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$172,278,000: Provided further, That of the amounts ap-
propriated under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be for 
university research and development in areas relevant to 
their respective organization’s mission, and $5,000,000 
shall be for a Nuclear Science and Engineering Grant Pro-
gram that will support multiyear projects that do not align 
with programmatic missions but are critical to maintain-
ing the discipline of nuclear science and engineering. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $12,071,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2016: Provided, That revenues from 
licensing fees, inspection services, and other services and 
collections estimated at $10,099,000 in fiscal year 2015 
shall be retained and be available until September 30, 
2016, for necessary salaries and expenses in this account, 
notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States 
Code: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
shall be reduced by the amount of revenues received dur-
ing fiscal year 2015 so as to result in a final fiscal year 
2015 
appropriation 
estimated 
at 
not 
more 
than 
$1,972,000: Provided further, That, of the amounts appro-
priated under this heading, $850,000 shall be for Inspec-
tor General services for the Defense Nuclear Facilities 
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Safety Board, which shall not be available from fee reve-
nues. 
NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL REVIEW BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Nuclear Waste Tech-
nical Review Board, as authorized by Public Law 100– 
203, section 5051, $3,400,000, to be derived from the Nu-
clear Waste Fund, to remain available until September 30, 
2016. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—INDEPENDENT 
AGENCIES 
SEC. 401. The Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission shall notify the other members of the Com-
mission, the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the 
Senate, not later than 1 day after the Chairman begins 
performing functions under the authority of section 3 of 
Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980, or after a member 
of the Commission who is delegated emergency functions 
under subsection (b) of that section begins performing 
those functions. Such notification shall include an expla-
nation of the circumstances warranting the exercise of 
such authority. The Chairman shall report to the Commit-
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tees, not less frequently than once each week, on the ac-
tions taken by the Chairman, or a delegated member of 
the Commission, under such authority, until the authority 
is relinquished. The Chairman shall notify the Committees 
not later than 1 day after such authority is relinquished. 
The Chairman shall submit the report required by section 
3(d) of the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980 to the 
Committees not later than 1 day after it was submitted 
to the Commission. This section shall be in effect in fiscal 
year 2015 and each subsequent fiscal year. 
SEC. 402. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall 
comply with the July 5, 2011, version of Chapter VI of 
its Internal Commission Procedures when responding to 
Congressional requests for information until those Proce-
dures are changed or waived by a majority of the Commis-
sion, in accordance with Commission practice. 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
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SEC. 502. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any cor-
poration that was convicted of a felony criminal violation 
under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, 
where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, un-
less the agency has considered suspension or debarment 
of the corporation and has made a determination that this 
further action is not necessary to protect the interests of 
the Government. 
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree-
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-
mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the Government. 
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SEC. 504. (a) None of the funds made available in 
title III of this Act may be transferred to any department, 
agency, or instrumentality of the United States Govern-
ment, except pursuant to a transfer made by or transfer 
authority provided in this Act or any other appropriations 
Act for any fiscal year, transfer authority referenced in 
the report of the Committee on Appropriations accom-
panying this Act, or any authority whereby a department, 
agency, or instrumentality of the United States Govern-
ment may provide goods or services to another depart-
ment, agency, or instrumentality. 
(b) None of the funds made available for any depart-
ment, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 
Government may be transferred to accounts funded in title 
III of this Act, except pursuant to a transfer made by or 
transfer authority provided in this Act or any other appro-
priations Act for any fiscal year, transfer authority ref-
erenced in the report of the Committee on Appropriations 
accompanying this Act, or any authority whereby a de-
partment, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 
Government may provide goods or services to another de-
partment, agency, or instrumentality. 
(c) The head of any relevant department or agency 
funded in this Act utilizing any transfer authority shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
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of Representatives and the Senate a semiannual report de-
tailing the transfer authorities, except for any authority 
whereby a department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States Government may provide goods or services 
to another department, agency, or instrumentality, used 
in the previous 6 months and in the year-to-date. This 
report shall include the amounts transferred and the pur-
poses for which they were transferred, and shall not re-
place or modify existing notification requirements for each 
authority. 
SEC. 505. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of Executive Order No. 
12898 of February 11, 1994 (‘‘Federal Actions to Address 
Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low- 
Income Populations’’). 
SEC. 506. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to conduct closure of adjudicatory func-
tions, technical review, or support activities associated 
with the Yucca Mountain geologic repository license appli-
cation, or for actions that irrevocably remove the possi-
bility that Yucca Mountain may be a repository option in 
the future. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 507. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
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Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
SEC. 508. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 3112(d)(2)(B) 
of the USEC Privatization Act (42 U.S.C. 2297h– 
10(d)(2)(B)) and all public notice and comment require-
ments under chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code, that 
are applicable to carrying out such section. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 4712 of title 
41, United States Code. 
SEC. 510. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into any contract with an incor-
porated entity if such entity’s sealed bid or competitive 
proposal shows that such entity is incorporated or char-
tered in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, and such enti-
ty’s sealed bid or competitive proposal shows that such 
entity was previously incorporated in the United States. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to prepare, propose, or promulgate any 
regulation or guidance that references or relies on the 
analysis contained in ‘‘Technical Support Document: - So-
cial Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - 
Under Executive Order 12866’’ issued by the Interagency 
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Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States 
Government (February 2010), ‘‘Technical Support Docu-
ment: - Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon 
for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under Executive Order 
12866’’ issued by the Interagency Working Group on So-
cial Cost of Carbon, United States Government (May 
2013), ‘‘Technical Support Document - Technical Update 
of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Anal-
ysis - Under Executive Order 12866’’ issued by the Inter-
agency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United 
States Government (revised November 2013), or ‘‘Tech-
nical Support Document - Technical Update of the Social 
Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis - Under 
Executive Order No. 12866’’, published at 78 Fed. Reg. 
228 (November 26, 2013). 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Energy to apply 
the report entitled ‘‘Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Perspec-
tive on Exporting Liquefied Natural Gas from the United 
States’’, published in the Federal Register on June 4, 
2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 32260), in any public interest deter-
mination under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 
U.S.C. 717b). 
SEC. 513. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to lease or purchase new light duty vehi-
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cles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inven-
tory, except in accordance with Presidential Memo-
randum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 
2011. 
SEC. 514. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with any person 
whose disclosures of a proceeding with a disposition listed 
in section 2313(c)(1) of title 41, United States Code, in 
the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Informa-
tion System include the term ‘‘Fair Labor Standards 
Act.’’. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with any offeror 
or any of its principals if the offeror certifies, as required 
by Federal Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any 
of its principals— 
(1) within a 3-year period preceding this offer 
has been convicted of or had a civil judgment ren-
dered against it for: commission of fraud or a crimi-
nal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting 
to obtain, or performing a public (Federal, State, or 
local) contract or subcontract; violation of Federal or 
State antitrust statutes relating to the submission of 
offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, for-
gery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, 
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making false statements, tax evasion, violating Fed-
eral criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property; 
(2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise 
criminally or civilly charged by a governmental enti-
ty with, commission of any of the offenses enumer-
ated above in paragraph (1); or 
(3) within a 3-year period preceding this offer, 
has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in 
an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liabil-
ity remains unsatisfied. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the study of the Missouri River 
Projects authorized in section 108 of the Energy and 
Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2009 (division C of Public Law 111–8). 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to continue the study conducted by the 
Army Corps of Engineers pursuant to section 5018(a)(1) 
of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (Public 
Law 110–114). 
SEC. 518. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
order entitled ‘‘Order Accepting Proposed Tariff Revisions 
and Establishing a Technical Conference’’ issued by the 
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on August 13, 
2013 (Docket No. ER13–1380–000). 
SEC. 519. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used within the borders of the State of Lou-
isiana by the Mississippi Valley Division or the South-
western Division of the Army Corps of Engineers or any 
district of the Corps within such divisions to implement 
or enforce the mitigation methodology, referred to as the 
‘‘Modified Charleston Method’’. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for ‘‘DE–FOA0000697: Sustainable Cit-
ies: Urban Energy Planning for Smart Growth in China 
and India’’. 
SEC. 521. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salary of any officer or em-
ployee to carry out section 301 of the Hoover Power Plant 
Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 16421a; added by section 402 of 
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
(Public Law 111–5)). 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out section 801 of the Energy 
Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 
17281). 
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to transform the National Energy Tech-
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nology Laboratory into a government-owned, contractor- 
operated laboratory, or to consolidate or close the National 
Energy Technology Laboratory. 
SEC. 524. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Cape Wind Energy Project on 
the Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts, Nantucket 
Sound. 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Ex-
ecutive Order No. 13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 43023, relating 
to the stewardship of oceans, coasts, and the Great 
Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy developed 
under such Executive order. 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to award grants or provide funding for 
high-efficiency toilets or indoor water-efficient toilets. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds made available by this 
Act 
may 
be 
used 
in 
contravention 
of 
section 
210(d)(1)(B)(ii) of the Water Resources Development Act 
of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238(d)(1)(B)(ii)). 
SEC. 528. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used— 
(1) to implement or enforce section 430.32(x) 
of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations; or 
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(2) to implement or enforce the standards es-
tablished by the tables contained in section 
325(i)(1)(B) of the Energy Policy and Conservation 
Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(i)(1)(B)) with respect to 
BPAR incandescent reflector lamps, BR incandes-
cent reflector lamps, and ER incandescent reflector 
lamps. 
SEC. 529. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to regulate activities identified in sub-
paragraphs (A) and (C) of section 404(f)(1) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(f)(1)(A), 
(C)) or to limit the exemption in section 404(f)(1)(A) of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1344(f)(1)(A)) to established or ongoing operations. 
OFFSHORE DRILLING PERMIT 
SEC. 530. No funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Department of Energy to block approval 
of offshore drilling permits. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to design, implement, administer, or 
carry out the United States Global Climate Research Pro-
gram National Climate Assessment, the Intergovern-
mental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Re-
port, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable develop-
ment plan, the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social 
Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Ex-
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ecutive Order No. 12866, or the July 2014 Sustainable 
Development Solutions Network and Institute for Sustain-
able Development and International Relations’ pathways 
to deep decarbonization report. 
SEC. 532. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Department of Energy’s Climate 
Model Development and Validation program. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy and Water De-
velopment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2015’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 10, 2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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