vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
not to exceed $319,800,000 of revenues from fees and an-
nual charges, and other services and collections in fiscal 
year 2016 shall be retained and used for expenses nec-
essary in this account, and shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That the sum herein appro-
priated from the general fund shall be reduced as revenues 
are received during fiscal year 2016 so as to result in a 
final fiscal year 2016 appropriation from the general 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 both Houses of Congress 
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at least 3 full business days in advance, 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 both Houses of Congress 
within 15 days of the conclusion of each quarter a report 
detailing each grant allocation or discretionary grant 
award totaling less than $1,000,000 provided 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 
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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 both Houses of 
Congress at least 3 days in advance. 
(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. 
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(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 both Houses of Congress at least 30 days prior 
to the use of any proposed reprogramming that would 
cause any program, project, or activity funding level to 
increase or decrease by more than $5,000,000 or 10 per-
cent, 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 
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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 both Houses of Congress 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 explanation 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 2016 until the enactment of the Intelligence 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016. 
SEC. 304. None of the funds made available in this 
title shall be used for the construction of facilities classi-
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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. Notwithstanding section 301(c) of this Act, 
none of the funds made available under the heading ‘‘De-
partment of Energy—Energy Programs—Science’’ may 
be used for a multiyear contract, grant, cooperative agree-
ment, or Other Transaction Agreement of $1,000,000 or 
less unless the contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or 
Other Transaction Agreement is funded for the full period 
of performance as anticipated at the time of award. 
SEC. 307. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this or any prior Act under the heading ‘‘Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation’’ may be made available to enter into new 
contracts with, or new agreements for Federal assistance 
to, the Russian Federation. 
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(b) The Secretary of Energy may waive the prohibi-
tion in subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that 
such activity is in the national security interests of the 
United States. This waiver authority may not be dele-
gated. 
(c) A waiver under subsection (b) shall not be effec-
tive until 15 days after the date on which the Secretary 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress, in classified form if necessary, a re-
port on the justification for the waiver. 
SEC. 308. (a) NOTIFICATION OF STRATEGIC PETRO-
LEUM RESERVE DRAWDOWN.—None of the funds made 
available by this Act or any prior Act, or funds made avail-
able in the SPR Petroleum Account, may be used to con-
duct a drawdown (including a test drawdown) and sale 
or exchange of petroleum products from the Strategic Pe-
troleum Reserve unless the Secretary of Energy provides 
notice, in accordance with subsection (b), of such ex-
change, or drawdown (including a test drawdown) to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress. 
(b)(1) CONTENT OF NOTIFICATION.—The notifica-
tion required under subsection (a) shall include at a min-
imum— 
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(A) the justification for the drawdown or ex-
change, including— 
(i) a specific description of any obligation 
under international energy agreements; and 
(ii) in the case of a test drawdown, the 
specific aspects of the Strategic Petroleum Re-
serve to be tested; 
(B) the provisions of law (including regulations) 
authorizing the drawdown or exchange; 
(C) the number of barrels of petroleum prod-
ucts proposed to be withdrawn or exchanged; 
(D) the location of the Strategic Petroleum Re-
serve site or sites from which the petroleum products 
are proposed to be withdrawn; 
(E) a good faith estimate of the expected pro-
ceeds from the sale of the petroleum products; 
(F) an estimate of the total inventories of pe-
troleum products in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
after the anticipated drawdown; 
(G) a detailed plan for disposition of the pro-
ceeds after deposit into the SPR Petroleum Account; 
and 
(H) a plan for refilling the Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve, including whether the acquisition will be of 
the same or a different petroleum product. 
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(2) TIMING OF NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary 
shall provide the notification required under sub-
section (a)— 
(A) in the case of an exchange or a draw-
down, as soon as practicable after the exchange 
or drawdown has occurred; and 
(B) in the case of a test drawdown, not 
later than 30 days prior to the test drawdown. 
(c) POST-SALE NOTIFICATION.—In addition to re-
porting requirements under other provisions of law, the 
Secretary shall, upon the execution of all contract awards 
associated with a competitive sale of petroleum products, 
notify the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress of the actual value of the proceeds from the 
sale. 
(d)(1) NEW REGIONAL RESERVES.—The Secretary 
may not establish any new regional petroleum product re-
serve unless funding for the proposed regional petroleum 
product reserve is explicitly requested in advance in an an-
nual budget submission and approved by the Congress in 
an appropriations Act. 
(2) The budget request or notification shall in-
clude— 
(A) the justification for the new reserve; 
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(B) a cost estimate for the establishment, 
operation, and maintenance of the reserve, in-
cluding funding sources; 
(C) a detailed plan for operation of the re-
serve, including the conditions upon which the 
products may be released; 
(D) the location of the reserve; and 
(E) the estimate of the total inventory of 
the reserve. 
SEC. 309. Of the amounts made available by this Act 
for ‘‘National Nuclear Security Administration—Weapons 
Activities’’, up to $50,000,000 may be reprogrammed 
within such account for Domestic Uranium Enrichment, 
subject to the notice requirement in section 301(e). 
SEC. 310. (a) Unobligated balances available from 
appropriations for fiscal years 2005 through 2010 are 
hereby permanently rescinded from the following accounts 
of the Department of Energy in the specified amounts: 
(1) ‘‘Energy Programs—Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy’’, $16,677,000. 
(2) ‘‘Energy Programs—Electricity Delivery 
and Energy Reliability’’, $900,000. 
(3) 
‘‘Energy 
Programs—Nuclear 
Energy’’, 
$1,665,000. 
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(4) ‘‘Energy Programs—Fossil Energy Re-
search and Development’’, $12,064,000. 
(5) ‘‘Energy Programs—Science’’, $4,717,000. 
(6) ‘‘Power Marketing Administrations—Con-
struction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Mainte-
nance, 
Western 
Area 
Power 
Administration’’, 
$4,832,000. 
(b) No amounts may be rescinded by this section 
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent reso-
lution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
TITLE IV—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs au-
thorized by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 
1965, notwithstanding 40 U.S.C. 14704, and for expenses 
necessary for the Federal Co-Chairman and the Alternate 
on the Appalachian Regional Commission, for payment of 
the Federal share of the administrative expenses of the 
Commission, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $95,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
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