HR 2641 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008

Introduced Jun 11, 2007 Originated House Sponsor Peter J. Visclosky D-IN

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Latest action · Jul 18, 2007 Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 274.

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  1. IntroducedJun 11, 2007
  2. Passed HouseJul 17, 2007
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 - Title I: Corps of Engineers-Civil - Makes FY 2008 appropriations for: (1) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) general investigations and construction (including rescissions of funds); (3) flood damage reduction for the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (4) operation, maintenance, and administration of laws pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands; (5) clean up of contamination from sites resulting from work performed as part of the early atomic energy program; (6) flood control, hurricane, and natural disasters emergency operations; (7) general administration and related civil works functions in the headquarters of the Corps; and (8) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).

(Sec. 101) Sets forth limitations upon reprogramming of funds and certain continuing contracts.

(Sec. 103) Prohibits expenditure of funds under this Act for operation and maritime maintenance of the hopper dredge McFarland.

(Sec. 104) Instructs the Secretary of the Army to reduce by 35% the full-time employees at the Sacramento District Regulatory Division office of the Corps of Engineers.

(Sec. 105) Prohibits the use of funds to conduct a public-private competition or direct conversion under the OMB Circular A-76 or any other administrative regulation, directive, or policy for any Corps of Engineers program, project or activity.

Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY2008 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project Completion Account; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation; (3) management, development, and restoration of water and related natural resources; (4) the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund; (5) California Bay-Delta restoration; and (6) policy and administration in the Office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau of Reclamation.

(Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of funds to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until development by the Secretary of the Interior and the state of California of a plan, conforming to California water quality standards, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters.

Declares that the costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be classified as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid. Makes any future US obligations relating to drainage for that Unit fully reimbursable by Unit beneficiaries.

Title III: Department of Energy - Makes FY2008 appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for expenses related to: (1) energy efficiency and renewable energy; (2) electricity delivery and energy reliability; and (3) nuclear energy.

Rescinds specified amounts previously designated for clean coal technology.

Makes FY2008 appropriations for: (1) fossil energy research and development; (2) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities, (3) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; (4) the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve; (5) the Energy Information Administration; (6) non-defense environmental cleanup; (7) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund; (8) science activities; and (9) nuclear waste disposal, including specified funds designated for the state of Nevada.

Makes FY2008 appropriations for: (1) DOE expenses for Environment, Safety, and Health activities; (2) the Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee program; (3) salaries and expenses for departmental administration; (4) the Office of Inspector General; (5) atomic energy defense weapons activities (designating certain amounts for nuclear weapons dismantlement, including the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility Project, Savannah River Site, South Carolina); (6) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (7) naval reactors; (8) the Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (9) atomic energy defense environmental cleanup; (10) plant and capital equipment necessary for atomic energy defense, other defense, and classified activities; and (11) nuclear waste disposal activities.

Approves specified expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund for official reception and representation expenses. Prohibits new direct loan obligations from being made during FY2008.

Makes FY2008 appropriations for operation and maintenance of: (1) the Southeastern, Southwestern, and Western Area Power Administrations; (2) the Falcon and Amistad Dams; and (3) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

(Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to award any other management and operating contract, or a significant extension or expansion to an existing management and operating contract, unless such contract is awarded using competitive procedures, or the Secretary of Energy grants a waiver (on a case-by-case basis) to allow for such a deviation. Prohibits the Secretary from delegating such waiver authority.

(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations to prepare or initiate requests for proposals for unfunded programs.

(Sec. 304) Prohibits the use of Bonneville Power Administration funds to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the legally defined Bonneville service territory, with the exception of services provided internationally, including services provided on a reimbursable basis, unless the Administrator certifies in advance that such services are not available from private sector businesses.

(Sec. 305) Requires DOE: (1) when it makes a user facility available to universities or other potential users, or seeks their input on significant user facility characteristics or equipment, to ensure broad public notice of such availability or input need; and (2) employ full and open competition in selecting a university or other potential user as a formal partner in the establishment or operation of a user facility.

(Sec. 306) Deems any funds appropriated by this or any other Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress for purposes of the National Security Act of 1947 during FY2008, until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2008.

(Sec. 307) Authorizes the use of specified funds by: (1) government-owned, contractor-operator operated laboratories for laboratory-directed research and development; and (2) the plant manager of a covered nuclear weapons production plant or the manager of the Nevada Site Office for plant or site-directed research and development.

(Sec. 308) Prohibits implementation of a specified DOE Order modifying contractor employee pension and medical benefits policy.

(Sec. 309) Makes specified funds available until expended for the US contribution to create a low-enriched uranium stockpile for an International Nuclear Fuel Bank supply of nuclear fuel for peaceful means under the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes FY2008 appropriations to: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (5) the Office of Inspector General; (6) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; and (7) Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects.

Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to influence congressional action on legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress.

(Sec. 502) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available by this Act to any federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act.

(Sec. 503) Designates certain funds for hydrogen technologies.

(Sec. 504) Prohibits use of funds made available in this Act: (1) to purchase light bulbs without an "ENERGY STAR" designation; (2) to administer the "Yucca Mountain Youth Zone" website; (3) to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees from a federal department or agency at any single conference occurring outside the United States; or (4) for the Green Maintenance Building in North Bergen, New Jersey.

Recorded votes 27

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Roll callQuestionResultDate
House 641Passed312–112Jul 17, 2007
House 640Failed39–388Jul 17, 2007
House 639Failed81–348Jul 17, 2007
House 638On Agreeing to the AmendmentFailed79–337Jul 17, 2007

Yea 79

Nay 337

Not voting 20

House 637Failed70–357Jul 17, 2007
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Cosponsors

Members who signed on, in the order they did.

No cosponsors are on file for this measure.

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseAppropriations Committee
Reported as an original measure Jun 11, 2007Reported Jul 13, 2007

Actions 104

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jul 18, 2007Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 274.
  2. Jul 17, 2007ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Visclosky asked unanimous consent that during further consideration of H.R. 2641 in the Committee of the Whole pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 481, no further amendment to the bill will be in order except those provided on a list at the desk. Agreed to without objection.
  3. Jul 17, 2007Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7873-7874, H7874-7878)
  4. Jul 17, 2007DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Rothman amendment.
  5. Jul 17, 2007DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Flake amendment.
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In the Congressional Record 13

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

WhereIn the RecordMembersDate
HouseDebate and remarks H16935Jason Altmire D-PADec 19, 2007
ExtensionsDebate and remarks E1584Tom Udall D-NMJul 20, 2007
HouseDebate and remarks H7873–H7898Amendments H7874, H7875, H7876, H7877, H7878, H7880, H7881, H7882, H7883, H7884Recorded votes H7893, H7894, H7895, H7896, H7897Campbell amendment (eliminate earmarks)Flake amendment (prohibit funding for Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure)Hensarling amendment (prohibit funding for Nanosys Inc., fuel cell membrane electrode assembly development)Hensarling amendment (prohibit funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities Science and Technology Initiative)makingAnna G. Eshoo D-CA, Bruce L. Braley D-IA, Danny K. Davis D-IL, David L. Hobson R-OH, Ed Pastor D-AZ, Gene Green D-TX, James E. Clyburn D-SC, Jeb Hensarling R-TX (amendment), Jeff Flake R-AZ (amendment), John Campbell R-CA (amendment), Michael E. Capuano D-MA, Michael K. Simpson R-ID, Peter J. Visclosky D-IN, Steven C. LaTourette R-OH, Steven R. Rothman D-NJ (amendment), Timothy H. Bishop D-NYJul 17, 2007
HouseAmendments H7853Jeb Hensarling R-TX (amendment)Jul 16, 2007
ExtensionsDebate and remarks E1449Earl Blumenauer D-ORJun 28, 2007
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Research

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Printed hearings 1

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NumberHearingCommitteeHeld
S. Hrg. 110-442ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008593 pagesAppropriations CommitteeMar 7, 2007–Apr 18, 2007

CRS reports 4

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Cite it 4

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Amendments 45

Amendments offered to this bill.

AmendmentDescriptionOffered byStatus
HAmdt 316An amendment to reduce funding for Investigations including recession of funds by $30 million.Lynn A. Westmoreland R-GAOn agreeing to the Westmoreland amendment (A001) Failed by recorded vote: 84 - 341 (Roll no. 502).
HAmdt 317An amendment numbered 26 printed in the Congressional Record to reduce appropriation for construction including recession of funds by $481,186,000.Lynn A. Westmoreland R-GAOn agreeing to the Westmoreland amendment (A002) Failed by recorded vote: 76 - 351 (Roll no. 503).
HAmdt 318An amendment numbered 24 printed in the Congressional Record to reduced funds for the Mississippi River and Tributaries by $18 million.Lynn A. Westmoreland R-GAOn agreeing to the Westmoreland amendment (A003) Failed by recorded vote: 111 - 315 (Roll no. 504).
HAmdt 319An amendment numbered 25 printed in the Congressional Record to reduce funds for the Operation and Maintenance by $184,241,000.Lynn A. Westmoreland R-GAOn agreeing to the Westmoreland amendment (A004) Failed by recorded vote: 77 - 350 (Roll no. 505).
HAmdt 320An amendment numbered 23 printed in the Congressionl Record to striking the prohibition of funds under the OMB Circular A-76 or any other administrative regulation, directive, or policy for the Corps of Engineers program, project or activity.Pete Sessions R-TXOn agreeing to the Sessions amendment (A005) Failed by recorded vote: 164 - 259 (Roll no. 506).
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Related bills 4

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HRES 481Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2641) making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.Procedurally relatedJun 19, 2007
S 1751Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2008Companion billJul 9, 2007
S 3258Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009Related billJul 14, 2008
HR 7324Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009Related billDec 10, 2008

Titles 4

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
Short Titles as Reported to House
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
Short Titles as Passed House
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008

Subjects

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Text 3

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  1. Jul 18, 2007Placed on Calendar Senate
  2. Jul 17, 2007Engrossed in House
  3. Jun 11, 2007Reported in House

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