[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 103 (Thursday, September 7, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D868-D872]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                        Thursday, September 7, 2000

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                              Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS

      Senate passed Energy and Water Development Appropriations.


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8129-S8243
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 3013-3021, and S. Res. 349.                      
  Page S8197
 Measures Reported:
  S. 1536, to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to extend 
authorizations of appropriations for programs under the Act, to 
modernize programs and services for older individuals, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 106-399)
  S. 1925, to promote environmental restoration around the Lake Tahoe 
basin, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 
106-400)
  S. 2048, to establish the San Rafael Western Legacy District in the 
State of Utah, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. 
Rept. No. 106-401)
  S. 2069, to permit the conveyance of certain land in Powell, Wyoming. 
(S. Rept. No. 106-402)
  S. 2239, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost 
sharing for the endangered fish recovery implementation programs for 
the Upper Colorado River and San Juan River basins, with an amendment. 
(S. Rept. No. 106-403)
Measures Passed:
  Energy/Water Development Appropriations: By 93 yeas to 1 nay (Vote 
No. 237) Senate passed H.R. 4733, making appropriations for energy and 
water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, after 
taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 
                                               Pages S8129-32, S8163-87
Adopted:
  Harkin Modified Amendment No. 4101, to limit to $74,100,000 the total 
amount of funds that may be expended for construction of the National 
Ignition Facility.                                       
Pages S8164-67
  Reid (for Bingaman) Amendment No. 4024, to authorize the Corps of 
Engineers to include an evaluation of flood damage reduction measures 
in the study of Southwest Valley Flood Reduction, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico.                                                  
Pages S8167-70
  Domenici Amendment No. 4032, to strike certain environment related 
provisions.                                       
Pages S8129, S8167-70
  Schumer/Collins Amendment No. 4033, to establish a Presidential 
Energy Commission to explore long- and short-term responses to domestic 
energy shortages in supply and severe spikes in energy prices. 
                                                  Pages S8129, S8167-70
  Domenici (for Cochran) Amendment No. 4039, to provide for funding of 
innovative projects in small rural communities in the Mississippi Delta 
to demonstrate advanced alternative energy technologies. 
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Cochran) Amendment No. 4040, to require an evaluation 
by the Department of Energy of the Adams process.        
Pages S8167-70
  Reid (for Breaux) Amendment No. 4042, to provide funding for a topo/
bathy study of coastal Louisiana.                        
Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Murkowski) Amendment No. 4046, to make certain funds 
available for the Office of Arctic Energy.               
Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Grassley) Amendment No. 4047, to direct the Secretary 
of Energy to submit to Congress a report on national energy policy. 
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Reid Amendment No. 4057, to provide that $1,000,000 is provided to 
initiate planning of a one MW dish engine field validation power 
project at UNLV in Nevada.                               
Pages S8167-70
  Reid Amendment No. 4062, to provide $4,000,000 for the demonstration 
of an underground mining locomotive and an earth loader powered by 
hydrogen in Nevada.                                      
Pages S8167-70
  Reid Amendment No. 4063, to provide $5,000,000 to demonstrate a 
commercial facility employing thermo-depolymerization technology. 
                                                         Pages S8167-70

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  Domenici (for Bunning) Amendment No. 4067, to provide that the 
Tennessee Valley Authority shall not proceed with a sale of mineral 
rights in land within the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky, until 
after the Tennessee Valley Authority completes an environmental impact 
statement.                                               
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Stevens-Murkowski) Amendment No. 4068, to provide 
$50,000 for erosion control studies in the Harding Lake watershed in 
Alaska.                                                  
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici Amendment No. 4069, to provide $2,000,000 for equipment 
acquisition for the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology 
(IRIS) PASSCAL Instrument Center.                        
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici Amendment No. 4070, to provide $3,000,000 to support a 
program to apply and demonstrate technologies to reduce hazardous waste 
streams that threaten public health and environmental security along 
the U.S.-Mexico border; and to provide $2,000,000 for the Materials 
Corridor Partnership Initiative.                         
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici Amendment No. 4071, to provide $2,300,000 for the 
Albuquerque Metropolitan Area Water Reclamation and Reuse project 
authorized by Title XVI of Public Law 102-575 to undertake phase II of 
the project.                                             
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Stevens) Amendment No. 4072, to provide $1,000,000 for 
the Kotzebue wind project.                               
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Stevens) Amendment No. 4073, to provide $2,000,000 for 
the design and construction of a demonstration facility for regional 
biomass ethanol manufacturing in Southeast Alaska.       
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Abraham) Amendment No. 4074, to provide $500,000 for 
the bioreactor landfill project to be administered by the Environmental 
Education and Research Foundation and Michigan State University. 
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici Amendment No. 4076, to exempt travel within the LDRD program 
from the Department-wide travel cap.                     
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici Amendment No. 4077, to provide erosion and sediment control 
measures resulting from increased flows related to the Cerro Grande 
Fire in New Mexico.                                      
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici Amendment No. 4078, to provide that up to 8 percent of the 
funds provided to government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories 
shall be available to be used for Laboratory Directed Research and 
Development.                                             
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Roth) Amendment No. 4083, to prohibit the use of funds 
made available by this Act to carry out any activity relating to 
closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Chesapeake and 
Delaware Canal, Delaware.                                
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Allard) Amendment No. 4085, to provide for an 
additional payment from the surplus to reduce the public debt. 
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for Smith of OR) Amendment No. 4088, to provide sums to the 
Secretary of the Interior to refund certain collections received 
pursuant to the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982.          
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Reid (for Reed) Amendment No. 4093, to set aside funds for 
maintenance and repair of the Sakonnet Harbor breakwater in Little 
Compton, Rhode Island.                                   
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Reid (for Boxer) Amendment No. 4100, to direct the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission to submit to Congress a report on electricity 
prices in the State of California.                       
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Reid (for Baucus) Amendment No. 4102, to provide a greater level of 
recreation management activities on reclamation project land and water 
areas within the State of Montana east of the Continental Divide. 
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Reid (for Baucus) Amendment No. 4103, to modify the law relating to 
Canyon Ferry Reservoir, Montana.                         
                                                         Pages S8167-70
  Domenici (for DeWine) Modified Amendment No. 4034, to state the sense 
of the Senate regarding limitations on the capacity of the Department 
of Energy to augment funds for worker and community assistance grants 
in response to the closure or downsizing of Department of Energy 
facilities.                                              
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici (for DeWine/Levin) Modified Amendment No. 4035, to set aside 
funds to carry out activities under the John Glen Great Lakes Basin 
Program.                                                 
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici (for Lott) Modified Amendment No. 4036, to appropriate 
$10,400,000 in Title I, Corps of Engineers--Operation and Maintenance 
for Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi, to continue critical improvement 
projects.                                                
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici (for Lott) Modified Amendment No. 4037, to appropriate 
$200,000 in Title I, Corps of Engineers, Construction, General for 
Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi channel width dredging.     
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid (for Graham) Modified Amendment No. 4043, to set aside funds for 
implementation of certain environmental restoration requirements. 
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid (for Levin) Modified Amendment No. 4051, to set aside funds to 
develop the Detroit River Masterplan.                    
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid (for Inouye) Modified Amendment No. 4055, to include additional 
studies and analyses in the Reconnaissance Report for the Kihei Area 
Erosion, Hawaii study.                                   
                                                         Pages S8171-73

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  Reid (for Inouye) Modified Amendment No. 4056, to include additional 
studies and analyses in the Reconnaissance Report for the Waikiki 
Erosion Control, Hawaii study.                           
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid Modified Amendment No. 4058, to provide that any amounts 
provided for the Newlands Water Rights Fund for purchasing and retiring 
water rights in the Newlands Reclamation Project shall be non-
reimbursable.                                            
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid Modified Amendment No. 4061, to provide $5,000,000 for small 
wind projects, including not less than $2,000,000 for the small wind 
turbine development project.                             
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid Modified Amendment No. 4064, to provide $2,000,000 for linear 
accelerator at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. 
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici Modified Amendment No. 4079, to make a technical correction 
in language relating to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. 
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici (for Roth) Modified Amendment No. 4080, to make funds 
available for a study by the Secretary of the Army to determine the 
feasibility of providing additional crossing capacity across the 
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.                           
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici (for Roth) Modified Amendment No. 4082, to express the sense 
of the Senate concerning the dredging of the main channel of the 
Delaware River.                                          
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid (for Reed) Modified Amendment No. 4092, to set aside funds for 
activities related to the selection of a permanent disposal site for 
environmentally sound dredged material from navigational dredging 
projects in the State of Rhode Island.                   
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici (for Cochran) Modified Amendment No. 4096, to provide funds 
for Tributaries in the Yazoo Basin of Mississippi, and for the 
Mississippi River levees.                                
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Reid (for Daschle) Modified Amendment No. 4112, to set aside funds 
for a feasibility study of the Niobrara River watershed and the 
operations of Fort Randall Dam and Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri 
River, South Dakota.                                     
                                                         Pages S8171-73
  Domenici (for Allard) Amendment No. 4017, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to enter into contracts with the city of Loveland, 
Colorado, to use Colorado-Big Thompson Project facilities for the 
impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, 
municipal, industrial.                                   
                                                         Pages S8178-80
  Reid (for Breaux) Amendment No. 4044, to provide funding for the 
Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act. 
                                                         Pages S8178-80
  Reid Amendment No. 4059, to provide $3,000,000 for technology 
development and demonstration program in Combined Cooling, Heating and 
Power Technology Development for Thermal Load Management, District 
Energy Systems, and Distributed Generation.              
                                                         Pages S8178-80
  Domenici (for Crapo) Amendment No. 4089, to set aside funding for 
participation by the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental 
Laboratory in the Greater Yellowstone Energy and Transportation Systems 
Study.                                                   
                                                         Pages S8178-80
  Domenici Amendment No. 4099, to extend the authority of the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission to collect fees through 2005 and improve the 
administration of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.         
                                                         Pages S8178-80
  Reid (for Torricelli) Amendment No. 4110, to redesignate the 
Interstate Sanitation Commission as the Interstate Environmental 
Commission.                                              
                                                         Pages S8178-80
  Domenici (for Stevens) Amendment No. 4111, to make available 
$12,500,000 for Molecular Nuclear Medicine.              
                                                         Pages S8178-80
  Domenici (for Grams) Modified Amendment No. 4041, to require the 
Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a report on impacts of a 
state-imposed limit on the quantity of spent nuclear fuel that may be 
stored onsite.                                               
                                                             Page S8180
  Reid Modified Amendment No. 4060, to prohibit the use of funds to 
promote or advertise any public tour of a facility or project of the 
Department of Energy.                                        
                                                             Page S8180
  Domenici (for Thomas) Modified Amendment No. 4087, to extend certain 
contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation and irrigation water 
contractors in Wyoming and Nebraska that receive water from the Glendo 
Reservoir.                                                   
                                                             Page S8180
  Domenici (for Grams) Modified Amendment No. 4091, to provide funding 
for a flood control project in Minnesota.                    
                                                             Page S8180
  Reid (for Torricelli) Modified Amendment No. 4108, to direct the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop 
standards for evaluating dredged material for remediation purposes at, 
and to provide funding for a non-ocean alternative remediation 
demonstration project for dredged material at, the Historic Area 
Remediation Site, New Jersey.                                
                                                             Page S8180
  Reid (for Torricelli) Modified Amendment No. 4109, to set aside funds 
to establish a program for direct marketing of certain dredged material 
to public agencies and private entities.          
                                                  Pages S8177-78, S8180
  Reid (for Daschle) Modified Amendment No. 4113, to set aside funding 
for an ethanol demonstration project.                        
                                                             Page S8180
                                                              Rejected:
  By 45 yeas to 52 nays (Vote No. 232), Daschle (for Baucus) Amendment 
No. 4081, to strike certain provisions relating to revision of the 
Missouri River Master Water Control Manual.              
                                                         Pages S8129-32

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                                                             Withdrawn:
  Reid (for Durbin) Amendment No. 4105, to prohibit the use of funds to 
make final revisions to the Missouri River Master Manual. 
                                                         Pages S8173-77
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Domenici, Cochran, 
Gorton, McConnell, Bennett, Burns, Craig, Stevens, Reid, Byrd, 
Hollings, Murray, Kohl, Dorgan, and Inouye.                  
                                                             Page S8187
  King and Tsiorvas Pipeline Safety Improvement Act: Senate passed S. 
2438, to provide for enhanced safety, public awareness, and 
environmental protection in pipeline transportation, after agreeing to 
a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, and the following 
amendment proposed thereto:                              
  Pages S8225-41
  Gorton (for McCain) Amendment No. 4130, to incorporate additional 
provisions in, and make minor modifications to the bill as reported by 
the committee.                                           
                                                         Pages S8231-32
   Security Assistance Authorization: Committee on Foreign Relations 
was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4919, to amend the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to make 
improvements to certain defense and security assistance provisions 
under those Acts, to authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain 
foreign countries, after striking all after the enacting clause and 
inserting in lieu thereof the text of S. 2901, Senate companion 
measure.                                                     
  Page S8241
  Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the 
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following 
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Helms, Lugar, Hagel, 
Biden, and Sarbanes.                                         
                                                             Page S8241
  Subsequently, S. 2901 was placed back on the Senate calendar. 
                                                             Page S8241
 PNTR (Permanent Normal Trade Relations) FOR CHINA: Senate began 
consideration of H.R. 4444, to authorize extension of nondiscriminatory 
treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the People's Republic 
of China, and to establish a framework for relations between the United 
States and the People's Republic of China, taking action on the 
following amendments proposed thereto:                   
  Pages S8132-63
                                                              Rejected:
  By 30 yeas to 67 nays (Vote No. 234), Wellstone Amendment No. 4114, 
to require the President to certify to Congress that the People's 
Republic of China has taken certain actions with respect to ensuring 
religious freedom, as recommended by the United States Commission on 
International Religious Freedom.                         
                                                         Pages S8132-41
  By 32 yeas to 64 nays (Vote No. 235), Byrd Amendment No. 4115, to 
require the United States to support the transfer of United States 
clean energy technology as part of assistance programs with respect to 
China's energy sector.                                   
                                                         Pages S8141-52
  By 13 yeas to 81 nays (Vote No. 236), Hollings Amendment No. 4122, to 
strike the provision terminating the application of chapter 1 of title 
IV of the Trade Act of 1974 and the effective date provisions, but 
provide for accession of the People's Republic of China to the World 
Trade Organization.                                      
                                                         Pages S8152-59
                                                               Pending:
  Wellstone Amendment No. 4118, to require that the President certify 
to Congress that the People's Republic of China has taken certain 
actions with respect to ensuring human rights protection.    
                                                             Page S8138
  Wellstone Amendment No. 4119, to require that the President certify 
to Congress that the People's Republic of China is in compliance with 
certain Memoranda of Understanding regarding prohibition on import and 
export of prison labor products.                             
                                                             Page S8138
  Wellstone Amendment No. 4120, to require that the President certify 
to Congress that the People's Republic of China has responded to 
inquiries regarding certain people who have been detained or imprisoned 
and has made substantial progress in releasing from prison people 
incarcerated for organizing independent trade unions.        
                                                             Page S8138
  Wellstone Amendment No. 4121, to strengthen the rights of workers to 
associate, organize and strike.                          
                                                         Pages S8138-39
  Smith (of N.H.) Amendment No. 4129, to require that the 
Congressional-Executive Commission monitor the cooperation of the 
People's Republic of China with respect to POW/MIA issues, improvement 
in the areas of forced abortions, slave labor, and organ harvesting. 
                                                         Pages S8161-63
  During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the 
following action:
  By 92 yeas to 5 nays (Vote No. 233), Senate agreed to the motion to 
proceed to the consideration of the bill.                    
                                                             Page S8132
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and pending amendments on Friday, September 
8, 2000.                                                 
                                                         Pages S8241-42
 Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  3 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  6 Army nominations in the rank of general.
  2 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of general.

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  1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral.          
                                                     Pages S8241, S8243
 Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Robert B. Pirie, Jr., of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of the Navy.
  Frederick G. Slabach, of California, to be a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation for a term 
expiring December 10, 2005.
  Valerie K. Couch, of Oklahoma, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Oklahoma vice Wayne E. Alley, retired.
  Marian McClure Johnston, of California, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of California vice Lawrence K. Karlton, 
retired.
  David A. Nasatir, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the State Justice Institute for a term expiring September 
17, 2003.
  Routine lists in the Army, Coast Guard, Foreign Service, Marine 
Corps, Navy.                                             
                                                         Pages S8242-43
 Messages From the House:                                    
  Page S8195
 Measures Referred:                                          
  Page S8195
 Communications:                                         
  Pages S8195-97
 Petitions:                                                  
  Page S8197
 Executive Reports of Committees:                            
  Page S8197
 Statements on Introduced Bills:                      
  Pages S8197-S8214
 Additional Cosponsors:                                  
  Pages S8214-16
 Amendments Submitted:                                   
  Pages S8216-24
 Notices of Hearings:                                        
  Page S8224
 Authority for Committees:                                   
  Page S8224
 Additional Statements:                                  
  Pages S8192-95
 Privileges of the Floor:                                    
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 Record Votes: Six record votes were taken today. (Total--237) 
                                Pages S8132, S8141, S8152, S8159, S8187
 Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:32 a.m., and adjourned at 8:59 p.m., 
until 10:00 a.m., on Friday, September 8, 2000. (For Senate's program, 
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S8242.)