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[Page: H8761]  GPO's PDF

   TITLE IV

   INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

   Appalachian Regional Commission

   The conference agreement includes $66,400,000 for the Appalachian Regional Commission instead of $60,000,000 as proposed by the House and $71,400,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of this amount, $1,000,000 is for the Richie County Dam project in West Virginia.

   Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

   The conference agreement appropriates $17,000,000 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board instead of $16,500,000 as proposed by the House or $17,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.

   Denali Commission

   The conference agreement includes $20,000,000 for the Denali Commission instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the House rescinding $18,000,000 previously appropriated to the Denali Commission.

   Nuclear Regulatory Commission

   SALARIES AND EXPENSES

   The conference agreement includes $465,000,000, instead of $455,400,000 as recommended by the House or $465,400,000 as recommended by the Senate. The conferees have provided $19,150,000, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, for the Commission's ongoing work to characterize Yucca Mountain as a potential site for a permanent nuclear waste repository. The conference agreement also includes $3,850,000 for regulatory reviews and other assistance provided to the Department of Energy.

   OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

   The conference agreement includes $5,000,000, the same amount provided by the Senate, instead of $6,000,000 as provided by the House.

   Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

   The conference agreement appropriates $2,600,000 as proposed by the House instead of $3,150,000 as proposed by the Senate.

   Tennessee Valley Authority

   The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the Senate appropriating $7,000,000 for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The conference agreement includes language providing authority for the Tennessee Valley Authority to use up to $3,000,000 in previously appropriated funds to pay for transition costs of Land Between the Lakes.

   TITLE V--RESCISSIONS

   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

   Department of the Army

   CORPS OF ENGINEERS--CIVIL

   The conference agreement includes language proposed by the Senate rescinding appropriations for specified projects within the General Investigations and Construction, General account, amended to delete language proposed by the Senate to rescind appropriations from: the Red River Waterway, Shreveport, Louisiana, to Daingerfield, Texas, investigation; the Southern and Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky, construction project; and the South Central Pennsylvania, Environmental Improvements Program, Pennsylvania, construction project.

   Department of Energy

   OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION

   The conference agreement includes a rescission of $3,000,000 instead of language proposed by the Senate rescinding $5,500,000 from the Southeastern Power Administration.

   NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL

   The conference agreement includes language to rescind $4,000,000 from the multi-purpose canister design program in the Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund. This funding was provided in Public Law 105-62, the FY 1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.

   TITLE VI

   GENERAL PROVISIONS

   SEC. 601. The conference agreement includes language proposed by both the House and Senate directing that none of the funds in this Act may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress, other than to communicate to Members of Congress as described in section 1913 of title 18, United States Code.

   SEC. 602. The conference agreement includes language proposed by both the House and Senate regarding the purchase of American-made equipment and products, and prohibiting contracts with persons falsely labeling products as made in America.

   SEC. 603. The conference agreement includes language proposed by both the House and Senate providing that no funds may be used to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project until certain conditions are met. The language also provides that the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be classified as reimbursable or non-reimbursable by the Secretary of the Interior as described in the Bureau of Reclamation report entitled, ``Repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, February 1995'' and that any future obligation of funds for drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries pursuant to Reclamation law.

   SEC. 604. The conference agreement includes language proposed by both the House and Senate providing a one-year extension of the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to collect fees and charges to offset appropriated funds.

   SEC. 605. The conference agreement includes language proposed by the House to repeal the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and State of South Dakota Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat Restoration Act, as authorized under title VI of division C of Public Law 105-277. This Act was reauthorized in subsequent legislation.

   SEC. 606. The conference agreement includes language proposed by the House making a technical change to a provision of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 authorizing reimbursement for work by non-Federal interests on certain civil works projects of the Corps of Engineers.

   SEC. 607. The conference agreement includes language proposed by the House limiting the use of funds to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for the purpose of implementing the Kyoto Protocol.

   SEC. 608. The conference agreement includes language proposed by the Senate amending the United States Enrichment Corporation Fund.

   SEC. 609. The conference agreement includes language proposed by the Senate changing the name of the Cascade Reservoir in Idaho to ``Lake Cascade.''

   SEC. 610. The conference agreement includes language proposed by the Senate amending the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act by changing an annual cost limitation.

   SEC. 611. The conference agreement includes language providing permanent authority for the Corps of Engineers to expend funds for various activities in the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). The Committees on Appropriations have been providing annual authorization for these activities.

   Other.--The Senate bill included section 604 prohibiting the restart of the High Flux Beam Reactor. The conference agreement includes this prohibition in Title III, Department of Energy, General Provisions.

   Conference Total--With Comparisons

   The total new budget (obligational) authority for the fiscal year 2000 recommended by the Committee of Conference, with comparisons to the fiscal year 1999 amount, the 2000 budget estimates, and the House and Senate bills for 2000 follow:
(In thousands of dollars)

   $22,158,325

   22,021,026

   20,640,395

   21,717,325

   21,729,969

   Conference agreement compared with:

   -428,356

   -291,057

   +1,089.574

   +12,644

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