Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 1.djvu/128

 99 STAT. 106

Ante, p. 105.

PUBLIC LAW 99-58—JULY 2, 1985 "(B) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the calendar-day period involved. "(n)(l)(A) The application of defenses under subsections (f) and 0') for Tjnpe 1 activities with respect to any plan of action transmitted to Congress as described in subsection (m)(l)(A)(i) shall be disapproved if a joint resolution of disapproval has been enacted into law during the 90-day period of continuous session after which such transmission was received by the Congress. For the purpose of this subsection, the term 'joint resolution* means only a joint resolution of either House of the Congress as described in paragraph (3). "(B) After receipt by the Congress of such plan of action, a joint resolution of disapproval may be introduced in either House of the Congress. Upon introduction in the Senate, the joint resolution shall be referred in the Senate immediately to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. "(2) This subsection is enacted by the Congress— "(A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and as such it is deemed a part of the rules of the Senate, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in the Senate in the case of resolutions described by paragraph (3); it supersedes other rules only to the extent that is inconsistent therewith; and "(B) with full recognition of the constitutional right of the Senate to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of the Senate) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the Senate. "(3) The joint resolution disapproving the transmission under subsection (m) shall read as follows after the resolving clause: 'That the Congress of the United States disapproves the availability of the defenses pursuant to section 252(f) and (j) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to TVpe 1 activities under the plan of action submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of Energy on .', the blank space therein being filled with the date and year of receipt by the Congress of the plan of action transmitted as described in subsection (m). "(4)(A) If the (IJommittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate has not reported a joint resolution referred to it under this subsection at the end of 20 calendar days of continuous session after its referral, it shall be in order to move either to discharge the committee from further consideration of such resolution or to discharge the committee from further consideration of any other joint resolution which has been referred to the committee with respect to such plan of action. "(B) A motion to discharge shall be highly privileged (except that it may not be made after the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has reported a joint resolution with respect to the plan of action), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than one hour, to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the joint resolution. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion was agreed to or disagreed to. "(C) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the motion may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any other joint resolution with respect to the same transmission.

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