115 S1609 PCS: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018 U.S. Senate 2017-07-20 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.
II Calendar No. 178 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1609 [Report No. 115–132] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 20, 2017 Mr. Alexander, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar A BILL Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes.
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, 2018, and for other purposes, namely:
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">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 commented="no" 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, $113,465,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="H9B928B2D1CDE44D0B0D1AB2E6C8E8518"><header>Construction</header> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id9E932C3B59BB498281A12A5683DC69FE"><header>(Including rescission of funds)</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); $1,703,150,000, 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: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the unobligated balances available from amounts provided in fiscal year 2011 and prior years under this heading, $35,000,000 is hereby rescinded: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That no amounts may be rescinded by the previous proviso 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-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, $375,000,000, 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 commented="no" 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, $3,481,475,000, to remain available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary to cover the Federal share of eligible operation and maintenance costs for 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.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id5b4bc9e6-8bda-4ce3-9800-9c3c4b877af6"><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, 2019.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id194fb64b-d1b7-4eee-9ab8-9bf546f49b6c"><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, $117,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="idc6d39ebb-afde-4052-a226-9fb5a51755b7"><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, $21,904,000, 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, $185,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be used for official reception and representation purposes and only during fiscal year 2018: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 commented="no" 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 <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/10/3016">10 U.S.C. 3016(b)(3)</external-xref>, $4,406,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="id1fb3e779-122f-4027-b54e-fe82477b3507"><header>General provisions—corps of engineers—civil</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-small id="id9fe9efa8-c3eb-4c73-ae35-e1e2329ecd7e"><header>(including transfer of funds)</header> </appropriations-small><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFCED9684A3664ED1B17EF71987A9A9AA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H279FC413EF4044D2A276A65E35B519B9"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds provided in title I of this Act, or provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities funded in title I of this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2018, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A69F65036954547B41FB783932084C4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBC867AA73E434F358C078388E77450C8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">eliminates a program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H762CDD7AA8B94199A653CF3B8B06AB09"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by this Act, unless prior approval is received from the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCFA0F090CA2044BDA931B9240BA43A48"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity for a different purpose, unless prior approval is received from the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF1839E2799CD4BBFB093FBDBCFD79315"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">augments or reduces existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of the amounts contained in paragraphs (6) through (10), unless prior approval is received from the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9CF7FD0B2E4B4684B4E07F7AB44A2DA3"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Investigations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For a base level over $100,000, reprogramming of 25 percent of the base amount up to a limit of $150,000 per project, study or activity is allowed: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That for a base level less than $100,000, the reprogramming limit is $25,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That up to $25,000 may be reprogrammed into any continuing study or activity that did not receive an appropriation for existing obligations and concomitant administrative expenses;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H424325AC8AC146A98F3057821C4AFCE6"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For a base level over $2,000,000, reprogramming of 15 percent of the base amount up to a limit of $3,000,000 per project, study or activity is allowed: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That for a base level less than $2,000,000, the reprogramming limit is $300,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That up to $3,000,000 may be reprogrammed for settled contractor claims, changed conditions, or real estate deficiency judgments: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That up to $300,000 may be reprogrammed into any continuing study or activity that did not receive an appropriation for existing obligations and concomitant administrative expenses;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC211BD54E6E84180BBBDF5B20D316F77"><enum>(8)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operation and maintenance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unlimited reprogramming authority is granted for the Corps to be able to respond to emergencies: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Chief of Engineers shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of these emergency actions as soon thereafter as practicable: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That for a base level over $1,000,000, reprogramming of 15 percent of the base amount up to a limit of $5,000,000 per project, study, or activity is allowed: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That for a base level less than $1,000,000, the reprogramming limit is $150,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That $150,000 may be reprogrammed into any continuing study or activity that did not receive an appropriation;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H94D64AEC868A41929835743C78524FD5"><enum>(9)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mississippi river and tributaries</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The reprogramming guidelines in paragraphs (6), (7), and (8) shall apply to the Investigations, Construction, and Operation and Maintenance portions of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Account, respectively; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB35735FE7E64E94BA050DD0D098EB41"><enum>(10)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Formerly utilized sites remedial action program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reprogramming of up to 15 percent of the base of the receiving project is permitted.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H15F9A4D19E8B495FA54C9DBE3CDE200C"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">De Minimus Reprogrammings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In no case should a reprogramming for less than $50,000 be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0DEA6CF234F246C6A4E1A6EB1E468A52"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Continuing Authorities Program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to any project or activity funded under the continuing authorities program.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H408BCBC922E24C9FB847578B9E44F522"><enum>(d)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations to establish the baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year which shall include:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H57B3C4199C4040E7BCAF61069954764A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A table for each appropriation with a separate column to display the President's budget request, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if applicable, and the fiscal year enacted level; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7146AB00DADA441C8E5927AD6B6D4CE1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A delineation in the table for each appropriation both by object class and program, project and activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the respective appropriations; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B2D948F0F6343039507C08E78842540"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An identification of items of special congressional interest.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id42B71A7B908C43BC931C489509FB4FCE"><enum>102.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall allocate funds made available in this Act solely in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the accompanying report, including the determination and designation of new starts.</text> </section><section id="ID873E31024453420CAE404E8149B703A5"><enum>103.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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="H41BDCC46A9534358BBE0FB7C02BA978D"><enum>104.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 $5,400,000 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 commented="no" id="HF72AE66C41C84DD5A467AC8FE10D50B8"><enum>105.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be used for an open lake placement alternative for dredged material, after evaluating the least costly, environmentally acceptable manner for the disposal or management of dredged material originating from Lake Erie or tributaries thereto, unless it is approved under a State water quality certification pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1341">33 U.S.C. 1341</external-xref>): <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That until an open lake placement alternative for dredged material is approved under a State water quality certification, the Corps of Engineers shall continue upland placement of such dredged material consistent with the requirements of section 101 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2211">33 U.S.C. 2211</external-xref>).</text> </section><section commented="no" id="HF4FF6DC01843479D92EE16E753CCB437"><enum>106.</enum> <text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this title may be used for any acquisition of buoy chain that is not consistent with 48 CFR 225.7007, subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2).</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45C4F1C2DFC240648EFD2B631CA23EB7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>107.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to carry out any water supply reallocation study under the Wolf Creek Dam, Lake Cumberland, Kentucky, project authorized under the Act of July 24, 1946 (60 Stat. 636, ch. 595).</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id444912C6258D437EAE0CA673C2A9A4F7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall publish in the Federal Register and make available for public comment the interim report relating to the Tentatively Selected Plan for the Great Lakes Mississippi River Interbasin Study Brandon Road Study.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id568DC467FF944D1A8D4BA49C2739E4BE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>109.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Relative to the Rough River Lake Flowage Easement Encroachment Resolution Plan, the Chief of Engineers shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, a report that includes an inventory of habitable structures and improvements built, installed, or established in the flowage easement boundary; whether each such structure or improvement in the inventory was built, installed or established within the flowage easement boundary before or after the surveys conducted by the Corps of Engineers in 2013, 2014, and 2015; and what notice landowners had of the flowage easement boundary prior to those surveys.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDB56BB4CE3D1488B9B2306EB639D69F8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2008 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/2340">33 U.S.C. 2340</external-xref>) is amended by striking subsection (c).</text> </section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Department of the interior</header> <appropriations-intermediate id="id6eb84f60-a7d7-407c-bf85-ecbc9b9f7f14"><header>Central utah project</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id0a530cae-a3d6-4460-ab1c-0ed855005271"><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, $10,500,000, to remain available until expended, of which $898,000 shall be deposited into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account for use by the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the amount provided under this heading, $1,450,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for expenses necessary in carrying out related responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That for fiscal year 2018, 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="id27d7aa69-f3f4-40d5-890e-bba392f0cb8e"><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 commented="no" 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, $1,150,349,000, to remain available until expended, of which $67,693,000 shall be available for transfer to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and $5,551,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such transfers may be increased or decreased within the overall appropriation under this heading: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/6806">16 U.S.C. 6806</external-xref> shall be derived from that Fund or account: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That funds contributed under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/395">43 U.S.C. 395</external-xref> are available until expended for the purposes for which the funds were contributed: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That funds advanced under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/397a">43 U.S.C. 397a</external-xref> shall be credited to this account and are available until expended for the same purposes as the sums appropriated under this heading: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1706">16 U.S.C. 1706</external-xref>.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small id="id18b38d66-5ae2-45f0-a472-84ec95493bfb"><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, $41,376,000, 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: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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>: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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="id205120f5-a45e-4fa0-888e-83e37276eea8"><header>California bay-delta restoration</header> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idb68b0b47-804a-4e8b-b9c3-b9e6780cf903"><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: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That funds appropriated herein may be used for the Federal share of the costs of CALFED Program management: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 expenses necessary for 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, 2019, $59,000,000, to be derived from the Reclamation Fund and be nonreimbursable as provided in 43 U.S.C. 377: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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="id19dc91b1-4823-4dfc-ba61-00f74d71269c"><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="idd7021c1c-adcf-4f4c-aac6-dfa3eca33d6c"><header>General provisions—department of the interior</header> </appropriations-major><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5c495020-8256-4f18-b69a-8df1c5325b6c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idc20865eb-e0ed-4629-9272-abc5e8964be1"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds provided in title II of this Act for Water and Related Resources, or provided by previous or subsequent appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities funded in title II of this Act for Water and Related Resources that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2018, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that—</text> <paragraph id="iddabb97b1c3a84f739a81611485883ff9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>initiates or creates a new program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id161c4015bb5f420a90218341b4e34905"><enum>(2)</enum><text>eliminates a program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id1a797c4f636e4b689b4758119463dec2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>increases funds for any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by this Act, unless prior approval is received from the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id3082f2c6ae704d51bc3e6c7e1568a7e1"><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="id195337b9213a4a5f8fedb81b1fd8e44c"><enum>(5)</enum><text>transfers funds in excess of the following limits, unless prior approval is received from the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate:</text> <subparagraph id="idd28bcda26cdc4cd2b873aee2cf51ca09"><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="idb4175b1c90a44a7c9eab073080a9bd4d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$400,000 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="id0d05ff6521784c7d8cc8e7852e06a428"><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, unless prior approval is received from the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id16fab926b3bb4e7d942cdcd8ec67ec7a"><enum>(7)</enum><text>transfers, where 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, unless prior approval is received from the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id7b67ce88f72a4a70b3846ee005f5df48"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Subsection (a)(5) shall not apply to any transfer of funds within the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation category.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id43956934cdbe4dd9acce82dd97283ac2"><enum>(c)</enum><text>For purposes of this section, the term transfer means any movement of funds into or out of a program, project, or activity.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id9f18e522c81d447ba098cbf65aecbaea"><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="idd0aa8dd4-fbbe-4818-855e-9476b29b8fa3"><enum>202.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id10da0814-a534-48de-8980-6621bb21bce2"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6ae6487a-b214-45f0-990a-87ef8aec62a1"><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><section commented="no" id="idC0F8AA6A51CB4AA5BF7CBE7DA2D9FD35"><enum>203.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idEEE834E357ED4322B1AA1CE3A579E7D8"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(c) of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/2214">43 U.S.C. 2214(c)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>2017</quote> and inserting <quote>2022</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idE871FA6B39D544198046F1B2EB14B54B"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301 of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/2241">43 U.S.C. 2241</external-xref>) is amended by—</text> <paragraph id="idA5F8E3C90501438D93165F0AA449247A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">striking <quote>2017</quote> and inserting <quote>2022</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id6E5B2E2080FD4AB0B8A35CB083DF2269"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">striking <quote>$90,000,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$120,000,000</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><appropriations-small id="id4FA02D75535644EE998FB52DFB7A6001"><header>Use of water for industrial hemp cultivation</header> </appropriations-small><section id="idB60F61F3E3A044389150B5357B369EE3"><enum>204.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idDF281455E39445A38F94B20A4E006C41"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition of industrial hemp</header><text>In this section, the term <term>industrial hemp</term> has the meaning given the term in section 7606(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/7/5940">7 U.S.C. 5940(b)</external-xref>).</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52D6E0B36FB54036A3C13A3D7193A383"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use for industrial hemp cultivation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the Controlled Substances Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/801">21 U.S.C. 801</external-xref> et seq.), <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/41/81">chapter 81</external-xref> of title 41, United States Code, or any other Federal law, an owner of an absolute or conditional water right, or an entity that receives or distributes water contracted from the Federal Government, may, pursuant to State water law, use or sell for use by another person the water subject to the water right or the contract, as applicable, for the cultivation of industrial hemp, regardless of whether the water has passed through a Federal water project, if the growth or cultivation of industrial hemp is otherwise authorized under the laws of the State in which such use occurs.</text> </subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Department of energy</header> <appropriations-major id="H575D6CA340794DD1AF9678FA7BA7381C"><header>Energy programs</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="H383551F3BF304F84964260DC4CAF2B89"><header>Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H32A3B61658F64019B8F6F0F72F4DFB92"><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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $1,936,988,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $153,500,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, 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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $213,141,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $27,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="HAD24E4657FF9406B9E73A7FE1B958ACC"><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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $917,020,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount the Secretary may obligate up to $10,000,000 under existing authorities for contracting for the management of used nuclear fuel to which the Secretary holds the title or has a contract to accept title:<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $74,218,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H6BE6BCC5538A4DCCA8D313457D76BC41"><header>Fossil energy research and development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary in carrying out fossil energy research and development activities, under the authority of the Department of Energy Organization Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101</external-xref> 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), $572,701,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount $57,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id6c7bd3f1-414d-4ded-ae8c-af265190d737"><header>Naval petroleum and oil shale reserves</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary to carry out naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities, $4,900,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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="idA510836B0CBF4DE482F2E79CAC784846"><header>Strategic petroleum reserve</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary 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</external-xref> et seq.), $180,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id271E4722002A42D1B4C15C7D84866095"><header>Energy security and infrastructure modernization fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">As authorized by section 404 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/114/74">Public Law 114–74</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/6239">42 U.S.C. 6239</external-xref> note), the Secretary of Energy shall drawdown and sell not to exceed $350,000,000 of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in fiscal year 2018: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the proceeds from such drawdown and sale shall be deposited in this account during fiscal year 2018: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That such amounts shall remain available until expended for necessary expenses to carry out modernization and operations and maintenance activities for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id55165cad-5e35-41ea-837a-cf56fe10b163"><header>Northeast home heating oil reserve</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary for Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve storage, operation, and 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</external-xref> et seq.), $6,500,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="idc40e0619-d994-4871-b183-f098159a7408"><header>Energy information administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary in carrying out the activities of the Energy Information Administration, $122,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id76a09f67-cad3-455d-9665-100ac4894f25"><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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $266,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id37a9828d-b9d6-49fc-aec6-b309b477102a"><header>Uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary 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, $788,000,000, to be derived from the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, to remain available until expended, of which $13,732,000 shall be available in accordance with title X, subtitle A, of the Energy Policy Act of 1992.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="idec7895cf-99cd-4c15-bb03-1863c8b5a185"><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</external-xref> et seq.), 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 one ambulance and one bus, $5,550,000,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $177,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That funds made available for Basic Energy Sciences shall be expended for the programs, projects, and activities specified in the <quote>Committee recommendation</quote> column in the <quote>Basic Energy Sciences</quote> table in the report of the Committee on Appropriations accompanying this Act.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id97fd1509-52ed-4865-aeed-318c3a763a5d"><header>Advanced research projects agency—energy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy expenses necessary in carrying out the activities authorized by section 5012 of the America COMPETES Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/110/69">Public Law 110–69</external-xref>), $330,000,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $29,250,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id5B65B2523F2247FFBF1A103B1DE270B0"><header>Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs </header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for Indian 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</external-xref> et seq.), $16,000,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, of the amount appropriated under this heading, $4,800,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id05BB6962C1E54EACA30F12FA990E8E12"><header>Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy administrative expenses necessary in carrying out the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program, $1,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="idb23b59da-6854-4926-9787-d7db1c8e7fbf"><header>Title 17 innovative technology loan guarantee program</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id37455DD1167A45C58011381911817BBE"><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 under this heading in prior Acts, shall be collected in accordance with section 502(7) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That for necessary administrative expenses to carry out this Loan Guarantee program, $2,000,000 is appropriated from fees collected in prior years pursuant to section 1702(h) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which are not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2019: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That if the amount in the previous proviso is not available from such fees, an amount for such purposes is also appropriated from the general fund so as to result in a total amount appropriated for such purpose of no more than $2,000,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That fees collected pursuant to such section 1702(h) for fiscal year 2018 shall be credited as offsetting collections under this heading and shall not be available until appropriated: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 section 609.10 of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="id0b7f0452-e14f-4b59-9c2e-55251130ea4b"><header>Advanced technology vehicles manufacturing loan program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For Department of Energy administrative expenses necessary in carrying out the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, $5,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id82341276-9fc7-48a5-b08c-f5b59a73af02"><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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101</external-xref> et seq.), $238,736,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019, 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</external-xref> et seq.): <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such increases in cost of work are offset by revenue increases of the same or greater amount: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That moneys received by the Department for miscellaneous revenues estimated to total $96,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 2018 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $142,736,000.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="idf200cd19-b11c-4530-8141-c89159c48653"><header>Office of the inspector general</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, $49,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-major id="idc77e82be-372a-481a-9152-3df53c909be5"><header>Atomic energy defense activities</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-major id="id03a4fa2b-98d8-40f4-b422-1728e890a355"><header>National nuclear security administration</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="id4E0670B54D304028BC6857446323E64A"><header>Weapons 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 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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $10,000,071,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $105,600,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="idFAA59AC2D29F4EC3A863522C4712F206"><header>Defense nuclear nonproliferation</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="id39889DCD9B874E68A6C5D52E96C9E83C"><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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $1,852,310,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds provided under this heading, or in prior Acts that remain unobligated, shall be available for construction of Project 99–D–143, Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="idEC0C580366904370BEC010FA4EA4BFB8"><header>Naval reactors</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="idE56AB34BE0C546D5AD3A60FB141A7D27"><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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition (by purchase, condemnation, construction, or otherwise) of real property, plant, and capital equipment, facilities, and facility expansion, $1,436,651,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $44,100,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="id17C91177D406427BB0A2FE2B65AF7873"><header>Federal salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for Federal Salaries and Expenses in the National Nuclear Security Administration, $396,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019, including official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $12,000.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-major id="id5E08E38CD17446B187A38B839A6D1E59"><header>ENVIRONMENTAL AND OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="id22F4837DED214A56A2A13C3C8F7C1CBB"><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</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $5,579,968,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $290,150,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $55,000,000 shall be available for the deactivation and decommissioning of high-risk excess facilities that are not in the current project inventory of the Environmental Management program.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="idd6c8f0b6-0b4b-4642-895e-b5f031d26cd4"><header>Defense Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idefbe246f-4bcd-4fed-b913-51657c40addf"><header>(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For an additional amount for atomic energy defense environmental cleanup activities for Department of Energy contributions for uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning activities, $788,000,000, to be deposited into the Defense Environmental Cleanup account which shall be transferred to the <quote>Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund</quote>.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="idB471EC1B515A4506839037FC6C0DF441"><header>Uranium supply and enrichment activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The unappropriated receipts currently in the Uranium Supply and Enrichment Activities account shall be transferred to and merged with the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund and shall be available only to the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="H8A43C92027434F55B0959F07CFA91B50"><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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7101">42 U.S.C. 7101</external-xref> et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, $784,000,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of such amount, $257,116,000 shall be available until September 30, 2019, for program direction.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-major id="idd2fe6527-ffd4-4ac7-ac83-80f32dc5e6ef"><header>Power marketing administrations</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-intermediate id="id3e379ff9-8000-49bc-b183-94e8ec92bbb9"><header>Bonneville power administration fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund, established pursuant to <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/93/454">Public Law 93–454</external-xref>, are approved for official reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $5,000: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That during fiscal year 2018, no new direct loan obligations may be made.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id5e8c2e2c-078f-443d-a0df-6caec363a3fa"><header>Operation and maintenance, southeastern power administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and for 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, $6,379,000, including official reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,500, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref> and section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944, up to $6,379,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 2018 appropriation estimated at not more than $0: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, up to $51,000,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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="id5ac0b491-403a-46ce-89cf-f07337ad6b9b"><header>Operation and maintenance, southwestern power administration</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and for 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, $30,288,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref> and 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>), up to $18,888,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 2018 appropriation estimated at not more than $11,400,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, up to $10,000,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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="ida61e8b7b-4d36-4a9d-9919-fa4a0afe2c71"><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, $232,276,000, including official reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed $1,500, to remain available until expended, of which $232,276,000 shall be derived from the Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/392a">43 U.S.C. 392a</external-xref>), up to $138,904,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 2018 appropriation estimated at not more than $93,372,000, of which $88,179,000 is derived from the Reclamation Fund: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, up to $179,000,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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="idea18d229-c7c0-491a-96a6-5a32b1e9b8fc"><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, $4,176,000, 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): <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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 $3,948,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 2018 appropriation estimated at not more than $228,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That for purposes of this appropriation, annual expenses means expenditures that are generally recovered in the same year that they are incurred: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That for fiscal year 2018, the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration may accept up to $872,000 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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="idabd506e8-a59b-4998-9697-91bb0b654e97"><header>Federal energy regulatory commission</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="id13ce151d-847f-4326-8dbc-1dd5175c491c"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for 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</external-xref> et seq.), including services as authorized by <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/5/3109">5 U.S.C. 3109</external-xref>, official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $3,000, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles, $367,600,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed $367,600,000 of revenues from fees and annual charges, and other services and collections in fiscal year 2018 shall be retained and used for expenses necessary in this account, and shall remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced as revenues are received during fiscal year 2018 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2018 appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $0.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="HA89FCE97C6D249AB8327E10A150EFA93"><header>General provisions—department of energy</header> </appropriations-major><appropriations-small id="HC635F873D10044308168155FA9BD683C"><header>(including transfer and rescissions of funds)</header> </appropriations-small><section id="HD17F038A0CFF40359E9E8EF933D2961A"><enum>301.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HF7F5DAE9F2FB4483B936084D05383201"><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="HC5E3525C37264778A18EE3C93D9E5C7A"><enum>(b)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HAEB1BE82548842E6B3430ADB3A5DCE47"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Unless the Secretary of Energy notifies the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 3 full business days in advance, none of the funds made available in this title may be used to—</text> <subparagraph id="HC33D417607A14810818E97CCB6CA52D1" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>make a grant allocation or discretionary grant award totaling $1,000,000 or more;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H076F373F1F734F8C828EF215F7240ECA" 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="H672030BCD86D4DBD8935DDE6265CC76F" 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="H65808F6B36634D228949BE71AB305E91" 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="HF0DE5504C9404F48A454A3450539AC3C" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Secretary of Energy shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 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="H9559B16F7785465EA4941ABA23903C6E" 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="HD0713DD25DF342FD96D4CE7363CB3351"><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="H5FD9A1BD21AE46C0B642487479F940CA"><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="H9B193E1D4E91445F8F8E962AADCAD716"><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 both Houses of Congress at least 3 days in advance.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H38467576D35C4A25B63C317E5CFC92C1"><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>Committee recommendation</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 commented="no" id="HB929426E780540C78E8800F11535F5F1"><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, and obtain the prior approval of, the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days prior to the use of any proposed reprogramming that would cause any program, project, or activity funding level to increase or decrease by more than $500,000 or 1 percent, whichever is less, during the time period covered by this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H893F4E83921D4AB98623EAA6999CB62B"><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 commented="no" id="H50489318A07743F0A306AA4D6CFAD51B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>creates, initiates, or eliminates a program, project, or activity;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HB05DFB3BAEBA45A88B70BCDC983B2F8D"><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 commented="no" id="HB49F9B58CEF44E0AAEE6A6CEE0699D53"><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="H48F4A9890CCC45A8B3261C5A413D435D"><enum>(g)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H36D33BEDDB9F43E786574DA34D87583C"><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="HC7EF51EF4C8646A18416E94A1C205D1F" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Secretary of Energy shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 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><subsection commented="no" id="idBBE07A3C43D44ECBB5105DA1BD802DCF"><enum>(h)</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> </subsection></section><section id="idB824F01F15E9411F8D74BF19007CFE6F"><enum>302.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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/50/3094">50 U.S.C. 3094</external-xref>) during fiscal year 2018 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018.</text> </section><section commented="no" id="ida6c2eb62-395d-4e76-96c8-fe14022a26b1"><enum>303.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 Enterprise Assessments to ensure the project is in compliance with nuclear safety requirements.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd2af4ab3-d3eb-4a94-9813-d1f7d5947bbf" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</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 commented="no" id="idA69B3D62C99E453699698CD9F57FEA17"><enum>305.</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> in this or any subsequent Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for any fiscal year 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 commented="no" id="id8e8c36132f8a4af2a55c494a14ee0a8c"><enum>306.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Uranium Lease and Take-Back Fund. There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the <quote>Uranium Lease and Take-Back Fund</quote> (the Fund) for the costs necessary to service the lease and take-back contracts entered into by the Department of Energy pursuant to section 3173 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, including the costs of production and packaging of low enriched uranium for delivery and the costs of taking back target residue or spent nuclear fuel for final disposition. For initial capitalization, there is appropriated $1,000,000 to the Fund, to remain available until expended. Notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, revenues received under section 3173 of such Act in this and subsequent fiscal years shall be credited to the Fund as discretionary offsetting collections and shall not be available until appropriated.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEF787D4374A140EE98BB4286992393AD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id06BA676C5FFB4E908F21667EFBB0E639"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="id79f03bdbe77f436fb86d96eebf05509b"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Affected indian tribe</header><text>The term <term>affected Indian tribe</term> has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10101">42 U.S.C. 10101</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idf85155d2858a4ab98a7ef03e4d076da2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>High-level radioactive waste</header><text>The term <term>high-level radioactive waste</term> has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10101">42 U.S.C. 10101</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id1b0231e593dc4cd19dbd30ec915bcd59"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Nuclear waste fund</header><text>The term <term>Nuclear Waste Fund</term> means the Nuclear Waste Fund established under section 302(c) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10222">42 U.S.C. 10222(c)</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id3bf1d077254a466f9749278ce99cad75"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of Energy.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id4a878b951d2c4a9882ba7899d092cf2b"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Spent nuclear fuel</header><text>The term <term>spent nuclear fuel</term> has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10101">42 U.S.C. 10101</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id48592a1e149842b2afc7fe95b63b0a8c"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Pilot program</header><text>Notwithstanding any provision of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10101">42 U.S.C. 10101</external-xref> et seq.), the Secretary is authorized, in the current fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years, to conduct a pilot program to license, construct, and operate 1 or more Federal consolidated storage facilities to provide interim storage as needed for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, with priority for storage given to spent nuclear fuel located on sites without an operating nuclear reactor.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id8e41def30e07434da5e117e3eba4a49c"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Requests for proposals</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a request for proposals for cooperative agreements—</text> <paragraph id="id9c34a15fb99e423b84172a8f764af577"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to obtain any license necessary from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the construction of 1 or more consolidated storage facilities;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id21a8044bfd2843b9aee34e7e0ae575d2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to demonstrate the safe transportation of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, as applicable; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id74c82e05ad864a13b05b89274cba5d21"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to demonstrate the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, as applicable, at the 1 or more consolidated storage facilities pending the construction and operation of deep geologic disposal capacity for the permanent disposal of the spent nuclear fuel.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id415a92b43274412d8a62ba7c5350c666"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Consent-Based approval</header><text>Prior to siting a consolidated storage facility pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall enter into an agreement to host the facility with—</text> <paragraph id="id505b5dee060144c2b72018990d12f0d1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Governor of the State;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idfa4418a94e9d4cf5ba96424df5841e04"><enum>(2)</enum><text>each unit of local government within the jurisdiction of which the facility is proposed to be located; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id413b8d9f8c3d4336b2913ccc03bfc064"><enum>(3)</enum><text>each affected Indian tribe.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id6e1e1d8f76d7444c8429c45d5b6baaab"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>In executing this section, the Secretary shall comply with—</text> <paragraph id="idbb45fdb4987540a3903707e0a6c8486e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>all licensing requirements and regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id080f3d3f330746b6901fc1e68e7c6e88"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all other applicable laws (including regulations).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id5dc56061526148028941768bfdb09f1e"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Pilot program plan</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date on which the Secretary issues the request for proposals under subsection (c), the Secretary shall submit to Congress a plan to carry out this section that includes—</text> <paragraph id="id31231455e9c144c7ae805c505308c644"><enum>(1)</enum><text>an estimate of the cost of licensing, constructing, and operating a consolidated storage facility, including the transportation costs, on an annual basis, over the expected lifetime of the facility;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idcf91beae391d490fa21b76adb207da42"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a schedule for—</text> <subparagraph id="idbf8a629a64e24c0c82e4d7251c5052a2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>obtaining any license necessary to construct and operate a consolidated storage facility from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idaa8c1ab350b74029bab4c09d61b5db91"><enum>(B)</enum><text>constructing the facility;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idea056020596a4276812faf34988ee8bd"><enum>(C)</enum><text>transporting spent fuel to the facility; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb47793a558804d8eab19cb239009e461"><enum>(D)</enum><text>removing the spent fuel and decommissioning the facility;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id1b3d468d744247138a73d5efc4af68a4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>an estimate of the cost of any financial assistance, compensation, or incentives proposed to be paid to the host State, Indian tribe, or local government;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="ide2156530d72f4e12bfbd33e6f2a9273d"><enum>(4)</enum><text>an estimate of any future reductions in the damages expected to be paid by the United States for the delay of the Department of Energy in accepting spent fuel expected to result from the pilot program;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idd64df938af934f4e96fac2b561dfd0b4"><enum>(5)</enum><text>recommendations for any additional legislation needed to authorize and implement the pilot program; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id474ea7af0d584fee967ffa1c5e3c2052"><enum>(6)</enum><text>recommendations for a mechanism to ensure that any spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste stored at a consolidated storage facility pursuant to this section shall move to deep geologic disposal capacity, following a consent-based approval process for that deep geologic disposal capacity consistent with subsection (d), within a reasonable time after the issuance of a license to construct and operate the consolidated storage facility.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id5bdf68e7fcc648159da0f988dd9b41dc"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Public participation</header><text>Prior to choosing a site for the construction of a consolidated storage facility under this section, the Secretary shall conduct 1 or more public hearings in the vicinity of each potential site and in at least 1 other location within the State in which the site is located to solicit public comments and recommendations.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id36dc921e13b841608d78283e446d9571"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Use of nuclear waste fund</header><text>The Secretary may make expenditures from the Nuclear Waste Fund to carry out this section, subject to appropriations.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" id="id8e8c36132f8a4af2a55c474a14ee0a8c"><enum>308.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available by the act for the <quote>National Nuclear Security Administration—Weapons Activities</quote>, up to $40,000,000 may be reprogrammed within such account for the Stockpile Responsiveness Program, subject to the notice requirement in section 301(e).</text> </section><section commented="no" id="idF20CB65FA74F478D99ECCA7EDA3AEE5E"><enum>309.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idC3B2BC343562435497A4875D813453EE"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the authority provided in prior year appropriations Acts for commitments to guarantee loans under title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, $23,670,000,000 is hereby rescinded.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idEA5924B7E9ED46ACB093F777DC4ADB67"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the subsidy amounts provided by section 1425 of the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/112/10">Public Law 112–10</external-xref>; 125 Stat. 126), for the cost of loan guarantees for renewable energy or efficient end-use energy technologies under section 1703 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15513">42 U.S.C. 15513</external-xref>), $160,660,000 is hereby rescinded.</text> </subsection><subsection id="id534728B335374395A450B38C1FDFD39F"><enum>(c)</enum><text>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="idF18D194231294D45B9714D26AE8D21F3"><enum>310.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id504BB4FE58AF44AEA2D8D8337BC63B9A"><enum>(a)</enum><text>From unobligated balances available from amounts appropriated in prior fiscal years for <quote>Department of Energy—Atomic Energy Defense Activities—National Nuclear Security Administration—Weapons Activities</quote>, $64,000,000 is hereby rescinded.</text> </subsection><subsection id="idc64183eaa03a4cb2869146afcc2390e7"><enum>(b)</enum><text>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="idBE0CDE3586AF496DB6FD3A1A98739708"><enum>311.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idFF302B3AF9AC4D30AE638CAA678E11A5"><enum>(a)</enum><text>From unobligated balances available from amounts appropriated in prior fiscal years for <quote>Department of Energy—Atomic Energy Defense Activities—National Nuclear Security Administration—Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation</quote>, $49,000,000 is hereby rescinded.</text> </subsection><subsection id="idaf4b0c3ee95f443ead7fecbf67bda4aa"><enum>(b)</enum><text>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="idBB94CDD6C90D45DA8EFF3C1C0615EC47"><enum>312.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 161 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/6241">42 U.S.C. 6241</external-xref>), the Secretary of Energy shall draw down and sell one million barrels of refined petroleum product from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during fiscal year 2018. Proceeds from sales under this section shall be deposited into the general fund of the Treasury during fiscal year 2018.</text> </section><section id="idB889083C4F894011BED9C0E1D895E76C"><enum>313.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Department of Energy, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress that provides a detailed explanation, using specific receipts data and legal authorities, of how each of the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Area Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration are executing current receipt authority provided in this and prior year appropriations Acts to create carryover of unobligated balances for purchase power and wheeling expenditures.</text> </section><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Independent agencies</header> <appropriations-intermediate id="id8e630bf6-d0b2-44ec-abbf-b085e0e80735"><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, and for expenses necessary 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 <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/5/3109">5 U.S.C. 3109</external-xref>, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $142,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id86c3748f-c92d-4d0f-aab4-294f4af7a5e9"><header>Defense nuclear facilities safety board</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="idc511c1a7-360a-492f-b404-daaf299fe0e8"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in carrying out activities authorized by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/100/456">Public Law 100–456</external-xref>, section 1441, $30,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="id804cc5c8-8263-47af-8cbc-b601c03fe1f7"><header>Delta regional authority</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="ide13ea5ff-8a4f-4d98-8986-f516979508f0"><header>Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Delta Regional Authority and to carry out its activities, as authorized by the Delta Regional Authority Act of 2000, notwithstanding sections 382F(d), 382M, and 382N of said Act, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate id="id7d57f6a7-7b3e-4afb-a4ce-e0a6170571a2"><header>Denali commission</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Denali Commission including the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment as necessary and other expenses, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended, notwithstanding the limitations contained in section 306(g) of the Denali Commission Act of 1998: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That funds shall be available for construction projects in an amount not to exceed 80 percent of total project cost: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law regarding payment of a non-Federal share in connection with a grant-in-aid program, amounts under this heading shall be available for the payment of such a non-Federal share for programs undertaken to carry out the purposes of the Commission.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id5931e150-3343-4ce6-bdda-d690ebb7a7be"><header>Northern border regional commission</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Northern Border Regional Commission in carrying out activities authorized by subtitle V of title 40, United States Code, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such amounts shall be available for administrative expenses, notwithstanding section 15751(b) of title 40, United States Code.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="idcbba913e-82a9-4702-aafc-0ce625d658aa"><header>Nuclear regulatory commission</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idf3807cc4-7694-4192-9062-1dd140b4310f"><header>Salaries and expenses</header> </appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id611E3B9DFFD342F1932B1DDAF5E0CF2C"><header>(Including rescission of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Commission in carrying out the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, $914,137,000, including official representation expenses not to exceed $25,000, to remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the amount appropriated herein, not more than $7,500,000 may be made available for salaries, travel, and other support costs for the Office of the Commission, to remain available until September 30, 2019, 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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That revenues from licensing fees, inspection services, and other services and collections estimated at $807,848,000 in fiscal year 2018 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and expenses in this account, notwithstanding <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/3302">31 U.S.C. 3302</external-xref>, and shall remain available until expended: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received during fiscal year 2018 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2018 appropriation estimated at not more than $106,221,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That of the amounts appropriated under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be for university research and development in areas relevant to the Commission’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: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That $68,076.04 of unobligated balances from the funds transferred to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from the United States Agency for International Development pursuant to section 632(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 are rescinded: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That no amounts in the previous proviso shall be rescinded from amounts that were designated by 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="id8C50433D868C498A88A8D41888A464FE"><header>Office of inspector general</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, $12,859,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019: <proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That revenues from licensing fees, inspection services, and other services and collections estimated at $10,555,000 in fiscal year 2018 shall be retained and be available until September 30, 2019, for necessary salaries and expenses in this account, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received during fiscal year 2018 so as to result in a final fiscal year 2018 appropriation estimated at not more than $2,304,000: <proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That of the amounts appropriated under this heading, $1,131,000 shall be for Inspector General services for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, which shall not be available from fee revenues.</text> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-intermediate id="id0F45B1AAC6824FB3B316713121E4CD5D"><header>Nuclear waste technical review board</header> </appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small id="id499798CE79CE44D5B1F49300F8CA4437"><header>SALARIES AND EXPENSES</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, as authorized by <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/100/203">Public Law 100–203</external-xref>, section 5051, $3,600,000, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, to remain available until September 30, 2019.</text> </appropriations-small><appropriations-major id="H1A30BE44904849D3960956FCD36A2CFB"><header>General provisions—independent agencies</header> </appropriations-major><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H85DC1C4A516540FC8B9624EF4E72187F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</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.</text> </section><section commented="no" id="HFA606FB3B06D42F9AA88C9EBB1C323AB"><enum>402.</enum> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H40E20A75FA3D4B0F914296DFAC594628"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amounts made available by this title for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may be reprogrammed for any program, project, or activity, and the Commission shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days prior to the use of any proposed reprogramming that would cause any program funding level to increase or decrease by more than $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, during the time period covered by this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H70C56579C08E40B29FBD37D63225A32A"><enum>(b)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H7DB46061AD9B4514AD264611CEA1166E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may waive the notification requirement in subsection (a) if compliance with such requirement would pose a substantial risk to human health, the environment, welfare, or national security.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HCA6FD680BB104BDF9B0EDADD716CED07" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 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 and shall provide a detailed report to the Committees of such waiver and changes to funding levels to programs, projects, or activities.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H64F8E741210746B499252C51DF8794F7"><enum>(c)</enum><text>Except as provided in subsections (a), (b), and (d), the amounts made available by this title for <quote>Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Salaries and Expenses</quote> shall be expended as directed in the report of the Committee on Appropriations accompanying this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HE1CB06B8017A455E8848EF63C1F449CA"><enum>(d)</enum><text>None of the funds provided for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are denied or restricted by this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H73D4F1F6227147E6A2D69C1BAF40B712"><enum>(e)</enum><text>The Commission shall provide a monthly report to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, which includes the following for each program, project, or activity, including any prior year appropriations—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H93A5A9EFCDAC445C8532D83873D4F1F7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>total budget authority;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H2CA1DF3128564B49AA9EC66242464043"><enum>(2)</enum><text>total unobligated balances; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HADFFD90DA70B498C87C57CE79B4D44A1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>total unliquidated obligations.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">General provisions</header> <section id="id6ee122d4-f8f9-423c-9bc9-f09644d46369"><enum>501.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1913">18 U.S.C. 1913</external-xref>.</text> </section><section commented="no" id="id42835ae4-4809-4096-be7e-25bfae3895c7"><enum>502.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="ida173137d-b554-4f2e-a582-1b9a775974ff"><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 commented="no" id="id3de68806-a365-42a6-ad93-bafb0fc9c008"><enum>(b)</enum><text>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 explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 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 commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfcb0e4cf-7c59-4959-a5ff-7d66326911d7"><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 both Houses of Congress 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><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3D67309F85524ADB8BDCA8426A7ED863"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This division may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018</short-title></quote>.</text> </appropriations-small> July 20, 2017 Read twice and placed on the calendar