making false statements, tax evasion, violating Fed-
eral criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property; 
(2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise 
criminally or civilly charged by a governmental enti-
ty with, commission of any of the offenses enumer-
ated above in paragraph (1); or 
(3) within a 3-year period preceding this offer, 
has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in 
an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liabil-
ity remains unsatisfied. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the study of the Missouri River 
Projects authorized in section 108 of the Energy and 
Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2009 (division C of Public Law 111–8). 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to continue the study conducted by the 
Army Corps of Engineers pursuant to section 5018(a)(1) 
of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (Public 
Law 110–114). 
SEC. 518. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
order entitled ‘‘Order Accepting Proposed Tariff Revisions 
and Establishing a Technical Conference’’ issued by the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on August 13, 
2013 (Docket No. ER13–1380–000). 
SEC. 519. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used within the borders of the State of Lou-
isiana by the Mississippi Valley Division or the South-
western Division of the Army Corps of Engineers or any 
district of the Corps within such divisions to implement 
or enforce the mitigation methodology, referred to as the 
‘‘Modified Charleston Method’’. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for ‘‘DE–FOA0000697: Sustainable Cit-
ies: Urban Energy Planning for Smart Growth in China 
and India’’. 
SEC. 521. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salary of any officer or em-
ployee to carry out section 301 of the Hoover Power Plant 
Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 16421a; added by section 402 of 
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
(Public Law 111–5)). 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out section 801 of the Energy 
Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 
17281). 
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to transform the National Energy Tech-
nology Laboratory into a government-owned, contractor- 
operated laboratory, or to consolidate or close the National 
Energy Technology Laboratory. 
SEC. 524. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Cape Wind Energy Project on 
the Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts, Nantucket 
Sound. 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Ex-
ecutive Order No. 13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 43023, relating 
to the stewardship of oceans, coasts, and the Great 
Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy developed 
under such Executive order. 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to award grants or provide funding for 
high-efficiency toilets or indoor water-efficient toilets. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds made available by this 
Act 
may 
be 
used 
in 
contravention 
of 
section 
210(d)(1)(B)(ii) of the Water Resources Development Act 
of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238(d)(1)(B)(ii)). 
SEC. 528. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used— 
(1) to implement or enforce section 430.32(x) 
of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations; or
(2) to implement or enforce the standards es-
tablished by the tables contained in section 
325(i)(1)(B) of the Energy Policy and Conservation 
Act (42 U.S.C. 6295(i)(1)(B)) with respect to 
BPAR incandescent reflector lamps, BR incandes-
cent reflector lamps, and ER incandescent reflector 
lamps. 
SEC. 529. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to regulate activities identified in sub-
paragraphs (A) and (C) of section 404(f)(1) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(f)(1)(A), 
(C)) or to limit the exemption in section 404(f)(1)(A) of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1344(f)(1)(A)) to established or ongoing operations. 
SEC. 530. OFFSHORE DRILLING PERMIT. No funds 
made available by this Act may be used by the Department 
of Energy to block approval of offshore drilling permits. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to design, implement, administer, or 
carry out the United States Global Climate Research Pro-
gram National Climate Assessment, the Intergovern-
mental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Re-
port, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable develop-
ment plan, the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social 
Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Ex-
ecutive Order No. 12866, or the July 2014 Sustainable 
Development Solutions Network and Institute for Sustain-
able Development and International Relations’ pathways 
to deep decarbonization report. 
SEC. 532. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Department of Energy’s Climate 
Model Development and Validation program. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy and Water De-
velopment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2015’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 10, 2014. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4923 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for energy and water devel-
opment and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2015, and for other pur-
poses.