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  SA 4214. Mr. ENZI (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. 
Domenici, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Tester, Mr. Salazar, and Mr. Bennett) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent 
resolution S. Con. Res. 70, setting forth the congressional budget for 
the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 
2013; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO TERMINATE 
                   DEDUCTIONS FROM MINERAL REVENUE PAYMENTS TO 
                   STATES.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Chairman of 
     the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other levels in this resolution 
     by the amounts provided by a bill, joint resolution, 
     amendment, motion, or conference report that would terminate 
     the authority to deduct certain amounts from mineral revenues 
     payable to States under the second undesignated paragraph of 
     the matter under the heading ``administrative provisions'' 
     under the heading ``Minerals Management Service'' of title I 
     of the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-161; 121 
     Stat. 2109).
       (b) Deficit Neutrality.--Subsection (a) applies only if the 
     legislation described in subsection (a) would not increase 
     the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2008 
     through 2013 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2008 
     through 2018.
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