SA 4433. Mrs. LINCOLN (for Ms. SNOWE) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4387 submitted by Mr. DODD (for himself and Mr. SHELBY) to the bill H.R. 3221, moving the United States toward greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new technologies, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, protecting consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, and modernizing our energy infrastructure, and to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation; as follows:

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``(A) INCREASE FOR 2008.--In the case of calendar year 2008, the State ceiling for each State shall be increased by an amount equal to the greater of--
``(i) $10,000,000,000 multiplied by a fraction--
``(I) the numerator of which is the population of such State, and
``(II) the denominator of which is the total population of all States, or
``(ii) the amount determined under subparagraph (B).
``(B) MINIMUM AMOUNT.--The amount determined under this subparagraph is--
``(i) in the case of a State (other than a possession), $90,300,606, and
``(ii) in the case of a possession of the United States with a population less than the least populous State (other than a possession), the product of--
``(I) a fraction the numerator of which is $90,300,606 and the denominator of which is population of the least populous State (other than a possession), and
``(II) the population of such possession.
In the case of any possession of the United States not described in clause (ii), the amount determined under this subparagraph shall be zero.
``(C) SET ASIDE.--


(As printed in the Congressional Record for the Senate on Apr 4, 2008.)