(37) Building Systems Designs Residential
Buildings Climate Change Action Plan: Industrial
Housing.
(38) Building Systems Designs Residential
Buildings Climate Change Action Plan: Residential
Energy Efficiency Program.
(39) Building Systems Designs Residential
Buildings Climate Change Action Plan: Home Rat-
ing Systems.
(40) Building Systems Designs Residential
Buildings Climate Change Action Plan: Affordable
Housing for Low-Income Housing.
(41) Building Systems Designs Commercial
Buildings.
(42) Building Systems Designs Best Practices
Climate Change Action Plan: Outreach.
(43) Building Equipment and Materials Space
Conditioning Research and Development Climate
Change Action Plan: Fuel Cell Building Micro-
generation.
(44) Building Equipment and Materials Space
Conditioning Research and Development Computer
Design.
(45) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development Elec-
tronics.
(46) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development Fix-
tures/Distribution Systems.
(47) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development New
Concepts in Lighting.
(48) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development New
Lighting Impacts.
(49) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development Cli-
mate Change Action Plan: Lighting Collaborative.
(50) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development Cli-
mate Change Action Plan: ENERGY STAR Part-
nerships.
(51) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development Cli-
mate Change Action Plan: Volume Purchases.
(52) Building Equipment and Materials Light-
ing and Appliances Research and Development Cli-
mate Change Action Plan: Emerging Technology In-
troduction.
(53) Building Equipment and Materials Mate-
rials and Structures Research and Development
Urban Heat Island.
(54) Building Equipment and Materials Mate-
rials and Structures Research and Development
Highly Reflective Surface Demonstrations and Mar-
ket Development.
(55) Building Equipment and Materials Win-
dows and Glazing Research and Development Cli-
mate Change Action Plan: Superwindow Collabo-
rative.
(56) Municipal Energy Management.
(57) Management and Planning Energy Infor-
mation Administration Funding.
(58) Transportation Sector Technology Deploy-
ment.
(b) FISCAL YEAR 1999 ONLY.—None of the funds
authorized by this Act for fiscal year 1999 may be used
for the following programs, projects, and activities:
(1) Solar Thermal Electric Research and Devel-
opment Power Systems Research Power Tower De-
velopment.
(2) Wind Energy Systems Applied Research
Wind Hybrid Systems.
(3) Wind Energy Systems Applied Research
Avian Research.
(4) Wind Energy Systems Turbine Research
Next Generation Turbine Project.
(5) Wind Energy Systems Turbine Research
Small Wind Turbine Project.
(6) Wind Energy Systems Cooperative Research
and Testing Certification and Standards.
(7) Wind Energy Systems Cooperative Research
and Testing Utility Analysis.
(8) Electric Energy Systems and Storage Elec-
tric and Magnetic Fields Research and Development.
(9) Hydropower.
(10) Biopower Energy Systems-Utilities Sys-
tems Development Climate Change Action Plan:
Vermont Indirect Gasifier Project.
(11) Nuclear Energy Advanced Radioisotope
Power Systems Cassini Radioisotope Thermoelectric
Generators and Launch Support.
(12) Nuclear Energy Advanced Test Reactor
Fusion Irradiations.
(13) Office of Environment, Safety and Health
(Non-Defense) Health Studies State Health Agree-
ments.
(14) Building Equipment and Materials Large
Commercial Chillers.
SEC. 5. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES REPORTS.
(a) HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS.—The
Secretary shall enter into appropriate arrangements with
National Academy of Sciences for the Academy to prepare
a report on the high energy and nuclear physics activities
of the Department, assuming a combined budget of
$977,080,000 for all activities authorized under section 3
(c) and (d) for fiscal year 1998, and $941,000,000 for
each of the fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. The
report shall include—
(1) a priority list of research opportunities, in-
cluding both ongoing and proposed activities;
(2) an analysis of the relevance of each research
facility to the research opportunities listed under
paragraph (1);
(3) recommendations for the optimal balance
among facility operations, construction, and research
support and the optimal balance between university
and laboratory research programs; and
(4) recommended schedules for the continu-
ation, consolidation, or termination of each research
program, and continuation, upgrade, transfer, or clo-
sure of each research facility.
Not later than December 31, 1997, the Secretary shall
transmit to the Committee on Science of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natu-
ral Resources of the Senate the report prepared under this
subsection.
(b) 
NATIONAL
SYNCHROTRON
SPALLATION
SOURCE.—The Secretary shall enter into appropriate ar-
rangements with National Academy of Sciences for the
Academy to prepare a report containing a detailed evalua-
tion of the costs of construction and operation of the Na-
tional Synchrotron Spallation Source at alternative appro-
priate sites, including at least the Argonne National Lab-
oratory, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Los Al-
amos National Laboratory, and the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Such report shall also include an identifica-
tion of other advantages and disadvantages of each site
evaluated. Not later than December 31, 1997, the Sec-
retary shall transmit to the Committee on Science of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy
and Natural Resources of the Senate the report prepared
under this subsection.
SEC. 6. PROHIBITION ON USE OF CLEAN COAL TECH-
NOLOGY RESERVE FUNDS.
No funds in the Clean Coal Technology Reserve may
be used to initiate or carry out a clean coal technology
program based outside the United States.
SEC. 7. NEXT GENERATION INTERNET.
None of the funds authorized by this Act, or any
other Act enacted before the date of the enactment of this
Act, may be used for the Next Generation Internet.
SEC. 8. LIMITATIONS.
(a) PROHIBITION OF LOBBYING ACTIVITIES.—None
of the funds authorized by this Act shall be available for
any activity whose purpose is to influence legislation pend-
ing before the Congress, except that this subsection shall
not prevent officers or employees of the United States or
of its departments or agencies from communicating to
Members of Congress on the request of any Member or
to Congress, through the proper channels, requests for leg-
islation or appropriations which they deem necessary for
the efficient conduct of the public business.
(b) LIMITATION
ON
APPROPRIATIONS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, no sums are author-
ized to be appropriated for fiscal years 1998 and 1999
for the activities for which sums are authorized by this
Act, unless such sums are specifically authorized to be ap-
propriated by this Act.
(c) ELIGIBILITY FOR AWARDS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall exclude
from consideration for grant agreements made by
the Department after fiscal year 1997 any person
who received funds, other than those described in
paragraph (2), appropriated for a fiscal year after
fiscal year 1997, under a grant agreement from any
Federal funding source for a project that was not
subjected to a competitive, merit-based award proc-
ess. Any exclusion from consideration pursuant to
this subsection shall be effective for a period of 5
years after the person receives such Federal funds.
(2) EXCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) shall not
apply to the receipt of Federal funds by a person
due to the membership of that person in a class
specified by law for which assistance is awarded to
members of the class according to a formula pro-
vided by law.
(3) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this sub-
section, the term ‘‘grant agreement’’ means a legal
instrument whose principal purpose is to transfer a
thing of value to the recipient to carry out a public
purpose of support or stimulation authorized by a
law of the United States, and does not include the
acquisition (by purchase, lease, or barter) of prop-
erty or services for the direct benefit or use of the
United States Government.
SEC. 9. NOTICE.
(a) NOTICE OF REPROGRAMMING.—If any funds au-
thorized by this Act are subject to a reprogramming action
that requires notice to be provided to the Appropriations
Committees of the House of Representatives and the Sen-
ate, notice of such action shall concurrently be provided
to the Committees on Science and Commerce of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources of the Senate.
(b) NOTICE OF REORGANIZATION.—The Secretary
shall provide notice to the Committees on Science, Com-
merce, and Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives, and the Committees on Energy and Natural Re-
sources and Appropriations of the Senate, not later than
15 days before any major reorganization of any program,
project, or activity of the Department.
SEC. 10. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM.
With the year 2000 fast approaching, it is the sense
of Congress that the Department should—
(1) give high priority to correcting all 2-digit
date-related problems in its computer systems to en-
sure that those systems continue to operate effec-
tively in the year 2000 and beyond;
(2) assess immediately the extent of the risk to
the operations of the Department posed by the prob-
lems referred to in paragraph (1), and plan and
budget for achieving Year 2000 compliance for all of
its mission-critical systems; and
(3) develop contingency plans for those systems
that the Department is unable to correct in time.
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