Nevada Congressional Delegation, the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Supervisor of the United States Forest Service in Nevada, the Director of the Nevada State Office of the Bureau of Land Management and the Administrator of the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; and be it further ".

Amend the preamble of the resolution, pages 1 and 2, by deleting lines 11 through 18 on page 1 and lines 1 through 8 on page 2, and inserting:

"Whereas, The standards for controlling and reducing regional haze set forth in the proposed regulations are unreasonable, and the cost of complying with those standards is excessive; and

Whereas, The proposed regulations do not adequately address issues relating to the control of regional haze that is caused by emissions from motor vehicles, fires and air pollution that originates outside the United States; and".

Amend the preamble of the resolution, page 2, by deleting lines 12 and 13 and inserting:

"Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Nevada Taxpayers Association and the Nevada Association of Counties; and".

Amend the preamble of the resolution, page 2, by deleting line 16 and inserting:

"adoption will be $2.7 billion per year by the year 2010, of which $2.1 billion per year is estimated to be required of the states in the Western United States; and".

Amend the preamble of the resolution, page 2, between lines 19 and 20, by inserting:

"Whereas, Pursuant to the proposed regulations, the State of Nevada will be unreasonably limited in its potential for future economic activity; and".

Amend the preamble of the resolution, page 2, by deleting line 26 and inserting:

"cost of complying with the regulations; and

Whereas, The United States Environmental Protection Agency has received numerous recommendations that it should resubmit the proposed regulations for review and comment by the members of the general public after the proposed regulations are amended to address issues concerning the control of regional haze that is caused by emissions from motor vehicles, fires and air pollution that originates outside the United States and issues concerning the cost of complying with the proposed regulations; and

Whereas, Despite those recommendations, in February 1999, the United States Environmental Protection Agency submitted the proposed regulations to the United States Office of Management and Budget without amending the proposed regulations to address those issues; now, therefore, be it".