SUMMARY AS OF:
10/18/2000--Introduced.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Title I: Department of Defense-Civil
- Title II: Department of the Interior
- Title III: Department of Energy
- Title IV: Independent Agencies
- Title V: Fiscal Year 2001 Emergency Appropriations
- Title VI: General Provisions
- Title VII: Department of the Treasury
- Title VIII: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2001 - Title I:
Department of Defense - Civil - Makes appropriations to the
Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for FY 2001 for: (1)
authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army relating to rivers and
harbors, flood control, beach erosion, and related purposes; (2) expenses
necessary for the collection and study of information related to such purposes;
(3) the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and
related projects; (4) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River
and its tributaries; (5) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program;
(6) formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (7) general expenses.
States that amounts in the Revolving Fund are available for relocating the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headquarters to office space in the General
Accounting Office headquarters building in Washington, D.C.
(Sec. 101) Instructs the Secretary of the Army to enter into an agreement
with the City of Grand Prairie, Texas, wherein the City agrees to assume certain
contractual responsibilities of the Trinity River Authority of Texas.
(Sec. 102) States that agreements proposed for execution by the Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shall
be limited to specified credits and reimbursements per project, and total
credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects.
(Sec. 103) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army (acting through the Chief of
Engineers) to construct the locally preferred plan for flood control,
environmental restoration and recreation, Murrieta Creek, California.
(Sec. 104) Bars the use of funds to implement any activity relating to
closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal, Delaware.
(Sec. 105 ) Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide specified amounts to
replace and upgrade the dam which collapsed in Kake, Alaska, in order to provide
drinking water and hydroelectricity.
Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY 2001 appropriations to
the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project; (2) the Bureau
of Reclamation, water and related resources; (3) Bureau of Reclamation Loan
Program Account; (4) Central Valley Project Restoration Fund; and (5) general
administrative expenses.
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the
Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease is in compliance
with specified statutory purchase requirements.
(Sec. 202) States that Drought Emergency Assistance funds under this title
shall be made available primarily for leasing of water from willing lessors for
specified drought related purposes subsequent to State approval.
(Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) assess and collect
annually from Central Valley Project water and power contractors specified sums
to be remitted to the Trinity Public Utilities District; (2) continue funding
from power revenues the activities of the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management
Program as authorized by the Grand Canyon Protection Act of 1992; and (3) use up
to $1 million to refund specified payments (including the amount of associated
interest) to the United States for pre-1994 charges assessed for failure to file
certification or reporting forms before receipt of irrigation water under the
Reclamation Reform Act of 1982.
(Sec. 206) Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 1999 to require the Canyon Ferry (Montana) Cabin Site
appraisal to be consistent with the Universal Appraisal Standards for Federal
Land Acquisition. Repeals the repeal of the limitation on reinvestment of
interest earned on the principal of the Canyon Ferry-Broadwater County Trust
(thus allowing reinvestment of the interest, and its consideration as part of
the Trust corpus, only until $3 million, or a lesser amount as offset by in-kind
contributions, is deposited as the initial corpus of the Trust).
(Sec. 207) Declares that any amounts provided for the Newlands Water Rights
Fund for purchasing and retiring water rights in the Newlands Reclamation
Project shall be non-reimbursable as of FY 2000.
(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts
with the city of Loveland, Colorado, (and related entities) providing for the
use of facilities of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, Colorado, for specified
water uses.
(Sec. 209) Amends the Irrigation Project Contract Extension Act of 1998 to
extend from December 31, 2000, to December 31, 2003: (1) certain water service
or repayment contracts for the Glendo Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project;
and (2) certain contract extensions that are coterminous with a specified
cooperative agreement.
(Sec. 210) Amends Federal law to extend through FY 2001 the prohibition on
the use of funds to further reallocate Central Arizona Project water until the
enactment of legislation authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior
to make allocations and enter into contracts for the delivery of Project water.
(Sec. 211) Amends the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act to: (1)
require the Secretary of the Interior permanently to furnish annually water,
power capacity, and energy through the Yuma Arizona Area Power Managers on
behalf of the San Luis Rey Bands and local entities;and (2) provide that certain
annual repayment installments under the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control
Act shall continue to be non-reimbursable during the period that the Indian
Water Authority and the local entities receive specified amounts of water
conserved by specified canal works and facilities.
(Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the El Dorado
Irrigation District, all Federal right, title, and interest in the Sly Park Dam
and Reservoir, Camp Creek Diversion Dam and Tunnel, and certain conduits and
canals.
Title III: Department of Energy - Makes appropriations to the
Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2001: (1) energy supply programs; (2)
non-defense environmental management; (3) uranium facilities maintenance and
remediation; (4) general DOE science activities; (5) nuclear waste disposal
activities; (6) DOE administration; (7) Office of the Inspector General; (8)
atomic energy defense weapons activities (including immediate funds for the
National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory); (9)
atomic energy defense and defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (10)
naval reactors activities; (11) Office of the Administrator of the National
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); (12) defense environmental restoration
and waste management; (13) defense facilities closure projects; (14) defense
environmental management privatization; (15) other DOE defense activities; (16)
defense nuclear waste disposal; (17) the various geographical power marketing
administrations of DOE (including specified costs for the hydroelectric
facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams under the Western Area Power
Administration); and (18) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Rescinds specified funds earmarked for: (1) interim storage of nuclear waste;
and (2) the Tank Waste Remediation System at Richland, Washington.
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to award a
management and operating contract unless it is awarded using competitive
procedures, or the Secretary of Energy grants a waiver on a case-by-case basis.
Prohibits delegation of such waiver authority.
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to: (1) develop
or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide
them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits (unless the Department
of Energy submits a reprogramming request); or (2) prepare or initiate Requests
for Proposals for a program that has not been funded by Congress.
(Sec. 306) Declares that no more than six percent of funds provided to
government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories shall be available for
Laboratory Directed Research and Development.
(Sec. 307) Cites a maximum fund amount for the reimbursement of management
and operating contractor travel expenses.
(Sec. 308) Denies any funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power
Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services
outside the Bonneville service territory without certification that such
services are not available from private sector businesses.
(Sec. 309) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to dispose of
transuranic waste containing concentrations of plutonium exceeding 20 percent by
weight in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
(Sec. 310) Authorizes the NNSA Administrator to authorize the plant manager
of a covered nuclear weapons production plant to engage in research,
development, and demonstration activities in order to maintain and enhance plant
engineering and manufacturing capabilities.
(Sec. 311) Authorizes each Federal Power Marketing Administration to engage
in activities and undertake studies and proposals relating to the formation and
operation of a regional transmission organization.
(Sec. 312) Makes specified funds available to DOE for interim waste storage
activities for Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal upon certification by the
Secretary of Energy that the Site Recommendation Report cannot be completed
timely without additional funding.
(Sec. 313) Establishes a three-year term of office for the first person
appointed as Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of DOE.
(Sec. 314) Amends the National Nuclear Security Administration Act to set
forth: (1) the scope of the Secretary of Energy's authority to modify NNSA
organization; and (2) a prohibition on the pay of personnel engaged in
concurrent service or duties inside and outside the NNSA.
Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for:
(1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities
Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5)
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); (6) the NRC Office of the Inspector
General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Title V: Fiscal Year 2001 Emergency Appropriations - Makes
appropriations for FY 2001 for expenses to remediate damaged DOE facilities and
other expenses associated with the Cerro Grande fire.
Mandates that a specified amount of such funds be made available to the Army
Corps of Engineers to undertake immediate measures to provide erosion control
and sediment protection to sewage lines, trails, and bridges in Pueblo and Los
Alamos Canyons downstream of the Diamond Drive in New Mexico.
Authorizes appropriations to implement programs authorized by the Appalachian
Regional Development Act of 1965, of which specified amounts are available only
to the extent that the President transmits an emergency budget request for them
to Congress.
Title VI: General Provisions - Expresses the sense of Congress that
all equipment and products bought with funds under this Act should be
American-made. Requires each Federal agency to give notice of this policy to any
entity to which it provides financial assistance or contracts. Bars contracts
funded under this Act from being awarded to any person determined by a court or
Federal agency to have falsely labeled products as made in America.
(Sec. 603) Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the
interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and
the State of California have developed a plan, which conforms to California
water quality standards approved by the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage
waters.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson
Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable
or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the "Cleanup
Program--Alternative Repayment Plan" and the "SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan"
described in a specified report.
(Sec. 604) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for: (1)
promulgations to implement a certain 1997 Kyoto Protocol regarding climate
change which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to
ratification.
(Sec. 605) Extends from FY 2000 to 2009 funding for the Coastal Wetlands
Planning, Protection and Restoration Act.
(Sec. 606) Redesignates: (1) a certain "Interstate Sanitation Commission" for
New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut as the "Interstate Environmental
Commission"; and (2) a certain "Interstate Sanitation District" for those States
as the "Interstate Environmental District."
Title VII: Department of the Treasury - Makes a supplemental
appropriation for FY 2001 to reduce the public debt.
Title VIII: Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Amends the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend to September 20, 2005, the authority of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to assess and collect user fees and annual
charges.
Revises the formula and percentages used to determine the aggregate amount of
annual charges collected from licensees and certificate holders. Reduces the fee
recovery requirement from 100 percent to 98 percent in FY 2001 and by yearly
increments down to 90 percent in FY 2005.