sult in a final fiscal year 2015 appropriation from the gen-
eral fund estimated at not more than $0. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF 
ENERGY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 301. (a) No appropriation, funds, or authority 
made available by this title for the Department of Energy 
shall be used to initiate or resume any program, project, 
or activity or to prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals 
or 
similar 
arrangements 
(including 
Requests 
for 
Quotations, Requests for Information, and Funding Op-
portunity Announcements) for a program, project, or ac-
tivity if the program, project, or activity has not been 
funded by Congress. 
(b)(1) Unless the Secretary of Energy notifies the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate at least 3 full business days in ad-
vance, none of the funds made available in this title may 
be used to— 
(A) make a grant allocation or discretionary 
grant award totaling $1,000,000 or more; 
(B) make a discretionary contract award or 
Other Transaction Agreement totaling $1,000,000 
or more, including a contract covered by the Federal 
Acquisition Regulation;
(C) issue a letter of intent to make an alloca-
tion, award, or Agreement in excess of the limits in 
subparagraph (A) or (B); or 
(D) announce publicly the intention to make an 
allocation, award, or Agreement in excess of the lim-
its in subparagraph (A) or (B). 
(2) The Secretary of Energy shall submit to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate within 15 days of the conclusion of each 
quarter a report detailing each grant allocation or discre-
tionary grant award totaling less than $1,000,000 pro-
vided during the previous quarter. 
(3) The notification required by paragraph (1) and 
the report required by paragraph (2) shall include the re-
cipient of the award, the amount of the award, the fiscal 
year for which the funds for the award were appropriated, 
the account and program, project, or activity from which 
the funds are being drawn, the title of the award, and 
a brief description of the activity for which the award is 
made. 
(c) The Department of Energy may not, with respect 
to any program, project, or activity that uses budget au-
thority made available in this title under the heading ‘‘De-
partment of Energy—Energy Programs’’, enter into a
multiyear contract, award a multiyear grant, or enter into 
a multiyear cooperative agreement unless— 
(1) the contract, grant, or cooperative agree-
ment is funded for the full period of performance as 
anticipated at the time of award; or 
(2) the contract, grant, or cooperative agree-
ment includes a clause conditioning the Federal Gov-
ernment’s obligation on the availability of future 
year budget authority and the Secretary notifies the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate at least 3 days in ad-
vance. 
(d) Except as provided in subsections (e), (f), and (g), 
the amounts made available by this title shall be expended 
as authorized by law for the programs, projects, and ac-
tivities specified in the ‘‘Bill’’ column in the ‘‘Department 
of Energy’’ table included under the heading ‘‘Title III— 
Department of Energy’’ in the report of the Committee 
on Appropriations accompanying this Act. 
(e) The amounts made available by this title may be 
reprogrammed for any program, project, or activity, and 
the Department shall notify the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate at 
least 30 days prior to the use of any proposed reprogram-
ming which would cause any program, project, or activity
funding level to increase or decrease by more than 
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, during the 
time period covered by this Act. 
(f) None of the funds provided in this title shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-
programming of funds that— 
(1) creates, initiates, or eliminates a program, 
project, or activity; 
(2) increases funds or personnel for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds are denied 
or restricted by this Act; or 
(3) reduces funds that are directed to be used 
for a specific program, project, or activity by this 
Act. 
(g)(1) The Secretary of Energy may waive any re-
quirement or restriction in this section that applies to the 
use of funds made available for the Department of Energy 
if compliance with such requirement or restriction would 
pose a substantial risk to human health, the environment, 
welfare, or national security. 
(2) The Secretary of Energy shall notify the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate of any waiver under paragraph (1) as soon 
as practicable, but not later than 3 days after the date 
of the activity to which a requirement or restriction would
otherwise have applied. Such notice shall include an expla-
nation of the substantial risk under paragraph (1) that 
permitted such waiver. 
SEC. 302. The unexpended balances of prior appro-
priations provided for activities in this Act may be avail-
able to the same appropriation accounts for such activities 
established pursuant to this title. Available balances may 
be merged with funds in the applicable established ac-
counts and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund 
for the same time period as originally enacted. 
SEC. 303. Funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this 
Act, for intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically 
authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 
of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) dur-
ing fiscal year 2015 until the enactment of the Intelligence 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2015. 
SEC. 304. None of the funds made available in this 
title shall be used for the construction of facilities classi-
fied as high-hazard nuclear facilities under 10 CFR Part 
830 unless independent oversight is conducted by the Of-
fice of Independent Enterprise Assessments to ensure the 
project is in compliance with nuclear safety requirements. 
SEC. 305. None of the funds made available in this 
title may be used to approve critical decision-2 or critical
decision-3 under Department of Energy Order 413.3B, or 
any successive departmental guidance, for construction 
projects 
where 
the 
total 
project 
cost 
exceeds 
$100,000,000, until a separate independent cost estimate 
has been developed for the project for that critical deci-
sion. 
SEC. 306. (a) Any determination (including a deter-
mination made prior to the date of enactment of this Act) 
by the Secretary pursuant to section 3112(d)(2)(B) of the 
USEC Privatization Act (42 U.S.C. 2297h–10(d)(2)(B)), 
as amended, shall be valid for not more than 2 calendar 
years subsequent to such determination. 
(b) Not less than 30 days prior to the provision of 
uranium in any form the Secretary of Energy shall notify 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate of— 
(1) the amount of uranium to be provided; 
(2) an estimate by the Secretary of the gross 
fair market value of the uranium on the expected 
date of the provision of the uranium; 
(3) the expected date of the provision of the 
uranium; 
(4) the recipient of the uranium; and