• POPULAR TITLE(S):
  Appropriations bill FY2000, Energy and Water Development (identified by CRS)
  Energy FY2000 Appropriations bill (identified by CRS)
  Water Development FY2000 Appropriations bill (identified by CRS)

• SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
  Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000

• SHORT TITLE(S) AS PASSED HOUSE:
  Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000

• SHORT TITLE(S) AS PASSED SENATE:
  Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000

• SHORT TITLE(S) AS ENACTED:
  Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000

• OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
  Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other purposes.

7/23/1999 12:26pm:

The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 106-253, by Mr. Packard.

7/23/1999 12:26pm:

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.

7/26/1999 7:05pm:

Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 261 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2605 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments.

7/27/1999 4:18pm:

Rule H. Res. 261 passed House.

7/27/1999 4:41pm:

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 261. (consideration: CR H6509-6550; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H5625-6526; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H6540; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H6541; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H6545-6546; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H6546)

7/27/1999 4:42pm:

House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 261 and Rule XXIII.

7/27/1999 4:42pm:

The Speaker designated the Honorable James V. Hansen to act as Chairman of the Committee.

7/27/1999 5:48pm:

Mr. Young (AK) raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Young stated that section 506 constitutes legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.

7/27/1999 5:55pm:

H.AMDT.347 Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Visclosky.
Amendment sought to delete language concerning wetlands and the permit 26 program.

7/27/1999 6:18pm:

H.AMDT.348 Amendment (A002) offered by Mr. Boehlert.
Amendment requires the Army Corps of Engineers to submit a report to Congress concerning the permit 26 program by Dec. 30, 1999.

7/27/1999 7:18pm:

Mr. Boehlert raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Boehlert stated that language, after the comma on page 7 line 7 through page 9 line 2 after the word enacted, constituted legislation on an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.

7/27/1999 7:20pm:

H.AMDT.349 Amendment (A003) offered by Mr. Dingell.
An amendment to strike language that prohibits any funds to be used to support more than one regional office in each Corps of Engineers division, which office shall serve as divisional headquarters.

7/27/1999 7:34pm:

H.AMDT.349 By unanimous consent, the Dingell amendment was withdrawn.

7/27/1999 7:35pm:

H.AMDT.350 Amendment (A004) offered by Mr. Salmon.
Amendment increases renewable energy funding by $30 million.

7/27/1999 7:50pm:

H.AMDT.350 On agreeing to the Salmon amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote.

7/27/1999 7:51pm:

H.AMDT.351 Amendment (A005) offered by Mr. Filner.
An amendment to allocate $50 million in Atomic Energy Defense Activites funding for the removal of residual radioactive material from the Atlas site approximately 3 miles northwest of Moab, Utah, and from the floodplain of the Colorado River for permanent disposition and stabilization in a safe and environmentally sound manner.

7/27/1999 8:00pm:

H.AMDT.351 By unanimous consent, the Filner amendment was withdrawn.

7/27/1999 8:23pm:

H.AMDT.348 On agreeing to the Boehlert amendment (A002) Agreed to by recorded vote: 426 - 1 (Roll no. 340).

7/27/1999 8:31pm:

H.AMDT.347 On agreeing to the Visclosky amendment (A001) Failed by recorded vote: 183 - 245 (Roll no. 341).

7/27/1999 8:31pm:

The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2605.

7/27/1999 8:32pm:

The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

7/27/1999 8:32pm:

The House adopted the amendment as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.

7/27/1999 8:49pm:

On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 420 - 8 (Roll no. 342).

7/27/1999 8:49pm:

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

7/28/1999:

Received in the Senate, read twice.

7/28/1999:

Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9650)

7/28/1999:

Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1186 amended.

7/28/1999:

Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1186 with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.

7/28/1999:

Senate insists on its amendment asks for a conference, appoints conferees Domenici; Cochran; Gorton; McConnell; Bennett; Burns; Craig; Stevens; Reid; Byrd; Hollings; Murray; Kohl; Dorgan; Inouye.

7/29/1999:

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

9/13/1999 5:01pm:

Mr. Packard asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.

9/13/1999 5:02pm:

On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.

9/13/1999 5:03pm:

Mr. Visclosky moved that the House instruct conferees.

9/13/1999 5:03pm:

Mr. Visclosky moved that in resolving the difference between the House and the Senate, the Managers be instructed to insist on the higher funding levels for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program included in the House-passed bill.

9/13/1999 5:04pm:

On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by voice vote.

9/13/1999 5:04pm:

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

9/13/1999 5:05pm:

The Speaker appointed conferees: Packard, Rogers, Knollenberg, Frelinghuysen, Callahan, Latham, Blunt, Young (FL), Visclosky, Edwards, Pastor, Forbes, and Obey.

9/24/1999:

Conferees agreed to file conference report.

9/27/1999 2:49pm:

Conference report H. Rept. 106-336 filed. (text of conference report: (CR H8677-8762)

9/27/1999 5:44pm:

Mr. Packard brought up conference report H. Rept. 106-336 by previously agreed to special order.

9/27/1999 6:05pm:

The previous question was ordered without objection.

9/27/1999 6:52pm:

The House proceeded to consider the conference report H.Rept. 106-336 as unfinished business.

9/27/1999 7:00pm:

On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 327 - 87 (Roll no. 452).

9/27/1999 7:00pm:

Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

9/28/1999:

Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.

9/28/1999:

Conference report considered in Senate.

9/28/1999:

Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 96-3. Record Vote No: 295.

9/28/1999:

Message on Senate action sent to the House.

9/28/1999:

Cleared for White House.

9/28/1999:

Presented to President.

9/29/1999:

Signed by President.

9/29/1999:

Became Public Law No: 106-60.

Committee/Subcommittee:		Activity:
House Appropriations		Origin, Reporting

Bill:	Relationship:
H.RES.261	Rule related to H.R.2605 in House
S.1186	H.R.2605 passed in Senate in lieu of this bill
S.1186	Related bill as identified by the House Clerk's office
S.1186	Text from this bill was inserted in H.R.2605

1. H.AMDT.347 to H.R.2605 Amendment sought to delete language concerning wetlands and the permit 26 program.
Sponsor: Rep Visclosky, Peter J.- Latest Major Action: 7/27/1999 House amendment not agreed to

2. H.AMDT.348 to H.R.2605 Amendment requires the Army Corps of Engineers to submit a report to Congress concerning the permit 26 program by Dec. 30, 1999.
Sponsor: Rep Boehlert, Sherwood L.- Latest Major Action: 7/27/1999 House amendment agreed to

3. H.AMDT.349 to H.R.2605 An amendment to strike language that prohibits any funds to be used to support more than one regional office in each Corps of Engineers division, which office shall serve as divisional headquarters.
Sponsor: Rep Dingell, John D.- Latest Major Action: 7/27/1999 By unanimous consent, the Dingell amendment was withdrawn.

4. H.AMDT.350 to H.R.2605 Amendment increases renewable energy funding by $30 million.
Sponsor: Rep Salmon, Matt- Latest Major Action: 7/27/1999 House amendment agreed to

5. H.AMDT.351 to H.R.2605 An amendment to allocate $50 million in Atomic Energy Defense Activites funding for the removal of residual radioactive material from the Atlas site approximately 3 miles northwest of Moab, Utah, and from the floodplain of the Colorado River for permanent disposition and stabilization in a safe and environmentally sound manner.
Sponsor: Rep Filner, Bob- Latest Major Action: 7/27/1999 By unanimous consent, the Filner amendment was withdrawn.

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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: Rescissions

Title VI: General Provisions

Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000 - Title I: Department of Defense - Civil - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for FY 2000 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 authorized water development and related projects; (4) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries; (5) water development projects operation and maintenance; (6) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program; (7) formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (8) general expenses.

Authorizes the use of water development and related project funds for: (1) shoreline protection measures in Assateague Island, Maryland; and (2) construction of an emergency outlet from Devils Lake, North Dakota, to the Sheyenne River (subject to a specified condition).

(Sec. 101) Bars application of a fully allocated funding policy to projects for which funds are identified in specified Committee reports. Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake such projects using continuing contracts.

(Sec. 102) States that agreements proposed for execution by the Assistance Secretary of the Army for civil works or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shall be limited to certain amounts in each fiscal year of credits and reimbursements per project, and of total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects.

(Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to revise the Missouri River Master Water Control Manual when it is made known to the pertinent Federal authority that such revision provides for an increase in the springtime water release program during the spring heavy rainfall and snow melt period in States with rivers draining into the Missouri River below the Gavins Point Dam.

Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY 2000 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; (5) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (6) general administrative expenses.

(Sec. 202) Declares that funds under this title for Drought Emergency Assistance shall be made available primarily for the leasing of water for specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compliance with existing State laws and administered under State water priority allocation. Allows such leases to provide an option to purchase, subject to certain conditions.

Title III: Department of Energy - Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2000 for: (1) energy supply programs; (2) non-defense environmental management; (3) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund; (4) general DOE science activities; (5) the Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund; (6) DOE administration; (7) Office of the Inspector General; (8) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (9) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (10) defense facilities closure projects; (11) defense environmental management privatization; (12) other DOE defense activities; (13) defense nuclear waste disposal; (14) 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 (15) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to: (1) award a management and operating contract without competitive procedures unless the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) grants a waiver on a case-by-case basis; (2) award, amend, or modify a contract in a manner that deviates from the Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless the Secretary grants a waiver on a case-by-case basis; (3) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits; (4) augment specified funds made available for severance payments and other benefits and community assistance grants under specified law; (5) prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for a program that has not been funded by Congress; (6) establish or maintain independent centers at a DOE laboratory or facility unless such funds have been specifically identified in the budget submission; (7) restart the High Flux Beam Reactor; or (8) dispose of any transuranic waste containing specified plutonium concentrations in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

(Sec. 310) Prohibits the expenditure of funds after December 31 of each year under a covered contract for the management and operation of specified National Laboratories unless the expenditure is made in accordance with a Laboratory Funding Plan approved by the Secretary.

(Sec. 314) Denies funds to the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the legally defined Bonneville service territory, with certain exceptions.

(Sec. 316) Amends the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act to provide that charges included by the BPA for the recovery of certain costs of fish and wildlife protection shall not exceed those amounts which the BPA Administrator forecasts will be expended during the period for which such rates are established.

Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board;(3) the Denali Commission; (4) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); (5) the NRC Office of the Inspector General; (6) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; and (7) the Tennessee Valley Authority Fund.

Title V: Rescissions - Rescinds specified amounts previously appropriated for designated projects with respect to: (1) Department of Defense-Civil, Department of the Army; and (2) Department of Energy, Southeastern Power Administration, and Nuclear Waste Disposal.

Title VI: General Provisions - Declares 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 develop a plan, which shall conform 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. Makes San Luis Unit beneficiaries of drainage service or drainage studies responsible to reimburse the United States fully for any future obligations of Federal funds relating to, or providing for, such service or studies for the San Luis Unit.

(Sec. 604) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend from September 30, 1998, through September 30, 2000, the NRC's authority to assess annual charges.

(Sec. 605) Amends P.L. 105-277 (Making Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1999) to repeal the program for Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, and State of South Dakota restoration of terrestrial wildlife habitat loss that occurred as a result of flooding related to the Big Bend and Oahe projects carried out as part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program.

(Sec. 607) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act to issue promulgations designed to implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol regarding climate change which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification.

(Sec. 608) Extends from FY 2000 to FY 2002 the proscription against specified withdrawals from either the United States Enrichment Corporation Fund (USEC Fund), or the Working Capital Account, for specified gaseous diffusion plants.

Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to invest in U.S. obligations such portion of the Fund as is not required to meet current withdrawals.

(Sec. 609) Redesignates the "Cascade Reservoir" as "Lake Cascade".

(Sec. 610) Amends the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act to decrease from $2 million in 1997 dollars to $500,000 in 1997 dollars the annual cost of implementing the Northwest Power Planning Council's mandate to establish an Independent Scientific Review Panel and Scientific Peer Review Groups, and their activities. Repeals the expiration date of such mandate and activities to make them permanent.

(Sec. 611) Instructs the Secretary of the Army to undertake certain functions and activities at eligible sites where remediation has not been completed as part of the implementation of the "Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program".