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(b) EXCEPTION.—For purposes of subsection (a), the 
Secretary of Energy may issue a waiver, to be made pub-
licly available, to an entity in which the legal or financial 
connection to a corporation is a minority relationship or 
investment. 
(c) INTERNATIONAL
AGREEMENTS.—This section 
shall be applied in a manner consistent with the obliga-
tions of the United States under applicable international 
agreements. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 613. $0. 
SEC. 614. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be made available 
to finalize any rule or regulation that meets the definition 
of section 804(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 615. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
final rule of the Department of Energy entitled ‘‘Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards 
for Consumer Furnaces’’ signed on September 28, 2023 
(Docket ID: EERE–2014–BT–STD–0031; RIN 1904– 
AD20). 
SEC. 616. None of the funds made available by this 
Act 
may 
be 
used 
to 
implement 
the 
Industrial
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Decarbonization Roadmap published by the Department 
of Energy and dated September 2022 (DOE/EE–2635). 
SEC. 617. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Energy Conservation 
Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer 
Water Heaters’’ published by the Department of Energy 
in the Federal Register on July 28, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 
49058). 
SEC. 618. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the National Nuclear Security Admin-
istration to halt the construction of a High Explosive Syn-
thesis, Formulation, and Production facility at the Pantex 
Plant near Amarillo, Texas. 
SEC. 619. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to admit any 
individual who is a citizen of any country on the current 
list of sensitive countries to any facility of a national secu-
rity laboratory, as such term is defined in section 4002 
of the Atomic Energy Defense Act, other than areas acces-
sible to the general public. 
SEC. 620. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce Corps of Engi-
neers memorandum CERE-AP, issued by the South At-
lantic division on July 9, 1996, relating to ‘‘Approval of
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Perpetual Beach Storm Damage Reduction Easement as 
a Standard Estate’’. 
SEC. 621. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to close the Toto Creek, Bolding Mill, 
Duckett Mill, Old Federal, Van Pugh South Campground, 
Sawnee, or Bald Ridge Creek campgrounds located at 
Lake Sidney Lanier, Georgia. 
SEC. 622. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out the final rule titled ‘‘Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards 
for Manufactured Housing’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 32728 (May 
31, 2022)). 
SEC. 623. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Interagency Working Group on 
the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases. 
SEC. 624. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to consider the social cost of greenhouse 
gases in the development and implementation of a budget 
for a Federal agency, in any Federal procurement proc-
esses, or when preparing an environmental review pursu-
ant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 
SEC. 625. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enforce any COVID–19 mask man-
dates.
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SEC. 626. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize the rule entitled ‘‘Energy Con-
servation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for 
Automatic Commercial Ice Makers’’ published by the De-
partment of Energy in the Federal Register on September 
25, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 65628). 
SEC. 627. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
rule entitled ‘‘Energy Conservation Program: Energy Con-
servation Standards for Room Air Conditioners’’ published 
by the Department of Energy in the Federal Register on 
May 26, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 34298). 
SEC. 628. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Department of Energy Office of 
Science’s Office of Scientific Workforce Diversity, Equity, 
and Inclusion. 
SEC. 629. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the American Climate Corps.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy and Water De-
velopment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2024’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives October 26, 
2023. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 4394 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for energy and water devel-
opment and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2024, and for other pur-
poses.