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uranium product in any form in which the uranium
contains less than 20 percent uranium-235.
‘‘(3) HIGHLY
ENRICHED
URANIUM.—The term
‘highly enriched uranium’ has the meaning given that
term in section 3102(4).
‘‘(4) HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM OF WEAPONS
ORIGIN.—The term ‘highly enriched uranium of
weapons origin’ means highly enriched uranium
that—
‘‘(A) contains 90 percent or more uranium-
235; and
‘‘(B) is verified by the Secretary of Energy
to be of weapons origin.
‘‘(5) LOW-ENRICHED URANIUM.—The term ‘low-
enriched uranium’ means a uranium product in any
form, including uranium hexafluoride (UF6) and
uranium oxide (UO2), in which the uranium contains
less than 20 percent uranium-235, without regard to
whether the uranium is incorporated into fuel rods or
complete fuel assemblies.
‘‘(6) RUSSIAN
HEU
AGREEMENT.—The term
‘Russian HEU Agreement’ has the meaning given
that term in section 3102(11).
‘‘(7) URANIUM-235.—The term ‘uranium-235’
means the isotope 235U.
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‘‘(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the
United States to support the continued downblending of
highly enriched uranium of weapons origin in the Russian
Federation in order to protect the essential security interests
of the United States with respect to the nonproliferation
of nuclear weapons.
‘‘(c) PROMOTION
OF DOWNBLENDING
OF RUSSIAN
HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM.—
‘‘(1) INCENTIVES FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE
RUSSIAN HEU AGREEMENT.—Prior to the completion
of the Russian HEU Agreement, the importation into
the United States of low-enriched uranium, including
low-enriched uranium obtained under contracts for
separative work units, that is produced in the Rus-
sian Federation and is not imported pursuant to the
Russian HEU Agreement may not exceed the fol-
lowing amounts:
‘‘(A) In each of the calendar years 2008 and
2009, not more than 22,500 kilograms.
‘‘(B) In each of the calendar years 2010
and 2011, not more than 45,000 kilograms.
‘‘(C) In calendar year 2012 and each cal-
endar year thereafter through the calendar year
of the completion of the Russian HEU Agree-
ment, not more than 67,500 kilograms.
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‘‘(2) INCENTIVES TO CONTINUE DOWNBLENDING
RUSSIAN
HIGHLY
ENRICHED
URANIUM
AFTER
THE
COMPLETION OF THE RUSSIAN HEU AGREEMENT.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In each calendar year
beginning after the calendar year of the comple-
tion of the Russian HEU Agreement and before
the termination date described in paragraph (8),
the importation into the United States of low-en-
riched uranium, including low-enriched ura-
nium obtained under contracts for separative
work units, that is produced in the Russian Fed-
eration, whether or not such low-enriched ura-
nium is derived from highly enriched uranium
of weapons origin, may not exceed 400,000 kilo-
grams.
‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL IMPORTS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In addition to the
amount authorized to be imported under
subparagraph (A) and except as provided in
clause (ii), 20 kilograms of low-enriched
uranium, whether or not such low-enriched
uranium is derived from highly enriched
uranium of weapons origin, may be im-
ported for every 3 kilograms of Russian
highly enriched uranium of weapons origin
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that was downblended in the preceding cal-
endar year, subject to the verification of the
Secretary of Energy under paragraph (10).
‘‘(ii) MAXIMUM
ANNUAL
IMPORTS.—
Not more than 200,000 kilograms of low-en-
riched uranium may be imported in a cal-
endar year under clause (i).
‘‘(3) EXCEPTION
WITH
RESPECT
TO
INITIAL
CORES.—The import limitations described in para-
graphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to low-enriched
uranium produced in the Russian Federation that is
imported into the United States for use in the initial
core of a new nuclear reactor.
‘‘(4) ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Beginning in the sec-
ond calendar year after the calendar year of the
completion of the Russian HEU Agreement, the
Secretary of Energy shall increase or decrease
the amount of low-enriched uranium that may
be imported in a calendar year under paragraph
(2) (including the amount of low-enriched ura-
nium that may be imported for each kilogram of
highly enriched uranium downblended under
paragraph (2)(B)(i)) by a percentage equal to
the percentage increase or decrease, as the case
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may be, in the average amount of uranium load-
ed into nuclear power reactors in the United
States in the most recent 3-calendar-year period
for which data are available, as reported by the
Energy Information Administration of the De-
partment of Energy, compared to the average
amount of uranium loaded into such reactors
during the 3-calendar-year period beginning on
January 1, 2011, as reported by the Energy In-
formation Administration.
‘‘(B) PUBLICATION OF ADJUSTMENTS.—As
soon as practicable, but not later than July 31
of each calendar year, the Secretary of Energy
shall publish in the Federal Register the amount
of low-enriched uranium that may be imported
in the current calendar year after the adjustment
under subparagraph (A).
‘‘(5) AUTHORITY
FOR
ADDITIONAL
ADJUST-
MENT.—In addition to the annual adjustment under
paragraph (4), the Secretary of Commerce may adjust
the import limitations under paragraph (2)(A) for a
calendar year if the Secretary—
‘‘(A) in consultation with the Secretary of
Energy, determines that the available supply of
low-enriched uranium from the Russian Federa-
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tion and the available stockpiles of uranium of
the Department of Energy are insufficient to
meet demand in the United States in the fol-
lowing calendar year; and
‘‘(B) notifies Congress of the adjustment not
less than 45 days before making the adjustment.
‘‘(6) EQUIVALENT
QUANTITIES
OF
LOW-EN-
RICHED URANIUM IMPORTS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The import limitations
described in paragraphs (1) and (2) are ex-
pressed in terms of uranium containing 4.4 per-
cent uranium-235 and a tails assay of 0.3 per-
cent.
‘‘(B) ADJUSTMENT FOR OTHER URANIUM.—
Imports of low-enriched uranium under para-
graphs (1) and (2) shall count against the im-
port limitations described in such paragraphs in
amounts calculated as the quantity of low-en-
riched uranium containing 4.4 percent uranium-
235 necessary to equal the total amount of ura-
nium-235 contained in such imports.
‘‘(7) DOWNBLENDING
OF
OTHER
HIGHLY
EN-
RICHED URANIUM.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The downblending of
highly enriched uranium not of weapons origin
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may be counted for purposes of paragraph (2)(B)
or (8)(B), subject to verification under para-
graph (10), if the Secretary of Energy deter-
mines that the highly enriched uranium to be
downblended poses a risk to the national security
of the United States.
‘‘(B) EQUIVALENT QUANTITIES OF HIGHLY
ENRICHED
URANIUM.—For purposes of deter-
mining the additional low-enriched uranium im-
ports allowed under paragraph (2)(B) and for
purposes of paragraph (8)(B), highly enriched
uranium not of weapons origin downblended
pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall count as
downblended highly enriched uranium of weap-
ons origin in amounts calculated as the quantity
of highly enriched uranium containing 90 per-
cent uranium-235 necessary to equal the total
amount of uranium-235 contained in the highly
enriched 
uranium 
not 
of 
weapons 
origin
downblended pursuant to subparagraph (A).
‘‘(8) TERMINATION
OF
IMPORT
RESTRICTIONS
AFTER DOWNBLENDING OF AN ADDITIONAL 300 MET-
RIC TONS OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM.—The pro-
visions of this subsection shall terminate on the later
of—
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‘‘(A) December 31, 2020; or
‘‘(B) the date on which the Secretary of En-
ergy certifies to Congress that, after the comple-
tion of the Russian HEU Agreement, not less
than an additional 300 metric tons of Russian
highly enriched uranium of weapons origin have
been downblended.
‘‘(9) SPECIAL
RULE
IF
IMPORTATION
UNDER
RUSSIAN HEU AGREEMENT TERMINATES EARLY.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, no low-en-
riched uranium produced in the Russian Federation
that is not derived from highly enriched uranium of
weapons origin, including low-enriched uranium ob-
tained under contracts for separative work units, may
be imported into the United States if, before the com-
pletion of the Russian HEU Agreement, the Secretary
of Energy determines that the Russian Federation has
taken deliberate action to disrupt or halt the importa-
tion into the United States of low-enriched uranium
under the Russian HEU Agreement.
‘‘(10) TECHNICAL VERIFICATIONS BY SECRETARY
OF ENERGY.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of En-
ergy shall verify the origin, quantity, and ura-
nium-235 content of the highly enriched ura-
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nium downblended for purposes of paragraphs
(2)(B), (7), and (8)(B).
‘‘(B) METHODS OF VERIFICATION.—In con-
ducting the verification required under subpara-
graph (A), the Secretary of Energy shall employ
the transparency measures provided for in the
Russian HEU Agreement for monitoring the
downblending of Russian highly enriched ura-
nium of weapons origin and such other methods
as the Secretary determines appropriate.
‘‘(11) ENFORCEMENT OF IMPORT LIMITATIONS.—
The Secretary of Commerce shall be responsible for
enforcing the import limitations imposed under this
subsection and shall enforce such import limitations
in a manner that imposes a minimal burden on the
commercial nuclear industry.
‘‘(12) EFFECT ON OTHER AGREEMENTS.—
‘‘(A) RUSSIAN HEU AGREEMENT.—Nothing
in this section shall be construed to modify the
terms of the Russian HEU Agreement, including
the provisions of the Agreement relating to the
amount of low-enriched uranium that may be
imported into the United States.
‘‘(B) OTHER AGREEMENTS.—If a provision
of any agreement between the United States and
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the Russian Federation, other than the Russian
HEU Agreement, relating to the importation of
low-enriched uranium into the United States
conflicts with a provision of this section, the pro-
vision of this section shall supersede the provi-
sion of the agreement to the extent of the conflict.
‘‘(d) DOWNBLENDING OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM
IN THE UNITED STATES.—The Secretary of Energy may
sell uranium in the jurisdiction of the Secretary, including
downblended highly enriched uranium, at fair market value
to a licensed operator of a nuclear reactor in the United
States—
‘‘(1) in the event of a disruption in the nuclear
fuel supply in the United States; or
‘‘(2) after a determination of the Secretary under
subsection (c)(9) that the Russian Federation has
taken deliberate action to disrupt or halt the importa-
tion into the United States of low-enriched uranium
under the Russian HEU Agreement.’’.
CHAPTER 4
GENERAL PROVISION—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2401. VETERANS BUSINESS RESOURCE CEN-
TERS. There are appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2008, $600,000 for the ‘‘Salaries and
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Expenses’’ account of the Small Business Administration,
for grants in the amount of $200,000 to veterans business
resource centers that received grants from the National Vet-
erans Business Development Corporation in fiscal years
2006 and 2007.
CHAPTER 5
GENERAL PROVISION—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2501. For fiscal year 2008, there is appropriated
$400,000,000, to remain available until December 31, 2008,
for payments described in sections 101, 102(b)(3), and
103(b)(2) of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–393).
CHAPTER 6
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE OPERATIONS
For an additional amount for ‘‘State Unemployment
Insurance and Employment Service Operations’’ for grants
to the States for the administration of State unemployment
insurance, $110,000,000, which may be expended from the
Employment Security Administration Account in the Un-
employment Trust Fund, to be used for unemployment in-
surance workloads experienced by the States through Sep-
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tember 30, 2008, which shall be available for Federal obliga-
tion through December 31, 2008.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING
For an additional amount for ‘‘Disease Control, Re-
search, and Training’’, $26,000,000, for the prevention of
and response to medical errors including research, edu-
cation and outreach activities; of which no less than
$5,000,000 shall be for responding to outbreaks of commu-
nicable diseases related to the re-use of syringes in out-
patient clinics, including reimbursement of local health de-
partments for testing and genetic sequencing of persons po-
tentially exposed.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Office of the Director,
National Institutes of Health’’, $400,000,000.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2601. In addition to amounts otherwise made
available for fiscal year 2008, there are appropriated, out
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
$1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, for making payments
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under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981
(42 U.S.C. 8623).
SEC. 2602. REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF PAST AND FU-
TURE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES. (a) IN GENERAL.—Sec-
tion 8104 of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care,
Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations
Act, 2007 (Public Law 110–28; 121 Stat. 189) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 8104. REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF PAST AND FUTURE
MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES.
‘‘(a) STUDY.—Beginning on the date that is 60 days
after the date of enactment of this Act, and every year there-
after until the minimum wage in the respective territory
is $7.25 per hour, the Government Accountability Office
shall conduct a study to—
‘‘(1) assess the impact of the minimum wage in-
creases that occurred in American Samoa and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in
2007 and 2008, as required under Public Law 110–
28, on the rates of employment and the living stand-
ards of workers, with full consideration of the other
factors that impact rates of employment and the liv-
ing standards of workers such as inflation in the cost
of food, energy, and other commodities; and
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‘‘(2) estimate the impact of any further wage in-
creases on rates of employment and the living stand-
ards of workers in American Samoa and the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, with full
consideration of the other factors that may impact the
rates of employment and the living standards of
workers, including assessing how the profitability of
major private sector firms may be impacted by wage
increases in comparison to other factors such as en-
ergy costs and the value of tax benefits.
‘‘(b) REPORT.—No earlier than March 15, 2009, and
not later than April 15, 2009, the Government Account-
ability Office shall transmit its first report to Congress con-
cerning the findings of the study required under subsection
(a). The Government Accountability Office shall transmit
any subsequent reports to Congress concerning the findings
of a study required by subsection (a) between March 15 and
April 15 of each year.
‘‘(c) ECONOMIC INFORMATION.—To provide sufficient
economic data for the conduct of the study under subsection
(a)—
‘‘(1) the Department of Labor shall include and
separately report on American Samoa and the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in its
household surveys and establishment surveys;
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‘‘(2) the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the De-
partment of Commerce shall include and separately
report on American Samoa and the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands in its gross domestic
product data; and
‘‘(3) the Bureau of the Census of the Department
of Commerce shall include and separately report on
American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands in its population estimates
and demographic profiles from the American Commu-
nity Survey,
with the same regularity and to the same extent as the De-
partment or each Bureau collects and reports such data for
the 50 States. In the event that the inclusion of American
Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands in such surveys and data compilations requires
time to structure and implement, the Department of Labor,
the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of the
Census (as the case may be) shall in the interim annually
report the best available data that can feasibly be secured
with respect to such territories. Such interim reports shall
describe the steps the Department or the respective Bureau
will take to improve future data collection in the territories
to achieve comparability with the data collected in the
United States. The Department of Labor, the Bureau of
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Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of the Census, together
with the Department of the Interior, shall coordinate their
efforts to achieve such improvements.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this
section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
CHAPTER 7
RELATED AGENCY
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION
FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS ACCOUNT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Foreign Currency
Fluctuations Account’’, $10,000,000, to remain available
until expended, for purposes authorized by section 2109 of
title 36, United States Code.
TITLE III
HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA, AND OTHER
NATURAL DISASTERS
CHAPTER 1
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FARM SERVICE AGENCY
EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM
For the purposes of carrying out the Emergency Con-
servation 
Program, 
there 
is 
hereby 
appropriated
$49,413,000, to remain available until expended.
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NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Watershed and Flood
Prevention Operations’’, for emergency recovery operations,
$130,464,000, to remain available until expended.
GENERAL PROVISION—THIS CHAPTER
(INCLUDING RESCISSION)
SEC. 3101. Of the funds made available in the second
paragraph under the heading ‘‘Rural Utilities Service,
Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Loans Pro-
gram Account’’ in chapter 1 of division B of the Depart-
ment of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic
Influenza Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–148; 119 Stat. 2746),
the Secretary may use an amount not to exceed $1,000,000
of remaining unobligated funds for the cost of loan modi-
fications to rural electric loans made or guaranteed under
the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, to respond to damage
caused by any weather related events since Hurricane
Katrina, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That $1,000,000 of the remaining unobligated funds under
such paragraph are rescinded.
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CHAPTER 2
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
For an additional amount for economic development
assistance as provided by section 3082(a) of the Water Re-
sources Development Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–114),
$75,000,000.
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations, Research,
and Facilities’’ for necessary expenses related to economic
impacts associated with commercial fishery failures, fishery
resource disasters, and regulations on commercial fishing
industries, $75,000,000.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘State and Local Law
Enforcement Assistance’’, for discretionary grants author-
ized by subpart 2 of part E, of title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 as in effect on Sep-
tember 30, 2006, $75,000,000: Provided, That the amount
made available under this heading shall be for local law
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enforcement initiatives in the Gulf Coast region related to
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
CHAPTER 3
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL
CONSTRUCTION
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction’’ for nec-
essary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane
Katrina and other hurricanes of the 2005 season, and for
recovery from other natural disasters $5,033,345,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Army is directed to use $4,362,000,000 of the
funds appropriated under this heading to modify author-
ized projects in southeast Louisiana to provide hurricane
and storm damage reduction and flood damage reduction
in the greater New Orleans and surrounding areas to pro-
vide the levels of protection necessary to achieve the certifi-
cation required for participation in the National Flood In-
surance Program under the base flood elevations current at
the time of this construction; $1,657,000,000 shall be used
for the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity; $1,415,000,000
shall be used for the West Bank and Vicinity project; and
$1,290,000,000 shall be for elements of the Southeast Lou-
isiana Urban Drainage project, that are within the geo-