different from the recommendations made by the
Secretary or the Administrator, as appropriate.
(4) FINAL REPORT.—After providing a 30-day
period for public comment following publication of
the initial report under paragraph (2), and after full
consideration of such public comments, the Commis-
sion shall, within 15 months after the date of the
enactment of this Act, transmit to the Secretary or
the Administrator, as appropriate, and the congres-
sional energy committees a final report containing
the recommendations of the Commission.
(5) PROVISION
OF
CERTAIN
INFORMATION.—
After transmitting the final report under paragraph
(4), the Commission shall promptly provide, upon re-
quest, to any Member of Congress information used
by the Commission in making its recommendations.
(g) ASSISTANCE FROM COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—
The Comptroller General of the United States shall—
(1) assist the Commission, to the extent re-
quested, in the Commission’s review and analysis of
the recommendations made by the Secretary or the
Administrator, as appropriate, pursuant to sub-
section (b); and
(2) not later than 6 months after the date of
the enactment of this Act, transmit to the congres-
sional energy committees and to the Commission a
report containing a detailed analysis of the rec-
ommendations of the Secretary or the Adminis-
trator, as appropriate, and the selection process.
SEC. 203. RECONFIGURATION, PRIVATIZATION, AND CLO-
SURE OF ENERGY LABORATORIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), the
Secretary or the Administrator, as appropriate, shall—
(1) reconfigure, within 1 year after the date of
the transmittal of the final report under section
202(f)(4), all energy laboratories recommended for
reconfiguration by the Commission in such report;
(2) provide for and complete the privatization,
within 18 months after the date of the transmittal
of the final report under section 202(f)(4), of all en-
ergy laboratories recommended for privatization by
the Commission in such report; and
(3) except as necessary to achieve the privatiza-
tion of an energy laboratory under paragraph (2),
close, within 1 year after the date of the transmittal
of the final report under section 202(f)(4), all en-
ergy laboratories recommended for closure by the
Commission in such report.
(b) CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary or the Admin-
istrator, as appropriate, may not carry out any re-
configuration, privatization, or closure of an energy
laboratory recommended by the Commission in the
report transmitted pursuant to section 202(f)(4) if a
joint resolution is enacted, in accordance with the
provisions of section 207, disapproving the rec-
ommendations of the Commission before the earlier
of—
(A) the end of the 45-day period beginning
on the date on which the Commission transmits
the report; or
(B) the adjournment of Congress sine die
for the session during which the report is trans-
mitted.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1) of this sub-
section and subsections (a) and (c) of section 207,
the days on which either House of Congress is not
in session because of an adjournment of more than
three days to a day certain shall be excluded in the
computation of a period.
SEC. 204. IMPLEMENTATION OF RECONFIGURATION, PRI-
VATIZATION, AND CLOSURE ACTIONS.
(a) 
IMPLEMENTATION.—In 
reconfiguring,
privatizing, or closing an energy laboratory under this
title, the Secretary or the Administrator, as appropriate,
shall—
(1) take such actions as may be necessary to
reconfigure, privatize, or close the energy laboratory;
(2) take such steps as may be necessary to en-
sure the safe keeping of all records stored at the en-
ergy laboratory; and
(3) reimburse other Federal agencies for ac-
tions performed at the request of the Secretary or
the Administrator, as appropriate, with respect to
any such reconfiguration, privatization, or closure,
and may use for such purpose funds in the Account
or funds appropriated to the Department of Energy
and available for such purpose.
(b) MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of Gen-
eral Services shall delegate to the Secretary or the
Administrator, as appropriate, with respect to excess
and surplus real property and facilities located at an
energy laboratory reconfigured, privatized, or closed
under this title—
(A) the authority of the Secretary or the
Administrator, as appropriate, to utilize excess
property under section 202 of the Federal
Property and Administrative Services Act of
1949 (40 U.S.C. 483);
(B) the authority of the Secretary or the
Administrator, as appropriate, to dispose of
surplus property under section 203 of that Act
(40 U.S.C. 484);
(C) the authority of the Secretary or the
Administrator, as appropriate, to grant approv-
als and make determinations under section
13(g) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (50
U.S.C. App. 1622(g)); and
(D) the authority of the Secretary or the
Administrator, as appropriate, to determine the
availability of excess or surplus real property
for wildlife conservation purposes in accordance
with the Act of May 19, 1948 (16 U.S.C.
667b).
(2) EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (C), the Secretary or the Administrator,
as appropriate, shall exercise the authority dele-
gated to the Secretary or the Administrator, as
appropriate, pursuant to paragraph (1) in ac-
cordance 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 or the
Administrator, as appropriate, after consulting
with the Administrator of General Services,
may issue regulations that are necessary 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 or the Administrator, as appropriate, by
the Administrator of General Services shall not
include the authority to prescribe general poli-
cies and methods for utilizing excess property
and disposing of surplus property.
(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary or the Administrator, as
appropriate, may reconfigure, privatize, or close energy
laboratories under this title without regard to any provi-
sion of law restricting the use of funds for reconfiguring,
privatizing, or closing such energy laboratories included
in any appropriations or authorization Act.
SEC. 205. ACCOUNT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established
on the books of the Treasury an account to be known as
the ‘‘Energy Laboratory Facility Closure Account’’ which
shall be administered by the Secretary or the Adminis-
trator, as appropriate, 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 or the Admin-
istrator, as appropriate, 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 trans-
ferred only after the date on which the Secretary or
the Administrator, as appropriate, transmits written
notice of, and justification for, such transfer to the
congressional energy committees; and
(3) proceeds received from the transfer or dis-
posal of any property at an office reconfigured,
privatized, or closed under this section.
(c) USE OF FUNDS.—The Secretary or the Adminis-
trator, as appropriate, may use the funds in the Account
only for the purposes described in section 204(a).
(d) REPORTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after
the end of each fiscal year in which the Secretary or
the Administrator, as appropriate, carries out activi-
ties under this title, the Secretary or the Adminis-
trator, as appropriate, 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 pur-
suant to section 204(a) during such fiscal year.
(2) UNOBLIGATED FUNDS.—Unobligated funds
shall be held in the Account until transferred by law.
SEC. 206. REPORTS ON IMPLEMENTATION.
As part of the budget request for each fiscal year in
which the Secretary or the Administrator, as appropriate,
is authorized to carry out activities under this title, the
Secretary or the Administrator, as appropriate, shall
transmit to the congressional energy committees—
(1) a schedule of the reconfiguration, privatiza-
tion, and closure actions to be carried out under this
title in the fiscal year for which the request is made
and an estimate of the total expenditures required
and cost savings to be achieved by each such recon-
figuration, privatization, or closure and of the time
period in which these savings are to be achieved in
each case; and
(2) a description of the energy laboratories to
which functions are to be transferred as a result of
such reconfigurations, privatizations, and closures.
SEC. 207. CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF COMMIS-
SION REPORT.
(a) TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION.—For purposes of
section 203(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 Commission
transmits the report to the Congress under section
202(f)(4), 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 Energy Laboratory Facili-
ties Commission as submitted 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 En-
ergy Laboratory Facilities Commission.’’.
(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.
(c) DISCHARGE.—If the committee to which a resolu-
tion described in subsection (a) is referred has not re-
ported such resolution (or an identical resolution) by the
end of the 20-day period beginning on the date on which
the Commission transmits the report to the Congress
under section 202(f)(4), such committee shall be, at the
end of such period, discharged from further consideration
of such resolution, and such resolution shall be placed on
the appropriate calendar of the House involved.
(d) CONSIDERATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—On or after the third day
after the date on which the committee to which such
a resolution is referred has reported, or has been
discharged (under subsection (c)) from further con-
sideration of, such a resolution, it is in order (even
though a previous motion to the same effect has
been disagreed to) for any Member of the respective
House to move to proceed to the consideration of the
resolution (but only on the day after the calendar
day on which such Member announces to the House
concerned the Member’s intention to do so). All
points of order against the resolution (and against
consideration of the resolution) are waived. The mo-
tion is highly privileged in the House of Representa-
tives and is privileged in the Senate and is not de-
batable. The motion is not subject to amendment,
or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to pro-
ceed to the consideration of other business. A motion
to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed
to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion
to proceed to the consideration of the resolution is
agreed to, the respective House shall immediately
proceed to consideration of the joint resolution with-
out intervening motion, order, or other business, and
the resolution shall remain the unfinished business
of the respective House until disposed of.
(2) DEBATE.—Debate on the resolution, and on
all debatable motions and appeals in connection
therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2 hours,