Energy and Water Development Appropriation Act, 1984
PL 98-50 (H.R.3132), enacted 07/14/1983

PUBLIC LAW 98-50—JULY 14, 1983 
97 STAT. 247 
Public Law 98-50 
98th Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1984, 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 monej' in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1984, for energy and water development, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
July 14, 1983 
[H.R. 3132] 
Energy and 
Water 
Development 
Appropriation 
Act, 1984. 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
The following appropriations shall be expended under the direc-
tion 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, mis-
cellaneous investigations, and when authorized by law, surveys and 
detailed studies and plans and specifications of projects prior to 
construction, $133,810,000, to remain available until expended. 
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 Ot)ut such studies shall not consti-
tute 
a 
commitment 
of 
the 
Government 
to 
construction), 
$884,104,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$5,200,000 shall be made available for the Miami Harbor, Ba5^ront 
Park project, Florida; and, in addition, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
the Yatesville Lake construction project. 
River and 
harbor flood 
control, shore 
protection, 
study. 
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FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES 
For expenses necessary for emergency flood control, hurricane, 
and shore protection activities, as authorized by section 5 of the 
33USC70in. 
Flood Control Act, approved August 18, 1941, as amended, 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
REVOLVING FUND 
For design and construction of a Corps of Engineers' learning 
facility at Huntsville, Alabama, $9,500,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
FLOOD CONTROL, MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES, ARKANSAS, IL-
LINOIS, 
KENTUCKY, 
LOUISIANA, 
MISSISSIPPI, 
MISSOURI, 
AND 
TENNESSEE 
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), $300,480,000, to remain available until 
expended: 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 measures shall complement similar works planned and con-
structed by the Soil Conservation Service and be limited to the areas 
of responsibility mutually agreeable to the District Engineer and the 
Appropriation 
State Conservationist: Provided further, That the unexpended bal-
transfeTs 
ances of prior appropriations provided for activities covered in this 
appropriation may be transferred to appropriation accounts for such 
activities established pursuant to this appropriation. Balances so 
transferred may be merged with funds in the applicable established 
account and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund for the 
same time period as originally enacted. 
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, $1,184,492,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$319,000 shall be for the Dismal Swamp Canal, Virginia and North 
Carolina. 
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-
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97 STAT. 249 
cial statistics; and miscellaneous investigations, $103,000,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
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, $6,000,000, 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 therefore, 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 succeeding 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 185 for replacement only) and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles: Provided, That the total accrued expendi-
tures of the capital investment program of the revolving fund shall 
not exceed $78,000,000 in fiscal year 1984. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated in this title, except as 
specifically contained herein, shall be used to alter, modify, disman-
tle, or otherwise change any project which is partially constructed 
but not funded for construction in this title. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Engineers, is authorized to reimburse local and State interests those 
sums of moneys expended by them subsequent to July 1, 1969, in 
construction of the Flat River Channel improvement feature of the 
Bayou Bodcau and Tributaries project in Louisiana to the extent 
that such work is authorized by Public Law 89-298, approved Octo- "
7
9 Stat. 1073. 
ber 27, 1965, and which the Chief of Engineers determines is com-
patible with, and constitutes, an integral part of his recommended 
plan. The total amount of reimbursement is not to exceed $3,500,000. 
SEC. 103. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secre- Contracts. 
tary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is hereby 
authorized to enter into a purchase contract for the acquisition of 
new buildings and appurtenant facilities for the United States Army 
Engineer District, New Orleans, Louisiana. Such buildings and facil-
ities shall be constructed on a site presently occupied by the Engi-
neer District under a long-term right of use donated by the Board of 
Commissioners for the Port of New Orleans. The contract shall 
provide for the payment of the purchase price, which shall not 
exceed $38,000,000, and reasonable interest thereon, by lease or 
installment payments over a period not to exceed 25 years. The 
contract shall further provide that title to the buildings and facili-
ties shall vest in the United States at or before the expiration of the 
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contract term upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions of the 
contract. 
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
For carrying 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, reha-
bilitation and betterment, financial adjustment, or extension of 
existing projects, to remain available until expended, $33,831,000, of 
which $33,161,000 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and of 
which $470,000 shall be available for the termination of activities 
conducted pursuant to the Act of October 17, 1978, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 7801, et seq.). 
CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM 
For construction and rehabilitation of projects and parts thereof 
(including power transmission facilities for Bureau of Reclamation 
use) and for other related activities as authorized by law, to remain 
available until expended, $683,818,000, and, in addition $10,000,000 
to remain available until expended, for the Tucson Division to be 
expended for commencement of excavation and construction of the 
Picacho, Red Rock and Brady Pumping Plants, purchase of pumps 
and motors for those plants, and acquisition of rights-of-way and 
construction for reaches 1, 2, and 3 of phase A of the aqueduct, of 
which $161,104,000 shall be available for transfers to the Upper 
Colorado River Basin Fund authorized by section 5 of the Act of 
April 11, 1956 (43 U.S.C. 620d), and $165,600,000 shall be available 
for transfers to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund 
authorized by section 403 of the Act of September 30,1968 (43 U.S.C. 
1543): Provided, That of the total appropriated, the amount for 
program activities which can be financed by the reclamation fund 
shall be derived from that fund: Provided further, That transfers to 
the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and Lower Colorado River 
Basin Development Fund may be increeised or decreased by trans-
fers within the overall appropriation to this heading: 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 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: Provided further. That of the amount herein 
appropriated not to exceed $20,000 shall be available to initiate a 
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97 STAT. 251 
rehabilitation and betterment program with the Twin Falls Canal 
Company, Twin Falls County, Idaho, to rehabilitate facilities under 
the Act of October 7,1919 (63 Stat. 724), as amended, to be repaid in 
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full by the lands served and under conditions satisfactory to the 
Secretary of the Interior: Provided further. That of the amount 
herein appropriated $3,000,000 shall be available to enable the 
Secretary of the Interior to begin work on rehabilitating the Velarde 
Community Ditch Project, New Mexico, in accordance with the 
Federal Reclamation Laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 788, and 43 use 371 note. 
Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) for the purposes 
of diverting and conveying water to irrigated project lands. The 
principal features of the project shall consist of improvements such 
as the installation of more permanent diversion dams and head-
gates, wasteways, arroyo siphons, and concrete lining of ditches in 
order to improve irrigation efficiency, conserve water, and reduce 
operation and maintenance costs. The cost of the rehabilitation will 
be nonreimbursable and constructed features will be turned over to 
the appropriate entity for operation and maintenance. 
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, to remain available 
until expended, $134,291,000: Provided, That of the total appropri-
ated, the amount for program activities which can be financed by 
the reclamation fund shall be derived from that fund and such 
amounts as may be required for the Boulder Canyon Project shall be 
derived from the Colorado River Dam fund: Provided further, That 
funds advanced by water users for operation and mainteneince 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: Provided 
further. That nonreimbursable funds will be available from rev-
enues for performing examination of existing structures on partici-
pating projects of the Colorado River Storage Project: Provided 
further, That such amounts as may be required for replacements on 
the Boulder Canyon Project which would require readvances to the 
Colorado River Dam Fund under section 5 of the Boulder Canyon 
Project Adjustment Act of July 19, 1940 (43 U.S.C. 618d), are to be 
considered as though readvanced under said section. 
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 
program, $45,000,000, to be derived from the reclamation fund and 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That during fiscEil 
year 1984 and within the resources and authority available, gross 
obligations for the principal amount of direct loans shall not exceed 
$51,802,000: Provided further, That any contract under the Act of 
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July 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 244), as amended, not yet executed by the 
Secretary, which calls for the 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, 
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1939 (53 Stat. 1187,1197). 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of general administration and related 
functions in the offices of the Commissioner of the Bureau of 
Reclamation and in the regional offices of the Bureau of Reclama-
tion $53,750,000, of which $10,500,000, shall remain available until 
expended, the total amount to be derived from the reclamation fund 
and to be nonreimbursable pursuant to the Act of April 19, 1945 (43 
U.S.C. 377): Provided, That no part of any other appropriation in 
this Act shall be available for activities or functions budgeted for the 
current fiscal year as general administrative expenses. 
EMERGENCY FUND 
For an additional amount for the "Emergency fund", as author-
ized by the Act of June 26, 1948 (43 U.S.C. 502), as amended, to 
remain available until expended for the purposes specified in said 
Act, $1,000,000, to be derived from the reclamation fund. 
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), and 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 head "General Administrative 
Expenses" shall revert and be credited to the special fund from 
which derived. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available 
for purchase of not to exceed 17 motor vehicles of which 16 shall be 
for replacement only; purchase of one aircraft; 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 adminis-
tration of interstate compacts without reimbursement or return 
under the reclamation laws; for service as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, in total not to exceed $500,000; rewards for information or 
evidence concerning violations of law involving property under the 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Reclamation; performance of the func-
tions specified under the head "Operation and Maintenance Admin-
istration", Bureau of Reclamation, in the Interior Department 
58 Stat. 463. 
Appropriations Act, 1945; preparation and dissemination of useful 
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97 STAT. 253 
information including recordings, photographs, and photographic 
prints; and studies of recreational uses of reservoir areas, and 
investigation and recovery of archeological and paleontological 
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 Adminis-
trative Expenses" and amounts provided for appraisal and special 
investigations, and general engineering and research under the 
head "General Investigations". 
Sums appropriated herein which are expended in the performeince 
of reimbursable functions of the Bureau of Reclamation shall be 
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 by this paragraph shall be deemed a violation of section 
3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 1341). 
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. 
96 Stat. 923. 
43 u s e 377a. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
SEC. 201. Appropriations in this title shall be available for expend-
iture 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. 202. 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. 203. 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. 
Emergency 
reconstruction. 
Additional 
expenditure 
or transfer. 
Warehouses, 
garages, 
shops, and 
similar 
facilities. 
96 Stat. 933, 934. 
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1536. 
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Aircraft and 
motor vehicles. 
Twin Buttes 
Dam, Tex. 
SEC. 204. Appropriations in this title shall be available for hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; purchases 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. 205. The cost of foundation treatment, drainage, and instru-
mentation work planned or under way at Twin Buttes Dam, Texas, 
shall be nonreimbursable under Federal reclamation laws. 
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
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note. 
42 u s e 5821. 
96 Stat. 948. 
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ENERGY SUPPLY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy activities including 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 Organiza-
tion Act (Public Law 95-91), including the acquisition or condemna-
tion of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility 
acquisition, construction, or expansion; purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles (not to exceed 19 of which 16 are for replacement only), 
$1,951,609,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
$3,000,000 of the proposed deferral No. 83-72 shall be made availa-
ble for the Second Small Community Experiment project and shall 
remain available until expended. 
URANIUM SUPPLY AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy in connection with 
operating expenses; the purchase, construction, and acquisition of 
plant and capital equipment 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), 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 49 of which 48 are for replacement only); 
$2,235,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
revenues received by the Department for the enrichment of ur-
anium and estimated to total $2,240,000,000 in fiscal year 1984, shall 
be retained and used for the specific purpose of offsetting costs 
incurred by the Department in providing uranium enrichment serv-
ice activities 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): Provided further. That the sum herein appropri-
ated shall be reduced as uranium enrichment revenues are received 
during fiscal year 1984 so as to result in a final fiscal year 1984 
appropriation estimated at not more than $0. 
GENERAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy, activities including the 
purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and capital equip-
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note. 
96 Stat. 2201. 
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note. 
96 Stat. 2257. 
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note. 
ment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary for general 
science and research 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 facility 
or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; pur-
chase of passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed 12 for replacement 
only); $638,250,000, to remain available until expended. 
NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL FUND 
For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the purposes of 
Public Law 97-425, including the acquisition of real property or 
facility construction or expansion, $306,675,000, to remain available 
until expended, to be derived from the Nuclear Weiste Fund. To the 
extent that balances in the fund are not sufficient to cover amounts 
available for obligation in this account, the Secretary shall exercise 
his authority pursuant to section 302(e)(5) to issue obligations to the 
Secretary of the Treasury. 
ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES 
For expenses of the Department of Energy activities including the 
purchEise, 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 
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 333 of which 323 are for 
replacement only) including 7 police-type vehicles; purchase of one 
helicopter, $6,547,875,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
may be obligated or expended after the date of enactment of this Act 
for Project 82-D-109 unless the President certifies to Congress 
that— 
(1) for each 155mm nuclear weapon produced an existing 
155mm nuclear weapon shall be removed from the stockpile and 
permanently dismantled; and 
(2) formal notification has been received from the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization nation in which such weapons are 
sought to be deployed that such nation has approved replace-
ment of existing 155mm nuclear weapons with the new 155mm 
nuclear weapon. 
None of the funds appropriated by this Act, or by any other Act, 
or by any other provision of law shall be available for the purpose of 
restarting the L-Reactor at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South 
Carolina, until the Department of Energy completes an Environ-
mental Impact Statement pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and until issued a 
discharge permit pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.) as amended, which permit shall incorpo-
rate the terms and conditions provided in the Memorandum of 
Understanding entered into between the Department of Energy and 
the State of South Carolina dated April 27, 1983, relating to studies 
and mitigation programs associated with such restart. For purposes "Restarting.' 
of this paragraph the term "restarting" shall mean any activity 
related to the operation of the L-Reactor that would achieve critical-
Removal of 
nuclear 
weapons. 
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ity, generate fission products within the reactor, discharge cooling 
water from nuclear operations directly or indirectly into Steel 
Creek, or result in cooling system testing discharges which exceed 
the volume, frequency and duration of test discharges conducted 
prior to June 28,1983. 
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Consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 
^°^^- 
and in consultation with State officials 'of South Carolina and 
Georgia, the preparation and completion of the Environmental 
Impact Statement called for in the preceding paragraph shall be 
Public 
expedited. The Secretary of Energy may reduce the public comment 
comments. 
period, except that such period shall not.be reduced to less than 
thirty days, and the Secretary shall provide his Record of Decision, 
based upon the completed Environmental Impact Statement, not 
sooner than December 1, 1983, and not later than January 1, 1984. 
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 
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(Public Law 95-91), including the hire of passenger motor vehicles 
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and official reception and representation expenses (not to exceed 
$35,000); $366,056,000, all of which is available for fiscal year 1984 
and shall remain available until expended, plus such additional 
amounts as necessary to cover increases in the estimated amount of 
cost of work for others notwithstanding the provisions of the Anti-
Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. 1511 et seq.): Provided, That such increases 
in cost of work are offset by revenue increases of the same or greater 
amount, to remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
moneys received by the Department for miscellaneous revenues 
estimated to total $209,619,000 in fiscal year 1984 may be retained 
and used for operating expenses within this account, and may 
remain available until expended, as authorized by section 201 of 
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Public Law 95-238, notwithstanding the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 3302: 
96 Stat. 948. 
Provided further. 
That the sum herein appropriated shall be 
reduced by the amount of miscellaneous revenues received during 
fiscal year 1984 so as to result in a final fiscal year 1984 estimated 
appropriation estimated at not more than $156,437,000. 
POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ALASKA POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For engineering and economic investigations to promote the devel-
opment and utilizaton 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, 
$3,410,000, to remain available until expended, of which not to 
exceed $200,000 to be available only upon a determination by the 
Secretary that such amounts are required to ensure continuity of 
service in the case of an emergency. 
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION FUND 
Expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund, 
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established pursuant to Public Law 93-454, are approved for official 
reception and representation expenses in an amount not to exceed 
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97 STAT. 257 
$2,500; and for continuity of financing the construction program, as 
well as financing new programs, an additional $1,250,000,000 in 
borrowing authority is made available, under the Federal Columbia 
River Transmission System Act (Public Law 93-454) to remain 
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outstanding at any given time: Provided, That the obligation of such 
additional borrowing authority shall not exceed $123,400,000 in 
fiscal year 1984. 
During fiscal year 1984 and within the resources and authority 
available, gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans 
shall not exceed $40,000,000; during fiscal year 1984, commitments 
to guarantee loans may be made only to the extent that the total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, sheill not 
exceed $20,000,000. 
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, 
$20,594,000, 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, 
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 
southwestern power area, $36,229,000, 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)(1)(E) of the Act of August 4, 1977 (Public Law 95-91), and 42 use 7152. 
other related activities including conservation and renewable 
resources programs as authorized, including the purchase of passen-
ger motor vehicles (not to exceed nine for replacement only), pur-
chase, maintenance, and operation of one aircraft, $194,630,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $163,430,000 shall be 
derived from the Department of the Interior Reclamation fund and 
$1,004,000, shall be derived from the Colorado River Dam fund for 
power marketing and transmission expenses of the Boulder Canyon 
Project. 
EMERGENCY FUND, WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For the "Emergency Fund", as authorized by the Act of June 16, 
1948 (43 U.S.C. 502), to remain available until expended for the 
purposes specified in that Act, $500,000, on a continuing basis to be 
recovered from the Reclamation Fund against receipts for the trans-
mission and sale of electric power and energy which are deposited 
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into the Treasury through Western Area Power Administration 
which shall be available for transfer to the Western Emergency 
Fund: Provided, That expenditures from the Western Emergency 
Fund shall be replenished from project power revenues for which 
funds were expended on an emergency basis. 
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION 
42 u s e 7101 
note. 
96 Stat. 948. 
31 u s e 3302. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Energy Regulatory Com-
mission to carry out the provisions of the Department of Energy 
Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), including services as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
official reception and representation expenses (not to exceed $1,500); 
$89,582,000, of which $4,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended and be available only for contractual activities: Provided, 
That notwithstanding the provisions of section 3617 of the Revised 
Statutes (31 U.S.C. 484), revenues from licensing fees, inspection 
services, and other services and collections estimated at $60,000,000 
in fiscal year 1984 may be retained and used for necessary expenses 
in this account, and may remain available until expended: Provided 
further. That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as 
revenues are received during fiscal year 1984, so as to result in a 
final fiscal year 1984 appropriation estimated at not more than 
$29,582,000. 
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note. 
Motor vehicles 
and aircraft. 
Funding 
restriction. 
eontributions, 
acceptance. 
Appropriation 
transfers; 
submittal to 
congressional 
committees. 
GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For carrying out the Loan Guarantee and Interest Assistance 
Program as authorized by the Geothermal Energy Research, Devel-
opment and Demonstration Act of 1974, as amended, $2,100,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the indebtedness 
guaranteed or committed to be guaranteed through funds provided 
by this or any other appropriation Act shall not exceed the aggre-
gate of $500,000,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
SEC. 301. Appropriations for the Department of Energy under this 
title for the current fiscal year shall be available for hire of passen-
ger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance and operation of aircraft; 
purchase, 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 an 
appropriation Act. The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, 
buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public and pri-
vate sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation with other 
agencies. Federal, State, private, or foreign. 
SEC. 302. Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriations made 
available for the current ^scal year for Department of Energy 
activities funded in this Act may be transferred between such 
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97 STAT. 259 
appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise pro-
vided, shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 per centum by 
any such transfers, £md any such proposed transfers shall be submit-
ted promptly to the C!ommittees on Appropriations of the House and 
Senate. 
SEC. 303. The unexpended balances of prior appropriations pro-
vided for activities covered in this Act may be transferred to appro-
priation accounts for such activities established pursuant to this 
title. Balances so transferred may be merged with funds in the 
applicable established accounts and thereafter may be accounted for 
as one fund for the same time period as originally enacted. 
SEC. 304. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, sh£ill be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public inspec-
tion, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under 
existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 305. None of the funds in the Department of Energy shall be 
used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, parties inter-
vening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in the 
Department of Energy. 
SEC. 306. Not more than $500,000 of funds available to the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission shall be available for updating the 
comprehensive water resources analysis covering Merced County, 
Mariposa County, Madera County, and Fresno County in California, 
in accordance with the provisions of sections 4(a) and 10(a) of the 
Federal Power Act including such public hearings as are necessary 
and appropriate for that purpose: Provided, That notwithstemding 
any other provision of law or regulation, the construction of any 
dam or hydroelectric facility on Whiskey Creek, Nelder Creek, and 
Lewis Fork of the Fresno River, all located in Merced County, 
Mariposa County, Madera County, and Fresno County in California, 
shall be suspended and deferred until completion of the Eiforemen-
tioned updating of the comprehensive water resource analysis cover-
ing that area, and any permit, license, or exemption issued by the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shsill be modified as neces-
sary to be consistent with the results of that anedysis. 
Appropriation 
balances, 
transfers. 
Funding 
restriction. 
Analysis. 
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803. 
TITLE IV—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Cochairman and the alter-
nate on the Appalachian Regionsil 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 
pgissenger motor vehicles, $2,700,000. 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs authorized by 
the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended, 40 use app. i. 
except expenses authorized by section 105 of said Act, including 40 use app. 105. 
97 STAT. 260 
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33 u s e 567b-l. 
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services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, to remain available until expended, $145,000,000 of which 
$100,000,000 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), $191,000. 
CONTRIBUTION TO DELAWARE RIVER BASIN COMMISSION 
For pa5mient of the United States share of the current expenses 
of the Delaware River Basin Commission, as authorized by law (75 
Stat. 706, 707), $269,000. 
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 
(54 Stat. 748), as amended by the Act of September 25, 1970 (Public 
Law 91-407), $68,000. 
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 
42 u s e 5801 
note. 
96 Stat. 948. 
31 u s e 3302. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Commission in carrying out the 
purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended, and 
the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, including the employment of 
aliens; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; publication and dissemi-
nation of atomic information; purchase, repair, and cleaning of 
uniforms; official representation expenses (not to exceed $3,000); 
reimbursements to the General Services Administration for security 
guard services; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft, 
$465,800,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 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 program and the 
material access authorization program may be retained and used for 
salaries and expenses associated with those programs, notwithstand-
ing the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 484, and shall remain available until 
expended. 
PUBLIC LAW 98-50—JULY 14, 1983 
97 STAT. 261 
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), $191,000. 
CONTRIBUTION TO SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION 
For payment of the United States share of the current expense of 
the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, as authorized by law (84 
Stat. 1530,1531), $230,000. 
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 
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
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including purchase, hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, *
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and purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $125,500,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $47,271,000 shall be 
derived from unobligated balances in the Tennessee Valley Author-
ity Fund provided in fiscal year 1983. 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
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. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, parties intervening in regula-
tory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. 
SEC. 503. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public inspec-
tion, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under 
existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 504. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to implement, 
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been disapproved 
pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly adopted in accordance 
with the applicable law of the United States. 
SEC. 505. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
to implement a program of retention contracts for senior employees 
of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 
SEC. 506. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any 
other provision of law, none of the funds made available under this 
Act or any other law shall be used for the purposes of conducting 
any studies relating or leading to the possibility of changing from 
the currently required "at cost" to a "market rate" or any other 
97 STAT. 262 
PUBLIC LAW 98-50—JULY 14, 1983 
non-cost-based method for the pricing of hydroelectric power by the 
six Federal public power authorities, or other agencies or authorities 
of the Federal Government, except as may be specifically authorized 
by Act of Congress hereafter enacted. 
Short title. 
This Act may be cited as the "Energy and Water Development 
Appropriation Act, 1984". 
Approved July 14, 1983. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3132: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 98-217 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 98-272 (Comm. of 
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SENATE REPORT No. 98-153 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 129 (1983): 
June 6, 7, considered and passed House. 
June 21, 22, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
June 23, House disagreed to Senate amendments. 
June 29, House agreed to conference report; receded from its disagreement and 
concurred in certain Senate amendments and in others with amendments. 
Senate agreed to conference report and concurred in House amendments.