(2) EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (C), the Secretary shall exercise the au-
thority delegated to the Secretary pursuant to
paragraph (1) in accordance with—
(i) all regulations in effect on the date
of the enactment of this Act governing the
utilization of excess property and the dis-
posal of surplus property under the Fed-
eral Property and Administrative Services
Act of 1949; and
(ii) all regulations in effect on the
date of the enactment of this Act govern-
ing the conveyance and disposal of prop-
erty under section 13(g) of the Surplus
Property Act of 1944 (50 U.S.C. App.
1622(g)).
(B) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary, after
consulting with the Administrator of General
Services, may issue regulations that are nec-
essary to carry out the delegation of authority
required by paragraph (1).
(C) LIMITATION.—The authority required
to be delegated by paragraph (1) to the Sec-
retary by the Administrator of General Services
shall not include the authority to prescribe gen-
eral policies and methods for utilizing excess
property and disposing of surplus property.
(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary may close or reconfigure
departmental laboratories under this Act without regard
to any provision of law restricting the use of funds for
closing or reconfiguring such departmental laboratories in-
cluded in any appropriations or authorization Act.
SEC. 6. ACCOUNT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established
on the books of the Treasury an account to be known as
the ‘‘Department of Energy Laboratory Facility Closure
Account’’ which shall be administered by the Secretary as
a single account.
(b) CONTENT OF ACCOUNT.—There shall be depos-
ited into the Account—
(1) funds authorized for and appropriated to
the Account;
(2) any funds that the Secretary may, subject
to approval in an appropriation Act, transfer to the
Account from funds appropriated to the Department
of Energy for any purpose, except that such funds
may be transferred only after the date on which the
Secretary transmits written notice of, and justifica-
tion for, such transfer to the congressional energy
committees; and
(3) proceeds received from the transfer or dis-
posal of any property at an office closed or reconfig-
ured under this section.
(c) USE OF FUNDS.—The Secretary may use the
funds in the Account only for the purposes described in
section 5(a).
(d) REPORTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after
the end of each fiscal year in which the Secretary
carries out activities under this Act, the Secretary
shall transmit a report to the congressional energy
committees of the amount and nature of the deposits
into, and the expenditures from, the Account during
such fiscal year and of the amount and nature of
other expenditures made pursuant to section 5(a)
during such fiscal year.
(2) UNOBLIGATED FUNDS.—Unobligated funds
which remain in the Account after the termination
of the Commission shall be held in the Account until
transferred by law after the congressional energy
committees receive the report transmitted under
paragraph (3).
(3) ACCOUNTING REPORT.—Not later than 60
days after the termination of the Commission, the
Secretary shall transmit to the congressional energy
committees a report containing an accounting of—
(A) all the funds deposited into and ex-
pended from the Account or otherwise expended
under this section; and
(B) any amount remaining in the Account.
SEC. 7. REPORTS ON IMPLEMENTATION.
As part of the budget request for each fiscal year in
which the Secretary will carry out activities under this
Act, the Secretary shall transmit to the congressional en-
ergy committees—
(1) a schedule of the closure and reconfigura-
tion actions to be carried out under this Act in the
fiscal year for which the request is made and an es-
timate of the total expenditures required and cost
savings to be achieved by each such closure and re-
configuration and of the time period in which these
savings are to be achieved in each case; and
(2) a description of the departmental labora-
tories, including those under construction and those
planned for construction, to which functions are to
be transferred as a result of such closures and
reconfigurations.
SEC. 8. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF COMMISSION
REPORT.
(a) TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION.—For purposes of
section 4(b), the term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means only a
joint resolution which is introduced within the 10-day pe-
riod beginning on the date on which the President trans-
mits the report to the Congress under section 3(g), and—
(1) which does not have a preamble;
(2) the matter after the resolving clause of
which is as follows: ‘‘That Congress disapproves the
recommendations of the Department of Energy Lab-
oratory Facilities Commission as submitted by the
President on lll’’, the blank space being filled
in with the appropriate date; and
(3) the title of which is as follows: ‘‘Joint reso-
lution disapproving the recommendations of the De-
partment of Energy Laboratory Facilities Commis-
sion.’’.
(b) REFERRAL.—A resolution described in subsection
(a) that is introduced in the House of Representatives
shall be referred to the Committee on National Security
and the Committee on Science of the House of Represent-
atives. A resolution described in subsection (a) introduced
in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Armed
Services and the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources of the Senate.