[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 104 (Friday, September 8, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S8256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACTION, 2001

  Mr. ROTH. Mr. President, with respect to the energy and water 
appropriations bill, I ask unanimous consent that two previously 
submitted amendments, Nos. 4053 and 4054, be agreed to and the motion 
to reconsider be laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendments (Nos. 4053 and 4054) were agreed to, as follows:


                           amendment no. 4053

(Purpose: To revise planning requirements to make them consistent with 
sections 3264 and 3291 of the National Nuclear Security Administration 
                                  Act)

       On page 83, strike line 20 and all that follows down to the 
     end of page 84, line 23 and insert the following:
       ``Sec. 309. (a) None of the funds for the National Nuclear 
     Security Administration in this Act or any future Energy and 
     Water Development Appropriations Act may be expended after 
     December 31 of each year under a covered contract unless the 
     funds are expended in accordance with a Laboratory Funding 
     Plan for Nuclear Security that has been approved by the 
     Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration 
     as part of the overall Laboratory Funding Plan required by 
     section 310(a) of Public Law 106-60. At the beginning of each 
     fiscal year, the Administrator shall issue directions to 
     laboratories under a covered contract for the programs, 
     projects, and activities of the National Nuclear Security 
     Administration to be conducted at such laboratories in that 
     fiscal year. The Administrator and the laboratories under a 
     covered contract shall devise a Laboratory Funding Plan for 
     Nuclear Security that identifies the resources needed to 
     carry out these programs, projects, and activities. Funds 
     shall be released to the Laboratories only after the 
     Secretary has approved the overall Laboratory Funding Plan 
     containing the Laboratory Funding Plan for Nuclear Security. 
     The Secretary shall consult with the Administrator on the 
     overall Laboratory Funding Plans for Los Alamos National 
     Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and 
     Sandia National Laboratories prior to approving them. The 
     Administrator may provide exceptions to requirements 
     pertaining to a Laboratory Funding Plan for Nuclear Security 
     as the Administrator considers appropriate.
       ``(b) For purposes of this section, `covered contract' 
     means a contract for the management and operation of the 
     following laboratories: Argonne National Laboratory, 
     Brookhaven National Laboratory, Idaho National Engineering 
     and Environmental Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National 
     Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los 
     Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 
     Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Sandia National 
     Laboratories.''
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                           amendment no. 4054

       At the appropriate place in the bill, insert the following 
     new section:
       ``Sec.   . Within available funds under Title I, the 
     Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
     shall provide up to $7,000,000 to replace and upgrade the dam 
     in Kake, Alaska which collapsed July, 2000 to provide 
     drinking water and hydroelectricity.''

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