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Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes FY 2003 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions relating to rivers and harbors, flood control; (2) river and harbor, flood control, shore protection; (3) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries; (4) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program; and (5) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program.Makes FY 2003 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for water and related resources; and (3) the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund.Makes FY 2003 appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for: (1) energy supply programs; (2) non-defense environmental management; (3) uranium facilities maintenance and remediation; (4) general DOE science activities; (5) nuclear waste disposal; (6) DOE administration and its Office of the Inspector General; (7) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (8) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (9) naval reactors activities; (10) Office of the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; (11) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (12) defense environmental management cleanup reform (13) defense facilities closure projects; (14) defense environmental management privatization; (15) defense nuclear waste disposal; (16) geographical power marketing administrations of DOE (including hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams); and (17) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.Makes FY 2003 appropriations to: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its Office of the Inspector General; and (5) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
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Rep. Callahan, Sonny [R-AL-1] · R–AL
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 423.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 107-681, by Mr. Callahan.
The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 107-681, by Mr. Callahan.
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