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requirement relating to closure or post-closure care and monitoring
of Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico and properties
held or managed by Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
SEC. 128. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN WASTE MATERIALS. (a) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal
commission with the authority to regulate the material designated
as ‘‘11e.(2) by-product material’’ by section 312 of the Energy and
Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004, or by section 634
of the Energy Policy Act of 2003, shall not allow or otherwise
permit any facility to receive or dispose of such material if the
facility is located in a State that has an application pending under
section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2021)
to regulate the 11e.(2) material covered under this section.
(b) SUNSET.—Subsection (a) ceases to be effective January 1,
2005.
SEC. 129. In the conference report accompanying H.R. 6, the
Energy Policy Act, in section 1512, subsection (b) strike ‘‘University
of Mississippi and the University of Oklahoma’’ and insert ‘‘Mis-
sissippi State University and Oklahoma State University’’.
SEC. 130. DEPARTMENT
OF
ENERGY, ENERGY
PROGRAMS,
SCIENCE. For an additional amount for ‘‘Science’’, $50,000,000, to
remain available until expended, is provided for the Coralville,
Iowa, project, which is to utilize alternative renewable energy
sources.
SEC. 131. For an additional amount for the ‘‘Science’’ account
of the Department of Energy in the Energy and Water Development
Appropriations Act, 2004, there is appropriated $250,000, to remain
available until expended, for Biological Sciences at DePaul Univer-
sity; $500,000, to remain available until expended; for the Cedars-
Sinai Gene Therapy Research Program; and $500,000, to remain
available until expended, for the Hartford Hospital Interventional
Electrophysiology Project.
SEC. 132. For an additional amount for the ‘‘Energy Supply’’
account of the Department of Energy in the Energy and Water
Development Appropriations Act, 2004, there is appropriated
$750,000, to remain available until expended, for the Energy Center
of Wisconsin Renewable Fuels Project; $500,000, to remain available
until expended, for the Wind Energy Transmission Study; $250,000,
to remain available until expended, for the White Pine County,
Nevada, Public School System biomass conversion heating project;
$250,000, to remain available until expended, for the Lead Animal
Shelter Animal Campus renewable energy demonstration project;
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the establish-
ment of a Hawaii Hydrogen Center for Development and Deploy-
ment of Distributed Energy Systems; and $250,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, for the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition
for biomass restoration and science-based restoration.
SEC. 133. For an additional amount for the ‘‘Construction, Gen-
eral’’ account of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations
Act, 2004, there is appropriated $13,750,000, to remain available
until expended.
SEC. 134. For an additional amount for ‘‘Millennium Challenge
Corporation’’, $350,000,000, to remain available until expended.
SEC. 135. Section 203(m) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133(m)) is
amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘December
31, 2004’’.
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SEC. 136. (a) The National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 is
amended—
(1) in section 1319 (42 U.S.C. 4026), by striking ‘‘December
31, 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘June 30, 2004.’’;
(2) in the first sentence of section 1309(a) (42 U.S.C.
4016(a)), by striking ‘‘December 31, 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘the
date specified in section 1319’’;
(3) in section 1336(a) (42 U.S.C. 4056(a)), by striking
‘‘December 31, 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘on the date specified in
section 1319’’; and
(4) in section 1376(c) (42 U.S.C. 4127(c)), by striking
‘‘December 31, 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘the date specified in section
1319’’.
(b) The amendments made by this section shall be considered
to have taken effect on December 31, 2003.
SEC. 137. (a) Section 441(c) of the Maritime Transportation
Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–295) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and that is not the subject of an action
prior to June 20, 2002, alleging a breach of subsections (a)
and (b) of section 10601 as in effect on such date,’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘such subsections’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
sections (a) and (b) of section 10601 of title 46, United States
Code, as in effect prior to November 25, 2002’’.
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to all pro-
ceedings pending on or commenced after the date of enactment
of this Act.
SEC. 138. Public Law 108–108 is amended under the heading
‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs, Construction’’ by striking ‘‘25 U.S.C.
2005(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘25 U.S.C. 2005(b)’’ and by striking ‘‘25
U.S.C. 2505(f)’’ and inserting ‘‘25 U.S.C. 2504(f)’’.
SEC. 139. CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY REVISION. (a)
IN GENERAL.—Subsection (c) of the first section of Public Law
94–545 (90 Stat. 2517; 102 Stat. 2607) is amended by striking
paragraph (6) and inserting the following:
‘‘(6) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section—
‘‘(A) affects the use of private land adjacent to the
park;
‘‘(B) preempts the authority of the State with respect
to the regulation of hunting, fishing, boating, and wildlife
management on private land or water outside the bound-
aries of the park;
‘‘(C) shall negatively affect the economic development
of the areas surrounding the park; or
‘‘(D) affects the classification of the park under section
162 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7472).’’.
(b) DESIGNATION OF CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK WILDERNESS.—
(1) DESIGNATION.—The wilderness established by section
2(a) of the Congaree Swamp National Monument Expansion
and Wilderness Act (102 Stat. 2606) and known as the ‘‘Con-
garee Swamp National Monument Wilderness’’ shall be known
and designated as the ‘‘Congaree National Park Wilderness’’.
(2) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation,
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the
wilderness referred to in paragraph (1) shall be deemed to
be a reference to the ‘‘Congaree National Park Wilderness’’.
SEC. 140. Section 123 of the Department of the Interior and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 (Public Law 108–108),
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is amended by striking ‘‘any other governmental land management
entity’’ and inserting ‘‘any other land management entity’’.
SEC. 141. Effective as of November 18, 2003, section 9 of Public
Law 100–692 (102 Stat. 4556; 16 U.S.C. 461 note.) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 9. TERMINATION OF COMMISSION.
‘‘The Commission shall terminate on November 18, 2007.’’.
SEC. 142. Title IV of Public Law 108–108 is amended in section
403(b)(4) by striking ‘‘75–5–703(10)(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘75–5–
703(10)(c)’’.
SEC. 143. Public Law 108–108 is amended under the heading
‘‘Indian Health Service, Indian Health Services’’ by striking ‘‘(d)
$2,000,000 for the Alaska Federation of Natives sobriety and
wellness program for competitive merit-based grants:’’ and inserting
‘‘(d) $2,000,000 for RuralCap for alcohol treatment and related
transitional housing for homeless chronic inebriates in Anchorage,
Alaska:’’.
SEC. 144. Public Law 108–108 is hereby amended by adding
at the end of section 344 the following:
‘‘(c) EXEMPTIONS.—The requirements of this section shall not
apply to amounts in this Act designated as emergency requirements
pursuant to section 502 of H. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress), the
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.
‘‘(d) INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS.—Under
the heading ‘Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Land and Water
Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians’, the
across-the-board rescission in this section, and any subsequent
across-the-board rescission for fiscal year 2004, shall apply only
to the first dollar amount in the paragraph and the distribution
of the rescission shall be at the discretion of the Secretary of
the Interior who shall submit a report on such distribution and
the rationale therefor to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations.’’.
SEC. 145. THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) COUNTY.—The term ‘‘county’’ means each of the counties
of Leflore, Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Warren, and Wash-
ington in the State.
(2) REFUGE.—The term ‘‘Refuge’’ means the Theodore Roo-
sevelt National Wildlife Refuge established under subsection
(b).
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary
of the Interior.
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State of Mis-
sissippi.
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish the Theo-
dore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge, consisting of approximately
6,600 acres of land that—
(1) as of the date of enactment of this Act, is owned by
the United States;
(2) was formerly in the inventory of the United States
Department of Agriculture; and
(3) is located in the counties.
(c) MAP.—As soon as practicable after the date of enactment
of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare a map depicting the bound-
aries of the Refuge.
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(d) BOUNDARY REVISION.—The Secretary may revise the bound-
aries of the Refuge in the counties to—
(1) carry out the purposes of the Refuge; or
(2) facilitate the acquisition or donation of land.
(e) ACQUISITION OF LAND.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary may, for management purposes, exchange
Refuge land for land acquired or donated for fee title that is located
in the counties.
(f) EDUCATION CENTER.—The Secretary of the Army, acting
through the Chief of Engineers, in consultation with the Secretary,
shall design and construct a multiagency wildlife and environmental
interpretive and education center at a location in the South Delta
area of the State to be determined by a site selection and feasibility
study conducted by the Secretary of the Army.
(g) DESIGNATION OF REFUGE COMPLEXES.—
(1) HOLT COLLIER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.—
(A) DESIGNATION.—The refuge in the State known as
the ‘‘Bogue Phalia Unit of the Yazoo National Wildlife
Refuge’’ shall be known as the ‘‘Holt Collier National Wild-
life Refuge’’.
(B) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regula-
tion, document, paper, or other record of the United States
to the refuge referred to in subparagraph (A) shall be
deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Holt Collier National
Wildlife Refuge’’.
(2) THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE COM-
PLEX.—
(A) DESIGNATION.—The refuge complex in the State
known as the ‘‘Central Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge
Complex’’ shall be known as the ‘‘Theodore Roosevelt
National Wildlife Refuge Complex’’.
(B) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regula-
tion, document, paper, or other record of the United States
to the refuge complex referred to in subparagraph (A) shall
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Theodore Roosevelt
National Wildlife Refuge Complex’’.
(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appropriated
such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.
(2) EDUCATION CENTER.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out subsection (f) $6,000,000.
SEC. 146. For the purposes described in section 386 of the
Energy Policy Act of 2003 there is authorized to be appropriated
$1,000,000, except that upon that Act becoming law, section 386
is amended through this Act:
(1) in subsection (a) by inserting before the term ‘‘to issue’’
the phrase ‘‘or with an entity the Secretary determines is
qualified to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas project
to transport liquefied natural gas from Southcentral Alaska
to West Coast States,’’;
(2) at the end of paragraph 386(b)(1) by striking the period
and inserting ‘‘, or after the Secretary certifies there exists
a qualified entity to construct and operate a liquefied natural
gas project to transport liquefied natural gas from Southcentral
Alaska to West Coast States. In no case shall loan guarantees
be issued for more than one qualified project.’’;