<enum>I</enum><header>Corps of engineers—civil</header> <appropriations-major id="H6B2C8C09E7F24F2589F89F56C2AE68EB"><header>Department of the army</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="ID024E9F344E8849109F02F696AE8AEAC0"><header>Corps of engineers—civil</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The following appropriations shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army pertaining to river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related efforts.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="ID34C581B1799F4D0A8E9AF1B2AD1969D2"><header>Investigations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary where authorized by law for the collection and study of basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related needs; for surveys and detailed studies, and plans and specifications of proposed river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration, projects and related efforts prior to construction; for restudy of authorized projects; and for miscellaneous investigations, and, when authorized by law, surveys and detailed studies, and plans and specifications of projects prior to construction, $115,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H9B928B2D1CDE44D0B0D1AB2E6C8E8518"><header>Construction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the construction of river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related projects authorized by law; for conducting detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of such projects (including those involving participation by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by law (but such detailed studies, and plans and specifications, shall not constitute a commitment of the Government to construction); $1,704,499,000 (increased by $500,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to remain available until expended; of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share of construction costs for facilities under the Dredged Material Disposal Facilities program shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund as authorized by <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/303">Public Law 104–303</external-xref>; and of which such sums as are necessary to cover one-half of the costs of construction, replacement, rehabilitation, and expansion of inland waterways projects shall be derived from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, except as otherwise specifically provided for in law.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H588C1FF170D043389020AD215C9C24A5"><header>Mississippi river and tributaries</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for flood damage reduction projects and related efforts in the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized by law, $260,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share of eligible operation and maintenance costs for inland harbors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H9127764AE3724DF29B3C65AF171E24D5"><header>Operation and maintenance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related projects authorized by law; providing security for infrastructure owned or operated by the Corps, including administrative buildings and laboratories; maintaining harbor channels provided by a State, municipality, or other public agency that serve essential navigation needs of general commerce, where authorized by law; surveying and charting northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing and straightening channels; and removing obstructions to navigation, $2,905,000,000 (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by $57,600,000), to remain available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to carry out the study authorized in section 6002 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014; of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share of eligible operation and maintenance costs for coastal harbors and channels, and for inland harbors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund; of which such sums as become available from the special account for the Corps of Engineers established by the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 shall be derived from that account for resource protection, research, interpretation, and maintenance activities related to resource protection in the areas at which outdoor recreation is available; and of which such sums as become available from fees collected under section 217 of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/303">Public Law 104–303</external-xref> shall be used to cover the cost of operation and maintenance of the dredged material disposal facilities for which such fees have been collected: <italic>Provided</italic>, That 1 percent of the total amount of funds provided for each of the programs, projects, or activities funded under this heading shall not be allocated to a field operating activity prior to the beginning of the fourth quarter of the fiscal year and shall be available for use by the Chief of Engineers to fund such emergency activities as the Chief of Engineers determines to be necessary and appropriate, and that the Chief of Engineers shall allocate during the fourth quarter any remaining funds which have not been used for emergency activities proportionally in accordance with the amounts provided for the programs, projects, or activities.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="idC65137D9F43441E8B1DCC03D279E1BD3"><header>Regulatory program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for administration of laws pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, $200,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H4139A9DA48C24E2A9A7D31A7A9BC1E26"><header>Formerly utilized sites remedial action program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to clean up contamination from sites in the United States resulting from work performed as part of the Nation's early atomic energy program, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id130834FB2CB641539514562CBCF553DB"><header>Flood control and coastal emergencies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to prepare for flood, hurricane, and other natural disasters and support emergency operations, repairs, and other activities in response to such disasters as authorized by law, $28,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="idB72E207546FE44D8AA84BB01D6783A31"><header>Expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the supervision and general administration of the civil works program in the headquarters of the Corps of Engineers and the offices of the Division Engineers; and for costs of management and operation of the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, the Institute for Water Resources, the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center allocable to the civil works program, $178,000,000 (reduced by $1,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 2016, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be used for official reception and representation purposes and only during the current fiscal year: <italic>Provided</italic>, That no part of any other appropriation provided in this title shall be available to fund the civil works activities of the Office of the Chief of Engineers or the civil works executive direction and management activities of the division offices: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That any Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies appropriation may be used to fund the supervision and general administration of emergency operations, repairs, and other activities in response to any flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id5988DBBA5E374B1CBCA54278D26DD9FD"><header>Office of the assistant secretary of the army for civil works</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works as authorized by 10 U.S.C. 3016(b)(3), $2,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="HF62DF714D8004830843067D65FFEB5D9"><header>General provisions—corps of engineers—civil</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-small id="H73A557E21BE44E85935823F5FAED931C"><header>(including transfer of funds)</header> </appropriations-small><section id="HAB71134640B947CFB5BDDB7D5C8B43E0"><enum>101.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2709F6DE9CE9429BA209050A7F0D494E"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds provided in this title shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that—</text> <paragraph id="H4B1622821B8D497BBA00F82F55E1DF2E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H9CE8401AB22C48C2A26BB4749EA09304"><enum>(2)</enum><text>eliminates a program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1664CFFDA9E94970A96E11A61A76426C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are denied or restricted by this Act;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBCABFF21B83641919016127D4666E435"><enum>(4)</enum><text>reduces funds that are directed to be used for a specific program, project, or activity by this Act;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6CBF018124BA4FB7A7A8FE9FD60A35D1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>increases funds for any program, project, or activity by more than $2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H58D0DF42EBC744A296304F94A25171F2"><enum>(6)</enum><text>reduces funds for any program, project, or activity by more than $2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6211B46938F948EF840CB3A10B676607"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to any project or activity authorized under section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948, section 14 of the Flood Control Act of 1946, section 208 of the Flood Control Act of 1954, section 107 of the River and Harbor Act of 1960, section 103 of the River and Harbor Act of 1962, section 111 of the River and Harbor Act of 1968, section 1135 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, section 206 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, or section 204 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H052DE1400BFE4AE8B13FB1A0697C3A1E"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The Corps of Engineers shall submit reports on a quarterly basis to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate detailing all the funds reprogrammed between programs, projects, activities, or categories of funding. The first quarterly report shall be submitted not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="ID09833B0F5BC44017AF1E45F8A3A16FCF"><enum>102.</enum><text>None of the funds made available in this title may be used to award or modify any contract that commits funds beyond the amounts appropriated for that program, project, or activity that remain unobligated, except that such amounts may include any funds that have been made available through reprogramming pursuant to section 101.</text> </section><section id="ID873E31024453420CAE404E8149B703A5"><enum>103.</enum><text>None of the funds in this Act, or previous Acts, making funds available for Energy and Water Development, shall be used to award any continuing contract that commits additional funding from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund unless or until such time that a long-term mechanism to enhance revenues in this Fund sufficient to meet the cost-sharing authorized in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/99/662">Public Law 99–662</external-xref>) is enacted.</text> </section><section id="HC3C8BDA7CB2E4EFAA950788AF017403B"><enum>104.</enum><text>The Secretary of the Army may transfer to the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service may accept and expend, up to $4,700,000 of funds provided in this title under the heading <quote>Operation and Maintenance</quote> to mitigate for fisheries lost due to Corps of Engineers projects.</text> </section><section id="H835C310421A6402894CE6438E24AC98D"><enum>105.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this or any other Act making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for any fiscal year may be used by the Corps of Engineers to develop, adopt, implement, administer, or enforce any change to the regulations in effect on October 1, 2012, pertaining to the definitions of the terms <quote>fill material</quote> or <quote>discharge of fill material</quote> for the purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.</external-xref>).</text> </section><section id="HC29D2D7F7B9541BB96979C388B9F6A9B"><enum>106.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this or any other Act making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for any fiscal year may be used by the Corps of Engineers to develop, adopt, implement, administer, or enforce any change to the regulations and guidance in effect on October 1, 2012, pertaining to the definition of waters under the jurisdiction of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.</external-xref>), including the provisions of the rules dated November 13, 1986, and August 25, 1993, relating to such jurisdiction, and the guidance documents dated January 15, 2003, and December 2, 2008, relating to such jurisdiction.</text> </section><section id="HFE6E5EB3D99E4C8E88B91721CCC70543"><enum>107.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As of the date of enactment of this Act and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of the Army shall not promulgate or enforce any regulation that prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm, including an assembled or functional firearm, at a water resources development project covered under section 327.0 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act), if—</text> <paragraph id="H705A07B02C844531B9EE5CBBB4D81C11"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2205B0FE51E84B5E8EA5210D88101DA2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the possession of the firearm is in compliance with the law of the State in which the water resources development project is located.</text> </paragraph></section>

113 HR 4923 : Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 U.S. House of Representatives 2014-07-14 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes, namely:

<enum>I</enum><header>Corps of engineers—civil</header> <appropriations-major id="H6B2C8C09E7F24F2589F89F56C2AE68EB"><header>Department of the army</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="ID024E9F344E8849109F02F696AE8AEAC0"><header>Corps of engineers—civil</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The following appropriations shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army pertaining to river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related efforts.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="ID34C581B1799F4D0A8E9AF1B2AD1969D2"><header>Investigations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary where authorized by law for the collection and study of basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related needs; for surveys and detailed studies, and plans and specifications of proposed river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration, projects and related efforts prior to construction; for restudy of authorized projects; and for miscellaneous investigations, and, when authorized by law, surveys and detailed studies, and plans and specifications of projects prior to construction, $115,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H9B928B2D1CDE44D0B0D1AB2E6C8E8518"><header>Construction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the construction of river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related projects authorized by law; for conducting detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of such projects (including those involving participation by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by law (but such detailed studies, and plans and specifications, shall not constitute a commitment of the Government to construction); $1,704,499,000 (increased by $500,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to remain available until expended; of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share of construction costs for facilities under the Dredged Material Disposal Facilities program shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund as authorized by <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/303">Public Law 104–303</external-xref>; and of which such sums as are necessary to cover one-half of the costs of construction, replacement, rehabilitation, and expansion of inland waterways projects shall be derived from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, except as otherwise specifically provided for in law.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H588C1FF170D043389020AD215C9C24A5"><header>Mississippi river and tributaries</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for flood damage reduction projects and related efforts in the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized by law, $260,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share of eligible operation and maintenance costs for inland harbors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H9127764AE3724DF29B3C65AF171E24D5"><header>Operation and maintenance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related projects authorized by law; providing security for infrastructure owned or operated by the Corps, including administrative buildings and laboratories; maintaining harbor channels provided by a State, municipality, or other public agency that serve essential navigation needs of general commerce, where authorized by law; surveying and charting northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing and straightening channels; and removing obstructions to navigation, $2,905,000,000 (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by $57,600,000), to remain available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to carry out the study authorized in section 6002 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014; of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share of eligible operation and maintenance costs for coastal harbors and channels, and for inland harbors shall be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund; of which such sums as become available from the special account for the Corps of Engineers established by the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 shall be derived from that account for resource protection, research, interpretation, and maintenance activities related to resource protection in the areas at which outdoor recreation is available; and of which such sums as become available from fees collected under section 217 of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/303">Public Law 104–303</external-xref> shall be used to cover the cost of operation and maintenance of the dredged material disposal facilities for which such fees have been collected: <italic>Provided</italic>, That 1 percent of the total amount of funds provided for each of the programs, projects, or activities funded under this heading shall not be allocated to a field operating activity prior to the beginning of the fourth quarter of the fiscal year and shall be available for use by the Chief of Engineers to fund such emergency activities as the Chief of Engineers determines to be necessary and appropriate, and that the Chief of Engineers shall allocate during the fourth quarter any remaining funds which have not been used for emergency activities proportionally in accordance with the amounts provided for the programs, projects, or activities.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="idC65137D9F43441E8B1DCC03D279E1BD3"><header>Regulatory program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for administration of laws pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, $200,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H4139A9DA48C24E2A9A7D31A7A9BC1E26"><header>Formerly utilized sites remedial action program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to clean up contamination from sites in the United States resulting from work performed as part of the Nation's early atomic energy program, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id130834FB2CB641539514562CBCF553DB"><header>Flood control and coastal emergencies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to prepare for flood, hurricane, and other natural disasters and support emergency operations, repairs, and other activities in response to such disasters as authorized by law, $28,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="idB72E207546FE44D8AA84BB01D6783A31"><header>Expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the supervision and general administration of the civil works program in the headquarters of the Corps of Engineers and the offices of the Division Engineers; and for costs of management and operation of the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, the Institute for Water Resources, the United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers Finance Center allocable to the civil works program, $178,000,000 (reduced by $1,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 2016, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be used for official reception and representation purposes and only during the current fiscal year: <italic>Provided</italic>, That no part of any other appropriation provided in this title shall be available to fund the civil works activities of the Office of the Chief of Engineers or the civil works executive direction and management activities of the division offices: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That any Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies appropriation may be used to fund the supervision and general administration of emergency operations, repairs, and other activities in response to any flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id5988DBBA5E374B1CBCA54278D26DD9FD"><header>Office of the assistant secretary of the army for civil works</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works as authorized by 10 U.S.C. 3016(b)(3), $2,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="HF62DF714D8004830843067D65FFEB5D9"><header>General provisions—corps of engineers—civil</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-small id="H73A557E21BE44E85935823F5FAED931C"><header>(including transfer of funds)</header> </appropriations-small><section id="HAB71134640B947CFB5BDDB7D5C8B43E0"><enum>101.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2709F6DE9CE9429BA209050A7F0D494E"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds provided in this title shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that—</text> <paragraph id="H4B1622821B8D497BBA00F82F55E1DF2E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H9CE8401AB22C48C2A26BB4749EA09304"><enum>(2)</enum><text>eliminates a program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1664CFFDA9E94970A96E11A61A76426C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are denied or restricted by this Act;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBCABFF21B83641919016127D4666E435"><enum>(4)</enum><text>reduces funds that are directed to be used for a specific program, project, or activity by this Act;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6CBF018124BA4FB7A7A8FE9FD60A35D1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>increases funds for any program, project, or activity by more than $2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H58D0DF42EBC744A296304F94A25171F2"><enum>(6)</enum><text>reduces funds for any program, project, or activity by more than $2,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6211B46938F948EF840CB3A10B676607"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to any project or activity authorized under section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948, section 14 of the Flood Control Act of 1946, section 208 of the Flood Control Act of 1954, section 107 of the River and Harbor Act of 1960, section 103 of the River and Harbor Act of 1962, section 111 of the River and Harbor Act of 1968, section 1135 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, section 206 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, or section 204 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H052DE1400BFE4AE8B13FB1A0697C3A1E"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The Corps of Engineers shall submit reports on a quarterly basis to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate detailing all the funds reprogrammed between programs, projects, activities, or categories of funding. The first quarterly report shall be submitted not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="ID09833B0F5BC44017AF1E45F8A3A16FCF"><enum>102.</enum><text>None of the funds made available in this title may be used to award or modify any contract that commits funds beyond the amounts appropriated for that program, project, or activity that remain unobligated, except that such amounts may include any funds that have been made available through reprogramming pursuant to section 101.</text> </section><section id="ID873E31024453420CAE404E8149B703A5"><enum>103.</enum><text>None of the funds in this Act, or previous Acts, making funds available for Energy and Water Development, shall be used to award any continuing contract that commits additional funding from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund unless or until such time that a long-term mechanism to enhance revenues in this Fund sufficient to meet the cost-sharing authorized in the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/99/662">Public Law 99–662</external-xref>) is enacted.</text> </section><section id="HC3C8BDA7CB2E4EFAA950788AF017403B"><enum>104.</enum><text>The Secretary of the Army may transfer to the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service may accept and expend, up to $4,700,000 of funds provided in this title under the heading <quote>Operation and Maintenance</quote> to mitigate for fisheries lost due to Corps of Engineers projects.</text> </section><section id="H835C310421A6402894CE6438E24AC98D"><enum>105.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this or any other Act making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for any fiscal year may be used by the Corps of Engineers to develop, adopt, implement, administer, or enforce any change to the regulations in effect on October 1, 2012, pertaining to the definitions of the terms <quote>fill material</quote> or <quote>discharge of fill material</quote> for the purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.</external-xref>).</text> </section><section id="HC29D2D7F7B9541BB96979C388B9F6A9B"><enum>106.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this or any other Act making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for any fiscal year may be used by the Corps of Engineers to develop, adopt, implement, administer, or enforce any change to the regulations and guidance in effect on October 1, 2012, pertaining to the definition of waters under the jurisdiction of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1251">33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.</external-xref>), including the provisions of the rules dated November 13, 1986, and August 25, 1993, relating to such jurisdiction, and the guidance documents dated January 15, 2003, and December 2, 2008, relating to such jurisdiction.</text> </section><section id="HFE6E5EB3D99E4C8E88B91721CCC70543"><enum>107.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As of the date of enactment of this Act and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of the Army shall not promulgate or enforce any regulation that prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm, including an assembled or functional firearm, at a water resources development project covered under section 327.0 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act), if—</text> <paragraph id="H705A07B02C844531B9EE5CBBB4D81C11"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2205B0FE51E84B5E8EA5210D88101DA2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the possession of the firearm is in compliance with the law of the State in which the water resources development project is located.</text> </paragraph></section><enum>II</enum><header>Department of the interior</header> <appropriations-intermediate id="IDF1FC8500CCA44AF2982B212A9B18C51E"><header>Central Utah project</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="IDE4706A1979884C08B86B6DE7507D56B7"><header>Central Utah project completion account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For carrying out activities authorized by the Central Utah Project Completion Act, $9,874,000, to remain available until expended, of which $1,000,000 shall be deposited into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account for use by the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of the amount provided under this heading, $1,300,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for necessary expenses incurred in carrying out related responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That for fiscal year 2015, of the amount made available to the Commission under this Act or any other Act, the Commission may use an amount not to exceed $1,500,000 for administrative expenses.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="H58C28A0295434409A227C7566CA4ACE2"><header>Bureau of reclamation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The following appropriations shall be expended to execute authorized functions of the Bureau of Reclamation:</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="H63D6E698251241789C4D0AD0D71F0612"><header>Water and related resources</header> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H01423A134D9B4080B028BDB146FE08C7"><header>(including transfers of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For management, development, and restoration of water and related natural resources and for related activities, including the operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of reclamation and other facilities, participation in fulfilling related Federal responsibilities to Native Americans, and related grants to, and cooperative and other agreements with, State and local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, and others, $856,351,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000), to remain available until expended, of which $25,000 shall be available for transfer to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and $6,840,000 shall be available for transfer to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund; of which such amounts as may be necessary may be advanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund: <italic>Provided</italic>, That such transfers may be increased or decreased within the overall appropriation under this heading: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That of the total appropriated, the amount for program activities that can be financed by the Reclamation Fund or the Bureau of Reclamation special fee account established by 16 U.S.C. 6806 shall be derived from that Fund or account: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That funds contributed under 43 U.S.C. 395 are available until expended for the purposes for which the funds were contributed: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That funds advanced under 43 U.S.C. 397a shall be credited to this account and are available until expended for the same purposes as the sums appropriated under this heading: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That of the amounts provided herein, funds may be used for high-priority projects which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps, as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1706.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H9DC61FAC83544461A34E25887C4F412C"><header>Central valley project restoration fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For carrying out the programs, projects, plans, habitat restoration, improvement, and acquisition provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, $56,995,000, to be derived from such sums as may be collected in the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund pursuant to sections 3407(d), 3404(c)(3), and 3405(f) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/102/575">Public Law 102–575</external-xref>, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That the Bureau of Reclamation is directed to assess and collect the full amount of the additional mitigation and restoration payments authorized by section 3407(d) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/102/575">Public Law 102–575</external-xref>: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That none of the funds made available under this heading may be used for the acquisition or leasing of water for in-stream purposes if the water is already committed to in-stream purposes by a court adopted decree or order.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H80DAB0FC7133434BB965F75E2DD0AB81"><header>California bay-Delta restoration</header> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H14313C3800FB47F6B72B104B1EEA3E1F"><header>(including transfers of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For carrying out activities authorized by the Water Supply, Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act, consistent with plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $37,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which such amounts as may be necessary to carry out such activities may be transferred to appropriate accounts of other participating Federal agencies to carry out authorized purposes: <italic>Provided</italic>, That funds appropriated herein may be used for the Federal share of the costs of CALFED Program management: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That CALFED implementation shall be carried out in a balanced manner with clear performance measures demonstrating concurrent progress in achieving the goals and objectives of the Program.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H8D5E9E5289EA44279FFFB2453F99E49A"><header>Policy and administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of policy, administration, and related functions in the Office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation, to remain available until September 30, 2016, $53,849,000, to be derived from the Reclamation Fund and be nonreimbursable as provided in 43 U.S.C. 377: <italic>Provided</italic>, That no part of any other appropriation in this Act shall be available for activities or functions budgeted as policy and administration expenses.</text></appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="HEFFFFB1CA29041A98D2CFB0B40C5E717"><header>Bureau of reclamation loan program account</header></appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H008A5FD0E4E94324ABBFE42FE4A063C1"><header>(including rescission of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, $500,000 is hereby permanently rescinded.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H6C9C45ACFA534BF2A4473E032360812D"><header>Administrative provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available for purchase of not to exceed five passenger motor vehicles, which are for replacement only.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="H86C98AEFC3BD45E986F891523143B5D7"><header>General provisions—department of the interior</header> </appropriations-major><section id="HBEFCB01E37AB4B29B42728B8E0349339"><enum>201.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HCEA94066D3904F99908C607478EA0F6C"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds provided in this title shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that—</text> <paragraph id="HC462F4C7338E49ADA5AB859E57C1A4EE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H51486D1ACF8C4725AD5C699357041463"><enum>(2)</enum><text>eliminates a program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE6EDEBF63E1F4B57A80F476EE0412D86"><enum>(3)</enum><text>increases funds for any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by this Act;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6B03E111AEAA4D7EA19F6AE78CEA8069"><enum>(4)</enum><text>restarts or resumes any program, project or activity for which funds are not provided in this Act, unless prior approval is received from the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2A1158FD87F749C9B9E1CA2B243934A2"><enum>(5)</enum><text>transfers funds in excess of the following limits—</text> <subparagraph id="H191142A2694349E59E12E7D624A1B544"><enum>(A)</enum><text>15 percent for any program, project or activity for which $2,000,000 or more is available at the beginning of the fiscal year; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1646FBF72A494614B26FCFE5733CE4AF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$300,000 for any program, project or activity for which less than $2,000,000 is available at the beginning of the fiscal year;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HACA98CC64657485C91A0E108C510E4A2"><enum>(6)</enum><text>transfers more than $500,000 from either the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation category or the Resources Management and Development category to any program, project, or activity in the other category; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H18EBA709C50E4E76B3EC34DDE2F338D9"><enum>(7)</enum><text>transfers, when necessary to discharge legal obligations of the Bureau of Reclamation, more than $5,000,000 to provide adequate funds for settled contractor claims, increased contractor earnings due to accelerated rates of operations, and real estate deficiency judgments.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA92B47DDA2A64DA3A3963CC18EC21278"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(5) shall not apply to any transfer of funds within the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation category.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HAA3D4CA814AF44BAAA31F18F1B7B7293"><enum>(c)</enum><text>For purposes of this section, the term <quote>transfer</quote> means any movement of funds into or out of a program, project, or activity.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HA104C9B0DC9F443EBF991AC3030B90CD"><enum>(d)</enum><text>The Bureau of Reclamation shall submit reports on a quarterly basis to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate detailing all the funds reprogrammed between programs, projects, activities, or categories of funding. The first quarterly report shall be submitted not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HAB74DACADC1D4ACE911D602AAF87911C"><enum>202.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H26C014E6D4104B39BCF39F5471AFD7C2"><enum>(a)</enum><text>None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until development by the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California of a plan, which shall conform to the water quality standards of the State of California as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HB52BCA7536684482B4CF2E7853CB6F9F"><enum>(b)</enum><text>The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be classified by the Secretary of the Interior as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the <quote>Cleanup Program—Alternative Repayment Plan</quote> and the <quote>SJVDP—Alternative Repayment Plan</quote> described in the report entitled <quote>Repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, February 1995</quote>, prepared by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Any future obligations of funds by the United States relating to, or providing for, drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries of such service or studies pursuant to Federal reclamation law.</text> </subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Department of energy</header> <appropriations-major id="H32A358DA747843089D61592D10B1D29E"><header>Energy programs</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="H48D57BA833314B87A37592DCE6D203BE"><header>Energy efficiency and renewable energy</header></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="HAAADE9F4464040D9A70E4161BBEEB844"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment, and other expenses necessary for energy efficiency and renewable energy activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $1,789,000,000 (reduced by $7,000,000) (increased by $9,000,000), to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $150,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="HCBF086631005468EB375BC17E03C2EF4"><header>Electricity delivery and energy reliability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment, and other expenses necessary for electricity delivery and energy reliability activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $160,000,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $27,500,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HB67D308D7A7540D79ED583DB273966DF"><header>Nuclear energy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment, and other expenses necessary for nuclear energy activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $899,000,000 (reduced by $73,309,100.00), to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $73,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction including official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $10,000.</text></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HB0FC0B09374E4A37BA20785F49B70546"><header>Fossil energy research and development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses in carrying out fossil energy research and development activities, under the authority of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the acquisition of interest, including defeasible and equitable interests in any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition or expansion, and for conducting inquiries, technological investigations and research concerning the extraction, processing, use, and disposal of mineral substances without objectionable social and environmental costs (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/3">30 U.S.C. 3</external-xref>, 1602, and 1603), $593,000,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $120,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H6BD16C833F45451C88C08D13EAC51A40"><header>Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to carry out naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities, $19,950,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, unobligated funds remaining from prior years shall be available for all naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities.</text></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H0CA5D1E8855A4E469B763E90553ED2D9"><header>Elk hills school lands fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses in fulfilling the final payment under the Settlement Agreement entered into by the United States and the State of California on October 11, 1996, as authorized by section 3415 of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/106">Public Law 104–106</external-xref> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/10/7420">10 U.S.C. 7420</external-xref> note), $15,579,815, for payment to the State of California for the Teachers' Retirement Fund of the State, of which $15,579,815 shall be derived from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H91EB58137DD24F01A3C73146EAA37C09"><header>Strategic petroleum reserve</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations and program management activities pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/6201">42 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.</external-xref>), $205,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HE5D721C6A55441C6AD8042D0A660DDC3"><header>Northeast home heating oil reserve</header></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="HC98169C59F3E41D4BC11DC4E20A045AD"><header>(Including rescission of funds) </header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve storage, operation, and management activities pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6201 et seq.), $7,600,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations available under this heading, $6,000,000 is hereby permanently rescinded: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="H2994895B7CD84F178818DF77EBA5C8EE"><header>Energy information administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities of the Energy Information Administration, $120,000,000 (reduced by $500,000), to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H77B8BCBF3241453081273314BB5A1577"><header>Non-Defense environmental cleanup</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other expenses necessary for non-defense environmental cleanup activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $241,174,000 (increased by $4,000,000), to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H489A9EFD8D9D4DB4BE182A5F3836B729"><header>Uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses in carrying out uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning, remedial actions, and other activities of title II of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and title X, subtitle A, of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, $585,976,000, to be derived from the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HC496346F6A0E472797274F2770749572"><header>Science</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment, and other expenses necessary for science activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, and purchase of not more than 17 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, including two buses, $5,071,000,000 (reduced by $300,000) (increased by $300,000), to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $180,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That no funding may be made available for United States cash contributions to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project until its governing Council implements the recommendations of the Third Biennial International Organization Management Assessment Report: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the Secretary of Energy may waive this requirement upon submission to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a determination that the Council is making satisfactory progress towards implementation of such recommendations.</text></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HBB30D22BD9A24708BE97A854E2E72ADE"><header>Nuclear waste disposal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the purposes of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/97/425">Public Law 97–425</external-xref>), including the acquisition of real property or facility construction or expansion, $150,000,000, to remain available until expended, and to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H82C71FBD08C74E46A6018A2BC5BA40AE"><header>Advanced research projects agency—energy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses in carrying out the activities authorized by section 5012 of the America COMPETES Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/16538">42 U.S.C. 16538</external-xref>), $280,000,000 (increased by $20,000,000), to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $28,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H5E564BB1D40E4AD48E6D53515CCC34B0"><header>Title 17 innovative technology loan guarantee program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Such sums as are derived from amounts received from borrowers pursuant to section 1702(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/16512">42 U.S.C. 16512(b)</external-xref>) under this heading in prior Acts, shall be collected in accordance with section 502(7) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: <italic>Provided</italic>, That, for necessary administrative expenses to carry out this Loan Guarantee program, $42,000,000 is appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2016: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That $25,000,000 of the fees collected pursuant to section 1702(h) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 shall be credited as offsetting collections to this account to cover administrative expenses and shall remain available until expended, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $17,000,000: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That fees collected under section 1702(h) in excess of the amount appropriated for administrative expenses shall not be available until appropriated: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the Department of Energy shall not subordinate any loan obligation to other financing in violation of section 1702 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 or subordinate any Guaranteed Obligation to any loan or other debt obligations in violation of <external-xref legal-doc="regulation" parsable-cite="cfr/10/609.10">section 609.10</external-xref> of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H488A8ECA01C24745BABD7E2760084481"><header>Advanced technology vehicles manufacturing loan program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For administrative expenses in carrying out the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, $4,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H09725053707444D4847301E92C68A7D6"><header>Clean coal technology</header></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="H2678C9083035441FAC3E0B42677E60E1"><header>(Including rescission of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations under this heading, $6,600,000 is hereby permanently rescinded: <italic>Provided</italic>, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.</text></appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="H7A9BC60E66934586A2502C460C2BB133"><header>Departmental administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For salaries and expenses of the Department of Energy necessary for departmental administration in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), $255,171,000 (reduced by $500,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by $6,000,000) (increased by $500,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $9,000,000) (reduced by $20,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 2016, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $30,000, plus such additional amounts as necessary to cover increases in the estimated amount of cost of work for others notwithstanding the provisions of the Anti-Deficiency Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/1511">31 U.S.C. 1511 et seq.</external-xref>): <italic>Provided</italic>, That such increases in cost of work are offset by revenue increases of the same or greater amount: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That moneys received by the Department for miscellaneous revenues estimated to total $119,171,000 in fiscal year 2015 may be retained and used for operating expenses within this account, as authorized by section 201 of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/95/238">Public Law 95–238</external-xref>, notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 3302: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $136,000,000.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H393DC6F6D9434D0F8A23418B341436E8"><header>Office of the inspector general</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, $42,120,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-major id="HE3B9A4F3A76645EE83D298E2362AA599"><header>Atomic energy defense activities</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-major id="HDBBD055C5E064C7BA7E2A99386094DFD"><header>National nuclear security administration</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="HD0F2AA74B97F4C9081800DA2820EB98A"><header>Weapons activities</header></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="HA7F0E6F573F24105B578CB19EE8F456C"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other incidental expenses necessary for atomic energy defense weapons activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, and the purchase of not to exceed 4 passenger vehicles, $8,204,209,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $97,118,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="H2F3615CEEBD84494800439148661127E"><header>Defense nuclear nonproliferation</header></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="HED04D3CAF244408BB5C04F8985295F7A"><header>(Including rescission of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other incidental expenses necessary for defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $1,592,156,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That funds provided by this Act for Project 99–D–143, Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, and by prior Acts that remain unobligated for such Project, may be made available only for construction and program support activities for such Project: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That of the unobligated balances from prior year appropriations available under this heading, $37,000,000 is hereby permanently rescinded: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="H192D54482F4247F5BD88D34FA9233869"><header>Naval reactors</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary for naval reactors activities to carry out the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition (by purchase, condemnation, construction, or otherwise) of real property, plant, and capital equipment, facilities, and facility expansion, $1,215,342,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $41,500,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H85CC2BD16F79412DB2D0870053763E43"><header>Office of the administrator</header></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="H9725CAB8F7694F9DB39B4E50E7B698F6"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration, $386,863,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016, including official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $12,000.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="H67E3421A907E4A4B99AD6D8FBD5F8B04"><header>Environmental and other defense activities</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="H117EADE71B514B33B13889E0B7ECCBE1"><header>Defense environmental cleanup</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other expenses necessary for atomic energy defense environmental cleanup activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, and the purchase of not to exceed one sport utility vehicle, one heavy duty truck, two ambulances, and one ladder fire truck for replacement only, $4,801,280,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $280,784,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HC546F470101C45388879E43556C76A44"><header>Other defense activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses, including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other expenses, necessary for atomic energy defense, other defense activities, and classified activities, in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $754,000,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of such amount, $249,378,000 shall be available until September 30, 2016, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-major id="H72449E9778784308A37918AD8D750B2D"><header>Power marketing administrations</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="H9F72EE72F77F49B69A3EB30250DF9B54"><header>Bonneville power administration fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund, established pursuant to Public Law 93–454, are approved for the Black Canyon Trout Hatchery and, in addition, for official reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $5,000: <italic>Provided</italic>, That during fiscal year 2015, no new direct loan obligations may be made.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HCDE0959F7DBB477E8390DB4FF8C5336E"><header>Operation and maintenance, southeastern power administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy, including transmission wheeling and ancillary services, pursuant to section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/825s">16 U.S.C. 825s</external-xref>), as applied to the southeastern power area, and including official reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,500, $7,220,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302 and section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944, up to $7,220,000 collected by the Southeastern Power Administration from the sale of power and related services shall be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting collections, to remain available until expended for the sole purpose of funding the annual expenses of the Southeastern Power Administration: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated for annual expenses shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation estimated at not more than $0: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That, notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, up to $73,579,000 collected by the Southeastern Power Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act of 1944 to recover purchase power and wheeling expenses shall be credited to this account as offsetting collections, to remain available until expended for the sole purpose of making purchase power and wheeling expenditures: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That for purposes of this appropriation, annual expenses means expenditures that are generally recovered in the same year that they are incurred (excluding purchase power and wheeling expenses).</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H4DD9BDDE7D6B46C5AD77BE7DABD1BF66"><header>Operation and maintenance, southwestern power administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy, for construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations and appurtenant facilities, and for administrative expenses, including official reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,500 in carrying out section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/825s">16 U.S.C. 825s</external-xref>), as applied to the Southwestern Power Administration, $46,240,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302 and section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), up to $34,840,000 collected by the Southwestern Power Administration from the sale of power and related services shall be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting collections, to remain available until expended, for the sole purpose of funding the annual expenses of the Southwestern Power Administration: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated for annual expenses shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation estimated at not more than $11,400,000: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That, notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, up to $53,000,000 collected by the Southwestern Power Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act of 1944 to recover purchase power and wheeling expenses shall be credited to this account as offsetting collections, to remain available until expended for the sole purpose of making purchase power and wheeling expenditures: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That, for purposes of this appropriation, annual expenses means expenditures that are generally recovered in the same year that they are incurred (excluding purchase power and wheeling expenses).</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H40D51005947A40BB9ECB40EA1A6C8A8E"><header>Construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance, western area power administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For carrying out the functions authorized by title III, section 302(a)(1)(E) of the Act of August 4, 1977 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7152">42 U.S.C. 7152</external-xref>), and other related activities including conservation and renewable resources programs as authorized, including official reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,500, $304,402,000, to remain available until expended, of which $296,321,000 shall be derived from the Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund: <italic>Provided</italic>, That notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/825s">16 U.S.C. 825s</external-xref>), and section 1 of the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939 (43 U.S.C. 392a), up to $211,030,000 collected by the Western Area Power Administration from the sale of power and related services shall be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting collections, to remain available until expended, for the sole purpose of funding the annual expenses of the Western Area Power Administration: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated for annual expenses shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation estimated at not more than $93,372,000, of which $85,291,000 is derived from the Reclamation Fund: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That, notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, up to $260,510,000 collected by the Western Area Power Administration pursuant to the Flood Control Act of 1944 and the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to recover purchase power and wheeling expenses shall be credited to this account as offsetting collections, to remain available until expended for the sole purpose of making purchase power and wheeling expenditures: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That, for purposes of this appropriation, annual expenses means expenditures that are generally recovered in the same year that they are incurred (excluding purchase power and wheeling expenses).</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H1ACD6696F2C746A6891589AB94787B89"><header>Falcon and amistad operating and maintenance fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For operation, maintenance, and emergency costs for the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams, $4,727,000, to remain available until expended, and to be derived from the Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund of the Western Area Power Administration, as provided in section 2 of the Act of June 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 255): <italic>Provided</italic>, That notwithstanding the provisions of that Act and of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, up to $4,499,000 collected by the Western Area Power Administration from the sale of power and related services from the Falcon and Amistad Dams shall be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting collections, to remain available until expended for the sole purpose of funding the annual expenses of the hydroelectric facilities of these Dams and associated Western Area Power Administration activities: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated for annual expenses shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal year so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation estimated at not more than $228,000: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That for purposes of this appropriation, annual expenses means expenditures that are generally recovered in the same year that they are incurred: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That for fiscal year 2015, the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration may accept up to $802,000 in funds contributed by United States power customers of the Falcon and Amistad Dams for deposit into the Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund, and such funds shall be available for the purpose for which contributed in like manner as if said sums had been specifically appropriated for such purpose: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That any such funds shall be available without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation for use by the Commissioner of the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission for the sole purpose of operating, maintaining, repairing, rehabilitating, replacing, or upgrading the hydroelectric facilities at these Dams in accordance with agreements reached between the Administrator, Commissioner, and the power customers.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H0EDD2166BABD4E389F4FDCA541A1AAED"><header>Federal energy regulatory commission</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="HE40142472CBF4D9FBF9B1294D897F8A1"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to carry out the provisions of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>), including services as authorized by <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/5/3109">5 U.S.C. 3109</external-xref>, the hire of passenger motor vehicles, and official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $3,000, $304,389,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of the amount appropriated herein, not more than $5,400,000 may be made available for salaries, travel, and other support costs for the offices of the Commissioners:<italic>Provided further</italic>, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed $304,389,000 of revenues from fees and annual charges, and other services and collections in fiscal year 2015 shall be retained and used for necessary expenses in this account, and shall remain available until expended: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced as revenues are received during fiscal year 2015 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $0.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="HBAB4876F563F4F5F8CF3CE0123F0C789"><header>General provisions—department of energy</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-small id="H157BA2A446444F9E87F5D038423879D6"><header>(including transfer and rescissions of funds)</header> </appropriations-small><section id="H9C94276D3498458B8831DB3F01F5DCA6"><enum>301.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HF54CF8E83EC24AE188F73F6369DBF248"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No appropriation, funds, or authority made available by this title for the Department of Energy shall be used to initiate or resume any program, project, or activity or to prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals or similar arrangements (including Requests for Quotations, Requests for Information, and Funding Opportunity Announcements) for a program, project, or activity if the program, project, or activity has not been funded by Congress.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HAFEF98FA8DD643BBA45D7FBA25D55A8D"><enum>(b)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HA32E405CDA094186BDC43D0539449937"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Unless the Secretary of Energy notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate at least 3 full business days in advance, none of the funds made available in this title may be used to—</text> <subparagraph id="HD798BFB1D5B841F48900B62F5C233D0D" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>make a grant allocation or discretionary grant award totaling $1,000,000 or more;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1D58126D93C34741812E8996106B7939" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>make a discretionary contract award or Other Transaction Agreement totaling $1,000,000 or more, including a contract covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7FE2F10986D7419C840818C495E4D500" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>issue a letter of intent to make an allocation, award, or Agreement in excess of the limits in subparagraph (A) or (B); or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDDB31ADADD60491EB3234F219C6D8EE9" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>announce publicly the intention to make an allocation, award, or Agreement in excess of the limits in subparagraph (A) or (B).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H455E500D8FED4AABA0A96D1487BAF748" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Secretary of Energy shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate within 15 days of the conclusion of each quarter a report detailing each grant allocation or discretionary grant award totaling less than $1,000,000 provided during the previous quarter.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H8C1E7A2E892D460F87E4A5BC8D97AF9C" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The notification required by paragraph (1) and the report required by paragraph (2) shall include the recipient of the award, the amount of the award, the fiscal year for which the funds for the award were appropriated, the account and program, project, or activity from which the funds are being drawn, the title of the award, and a brief description of the activity for which the award is made.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HACE5A004EC6C4C8D9C0736F315AF0BA3"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The Department of Energy may not, with respect to any program, project, or activity that uses budget authority made available in this title under the heading <quote>Department of Energy—Energy Programs</quote>, enter into a multiyear contract, award a multiyear grant, or enter into a multiyear cooperative agreement unless—</text> <paragraph id="HF39A49E49CAE4D679608DFA173DA619F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement is funded for the full period of performance as anticipated at the time of award; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7334C0A98ED14E338440426BC58E16A6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement includes a clause conditioning the Federal Government's obligation on the availability of future year budget authority and the Secretary notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate at least 3 days in advance.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HBEF2AF7591B940F489D9842B7B8414BF"><enum>(d)</enum><text>Except as provided in subsections (e), (f), and (g), the amounts made available by this title shall be expended as authorized by law for the programs, projects, and activities specified in the <quote>Bill</quote> column in the <quote>Department of Energy</quote> table included under the heading <quote>Title III—Department of Energy</quote> in the report of the Committee on Appropriations accompanying this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HB98BC588056F477EBFA7F5F5C21657C9"><enum>(e)</enum><text>The amounts made available by this title may be reprogrammed for any program, project, or activity, and the Department shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate at least 30 days prior to the use of any proposed reprogramming which would cause any program, project, or activity funding level to increase or decrease by more than $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, during the time period covered by this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H258D87D212984EBC8AC28A0593E6D149"><enum>(f)</enum><text>None of the funds provided in this title shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that—</text> <paragraph id="HBD61594A32824A8C8CE88B121AE90FE8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>creates, initiates, or eliminates a program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3B3E7452270B428B91F2E0A903571DCD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are denied or restricted by this Act; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB8913772E3C444CC8A29B83690FAFC32"><enum>(3)</enum><text>reduces funds that are directed to be used for a specific program, project, or activity by this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFA9C54FDF92E4CF68489A1CFB4581708"><enum>(g)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H819C21A774014B288BE5E16E02BADAF1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Secretary of Energy may waive any requirement or restriction in this section that applies to the use of funds made available for the Department of Energy if compliance with such requirement or restriction would pose a substantial risk to human health, the environment, welfare, or national security.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H80FF37E47BDB431C9F5CF94A7D6AD86A" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Secretary of Energy shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate of any waiver under paragraph (1) as soon as practicable, but not later than 3 days after the date of the activity to which a requirement or restriction would otherwise have applied. Such notice shall include an explanation of the substantial risk under paragraph (1) that permitted such waiver.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HDBDBA4C5CCB34744A0E296D8A1EDCA33"><enum>302.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The unexpended balances of prior appropriations provided for activities in this Act may be available to the same appropriation accounts for such activities established pursuant to this title. Available balances may be merged with funds in the applicable established accounts and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund for the same time period as originally enacted.</text> </section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA808394AAF044E6D86AB79880E57E9FC"><enum>303.</enum><text>Funds appropriated by this or any other Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/50/414">50 U.S.C. 414</external-xref>) during fiscal year 2015 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2015.</text> </section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2047D7B9096A4D0CA95894EE457371FE"><enum>304.</enum><text>None of the funds made available in this title shall be used for the construction of facilities classified as high-hazard nuclear facilities under 10 CFR Part 830 unless independent oversight is conducted by the Office of Independent Enterprise Assessments to ensure the project is in compliance with nuclear safety requirements.</text> </section><section id="idF0964329044741FA89186228CE46F8AD"><enum>305.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this title may be used to approve critical decision-2 or critical decision-3 under Department of Energy Order 413.3B, or any successive departmental guidance, for construction projects where the total project cost exceeds $100,000,000, until a separate independent cost estimate has been developed for the project for that critical decision.</text> </section><section id="H1C9A1BC7082A4789BA351D73F1E78DE7"><enum>306.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H3453CD6ACD2341E6818536879DC2E7DF"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any determination (including a determination made prior to the date of enactment of this Act) by the Secretary pursuant to section 3112(d)(2)(B) of the USEC Privatization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/2297h-10">42 U.S.C. 2297h–10(d)(2)(B)</external-xref>), as amended, shall be valid for not more than 2 calendar years subsequent to such determination.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H8DA589344F424C20902DE913E7E80C77"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Not less than 30 days prior to the provision of uranium in any form the Secretary of Energy shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate of—</text> <paragraph id="HD4FEBD7E2C994878BFCDEE998C20089F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the amount of uranium to be provided;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H474F346D963A4BD29CF8DF1ADF35F5E4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>an estimate by the Secretary of the gross fair market value of the uranium on the expected date of the provision of the uranium;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H98C077897CD0489F9E6B8733C10630AA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the expected date of the provision of the uranium;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3E32C87B4774457689D34CBE08F179A8"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the recipient of the uranium; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H14CE0D5A6BCC426C8513D0E0AD9F5064"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the value the Secretary expects to receive in exchange for the uranium, including any adjustments to the gross fair market value of the uranium.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD5F0904A06E04652AE4F614A7AB819A1"><enum>(c)</enum><text>If on the expected date of provision, the estimated gross fair market value of the uranium hexafluoride (UF6), comprising of uranium and conversion, is more than 10 percent lower than the gross fair market value on the date the most recent determination was signed by the Secretary, the Secretary shall issue a new determination pursuant to section 3112(d)(2)(B) of the USEC Privatization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/2297h-10">42 U.S.C. 2297h–10(d)(2)(B)</external-xref>) before the provision can be processed.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H7CB03775B3DC4F29B5A7F39E28EF44C7"><enum>307.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 301(c) of this Act, none of the funds made available under the heading <quote>Department of Energy—Energy Programs—Science</quote> may be used for a multiyear contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or Other Transaction Agreement of $1,000,000 or less unless the contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or Other Transaction Agreement is funded for the full period of performance as anticipated at the time of award.</text> </section><section id="HE150EF8B80FB4EFCB32871EE3D4AADA1"><enum>308.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In fiscal year 2015 and subsequent fiscal years, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the congressional defense committees (as defined in U.S.C. 101(a)(16)) a report, on each major warhead refurbishment program that reaches the Phase 6.3 milestone, that provides an analysis of alternatives. Such report shall include—</text> <paragraph id="H8423A379F617452E884CF488117C60CA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a full description of alternatives considered prior to the award of Phase 6.3;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD74B705F3A4849E7A8F5BE8431DB75F4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a comparison of the costs and benefits of each of those alternatives, to include an analysis of trade-offs among cost, schedule, and performance objectives against each alternative considered;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2FDE8200C2D0461BA3D3A6A284C575A8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>identification of the cost and risk of critical technology elements associated with each alternative, including technology maturity, integration risk, manufacturing feasibility, and demonstration needs;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H66C05686CDD149C494FDAB2FA9B63770"><enum>(4)</enum><text>identification of the cost and risk of additional capital asset and infrastructure capabilities required to support production and certification of each alternative;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H21AFF4469B484B47B2786250104133CD"><enum>(5)</enum><text>a comparative analysis of the risks, costs, and scheduling needs for any military requirement intended to enhance warhead safety, security, or maintainability, including any requirement to consolidate and/or integrate warhead systems or mods as compared to at least one other feasible refurbishment alternative the Nuclear Weapons Council considers appropriate; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H48B033A6D6514DE889A5D70FF3F31F37"><enum>(6)</enum><text>a life-cycle cost estimate for the alternative selected that details the overall cost, scope, and schedule planning assumptions.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H21522AA2EC4B4E1C936C3E1D9363C85D"><enum>309.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H153D2B4DCFDC45DBA9E1401E301C6805"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unobligated balances available from prior year appropriations are hereby permanently rescinded from the following accounts of the Department of Energy in the specified amounts:</text> <paragraph id="H45BBE681019147548376D5CB904DF392"><enum>(1)</enum><text>“Energy Programs—Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy”, $18,111,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE073FB72CF484912AFE0952792ABA09F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>“Energy Programs—Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability”, $4,809,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H73EC672E24944E818CAC8577D0244488"><enum>(3)</enum><text>“Energy Programs—Nuclear Energy”, $1,046,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA3199BCC0B494E9DA7A4A829B4CDA01B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>“Energy Programs—Fossil Energy Research and Development”, $8,243,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7B5F1D3746BC4FB1AEECD0A0DAB1055A"><enum>(5)</enum><text>“Energy Programs—Science”, $5,257,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H895CF7029F13431C8243C3AC513D8D8A"><enum>(6)</enum><text>“Energy Programs—Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy”, $619,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H8CE65F0F920B4403BF5552853D80B2A0"><enum>(7)</enum><text>“Power Marketing Administrations—Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area Power Administration”, $1,720,000.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H532C8336A7A548359F3E4B3C78C3A570"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No amounts may be rescinded by this section from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H26CADEB7A0A84A33BE8FD7700A5CE893"><enum>310.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds made available by this Act for pension plan payments in excess of legal requirements, up to $90,000,000 under “Weapons Activities” and up to $30,000,000 under “Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation” may be transferred to “Defense Environmental Cleanup” to support decontamination and other requirements at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.</text> </section><section id="H69C3F544CC7D4BDD85A03EDAACDD3CA8"><enum>311.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H048A856142E94D9985B255A588562D9E"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this or any prior Act under the heading “Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation” may be made available for contracts with, or Federal assistance to, the Russian Federation.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H8FFB9F5A2AEA42DDA1A560DF799C3B52"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Energy may waive the prohibition in subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that such activity is in the national security interests of the United States. This waiver authority may not be delegated.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H45B1971924CD4661A1B0EF6B5856A0D2"><enum>(c)</enum><text>A waiver under subsection (b) shall not be effective until 30 days after the date on which the Secretary submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, in classified form if necessary, a report on the justification for the waiver.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HB56BFFABD0F144358A064B4278F468D3"><enum>312.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All balances under “United States Enrichment Corporation Fund” are hereby permanently rescinded. No amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.</text> </section><section id="H915BD0B469F54F0C986F9C4B9CCE1C8F"><enum>313.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HB6399A2BE89645CC9D175DEDC1044A1A"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this or any other Act making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for any fiscal year or funds available in the SPR Petroleum Account in this and subsequent fiscal years may be used to carry out a test drawdown and sale or exchange of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as authorized by section 161(g) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/6241">42 U.S.C. 6241(g)</external-xref>) unless the Secretary of Energy submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate not less than 30 full calendar days in advance of such test—</text> <paragraph id="H8425100C8E6A412E892BAF0B69EC4BF3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>notification of intent to conduct a test;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HEE12A5FB47614BFE925B82D80CADCDA1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>an explanation of why such a test is necessary or what is expected to be learned;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HAC49B85F800B4300AA436D2A33BFAB6C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the amount of crude oil or refined petroleum product to be offered for sale or exchange;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF613CC9E02F9467B8E995FF338A757A0"><enum>( 4)</enum><text>an estimate of revenues expected from such test; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H07A5873B20AE48EBA1AD8C330E49FA0D"><enum>(5)</enum><text>a plan for refilling the Reserve, including whether the acquisition will be of the same or of a different petroleum product.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H46F136242C1D4534857A556268230A03"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this or any prior Act or funds available in the SPR Petroleum Account may be used to acquire any petroleum product other than crude oil.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H9ED68138B9144DC7B65C474CB3DDD0E4"><enum>314.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the funds authorized by the Secretary of Energy for laboratory directed research and development, no individual program, project, or activity funded by this or any subsequent Energy and Water Development appropriations Act for any fiscal year may be charged more than the statutory maximum authorized for such activities.</text> </section><section id="HD478804CD7654CBF995BC11B4B3A2720"><enum>315.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Energy to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule entitled <quote>Standards Ceiling Fans and Ceiling Fan Light Kits</quote> and identified by regulation identification number 1904–AC87.</text> </section><enum>IV</enum><header>Independent agencies</header> <appropriations-intermediate id="H28E964339B824B0BB65C6DB83BD9C40D"><header>Appalachian regional commission</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to carry out the programs authorized by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/40/14704">40 U.S.C. 14704</external-xref>, and for necessary expenses for the Federal Co-Chairman and the Alternate on the Appalachian Regional Commission, for payment of the Federal share of the administrative expenses of the Commission, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $80,317,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H2297CA73572B4D4F9D4C28A14C2A2A5E"><header>Defense nuclear facilities safety board</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="HEA19730540FF4B33929ED6E90B064EE6"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in carrying out activities authorized by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Public Law 100–456, section 1441, $29,150,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="H380C7E1AE28D4C7FB260DA7CAAF9B5B6"><header>Delta regional authority</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="H01AEF330C8C14552A82A668C4F2475D1"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Delta Regional Authority and to carry out its activities, as authorized by the Delta Regional Authority Act of 2000, notwithstanding sections 382C(b)(2), 382F(d), 382M, and 382N of said Act, $12,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="H69A953799C4E44A7A7B41F33A8341D67"><header>Denali commission</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses of the Denali Commission including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment as necessary and other expenses, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, notwithstanding the limitations contained in section 306(g) of the Denali Commission Act of 1998: <italic>Provided</italic>, That funds shall be available for construction projects in an amount not to exceed 80 percent of total project cost for distressed communities, as defined by section 307 of the Denali Commission Act of 1998 (division C, title III, Public Law 105–277), as amended by section 701 of appendix D, title VII, Public Law 106–113 (113 Stat. 1501A–280), and an amount not to exceed 50 percent for non-distressed communities.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H779135D3634A42E5AAA2D3D0C9F38F37"><header>Northern border regional commission</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Northern Border Regional Commission in carrying out activities authorized by subtitle V of title 40, United States Code, $3,000,000, to remain available until expended: <italic>Provided</italic>, That such amounts shall be available for administrative expenses, notwithstanding section 15751(b) of title 40, United States Code.</text></appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H5B192D94D4484BD58E6AC1B865EFD0F3"><header>Southeast crescent regional commission</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission in carrying out activities authorized by subtitle V of title 40, United States Code, $250,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H362205D9C7B44A37AAC6652871CB7F9D"><header>Nuclear regulatory commission</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="H1C288A45A9E24B73B34752BA83110106"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Commission in carrying out the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, including official representation expenses not to exceed $25,000, $1,052,433,000, to remain available until expended, of which $55,000,000 shall be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund: <italic>Provided</italic>, That of the amount appropriated herein, not more than $9,500,000 may be made available for salaries, travel, and other support costs for the Office of the Commission, to remain available until September 30, 2016, of which, notwithstanding section 201(a)(2)(c) of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5841">42 U.S.C. 5841(a)(2)(c)</external-xref>), the use and expenditure shall only be approved by a majority vote of the Commission: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That revenues from licensing fees, inspection services, and other services and collections estimated at $880,155,000 in fiscal year 2015 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and expenses in this account, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, and shall remain available until expended: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received during fiscal year 2015 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation estimated at not more than $172,278,000: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That of the amounts appropriated under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be for university research and development in areas relevant to their respective organization's mission, and $5,000,000 shall be for a Nuclear Science and Engineering Grant Program that will support multiyear projects that do not align with programmatic missions but are critical to maintaining the discipline of nuclear science and engineering.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="HD98B3FDEBB2E4120B36B4E34C601399C"><header>Office of inspector general</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, $12,071,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016: <italic>Provided</italic>, That revenues from licensing fees, inspection services, and other services and collections estimated at $10,099,000 in fiscal year 2015 shall be retained and be available until September 30, 2016, for necessary salaries and expenses in this account, notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">section 3302</external-xref> of title 31, United States Code: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received during fiscal year 2015 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation estimated at not more than $1,972,000: <italic>Provided further</italic>, That, of the amounts appropriated under this heading, $850,000 shall be for Inspector General services for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, which shall not be available from fee revenues.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="HB2AAC70058D14430987B0236C688A883"><header>Nuclear waste technical review board</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="H3E76A635B28843169A7ED0CF5D830E09"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, as authorized by Public Law 100–203, section 5051, $3,400,000, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, to remain available until September 30, 2016.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="H4E9F21EACFA743C58714EAA4ECC66280"><header>General provisions—independent agencies</header> </appropriations-major><section id="H7806156EFF964ADFA1C5939AD844A1A4"><enum>401.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall notify the other members of the Commission, the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate, not later than 1 day after the Chairman begins performing functions under the authority of section 3 of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980, or after a member of the Commission who is delegated emergency functions under subsection (b) of that section begins performing those functions. Such notification shall include an explanation of the circumstances warranting the exercise of such authority. The Chairman shall report to the Committees, not less frequently than once each week, on the actions taken by the Chairman, or a delegated member of the Commission, under such authority, until the authority is relinquished. The Chairman shall notify the Committees not later than 1 day after such authority is relinquished. The Chairman shall submit the report required by section 3(d) of the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980 to the Committees not later than 1 day after it was submitted to the Commission. This section shall be in effect in fiscal year 2015 and each subsequent fiscal year.</text> </section><section id="HDD8983BAC9E349EB900E66BF781953E0"><enum>402.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall comply with the July 5, 2011, version of Chapter VI of its Internal Commission Procedures when responding to Congressional requests for information until those Procedures are changed or waived by a majority of the Commission, in accordance with Commission practice.</text> </section><enum>V</enum><header>General provisions</header> <appropriations-small id="H256038BE47284E599D38907DA4B78E18"><header>(Including transfers of funds)</header> </appropriations-small><section id="ID2AAC33A1C65345E38FDFA1CC317BDA7E"><enum>501.</enum><text>None of the funds appropriated by 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 18 U.S.C. 1913.</text> </section><section committee-id="SSAP00" id="HB4C1588FD46C4237BF76953B5D6F5B3A"><enum>502.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any corporation that was convicted of a felony criminal violation under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and has made a determination that this further action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government.</text> </section><section id="H8585FA70185840AFA88C4441FCFA0165"><enum>503.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with the authority responsible for collecting the tax liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension or debarment of the corporation and has made a determination that this further action is not necessary to protect the interests of the Government.</text> </section><section id="H631FFD36DFDD40FF9CCA2342A6D2CB15"><enum>504.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC00C398AC47547BEA3AA50A2341B57C3"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in title III of this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by or transfer authority provided in this Act or any other appropriations Act for any fiscal year, transfer authority referenced in the report of the Committee on Appropriations accompanying this Act, or any authority whereby a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government may provide goods or services to another department, agency, or instrumentality.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H7D635AD31C3C4A158B07327A3724342C"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available for any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government may be transferred to accounts funded in title III of this Act, except pursuant to a transfer made by or transfer authority provided in this Act or any other appropriations Act for any fiscal year, transfer authority referenced in the report of the Committee on Appropriations accompanying this Act, or any authority whereby a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government may provide goods or services to another department, agency, or instrumentality.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HD69737CBA65B46FA87F24761057DBF3E"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The head of any relevant department or agency funded in this Act utilizing any transfer authority shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a semiannual report detailing the transfer authorities, except for any authority whereby a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government may provide goods or services to another department, agency, or instrumentality, used in the previous 6 months and in the year-to-date. This report shall include the amounts transferred and the purposes for which they were transferred, and shall not replace or modify existing notification requirements for each authority.</text> </subsection></section><section id="idDDE14AFFAA764D2392231744E0B7C6C5"><enum>505.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of Executive Order No. 12898 of February 11, 1994 (<quote>Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations</quote>).</text> </section><section id="H0ADB76ECAB7D461194B10B19CA9FAE38"><enum>506.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to conduct closure of adjudicatory functions, technical review, or support activities associated with the Yucca Mountain geologic repository license application, or for actions that irrevocably remove the possibility that Yucca Mountain may be a repository option in the future.</text><appropriations-small id="HED4DF031AFD14A3DA2BD5C43764E4A3B"><header>Spending reduction account</header> </appropriations-small></section><section id="H8507C42299AF4B1C9E8FC23C43D0CBA7"><enum>507.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount by which the applicable allocation of new budget authority made by the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives under section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 exceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0.</text> </section><section id="H0261F4F0DBC24D2BBF379DB50D6E48FB"><enum>508.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 3112(d)(2)(B) of the USEC Privatization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/2297h-10">42 U.S.C. 2297h–10(d)(2)(B)</external-xref>) and all public notice and comment requirements under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/5/6">chapter 6</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code, that are applicable to carrying out such section.</text> </section><section id="HBF642226B7E24CF09F73D2A31D03DBE6"><enum>509.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 4712 of title 41, United States Code.</text> </section><section id="H40AF52C17879404B8EE7650C745CF003"><enum>510.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into any contract with an incorporated entity if such entity’s sealed bid or competitive proposal shows that such entity is incorporated or chartered in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, and such entity’s sealed bid or competitive proposal shows that such entity was previously incorporated in the United States.</text> </section><section id="H4B4773CDCD1442EBB0786FAB680E602B"><enum>511.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulation or guidance that references or relies on the analysis contained in <quote>Technical Support Document: - Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order 12866</quote> issued by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States Government (February 2010), <quote>Technical Support Document: - Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order 12866</quote> issued by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States Government (May 2013), <quote>Technical Support Document - Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order 12866</quote> issued by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States Government (revised November 2013), or <quote>Technical Support Document - Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order No. 12866</quote>, published at 78 Fed. Reg. 228 (November 26, 2013).</text> </section><section id="H2209B618933D4F2BA74D4A265F00BCD3"><enum>512.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Energy to apply the report entitled <quote>Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspective on Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas from the United States</quote>, published in the Federal Register on June 4, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 32260), in any public interest determination under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717b">15 U.S.C. 717b</external-xref>).</text> </section><section id="H6043D28482AB4470AE6528DA0019179A"><enum>513.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inventory, except in accordance with Presidential Memorandum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011.</text> </section><section id="HC3E664811BDC43A4BBF42635FEC5C012"><enum>514.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to enter into a contract with any person whose disclosures of a proceeding with a disposition listed in section 2313(c)(1) of title 41, United States Code, in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System include the term <quote>Fair Labor Standards Act.</quote>.</text> </section><section id="HBF18C613538B4CE98FE2D6E916D8F0D7"><enum>515.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enter into a contract with any offeror or any of its principals if the offeror certifies, as required by Federal Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any of its principals—</text> <paragraph id="H14887B8033AB4DDDA3A88A59575567A4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>within a 3-year period preceding this offer has been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against it for: commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public (Federal, State, or local) contract or subcontract; violation of Federal or State antitrust statutes relating to the submission of offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, making false statements, tax evasion, violating Federal criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H034FBF82DDF74137B1C881C0FD4B0115"><enum>(2)</enum><text>are presently indicted for, or otherwise criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with, commission of any of the offenses enumerated above in paragraph (1); or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA7AD81916587439A8DA74BD22A31D807"><enum>(3)</enum><text>within a 3-year period preceding this offer, has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liability remains unsatisfied.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H46E49BD800A64B0195C67D9C68F647A3"><enum>516.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the study of the Missouri River Projects authorized in section 108 of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 (division C of Public Law 111–8).</text> </section><section id="HA8503E40F2604B2EA2ED3B6AB142041E"><enum>517.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to continue the study conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers pursuant to section 5018(a)(1) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/110/114">Public Law 110–114</external-xref>).</text> </section><section id="H9083A46F63DC4CEE950B1C7776CEB79E"><enum>518.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the order entitled <quote>Order Accepting Proposed Tariff Revisions and Establishing a Technical Conference</quote> issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on August 13, 2013 (Docket No. ER13–1380–000).</text> </section><section id="H164AAFA5BA844901A638BC19D36D5FB2"><enum>519.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this Act may be used within the borders of the State of Louisiana by the Mississippi Valley Division or the Southwestern Division of the Army Corps of Engineers or any district of the Corps within such divisions to implement or enforce the mitigation methodology, referred to as the <quote>Modified Charleston Method</quote>.</text> </section><section id="H600B838030E4420897219EB342C79861"><enum>520.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for <quote>DE–FOA0000697: Sustainable Cities: Urban Energy Planning for Smart Growth in China and India</quote>.</text> </section><section id="H6111508DC8FD439AA250B541F99C494B"><enum>521.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay the salary of any officer or employee to carry out section 301 of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/16421a">42 U.S.C. 16421a</external-xref>; added by section 402 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/111/5">Public Law 111–5</external-xref>)).</text> </section><section id="H2FDE5659A48845F2B3FE94FAB1D54209"><enum>522.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to carry out section 801 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/17281">42 U.S.C. 17281</external-xref>).</text> </section><section id="H482982FBBE1244B3AFB4C7F105100B1A"><enum>523.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to transform the National Energy Technology Laboratory into a government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory, or to consolidate or close the National Energy Technology Laboratory.</text> </section><section id="H712D48AB96354082B3FA721179E60E93"><enum>524.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Cape Wind Energy Project on the Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts, Nantucket Sound.</text> </section><section id="HC161807ADDB84FDCAFBFE2D197FF46CC"><enum>525.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order No. 13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 43023, relating to the stewardship of oceans, coasts, and the Great Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy developed under such Executive order.</text> </section><section id="H03B09C9ED288404BAFC2B5CEBBCB0B77"><enum>526.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to award grants or provide funding for high-efficiency toilets or indoor water-efficient toilets.</text> </section><section id="H26E7620C29A9443AB739FDA73BF6A091"><enum>527.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 210(d)(1)(B)(ii) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238(d)(1)(B)(ii)).</text> </section><section id="H97C5B593F5E5423FB44B83240ACD4F71"><enum>528.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this Act may be used—</text> <paragraph id="H08A9D21AADC248FB969F24E0C40941D0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to implement or enforce <external-xref legal-doc="regulation" parsable-cite="cfr/10/430.32">section 430.32(x)</external-xref> of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC71202CC197544C4BEF36410CCF61592"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement or enforce the standards established by the tables contained in section 325(i)(1)(B) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/6295">42 U.S.C. 6295(i)(1)(B)</external-xref>) with respect to BPAR incandescent reflector lamps, BR incandescent reflector lamps, and ER incandescent reflector lamps.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H2D08CD46050B45AD8E09DFBBFC299322"><enum>529.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to regulate activities identified in subparagraphs (A) and (C) of section 404(f)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1344">33 U.S.C. 1344(f)(1)(A)</external-xref>, (C)) or to limit the exemption in section 404(f)(1)(A) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1344">33 U.S.C. 1344(f)(1)(A)</external-xref>) to established or ongoing operations.</text> </section><section id="H617953FAB7CD49A1BF0D6CFE34AAC27A"><enum>530.</enum> <header>Offshore Drilling Permit</header><text>No funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Energy to block approval of offshore drilling permits.</text> </section><section id="HD5DDBEC3633D48F0BEBD81A79208725A"><enum>531.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to design, implement, administer, or carry out the United States Global Climate Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order No. 12866, or the July 2014 Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations’ pathways to deep decarbonization report.</text> </section><section id="HBC744F9BC7404874A906C290E3B2ED5E"><enum>532.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Department of Energy’s Climate Model Development and Validation program.</text><appropriations-small id="H2710DCC282A0416BAE89265F81177A37"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015</short-title></quote>.</text> </appropriations-small></section>

Passed the House of Representatives July 10, 2014.

Karen L. Haas,Clerk