Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006

Bill: 109-hr-2419
Sponsor: Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alaska
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Appalachia
Appalachian Regional Commission
Appropriations
Aquatic ecology
Aquatic plants
Arkansas
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Army Corps of Engineers
Arts, Culture, Religion
Asbestos
Authorization
Bridges
California
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Chesapeake Bay
Civil engineering
Civil service retirement
Coal
Colleges
Colorado River development
Commemorations
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional tributes
Construction costs
Dams
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Delaware
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of the Interior
Drainage
Dredging
Education
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee benefit plans
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Estuaries
Families
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Fossil fuels
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Government downsizing
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Habitat conservation
Harbors
Hazardous wastes
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Illinois
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indiana
Infrastructure
Inland water transportation
Inspectors general
Iowa
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Islands
Kentucky
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Lakes
Landfills
Law
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Lead
Leases
Licenses
Lobbying
Louisiana
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine terminals
Maryland
Members of Congress
Mineral reserves
Minorities
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Missouri
Motor buses
Museums
Names
Native Americans
Navigation
Navigational aids
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York State
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear weapons
Ohio
Oil shales
Outdoor recreation
Parks
Pest control
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum reserves
Plutonium
Power marketing administrations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radioactive wastes
Recruiting of employees
Regional economic development
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Research and development
Research grants
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Revolving funds
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Senate
Severance pay
Shellfish
South Carolina
Sports and Recreation
Storms
Strategic materials
Teachers
Tennessee
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Uranium enrichment
Utah
Washington State
Waste disposal sites
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water quality
Water supply
Waterfronts
Watersheds
Waterways
West Virginia
Wetlands
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
 Makes appropriations for energy and water development for FY 2006 for: (1) the Department of the Army (including the Corps of Engineers) for civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) the Department of the Interior for the Central Utah Project Completion Account and the Bureau of Reclamation; and (3) the Department of Energy for energy supply and conservation, including nuclear waste disposal, atomic energy defense activities, and environmental and other defense activities.
 
Makes appropriations for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of Inspector General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 -
 Title I: Department of Defense - Civil
 - Makes FY 2006 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) certain flood damage reduction projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries (including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee); (3) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program; (4) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (5) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).
 
(Sec. 101) Prohibits the use of funds for obligation or expenditure, with specified exceptions, through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are denied or restricted by this Act; (4) reduces funds that are directed to be used for a specific program, project, or activity by this Act; or (5) increases or reduces funds for any program, project, or activity by more than $2 million or ten percent, whichever is less.
 
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of funds by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers related to: (1) Ridge Landfill in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; (2 ) Indian Run Sanitary Landfill in Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio; (3) the rehabilitation and lead and asbestos abatement of the dredge McFarland; or (4) construct the Port Jersey element of the New York and New Jersey Harbor, or reimburse the local sponsor for the construction of the Port Jersey element, until commitments for construction of container handling facilities are obtained from the non-Federal sponsor for a second user along the Port Jersey element.
 

Title II: Department of the Interior 
- Makes FY 2006 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account (Central Utah Project Completion Account) for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund, as well as the Colorado River Dam Fund; (3) the Central Valley (California) Project Restoration Fund; (4) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (5) administration and related functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation. 
 
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the &quot;Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; and the &quot;SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; described in a specified report. 
 
(Sec. 202) Bars the use of funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with the purchase requirements of specified law. 
 
(Sec. 203) Amends the Lower Colorado Water Supply Act to authorize the Secretary to: (1) enter into an agreement or agreements with the city of Needles (California) or the Imperial Irrigation District for the design and construction of the remaining stages of the Lower Colorado Water Supply Project; and (2) contract with additional persons or entities who hold certain Boulder Canyon Project Act contracts for municipal and industrial uses within the State of California for the use or benefit of Project water. 
 

Title III: Department of Energy
 - Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2006 for: (1) energy supply and conservation programs; (2) clean coal technology; (3) fossil energy research and development; (4) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (5) payment to the State of California for the State Teachers' Retirement Fund (in part from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund); (6) Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations and program management, (7) the Energy Information Administration; (8) non-defense environmental cleanup activities; (9) uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning; (10) general DOE science activities; (11) nuclear waste disposal; (12) DOE administration; (13) Office of the Inspector General; (14) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (15) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (16) naval reactors activities; (17) Office of the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (18) defense environmental cleanup; (19) other DOE defense activities; and (20) defense nuclear waste disposal. 
 
Declares that during FY 2006 no new direct loan obligations may be made regarding expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund.
 
Makes appropriations for FY 2006 for: (1) the various geographical power marketing administrations of DOE, and for the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams of the Western Area Power Administration; and (2) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of appropriations to make payments for any management and operating contract unless the Secretary of Energy issues a written notification of the Secretary's decision to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or to not renew the contract, when its term expires.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits; (2) augment specified sums made available for obligation by this Act for severance payments and other specified benefits and community assistance grants unless DOE submits a reprogramming request subject to approval by the appropriate congressional committees; or (3) prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals for a program that has not been funded by Congress.
 
(Sec. 306) Denies the use of any funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory (except those provided internationally) without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses. 
 
(Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such a facility.
 
(Sec. 308) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize the manager of a covered nuclear weapons research, development, testing or production facility to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities with respect to facility engineering and manufacturing capabilities in order to maintain and enhance such capabilities at such facility.
 
(Sec. 309) Declares that 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 under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY 2006 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2006.
 
(Sec. 310) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the following activities: (1) site selection for the Modern Pit Facility during FY 2006; (2) DOE national laboratories and production plants for Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD), Plant Directed Research and Development (PDRD), and Site Directed Research and Development (SDRD) activities in excess of $250 million, or for project costs incurred as Indirect Costs by Major Facility Operating Contractors; (4) laboratory directed research and development activities at DOE laboratories on behalf of other Federal agencies; or (5) authorized price support or loan guarantee programs unless specific provision is made for such programs in an appropriations Act.
 

Title IV: Independent Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of the Inspector General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
 

Title V: General Provisions
 - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress, other than to communicate to Members of Congress as specified by Federal criminal law.
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.

action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 -
 Title I: Department of Defense - Civil
 - Makes FY 2006 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) certain flood damage reduction projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries (including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee); (3) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program; (4) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (5) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works). 
 
(Sec. 101) Prohibits the use of funds for obligation or expenditure, with specified exceptions, through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates or initiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds are denied or restricted by this Act; (4) reduces funds that are directed to be used for a specific program, project, or activity by this Act; or (5) increases or reduces funds for any program, project, or activity by more than $2 million or ten percent, whichever is less.
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of funds by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers related to: (1) Ridge Landfill in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; (2 ) Indian Run Sanitary Landfill in Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio; (3) the rehabilitation and lead and asbestos abatement of the dredge McFarland; or (4) construct the Port Jersey element of the New York and New Jersey Harbor, or reimburse the local sponsor for the construction of the Port Jersey element, until commitments for construction of container handling facilities are obtained from the non-Federal sponsor for a second user along the Port Jersey element.
 

Title II: Department of the Interior 
- Makes FY 2006 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account (Central Utah Project Completion Account) for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund, as well as the Colorado River Dam Fund; (3) the Central Valley (California) Project Restoration Fund; (4) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (5) administration and related functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation. 
 
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the &quot;Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; and the &quot;SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; described in a specified report. 
 
(Sec. 202) Bars the use of funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with the purchase requirements of specified law. 
 
(Sec. 203) Amends the Lower Colorado Water Supply Act to authorize the Secretary to: (1) enter into an agreement or agreements with the city of Needles (California) or the Imperial Irrigation District for the design and construction of the remaining stages of the Lower Colorado Water Supply Project; and (2) contract with additional persons or entities who hold certain Boulder Canyon Project Act contracts for municipal and industrial uses within the State of California for the use or benefit of Project water. 
 

Title III: Department of Energy
 - Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2006 for: (1) energy supply and conservation programs; (2) clean coal technology; (3) fossil energy research and development; (4) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (5) payment to the State of California for the State Teachers' Retirement Fund (in part from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund); (6) Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations and program management, (7) the Energy Information Administration; (8) non-defense environmental cleanup activities; (9) uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning; (10) general DOE science activities; (11) nuclear waste disposal; (12) DOE administration; (13) Office of the Inspector General; (14) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (15) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (16) naval reactors activities; (17) Office of the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (18) defense environmental cleanup; (19) other DOE defense activities; and (20) defense nuclear waste disposal. 
 
Declares that during FY 2006 no new direct loan obligations may be made regarding expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund.
 
Makes appropriations for FY 2006 for: (1) the various geographical power marketing administrations of DOE, and for the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams of the Western Area Power Administration; and (2) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of appropriations to make payments for any management and operating contract unless the Secretary of Energy issues a written notification of the Secretary's decision to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or to not renew the contract, when its term expires.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits; (2) augment specified sums made available for obligation by this Act for severance payments and other specified benefits and community assistance grants unless DOE submits a reprogramming request subject to approval by the appropriate congressional committees; or (3) prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals for a program that has not been funded by Congress.
 
(Sec. 306) Denies the use of any funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory (except those provided internationally) without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses. 
 
(Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such a facility.
 
(Sec. 308) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize the manager of a covered nuclear weapons research, development, testing or production facility to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities with respect to facility engineering and manufacturing capabilities in order to maintain and enhance such capabilities at such facility.
 
(Sec. 309) Declares that 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 under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY 2006 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2006.
 
(Sec. 310) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the following activities: (1) site selection for the Modern Pit Facility during FY 2006; (2) DOE national laboratories and production plants for Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD), Plant Directed Research and Development (PDRD), and Site Directed Research and Development (SDRD) activities in excess of $250 million, or for project costs incurred as Indirect Costs by Major Facility Operating Contractors; (4) laboratory directed research and development activities at DOE laboratories on behalf of other Federal agencies; or (5) authorized price support or loan guarantee programs unless specific provision is made for such programs in an appropriations Act.
 

Title IV: Independent Agencies
 - Makes appropriations for FY 2006 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); (6) the Office of the Inspector General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
 

Title V: General Provisions
 - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress, other than to communicate to Members of Congress as specified by Federal criminal law.
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.
 
(Sec. 503) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act by the NRC to contract with or reimburse any NRC licensee or the Nuclear Energy Institute with respect to matters relating to the security of production facilities or utilization facilities.
 
(Sec. 504) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act before March 1, 2006, to enter into an agreement obligating the United States to contribute funds to ITER (the international burning plasma fusion research project in which the President announced United States participation on January 30, 2003).

action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006
 - Title I: Department of Defense - Civil -
 Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, shore protection, storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) certain flood damage reduction projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries (including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee); (3) flood control and coastal emergencies; (4) regulatory program; (5) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (6) general administrative expenses and related civil works functions. 
 
(Sec. 101) Limits agreements proposed for execution by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the United States Army Corps of Engineers after enactment of this Act to total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed $100 million in each fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of funds to demonstrate or implement any plans divesting or transferring any Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress.
 
(Sec. 103) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to carry out any activity relating to closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland, including a hearing or any other activity relating to preparation of an environmental impact statement concerning the closure or removal.
 
(Sec. 107) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to: (1) increase from $229.581 million to $358 million the total cost for the navigation project, Marmet Lock, Kanawha River, West Virginia; (2) modify the project for flood control at Lower Mud River, Milton, West Virginia, to authorize the Chief of Engineers to construct the project substantially in accordance with the draft report of the Corps of Engineers dated May 2004, at an estimated total cost of $45.5 million with an estimated federal cost of $34.125 million and an estimated nonfederal cost of $11.375 million.
 
(Sec. 109) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act to carry out any water reallocation project or component under the Wolf Creek Project, Lake Cumberland, Kentucky, authorized under the Act of June 28, 1938.
 
(Sec. 110) Increases from $10 million to $20 million the authorization of appropriations to implement the Las Vegas Wash and wetlands restoration and Lake Mead improvement project (Nevada). 
 
(Sec. 111) Modifies the Yazoo Basin Headwater Improvement, Mississippi, project to include the design and construction at full federal expense of such measures as determined by the Chief of Engineers to be advisable for bank erosion control along the Yazoo River (Mississippi), including specified tributaries and watersheds. 
 
(Sec. 112) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992, to increase the authorization of appropriations from $2 million to $15 million for planning, design and construction for the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site, Mississippi.
 
(Sec. 113) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to: (1) increase from $25 million to $50 million the authorization of appropriations for central New Mexico projects; (2) authorize the nonfederal interest to include a Regional or National nonprofit entity with the consent of the affected local government for the Missouri and Middle Mississippi Rivers Enhancement Project; (3) include within the Project's nonfederal share of cost-sharing diverse land interests and services; (4) extend the authorization of appropriations for such Project to FY2015.
 
(Sec. 114) Modifies the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Chief of Engineers to implement the project for navigation, Los Angeles Harbor, California, at a total cost of $222 million.
 
(Sec. 118) States that the portion of the L-15 levee system which is under the jurisdiction of the Consolidated North County Levee District, and which is situated along the right descending bank of the Mississippi River from its confluence with the Missouri River, and running upstream approximately 14 miles, shall be considered to be a federal levee for purposes of cost sharing.
 
(Sec. 119) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize $10 million for a water transmission main, Alpine, California.
 
(Sec. 121) Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of the Army may engage in recovery measures pertaining to the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program, New Mexico. 
 
(Sec. 122) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to: (1) declare that the Tri-Cities Power Authority the owner and operator of the hydropower facilities at the flood control project, Bluestone Lake, Ohio river basin, West Virginia; and (2) revise guidelines regarding completion of project construction and oversight by the Secretary of Energy.
 
(Sec. 123) Declares that the portion of the project for navigation, City Waterway, Tacoma, Washington, consisting of the last 1,000 linear feet of the inner portion of the Waterway beginning at Station 70+00 and ending at Station 80+00, is not authorized.
 
(Sec. 124) Directs the Chief of Engineers to: (1) define the repairs made at Fern Ridge Dam as a dam safety project (with costs to be recovered in accordance with specified law); (2) fully utilize the federal dredging fleet in support of all Army Corps of Engineers missions (with no restrictions placed on the use or maintenance of any dredge in the fleet); (3) maintain the federal dredging fleet to technologically modern and efficient standards; and (4) determine, at full federal expense, the feasibility of a dispersal barrier project at the Lake Champlain Canal (New York).
 

Title II: Department of the Interior -
 Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account (Central Utah Project Completion Account) for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund, as well as the Colorado River Dam Fund; (3) the Central Valley (California) Project Restoration Fund; (4) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (5) administration and related functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation. 
 
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the &quot;Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; and the &quot;SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; described in a specified report. 
 
(Sec. 202) Bars the use of funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with the purchase requirements of specified law. 
 
(Sec. 203) Makes funds under this Act for Drought Emergency Assistance available primarily for leasing of water for specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compliance with existing State laws and administered under state water priority allocation.
 
(Sec. 204) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements with irrigation or water districts and States to fund up to 50 percent of the cost of planning, designing, and constructing improvements that will conserve water, increase water use efficiency, or enhance water management through measurement or automation, at existing water supply projects within specified states.
 
(Sec. 205) Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Army, respectively to enter into agreements with other federal, state, and nonfederal entities with water rights in the Rio Grande Basin to form a Collaborative Water Operations Team. Requires the Team to cooperate on water management and undertake development of a master plan for the Rio Grande River and its tributaries within New Mexico that integrates all federal actions and where possible considers all nonfederal actions for water management.
 
(Sec. 206) Amends the Water Desalination Act of 1996 to extend the authorization of appropriations from FY2005 to FY2010.
 
(Sec. 207) Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Colorado Ute Settlement Fund for each of FY2006-2012.
 
(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to expend up to $1 million to cover both the Secretary's share and the State of Nevada's share of specified costs incurred by the conveyance of Nevada's share of the Humboldt Project.
 
(Sec. 209) Directs the Secretary to provide not more than $70 million to the University of Nevada for specified programs.
 
(Sec. 210) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility study regarding: (1) implementing water augmentation alternatives that would provide additional water to meet the future needs of the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District's member cities and surrounding area; (2) making use of existing Norman Project infrastructure to store, regulate, and deliver water to meet current and future water demands; and (3) increasing the capacity of existing Norman Project infrastructure in order to meet the projected demands. Authorizes appropriations. 
 

Title III: Department of Energy 
- Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY2006 for: (1) energy supply and conservation programs; (2) fossil energy research and development; (3) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (4) payment to the State of California for the State Teachers' Retirement Fund (in part from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund); (5) Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations and program management, (6) the Energy Information Administration; (7) non-defense environmental cleanup activities; (8) uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning; (9) general DOE science activities; (10) nuclear waste disposal; (11) DOE administration; (12) Office of the Inspector General; (13) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (14) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (15) naval reactors activities; (16) Office of the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (17) defense environmental cleanup; (18) other DOE defense activities; and (19) defense nuclear waste disposal.
 
Defers certain funds for clean coal technology until October 1, 2006, but makes other specified funds available for ongoing projects.
 
Declares that during FY2006 no new direct loan obligations may be made regarding expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund.
 
Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the various geographical power marketing administrations of DOE, and for the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams of the Western Area Power Administration; and (2) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan that covers employees of the Department of Energy (DOE); (2) provide enhanced severance payments or other benefits for such employees of the Department of Energy, under specified law; (3) augment the funds made available for obligation by this Act for certain severance payments and other benefits and community assistance grants unless the DOE submits a reprogramming request to the appropriate congressional committees; or (4) prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for a program if the program has not been funded by Congress.
 
(Sec. 305) Denies the use of any funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory (except those provided internationally) without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses. 
 
(Sec. 306) Bars the use of appropriations to make payments for any noncompetitive management and operating contract unless the Secretary of Energy issues a written notification of the decision to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or to not renew the contract, when its term expires.
 
(Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such a facility when it makes one available to universities or other potential users.
 
(Sec. 308) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize the manager of a covered nuclear weapons research, development, testing or production facility to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities with respect to facility engineering and manufacturing capabilities in order to maintain and enhance them at such facility.
 
(Sec. 309) Declares that 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 under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2006 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2006.
 
(Sec. 310) Bars the use of certain funds under this Act for: (1) disposal of transuranic waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant which contains specified concentrations of plutonium; or (2) any project that does not directly support the stockpile stewardship mission of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) unless the NNSA Administrator determines that all Advanced Simulation and Computing stockpile stewardship responsibilities for fiscal year 2006 have been satisfied.
 
(Sec. 312) Declares that the nonfederal share of project costs for the Reno Hydrogen Fuel Project shall be 20%.
 
(Sec. 313) Permits the Secretary of Energy to authorize a specific amount, not to exceed 8% of funds made available by DOE for activities at government-owned, contractor-operator operated laboratories funded in this Act, for laboratory-directed research and development.
 
(Sec. 315) Requires that Funds made available in this Act shall be available to: (1) pay expenses for all Lab Directed Research and Development (LDRD), Plant Directed Research and Development (PDRD), and Site Directed Research and Development (SDRD) project costs incurred by DOE Major Facility Operating Contractors; and (2) finance all costs of research performed on behalf of other federal agencies, including laboratory directed research and development costs.
 
(Sec. 316) Bars the availability of funds provided in this Act to implement reforms identified in Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board NNSA Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Study that had not been requested within the FY2006 budget request.
 

Title IV: Independent Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of the Inspector General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
 

Title V: General Provisions
 - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.

action_date: 2005-07-01
text: 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006
 - Title I: Department of Defense - Civil -
 Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, shore protection, storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) certain flood damage reduction projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries (including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee); (3) flood control and coastal emergencies; (4) regulatory program; (5) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (6) general administrative expenses and related civil works functions. 
 
(Sec. 101) Limits agreements proposed for execution by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the United States Army Corps of Engineers after enactment of this Act to total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed $100 million in each fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 102) Bars the use of funds to demonstrate or implement any plans divesting or transferring any Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress.
 
(Sec. 103) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to carry out any activity relating to closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland, including a hearing or any other activity relating to preparation of an environmental impact statement concerning the closure or removal.
 
(Sec. 107) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to: (1) increase from $229.581 million to $358 million the total cost for the navigation project, Marmet Lock, Kanawha River, West Virginia; (2) modify the project for flood control at Lower Mud River, Milton, West Virginia, to authorize the Chief of Engineers to construct the project substantially in accordance with the draft report of the Corps of Engineers dated May 2004, at an estimated total cost of $45.5 million with an estimated federal cost of $34.125 million and an estimated nonfederal cost of $11.375 million.
 
(Sec. 109) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act to carry out any water reallocation project or component under the Wolf Creek Project, Lake Cumberland, Kentucky, authorized under the Act of June 28, 1938.
 
(Sec. 110) Increases from $10 million to $20 million the authorization of appropriations to implement the Las Vegas Wash and wetlands restoration and Lake Mead improvement project (Nevada). 
 
(Sec. 111) Modifies the Yazoo Basin Headwater Improvement, Mississippi, project to include the design and construction at full federal expense of such measures as determined by the Chief of Engineers to be advisable for bank erosion control along the Yazoo River (Mississippi), including specified tributaries and watersheds. 
 
(Sec. 112) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992, to increase the authorization of appropriations from $2 million to $15 million for planning, design and construction for the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site, Mississippi.
 
(Sec. 113) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to: (1) increase from $25 million to $50 million the authorization of appropriations for central New Mexico projects; (2) authorize the nonfederal interest to include a Regional or National nonprofit entity with the consent of the affected local government for the Missouri and Middle Mississippi Rivers Enhancement Project; (3) include within the Project's nonfederal share of cost-sharing diverse land interests and services; (4) extend the authorization of appropriations for such Project to FY2015.
 
(Sec. 114) Modifies the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Chief of Engineers to implement the project for navigation, Los Angeles Harbor, California, at a total cost of $222 million.
 
(Sec. 118) States that the portion of the L-15 levee system which is under the jurisdiction of the Consolidated North County Levee District, and which is situated along the right descending bank of the Mississippi River from its confluence with the Missouri River, and running upstream approximately 14 miles, shall be considered to be a federal levee for purposes of cost sharing.
 
(Sec. 119) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize $10 million for a water transmission main, Alpine, California.
 
(Sec. 121) Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of the Army may engage in recovery measures pertaining to the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program, New Mexico. 
 
(Sec. 122) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to: (1) declare that the Tri-Cities Power Authority the owner and operator of the hydropower facilities at the flood control project, Bluestone Lake, Ohio river basin, West Virginia; and (2) revise guidelines regarding completion of project construction and oversight by the Secretary of Energy.
 
(Sec. 123) Declares that the portion of the project for navigation, City Waterway, Tacoma, Washington, consisting of the last 1,000 linear feet of the inner portion of the Waterway beginning at Station 70+00 and ending at Station 80+00, is not authorized.
 
(Sec. 124) Directs the Chief of Engineers to: (1) define the repairs made at Fern Ridge Dam as a dam safety project (with costs to be recovered in accordance with specified law); (2) fully utilize the federal dredging fleet in support of all Army Corps of Engineers missions (with no restrictions placed on the use or maintenance of any dredge in the fleet); (3) maintain the federal dredging fleet to technologically modern and efficient standards; and (4) determine, at full federal expense, the feasibility of a dispersal barrier project at the Lake Champlain Canal (New York).
 
(Sec. 128) Authorizes funds for: (1) the sea lamprey barrier construction in the Great Lakes; (2) Saco River and Camp Ellis Beach, Maine, continuing authorities project; (3) maintenance dredging of the Narragaugus River, Milbridge, Maine; and (4) the Penobscot River Restoration Study, Maine.
 

Title II: Department of the Interior -
 Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account (Central Utah Project Completion Account) for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund, as well as the Colorado River Dam Fund; (3) the Central Valley (California) Project Restoration Fund; (4) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (5) administration and related functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation. 
 
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the &quot;Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; and the &quot;SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; described in a specified report. 
 
(Sec. 202) Bars the use of funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with the purchase requirements of specified law. 
 
(Sec. 203) Makes funds under this Act for Drought Emergency Assistance available primarily for leasing of water for specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compliance with existing State laws and administered under state water priority allocation.
 
(Sec. 204) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements with irrigation or water districts and States to fund up to 50 percent of the cost of planning, designing, and constructing improvements that will conserve water, increase water use efficiency, or enhance water management through measurement or automation, at existing water supply projects within specified states.
 
(Sec. 205) Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Army, respectively to enter into agreements with other federal, state, and nonfederal entities with water rights in the Rio Grande Basin to form a Collaborative Water Operations Team. Requires the Team to cooperate on water management and undertake development of a master plan for the Rio Grande River and its tributaries within New Mexico that integrates all federal actions and where possible considers all nonfederal actions for water management.
 
(Sec. 206) Amends the Water Desalination Act of 1996 to extend the authorization of appropriations from FY2005 to FY2010.
 
(Sec. 207) Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Colorado Ute Settlement Fund for each of FY2006-2012.
 
(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to expend up to $1 million to cover both the Secretary's share and the State of Nevada's share of specified costs incurred by the conveyance of Nevada's share of the Humboldt Project.
 
(Sec. 209) Directs the Secretary to provide not more than $70 million to the University of Nevada for specified programs.
 
(Sec. 210) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility study regarding: (1) implementing water augmentation alternatives that would provide additional water to meet the future needs of the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District's member cities and surrounding area; (2) making use of existing Norman Project infrastructure to store, regulate, and deliver water to meet current and future water demands; and (3) increasing the capacity of existing Norman Project infrastructure in order to meet the projected demands. Authorizes appropriations. 
 

Title III: Department of Energy 
- Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY2006 for: (1) energy supply and conservation programs; (2) fossil energy research and development; (3) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (4) payment to the State of California for the State Teachers' Retirement Fund (in part from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund); (5) Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations and program management, (6) the Energy Information Administration; (7) non-defense environmental cleanup activities; (8) uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning; (9) general DOE science activities; (10) nuclear waste disposal; (11) DOE administration; (12) Office of the Inspector General; (13) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (14) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (15) naval reactors activities; (16) Office of the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (17) defense environmental cleanup; (18) other DOE defense activities; and (19) defense nuclear waste disposal.
 
Defers certain funds for clean coal technology until October 1, 2006, but makes other specified funds available for ongoing projects.
 
Authorizes funding for the Clean Cities program, including work to expand E-85 fueling capacity, at no less than the current year level.
 
 
Declares that during FY2006 no new direct loan obligations may be made regarding expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund.
 
Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the various geographical power marketing administrations of DOE, and for the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams of the Western Area Power Administration; and (2) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan that covers employees of the Department of Energy (DOE); (2) provide enhanced severance payments or other benefits for such employees of the Department of Energy, under specified law; (3) augment the funds made available for obligation by this Act for certain severance payments and other benefits and community assistance grants unless the DOE submits a reprogramming request to the appropriate congressional committees; or (4) prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for a program if the program has not been funded by Congress.
 
(Sec. 305) Denies the use of any funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory (except those provided internationally) without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses. 
 
(Sec. 306) Bars the use of appropriations to make payments for any noncompetitive management and operating contract unless the Secretary of Energy issues a written notification of the decision to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or to not renew the contract, when its term expires.
 
(Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such a facility when it makes one available to universities or other potential users.
 
(Sec. 308) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize the manager of a covered nuclear weapons research, development, testing or production facility to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities with respect to facility engineering and manufacturing capabilities in order to maintain and enhance them at such facility.
 
(Sec. 309) Declares that 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 under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2006 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2006.
 
(Sec. 310) Bars the use of certain funds under this Act for: (1) disposal of transuranic waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant which contains specified concentrations of plutonium; or (2) any project that does not directly support the stockpile stewardship mission of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) unless the NNSA Administrator determines that all Advanced Simulation and Computing stockpile stewardship responsibilities for fiscal year 2006 have been satisfied.
 
(Sec. 312) Declares that the nonfederal share of project costs for the Reno Hydrogen Fuel Project shall be 20%.
 
(Sec. 313) Permits the Secretary of Energy to authorize a specific amount, not to exceed 8% of funds made available by DOE for activities at government-owned, contractor-operator operated laboratories funded in this Act, for laboratory-directed research and development.
 
(Sec. 315) Requires that Funds made available in this Act shall be available to: (1) pay expenses for all Lab Directed Research and Development (LDRD), Plant Directed Research and Development (PDRD), and Site Directed Research and Development (SDRD) project costs incurred by DOE Major Facility Operating Contractors; and (2) finance all costs of research performed on behalf of other federal agencies, including laboratory directed research and development costs.
 
(Sec. 316) Bars the availability of funds provided in this Act to implement reforms identified in Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board NNSA Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Study that had not been requested within the FY2006 budget request.
 
(Sec. 317) Directs the Government Accountability Office to study the Office of Science Fusion Energy program in order to define the roles of the major domestic facilities, DIIID, Alcator C-Mod, and NSTX in the support of the International Thermoelectric Reactor program.
 
(Sec. 318) Prohibits the Secretary from providing more than: (1) $10 million for the purchase of mineral rights at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (Colorado); and (2) $15 million to provide regular and early retirement benefits to workers at such Site for FY2006.
 
(Sec. 320) States that beginning in FY2006 the Savannah River National Laboratory (South Carolina) may be eligible for laboratory directed research and development funding.
 

Title IV: Independent Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of the Inspector General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
 

Title V: General Provisions
 - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to award a fully-funded continuing contract, in a case in which continuing contract authority is applicable, unless the Chief of Engineers makes specified certifications.

action_date: 2005-11-07
text: 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 - 
Title I: Department of the Army - Civil 
- Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, shore protection, storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) planning assistance to the state of Ohio for Stark County watershed basin study; (3) a comprehensive hurricane protection analysis and design, conducted in close coordination with the state of Louisiana, to develop flood control, coastal restoration, and hurricane protection measures for South Louisiana; (4) certain flood damage reduction projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries (including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee); (5) regulatory program for navigable waters and wetlands; (6) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (7) general administrative expenses and related civil works functions. 
 
Prohibits funds otherwise available to the Corps of Engineers from being available for the rehabilitation and lead and asbestos abatement of the dredge McFarland.
 
 (Sec. 102) Limits agreements proposed for execution by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the United States Army Corps of Engineers after enactment of this Act to total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed $100 million in each fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 103) Prohibits the Army Corps of Engineers from using funds to support activities related to any proposed new landfill in the Muskingum Watershed if specified conditions prevail.
 
(Sec. 104) Bars the use of funds to demonstrate or implement any plans divesting or transferring any Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress.
 
(Sec. 105) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to carry out any activity relating to closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland, including a hearing or any other activity relating to preparation of an environmental impact statement concerning the closure or removal.
 
(Sec. 106) States that certain requirements regarding the use of continuing contracts under the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 apply only to projects funded under the Operation and Maintenance account and subaccount of the Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries account.
 
(Sec. 110) Amends federal law relating to Gwynns Falls Watershed, Baltimore, Maryland, to set forth credit and reimbusement guidelines for the non-federal sponsor.
 
(Sec. 111) Prohibits the expenditure of funds in this Act by the Secretary of the Army to construct the Port Jersey element of the New York and New Jersey Harbor or to reimburse the local sponsor for the construction of the Port Jersey element until commitments for construction of container handling facilities are obtained from the non-Federal sponsor for a second user along the Port Jersey element.
 
(Sec. 112) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to increase to $358 million the total cost for Marmet Lock, Kanawha River, West Virginia.
 
(Sec. 113) Credits certain nonfederal funds expended in connection with the Truckee Meadows Flood Control Project, Nevada, to the non-federal sponsor's share of costs for the project. 
 
(Sec. 114) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act to carry out any water reallocation project or component under the Wolf Creek Project, Lake Cumberland, Kentucky.
 
(Sec. 115) Increases from $10 million to $20 million the authorization of appropriations to implement the Las Vegas Wash and wetlands restoration and Lake Mead improvement project (Nevada). 
 
(Sec. 116) Modifies the Yazoo Basin Big Sunflower River, Mississippi, project to include the design and construction at full federal expense for sedimentation, erosion and headcutting in watersheds of the Yazoo River Basin: Yazoo Headwater and Big Sunflower.
 
(Sec. 117) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to increase from $2 million to $15 million the authorization of appropriations for planning, design and construction for the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site, Mississippi.
 
(Sec. 118) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to increase from $25 million to $50 million the authorization of appropriations for central New Mexico projects.
 
(Sec. 119) Modifies the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Chief of Engineers to implement the project for navigation, Los Angeles Harbor, California, at a total cost of $222 million.
 
(Sec. 120) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize $10 million for a water transmission main, Alpine, California.
 
(Sec. 121) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to implement and fund projects to comply with a specified 2003 Biological Opinion and to award grants and enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, or interagency agreements with certain participants in the Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program Workgroup in order to carry out such projects. Requires a nonfederal cost share of 25% for any such project, provided through in-kind services or direct cash contributions. 
 
(Sec. 122) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to: (1) designate the Tri-Cities Power Authority as owner and operator of the hydropower facilities at the flood control project, Bluestone Lake, Ohio River Basin, West Virginia; and (2) revise guidelines governing completion of project construction and oversight by the Secretary of Energy.
 
(Sec. 123) Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary of the Army to implement the wastewater infrastructure project, DeSoto County, Mississippi.
 
(Sec. 124) Modifies the flood control project for Las Vegas Wash and Tributaries (Flamingo and Tropicana Washes), Nevada, to require that the costs of certain channel crossings: (1) shall be added to the authorized costs of the project; (2) shall be cost-shared; and (3) shall not be considered part of the nonfederal sponsor's responsibility to provide lands, easements, and rights-of-way, and to perform relocations for the project.
 
(Sec.125) Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out a continuing restoration program for the Lake Michigan Waterfront and Related Areas, Lake and Porter Counties, Indiana.
 
(Sec.126) Increases from $20 million to $30 million the authorization of funds for Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration, Maryland and Virginia.
 
(Sec.127) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to complete the project for flood control, Little Calumet River, Indiana, in accordance with the post authorization change report dated August 2000 at a total cost of $198 million, with an estimated federal cost of $148.5 million and an estimated nonfederal cost of $49.5 million.
 
(Sec.128) Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Interior are directed to collaborate on authorized activities to maximize flood damage reduction improvements and address dam safety needs at Folsom Dam and Reservoir, California (American River Watershed).
 
Makes the $30 million already authorized for construction of the Folsom permanent bridge an addition to the $36 million provided for in the recommended plan for bridge construction. Excludes such $30 million from cost sharing requirements with nonfederal interests. 
 
(Sec. 129) Modifies the navigation project, Jacksonville Harbor, Florida, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to extend navigation features in accordance with the Report of the Chief of Engineers, dated July 22, 2003, at a total cost of $14.658 million, with an estimated federal cost of $9.636 million and an estimated nonfederal cost of $5.022 million.
 
(Sec. 130) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to: (1) quadruple funds for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects in Ohio; and (2) triple funds for environmental restoration, conservation, and management of Onondaga Lake, New York.
 
(Sec. 132) Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary of the Army to implement alternatives BS-3 and NF-7, as described in the White River Minimum Flows Reallocation Study Report, Arkansas and Missouri, dated July 2004.
 
(Sec. 133) Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey all federal right, title, and interest to specified real property to Pujo Heirs and Westland Corporation, at such time as Pujo Heirs and Westland Corporation convey all right, title, and interest in certain real property to the United States.
 
(Sec. 134) Modifies project guidelines for flood damage reduction, environmental restoration, recreation, Johnson Creek, Arlington, Texas. 
 
(Sec. 135) Makes funds earmarked for Hudson River, Athens, New York, available for projects in the Catskill/Delaware watersheds in Delaware and Greene Counties, New York, under the authority of the New York City Watershed Environmental Assistance Program.
 
(Sec. 136) Bars the availability of specified funds under this Act to reassign personnel from the Charleston, South Carolina, district office in excess of 180 days.
 
(Sec. 137) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to: (1) design and construct recreation and access features designated as Phase II of the Louisville Waterfront Park, Kentucky; and (2) carry out the project for navigation, Akutan, Alaska, at a total cost of $19.7 million, in accordance with the plans and conditions described in the Report of the Chief of Engineers dated December 20, 2004.
 
(Sec. 139) Designates as the &quot;Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island,&quot; the project for the beneficial use of dredged material at Poplar Island, Maryland. 
 

Title II: Department of the Interior
 - Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account (Central Utah Project Completion Account) for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund, as well as the Colorado River Dam Fund; (3) the Central Valley (California) Project Restoration Fund; (4) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (5) administration and related functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation. 
 
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the state of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the &quot;Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; and the &quot;SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; described in a specified report.
 
(Sec. 202) Bars the use of funds to pay salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande, or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico, unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with certain statutory purchase requirements. 
 
(Sec. 203) Amends the Lower Colorado Water Supply Act to authorize the Secretary to: (1) enter into an agreement or agreements with the city of Needles (California) or the Imperial Irrigation District for the design and construction of the remaining stages of the Lower Colorado Water Supply Project; and (2) contract with additional persons or entities who hold certain Boulder Canyon Project Act contracts for municipal and industrial uses within the state of California for the use or benefit of Project water. 
 
(Sec. 204) Makes funds available under this Act for Drought Emergency Assistance available primarily for leasing of water for specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compliance with existing state laws and administered under state water priority allocation. 
 
(Sec. 205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements with irrigation or water districts and states to fund up to 50% of the cost of planning, designing, and constructing improvements that will conserve water, increase water use efficiency, or enhance water management through measurement or automation, at existing water supply projects within specified states.
 
(Sec. 206) Amends the Water Desalination Act of 1996 to extend the authorization of appropriations to FY2006 
 
(Sec. 207) Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to extend to FY2012 the authorization of appropriations for the Colorado Ute Settlement Fund.
 
(Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide specified funds to: (1) the University of Nevada to acquire land, water, and related interests in the Walker River Basin, Nevada; (2) the Walker River Paiute Tribe for a water lease and purchase program; and (3) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Walker River Paiute Tribe, and the Nevada Division of Wildlife, to complete design and implementation of the Western Inland Trout Initiative and Fishery Improvements in the state of Nevada, with an emphasis on the Walker River Basin.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to provide certain funds for tamarisk eradication, riparian area restoration, and channel restoration efforts within the Walker River Basin designed to enhance water delivery to Walker Lake. 
 
(Sec. 209) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special report to update cost analysis and associated benefits of the Auburn-Folsom South Unit, Central Valley Project. Authorizes appropriations.
 

Title III: Department of Energy 
- Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY2006 for: (1) energy supply and conservation programs; (2) fossil energy research and development; (3) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (4) payment to the state of California for the State Teachers' Retirement Fund (in part from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund); (5) Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations and program management; (6) the Energy Information Administration; (7) non-defense environmental cleanup activities; (8) uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning; (9) general DOE science activities; (10) nuclear waste disposal; (11) DOE administration; (12) Office of the Inspector General; (13) atomic energy defense activities; (14) national nuclear security administration; (15) weapons activities; (16) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (17) naval reactors activities; (18) Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (19) defense environmental cleanup; (20) other DOE defense activities; and (21) defense nuclear waste disposal.
 
Defers until October 1, 2006, certain funds for clean coal technology, but makes other specified funds available for ongoing projects. Rescinds $20 million of uncommitted balances.
 
Declares that during FY2006 no new direct loan obligations may be made regarding expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund.
 
Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the various geographical power marketing administrations of DOE; (2) the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams; and (3) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for payments for a noncompetitive management and operating contract, unless the Secretary of Energy has published, and submitted to certain congressional committees, a written notification of a decision to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or nonrenewal of the contract, when its term expires.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan that covers employees of the Department of Energy (DOE); (2) provide enhanced severance payments or other benefits for such employees under specified law; (3) augment certain funds made available for obligation for certain severance payments, other benefits and community assistance grants, unless DOE submits a reprogramming request to appropriate congressional committees; or (4) prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for a program that has not been funded by Congress.
 
(Sec. 306) Denies the use of funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses (except those provided internationally). 
 
(Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such a facility when it makes one available to universities or other potential users.
 
(Sec. 308) Deems funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act during FY2006 for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress under the National Security Act of 1947 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2006.
 
(Sec. 309) Bars the use of certain funds under this Act for disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant of transuranic waste containing specified concentrations of plutonium.
 
(Sec. 310) Makes 20% the nonfederal share of project costs for the Reno Hydrogen Fuel Project.
 
(Sec. 311) Permits the Secretary of Energy to authorize for laboratory-directed research and development a specific amount up to 8% of funds made available by DOE for activities at government-owned, contractor-operator operated laboratories funded in this Act.
 
(Sec. 312) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to provide for FY2006, out of amounts appropriated for the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, up to $10 million for the purchase of mineral rights at such Site.
 
(Sec. 313) Amends the Atomic Energy Defense Act to: (1) extend (generally to dates in 2012) certain deadlines governing disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at the Savannah River site; and (2) direct the Secretary of Energy to report to Congress on construction and operation of the MOX facility that includes a schedule for revising statutory requirements during FY2007 to conform with the schedule established by the Secretary for the MOX facility, based on estimated funding levels for the fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to barter, transfer, or sell uranium and to use any proceeds, without fiscal year limitation, to remediate uranium inventories held by the Secretary (including natural uranium concentrates, natural uranium hexafluoride, or in any form or assay).
 
(Sec. 315) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 to provide $50 million for the Iowa Environmental and Education project. Prohibits further funds from being disbursed by DOE until a 100% non-federal cash and in-kind match (excluding land donations) of the appropriated federal funds has been secured for the project by the non-federal project sponsor.
 

Title IV: Independent Agencies 
- Makes FY2006 appropriations for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of the Inspector General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
 

Title V: General Provisions 
- (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to influence congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress.
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in this Act, or any other appropriation Act.

action_date: 2005-11-19
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on November 7, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2006 - 
Title I: Department of the Army - Civil 
- Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, shore protection, storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) planning assistance to the state of Ohio for Stark County watershed basin study; (3) a comprehensive hurricane protection analysis and design, conducted in close coordination with the state of Louisiana, to develop flood control, coastal restoration, and hurricane protection measures for South Louisiana; (4) certain flood damage reduction projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries (including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee); (5) regulatory program for navigable waters and wetlands; (6) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (7) general administrative expenses and related civil works functions. 
 
Prohibits funds otherwise available to the Corps of Engineers from being available for the rehabilitation and lead and asbestos abatement of the dredge McFarland.
 
 (Sec. 102) Limits agreements proposed for execution by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the United States Army Corps of Engineers after enactment of this Act to total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed $100 million in each fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 103) Prohibits the Army Corps of Engineers from using funds to support activities related to any proposed new landfill in the Muskingum Watershed if specified conditions prevail.
 
(Sec. 104) Bars the use of funds to demonstrate or implement any plans divesting or transferring any Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress.
 
(Sec. 105) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to carry out any activity relating to closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland, including a hearing or any other activity relating to preparation of an environmental impact statement concerning the closure or removal.
 
(Sec. 106) States that certain requirements regarding the use of continuing contracts under the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 apply only to projects funded under the Operation and Maintenance account and subaccount of the Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries account.
 
(Sec. 110) Amends federal law relating to Gwynns Falls Watershed, Baltimore, Maryland, to set forth credit and reimbusement guidelines for the non-federal sponsor.
 
(Sec. 111) Prohibits the expenditure of funds in this Act by the Secretary of the Army to construct the Port Jersey element of the New York and New Jersey Harbor or to reimburse the local sponsor for the construction of the Port Jersey element until commitments for construction of container handling facilities are obtained from the non-Federal sponsor for a second user along the Port Jersey element.
 
(Sec. 112) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to increase to $358 million the total cost for Marmet Lock, Kanawha River, West Virginia.
 
(Sec. 113) Credits certain nonfederal funds expended in connection with the Truckee Meadows Flood Control Project, Nevada, to the non-federal sponsor's share of costs for the project. 
 
(Sec. 114) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act to carry out any water reallocation project or component under the Wolf Creek Project, Lake Cumberland, Kentucky.
 
(Sec. 115) Increases from $10 million to $20 million the authorization of appropriations to implement the Las Vegas Wash and wetlands restoration and Lake Mead improvement project (Nevada). 
 
(Sec. 116) Modifies the Yazoo Basin Big Sunflower River, Mississippi, project to include the design and construction at full federal expense for sedimentation, erosion and headcutting in watersheds of the Yazoo River Basin: Yazoo Headwater and Big Sunflower.
 
(Sec. 117) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to increase from $2 million to $15 million the authorization of appropriations for planning, design and construction for the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Site, Mississippi.
 
(Sec. 118) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to increase from $25 million to $50 million the authorization of appropriations for central New Mexico projects.
 
(Sec. 119) Modifies the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Chief of Engineers to implement the project for navigation, Los Angeles Harbor, California, at a total cost of $222 million.
 
(Sec. 120) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize $10 million for a water transmission main, Alpine, California.
 
(Sec. 121) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to implement and fund projects to comply with a specified 2003 Biological Opinion and to award grants and enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, or interagency agreements with certain participants in the Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program Workgroup in order to carry out such projects. Requires a nonfederal cost share of 25% for any such project, provided through in-kind services or direct cash contributions. 
 
(Sec. 122) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to: (1) designate the Tri-Cities Power Authority as owner and operator of the hydropower facilities at the flood control project, Bluestone Lake, Ohio River Basin, West Virginia; and (2) revise guidelines governing completion of project construction and oversight by the Secretary of Energy.
 
(Sec. 123) Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary of the Army to implement the wastewater infrastructure project, DeSoto County, Mississippi.
 
(Sec. 124) Modifies the flood control project for Las Vegas Wash and Tributaries (Flamingo and Tropicana Washes), Nevada, to require that the costs of certain channel crossings: (1) shall be added to the authorized costs of the project; (2) shall be cost-shared; and (3) shall not be considered part of the nonfederal sponsor's responsibility to provide lands, easements, and rights-of-way, and to perform relocations for the project.
 
(Sec.125) Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out a continuing restoration program for the Lake Michigan Waterfront and Related Areas, Lake and Porter Counties, Indiana.
 
(Sec.126) Increases from $20 million to $30 million the authorization of funds for Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration, Maryland and Virginia.
 
(Sec.127) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to complete the project for flood control, Little Calumet River, Indiana, in accordance with the post authorization change report dated August 2000 at a total cost of $198 million, with an estimated federal cost of $148.5 million and an estimated nonfederal cost of $49.5 million.
 
(Sec.128) Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Interior are directed to collaborate on authorized activities to maximize flood damage reduction improvements and address dam safety needs at Folsom Dam and Reservoir, California (American River Watershed).
 
Makes the $30 million already authorized for construction of the Folsom permanent bridge an addition to the $36 million provided for in the recommended plan for bridge construction. Excludes such $30 million from cost sharing requirements with nonfederal interests. 
 
(Sec. 129) Modifies the navigation project, Jacksonville Harbor, Florida, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to extend navigation features in accordance with the Report of the Chief of Engineers, dated July 22, 2003, at a total cost of $14.658 million, with an estimated federal cost of $9.636 million and an estimated nonfederal cost of $5.022 million.
 
(Sec. 130) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to: (1) quadruple funds for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects in Ohio; and (2) triple funds for environmental restoration, conservation, and management of Onondaga Lake, New York.
 
(Sec. 132) Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary of the Army to implement alternatives BS-3 and NF-7, as described in the White River Minimum Flows Reallocation Study Report, Arkansas and Missouri, dated July 2004.
 
(Sec. 133) Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey all federal right, title, and interest to specified real property to Pujo Heirs and Westland Corporation, at such time as Pujo Heirs and Westland Corporation convey all right, title, and interest in certain real property to the United States.
 
(Sec. 134) Modifies project guidelines for flood damage reduction, environmental restoration, recreation, Johnson Creek, Arlington, Texas. 
 
(Sec. 135) Makes funds earmarked for Hudson River, Athens, New York, available for projects in the Catskill/Delaware watersheds in Delaware and Greene Counties, New York, under the authority of the New York City Watershed Environmental Assistance Program.
 
(Sec. 136) Bars the availability of specified funds under this Act to reassign personnel from the Charleston, South Carolina, district office in excess of 180 days.
 
(Sec. 137) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to: (1) design and construct recreation and access features designated as Phase II of the Louisville Waterfront Park, Kentucky; and (2) carry out the project for navigation, Akutan, Alaska, at a total cost of $19.7 million, in accordance with the plans and conditions described in the Report of the Chief of Engineers dated December 20, 2004.
 
(Sec. 139) Designates as the &quot;Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island,&quot; the project for the beneficial use of dredged material at Poplar Island, Maryland. 
 

Title II: Department of the Interior
 - Makes FY2006 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account (Central Utah Project Completion Account) for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund, as well as the Colorado River Dam Fund; (3) the Central Valley (California) Project Restoration Fund; (4) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (5) administration and related functions in the office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation. 
 
(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the state of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards as approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the &quot;Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; and the &quot;SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan&quot; described in a specified report.
 
(Sec. 202) Bars the use of funds to pay salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande, or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico, unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with certain statutory purchase requirements. 
 
(Sec. 203) Amends the Lower Colorado Water Supply Act to authorize the Secretary to: (1) enter into an agreement or agreements with the city of Needles (California) or the Imperial Irrigation District for the design and construction of the remaining stages of the Lower Colorado Water Supply Project; and (2) contract with additional persons or entities who hold certain Boulder Canyon Project Act contracts for municipal and industrial uses within the state of California for the use or benefit of Project water. 
 
(Sec. 204) Makes funds available under this Act for Drought Emergency Assistance available primarily for leasing of water for specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compliance with existing state laws and administered under state water priority allocation. 
 
(Sec. 205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements with irrigation or water districts and states to fund up to 50% of the cost of planning, designing, and constructing improvements that will conserve water, increase water use efficiency, or enhance water management through measurement or automation, at existing water supply projects within specified states.
 
(Sec. 206) Amends the Water Desalination Act of 1996 to extend the authorization of appropriations to FY2006 
 
(Sec. 207) Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to extend to FY2012 the authorization of appropriations for the Colorado Ute Settlement Fund.
 
(Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide specified funds to: (1) the University of Nevada to acquire land, water, and related interests in the Walker River Basin, Nevada; (2) the Walker River Paiute Tribe for a water lease and purchase program; and (3) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Walker River Paiute Tribe, and the Nevada Division of Wildlife, to complete design and implementation of the Western Inland Trout Initiative and Fishery Improvements in the state of Nevada, with an emphasis on the Walker River Basin.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to provide certain funds for tamarisk eradication, riparian area restoration, and channel restoration efforts within the Walker River Basin designed to enhance water delivery to Walker Lake. 
 
(Sec. 209) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special report to update cost analysis and associated benefits of the Auburn-Folsom South Unit, Central Valley Project. Authorizes appropriations.
 

Title III: Department of Energy 
- Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY2006 for: (1) energy supply and conservation programs; (2) fossil energy research and development; (3) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (4) payment to the state of California for the State Teachers' Retirement Fund (in part from the Elk Hills School Lands Fund); (5) Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations and program management; (6) the Energy Information Administration; (7) non-defense environmental cleanup activities; (8) uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning; (9) general DOE science activities; (10) nuclear waste disposal; (11) DOE administration; (12) Office of the Inspector General; (13) atomic energy defense activities; (14) national nuclear security administration; (15) weapons activities; (16) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (17) naval reactors activities; (18) Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (19) defense environmental cleanup; (20) other DOE defense activities; and (21) defense nuclear waste disposal.
 
Defers until October 1, 2006, certain funds for clean coal technology, but makes other specified funds available for ongoing projects. Rescinds $20 million of uncommitted balances.
 
Declares that during FY2006 no new direct loan obligations may be made regarding expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund.
 
Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the various geographical power marketing administrations of DOE; (2) the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams; and (3) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
 
(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for payments for a noncompetitive management and operating contract, unless the Secretary of Energy has published, and submitted to certain congressional committees, a written notification of a decision to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or nonrenewal of the contract, when its term expires.
 
(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan that covers employees of the Department of Energy (DOE); (2) provide enhanced severance payments or other benefits for such employees under specified law; (3) augment certain funds made available for obligation for certain severance payments, other benefits and community assistance grants, unless DOE submits a reprogramming request to appropriate congressional committees; or (4) prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for a program that has not been funded by Congress.
 
(Sec. 306) Denies the use of funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses (except those provided internationally). 
 
(Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such a facility when it makes one available to universities or other potential users.
 
(Sec. 308) Deems funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act during FY2006 for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress under the National Security Act of 1947 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2006.
 
(Sec. 309) Bars the use of certain funds under this Act for disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant of transuranic waste containing specified concentrations of plutonium.
 
(Sec. 310) Makes 20% the nonfederal share of project costs for the Reno Hydrogen Fuel Project.
 
(Sec. 311) Permits the Secretary of Energy to authorize for laboratory-directed research and development a specific amount up to 8% of funds made available by DOE for activities at government-owned, contractor-operator operated laboratories funded in this Act.
 
(Sec. 312) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to provide for FY2006, out of amounts appropriated for the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, up to $10 million for the purchase of mineral rights at such Site.
 
(Sec. 313) Amends the Atomic Energy Defense Act to: (1) extend (generally to dates in 2012) certain deadlines governing disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at the Savannah River site; and (2) direct the Secretary of Energy to report to Congress on construction and operation of the MOX facility that includes a schedule for revising statutory requirements during FY2007 to conform with the schedule established by the Secretary for the MOX facility, based on estimated funding levels for the fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to barter, transfer, or sell uranium and to use any proceeds, without fiscal year limitation, to remediate uranium inventories held by the Secretary (including natural uranium concentrates, natural uranium hexafluoride, or in any form or assay).
 
(Sec. 315) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 to provide $50 million for the Iowa Environmental and Education project. Prohibits further funds from being disbursed by DOE until a 100% non-federal cash and in-kind match (excluding land donations) of the appropriated federal funds has been secured for the project by the non-federal project sponsor.
 

Title IV: Independent Agencies 
- Makes FY2006 appropriations for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Denali Commission; (5) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Office of the Inspector General; and (7) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
 

Title V: General Provisions 
- (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to influence congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress.
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in this Act, or any other appropriation Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-19
text: Became Public Law No: 109-103.
action_date: 2005-11-19
text: Became Public Law No: 109-103.
action_date: 2005-11-19
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-11-19
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 84 - 4. Record Vote Number: 321.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 84 - 4. Record Vote Number: 321.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S12740-12751)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 399 - 17 (Roll no. 580).
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 399 - 17 (Roll no. 580).
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: The House proceeded to consider the conference report H.Rept. 109-275 as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H10081-10082)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2419, the Chair announced that pursuant to the rule, the Yeas and Nays were ordered. The Chair postponed further proceedings on the adoption of the conference report until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H10065)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2419.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Mr. Hobson brought up conference report H. Rept. 109-275 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 539. (consideration: CR H10058-10065)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Rule H. Res. 539 passed House.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 539 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2419.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Conference report H. Rept. 109-275 filed. (text of conference report: CR H9813-9932)
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 109-275 filed.(text of conference report: CR H9813-9932)
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Hobson, Frelinghuysen, Latham, Wamp, Emerson, Doolittle, Simpson, Rehberg, Lewis (CA), Visclosky, Edwards, Pastor, Clyburn, Berry, and Obey.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H9110)
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Mr. Hobson moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Domenici; Cochran; McConnell; Bennett; Burns; Craig; Bond; Hutchison; Allard; Reid; Byrd; Murray; Dorgan; Feinstein; Johnson; Landrieu; Inouye. (consideration: CR 7/1/2005 S7797)
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 92 - 3. Record Vote Number: 172. (text: CR 6/30/2005 S7771-7779)
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 92 - 3. Record Vote Number: 172.(text: CR 6/30/2005 S7771-7779)
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: The committee substitute agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR 7/1/2005 S7766-7786, S7787-7797; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR 7/1/2005 S7766-7779)
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 130.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-84.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-84.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 416 - 13 (Roll no. 211).
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 416 - 13 (Roll no. 211).
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 167 - 261 (Roll no. 210). (consideration: CR H3877-3878; text: CR H3877)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Etheridge motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment providing $500,000 to develop and publish a report on imported crude oil and petroleum sales to the United States.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Mr. Etheridge moved to recommit with instructions to Appropriations.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H3877)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2419.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: On motion to rise and report Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Mr. Hobson moved for the Committee of the Whole to rise and report.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tiahrt amendment.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Stupak amendment, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Stupak amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Stupak demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Stupak amendment.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Jones (NC) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Jones (NC) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jones (NC) amendment.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Commiteee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Filner amendment, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Boehlert amendment.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Markey amendment.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Biggert amendment.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Markey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Markey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Markey amendment.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Mr. Duncan raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Duncan stated that section 104 of the bill constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3853-3879)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Hobson asked unanimous consent that, during further consideration of H.R. 2419 in the Committee of the Whole pursuant to H. Res. 291, an amendment he had placed at the desk be considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole and be considered as original text for purpose of further amendment; and that no further amendment to the bill, as amended, may be offered, except those contained on a list submitted to the desk. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2419 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Mr. Hobson moved that the Committee rise.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2419.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Bob Goodlatte to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 291 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2419 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. Points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived except for section 104. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 291. (consideration: CR H3780-3795; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H3854-3855; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H3856-3857; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H3857, H3858, H3862, H3864-3865; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H3866, H3868; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H3868)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Rule H. Res. 291 passed House.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 291 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2419 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. Points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI are waived except for section 104. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 44.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-86, by Mr. Hobson.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-86, by Mr. Hobson.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-103