PUBLIC LAW 96-294—JUNE 30, 1980
94 STAT. 713
the Senate, or in any committee of either, of any Department of Energy authorization bill for fiscal year 1982 or fiscal year 1984, or a joint resolution (as defined in subsection (d)(1)(B)), to offer and consider, except as provided in subparagraph (B)— (i) any amendment (or series of amendments) only changing the number of any energy target contained in such bill or resolution, or (ii) in the case of any such authorization bill, any amendment only adding a title containing only energy targets in the form prescribed in section 303 if such bill does not contain such a title, or only deleting such a title contained in such bill. (B) Any amendment (or series of amendments) referred to in subparagraph (A) shall not be in order unless it continues or achieves mathematical consistency within the targets. (b)(1) I f Reporting dates. (A) on or before May 15, 1981, no Department of Energy authorization bill for fiscal year 1982 has been reported to either House of the Congress by any of the respective authorizing committees, or (B) no committee which has reported such an authorization bill in either House by such date has included energy targets in the form prescribed in section 303 as a separate title, a joint resolution introduced in the Senate or the House of Representatives after such date shall be subject to the provisions of this section and shall immediately be referred to the appropriate authorizing committees, which shall have until July 15, 1981, to consider and report such resolution. (2) If on or before July 15, 1981, the appropriate authorizing Joint committees of the House of Representatives or the Senate have not resolutions. reported such a joint resolution, such committees of that House may be discharged from further consideration of such joint resolution (or any other joint resolution) in accordance with paragraph (4) of section 552(d) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (as if it were a 42 USC 6422. resolution relating to a contingency plan) if a motion for such a discharge is made during the period of 20 calendar days of continuous session of Congress which follows July 15, 1981. (3) The provisions of subsections (c) and (d)(5) and (6) of section 552 of such Act shall apply with respect to the consideration of such a joint resolution in either House, except that— (A) debate on such joint resolution shall be limited to not more than 3 hours, (B) it shall be in order (notwithstanding any rule or provision of law) to offer and consider any amendment (or series of amendments) permitted under subsection (a)(3), and (C) the references in such provisions to any resolution relating to a contingency plan shall be considered to refer to a joint resolution under this section. (c) In the consideration of any Department of Energy authorization bill containing a title setting forth energy targets, the question of whether any amendment (other than an amendment referred to in subsection (a)(3)) to any portion of such bill (including such title) is in order in the House of Representatives, in the Senate, or in any committee of either, shall be determined as if the title containing such targets were not in the bill. (d)( 1) For purposes of t h i s s e c t i o n —
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