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                                                 Union Calendar No. 356
108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3981

                          [Report No. 108-594]

   To reclassify fees paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting 
                  collections, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2004

Mr. Barton of Texas (by request): introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

                              July 9, 2004

   Additional sponsors: Mr. Norwood, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Bonner, Mr. 
    Everett, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, and Mr. Brown of South Carolina

                              July 9, 2004

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                               17, 2004]

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reclassify fees paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting 
                  collections, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NUCLEAR WASTE FUND MANAGEMENT.

    (a) Offsetting Collections.--Beginning on October 1, 2004, and 
continuing through September 30, 2009, fees collected by the Secretary 
of Energy and deposited into the Nuclear Waste Fund under the Nuclear 
Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) shall be credited to 
the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting collections in amounts not to 
exceed the amounts annually appropriated during that period from the 
Nuclear Waste Fund. For fiscal year 2005, such amounts shall not exceed 
$576,000,000. Consistent with existing law, such amounts may only be 
used for purposes authorized under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 
1982.
    (b) Additional Necessary Sums.--To the extent that the level of 
budgetary resources from offsetting collections is insufficient to 
implement activities under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 for a 
fiscal year, there are authorized to be appropriated for implementing 
those activities such additional sums as may be necessary from the 
balances in the Nuclear Waste Fund.

SEC. 2. REPORT.

    Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, 
and every two years thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the 
Congress a report on the adequacy of the Nuclear Waste Fund that 
includes an assessment of whether current unexpended balances in the 
Fund, if made fully available to the Secretary, would affect annual fee 
determinations (including whether a reduction to the fee may be 
necessary) made pursuant to section 302(a)(4) of the Nuclear Waste 
Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10222(a)(4)). The report shall also 
include recommendations to Congress on whether this Act should be 
extended beyond its current expiration date of September 30, 2009, and 
whether alternative approaches may be necessary to access unexpended 
balances in the Nuclear Waste Fund.




                                                 Union Calendar No. 356

108th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3981

                          [Report No. 108-594]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

   To reclassify fees paid into the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting 
                  collections, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                              July 9, 2004

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed