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Version 36 · Passed House amended · Jul 27, 1999
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 wetlands regulatory program; (7) formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (8) general expenses. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from promulgating or implementing proposed replacement permits for the wetlands nationwide permit 26 under the Clean Water Act unless and until 30 days before final publication of the permits (but no later than December 30, 1999) the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, has submitted to specified congressional committees certain studies and analyses of the impact of such proposed permits on Regulatory Branch workload and on cost of compliance by the regulated community. 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 the Act Making Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1999, to repeal Title VI (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, and State of South Dakota Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat Restoration) of division C. (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.
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Rep. Packard, Ron [R-CA-48] · R–CA
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Became Public Law No: 106-60.
Became Public Law No: 106-60.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 96-3. Record Vote No: 295. (consideration: CR S11531-11538)
Senate roll call 295 · Individual votesConference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 96-3. Record Vote No: 295.(consideration: CR S11531-11538)
Senate roll call 295 · Individual votesConference report considered in Senate.
Conference papers: Senate report and managers' statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 327 - 87 (Roll no. 452). (consideration: CR H8825)
House roll call 452 · Individual votesMotions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 327 - 87 (Roll no. 452).(consideration: CR H8825)
House roll call 452 · Individual votesThe House proceeded to consider the conference report H.Rept. 106-336 as unfinished business.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of the debate, the Chair postponed further proceedings on the Conference report until later in the legislative day.
The previous question was ordered without objection.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the previous order, the House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report.
Mr. Packard brought up conference report H. Rept. 106-336 by previously agreed to special order.
ORDER OF BUSINESS - Mr. Dreier asked unanimous consent that it shall be in order at any time on the legislative day of Sept. 27, 1999, to consider the conference report on the bill H.R. 2605 and that all points of order be waived against the conference report and against its consideration and that the conference report be considered as read when called up for consideration. Agreed to without objection.
Conference report H. Rept. 106-336 filed. (text of conference report: (CR H8677-8762)
Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 106-336 filed.(text of conference report: (CR H8677-8762)
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
The Speaker appointed conferees: Packard, Rogers, Knollenberg, Frelinghuysen, Callahan, Latham, Blunt, Young (FL), Visclosky, Edwards, Pastor, Forbes, and Obey.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by voice vote. (consideration: CR H8126-8127)
Mr. Visclosky moved that in resolving the difference between the House and the Senate, the Managers be instructed to insist on the higher funding levels for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program included in the House-passed bill.
Mr. Visclosky moved that the House instruct conferees.
On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H8126)
Mr. Packard asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate insists on its amendment asks for a conference, appoints conferees Domenici; Cochran; Gorton; McConnell; Bennett; Burns; Craig; Stevens; Reid; Byrd; Hollings; Murray; Kohl; Dorgan; Inouye. (consideration: CR S9650)
Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1186 with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 1186 with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S. 1186 amended.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9650)
Received in the Senate, read twice.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 420 - 8 (Roll no. 342).
House roll call 342 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 420 - 8 (Roll no. 342).
House roll call 342 · Individual votesThe House adopted the amendment as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2605.
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS - The Chair announced that proceedings will resume on the amendments postponed earlier in the following order: The amendment offered by Mr. Boehlert and the amendment offered by Mr. Visclosky.
DEBATE - The Committee is debating the amendment offered by Mr. Salmon.
DEBATE - The Committee is debating the amendment offered by Mr. Dingell.
Mr. Boehlert raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Boehlert stated that language, after the comma on page 7 line 7 through page 9 line 2 after the word enacted, constituted legislation on an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
DEBATE - The Committee resumed debate on the amendment offered by Mr. Visclosky.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - The Chair put the question on agreeing to the amendment offered by Mr. Boehlert by voice vote and announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Boehlert demanded a recorded vote. Pursuant to H. Res. 261, further proceedings on the amendment were postponed.
DEBATE - The Committee proceeded with debate on the Visclosky amendment.
Mr. Young (AK) raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Young stated that section 506 constitutes legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2605.
The Speaker designated the Honorable James V. Hansen to act as Chairman of the Committee.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 261 and Rule XXIII.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2605 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 261. (consideration: CR H6509-6550; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H5625-6526; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H6540; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H6541; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H6545-6546; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H6546)
Rule H. Res. 261 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 261 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2605 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by section. Bill is open to amendments.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 106-253, by Mr. Packard.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 106-253, by Mr. Packard.
Introduced in House
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