PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Law · HR

H.R. 2605 (106th)

Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000

enactedUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

23 July 1999

Last action

—

Status

Became Public Law No: 106-60.

Sponsors

—

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

7 April 2025

Official sourceDownload fileView documentsShare

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Defense Civil Title II: Department of the Interior Title III: Department of Energy Title IV: Independent Agencies Title V: General Provisions Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2000- Title I: Department of Defense - Civil - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for FY 2000 for: (1) authorized civil functions of the Department of the Army relating to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach erosion, and related purposes; (2) expenses necessary for the collection and study of information related to such purposes; (3) the prosecution of authorized water development and related projects; (4) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries; (5) water development projects operation and maintenance; (6) the navigable waters and wet lands regulatory program; (7) formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (8) general expenses. Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY 2000 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation, water and related resources; (3) Bureau of Reclamation Loan Program Account; (4) Central Valley Project Restoration Fund; (5) California Bay-Delta Restoration; and (6) general administrative expenses. Title III: Department of Energy - Makes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2000 for: (1) energy supply; (2) non-defense environmental management; (3) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund; (4) general DOE science and research activities; (5) nuclear waste disposal; (6) DOE administration; (7) Office of the Inspector General; (8) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (9) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (10) defense facilities closure projects; (11) defense environmental management privatization; (12) other DOE defense activities; (13) defense nuclear waste disposal; (14) the various geographical power marketing administrations of DOE (including specified costs for the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams under the Western Area Power Administration); and (15) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Sec. 301) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to: (1) award either a management and operating contract without competitive procedures, or a contract that deviates from the Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) grants a waiver on a case-by-case basis; (2) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits; (3) augment specified funds made available for severance payments and other benefits and community assistance grants under specified law; (4) prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for a program that has not been funded by the Congress; (5) advance Laboratory Directed Research and Development, or Director's Discretionary Research and Development; (6) cover expenditures under a covered contract unless funds are expended in accordance with a Laboratory Funding Plan approved by the Secretary; (7) to establish or maintain independent centers at a DOE facility unless such funds have been specifically identified in the budget submission; (8) waive overhead or added factor charges for work performed for other Federal agencies or other DOE programs; (9) restart the High Flux Beam Reactor; (10) construct, expand, or upgrade fiber optic telecommunication endeavors by the Federal power marketing administrations (except fiber optic cable necessary for foreseeable future internal management programs); or (11) engage in designated construction-related activities by the Federal power marketing administrations. (Sec. 314) Repeals Federal prohibitions against the use of Federal funds: (1) by Federal public power authorities or other Federal entities (except as specifically authorized by Congress) for studies relating to the possibility of changing from "at cost" to a noncost-based method of pricing hydroelectric power; or (2) by the Executive branch (until specifically authorized by Congress) for soliciting or drafting proposals or preparing or reviewing studies designed to transfer out of Federal ownership, management or control the facilities and functions of the Federal power marketing administrations and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2000 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); (4) the NRC Office of the Inspector General; and (5) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. Rescinds previous appropriations earmarked for the Denali Commission. Title V: General Provisions - Declares the sense of the Congress that all equipment and products bought with funds under this Act should be American-made. Requires each Federal agency to give notice of this policy to any entity to which it provides financial assistance or contracts. Bars the award of contracts funded under this Act to any person determined by a court or Federal agency to have falsely labeled products as made in America. (Sec. 503) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California develop a plan which conforms to California water quality standards approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and which minimizes any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to classify the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Programs as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the "Cleanup Program--Alternative Repayment Plan" and the "SJVDP--Alternative Repayment Plan" described in a specified report. Makes San Luis Unit beneficiaries of drainage service or drainage studies responsible to reimburse the United States fully for any future obligations of Federal funds relating to, or providing for, such service or studies for the San Luis Unit. (Sec. 504) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend from September 30, 1998, through September 30, 2000, the NRC's authority to assess annual charges. (Sec. 505) Amends: (1) the Act Making Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1999, to repeal Title III (Denali Commission Act of 1998) and Title VI (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, and State of South Dakota Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat Restoration) of division C; and (2) the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, to repeal specified administrative provisions pertaining to the Denali Commission (including a limitation on administrative expenditures and contractual powers). (Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act for regulations designed to implement a certain Kyoto Protocol which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

18 official files

Enrolled Bill (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.