[House Report 104-782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     104-782
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 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT FOR THE FISCAL 
         YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1997, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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               September 12, 1996.--Ordered to be printed

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 Mr. Myers of Indiana, from the committee of conference, submitted the 
                               following

                           CONFERENCE REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 3816]

      The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of 
the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
3816) making appropriations for energy and water development 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other 
purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have 
agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses 
as follows:
      That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
amendment as follows:
      In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
amendment insert:
      That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, for energy and water 
development, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--CIVIL

                         DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

      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 rivers and harbors, flood 
control, beach erosion, and related purposes.


                         general investigations


      For expenses necessary for the collection and study of 
basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood 
control, shore protection, and related projects, restudy of 
authorized projects, miscellaneous investigations, and, when 
authorized by laws, surveys and detailed studies and plans and 
specifications of projects prior to construction, $153,872,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which funds are provided 
for the following projects in the amounts specified:
            Norco Bluffs, California, $180,000;
            San Joaquin River Basin, Caliente Creek, 
        California, $150,000;
            Tampa Harbor, Alafia Channel, Florida, $100,000;
            Lake George, Hobart, Indiana, $100,000;
            Little Calumet River Basin, Cady Marsh Ditch, 
        Indiana, $200,000;
            Tahoe Basin Study, Nevada and California, $100,000;
            Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg Harbor Inlet, New 
        Jersey, $300,000;
            Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet, New 
        Jersey, $360,000;
            Great Egg Harbor Inlet to Townsends Inlet, New 
        Jersey, $200,000;
            Manasquan Inlet to Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, 
        $250,000;
            Townsends Inlet to Cape May Inlet, New Jersey, 
        $245,000;
            South Shore of Staten Island, New York, $200,000;
            Mussers Dam, Middle Creek, Snyder County, 
        Pennsylvania, $450,000;
            Rhode Island South Coast, Habitat Restoration and 
        Storm Damage Reduction, Rhode Island, $100,000;
            Monongahela River, West Virginia, $500,000;
            Monongahela River, Fairmont, West Virginia, 
        $100,000; and
            Tygart River Basin, Philippi, West Virginia, 
        $100,000.


                         construction, general


      For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, 
shore protection, and related projects authorized by laws; and 
detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of projects 
(including those for development with participation or under 
consideration for participation by States, local governments, 
or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by 
law (but such studies shall not constitute a commitment of the 
Government to construction), $1,081,942,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which such sums as are necessary 
pursuant to Public Law 99-662 shall be derived from the Inland 
Waterways Trust Fund, for one-half of the costs of construction 
and rehabilitation of inland waterways projects, including 
rehabilitation costs for the Lock and Dam 25, Mississippi 
River, Illinois and Missouri, Lock and Dam 14, Mississippi 
River, Iowa, and Lock and Dam 24, Mississippi River, Illinois 
and Missouri, projects, and of which funds are provided for the 
following projects in the amounts specified:
            Red River Emergency Bank Protection, Arkansas, 
        $3,000,000;
            San Timoteo Creek (Santa Ana River Mainstem), 
        California, $7,000,000;
            Indianapolis Central Waterfront, Indiana, 
        $7,000,000;
            Indiana Shoreline Erosion, Indiana, $2,200,000;
            Harlan (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy River 
        and Upper Cumberland River), Kentucky, $18,000,000;
            Martin County (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big 
        Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River), Kentucky, 
        $350,000;
            Middlesboro (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy 
        River and Upper Cumberland River), Kentucky, 
        $2,500,000;
            Pike County (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy 
        River and Upper Cumberland River), Kentucky, 
        $2,000,000;
            Town of Martin (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big 
        Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River), Kentucky, 
        $300,000;
            Williamsburg (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy 
        River and Upper Cumberland River), Kentucky, 
        $4,050,000;
            Salyersville, Kentucky, $3,000,000;
            Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity, Louisiana, 
        $17,025,000;
            Lake Pontchartrain (Jefferson Parish) Stormwater 
        Discharge, Louisiana, $4,750,000;
            Red River below Denison Dam Levee and Bank 
        Stabilization, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, 
        $100,000;
            Red River Emergency Bank Protection, Louisiana, 
        $3,400,000;
            Glen Foerd, Pennsylvania, $800,000;
            South Central Pennsylvania Environmental 
        Restoration Infrastructure and Resource Protection 
        Development Pilot Program, Pennsylvania, $7,000,000;
            Seekonk River, Rhode Island Bridge removal, 
        $650,000;
            Wallisville Lake, Texas, $7,500,000;
            Richmond Filtration Plant, Virginia, $3,500,000;
            Virginia Beach, Virginia $8,000,000;
            Hatfield Bottom (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big 
        Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River), West Virginia, 
        $1,300,000;
            Lower Mingo (Kermit) (Levisa and Tug Forks of the 
        Big Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River), West 
        Virginia, $4,000,000;
            Lower Mingo, West Virginia, Tributaries Supplement, 
        $105,000; and
            Upper Mingo County (Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big 
        Sandy River and Upper Cumberland River), West Virginia, 
        $3,500,000: Provided, That of the funds provided for 
        the Red River Waterway, Mississippi River to 
        Shreveport, Louisiana, project, $3,000,000 is provided, 
        to remain available until expended, for design and 
        construction of a regional visitor center in the 
        vicinity of Shreveport, Louisiana at full Federal 
        expense:
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army, acting 
through the Chief of Engineers, is directed to use $1,000,000 
of the funds appropriated in Public Law 104-46 for construction 
of the Ohio River Flood Protection, Indiana, project: Provided 
further, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
Chief of Engineers, is directed, in cooperation with State, 
county, and city officials and in consultation with the Des 
Moines River Greenbelt Advisory Committee, to provide highway 
and other signs appropriate to direct the public to the bike 
trail which runs from downtown Des Moines, Iowa, to the Big 
Creek Recreation area at the Corps of Engineers Saylorville 
Lake project and the wildlife refuge in Jasper and Marion 
Counties in Iowa authorized in Public Law 101-302: Provided 
further, That any law, regulation, documents or record of the 
United States in which such projects are referred to shall be 
held to refer to the bike trail as the Neal Smith Bike Trail 
and to such centers as the Neal Smith Prairie Wildlife Learning 
Center: Provided further, That the Secretary is directed to 
initiate construction on the Joseph G. Minish Historic 
Waterfront Park, New Jersey, project; furthermore, the 
Secretary may transfer not to exceed $900,000 from General 
Investigations appropriations made in Title I of the Energy and 
Water Development Appropriations Act, Public Law 103-126 (107 
STAT. 1313) for the Passaic River, Mainstem, New Jersey, to 
Construction, General for the Joseph G. Minish Historic 
Waterfront Park, New Jersey, project and that the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House and Senate shall be promptly 
advised of such transfer: Provided further, That of the funds 
provided herein, $1,000,000 shall be for payment to the Kansas 
City Southern Industries, Inc. in partial reimbursement of 
costs associated with the relocation and modification of the 
Louisiana and Arkansas (L&A) Railway Bridge at Alexandria, 
Louisiana, for navigation requirements of the Red River 
navigation project: Provided further, That using $500,000 of 
the funds appropriated for the Passaic River Mainstem, New 
Jersey, project under the heading ``General Investigations'' in 
Public Law 103-126, the Secretary of the Army, acting through 
the Chief of Engineers, is directed to begin implementation of 
the Passaic River Preservation of Natural Storage Areas 
separable element of the Passaic River Flood Reduction Project, 
New Jersey: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army, 
acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and 
directed to initiate construction on the following projects in 
the amounts specified:
            Humboldt Harbor, California, $2,500,000;
            San Lorenzo River, California, $200,000;
            Faulkner's Island, Connecticut, $1,500,000;
            Chicago Shoreline, Illinois, $8,000,000;
            Pond Creek, Jefferson City, Kentucky, $1,500,000;
            Natchez Bluff, Mississippi, $4,500,000;
            Wood River, Grand Isle, Nebraska, $1,000,000;
            New York City Watershed, New York, $1,000,000;
            Duck Creek, Cincinnati, Ohio, $466,000;
            Saw Mill Run, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $500,000;
            West Virginia and Pennsylvania Flooding, West 
        Virginia and Pennsylvania, $1,000,000;
            Upper Jordan River, Utah, $500,000
            San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico, $800,000; and
            Allendale Dam, Rhode Island, $195,000: Provided 
        further, That no fully allocated funding policy shall 
        apply to construction of the projects listed above, and 
        the Secretary of the Army is directed to undertake 
        these projects using continuing contracts where 
        sufficient funds to complete the projects are not 
        available from funds provided herein or in prior years.


 flood control, mississippi river and tributaries, arkansas, illinois, 
       kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, missouri, and tennessee


      For expenses necessary for prosecuting work of flood 
control, and rescue work, repair, restoration, or maintenance 
of flood control projects threatened or destroyed by flood, as 
authorized by law (33 U.S.C. 702a, 702g-1), $310,374,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the President 
of the Mississippi River Commission is directed henceforth to 
use the variable cost recovery rate set forth in OMB Circular 
A-126 for use of the Commission aircraft authorized by the 
Flood Control Act of 1946, Public Law 526: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding the funding limitations set forth in 
Public Law 104-6 (109. Stat 85), the Secretary of the Army, 
acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and 
directed to use additional funds appropriated herein or 
previously appropriated to complete remedial measures to 
prevent slope instability at Hickman Bluff, Kentucky.


                   operation and maintenance, general


      For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, 
maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood 
control, and related works, including such sums as may be 
necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels provided by a 
State, municipality or other public agency, outside of harbor 
lines, and serving essential needs of general commerce and 
navigation; surveys and charting of northern and northwestern 
lakes and connecting waters; clearing and straightening 
channels; and removal of obstructions to navigation, 
$1,697,015,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
such sums as become available in the Harbor Maintenance Trust 
Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99-662, may be derived from that 
fund, and of which such sums as become available from the 
special account established by the Land and Water Conservation 
Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l), may be derived from 
that fund for construction, operation, and maintenance of 
outdoor recreation facilities, and of which funds are provided 
for the following projects in the amounts specified:
            Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania, $4,190,000; and
            Cooper Lake and Channels, Texas, $2,601,000:

Provided, That using $1,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
herein, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Engineers, is directed to design and construct a landing at 
Guntersville, Alabama, as described in the Master Plan Report 
of the Nashville District titled ``Guntersville Landing'' dated 
June, 1996: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army is 
directed to design and implement at full Federal expense an 
early flood warning system for the Greenbrier and Cheat River 
Basins, West Virginia within eighteen months from the date of 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
the Army is directed during fiscal year 1997 to maintain a 
minimum conservation pool level of 475.5 at Wister Lake in 
Oklahoma: Provided further, That no funds, whether 
appropriated, contributed, or otherwise provided, shall be 
available to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the 
purpose of acquiring land in Jasper County, South Carolina, in 
connection with the Savannah Harbor navigation project: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Army is directed to 
use $600,000 of funding provided herein to perform maintenance 
dredging of the Cocheco River navigation project, New 
Hampshire.


                           regulatory program


      For expenses necessary for administration of laws 
pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, 
$101,000,000, to remain available until expended.


                 flood control and coastal emergencies


      For expenses necessary for emergency flood control, 
hurricane, and shore protection activities, as authorized by 
section 5 of the Flood Control Act approved August 18, 1941, as 
amended, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended; 
Provided, That the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
Chief of Engineers, is directed to use up to $8,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated herein and under this heading in Public Law 
104-134 to rehabilitate non-Federal flood control levees along 
the Puyallup and Carbon Rivers in Pierce County, Washington.


                            general expenses


      For expenses necessary for general administration and 
related functions in the Office of the Chief of Engineers and 
offices of the Division Engineers; activities of the Coastal 
Engineering Research Board, the Humphreys Engineer Center 
Support Activity, the Engineering Strategic Studies Center, and 
the Water Resources Support Center, and for costs of 
implementing the Secretary of the Army's plan to reduce the 
number of division offices as directed in title I, Public Law 
104-46, $149,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That no part of any other appropriation provided in 
title I of this Act shall be available to fund the activities 
of the Office of the Chief of Engineers or the executive 
direction and management activities of the Division Offices: 
Provided further, That with funds provided herein and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
the Army shall develop and submit to the Congress (including 
the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and 
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House 
of Representatives) within 60 days of enactment of this Act, a 
plan which reduces the number of division offices within the 
United States Army Corps of Engineers to no less than 6 and no 
more than 8, with each division responsible for at least 4 
district offices, but does not close or change any civil 
function of any district office: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
the Army is directed to begin implementing the division office 
plan on April 1, 1997: Provided further, That up to $1,500,000 
may be transferred to this account from any other appropriation 
account in this title.


                        administrative provision


      Appropriations in this title shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 
$5,000); and during the current fiscal year the revolving fund, 
Corps of Engineers, shall be available for purchase (not to 
exceed 100 for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

      Sec. 101. (a) In fiscal year 1997, the Secretary of the 
Army shall advertise for competitive bid at least 8,500,000 
cubic yards of the hopper dredge volume accomplished with 
government owned dredges in fiscal year 1992.
      (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the 
Secretary is authorized to use the dredge fleet of the Corps of 
Engineers to undertake projects when industry does not perform 
as required by the contract specifications or when the bids are 
more than 25 percent in excess of what the Secretary determines 
to be a fair and reasonable estimated cost of a well equipped 
contractor doing the work or to respond to emergency 
requirements.
      Sec. 102. None of the funds appropriated herein or 
otherwise made available to the Army Corps of Engineers, 
including amounts contained in the Revolving Fund of the Army 
Corps of Engineers, may be used to study, design or undertake 
improvements or major repair of the Federal vessel, McFARLAND, 
except for normal maintenance and repair necessary to maintain 
the vessel McFARLAND's current operational condition.
      Sec. 103. The flood control project for Moorefield, West 
Virginia, authorized by section 101(a)(25) of the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-640, 104 
Stat. 4610) is modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army 
to construct the project at a total cost of $26,200,000, with 
an estimated first Federal cost of $20,300,000 and an estimated 
first non-Federal cost of $5,900,000.
      Sec. 104. The project for navigation, Grays Landing Lock 
and Dam, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania (Lock and Dam 7 
Replacement), authorized by section 301(a) of the Water 
Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662, 100 Stat. 
4410) is modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army to 
construct the project at a total cost of $181,000,000, with an 
estimated first Federal cost of $181,000,000.
      Sec. 105. From the date of enactment of this Act, non-
structural flood control measures implemented under Section 
202(a) of Public Law 96-367 shall prevent future losses that 
would occur from a flood equal in magnitude to the April 1977 
level by providing protection from the April 1977 level or the 
100-year frequency event, whichever is greater.
      Sec. 106. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
is authorized to reprogram, obligate and expend such additional 
sums as are necessary to continue construction and cover 
anticipated contract earnings of any water resources project 
that received an appropriation or allowance for construction in 
or through an appropriations Act or resolution of the then-
current fiscal year or the two fiscal years immediately prior 
to that fiscal year, in order to prevent the termination of a 
contract or the delay of scheduled work.
      Sec. 107. The Corps of Engineers is hereby directed to 
complete the Charleston Riverfront (Haddad) Park Project, West 
Virginia, as described in the design memorandum approved 
November, 1992, on a 50-50 cost-share basis with the City. The 
Corps of Engineers shall pay one-half of all costs for settling 
contractor claims on the completed project and for completing 
the wharf. The Federal portion of these costs shall be obtained 
by reprogramming available Operations Maintenance funds. The 
project cost limitation in the Project Cooperation Agreement 
shall be increased to reflect the actual costs of the completed 
project.
      Sec. 108. The flood control project for Arkansas City, 
Kansas authorized by section 401(a) of the Water Resources 
Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662, 100 Stat. 4116) is 
modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct 
the project at a total cost of $38,500,000, with an estimated 
first Federal cost of $28,100,000 and an estimated first non-
Federal cost of $10,400,000.
      Sec. 109. Funds previously provided under the Fiscal Year 
1993 Energy and Water Development Act, Public Law 102-377, for 
the Elk Creek Dam, Oregon project, are hereby made available to 
plan and implement long term management measures at Elk Creek 
Dam to maintain the project in an uncompleted state and to take 
necessary steps to provide passive fish passage through the 
project.
      Sec. 110. The Secretary of the Army is authorized and 
directed to modify the project for the Hudson River, New York, 
New York City to Waterford, authorized by the Act of June 25, 
1910 (Public Law 264, 61st Congress, 36 Stat. 635), to include 
design and construction of a 300-foot wide channel to a depth 
of 24 feet (mean low water), extending from the existing 
Federal channel in the vicinity of the Hudson City Light to the 
north dock at Union Street, Athens, New York.
      Sec. 111. Section 109(a) of Public Law 104-46 (109 Stat. 
408) with regard to Prestonsburg, Kentucky, is amended by 
striking ``Modification No. 2'' and inserting ``Modification 
No. 3''.
      Sec. 112. The emergency gate construction project for 
Abiquiu Dam, New Mexico, authorized by section 1112 of the 
Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662, 100 
stat. 4232) is modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army, 
acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct the project 
at an estimated total cost of $7,000,000. The non-Federal share 
of the project shall be 25 percent of those costs of the 
project attributable to an increase in flood protection as a 
result of the installation of such gates.

                                TITLE II

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                          Central Utah Project


                central utah project completion account


      For the purpose of carrying out provisions of the Central 
Utah Project Completion Act, Public Law 102-575 (106 Stat. 
4605), and for feasibility studies of alternatives to the 
Uintah and Upalco Units, $42,527,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $16,700,000 shall be deposited into the Utah 
Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account: Provided, That 
of the amounts deposited in to the Account, $5,000,000 shall be 
considered the Federal contribution authorized by paragraph 
402(b)(2) of the Act and $11,700,000 shall be available to the 
Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission to 
carry out activities authorized under the Act.
      In addition, for necessary expenses incurred in carrying 
out responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior under the 
Act, $1,100,000, to remain available until expended.

                         Bureau of Reclamation

      For carrying out the functions of the Bureau of 
Reclamation as provided in the Federal reclamation laws (Act of 
June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or 
supplementary thereto) and other Acts applicable to that Bureau 
as follows:


                         general investigations


      For engineering and economic investigations of proposed 
Federal reclamation projects and studies of water conservation 
and development plans and activities preliminary to the 
reconstruction, rehabilitation and betterment, financial 
adjustment, or extension of existing projects, $16,650,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That of the total 
appropriated, the amount for program activities which can be 
financed by the reclamation fund shall be derived from that 
fund: Provided further, That funds contributed by non-Federal 
entities for purposes similar to this appropriation shall be 
available for expenditure for the purposes for which 
contributed as though specifically appropriated for said 
purposes, and such amounts shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That of the total appropriated, 
$250,000 shall be available to complete the appraisal study and 
initiate preconstruction engineering and design for the Del 
Norte County and Crescent City, California, Wastewater 
Reclamation Project, and $250,000 shall be available to 
complete the appraisal study, and initiate preconstruction 
engineering and design for the Fort Bragg, California, Water 
Supply Project.


                          construction program


                     (including transfer of funds)


      For construction and rehabilitation of projects and parts 
thereof (including power transmission facilities for Bureau of 
Reclamation use) and for other related activities as authorized 
by law, $394,056,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $22,410,000 shall be available for transfer to the Upper 
Colorado River Basin Fund authorized by section 5 of the Act of 
April 11, 1956 (43 U.S.C. 620d), and $58,740,000 shall be 
available for transfer to the Lower Colorado River Basin 
Development Fund authorized by section 403 of the Act of 
September 30, 1968 (43 U.S.C. 1543), and such amounts as may be 
necessary shall be considered as though advanced to the 
Colorado River Dam Fund for the Boulder Canyon Project as 
authorized by the Act of December 21, 1928, as amended: 
Provided, That of the total appropriated, the amount for 
program activities which can be financed by the reclamation 
fund shall be derived from that fund: Provided further, That 
transfers to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and Lower 
Colorado River Basin Development Fund may be increased or 
decreased by transfers within the overall appropriation under 
this heading: Provided further, That funds contributed by non-
Federal entities for purposes similar to this appropriation 
shall be available for expenditures for the purposes for which 
contributed as though specifically appropriated for said 
purposes, and such funds shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That all costs of the safety of dams 
modification work at Coolidge Dam, San Carlos Irrigation 
Project, Arizona, performed under the authority of the 
Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 (43 U.S.C. 506), as 
amended, are in addition to the amount authorized in section 5 
of said Act: Provided further, That section 301 of Public Law 
102-250, Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 
1991, is amended by inserting ``1996, and 1997'' in lieu of 
``and 1996'': Provided further, That the amount authorized by 
section 210 of Public Law 100-557 (102 Stat. 2791), is amended 
to $56,362,000 (October 1996 prices plus or minus cost 
indexing), and funds are authorized to be appropriated through 
the twelfth fiscal year after construction funds are first made 
available.
      Provided further, That utilizing funds appropriated for 
the Tucson Aqueduct System Reliability Investigation, the 
Bureau of Reclamation is directed to complete, by the end of 
fiscal year 1997, the environmental impact statement being 
conducted on the proposed surface reservoir. The Bureau of 
Reclamation is further directed to work with the City of Tucson 
on any outstanding issues related to the preferred alternative.


                       operation and maintenance


      For operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or 
parts thereof and other facilities, as authorized by law; and 
for a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, 
$267,876,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That of the total appropriated, the amount for program 
activities which can be financed by the reclamation fund shall 
be derived from that fund, and the amount for program 
activities which can be derived from the special fee account 
established pursuant to the Act of December 22, 1987 (16 U.S.C. 
460l-6a, as amended), may be derived from that fund: Provided 
further, That funds advanced by water users for operation and 
maintenance of reclamation projects or parts thereof shall be 
deposited to the credit of this appropriation and may be 
expended for the same purpose and in the same manner as sums 
appropriated herein may be expended, and such advances shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
revenues in the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund shall be 
available for performing examination of existing structures on 
participating projects of the Colorado River Storage Project.


               bureau of reclamation loan program account


      For the cost of direct loans and/or grants, $12,290,000, 
to remain available until expended, as authorized by the Small 
Reclamation Projects Act of August 6, 1956, as amended (43 
U.S.C. 422a-422l): Provided, That such costs, including the 
cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, 
That these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations 
for the principal amount of direct loans not to exceed 
$37,000,000.
      In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the program for direct loans and/or grants, $425,000: 
Provided, That of the total sums appropriated, the amount of 
program activities which can be financed by the reclamation 
fund shall be derived from the fund.


                central valley project restoration fund


      For carrying out the programs, projects, plans, and 
habitat restoration, improvement, and acquisition provisions of 
the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, such sums as may be 
collected in the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund 
pursuant to sections 3407(d), 3404(c)(3), 3405(f) and 
3406(c)(1) of Public Law 102-575, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Bureau of Reclamation is directed 
to levy additional mitigation and restoration payments totaling 
$30,000,000 (October 1992 price levels) on a three-year rolling 
average basis, as authorized by section 3407(d) of Public Law 
102-575.


                    general administrative expenses


      For necessary expenses of general 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 expended, $46,000,000 to 
be derived from the reclamation fund and to be nonreimbursable 
pursuant to the Act of April 19, 1945 (43 U.S.C. 377): 
Provided, That no part of any other appropriation in this Act 
shall be available for activities or functions budgeted for the 
current fiscal year as general administrative expenses.


                             special funds


                          (transfer of funds)


      Sums herein referred to as being derived from the 
reclamation fund or special fee account are appropriate from 
the special funds in the Treasury created by the Act of June 
17, 1902 (43 U.S.C. 391) or the Act of December 22, 1987 (16 
U.S.C. 460l-6a, as amended), respectively. Such sums shall be 
transferred, upon request of the Secretary, to be merged with 
and expended under the heads herein specified.


                        administrative provision


      Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be 
available for purchase of not to exceed 6 passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only.

                               TITLE III

                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

                            Energy Programs


           energy supply, research and development activities


      For expenses of the Department of Energy activities 
including the purchase, construction and acquisition of plant 
and capital equipment and other expenses necessary for energy 
supply, research and development activities in carrying out the 
purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 
U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), including the acquisition or 
condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant 
or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; purchase 
of passager motor vehicles (not to exceed 24 for replacement 
only), $2,710,908,000, to remain available until expended.


                uranium supply and enrichment activities


      For expenses of the Department of Energy in connection 
with operating expenses; the purchase, construction, and 
acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other expenses 
necessary for uranium supply and enrichment activities in 
carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.) and the Energy 
Policy Act (Public Law 102-486, section 901), including the 
acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or 
expansion; purchase of electricity as necessary; and the 
purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed 3 for 
replacement only); $43,200,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That revenues received by the Department 
for uranium programs and estimated to total $42,200,000 in 
fiscal year 1997 shall be retained and used for the specific 
purpose of offsetting costs incurred by the Department for such 
activities notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 3302(b) 
and 42 U.S.C. 2296(b)(2): Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated shall be reduced as revenues are received during 
fiscal year 1997 so as to result in a final fiscal year 1997 
appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not more than 
$1,000,000.
      Section 161k. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 
2201k) with respect to the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, 
Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ohio, the 
guidelines shall require, at a minimum, the presence of an 
adequate number of security guards carrying side arms at all 
times to ensure maintenance of security at the gaseous 
diffusion plants.
      Section 311(b) of the USEC Privatization Act (Public Law 
104-134, title III, chapter 1, subchapter A) insert the 
following:
            ``(3) The Corporation shall pay to the Thrift 
        Savings Fund such employee and agency contributions as 
        are required or authorized by section 8432 and 8351 of 
        title 5, United States Code, for employees who elect to 
        retain their coverage under CSRS or FERS pursuant to 
        paragraph (1).''.


      uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning fund


      For necessary expenses in carrying out uranium enrichment 
facility decontamination and decommissioning, remedial actions 
and other activities of title II of the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 and title X, subtitle A of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, 
$200,200,000, to be derived from the Fund, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That $34,000,000 of amounts derived 
from the Fund for such expenses shall be available in 
accordance with title X, subtitle A, of the Energy Policy Act 
of 1992.


                general science and research activities


      For expenses of the Department of Energy activities 
including the purchase, construction and acquisition of plant 
and capital equipment and other expenses necessary for general 
science and research activities in carrying out the purposes of 
the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et 
seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real 
property or facility or for plant or facility acquisition, 
construction, or expansion, $996,000,000, to remain available 
until expended.


                      nuclear waste disposal fund


      For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the 
purposes of Public Law 97-425, as amended, including the 
acquisition of real property or facility construction or 
expansion, $182,000,000 to remain available until expended, to 
be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund: Provided, That none of 
the funds provided herein shall be distributed to the State of 
Nevada or affected units of local government (as defined by 
Public Law 97-425) by direct payment, grant, or other means, 
for financial assistance under section 116 of the Nuclear Waste 
Policy Act of 1982, as amended: Provided further, That the 
foregoing proviso shall not apply to payments in lieu of taxes 
under section 116(c)(3)(A) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 
1982, as amended: Provided, That no later than September 30, 
1998, the Secretary shall provide to the President and to the 
Congress a viability assessment of the Yucca Mountain site. The 
viability assessment shall include:
            (1) the preliminary design concept for the critical 
        elements for the repository and waste package;
            (2) a total system performance assessment, based 
        upon the design concept and the scientific data and 
        analysis available by September 30, 1998, describing 
        the probable behavior of the repository in the Yucca 
        Mountain geological setting relative to the overall 
        system performance standards;
            (3) a plan and cost estimate for the remaining work 
        required to complete a license application; and
            (4) an estimate of the costs to construct and 
        operate the repository in accordance with the design 
        concept.


                      departmental administration


      For salaries and expenses of the Department of Energy 
necessary for Departmental Administration in carrying out the 
purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 
U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), including the hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and official reception and representation expenses 
(not to exceed $35,000), $215,021,000, to remain available 
until expended, 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 (31 U.S.C. 1511, et seq.): Provided, That such increases in 
cost of work are offset by revenue increases of the same or 
greater amount, to remain available until expended: Provided 
further, That moneys received by the Department for 
miscellaneous revenues estimated to total $125,388,000 in 
fiscal year 1997 may be retained and used for operating 
expenses within this account, and may remain available until 
expended, as authorized by section 201 of Public Law 95-238, 
notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided 
further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced by 
the amount of miscellaneous revenues received during fiscal 
year 1997 so as to result in a final fiscal year 1997 
appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not more than 
$89,633,000.


                    office of the inspector general


      For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, as amended, $23,853,000, to remain available until 
expended.


                    atomic energy defense activities


                           weapons activities


      For Department of Energy expenses, including the 
purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and capital 
equipment and other expenses necessary for atomic energy 
defense weapons activities in carrying out the purposes of the 
Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et 
seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real 
property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, 
construction, or expansion; and the purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles (not to exceed 94 for replacement only), 
$3,911,198,000, to remain available until expended.


         defense environmental restoration and waste management


      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 restoration and waste management 
activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of 
Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), including 
the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or 
expansion; and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not to 
exceed 20, of which 19 are for replacement only), 
$5,459,304,000, to remain available until expended and, in 
addition, $160,000,000 for privatization initiatives, to remain 
available until expended.


                        other defense activities


      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, in carrying out the purposes 
of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, 
et seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real 
property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, 
construction, or expansion, and the purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles (not to exceed 2 for replacement only), 
$1,605,733,000, to remain available until expended.


                     defense nuclear waste disposal


      For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the 
purposes of Public Law 97-425, as amended, including the 
acquisition of real property or facility construction or 
expansion, $200,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                    Power Marketing Administrations


         operation and maintenance, alaska power administration


      For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
projects in Alaska and of marketing electric power and energy, 
$4,000,000, to remain available until expended.


                  bonneville power administration fund


      Expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration 
Fund, established pursuant to Public Law 93-454, are approved 
for official reception and representation expenses in an amount 
not to exceed $3,000.
      During fiscal year 1997, no new direct loan obligations 
may be made.


      operation and maintenance, southeastern power administration


      For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power 
and energy pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood 
Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the 
southeastern power area, $16,359,000 to remain available until 
expended.


      operation and maintenance, southwestern power administration


      For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
power transmission facilities and of marketing electric power 
and energy, and 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 the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control 
Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern 
power area, $25,210,000, to remain available until expended; in 
addition, notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 3302, not 
to exceed $3,787,000 in reimbursements, to remain available 
until expended.


 construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance, western area 
                          power administration


                     (including transfer of funds)


      For carrying out the functions authorized by title III, 
section 302(a)(1)(E) of the Act of August 4, 1977 (42 U.S.C. 
7101, et seq.), and other related activities including 
conservation and renewable resources programs as authorized, 
including official reception and representation expenses in an 
amount not to exceed $1,500, $193,582,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $185,687,000 shall be derived from the 
Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund: Provided, That of 
the amount herein appropriated, $5,432,000 is for deposit into 
the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account 
pursuant to title IV of the Reclamation Projects Authorization 
and Adjustment Act of 1992: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer from the 
Colorado River Dam Fund to the Western Area Power 
Administration $3,774,000 to carry out the power marketing and 
transmission activities of the Boulder Canyon project as 
provided in section 104(a)(4) of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 
1984, to remain available until expended.


           falcon and amistad operating and maintenance fund


      For operation, maintenance, and emergency costs for the 
hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams, 
$970,000, 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 
423 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, fiscal years 
1994 and 1995.

                  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


                         salaries and expenses


      For necessary expenses of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission to carry out the provisions of the Department of 
Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, the hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, and official reception and representation 
expenses (not to exceed $3,000), $146,290,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, not to exceed $146,290,000 of revenues 
from fees and annual charges, and other services and 
collections in fiscal year 1997 shall be retained and used for 
necessary expenses in this account, and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated shall be reduced as revenues are received during 
fiscal year 1997 so as to result in a final fiscal year 1997 
appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not more than 
$0.

                           General Provisions

SEC. 301. PRIORITY PLACEMENT, JOB PLACEMENT, RETRAINING, AND COUNSELING 
                    PROGRAMS FOR UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
                    EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY A REDUCTION IN FORCE.

      (a) Definitions.--
            (1) for the purposes of this section, the term 
        ``agency'' means the United States Department of 
        Energy.
            (2) For the purposes of this section, the term 
        ``eligible employee'' means any employee of the agency 
        who--
                    (A) is scheduled to be separated from 
                service due to a reduction in force under--
                            (i) regulations prescribed under 
                        section 3502 of title 5, United States 
                        Code; or
                            (ii) procedures established under 
                        section 3595 of title 5, United States 
                        Code; or
                    (B) is separated from service due to such a 
                reduction in force, but does not include--
                            (i) an employee separated from 
                        service for cause on charges of 
                        misconduct or delinquency; or
                            (ii) an employee who, at the time 
                        of separation, meets the age and 
                        service requirements for an immediate 
                        annuity under subchapter III of chapter 
                        83 or chapter 84 of title 5, United 
                        States Code.
      (b) Priority Placement and Retraining Program.--Not later 
than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
United States Department of Energy shall establish an agency-
wide priority placement and retraining program for eligible 
employees.
      (c) The priority placement program established under 
subsection (b) shall include provisions under which a vacant 
position shall not be filled by the appointment or transfer of 
any individual from outside of the agency if--
            (1) there is then available any eligible employee 
        who applies for the position within 30 days of the 
        agency issuing a job announcement and is qualified (or 
        can be trained or retrained to become qualified within 
        90 days of assuming the position) for the position; and
            (2) the position is within the same commuting area 
        as the eligible employee's last-held position or 
        residence.
      (d) Job Placement and Counseling Services.--The head of 
the agency may establish a program to provide job placement and 
counseling services to eligible employees.
            (1) Types of services.--A program established under 
        subsection (d) may include, but is not limited to, such 
        services as--
                    (A) career and personal counseling;
                    (B) training and job search skills; and
                    (C) job placement assistance, including 
                assistance provided through cooperative 
                arrangements with State and local employment 
                services offices.
      Sec. 302. None of the funds appropriated by this or any 
other Act may be used to implement section 3140 of H.R. 3230 as 
reported by the Committee of Conference on July 30, 1996. The 
Secretary of Energy shall develop a plan to reorganize the 
field activities and management of the national security 
functions of the Department of Energy and shall submit such 
plan to the Congress not later than 120 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act. The plan will specifically identify all 
significant functions performed by the Department's national 
security operations and area offices and make recommendations 
as to where those functions should be performed.

                                TITLE IV

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Appalachian Regional Commission

      For expenses necessary to carry out the programs 
authorized by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, 
as amended, notwithstanding section 405 of said Act, and for 
necessary expenses for the Federal Co-Chairman and the 
alternate on the Appalachian Regional Commission and for 
payment of the Federal share of the administrative expenses of 
the Commission, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $160,000,000, to 
remain available until expended.

                Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board


                         salaries and expenses


      For necessary expenses of the Defense Nuclear Facilities 
Safety Board in carrying out activities authorized by the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by Public Law 100-456, 
section 1441, $16,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                     Nuclear Regulatory Commission


                         salaries and expenses


                     (including transfer of funds)


      For necessary expenses of the Commission in carrying out 
the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as 
amended, and the Atomic Act of 1954, as amended, including the 
employment of aliens; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; 
publication and dissemination of atomic information; purchase, 
repair, and cleaning of uniforms; official representation 
expenses (not to exceed $20,000); reimbursements to the General 
Services Administration for security guard services; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles and aircraft, $471,800,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the amount 
appropriated herein, $11,000,000 shall be derived from the 
Nuclear Waste Fund: Provided further, That from this 
appropriation, transfer of sums may be made to other agencies 
of the Government for the performance of the work for which 
this appropriation is made, and in such cases the sums so 
transferred may be merged with the appropriation to which 
transferred: Provided further, That moneys received by the 
Commission for the cooperative nuclear safety research program, 
services rendered to foreign governments and international 
organizations, and the material and information access 
authorization programs, including criminal history checks under 
section 149 of the Atomic Energy Act may be retained and sued 
for salaries and expenses associated with those activities, 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That revenues from licensing 
fees, inspection services, and other services and collections 
estimated at $457,300,000 in fiscal year 1997 shall be retained 
and used for necessary salaries and expenses in this account, 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That the funds herein 
appropriated for regulatory reviews and other activities 
pertaining to waste stored at the Hanford site, Washington, 
shall be excluded from license fee revenues, notwithstanding 42 
U.S.C. 2214: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received during 
fiscal year 1997 from licensing fees, inspection services and 
other services and collections, excluding those moneys received 
for the cooperative nuclear safety research program, services 
rendered to foreign governments and international 
organizations, and the material and information access 
authorization programs, so as to result in a final fiscal year 
1997 appropriation estimated at not more than $14,500,000.

                      Office of Inspector General


                     (including transfer of funds)


      For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended; and in 
addition, an amount not to exceed 5 percent of this sum may be 
transferred from Salaries and Expenses, Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission: Provided, That notice of such transfers shall be 
given to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
Senate: Provided further, That from this appropriation, 
transfers of sums may be made to other agencies of the 
Government for the performance of the work for which this 
appropriation is made, and in such cases the sums so 
transferred may be merged with the appropriation to which 
transferred: Provided further, That revenues from licensing 
fees, inspection services, and other services and collections 
shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and expenses 
in this account, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, and shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That the sum 
herein appropriated shall be reduced by the amount of revenues 
received during fiscal year 1997 from licensing fees, 
inspection services, and other services and collections, so as 
to result in a final fiscal year 1997 appropriation estimated 
at not more than $0.

                  Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board


                         salaries and expenses


      For necessary expenses of the Nuclear Waste Technical 
Review Board, as authorized by Public Law 100-203, section 
5051, $2,531,000, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, 
and to remain available until expended.

                       Tennessee Valley Authority

      For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the 
Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
ch. 12A), including hire, maintenance, and operation of 
aircraft, and purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$106,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That of the funds provided herein, $15,000,000 shall be made 
available for the Environmental Research Center in Muscle 
Shoals, Alabama: Provided further, That of the funds provided 
herein, $6,000,000 shall be made available for operation, 
maintenance, improvement, and surveillance of Land Between the 
Lakes: Provided further, That of the amount provided herein, 
$15,000,000 shall be available for Economic Development 
activities: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
herein, shall be available for detailed engineering and design 
or constructing a replacement for Chickamauga Lock and Dam on 
the Tennessee River System.

                                TITLE V

                           General Provisions

      Sec. 501. (a) Purchase of American-Made Equipment and 
Products.--It is the sense of the Congress that, to the 
greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products 
purchased with funds made available in this Act should be 
American-made.
      (b) Notice Requirement.--In providing financial 
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any entity 
using funds made available in this Act, the head of each 
Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable, shall 
provide to such entity a notice describing the statement made 
in subsection (a) by the Congress.
      (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely 
Labeling Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally 
determined by a court or Federal agency that any person 
intentionally affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' 
inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any 
product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not 
made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to 
receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made 
available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, 
and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 
through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
      Sec. 502. 42 U.S.C. 7262 is repealed.
      Sec. 503. (a) 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.
      (b) 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 ``Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan'' and the 
``SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan'' described in the report 
entitled ``repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup 
Program and San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, February 
1995'', 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.
      Sec. 504. None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used to revise the Missouri River Master Water Control 
Manual when it is made known to the Federal entity or official 
to which the funds are made available that such revision 
provides for an increase in the springtime water release 
program during the spring heavy rainfall and snow melt period 
in States that have rivers draining into the Missouri River 
below the Gavins Point Dam.
      Sec. 505. Public Law 101-514, the Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act, 1991, is amended effective 
September 30, 1997 or upon operation of the temperature control 
device, by striking the proviso under the heading 
``Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, 
Western Area Power Administration''.
      Sec. 506. The Secretary of the Interior shall extend the 
water service contracts for the following projects, entered 
into by the Secretary of the Interior under subsection (e) of 
section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 
485h) and section 9(c) of the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 
Stat. 891, chapter 665), for a period of 1 additional year 
after the dates on which each of the contracts, respectively, 
would expire but for this section.
            (1) The Bostwick District (Kansas portion), 
        Missouri River Basin Project, consisting of the project 
        constructed and operated under the Act of December 22, 
        1944 (58 Stat. 887, chapter 665), as a component of the 
        Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, situated in Republic 
        County, Jewell County, and Cloud County, Kansas.
            (2) The Bostwick District (Nebraska portion), 
        Missouri River Basin Project, consisting of the project 
        constructed and operated under the Act of December 22, 
        1944 (58 Stat. 887, chapter 665), as a component of the 
        Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, situated in Harlan 
        County, Franklin County, Webster County, and Nuckolls 
        County, Nebraska.
         (3) The Frenchman-Cambridge District, Misouri River 
        Basin Project, consisting of the project constructed 
        and operated under the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 
        Stat. 887, chapter 665), as a component of the Pick-
        Sloan Missouri Basin Program, situated in Chase County, 
        Frontier County, Hitchcock County, Furnas County, and 
        Harlan County, Nebraska.
      Sec. 507. Funds made available by this Act to the 
Department of Energy shall be available only for the purposes 
for which they have been made available by this Act. The 
Department of Energy shall report by February 28, 1997 to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate on the 
Department of Energy's adherence to the recommendations 
included in the accompanying report.
      Sec. 508. (a) Denial of Funds for Preventing ROTC Access 
to Campus.--None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
provided by contract or by grant (including a grant of funds to 
be available for student aid) to a subelement of an institution 
of higher education when it is made known to the Federal 
official having authority to obligate or expend such funds that 
the subelement of such institution has a policy or practice 
(regardless of when implemented) that prohibits, or in effect 
prevents--
            (1) the maintaining, establishing, or operation of 
        a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (in 
        accordance with section 654 of title 10, United States 
        Code, and other applicable Federal laws) at the 
        subelement of such institution; or
            (2) a student at the institution (or subelement) 
        from enrolling in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer 
        Training Corps at another institution of higher 
        education.
      (b) Exception.--The limitation established in subsection 
(a) shall not apply to an institution of higher education when 
it is made known to the Federal official having authority to 
obligate or expend such funds that--
            (1) the institution (or subelement) has ceased the 
        policy or practice described in such subsection; or
            (2) the institution has a longstanding policy of 
        pacifism based on historical religious affiliation.
      Sec. 509. (a) Denial of Funds for Preventing Federal 
Military Recruiting on Campus.--None of the funds made 
available in this Act may be provided by contract or grant 
(including a grant of funds to be available for student aid) to 
a subelement of an institution of higher education when it is 
made known to the Federal official having authority to obligate 
or expend such funds that the subelement of such institution 
has a policy or practice (regardless of when implemented) that 
prohibits, or in effect prevents--
            (1) entry to campuses, or access to students (who 
        are 17 years of age or older) on campuses, for purposes 
        of Federal military recruiting; or
            (2) access to the following information pertaining 
        to students (who are 17 years of age or older) for 
        purposes of Federal military recruiting: student names, 
        addresses, telephone listings, dates and places of 
        birth, levels of education, degrees received, prior 
        military experience, and the most recent previous 
        educational institutions enrolled in by the students.
      (b) Exception.--The limitation established in subsection 
(a) shall not apply to an institution of higher education when 
it is made known to the Federal official having authority to 
obligate or expend such funds that--
            (1) the institution (or subelement) has ceased the 
        policy or practice described in such subsection; or
            (2) the institution has a longstanding policy of 
        pacifism based on historical religious affiliation.
      Sec. 510. None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be obligated or expended to enter into or renew a contract 
with an entity when it is made known to the Federal official 
having authority to obligate or expend such funds that--
            (1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with the 
        United States and is subject to the requirement in 
        section 4212(d) of title 38, United States Code, 
        regarding submission of an annual report to the 
        Secretary of Labor concerning employment of certain 
        veterans; and
            (2) such entity has not submitted a report as 
        required by that section for the most recent year for 
        which such requirement was applicable to such entity.
      Sec. 511. The Administrator may offer employees voluntary 
separation incentives as deemed necessary which shall not 
exceed $25,000. Recipients who accept employment with the 
United States within five years after separation shall repay 
the entire amount to the Bonneville Power Administration. This 
authority shall expire September 30, 2000.
      Sec. 512. Following section 4(h)(10)(C) of the Northwest 
Power Planning and Conservation Act, insert the following new 
section:
      (4)(h)(10)(D) Independent Scientific Review Panel.--(i) 
The Northwest Power Planning Council (Council) shall appoint an 
Independent Scientific Review Panel (Panel), which shall be 
comprised of eleven members, to review projects proposed to be 
funded through that portion of the Bonneville Power 
Administration's (BPA) annual fish and wildlife budget that 
implements the Council's fish and wildlife program. Members 
shall be appointed from a list of no fewer than 20 scientists 
submitted by the National Academy of Sciences (Academy), 
provided that Pacific Northwest scientists with expertise in 
Columbia River anadromous and non-anadromous fish and wildlife 
and ocean experts shall be among those represented on the 
Panel. The Academy shall provide such nominations within 90 
days of the date of this enactment, and in any case not later 
than December 31, 1996. If appointments are required in 
subsequent years, the Council shall request nominations from 
the Academy and the Academy shall provide nominations not later 
than 90 days after the date of this request. If the Academy 
does not provide nominations within these time requirements, 
the Council may appoint such members as the Council deems 
appropriate.
      (ii) Scientific Peer Review Groups.--The Council shall 
establish Scientific Peer Review Groups (Peer Review Groups), 
which shall be comprised of the appropriate number of 
scientists, from a list submitted by the Academy to assist the 
Panel in making its recommendations to the Council for projects 
to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget, 
provided that Pacific Northwest scientists with expertise in 
Columbia River anadromous and non-anadromous fish and wildlife 
and ocean experts shall be among those represented on the Peer 
Review Groups. The Academy shall provide such nominations 
within 90 days of the date of this enactment, and in any case 
not later than December 31, 1996. If appointments are required 
in subsequent years, the Council shall request nominations from 
the Academy and the Academy shall provide nominations not later 
than 90 days after the date of this request. If the Academy 
does not provide nominations within these time requirements, 
the Council may appoint such members as the Council deems 
appropriate.
      (iii) Conflict of Interest and Compensation.--Panel and 
Peer Review Group members may be compensated and shall be 
considered subject to the conflict of interest standards that 
apply to scientists performing comparable work for the National 
Academy of Sciences; provided that a Panel or Peer Review Group 
members with a direct or indirect financial interest in a 
project, or projects, shall recuse him or herself from review 
of, or recommendations associated with, such project or 
projects. All expenses of the Panel and the Peer Review Groups 
shall be paid by BPA as provided for under paragraph (vii). 
Neither the Panel nor the Peer Review Groups shall be deemed 
advisory committees within the meaning of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act.
      (iv) Project Criteria and Review.--The Peer Review 
Groups, in conjunction with the Panel, shall review projects 
proposed to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife 
budget and make recommendations on matters related to such 
projects to the Council no later than June 15 of each year. If 
the recommendations are not received by the Council by this 
date, the Council may proceed to make final recommendations on 
project funding to BPA, relying on the best information 
available. The Panel and Peer Review Groups shall review a 
sufficient number of projects to adequately ensure that the 
list of priortizied projects recommended is consistent with the 
Council's program. Project recommendations shall be based on a 
determination that projects: are based on sound science 
principles; benefit fish and wildlife; and have a clearly 
defined objective and outcome with provisions for monitoring 
and evaulation of results. The Panel, with assistance from the 
Peer Review Groups, shall review, on an annual basis, the 
results of prior year expenditures based upon these criteria 
and submit its findings to the Council for its review.
      (v) Public Review.--Upon completion of the review of 
projects to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife 
budget, the Peer Review Groups shall submit its findings to the 
Panel. The Panel shall analyze the information submitted by the 
Peer Review Groups and submit recommendations on project 
priorities to the Council. The Council shall make the Panel's 
findings available to the public and subject to public comment.
      (vi) Responsibilities of the Council.--The Council shall 
fully consider the recommendations of the Panel when making its 
final recommendations of projects to be funded through BPA's 
annual fish and wildlife budget, and if the Council does not 
incorporate a recommendation of the Panel, the Council shall 
explain in writing its reasons for not accepting Panel 
recommendations. In making its recommendations to BPA, the 
Council shall: consider the impact of ocean conditions on fish 
and wildlife populations; and shall determine whether the 
projects employ cost effective measures to achieve program 
objectives. The Council, after consideration of the 
recommendations of the Panel and other appropriate entities, 
shall be responsible for making the final recommendations of 
projects to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife 
budget.
      (vii) Cost Limitation.--The cost of this provision shall 
not exceed $2,000,000 in 1997 dollars.
      (viii) Expiration.--This paragraph shall expire on 
September 30, 2000.


                    designation of jim chapman lake


      Sec. 513. Cooper Lake, located on the Sulphur River near 
Cooper, Texas, is named and designated as the ``Jim Chapman 
Lake''. Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, or 
record of the United States to such lake shall be held to be a 
reference to the ``Jim Chapman Lake''.


        designation of william l. jess dam and intake structure


      Sec. 514. The dam located at mile 158.6 on the Rogue 
River in Jackson County, Oregon, and commonly known as the Lost 
Creek Dam Lake Project, shall be known and designated as the 
``William L. Jess Dam and Intake Structure''. Any reference in 
a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the 
United States to the dam referred to as Lost Creek Dam Lake 
Project, shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``William L. 
Jess Dam and Intake Structure''.


              designation of j. bennett johnston waterway


      Sec. 515. The portion of the Red River, Louisiana, from 
new river mile 0 to new river mile 235 shall be known and 
designated as the ``J. Bennett Johnston Waterway''. Any 
reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to such portion of the Red River 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``J. Bennett Johnston 
Waterway''.
      This Act may be cited as the ``Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act, 1997''.
      And the Senate agree to the same.

                                   John T. Myers,
                                   Harold Rogers,
                                   Joe Knollenberg,
                                   Frank Riggs,
                                   Rodney P. Frelinghuysen,
                                   Jim Bunn,
                                   Mike Parker,
                                   Bob Livingston,
                                   Tom Bevill,
                                   Vic Fazio,
                                   Jim Chapman,
                                   Peter J. Visclosky,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Pete V. Domenici,
                                   Mark O. Hatfield,
                                   Thad Cochran,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Mitch McConnell,
                                   Robert F. Bennett,
                                   Conrad Burns,
                                   J. Bennett Johnston,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                   Fritz Hollings,
                                   Harry Reid,
                                   J. Robert Kerrey,
                                   Patty Murray,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.
       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

      The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at 
the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on 
the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3816) making 
appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes, submit 
the following joint statement to the House and the Senate in 
explanation of the effects of the action agreed upon by the 
managers and recommended in the accompanying conference report.
      The language and allocations set forth in House Report 
104-679 and Senate Report 104-320 should be complied with 
unless specifically addressed to the contrary in the conference 
report and statement of the managers. Report language included 
by the House which is not contradicted by the report of the 
Senate or the conference, and Senate report language which is 
not contradicted by the report of the House or the conference 
is approved by the committee of conference. The statement of 
the managers, while repeating some report language for 
emphasis, does not intend to negate the language referred to 
above unless expressly provided herein. In cases where both the 
House report and Senate report address a particular issue not 
specifically addressed in the conference report or joint 
statement of managers, the conferees have determined that the 
House and Senate reports are not inconsistent and are to be 
interpreted accordingly. In cases in which the House or Senate 
have directed the submission of a report, such report is to be 
submitted to both House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
      Senate amendment: The Senate deleted the entire House 
bill after the enacting clause and inserted the Senate bill. 
The conference agreement includes a revised bill.

                                TITLE I

                      Department of Defense--Civil

      The summary tables at the end of this title set forth the 
conference agreement with respect to the individual 
appropriations, programs, and activities of the Corps of 
Engineers. Additional items of conference agreement are 
discussed below.

                         Department of the Army

                       Corps of Engineers--Civil

      The conference agreement appropriates $153,872,000 for 
General Investigations instead of $153,628,000 as proposed by 
the House and $154,557,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      On July 11, 1996, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Civil Works advised the committees of a proposal to modify 
current Corps of Engineers guidance governing the 
reconnaissance phase of the study process. Under the proposal, 
the scope of the reconnaissance phase would be returned to that 
envisioned by section 905(b) of the Water Resources Development 
Act of 1986, which is to develop a preliminary appraisal of the 
Federal interest, benefits, costs, and environmental impacts of 
a potential project, develop a scope of work for the 
feasibility study, and negotiate a feasibility study cost-
sharing agreement. The goal would be to complete the 
reconnaissance phase within six months at a cost of 
approximately $100,000. After careful consideration, the 
conferees have decided to support this initiative and have 
funded all new reconnaissance studies at the $100,000 level. 
The conferees have been assured that this initiative is a true 
efficiency move aimed at returning reconnaissance efforts back 
to the original concept for that phase and will not transfer 
cost and time to the feasibility phase of the study process. 
The conferees are also aware that the $100,000 model may not be 
suitable for all projects and expect the Corps to exercise 
appropriate judgment in adjusting the scope of the 
reconnaissance effort to accommodate the needs of particularly 
complex issues or large geographic areas.
      The conference agreement includes $500,000 for the Corps 
of Engineers to initiate studies of the navigation needs of 
several of Alaska's coastal communities. The funds will be used 
for the Western Harbors, Aleutians East Borough, Arctic Coast 
Navigation, King Cove, and Akutan Harbor reconnaissance 
studies. By combining these studies under a single heading the 
Corps of Engineers is expected to be able to accomplish the 
work substantially below the cost of addressing each project 
separately.
      The conferees agree that the Corps of Engineers may 
include the Southampton Shoal Channel and extension in the San 
Francisco Bay Bar Channel, California, reconnaissance study to 
permit a comprehensive examination of the San Francisco-to-
Stockton Ship Channel to determine the feasibility of 
increasing operating depths required for commerce and 
international trade.
      The conference agreement includes $150,000 for 
preconstruction engineering and design of the New Harmony, 
Indiana, project.
      The conferees have provided $10,750,000 for the Upper 
Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway navigation study 
instead of $10,500,000 as proposed by the House and $11,000,000 
as proposed by the Senate. The conferees direct the Corps of 
Engineers to accelerate the execution of feasibility study 
activities in accordance with the approved project study plan 
in such a manner that schedule recovery will be maximized and a 
final report will be completed as soon as practicable.
      The conference agreement includes $600,000 equally 
divided for the Corps of Engineers to undertake preconstruction 
engineering and design for the project to provide flood 
protection to the Green Ridge and Plot sections of the 
Lackawanna River, Scranton, Pennsylvania, project as proposed 
by the Senate. The House had proposed to fund this work under 
the Construction, General, account.
      The conferees have provided $100,000 for a reconnaissance 
study of the need for channel deepening in the Port of New York 
and New Jersey and $100,000 to initiate a feasibility study 
should the reconnaissance effort demonstrate a Federal interest 
in the project.
      The conference agreement includes $100,000 for the Corps 
of Engineers to initiate a reconnaissance study leading to a 
Master Plan of the Wing Deer Park on Boone Lake in Johnson 
City, Tennessee.
      The conference agreement includes $100,000 for the Corps 
of Engineers to initiate a reconnaissance study of 
environmental restoration opportunities along the Upper Jordan 
River, Utah, that includes examining water quality, wetland 
habitat, and flood control as a means of restoring the 
watershed of the Jordan River Basin. The conferees direct the 
Corps to review and recommend modifications to the Jordan River 
Stability Study conducted by Salt Lake County.
      The conference agreement includes a total of $6,280,000 
for Coordination Studies With Other Agencies instead of 
$4,280,000 as proposed by the House and $8,040,000 as proposed 
by the Senate. The conferees expect the Corps to use the funds 
provided to accomplish the highest priority work among the 
various activities funded under this program. In addition, the 
Corps is directed to use $450,000 to continue to participate in 
the interagency ecosystem management task force's Pacific 
Northwest forest case study as described in the Senate Report. 
The conferees agree with the language in the House report 
regarding the Planning Assistance to States program.
      The conferees have provided $27,000,000 for the Corps of 
Engineers' Research and Development program. Within the funds 
provided, the conferees have provided $300,000 to continue the 
Corps of Engineers Construction Technology Transfer project and 
$1,600,000 for cost-shared research and development and 
installation of composite pilings as describe in the Senate 
report. The conferees also are in agreement with the language 
in the House report regarding the CFIRMS project.
      The conferees have included language in the bill 
earmarking funds for the following projects in the amounts 
specified: Norco Bluffs, California, $180,000; San Joaquin 
River Basin, Caliente Creek, California, $150,000; Tampa 
Harbor, Alafia Channel, Florida, $100,000; Lake George, Hobart, 
Indiana, $100,000; Little Calumet River Basin, Cady Marsh 
Ditch, Indiana, $200,000; Tahoe Basin Study, Nevada and 
California, $100,000; Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg Harbor 
Inlet, New Jersey, $300,000; Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg 
Harbor Inlet, New Jersey, $360,000; Great Egg Harbor Inlet to 
Townsends Inlet, New Jersey, $200,000; Manasquan Inlet to 
Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, $250,000; Townsends Inlet to Cape 
May Inlet, New Jersey, $245,000; South Shore of Staten Island, 
New York, $200,000; Mussers Dam, Middle Creek, Snyder County, 
Pennsylvania, $450,000; Rhode Island South Coast, Habitat 
Restoration and Storm Damage Reduction, Rhode Island, $100,000; 
Monongahela River, West Virginia, $500,000; Monongahela River, 
Fairmont, West Virginia, $100,000; and Tygart River Basin, 
Philippi, West Virginia, $100,000.
      The conference agreement deletes funds earmarked in the 
Senate bill for the Red River Navigation, Southwest, Arkansas, 
study.
      The conference agreement also deletes language contained 
in the Senate bill earmarking funds for studies of Coastal 
Navigation Improvements in Alaska, the Walker River Basin in 
Nevada, and the Bolinas Lagoon in California. Funding for those 
studies has been included in the overall amount appropriated 
for General Investigations.
      The conferees are aware of recent efforts by the Corps of 
Engineers to increase the use of the private sector in 
performing, planning, engineering and design work for Corps 
projects. However, the conferees believe that the Corps of 
Engineers needs to intensify those efforts. The conferees 
expect the Corps, on a programmatic basis, to achieve a goal of 
having the private sector perform at least 35% of planning, and 
40% of engineering, design work and construction phase services 
for projects as defined in 40 U.S.C. 541-544. Additionally, in 
those instances where a district office has not achieved a 
contracting level of at least 25% of planning, engineering, 
design work and construction phase services for projects in 
that district, private sector contracting should be increased 
by 10 percentage points in fiscal year 1997 and in each 
subsequent fiscal year until the level of work contracted to 
the private sector reaches at least 25%; however, in no case 
shall the actual increase per year be less than 5 percentage 
points. It is not the conferees' intent that the Corps reduce 
the contracting levels in those offices that are already 
conducting more than 35% of planning, and 40% of engineering, 
design work and construction phase services with the private 
sector. Contracting with the private sector as set forth above 
shall continue to be conducted in compliance with the normal 
qualification based selection process found in 40 U.S.C. 541-
544.

                         construction, general

      The conference agreement appropriates $1,081,942,000 for 
Construction, General, instead of $1,035,394,000 as proposed by 
the House and $1,049,306,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 for the 
Sacramento River, Glen-Colusa Irrigation District, California, 
project, the same as the budget request and the amount provided 
by the House and the Senate. This project is an integral part 
of the effort to develop a long-term solution to the fish 
passage problem at the Hamilton City pumping plant. It is the 
conferees' intent that the Corps of Engineers participate in, 
and, when necessary, provide direct support to this important 
Federal-state effort.
      The conference agreement provides $4,000,000 for the Palm 
Beach County, Florida, project. Of the funds provided, 
$1,919,000 is for the Jupiter/Carlin segment as proposed in the 
budget request. The remaining funds are to be used for the Boca 
Raton and Ocean Ridge segments of the project.
      The conference agreement includes $1,200,000 for the 
Corps of Engineers to reimburse the local sponsor for the 
Federal share of costs associated with renourishment of the 
Captiva Island segment of the Lee County, Florida, project.
      The conferees are in agreement with the language in the 
House and Senate reports regarding the Missouri River Levee 
System project.
      The conference agreement includes $17,025,000 for the 
Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity (Hurricane Protection), 
Louisiana, project. Of the amount provided above the budget 
request, $4,500,000 shall be used for levee raising and 
landside runoff control for Jefferson Parish lakefront levees 
and $8,500,000 shall be used to continue construction of 
parallel protection along the Orleans Avenue and London Avenue 
outfall canals. In addition, $1,500,000 has been provided for 
the West Bank-East of Harvey Canal, Louisiana, project.
      The conferees have provided $17,500,000 for the Southeast 
Louisiana, Louisiana, project. These funds are to be used to 
continue engineering, design, and construction of projects to 
provide for flood control and improvements to rainfall drainage 
systems in Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Tammany Parishes, 
Louisiana, in accordance with the following reports of the New 
Orleans District Engineer: Jefferson and Orleans Parishes, 
Louisiana, Urban Flood Control and Water Quality Management, 
July 1992; Tangipahoa, Techefuncte and Tickfaw Rivers, 
Louisiana, June 1991; St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, June 1996; 
and Schneider Canal, Slidell, Louisiana, Hurricane Protection, 
May 1990; all of which are authorized for construction by 
Public Law 104-46.
      The conferees have provided $250,000 for the Grand Isle 
and Vicinity, Louisiana, project to initiate preconstruction 
engineering and design on the modifications to the authorized 
hurricane protection project to include shoreline protection 
features on the north side of the island and to continue 
construction of breakwaters.
      Within funds provided for the South Central Pennsylvania 
Environmental Restoration Infrastructure and Resource 
Protection Development Pilot Program, the conferees have 
provided $500,000 for the Redstone Township project.
      The conference agreement provides $1,000,000 each for the 
Arkansas City, Kansas, and Winfield, Kansas, projects as 
proposed by the Senate. The conferees are aware that the 
Winfield project is ahead of schedule and, therefore, the two-
phase approach to construction described in the Senate report 
is not required for that project.
      The conferees recognize the need to widen the Port of 
Freeport, Texas, navigation channel at the intersection of the 
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the bend located in the inner 
harbor in order to complete the channel deepening project. The 
conferees are also aware that during the period of 
construction, approximately $16,000,000 appropriated for the 
project was reprogrammed by the Corps of Engineers to other 
projects. Therefore, the conferees would not object to the 
Corps of Engineers' reprogramming of available funds back to 
the Freeport Harbor project to complete this important work.
      The conference agreement includes $32,650,000 for the 
section 205 program as proposed by the Senate. Using those 
funds, the Corps of Engineers is directed to undertake the 
projects described in the House and Senate reports. The 
conference agreement includes $3,916,000 for the Muscle Shoals, 
Alabama, project, $2,950,000 for the St. Peters Old Town Levee, 
Missouri, project, and $3,370,000 for the Cedar River at 
Renton, Washington, project. In addition, the conferees have 
learned of the harmful effects of local flooding along St. 
Asaph's Creek in Stanford, Kentucky, and along Hanging Fork 
Creek in Hustonville, Kentucky, and direct the Corps of 
Engineers to conduct a study to determine causes and possible 
remedies to this condition.
      The conference agreement includes $9,500,000 for the 
section 14 program as proposed by the House. Using those funds, 
the Corps of Engineers is directed to undertake the projects 
described in the House and Senate reports. The conference 
agreement includes $395,000 for the Washington-on-the-Brazos, 
Texas, project as proposed by the House.
      The conference agreement includes $5,800,000 for the 
section 103 program as proposed by the House. Using those 
funds, the Corps of Engineers is directed to undertake the 
projects described in the House and Senate reports. The amount 
provided for the Lummi Shore Road, Washington, project is 
$1,700,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $11,632,000 for the 
section 107 program. Using those funds, the Corps of Engineers 
is directed to undertake the projects described in the House 
and Senate reports. In addition, within available funds, 
$100,000 is provided to initiate a feasibility study for the 
Tennessee River in Bridgeport, Jackson County, Alabama.
      The conferees direct the Corps of Engineers to undertake 
the Walker River Basin, Nevada, project under the section 208 
program as described in the House report.
      The conference agreement includes $17,000,000 for the 
section 1135 program. Using those funds, the Corps of Engineers 
is directed to undertake the projects described in the House 
and Senate reports except the Bernado Waterfowl Management Area 
project in New Mexico. The conferees understand that the local 
sponsor for that project no longer wishes to participate in the 
project and, therefore, funding is not needed.
      The conference agreement includes a total of $41,426,000 
for the Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy River and Upper 
Cumberland River project. In addition to the amounts provided 
in the budget request, the conference agreement includes: 
$18,000,000 for the Harlan, Kentucky, element; $4,050,000 for 
the Williamsburg, Kentucky, element; $2,500,000 for the 
Middlesboro, Kentucky, element; $2,000,000 for the Pike County, 
Kentucky, element; $350,000 for the Marin County, Kentucky, 
element; $300,000 for the Town of Martin, Kentucky, element; 
$3,500,000 for the Upper Mingo County, West Virginia, element; 
$4,000,000 for the Lower Mingo (Kermit), West Virginia, 
element; $1,300,000 for the Hatfield Bottom, West Virginia, 
element; and $105,000 for the Lower Mingo, West Virginia, to 
carry out the work described in the House and Senate reports. 
In addition, the conference agreement deletes $1,600,000 
requested by the Administration for detailed project reports.
      The conferees have included language in the bill 
earmarking funds for the following projects in the amounts 
specified: Red River Emergency Bank Protection, Arkansas, 
$3,000,000; San Timoteo Creek, California, $7,000,000; 
Indianapolis Central Waterfront, Indiana, $7,000,000; Indiana 
Shoreline Erosion, Indiana, $2,200,000; Harlan, Kentucky, 
$18,000,000; Martin County, Kentucky, $350,000; Middlesboro, 
Kentucky, $2,500,000; Pike County, Kentucky, $2,000,000; Town 
of Martin, Kentucky, $300,000; Williamsburg, Kentucky, 
$4,050,000; Salyersville, Kentucky, $3,000,000; Lake 
Pontchartrain and Vicinity, Louisiana, $17,025,000; Lake 
Pontchartrain (Jefferson Parish) Stormwater Discharge, 
Louisiana, $4,750,000; Red River below Denison Dam Levee and 
Bank Stabilization, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, $100,000; 
Red River Emergency Bank Protection, Louisiana, $3,400,000; 
Glen Foerd, Pennsylvania, $800,000; South Central Pennsylvania 
Environmental Restoration Infrastructure and Resource 
Protection Development Pilot Program, Pennsylvania, $7,000,000; 
Seekonk River, Rhode Island, $650,000; Wallisville Lake, Texas, 
$7,500,000; Richmond Filtration Plant, Virginia, $3,500,000; 
Virginia Beach, Virginia, $8,000,000; Hatfield Bottom, West 
Virginia, $1,300,000; Lower Mingo (Kermit), West Virginia, 
$4,000,000; Lower Mingo Tributaries Supplement, West Virginia, 
$105,000; and Upper Mingo County, West Virginia, $3,500,000.
      The funds provided for the Red River Emergency Bank 
Protection project in Arkansas are to be used for construction 
of the Hurricane revetment. Of the funds provided for the Red 
River Emergency Bank Protection project in Louisiana, 
$3,000,000 is for design and construction of the Cat Island 
revetment and $400,000 is for the sediment transport study 
described in the Senate report.
      The conference agreement includes language in the bill 
directing the Secretary of the Army to: use $3,000,000 of the 
funds provided for the Red River Waterway, Mississippi River to 
Shreveport, Louisiana, project to construct a regional visitor 
center in the vicinity of Shreveport, Louisiana; use $1,000,000 
of the funds provided for the Red River Waterway, Mississippi 
River to Shreveport, Louisiana, project for partial 
reimbursement of costs associated with relocation and 
modification of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Bridge at 
Alexandria, Louisiana; use $1,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
in Public Law 104-46 for construction of the Ohio River Flood 
Protection, Indiana, project; provide signs to direct the 
public to facilities associated with the Saylorville Lake, 
Iowa, project and the wildlife refuge in Jasper and Marion 
Counties in Iowa as described in the House report; and use 
$500,000 of the funds appropriated in Public Law 103-126 to 
begin implementation of the Passaic River Preservation of 
Natural Storage Areas separable element of the Passaic River 
Flood Reduction, New Jersey, project. In addition, the 
conference agreement includes language directing the Secretary 
of the Army to initiate construction of the Joseph G. Minish 
Historic Waterfront Park, New Jersey, project using funds 
appropriated in Public Law 103-126. The bill also includes 
language naming the bike trail associated with the Saylorville 
Lake, Iowa, project as the Neal Smith Bike Trail and centers in 
Jasper and Marion Counties as the Neal Smith Prairie Wildlife 
Learning Center.
      The conference agreement includes language in the bill 
which authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army to 
initiate construction of the following projects in the amounts 
specified: Humboldt Harbor, California, $2,500,000; San Lorenzo 
River, California, $200,000; Faulkner's Island, Connecticut, 
$1,500,000; Chicago Shoreline, Illinois, $8,000,000; Pond 
Creek, Jefferson City, Kentucky, $1,500,000; Natchez Bluff, 
Mississippi, $4,500,000; Wood River, Grand Isle, Nebraska, 
$1,000,000; New York City Watershed, New York, $1,000,000; Duck 
Creek, Cincinnati, Ohio, $466,000; Saw Mill Run, Pennsylvania, 
$500,000; West Virginia and Pennsylvania Flooding, Pennsylvania 
and West Virginia, $1,000,000; San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico, 
$800,000; Allendale Dam, Rhode Island, $195,000; and Upper 
Jordan River, Utah, $500,000. The funds provided for the West 
Virginia and Pennsylvania project are for work as described in 
section 583 of S. 640 as passed by the House and shall be used 
for the following flood control projects: Huntingdon County 
Orbisonia/Rock Hill Furnace, Pennsylvania, Black Log Creek 
($150,000); Huntingdon County Coalmont Borough, Coal Bank Run 
($75,000); Huntingdon County Carbon Township, Shoups Run 
($75,000); Blair County Logan Township ($500,000); and Blair 
County Altoona, Pennsylvania ($200,000). The funds provided for 
the New York City Watershed project are for work as described 
in section 558 of S. 640 as passed by the House.
      The conference agreement deletes funds earmarked in the 
House bill for the Ohio River Flood Protection, Indiana, 
project and deletes funds earmarked in the Senate bill for the 
Red River Chloride Control, Texas, project.
      The conference agreement deletes language contained in 
the Senate bill earmarking funds for the following projects: 
Larsen Bay Harbor, Alaska; Ouzinkie Harbor, Alaska; Valdez 
Harbor, Intertidal Water Retention, Alaska; Kake Harbor, 
Alaska; Panama City Beaches, Florida; Boston Harbor, 
Massachusetts; Poplar Island, Maryland; Ouachita River Levees, 
Louisiana; and Mill Creek, Ohio. Funding for these projects has 
been provided in the overall amount appropriated for 
Construction, General. The conference agreement also deletes 
language contained in the Senate bill for the Helena and 
Vicinity, Arkansas, project. Funding for that project has been 
provided in the Mississippi River and Tributaries account.

 flood control, mississippi river and tributaries, arkansas, illinois, 
       kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, missouri, and tennessee

      The conference agreement appropriates $310,374,000 for 
Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries instead of 
$302,990,000 as proposed by the House and $312,513,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes an additional 
$2,860,000 for work to bring Mississippi River levees up to 
grade. Using those funds, the Corps of Engineers is directed to 
undertake additional work in Louisiana and Mississippi as 
described in the House and Senate reports.
      The conference agreement includes an additional 
$3,000,000 for the Corps of Engineers to undertake additional 
work on the Big Sunflower River in Yazoo Basin in Mississippi, 
including Black Bayou Item 2, Black Bayou Item 3, and the 
purchase of mitigation lands.
      The conferees are aware of a sedimentation problem in 
Union County, Mississippi, resulting from recurring flooding of 
the Little Tallahatchie River in the vicinity of New Albany, 
Mississippi. The Corps of Engineers shall provide the Committee 
on Appropriations with a report, not later than April 1, 1997, 
which provides details on: a) the nature of the problem; b) 
options to solve the flooding problem, along with a time line 
and associated costs for each option; and c) statutory 
authority for the Corps of Engineers to do the work necessary 
to resolve the problem.
      The conferees direct the Army Corps of Engineers to 
submit a report to the Congress, by January 31, 1997, on the 
status of the Bonnet Carre' Freshwater Diversion Project. The 
conferees further direct the Corps to provide its assessment of 
whether the project, as currently formulated, would achieve its 
goals, and to provide recommendations of the Corps as to future 
program options and potential enhancement which would achieve 
these goals in the most timely and cost effective manner.
      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the Senate that directs the President of the Mississippi River 
Commission to use the variable cost recovery rate set forth in 
OMB Circular A-126 for use of the Commission aircraft.
      In addition, the conference agreement includes language 
directing the Secretary of the Army to use additional funds 
appropriated in this Act or previously appropriated funds to 
complete the Hickman Bluff, Kentucky, project.
      The conferees have provided $965,000 to continue the 
Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, feasibility study. 
The conferees recommended that the Corps of Engineers use an 
appropriate amount of the funds provided to prepare a report on 
the feasibility of expending the construction of a lock 
structure in the Houma Navigation Canal as an independent 
feature of this study authority.
      The conferees are concerned about the abnormal annual 
flooding that occurs to industries and businesses along the 
waterfront areas of Morgan City and Berwick, Louisiana. The 
conferees understand that a means to solve the problem is 
pending authorization. This plan includes provisions for 
temporary flood proofing and for the study of a long-term 
solution including the relocation of riverside industries to a 
safe non-flood area in the vicinity. The Corps of Engineers 
should proceed immediately to construction upon passage of the 
authorization of this project with funds available to the 
Mississippi River and Tributaries project.

                   operation and maintenance, general

      The conference agreement appropriates $1,697,015,000 for 
Operation and Maintenance, General, instead of $1,701,180,000 
as proposed by the House and $1,688,358,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conferees are concerned about the Administration's 
plans to stop requesting funds for the maintenance of a smaller 
navigation projects beginning in fiscal year 1998. Failure to 
adequately maintain those projects will cause economic hardship 
for many communities throughout the nation and result in 
hazardous navigation conditions that could directly lead to the 
loss of life and property. The conferees expect the 
Administration to continue to request adequate funds for 
maintenance of these projects.
      The conferees direct the Corps of Engineers to use funds 
appropriated in this Act to conduct and continue their 
participation in the comprehensive water resources study of the 
Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint 
River Basins with the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, 
as specified in the Memorandum of Agreement dated January 3, 
1992, as supplemental or amended, between the parties (the 
states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and the Army Corps of 
Engineers), through December 31, 1997 or the completion of the 
Comprehensive Study. Further funding contributions made by the 
states up to and including fiscal year 1996 will be considered 
in any additional funding requirement for contract studies or 
elements thereof.
      The conferees have provided an additional $550,000 for 
the Corps of Engineers to continue repairs to the damaged east 
and west jetties and to construct a concrete cap on the east 
jetty at Newport Bay Harbor in California.
      The Secretary of the Army is encouraged to conduct a 
study assessment and report to the Congress no later than one 
year from the date of enactment of this Act on the need and 
suitability to modify the Local Cooperation Agreement under 
which the Port of Santa Cruz now performs the Federal 
operations and maintenance mission at Santa Cruz Harbor in 
California. The study will particularly examine the need for an 
inflationary and cost of living increase adjustment that was 
not specified in the original agreement.
      Of the funds provided for the Sepulveda Dam, California, 
project, it is the conferees' intent that a significant portion 
shall be used for environmental restoration and wildlife 
habitat.
      The conference agreement includes $8,000,000 for the New 
York Harbor, New York project. The funds provided above the 
budget request are to be used to perform remaining dredged 
material management plan study activities and to implement 
short term disposal alternatives which have been determined to 
be feasible and quickly implementable and to investigate 
methods to reduce sediment contamination within the harbor.
      The conferees agree that the Corps of Engineers may use 
nontraditional means for erosion control on the Missouri River 
below the Fort Peck Dam in Montana to the North Dakota border.
      The conference agreement includes $7,552,000 for the 
Manteo (Shallowbag Bay), North Carolina, project to be used for 
additional maintenance dredging and monitoring of the terminal 
groin constructed at Oregon Inlet.
      The conference agreement includes language in the bill 
earmarking funds for the following projects in the amounts 
specified: Raystown Lake, Pennsylvania, $4,190,000; and Cooper 
Lake and Channels, Texas, $2,601,000.
      Language has been included in the bill which directs the 
Secretary of the Army to: use $1,000,000 of the funds provided 
in the bill to design and construct a landing at Guntersville, 
Alabama; design and implement an early flood warning system for 
the Greenbrier and Cheat River Basins in West Virginia; 
maintain a minimum conservation pool of 475.5 feet at Wister 
Lake in Oklahoma; and use $600,000 to perform maintenance 
dredging of the Cocheco River, New Hampshire, project. Language 
has also been included in the bill which provides that no funds 
available to the Corps of Engineers shall be used to acquire 
land in Jasper County, South Carolina, in connection with the 
Savannah Harbor navigation project.
      The conference agreement deletes language contained in 
Senate bill earmarking funds for the Compton Creek Channel, 
California, project and the Buford-Trenton Irrigation District 
erosion control project in North Dakota. Funding for these 
projects has been included in the overall amount appropriated 
for Operation and Maintenance, General.

                           Regulatory Program

      The conference agreement appropriates $101,000,000 for 
the Regulatory Program as proposed by the House and the Senate.
      The conferees agree that the Corps of Engineers should 
seek ways to implement the proposed administrative appeals 
process within the resources provided.

                 Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies

      The conference agreement appropriates $10,000,000 for 
Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies as proposed by the House 
and the Senate. In addition, the conference agreement includes 
language proposed by the House which directs the Secretary of 
the Army to use up to $8,000,000 of the funds appropriated in 
this Act and in Public Law 104-134 to rehabilitate non-Federal 
flood control levees along the Puyallup and Carbon Rivers in 
Pierce County, Washington.

                           Oil Spill Research

      The conference agreement provides no funds for the Oil 
Spill Research program.

                            General Expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $149,000,000 for 
General Expenses instead of $145,000,000 as proposed by the 
House and $153,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement deletes language contained in 
the Senate bill which would have prohibited the Secretary of 
the Army from obligating funds for the closure of the Pacific 
Ocean Division.
      The conferees have, however, included language in the 
bill which directs the Secretary of the Army to begin 
implementing a plan to reduce the number of division offices to 
no more than eight and no less than six on April 1, 1997, and 
which provides authority for the Corps of Engineers to transfer 
up to $1,500,000 into this account from other accounts in this 
Title to investigate impacts in the delay in implementation of 
the division closure plan.

                           general provisions

                       corps of engineers--civil

      The conference agreement, in Section 101, includes 
language which provides that the Secretary of the Army, in 
fiscal year 1997, shall advertise for competitive bid at least 
8,500,000 cubic yards of the hopper dredge volumes accomplished 
with Government-owned dredges in fiscal year 1992 instead of 
10,000,000 cubic yards as proposed by the House and 7,500,000 
cubic yards as proposed by the Senate. During the period in 
which any of the Federal hopper dredges are placed in the 
reserve fleet or on standby status, or out of service for 
lengthy repair or rehabilitation, reallocating the entire 
8,500,000 cubic yards among the remaining Federal dredges would 
require further reduction in their days of service, thus making 
their operation more costly and less competitive. Therefore, if 
any of the Federal hopper dredges is removed from service for 
repair or rehabilitation or placed in the reserve fleet or on 
standby status and is prevented from accomplishing the level of 
work it has carried out during the past three fiscal years, the 
conferees direct the Corps of Engineers to reduce the 8,500,000 
cubic yards by the share allocated to that dredge over the past 
three fiscal years which has been put out for bid to the 
private sector.
      The conference agreement, in Section 102, includes 
language prohibiting the use of funds available to the Corps of 
Engineers to study, design, or undertake improvements or major 
repair to the hopper dredge McFarland, except for normal 
maintenance and repair necessary to maintain the vessel in its 
current operational condition. This language is identical to 
language contained in the fiscal year 1996 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act. The House bill contained a 
similar provision, while the Senate bill did not address the 
issue.
      The conference agreement, in Section 103, includes 
language proposed by the Senate which modifies the 
authorization for the Moorfield, West Virginia, project by 
increasing the project's estimated cost.
      The conference agreement, in Section 104, includes 
language proposed by the Senate which modifies the 
authorization for the Grays Landing Lock and Dam, Monongahela 
River, Pennsylvania, project by increasing the project's 
estimated cost.
      The conference agreement, in Section 105, includes 
language proposed by the Senate which provides that flood 
control measures implemented under the authority of Section 
202(a) of Public Law 96-367 shall prevent future losses that 
would occur from a flood equal in magnitude to the flood of 
April 1977 or the 100-year frequency event, whichever is 
greater. The Senate language has been amended to clarify that 
it applies to nonstructural flood control measures.
      The conference agreement, in Section 106, includes 
language proposed by the Senate which will prevent the 
termination of contracts or the delay of scheduled work at 
specifically funded ongoing construction projects because of 
insufficient funding. When exercising this authority, the 
Secretary of the Army should be guided by the direction 
contained in the Senate report.
      The conference agreement, in Section 107, includes 
language proposed by the Senate directing the Corps of 
Engineers to complete the Charleston Riverfront (Haddad) Park, 
West Virginia, project.
      The conference agreement, in Section 108, includes 
language proposed by the Senate which modifies the 
authorization for the Arkansas City, Kansas, project by 
increasing the project's estimated cost with an amendment to 
reflect the current Federal and non-Federal costs.
      The conference agreement, in Section 109, includes 
language proposed by the Senate which provides that funds 
appropriated in the fiscal year 1993 Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act for the Elk Creek Dam, Oregon, 
project are available to plan and implement long term 
management measures at Elk Creek Dam to maintain the project in 
an uncompleted state and to take necessary steps to provide 
fish passage through the project.
      The conference agreement, in section 110, includes 
language authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Army to 
modify the Hudson River, New York, project, to provide for a 
300-foot wide channel to a depth of 24 feet from the existing 
Federal channel in the vicinity of Hudson City Light to the 
north dock at Union Street, Athens, New York.
      The conference agreement, in section 111, includes a 
provision amending language contained in the fiscal year 1996 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act regarding the 
conveyance of land to the City of Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
      The conference agreement, in section 112, includes 
language modifying the authorization for the project to perform 
emergency gate construction at Abiquiu Dam in New Mexico.


                                TITLE II

                       Department of the Interior

                central utah project completion account

      The conference agreement appropriate $43,627,000 to carry 
out the provisions of the Central Utah Project Completion Act 
as proposed by the House and the Senate.

                         bureau of reclamation

      The summary tables at the end of this title set forth the 
conference agreement with respect to the individual 
appropriations, programs, and activities of the Bureau of 
Reclamation. Additional items of conference agreement are 
discussed below.

                         general investigations

      The conference agreement appropriates $16,650,000 for 
General Investigations instead of $14,548,000 as proposed by 
the House and $18,105,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 for the 
Bureau of Reclamation to undertake feasibility studies for 
water conservation projects in the Deschutes and Rogue River 
basins in Oregon.
      The conference agreement includes language in the bill 
providing $250,000 for the Del Norte County and Crescent City, 
California, Wastewater Reclamation project, and $250,000 for 
the Fort Bragg, California, Water Supply project.
      The conferees understand that the Bureau of Reclamation 
has been working cooperatively with interested parties in 
efforts to secure reliable and safe water supplies for the City 
and County of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Bureau is to be 
commended and is encouraged to continue to provide assistance 
and work cooperatively with the City and County in the regional 
planning process to resolve critical issues associated with 
providing clean, reliable drinking water for the region.
      The conference agreement deletes language contained in 
the Senate bill earmarking funds for the Cheyenne River Sioux 
Reservation, South Dakota, study. Funding for this study is 
included in the overall amount provided for General 
Investigations.

                          construction program

      The conference agreement appropriates $394,056,000 for 
the Construction Program instead of $367,496,000 as proposed by 
the House and $398,596,700 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conferees have included $444,000 for the In-Situ 
Copper Mining Research Project, located near Casa Grande, 
Arizona, which has been transferred to the Bureau of 
Reclamation from the Bureau of Mines, for the continuation of 
the field test as proposed by the House. The funds are to be 
cost-shared by the private sector partner as provided for in 
the contract. It is the conferees' understanding that 
sufficient funds were transferred with the project to support 
Reclamation's in-house research and oversight responsibilities 
through the conclusion of the project. The Bureau of 
Reclamation should closely examine the research data to explore 
the application of the technology to other of its programs.
      The conference agreement includes $500,000, $250,000 
above the budget request, for the Bureau of Reclamation to 
undertake an environmental analysis and perform engineering for 
screening the Contra Costa Canal intake at Rock Slough in 
California.
      In lieu of the directive contained in the House report, 
the conferees direct the Bureau of Reclamation to provide 
private entities with a fair and reasonable opportunity to 
construct, rather than design and construct, new fish screen 
and fish recovery facilities associated with the Glenn-Colusa 
Irrigation District's Hamilton City Pumping Plant, with 
oversight responsibility by the Bureau of Reclamation in 
cooperation with the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District.
      The conferees have provided $1,100,000, the same as the 
level provided by the House, for work on alternative fish 
guidance systems and for new work on a positive barrier screen 
at Reclamation District 108's Wilkins Slough pumping plant. Of 
the funds provided, $500,000 shall be allocated to work on 
alternative fish guidance systems.
      The conferees have provided an additional $2,500,000 for 
the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program for a 
wetland restoration project to be carried out along the 
Williamson River in Klamath County, Oregon, pursuant to the 
Upper Klamath Basin Working Group. Within 30 days of enactment 
of this Act, these funds shall be transferred in their entirety 
to a nonprofit entity with expertise in fish and wildlife 
management, and with a memorandum of understanding with the 
Bureau of Reclamation, to hold in an interest-bearing account 
and disburse as appropriate to other entities to accomplish the 
project purposes. This project shall be carried out jointly 
between the private entity, the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service, the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service of the Department of Agriculture, and non-Federal 
interests in the project area.
      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the House that directs the Bureau of Reclamation to complete, 
by the end of fiscal year 1997, the environmental impact 
statement being conducted on the proposed Tucson, Arizona, 
surface reservoir.
      The conference agreement deletes language contained in 
the Senate bill for the Mid-Dakota Rural Water System in South 
Dakota. Funding for this project has been provided within the 
overall amount appropriated for the Construction Program.
      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the Senate extending the authority for the Reclamation States 
Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991, Public Law 102-250, 
through 1997. The bill also includes language proposed by the 
Senate increasing the cost ceiling for the Umatilla Basin 
project in Oregon.
      The conference agreement deletes funding proposed by the 
Senate for the McCall Wastewater Treatment facility in Idaho 
and the Devils Lake, North Dakota, Desalination project.
      The conference agreement includes $58,740,000 for the 
Central Arizona Project instead of $51,155,000 as proposed by 
the House and $58,325,700 as proposed by the Senate. The 
specific items which comprise the total reduction of 
$12,988,000 are as follows: Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct, Siphon 
Repairs, Noncontract Costs--$1,616,000; Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct, 
Other Repairs, Noncontract Costs--$1,509,000; Other Project 
Costs, Water Allocations, Noncontract Costs--$500,000; Other 
Project Costs, Curation Facilities, O&M During Construction--
$350,000; Other Project Costs, Curation Facilities, Noncontract 
Costs--$400,000; Other Project Costs, Native Fish Protection, 
Major Contracts--$2,775,000; Other Project Costs, Native Fish 
Protection, Noncontract Costs--$332,000; Other Project Costs, 
Environmental Enhancement, Major Contracts--$900,000; Other 
Project Costs, Environmental Enhancement, Noncontract Costs--
$801,000; New Wadell Dam, Recreation Facilities--$1,550,000; 
and New Wadell Dam, Noncontract Costs--$2,255,000. The amount 
provided for the Central Arizona Project includes $200,000 for 
the Sierra Vista effluent recharge project and $1,470,000 for 
the Roadrunner Campground at New Wadell Dam.
      The conference agreement includes $225,000 each for the 
Spring Run Salmon and Coho Salmon programs as proposed by the 
House. The conferees expect that the funds deposited with the 
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for these programs shall 
be subject to the same process, including matching requirements 
and competitive selection, as are other grants administered by 
the Foundation. The conferees emphasize the desire to build 
partnerships between diverse communities, leverage the use of 
taxpayer funds and maximize the value of projects selected for 
funding. The Foundation shall continue to have authority to 
select projects for funding through this program in order to 
realize the greatest fish and wildlife benefits.

                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

      The conference agreement appropriates $267,876,000 for 
Operation and Maintenance instead of $286,232,000 as proposed 
by the House and $280,876,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conferees are aware that the Bureau of Reclamation 
and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have been 
negotiating an agreement under which BPA will provide direct 
funding for the annual operations and maintenance costs 
associated with Reclamation's hydropower generation facilities 
in the Pacific Northwest. This approach would replace the 
existing procedure under which Reclamation requests annual 
appropriations to cover those costs with BPA providing 
reimbursement to the Treasury. The conferees believe the 
agreement should provide greater assurance of an appropriate 
level of funding for maintenance of power facilities thereby 
reducing the frequency of costly overhauls and increasing the 
reliability of BPA's power supply. The funding level for 
Reclamation's operation and maintenance program contained in 
the conference agreement assumes that direct funding by BPA 
will be implemented beginning in fiscal year 1997.
      The conferees direct the Bureau of Reclamation to carry 
out the items of work described in the House and Senate 
reports.

               BUREAU OF RECLAMATION LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT

      The conference agreement appropriates $12,715,000 for the 
Bureau of Reclamation Loan Program Account as proposed by the 
House and the Senate.

                CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION FUND

      Funding for the Contra Costa Canal Rock Slough fish 
screen project is contained within the amounts appropriated 
under the Construction Program.

                    GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

      The conference agreement appropriates $46,000,000 for 
General Administrative Expenses instead of $45,150,000 as 
proposed by the House and $48,307,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The bill includes appropriations to continue work of the 
Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission authorized 
under Public Law 102-575, Title 30, Western Water Policy Review 
Act. A question has arisen regarding the authority of the 
Commission to hire temporary staff from outside of the Federal 
government. It is not the intent of Congress in Section 3007 
(c)(1) of the subject Act to require the Commission to obtain 
permission from the Secretary of the Interior for each 
temporary position to be filled. This section is included only 
to advise the Commission of the desirability of utilizing 
Federal staff where they can be made available to the 
Commission at no cost. However, given the special needs of the 
Commission for independent analysis of Federal programs, and 
the very abbreviated time frame for their work, it is 
recognized that the Commission must be able to fill temporary 
positions where necessary with persons from outside of the 
Federal government.


                               TITLE III

                          Department of Energy

      The summary tables at the end of this title set forth the 
conference agreement with respect to the individual 
appropriations, programs, and activities of the Department of 
Energy. Additional items of conference agreements are discussed 
below.

                             reprogrammings

      The conference agreement does not provide the Department 
of Energy with any internal reprogramming flexibility in fiscal 
year 1997 unless specifically identified in the House, Senate, 
or conference reports. Any reallocations of new or prior year 
budget authority or prior year deobligations must be submitted 
to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in advance in 
writing and may not be implemented prior to approval by the 
Committees. This action has been taken as a result of liberal 
use of this authority by the Department to fund activities 
which were neither presented to nor approved by Congress. The 
Committees will review the need for this authority as part of 
the fiscal year 1998 appropriations process.

 use of receipts from leasing or selling government property or assets

      The conferees expect the receipts from either the lease 
or sale of government assets, less the costs directly related 
to the lease or sale, to be remitted to the United States 
Treasury unless specific authority is contained in the 
Appropriations Act permitting the Department to retain these 
receipts to offset funding requirements.
      The Department should perform a comprehensive review of 
current government assets which may be available for lease or 
sale and the potential revenues available from such sources, 
and be prepared to discuss this issue and the need for 
additional legislation during the fiscal year 1998 
appropriations process.

                       program direction accounts

      The conferees expect the Department to adhere to the 
funding levels provided for each program direction account in 
fiscal year 1997. If any funds other than the unobligated 
balances available for these specific activities at the end of 
fiscal year 1996 are to be used, the Department is expected to 
submit a reprogramming to Congress. This requirement pertains 
to the use of any prior year deobligations or any other reserve 
or other program accounts which may be used to augment the 
program direction funding.

general reductions necessary to accommodate specific program directions

      In the event that specific program guidance contained in 
the House, Senate, or conference reports requires a general 
reduction of available funding, such reductions shall not be 
applied disproportionately against any program, project, or 
activity.

           energy Supply, Research and Development Activities

      The conference agreement appropriates $2,710,908,000 for 
Energy Supply, Research and Development Activities instead of 
$2,668,573,000 as proposed by the House and $2,764,043,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The agreement deletes language proposed 
by the House directing that $1,440,000 be made available for 
FTE reductions, and deletes language proposed by the Senate 
providing $5,000,000 for research of converting saline water to 
fresh water.

                  solar and renewable energy programs

      Funding of $29,000,000 is provided for the wind energy 
program, of which $2,000,000 shall be for the Kotzebue, Alaska 
project.
      Funding of $55,300,000 for biofuels energy systems is 
equally divided between two distinct programs, the power 
systems program and the transportation program. The $27,650,000 
provided for the power systems program includes the budget 
request amount to complete demonstration of the hot-gas 
filtration system at the gasifier in Hawaii. This year's 
funding is the final year of funding for this project. The 
power systems program also includes funding for the gasifier in 
Burlington, Vermont, and $4,000,000 for the biomass 
cogeneration turbine development program, $1,000,000 less than 
the amount requested. The transportation program includes 
$3,000,000 for the cost-shared biomass ethanol plant in 
Gridley, California, and $1,000,000 for testing forest residue 
feedstocks at the Department's biomass ethanol user facility, 
with the remainder of the funds made available for biochemical 
conversion. The conferees direct that funding for the regional 
biomass program and the feedstock program be allocated equally 
between the power systems and transportation programs.
      Funding of $750,000 for the solar international program 
is to be allocated to nongovernmental organizations which are 
active in joint implementation activities to develop specific 
international energy projects. The conferees direct that any 
carryover funds available on October 1, 1996 in the solar 
international and solar transfer programs be used only to honor 
existing contracts. Carryover funds from these two programs are 
not to be available for obligation for new contracts or 
agreements.
      Funding of $30,000,000 is provided for the geothermal 
program, including $300,000 for the Geo-Heat Center at the 
University of Oregon Institute of Technology and $2,000,000 for 
the Geysers geothermal project, which represents the final 
Federal contribution to this program.
      Funding of $1,000,000 is provided for hydropower for the 
cost-shared fish-friendly turbine research and development 
program.
      Funding of $4,000,000 is provided for renewable Indian 
energy resources, including $1,000,000 for the final Federal 
share of the Haida Alaska Native Village Corporation's Reynolds 
Creek hydroelectric project, $2,000,000 for the Eyak Native 
Corporation's Power Creek hydroelectric project and $1,000,000 
for the Klawock-Thorne Bay-Kasaan electrical intertie.
      Due to severe budget constraints, the conferees have not 
included the Senate language encouraging the Department to 
start a new program developing metal matrix composites.
      The conference agreement does not direct a specific 
reduction in the number of federal employees at Headquarters.

                             nuclear energy

      The conferees have provided $38,000,000 for the light 
water reactor program, $2,000,000 less than the budget request 
and the Senate amount. This is the final Federal contribution 
to the light water reactor program. The conferees have not 
included funding to demonstrate or study annealment of reactor 
cores.
      The conferees note that there is insufficient funding to 
support a viable nuclear engineering and radiation science 
research program. This program is underfunded to the point 
where the viability of the nuclear engineering academic 
departments in the United States, and the nuclear science 
capability of the nation, are at risk. The health and vitality 
of the academic infrastructure in nuclear science and 
engineering in the U.S. depends on an adequately funded 
research program. Therefore, the conferees urge the Department 
to include sufficient funding to reinstate the Nuclear 
Engineering Education Research program in the fiscal year 1998 
budget request.
      The conference agreement includes $12,704,000 for the 
isotope support program including $5,000,000 to implement the 
Department's record of decision on the production of 
molybdenum-99.

                     environment, safety and health

      The Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) is a 
private foundation co-funded by the governments of the United 
States and Japan to study the effects of radiation on the 
survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The conferees 
agree that this program is a defense-related activity and have 
included the fiscal year 1997 funding of $15,000,000 in the 
environment, safety and health program under Other Defense 
Activities.

                            energy research

Biological and environmental research
      The conference agreement includes $10,000,000 for the 
final phase of the Biomedical Information Communication Center 
at the Oregon Health Sciences University. The database 
resulting from the project will be used to track the efficacy 
and effect of medical treatments, and assist in research 
efforts associated with the long-term effects of low-level 
exposure to potential environmental hazards such as radiation 
or electromagnetic fields. The conference agreement also 
includes $3,000,000 for the Indiana University School of 
Medicine. The University is nationally renowned for its 
achievements in the field of nuclear medicine. This 
contribution will allow the university to expand its efforts in 
the research and treatment of cancer, AIDS and other life-
threatening diseases.
      Within available funds, $1,000,000 is provided to 
establish a collaborative Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) 
program utilizing the nuclear radiation capabilities at the 
McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center (MNRC). This program will 
help establish the efficacy of BNCT for the treatment of 
inoperable brain tumors and will expand to include other 
difficult-to-treat malignancies such as melanoma, skull-base 
tumors, inherently radio-resistant tumors, long-bone sarcoma in 
children and pediatric brain tumors.
Fusion
      The conferees have provided $232,500,000 for the fusion 
energy program, an increase of $7,500,000 over the House 
recommendation. The conferees support the House and Senate 
inclusion of program direction and computational support within 
the amount provided for the fusion program. The conferees 
encourage the Department to reduce the amount identified for 
program direction, but do not stipulate amounts for program 
direction or computational support. To further provide maximum 
flexibility, the conferees have not included the prescriptive 
language included in the House report.
      The conferees have provided funds to continue and 
complete operations and provide for safe shutdown of the TFTR 
in fiscal year 1997. This is the final year of funding for 
fusion operations at the TFTR.
      The conference agreement includes funding to continue the 
U.S. participation in the engineering design activities phase 
of the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) 
project, to which the United States is committed through fiscal 
year 1998.
Basic energy sciences
      Funding of $7,000,000 is provided for the Experimental 
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. 
Also, the conference agreement provides $3,200,000, for the 
Midwest Superconductivity Consortium. The conferees support 
collaborative multi-institution, multi-discipline materials 
research efforts involving ion exchange membranes, ion exchange 
resins, and solidification-stabilization for immobilization of 
hazardous wastes. The conferees are aware of an industrial 
multi-institutional consortium in the southeast which is 
exploring research in these applications and encourages the 
Department to determine whether there is a Departmental 
interest in joining this consortium.
      The conference agreement includes $10,000,000 for the 
University of Alabama. Funding of $9,500,000 is provided to 
complete the Energy, Minerals, and Materials Research Center 
which focuses on fundamental research in state-of-the-art 
manufacturing technologies related to energy efficiency and 
conservation, environmentally responsible production techniques 
and advanced information systems at the University of Alabama-
Tuscaloosa. The remaining $500,000 is provided to the 
University of Alabama-Birmingham in support of a cooperative 
research agreement to use magnetic resonance imaging systems to 
develop advanced cardiovascular imaging applications. The 
conference agreement also includes $7,000,000 for the Center 
for Technological Research with Industry at Rose-Hulman 
Institute of Technology. This project will complement the 
school's ongoing efforts to increase our nation's 
competitiveness by coordinating technology-based research with 
industrial and governmental sponsors.
Other energy research activities
      The conference agreement includes $10,000,000 for the 
establishment of the energy and environmental technology 
applications project at the University of Southwestern 
Louisiana. The project will enhance fundamental automation 
research in areas designed to improve the nation's global 
competitiveness and energy efficiency.
      The conferees have included the House recommendation for 
program direction, $30,600,000, but do not agree with the House 
direction that $2,500,000 be available for expenses related to 
workforce reduction. The conferees have not recommended a 
specific amount for the technology transfer program.

                       energy support activities

      The conferees agree with the House recommendation that 
funding for University and Science Education programs be 
provided from the sponsoring programs in the Department. The 
Department of Energy spends well over $100,000,000 throughout 
its programs to support science and education activities. To 
the extent such activities benefit and are a byproduct of the 
line programs, those programs should, within available funds, 
be the educational sponsor.

                       in-house energy management

      Last year, Congress eliminated the In-House Energy 
Management program as a stand-alone program. Notwithstanding 
this direction, the Department defied the clear intent of 
Congress and continued the program by using other available 
Departmental resources. The conferees encourage the Department 
to continue to carry out energy conservation activities, but do 
not support the resurrection of a separate program which was 
eliminated last year. To the extent the Department has not 
already done so, the conferees recommend that the Department 
conform its procurement regulations to the procurement 
authorities provided by subsections (a) and (c) of section 546 
of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 
8256). The conferees expect the Department to set an example 
and continue to lead the Federal Government in the procurement 
of energy saving devices and services.

      environmental restoration and waste management (non-defense)

      The conferees agree with the House report language on the 
Wayne, New Jersey project.
      The university robotics program is funded in the Defense 
Environmental Restoration and Waste Management program.

                uranium supply and enrichment activities

      The conference agreement appropriates net funding of 
$1,000,000 instead of $11,772,000 as proposed by the House and 
no funding as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes bill language proposed 
by the Senate which would permit security guards to carry side 
arms at the gaseous diffusion plants.
      The conference agreement retains bill language proposed 
by the Senate providing for payment by the United States 
Enrichment Corporation of necessary employee and agency 
contributions to the Thrift Savings Fund.
      The conferees agree to provide up to $10,000,000 of 
program funds for transparency measures.

      uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning fund

      The conference agreement appropriates $200,200,000 as 
proposed by the House instead of $205,200,000 as proposed by 
the Senate. The conference agreement retains language proposed 
by the House providing $34,000,000 for the uranium and thorium 
reimbursement program.

                general science and research activities

      The conference agreement appropriates $996,000,000 for 
General Science and Research Activities as proposed by the 
House instead of $1,000,626,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                      nuclear waste disposal fund

      The conference agreement appropriates $182,000,000 as 
proposed by the House instead of $200,028,000 as proposed by 
the Senate and deletes language proposed by the House making 
the appropriation subject to authorization. The conference 
agreement includes language proposed by the House prohibiting 
distribution of funds appropriated under this heading for the 
State of Nevada or affected units of local government. The 
agreement also includes language proposed by the Senate 
requiring the Secretary to prepare a viability assessment of 
the Yucca Mountain site, amended to impose a deadline of 
September 30, 1998 instead of June 30, 1998 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conferees direct that the appropriated funds be used 
in accordance with the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management 
Draft Program plan issued by the Department in May 1996 and for 
interim storage activities as authorized by law.

                      departmental administration

      The conference agreement appropriates $215,021,000 for 
Departmental Administration instead of $194,000,000 as proposed 
by the House and $218,017,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
Revenues of $125,388,000 are estimated to be received in fiscal 
year 1997, resulting in a net appropriation of $89,633,000. The 
proposed funding level includes $6,000,000 available only for 
severance, termination, and related costs resulting from the 
reduction in personnel in Departmental Administration. The 
conference agreement includes $2,000,000 in environmental 
policy studies for the Department to continue analytic global 
climate change studies.
      The conference agreement deletes bill language proposed 
by the House specifying end-of-year employment levels by 
organization in the Department of Energy. However, the 
conferees are cognizant of these proposed employment levels and 
strongly urge the Department to use these as a guideline for 
proportionate reductions in fiscal year 1997.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate to provide voluntary separation incentives for the 
Department of Energy and to require payment by the Department 
of Energy to the Office of Personnel Management.

                    office of the inspector general

      The conference agreement appropriates $23,853,000 instead 
of $25,000,000 as proposed by the House and $23,103,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conferees agree that the current case load of the 
Office of Contractor Employee Protection does not support a 
separate office of the current size, and direct the Inspector 
General to assume the responsibility for these activities.

                    atomic energy defense activities

Weapons activities
      The conference agreement appropriates $3,911,198,000 
instead of $3,684,378,000 as proposed by the House and 
$3,988,602,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement supports the direction provided 
in the Senate report for the stockpile stewardship program with 
the following adjustments. An increase of $30,000,000 over the 
budget request is provided for the accelerated strategic 
computing initiative. An additional $10,000,000 over the budget 
request has been provided for the technology transfer program; 
within this program up to $10,000,000 should be allocated for 
the American Textile Partnership (AMTEX), and up to $10,000,000 
should be allocated for the Advanced Computational and 
Technology Initiative (ACTI). The conference agreement provides 
specific funding levels identified by the House and Senate for 
the University of Rochester and the Naval Research Laboratory 
in the inertial confinement fusion program.
      For core stockpile management, the conference agreement 
provides $1,834,470,000. Funding of $150,000,000 is provided 
for a new tritium source, instead of $100,000,000 as proposed 
by the House and $160,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
conferees direct the Department to notify the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations prior to initiating in-reactor 
tests of tritium target rods at a commercial light water 
reactor. Enhanced surveillance activities are increased by 
$15,000,000; advanced manufacturing activities are increased by 
$80,000,000; and $6,000,000 is included for upgrades for the 
tritium recycling facility.
      For program direction funding, the conference agreement 
provides $325,000,000 which includes $22,600,000 for the final 
settlement payment for the community assistance program at Los 
Alamos, New Mexico. The funding provided is $31,404,000 less 
than the budget request for salaries and other expenses, and 
the conferees agree that these reductions should be taken 
proportionately as recommended in the House report.

         defense environmental restoration and waste management

      The conference agreement appropriates $5,459,304,000 for 
Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management instead 
of $5,409,310,000 as proposed by the House and $5,605,210,000 
as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement deletes language included by the 
Senate earmarking $2,000,000 for demonstration of stir-melter 
technology and $5,000,000 for the electrometallurgical 
treatment of spent nuclear fuel.
      The conferees have provided $15,000,000 for ``Closure 
Projects,'' a new initiative to accelerate the closure of 
facilities or significantly reduce outyear mortgage costs. The 
conferees direct the Department to include funding at an 
appropriate level for this activity as part of the fiscal year 
1998 budget request.
      The conference agreement provides $1,762,194,000 for 
environmental restoration, the same as the budget request.
      Within the waste management program, up to $2,000,000 is 
provided for demonstration of stir-melter technology developed 
by the Department and previously intended to be used at the 
Savannah River Site. The Department is directed to seek 
alternative use of this technology to maximize the investment 
already made in this technology.
      The conferees encourage the Department to support 
planning and concepts refinement for a Systems Approach to 
Precision Farming and Technology Integration consistent with 
the 1995 Department of Energy/U.S. Department of Agriculture 
Memorandum of Understanding.
      The conference agreement provides the budget request for 
site operations activities which were transferred to the 
nuclear materials and facility stabilization program. This 
includes the training and transportation budget requests which 
were reduced by the House.
      The conferees also direct the Department to provide 
$2,000,000 from the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste 
Management account, through the Department's Memorandum of 
Understanding with the Department of Health and Human Services, 
for the Hanford Thyroid study.
      Within the budget request for robotics in the technology 
development program, $4,000,000 is provided for the university 
robotics program as proposed by the House.
      The conferees are pleased with the progress to date in 
implementing the environmental basic research program. In a 
recent review by the National Research Council, the Council 
endorsed this program and acknowledged, ``* * * establishment 
of this mission-directed, basic research program as both an 
urgent and a prudent investment for the nation.'' The National 
Research Council report further notes that the, ``* * * long-
term success of this program is highly dependent on the 
continuing partnership between EM, which understands the 
cleanup problems and research needs, and ER, which, through its 
mission to manage the department's basic research programs, 
understands how to select and manage research. The committee 
endorses the efforts made by EM and ER staff to work together 
and encourages them to continue their efforts to build an 
effective Environmental Management Science Program.''
      Due to budget constraints, the conference agreement 
provides $170,000,000 for the environmental privatization 
program at Richland, Washington. The conferees note with much 
interest the recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report 
on the Hanford high-level waste tank remediation program. The 
conferees agree with the NAS statement that, ``* * * a time 
during which funding is constrained is precisely the wrong time 
to drop work on alternatives that might achieve satisfactory 
results at a significantly lower cost.'' The NAS report notes 
that developing such backup technologies ``* * * would still 
allow remediation to proceed expeditiously.'' The conferees 
therefore recommend allocating up to $15,000,000 for technology 
development of such alternatives. An example of such 
alternatives brought to the attention of the Committees is a 
recent industry proposal to develop small, modular inductive 
in-can vitrification and in-tank processing as high-payoff 
backup technologies.
      The conferees have provided $411,511,000 for the program 
direction account, a reduction of $35,000,000 from the budget 
request. The number of Headquarters Federal employees are to be 
reduced, and travel expenses and advisory and assistance 
services at Headquarters and the field are to be reduced. The 
conferees are very concerned with the Department's current plan 
to reduce employees at Headquarters by transferring them to the 
field. Any attempt to move employees to field offices without 
sufficient justification and a demonstrated critical need in 
the field will not be supported by Congress. Funding for 
environmental cleanup programs will continue to be constrained 
next year, and the Department must ensure that it is not just 
moving the problem to another year and another location.
      The conference agreement maintains the current policy 
that no cleanup funds are to be used for economic development 
activities. The conferees have provided $62,000,000 in the 
worker and community transition program which was established 
and authorized to fund such activities, and expect all economic 
development activities to be funded from that program.
      The conferees note with concern the tendency of the FY 
1997 defense authorization Act to disregard an equitable 
allocation of funds added above the budget request in the 
Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management account. 
Therefore, the conferees encourage the Department to prioritize 
those programs and activities which would benefit from these 
additional funds and submit a reprogramming request necessary 
to implement such programs and activities which the Department 
deems a priority for the Defense Environmental Management 
mission.
Hanford Tank Farms privatization
      The conferees support statements in the House report that 
steps should be taken to minimize any negative budgetary impact 
on current cleanup activities at Hanford resulting from the 
creation of a privatization fund for the Hanford Tank Waste 
Remediation System program. The Department has also advised the 
conferees that this privatization fund does not take monies 
away from the Hanford cleanup operating budget for FY 1997. 
Despite these assurances, however, concerns persist that the 
privatization fund will result in further funding cuts to 
Hanford's operating budget and accompanying job losses at the 
site. In response to these concerns, the conferees state their 
agreement with the Department that the specific establishment 
of the privatization fund will not directly cause additional 
delays in cleanup schedules or layoffs at Hanford in FY 1997.
      Furthermore, the conferees strongly encourage the 
Department, to the maximum extent possible, to allocate savings 
that result from the new management contract at Hanford and any 
prior year balances to the privatization program for the 
treatment of high and low level waste at the Hanford site.

                        fixed asset acquisition

      The conference agreement provides $160,000,000 for this 
activity, instead of $134,500,000 as proposed by the House and 
$182,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. This funding is 
included in the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste 
Management appropriation account.

                        Other Defense Activities

      The conference agreement appropriates $1,605,733,000 for 
Other Defense Activities instead of $1,459,533,000 as proposed 
by the House and $1,606,833,000 as proposed by the Senate. 
Details of the conference agreement are provided below.

                 Nonproliferation and National Security

      The conference agreement provides $634,472,000 for 
nonproliferation and national security instead of $564,272,000 
as proposed by the House and $649,872,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      In the nonproliferation and verification research and 
development program, the conferees have provided an additional 
$17,000,000 to the Department to undertake a research and 
development program to address the technical means for 
detecting the presence, transportation, production, and use of 
materials to make biological and chemical weapons.
      Within the funding for arms control, a total of 
$30,000,000 is for the Industrial Partnering Program, 
$7,900,000 is to complete the canning of spent nuclear fuel 
rods in North Korea, and an additional $20,000,000 over the 
budget request of $92,637,000 is provided for the materials 
protection, control, and accounting program.
      The conference agreement includes the Senate proposal for 
the intelligence program, and provides $88,122,000 for the 
program direction account.

                Environment, Safety and Health (Defense)

      The conference agreement provides $78,800,000, an 
increase of $15,000,000 over the budget request, for defense-
related environment, safety and health activities. The 
conferees have recommended funding the budget request of 
$15,000,000 for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in 
fiscal year 1997 in this account. The Foundation had previously 
been funded in the environment, safety and health (nondefense) 
account.

                    Worker and community transition

      The conference agreement provides $62,000,000 for the 
worker and community transition program instead of $57,000,000 
as provided by the House and $67,000,000 as provided by the 
Senate.

                        Nuclear energy (defense)

      The conference agreement provides $45,000,000 for the 
international nuclear safety program to improve the safety of 
Soviet-designed nuclear reactors. The conferees have provided 
$3,500,000 for preparatory work for converting the fuel in 
three Russian production reactors so that they do not produce 
weapons-grade plutonium while providing heat and electricity.

                     Fissile Materials Disposition

      The conference agreement provides $103,796,000 for 
fissile materials disposition, an increase of $10,000,000 over 
the budget request. As proposed by the Senate, the additional 
funding will permit the Department to undertake a cooperative 
technology effort on the verifiable dismantlement and 
conversion of plutonium from former Soviet Union weapons. This 
effort will use new ARIES technology to transform weapons grade 
plutonium removed from Russian weapons into plutonium oxide or 
hydride which is unsuitable for weapons.

                             Naval Reactors

      The conference agreement provides $681,932,000, as 
proposed by the House, instead of $663,932,000 as proposed by 
the Senate. The additional $18,000,000 over the budget request 
will be used to continue test reactor inactivation efforts.

                    Power Marketing Administrations

Alaska Power Marketing Administration
      The conference agreement appropriates $4,000,000, as 
proposed by the House and the Senate.
Bonneville Power Administration
      A total of $3,750,000,000 has been made available to 
Bonneville as permanent borrowing authority. For fiscal year 
1997, the conferees recommend $277,000,000 in new borrowing 
authority, a reduction of $10,000,000 from the budget request. 
During fiscal year 1997, Bonneville plans to repay the Treasury 
$835,000,000, of which $278,000,000 is to repay principal on 
the Federal investment in these facilities. The conferees agree 
that no new direct loans may be made in fiscal year 1997. The 
conferees agree with the Senate report language pertaining to 
fish and wildlife agreements and mid-Columbia hydroelectric 
plants. While the conferees recognize Bonneville's need to 
remain competitive and assure its payments to the Treasury, 
Bonneville should make every effort to fulfill the commitments 
it has made to renewable energy and energy conservation 
resources.
      The conferees have agreed to retain the voluntary 
separation incentive language provided in fiscal year 1996, but 
have agreed to limit the authority to September 30, 2000.
            BPA energy services business
      The changes occurring in the electric utility industry 
are expected to result in changes to the authorities and 
responsibilities of the Bonneville Power Administration. The 
conferees support the efforts of the Governors, through 
establishment of the Regional Review, to develop consensus 
recommendations for restructuring Bonneville. The conferees 
have heard legitimate concerns expressed about Bonneville's 
formation of an energy services business. While the conferees 
are not eliminating funding for this venture, it should only be 
continued in the context of the historic energy efficiency 
services Bonneville has offered to its existing customers.
      The conferees have agreed to limit Bonneville's borrowing 
authority to $10 million for their energy services business 
line, a decrease of $10 million from Bonneville's request. 
Including this amount should not be viewed as an endorsement by 
the conferees of Bonneville's ESB activities. Bonneville should 
limit its activities to the continuation of historic services 
to existing customers, including new contracts with existing 
customers, not to cumulatively exceed $3 million until the 
Regional Review has determined the appropriateness of the 
activities and developed clear parameters. If the Regional 
Review or ultimately Congressional action does not support 
Bonneville's proposed new venture, Bonneville should not expand 
its activities into this area. When entering into these 
contracts with existing customers, such contracts shall provide 
full cost recovery. The parameters developed by the Regional 
Review should address the appropriate level of capitalization, 
competitive implications and maintenance of a competitive 
energy services market, and minimize the risk of cross-
subsidies from BPA's core power marketing and transmission 
customers. The conferees expect Bonneville to act consistent 
with the recommendations made by the Regional Review.
      The conferees share the concern of the House report that 
Bonneville's activities in this area may compete with the 
private sector. Bonneville shall work with representatives of 
the energy services industry in the Northwest to reach 
agreement on principles which assure that Bonneville's 
activities are structured to enlarge the energy services market 
and do not compete with work that the private sector could 
reasonably perform. The conferees understand that, with the 
exception of Federal agencies, Bonneville has committed to 
doing virtually no work with retail consumers without the 
support of the local utility and the conferees expect 
Bonneville to carry out this commitment.
      The Northwest Power Planning Council shall prepare a 
report on Bonneville's implementation of the Regional Review 
recommendations regarding the Energy Services Business within 
180 days of enactment of this legislation, but in any case not 
later than May 1, 1997. The Council is encouraged to provide 
greater definition to the recommendations provided by the 
Regional Review.

 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHEASTERN POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATION

      The conference agreement appropriates $16,359,000, 
$2,500,000 more than the amount proposed by the Senate and 
$2,500,000 less than the amount proposed by the House.

 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHWESTERN POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATION

      The conference agreement appropriates $25,210,000, as 
proposed by the House and the Senate.

 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, WESTERN AREA POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATION

      The conference agreement appropriates $193,582,000, 
instead of $211,582,000 as proposed by the House and 
$201,582,000 as proposed by the Senate.

           FALCON AND AMISTAD OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE FUND

      The conference agreement appropriates $970,000, as 
proposed by the House and the Senate.

                  FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

      The conference agreement appropriates $146,290,000 as 
proposed by the Senate instead of $141,290,000 as proposed by 
the House. Revenues are established at a rate equal to the 
amount provided for program activities, resulting in a net 
appropriation of zero.

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the House pertaining to priority placement, job placement, 
retraining, and counseling programs for Department of Energy 
employees affected by a reduction in force.
      The conference agreement includes language providing that 
none of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be 
used to implement section 3140 of H.R. 3230 as reported by the 
Committee on Conference on July 30, 1996. The Secretary of 
Energy shall develop a plan to reorganize the field activities 
and management of the national security functions of the 
Department of Energy and shall submit such plan to the Congress 
not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act. The plan will specifically identify all significant 
functions performed by the Department's national security 
operations and area offices and make recommendations as to 
where those functions should be performed.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate pertaining to use of voluntary separation incentives by 
the Department of Energy and payments to the Office of 
Personnel Management for retirement benefits.


                                TITLE IV

                          INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

                    Appalachian Regional Commission

      The conference agreement appropriates $160,000,000 
instead of $155,331,000 as proposed by the House and 
$165,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      Of the total amount appropriated, $57,000,000 is provided 
for area development, $3,331,000 is provided for salaries and 
expenses, and $99,669,000 is provided for highway development.

                Defense Nuclear facilities safety board

      The conference agreement appropriates $16,000,000 for the 
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board instead of $12,000,000 
as proposed by the House and $17,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                    Delaware river basin commission

      The conference agreement appropriates no funding for 
Salaries and Expenses as proposed by the House instead of 
$342,000 as proposed by the Senate and appropriates no funding 
as a contribution to the Delaware River Basin Commission 
instead of $500,000 as proposed by the Senate.

            interstate commission on the potomac river basin

      The conference agreement appropriates no funding as 
proposed by the House instead of $508,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                     nuclear regulatory commission

      The conference agreement appropriates $471,800,000 as 
proposed by the House and the Senate. Of this amount, 
$14,500,000 is to be provided from general funds; the 
remainder, $457,300,000, is to be fully offset by fees and 
collections.

                  Nuclear waste technical review board

      The conference agreement appropriates $2,531,000 as 
proposed by the House and Senate.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
House making the appropriation subject to the authorization 
required under the heading ``Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund'' and 
includes technical language proposed by the House to derive 
funds from the Nuclear Waste Fund instead of technical language 
proposed by the Senate to transfer funds from the Nuclear Waste 
Fund.

                   susquehanna river basin commission

      The conference agreement appropriates no funds for 
Salaries and Expenses as proposed by the House instead of 
$322,000 as proposed by the Senate and appropriates no funds as 
a contribution to the Susquehanna River Commission as propose 
by the House instead of $300,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                       tennessee valley authority

      The conference agreement appropriates $106,000,000 for 
the Tennessee Valley Authority instead of $97,169,000 as 
proposed by the House and $113,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The conference agreement earmarks $15,000,000 for the 
Environmental Research Center in Muscle Shoals, Alabama instead 
of prohibiting the use of funds for the center (except for 
necessary termination expenses) as proposed by the House and 
$20,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement earmarks $6,000,000 for Land 
Between the Lakes instead of $5,000,000 as proposed by the 
House and $8,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement earmarks $15,000,000 for 
economic development instead of $16,000,000 as proposed by the 
House and $9,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes $70,000,000 for 
stewardship and land and water activities of the TVA.
      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the Senate prohibiting the use of funds for detailed 
engineering, design and construction of a replacement for 
Chickamauga Lock and Dam on the Tennessee River system.
      The conferees agree to require TVA to comply with 
reprogramming guidelines. The House and Senate Committees will 
work with TVA to establish detailed guidelines to improve the 
Authority's financial accountability.

                                TITLE V

                           General Provisions

      Sec. 501.--The conference agreement includes language 
proposed by the House and Senate regarding the purchase of 
American-made equipment and products, and language proposed by 
the House prohibiting contracts with persons falsely labeling 
products as made in America.
      Sec. 502.--The conference agreement includes language 
proposed by the House repealing 42 U.S.C. 7262 which provides 
authority to the Secretary of Energy to accept gifts, bequests, 
and devises of money.
      Sec. 503.--The conference agreement includes language 
proposed by the House which provides that none of the funds 
made available by this Act may be used to determined the final 
point of discharge for the interceptor drain for San Luis Unit 
of the Central Valley Project 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. The language also 
provides that the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup 
Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be 
classified as reimbursable or nonreimbursable by the Secretary 
of the Interior as described in the Bureau of Reclamation 
report entitled, ``Repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir 
Cleanup Program and San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, 
February 1995'' and that any future obligation of funds for 
drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit 
shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries 
pursuant to Reclamation law.
      Sec. 504.--The conference agreement includes language 
proposed by the House which provides that none of the funds 
appropriated in this Act may be used to revise the Missouri 
River Master Water Control Manual if such revision provided for 
an increase in the springtime water release program during the 
spring heavy rainfall and snow melt period in states that have 
rivers draining into the Missouri River below the Gavins Point 
Dam.
      Sec. 505.--The conference agreement amends language 
proposed by the House repealing a provision included in the 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991, which 
made bypass releases for temperature control purposes at the 
Shasta Dam nonreimbursable. The conferees have included this 
provision to make reimbursable any replacement power purchases 
necessitated by water releases for fishery purposes that must 
bypass the generators in Shasta Dam, and have made the 
provision effective upon operation of the Shasta temperature 
control device or September 30, 1997. The temperature control 
device construction should be completed early in fiscal year 
1997. The conferees anticipate that it will eliminate waste of 
electrical energy and the need for replacement power purchases, 
and urge the Bureau of Reclamation to achieve operation as soon 
as possible.
      Sec. 506.--The conference agreement includes language 
proposed by the Senate which extends the water service 
contracts for the Bostwick District (Kansas portion), and 
Bostwick District (Nebraska portion) projects for a period of 
one additional year after the dates on which each of the 
contracts would have otherwise expired. The language has been 
amended to make technical corrections.
      Sec. 507.--The conference agreement includes language 
proposed by the Senate requiring the Department of Energy to 
submit a monthly report on adherence to recommendations 
included in the reports accompanying this appropriations Act. 
The language has been modified to make this a one-time report, 
due on February 28, 1997. This report should describe the 
status and expected actions to be taken for each recommendation 
included in the House, Senate, or conference report.
      Sec. 508, 509, 510.--The conference agreement includes 
language proposed by the House denying funds to institutions of 
higher learning which prevent campus access to units of the 
Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps or Federal military 
recruiting on campus, amended to apply only to such subelements 
of affected institutions which prevent campus access. The 
language also prohibits the use of funds to enter into or renew 
contracts with entities failing to comply with statutory 
reporting requirements concerning the employment of certain 
veterans.
      Sec. 511.--The conference agreement deletes language 
proposed by the House repealing section 508(f) of the Energy 
and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1996, providing the 
Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration the 
authority to offer employees voluntary separation incentives up 
to $25,000. The voluntary separation incentive language is 
retained and modified to extend the buyout authority until 
September 30, 2000.
      Sec. 512.--The conference agreement modifies language 
proposed by the Senate regarding scientific review of the 
Bonneville Power Administration's fish and wildlife programs.
      The Managers believe that successful implementation of 
the Northwest Power Planning Council's (Council) fish and 
wildlife program would be benefited by the advice of 
independent scientists with expertise on the enhancement of 
Columbia River fish and wildlife. The Managers understand that 
the Council, together with the National Marine Fisheries 
Service, has established an ``Independent Scientific Advisory 
Board'' (ISAB) in order to provide scientific advice to the 
Council and NMFS on the Council's plan for fish and wildlife 
for the River system. The Managers have included language in 
its bill directing the National Academy of Sciences to submit a 
list of individuals to the Council to serve on an ``Independent 
Scientific Review Panel'' (Panel) to review projects for 
funding under BPA's annual fish and wildlife program. The 
Managers note that nothing in the bill language precludes NAS 
from recommending the same scientists that serve on the ISAB to 
serve on the newly created Independent Scientific Review Panel, 
provided that members meet the conflict of interest standards 
spelled out in the bill language. If ISAB scientists are 
selected to serve on the newly created Panel, such scientists 
should not be compensated twice for their services.
      The Managers understand that the Council has also 
developed multi-year work plans that are used to make decisions 
for fish and wildlife projects. The Managers note that nothing 
in the bill language prohibits the Panel and Peer Review Groups 
from reviewing such multi-year work plan proposals.
      BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget for the Council's 
program totals well over $100 million. Its purpose is to 
protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife populations 
along the Columbia and Snake River system. The Managers 
recognize that the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority 
(CBFWA) is presently responsible for prioritizing Council 
program measures and making recommendations to the Council on 
projects to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife 
budget. The Managers understand that each year roughly four 
hundred proposals are submitted for review by CBFWA in order to 
receive funding from BPA's annual budget. CBFWA's advice is 
important. CBFWA members, however, are also the Federal and 
State fish and wildlife agencies and the tribes who financially 
benefit from the program. The Managers believe that independent 
scientific review would remove any suggestion of conflict of 
interest in prioritizing programs, and add an important element 
of independent scientific review to the Council decision making 
process.
      The bill language seeks to ensure that Northwest 
ratepayer dollars are being spent in a cost effective and 
objective manner. The bill language requires that the Council 
establish, from a list submitted by NAS, Scientific Peer Review 
Groups to assist the Panel in making its recommendations to the 
Council. Projects shall be reviewed based upon the following 
criteria: projects benefit fish and wildlife in the region; 
have a clearly defined objective and outcome; and are based on 
sound science principles.
      After review of the projects by the Panel and Peer Review 
Groups, the Panel shall submit its recommendations on project 
priorities to the Council for consideration. The Council shall 
make the Panel's recommendations available to the public for 
review.
      The Council shall review recommendations of the Panel, 
the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority, and others, in 
making its final recommendations to BPA of projects to be 
funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget. If the 
Council does not follow the advice of the Panel, it is to 
explain in writing the basis for its decision. The Managers 
understand that ocean conditions are a contributing factor to 
the health of fish and wildlife populations in the region, and 
have directed the Council to consider the impacts of ocean 
conditions in making its recommendations to BPA to fund 
projects. Bill language also directs the Council to determine 
whether project recommendations employ cost effective measures 
to achieve its objectives. The bill language expressly states 
the Council, after review of Panel and other recommendations, 
has the authority to make final recommendations to BPA on 
project(s) to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife 
budget.
      The provision shall go into effect upon the date of 
enactment, and the Managers intend that the provision be used 
to start the planning process for the expenditure of BPA's FY98 
fish and wildlife budget. This provision shall expire on 
September 30, 2000.
      Sec. 513.--The conference agreement includes language 
renaming Cooper Lake in Texas as the ``Jim Chapman Lake.''
      Sec. 514.--The conference agreement includes language 
naming a dam on the Rogue River in Jackson County, Oregon, as 
the ``William L. Jess Dam and Intake Structure.''
      Sec. 515.--The conference agreement includes language 
designating a portion of the Red River in Louisiana as the ``J. 
Bennett Johnston Waterway.''

                     general provisions not adopted

      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
House prohibiting the Tennessee Valley Authority from imposing 
a performance deposit in connection with permits issued for 
docks and other residential shoreline alterations.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate pertaining to the authority of the State of Oregon to 
enter into memorandum of understanding with the State of 
Washington to address issues regarding the Hanford Reservation.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate which gives the State of Oregon an opportunity to review 
and comment on certain remedial actions at the Hanford Nuclear 
Reservation in the State of Washington.
      The conference agreement deletes language contained in 
sections 507 and 508 of the Senate bill which would have 
deferred principal and interest payments for one year on the 
water service contracts for the Nueces River and Canadian River 
projects in Texas.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate, the text of S. 534, to provide authority for states to 
limit the interstate transportation of municipal solid waste 
and to provide for state and local government control of the 
movement of municipal solid waste and recyclable material.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate expressing the sense of the Senate regarding a United 
States semiconductor trade agreement with Japan.

                   Conference Total--With Comparisons

      The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
fiscal year 1997 recommended by the Committee of Conference, 
with comparisons to the fiscal year 1996 amount, the 1997 
budget estimates, and the House and Senate bills for 1997 
follow:

New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 1996... $19,935,654,000
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal 
    year 1997...........................................  20,648,952,000
House bill, fiscal year 1997............................  19,838,990,000
Senate bill, fiscal year 1997...........................  20,736,858,700
Conference agreement, fiscal year 1997..................  20,401,108,000
Conference agreement compared with:
        New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 
          1996..........................................    +465,454,000
        Budget estimates of new (obligational) 
          authority, fiscal year 1997...................    -247,844,000
        House bill, fiscal year 1997....................    +562,118,000
        Senate bill, fiscal year 1997...................    -335,750,700

                                   John T. Myers,
                                   Harold Rogers,
                                   Joe Knollenberg,
                                   Frank Riggs,
                                   Rodney P. Frelinghuysen,
                                   Jim Bunn,
                                   Mike Parker,
                                   Bob Livingston,
                                   Tom Bevill,
                                   Vic Fazio,
                                   Jim Chapman,
                                   Peter J. Visclosky,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Pete V. Domenici,
                                   Mark O. Hatfield,
                                   Thad Cochran,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Mitch McConnell,
                                   Robert F. Bennett,
                                   Conrad Burns,
                                   J. Bennett Johnston,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                   Fritz Hollings,
                                   Harry Reid,
                                   J. Robert Kerrey,
                                   Patty Murray,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.