Energy and Water Development Appropriation Act, 1980
PL 96-69 (H.R.4388), enacted 09/25/1979

PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
93 STAT. 437 
Public Law 96-69 
96th Congress 
An Act 
Sept. 25,1979 
[H.R. 4388] 
Energy and 
Water 
Development 
Appropriation 
Act, 1980. 
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Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending 
September 30,1980, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1980, for energy and water development, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
ENERGY SUPPLY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 
For operating expenses of the Department of Energy necessary for 
energy supply, research and development activities and other activi-
ties in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy 
Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), $2,048,523,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
URANIUM SUPPLY AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES 
For operating expenses of the Department of Energy necessary for 
uranium supply and enrichment activities in carrying out the pur-
poses of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 
95-91), $60,523,000 and any moneys received from the enrichment of 
uranium as authorized by section 111(h) of Public Law 93-438, as 42 use 5821 
amended, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3617 of the 
Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 484), to remain available until expended. 
The anticipated revenues from Uranium Enrichment Activities for 
the fiscal year and authorized to be retained by Public Law 93-438 
shall be deemed to have been appropriated to the Department for 
purposes of 31 U.S.C. 665. 
GENERAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 
For operating expenses of the Department of Energy necessary for 
general science and research activities in carrying out the purposes of 
the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), 
$336,900,000, to remain available until expended. 
ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES 
For operating expenses of the Department of Energy necessary for 
atomic energy defense activities in carrying out the purposes of the 
Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), 
$2,371,147,000, to remain available until expended. 
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PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
For salaries and expenses of the Department of Energy necessary 
for departmental administration and other activities in carrying out 
the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public 
Law 95-91), including the hire of passenger motor vehicles; official 
entertainment expenses (not to exceed $35,000); $228,279,000, of 
which $6,165,000 shall be for the Office of Inspector General, and any 
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moneys received as authorized by section 201 of Public Law 95-238, 
notwithstanding the provisions of section 3617 of the Revised Stat-
utes (31 U.S.C. 484), to remain available until expended. 
PLANT AND CAPITAL EQUIPMENT 
ENERGY SUPPLY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy in connection with the 
purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and capital equip-
ment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary for energy 
supply, research and development activities and other activities in 
carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization 
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Act (Public Law 95-91), including the acquisition or condemnation of 
any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, 
construction, or expansion; purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not 
to exceed 113 of which 104 are for replacement only) including 10 
police-type vehicles; $448,478,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
URANIUM SUPPLY AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy in connection with the 
purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and capital equip-
ment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary for uranium 
supply and enrichment activities in carrying out the purposes of the 
Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), includ-
ing the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any 
facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; 
purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed 20 for replace-
ment only); $4,000,000 and any money received from the enrichment 
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of uranium as authorized by section 111(h) of Public Law 93-438, as 
amended, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3617 of the 
Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 484), to remain available until expended. 
The anticipated revenues from Uranium Enrichment Activities for 
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the fiscal year and authorized to be retained by Public Law 93-438 
shall be deemed to have been appropriated to the Department for 
purposes of 31 U.S.C 665. 
GENERAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy in connection with the 
purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and capital equip-
ment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary for general 
science and research activities in carrying out the purposes of the 
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Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), includ-
ing the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or facility or 
for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; purchase 
of passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed 9 for replacement only); 
$135,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
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93 STAT. 439 
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ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy in connection with the 
purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and capital equip-
ment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary for atomic 
energy defense activities in carrying out the purposes of the Depart-
ment of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), including the 42 use 7101 
acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for "•'*® 
plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed 264 of which 254 are for 
replacement only) including 3 police-type vehicles; $588,249,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses of the Department of Energy necessary for depart-
mental administration and other activities in carrying out the 
purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 
95-91), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real prop-
erty or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or 
expansion, or for the purchase, construction or acquisition of capital 
equipment and other expenses incidental thereto, $36,015,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ALASKA POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For engineering and economic investigations to promote the devel-
opment and utilization of the water, power, and related resources of 
Alaska, and for necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of 
projects in Alaska and of marketing electric power and energy, 
$2,660,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That 
$20,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service for studies, investigations, and reports as 
required by the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 
563-565). 
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BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION FUND 
Expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund, 
established pursuant to Public Law 93-454, are approved for official 
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reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed 
$1,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHEASTERN POWER 
ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power 
transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy 
pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 
1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern power area, 
$1,400,000, to remain available until expended. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHWESTERN POWER 
ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power 
transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy. 
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PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
and for construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substa-
tions and appurtenant facilities, and for administrative expenses 
connected therewith, in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the 
Flood Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s), as applied to the southwest-
ern power area, including purchase of not to exceed one passenger 
motor vehicle for replacement only, $32,180,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
CONSTRUCTION, REHABILITATION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, 
WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out the functions authorized by title III, section 302(a) 
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of the Act of August 4,1977 (Public Law 95-91), and for operation and 
maintenance of electric power transmission facilities, and power 
marketing including purchase power and wheeling, as authorized by 
law, including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not to 
exceed 7 of which 5 are for replacement only); including the purchase 
of 3 helicopters (of which 2 are for replacement only), $122,800,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $107,400,000 shall be 
derived from the Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund. 
COLORADO RIVER BASINS POWER MARKETING FUND, WESTERN AREA 
POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out the functions authorized by title III, section 302(a) 
of the Act of August 4, 1977 (Public Law 95-91), for the Upper 
Colorado River Storage Project, as authorized by the Act of April 11, 
1956, as amended (43 U.S.C. 620d), $5,152,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
EMERGENCY FUND, WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For the "Emergency Fund", as authorized by the Act of June 26, 
1948 (43 U.S.C. 502), to remain available until expended for the 
purposes specified in that Act, $200,000, to be derived from the 
Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund. 
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis-
sion to carry out the provisions of the Department of Energy 
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Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), including services as authorized 
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by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $67,187,000. 
GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT FUND 
LOAN GUARANTEE AND INTEREST ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 
For carrying out the Loan Guarantee and Interest Assistance 
Program as authorized by the Geothermal Energy Research, Develop-
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ment and Demonstration Act of 1974, as amended, $181,000, to 
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remain available until expended: Provided, That the indebtedness 
guaranteed or committed to be guaranteed shall not exceed the 
aggregate of $350,000,000: Provided further, That after September 2, 
1984, no part of this or any other appropriation for the purpose of the 
Loan Guarantee and Interest Assistance Program shall be available 
for obligation. 
PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
93 STAT. 441 
(TRANSFER OP FUNDS) 
The unexpended balances of prior appropriations provided for 
activities covered in this title may be transferred to a new appropri-
ation account established pursuant to this title. Balances so trans-
ferred may be merged with funds in the applicable newly established 
account and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund for the same 
time period as originally enacted. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed $9,500,000 of the funds made available in the Plant 
and Capital Equipment appropriation for Energy Supply, Research 
and Development, for Project 79-9-B, Energy Saver, FERMI 
National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, may be trans-
ferred to Operating Expenses, Energy Supply, Research and Develop-
ment for the purpose of resolving technical difficulties which have 
arisen on that project. 
GENERAL 
PROVISIONS, 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
ENERGY 
SEC. 101. Appropriations to the Department of Energy under this 
title for the current fiscal year shall be available for hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance and operation of aircraft; pur-
chase, repair and cleaning of uniforms; and reimbursement to the 
General Services Administration for security guard services. From 
these appropriations, transfers of sums may be made to other 
agencies of the United States Government for the performance of 
work for which this appropriation is made. None of the funds made 
available to the Department of Energy under this Act shall be used to 
implement or finance authorized price support or loan guarantee 
programs unless specific provision is made for such programs in this 
Act. The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equip-
ment and other contributions from public and private sources and to 
prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies. Federal, State 
or private. 
SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated for Department of Energy 
activities by this Act shall be available for any purpose related to the 
obtaining or issuing of a license to operate the Waste Isolation Pilot 
Plant, Delaware Basin, Southeast New Mexico (Project 77-13-f), or 
for any purpose related to the storage at such plant of radioactive 
waste not resulting from the national defense activities of the 
Department of Energy. 
SEC. 103. None of the funds appropriated for Department of Energy 
activities by this Act shall be used to pay expenses of, or otherwise 
compensate, parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory pro-
ceedings funded in this Act. 
SEC. 104. Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriations made 
available for the current fiscal year for Energy Supply, Research and 
Development Activities; Uranium Supply and Enrichment Activities; 
General Science and Research Activities; Atomic Energy Defense 
Activities; and Departmental Administration Activities may be 
transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, 
except as otherwise provided, shall be increased or decreased by more 
than 5 per centum by any such transfers, and any such proposed 
transfers shall be submitted promptly to the Committees on Appro-
priations and the appropriate authorizing committees of the House 
and Senate for approval. 
Motor vehicles, 
aircraft. 
C!ontributions, 
acceptance. 
Waste Isolation 
Pilot Plant, 
Delaware Basin, 
Southeast 
N. Max. 
Proposed 
appropriation 
transfers, 
limitation; 
submittal to 
congressionsd 
committees. 
River and 
harbor, flood 
control, shore 
protection, 
study. 
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PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
The following appropriations shall be expended under the direction 
of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of 
Engineers for authorized civil functions of the Department of the 
Army pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion, 
and related purposes. 
GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses necessary for the collection and study of basic 
information pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore 
protection, and related projects, restudy of authorized projects, and 
when authorized by law, surveys and studies of projects prior to 
authorization for construction, $142,145,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That none of the funds made available in 
this paragraph shall be obligated or expended for the study of 
Diversion of Lake Michigan Water at Chicago, if such study shall 
provoke or threaten to provoke flood waters throughout the Illinois 
Waterway or would result in adverse diminution of generation at 
hydroelectric facilities on the Niagara or St. Lawrence Rivers: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds made available in this para-
graph shall be obligated or expended to discharge sewage overflow 
from the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago into the 
Illinois Waterway. 
CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL 
For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore 
protection, and related projects authorized by laws; and detailed 
studies, and plans and specifications, of projects (including those for 
development with participation or under consideration for participa-
tion by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or 
made eligible for selection by law (but such studies shall not consti-
tute a commitment of the Government to construction), 
$1,467,566,000, to remain available until expended. 
FLOOD CONTROL, MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 
For expenses necessary for prosecuting work of flood control, and 
rescue work, repair, restoration, or maintenance of flood control 
projects threatened or destroyed by flood, as authorized by law (33 
U.S.C. 702a, 702g-l), $210,515,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That not less than $250,000 shall be available for 
bank stabilization measures as determined by the Chief of Engineers 
to be advisable for the control of bank erosion of streams in the Yazoo 
Basin, including the foothill area, and where necessary such meas-
ures shall complement similar works planned and constructed by the 
Soil Conservation Service and be limited to the areas of responsibility 
mutually agreeable to the District engineer and the State Conserva-
tionist: Provided further. That not to exceed $300,000 shall be avail-
able to reimburse landowners for damage from dredge spoil placed 
on their land, which greatly exceeded representations, for which 
they received no compensation. 
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93 STAT. 443 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, mainte-
nance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood control, and 
related works, including such sums as may be necessary for the 
maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipality or 
other public agency, outside of harbor lines, and serving essential 
needs of general commerce and navigation; administration of laws 
pertaining to preservation of navigable waters; surveys and charting 
of northern and northwestern lakes and connecting waters; clearing 
and straightening channels; and removal of obstructions to naviga-
tion; $848,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
REVOLVING FUND 
For the design and construction of hopper dredges, $50,000,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
GENERAL EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for general administration and related 
functions in the office of the Chief of Engineers and offices of the 
Division Engineers; activities of the Board of Engineers for Rivers 
and Harbors and the Coastal Engineering Research Center; commer-
cial statistics; and miscellaneous investigations; $73,200,000. 
SPECIAL RECREATION USE FEES 
For construction, operation, and maintenance of outdoor recrea-
tion facilities, including collection of special recreation use fees, to 
remain available until expended, $4,000,000, to be derived from the 
special account established by the Land and Water Conservation Act 
of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 4601). 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations in this title shall be available for expenses of 
attendance by military personnel at meetings in the manner author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 4110, uniforms, and allowances therefor, as author-
ized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902), and for printing, either during a 
recess or session of Congress, of survey reports authorized by law, and 
such survey reports as may be printed during a recess of Congress 
shall be printed, with illustrations, as documents of the next succeed-
ing session of Congress; not to exceed $2,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; and during the current fiscal year the 
revolving fund. Corps of Engineers, shall be available for purchase 
(not to exceed 220, of which 200 shall be for replacement only) and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles: Provided, That the total accrued 
expenditures of the capital investment program of the revolving fund 
shall not exceed $115,000,000 in 
fiscal 
year 1980. 
GENERAL PROVISION 
SEC 201. None of the funds appropriated in this title, except as 
specifically contained herein, shall be used to alter, modify, dis-
mantle, or otherwise change any project which is partially con-
structed but not funded for construction in this title without the 
prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations. 
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TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
For canying out the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation as 
provided in the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 
43 use 371 note. Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) 
and other Acts applicable to that Bureau, as follows: 
GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS 
For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal 
reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and develop-
ment plans and activities preliminary to the reconstruction, rehabili-
tation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of existing 
projects, to remain available until expended, $34,451,000, to be 
derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, That none of this 
appropriation shall be used for more than one-half of the cost of an 
investigation requested by a State, municipality, or other interest. 
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CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION 
For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation 
projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities for 
reclamation use) and for other related activities, as authorized by law 
to remain available until expended, $213,053,000, of which 
$60,000,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund: Provided, 
That no part of this appropriation shall be used to initiate the 
construction of transmission facilities within those areas covered by 
power wheeling service contracts which include provision for service 
to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except those 
transmission facilities for which construction funds have been here-
tofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry out 
the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secretary 
of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling to 
provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a 
Federal establishment or preferred customer: Provided further. That 
the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis 
Unit shall not be determined until development by the Secretary of 
the Interior and the State of California of a plan, which shall conform 
with the water quality standards of the State of California as 
approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage 
waters: Provided further. That of the amount herein appropriated not 
to exceed $344,000 for the Central Oregon Irrigation District shall be 
available for construction on a rehabilitation and betterment pro-
gram under the Act of October 7,1949 (63 Stat. 724), as amended, to be 
repaid in full under conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the 
Interior: Provided further, That currently unobligated funds from 
appropriations made under this heading for payment of Teton Dam 
disaster claims shall be available to pay costs to irrigation space-
holder contracting entities for American Falls Dam pursuant to 
92 Stat. 2472. 
section 7, Reclamation Safety of Dams Act (Public Law 95-578), and 
shall be nonreimbursable in accordance with the terms of that Act. 
San Luis Unit 
interceptor 
drain. 
Central Oregon 
Irrigation 
District. 
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UPPER COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT 
For the Upper Colorado River Storage Project, as authorized by the 
Act of April 11,1956, as amended (43 U.S.C. 620d), to remain available 
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93 STAT. 445 
until expended, $73,203,000, of which $61,177,000, shall be available 
for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund" authorized by section 5 of 
said Act of April 11, 1956, and $12,026,000 shall be available for 43USC620d. 
construction of recreational and fish and wildlife facilities authorized 
by section 8 thereof, and may be expended by bureaus of the 
Department through or in cooperation with State or other Federal 
agencies, and advances to such Federal agencies are hereby author-
ized: Provided, That no part of the funds herein approved shall be 
available for construction or operation of facilities to prevent waters 
of 
Lake Powell from entering any national monument. 
COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT 
For advances to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development 
Fund, as authorized by section 403 of the Act of September 30,1968 
(82 Stat. 894), for the construction, operation, and maintenance of 43 use 1543. 
projects authorized by title III of said Act, to remain available until 43 use 1521. 
expended, $94,217,000. 
COLORADO RIVER BASIN SAUNITY CONTROL PROJECTS 
For construction of projects authorized by the Act of June 24,1974 
(Public Law 93-320), to remain available until expended, $34,761,000. 43 use 1571 
note. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For Operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts 
thereof and other facilities, as authorized by law; and for a soil and 
moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction of the 
Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $100,653,000, of which 
$78,000,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $8,448,000 
shall be derived from the Colorado River Dam fund: Provided, That 
funds advanced by water users for operation and maintenance of 
reclamation projects or parts thereof shall be deposited to the credit 
of this appropriation and may be expended for the same objects and 
in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended, 
and such advances shall remain available until expended. 
LOAN PROGRAM 
For loans to irrigation districts and other public agencies for 
construction of distribution systems on authorized Federal reclama-
tion projects, and for loans and grants to non-Federal agencies for 
construction of projects, as authorized by the Acts of July 4,1955, as 
amended (43 U.S.C. 421a-421d), and August 6, 1956, as amended (43 
U.S.C. 422a-422k), including expenses necessary for carrying out the 43 use 
program, $29,603,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 422a-422k-i. 
That any contract under the Act of July 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 244), as 43 use 
amended, not yet executed by the Secretary, which calls for the 42ia-42ih. 
making of loans beyond the fiscal year in which the contract is 
entered into shall be made only on the same conditions as those 
prescribed in section 12 of the Act of August 4, 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 
1197). 
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GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of general administration and related 
functions in the offices of the Commissioner of Reclamation and in 
the regional offices of the Bureau of Reclamation, $27,400,000, to be 
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derived from the reclamation fund and to be nonreimbursable pursu-
ant to the Act of April 19,1945 (43 U.S.C. 377): Provided, That no part 
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of any other appropriation in this Act shall be available for activities 
or functions budgeted for the current fiscal year as general adminis-
trative expenses. 
SPECIAL FUNDS 
Sums herein referred to as being derived from the Reclamation 
fund, the Colorado River Dam fund, or the Colorado River develop-
ment fund, are appropriated from the special funds in the Treasury 
created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U.S.C. 391), the Act of 
December 21, 1928 (43 U.S.C. 617a), and the Act of July 19, 1940 (43 
Transfer of 
U.S.C. 618a) respectively. Such sums shall be transferred, upon 
funds. 
request of the Secretary, to be merged with and expended under the 
heads herein specified; and the unexpended balances of sums trans-
ferred for expenditure under the heads "Operation and Mainte-
nance" and "General Administrative Expenses" shall revert and be 
credited to the special fund from which derived. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
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Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available 
for purchase of not to exceed 16 passenger motor vehicles of which 13 
shall be for replacement only (including one for law enforcement use); 
payment of claims for damages to or loss of property, personal injury, 
or death arising out of activities of the Bureau of Reclamation; 
payment, except as otherwise provided for, of compensation and 
expenses of persons on the rolls of the Bureau of Reclamation 
appointed as authorized by law to represent the United States in the 
negotiations and administration of interstate compacts without reim-
bursement or return under the reclamation laws; for services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, in total not to exceed $300,000; rewards 
for information or evidence concerning violations of law involving 
property under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation; per-
formance of the functions specified under the head "Operation and 
Maintenance Administration", Bureau of Reclamation, in the 
58 Stat. 463. 
Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1945; preparation and dis-
semination of useful information including recordings, photographs, 
and photographic prints; and studies of recreational uses of reservoir 
areas, and investigation and recovery of archeological and paleonto-
logical remains in such areas in the same manner as provided for in 
the Act of August 21,1935 (16 U.S.C. 461-467): Provided, That no part 
of any appropriation made herein shall be available pursuant to the 
Act of April 19, 1945 (43 U.S.C. 377), for expenses other than those 
incurred on behalf of specific reclamation projects except "General 
Administrative Expenses" and amounts provided for reconnaissance, 
basin surveys, and general engineering and research under the head 
"General Investigations". 
Sums appropriated herein which are expended in the performance 
of reimbursable functions of the Bureau of Reclamation shall be 
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returnable to the extent and in the manner provided by law. 
No part of any appropriation for the Bureau of Reclamation, 
contained in this Act or in any prior Act, which represents amounts 
earned under the terms of a contract but remaining unpaid, shall be 
obligated for any other purpose, regardless of when such amounts are 
to be paid: Provided, That the incurring of any obligation prohibited 
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93 STAT. 447 
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by this paragraph shall be deemed a violation of section 3679 of the 
Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665). 
No funds appropriated to the Bureau of Reclamation for operation 
and maintenance, except those derived from advances by water users, 
shall be used for the particular benefits of lands (a) within the 
boundaries of an irrigation district, (b) of any member of a water 
users' organization, or (c) of any individual when such district, 
organization, or individual is in arrears for more than twelve months 
in the payment of charges due under a contract entered into with the 
United States pursuant to laws administered by the Bureau of 
Reclamation. 
Not to exceed $225,000 may be expended from the appropriation 
"Construction and Rehabilitation" for work by force account on any 
one project or Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program unit and then only 
when such work is unsuitable for contract or no acceptable bid has 
been received and, other than otherwise provided in this paragraph 
or as may be necessary to meet local emergencies, not to exceed 12 per 
centum of the construction allotment for any project from the 
appropriation "Construction and Rehabilitation" contained in this 
Act, shall be available for construction work by force account: 
Provided, That this paragraph shall not apply to work performed 
under the Rehabilitation and Betterment Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 724). 43 use 504. 
eonstruction 
and 
rehabilitation 
funds, 
limitation. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
SEC. 301. Appropriations in this title shall be available for expendi-
ture or transfer (within each bureau or office), with the approval of 
the Secretary, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or 
repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment 
damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable 
causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made available under this 
authority until funds specifically made available to the Department 
of the Interior for emergencies shall have been exhausted. 
SEC. 302. The Secretary may authorize the expenditure or transfer 
(within each bureau or office) of any appropriation in this title, in 
addition to the amounts included in the budget programs of the 
several agencies, for the suppression or emergency prevention of 
forest or range fires on or threatening lands under jurisdiction of the 
Department of the Interior. 
SEC. 303. Appropriations in this title shall be available for oper-
ation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, wherever 
consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency, or economy, 
and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services rendered to 
any other activity in the same manner as authorized by the Act of 
June 30, 1932 (31 U.S.C. 686): Provided, That reimbursements for 
costs of supplies, materials, equipment, and for services rendered 
may be credited to the appropriation current at the time such 
reimbursements are received. 
SEC. 304. Appropriations in this title shall be available for hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for telephone services in 
private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 
approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when author-
ized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies or associ-
ations which issue publications to members only or at a price to 
members lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
SEC. 305. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of October 1, 
1962 (76 Stat. 677), the Secretary of the Interior, in the development 
Emergency 
reconstruction. 
Appropriation 
expenditure or 
transfer of 
appropriation, 
authorization. 
Operation of 
warehouses, 
garages, shops, 
and similar 
facilities. 
Aircraft and 
motor vehicles 
for hire, 
mainten£mce 
emd operation. 
16 u s e 835 note. 
93 STAT. 448 
PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
of the irrigation lands located in block 26 of the Columbia Basin 
project, Washington, shall take such action as may be necessary to 
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assure that the per acre repayment obligation shall be the same as 
those set forth in repayment contract 11 R 1444, dated October 9, 
1945, as amended, between the United States of America and the 
South Columbia Basin Irrigation District, but in no case shall such 
per acre repayment obligation exceed $131.60. 
TITLE IV—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Cochairman and his alter-
nate on the Appalachian Regional Commission and for payment of 
the Federal share of the administrative expenses of the Commission, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles, $2,990,000. 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs authorized by 
40 use app. 1. 
the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended, 
40 use app. 105. except expenses authorized by section 105 of said Act, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, to remain available until expended, $356,500,000, of which 
$229,000,000 shall be available for the Appalachian Development 
Highway System. 
DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the functions of the United 
States member of the Delaware River Basin Commission, as author-
ized by law (75 Stat. 716), $107,000. 
CONTRIBUTION TO DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION 
For payment of the United States share of the current expenses of 
the Delaware River Basin Commission, as authorized by law (75 Stat. 
706,707), $257,000. 
INTERSTATE COMMISSION ON THE POTOMAC RIVER BASIN 
CONTRIBUTION TO INTERSTATE COMMISSION ON THE POTOMAC RIVER 
~ , 
BASIN 
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay in advance to the 
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin the Federal 
contribution toward the expenses of the Commission during the 
current fiscal year in the administration of its business in the 
conservancy district established pursuant to the Act of July 11,1940 
33 use 567b. 
(54 Stat. 748), as amended by the Act of September 25, 1970 (Public 
33use567b-i. 
Law 91-407), $55,000. 
PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
93 STAT. 449 
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Commission in carrying out the 
purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended, 42 use 5801 
including the employment of aliens; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; publication and dissemination of atomic information; purchase, 
repair, and cleaning of uniforms; official entertainment expenses (not 
to exceed $12,500); reimbursement of the General Services Adminis-
tration for security guard services; hire of passenger motor vehicles 
and aircraft; $363,340,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That from this appropriation, transfer of sums may be made to 
other agencies of 
the Government for the performance of the work for 
which this appropriation is made, and in such cases the sums so 
transferred may be merged with the appropriation to which trans-
ferred: Provided further. That moneys received by the Commission 
for the cooperative nuclear safety research programs may be retained 
and used for salaries and expenses associated with those programs, 
notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 484, and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further. That 731 personnel posi-
tions shall be allocated exclusively to the Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation to carry out those responsibilities authorized by law. 
SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the functions of the United 
States member of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, as 
authorized by law (84 Stat. 1541), $104,000. 
CONTRIBUTION TO SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION 
For payment of the United States share of the current expenses of 
the Susquehanna River Basin Commission as authorized by law (84 
Stat. 1530,1531), $210,000. 
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 
PAYMENT TO TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY FUND 
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended (16 U.S.C, ch. 12A), 1
6 use 831 et 
including purchase, hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, and *^-
purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $148,677,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding the 
provisions of 16 U.S.C, chapter 35 or any other law, the Corporation 16 use 1531 et 
is authorized and directed to complete construction, operate and *
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maintain the Tellico Dam and Reservoir project for navigation, flood 
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93 STAT. 450 
PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
control, electric power generation and other purposes, including the 
maintenance of a normal summer reservoir pool of 813 feet above sea 
level. 
WATER RESOURCES COUNCIL 
19 use 1962b-3 
note. 
WATER RESOURCES PLANNING 
For the Water Resources Council for expenses necessary in carry-
ing out the provisions of the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 
(42 U.S.C. 1962-1962d-3), as amended, including services as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 42 U.S.C. 1962a-4(5), and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles (42 U.S.C. 1962a-4(6)), $34,614,000, including 
$2,788,000, for expenses in administering the Act (42 U.S.C. 1962d(b)), 
$3,112,000 for preparation of assessments and plans (42 U.S.C. 
1962d(c)), $580,000 for preparation of plans (33 U.S.C. 1289), 
$3,134,000 for expenses of river basin commissions under title II of the 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1962d(a)), $21,000,000 for grants to States under title III 
of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1962c(a)), and $4,000,000 for Upper Mississippi 
Comprehensive Management Plan (42 U.S.C. b-3). None of the funds 
appropriated under this paragraph may be expended by the Water 
Resources Council for the review o
f
— 
(1) any preauthorization report or proposal, or 
(2) any preconstruction plan, 
for a Federal or federally assisted water resources project or program 
or a related land resources project or program unless funds for these 
purposes are authorized to be appropriated by Congress in a statute 
enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
40 u s e 174b-l 
note. 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISION 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 502. There is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, for an additional amount for "Construc-
tion of an Extension to the New Senate Office Building" $52,583,400 
toward finishing such building and to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the amount of $137,730,400 shall consti-
tute a ceiling on the total cost for construction of the Extension to 
the New Senate Office Building. 
It is further provided that such building and office space therein 
upon completion shall meet all needs for personnel presently sup-
plied by the Carroll Arms, the Senate Courts, the Plaza Hotel, the 
Capitol Hill Apartments and such buildings shall be vacated. 
PUBLIC LAW 96-69—SEPT. 25, 1979 
93 STAT. 451 
This Act may be cited as the "Energy and Water Development Short title. 
Appropriation Act, 1980". 
Approved September 25, 1979. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 98-243 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 96-388 (Comm. of 
Conference). 
SENATE REPORT No. 96-242 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 125 (1979): 
June 14, 15, 18, considered and passed House. 
July 17, 18, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Aug. 1, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain 
Senate amendments, in others with amendments, and insisted on its dis-
agreement to Senate amendment No. 30. 
Sept. 10, Senate agreed to conference report; resolved amendments in disagree-
ment. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 15, No. 39: 
Sept. 25, Presidential statement.