Bill > S2443

This bill makes appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024. * **Department of the Army (Corps of Engineers-Civil):** The bill includes provisions for reprogramming funds for various activities, including investigations, planning, engineering, design, construction, and operation and maintenance. Specific reprogramming limits are outlined for each category, with unlimited authority for Operation and Maintenance to respond to emergencies. The bill also allows for the transfer of up to $8,200,000 from the Corps of Engineers' "Operation and Maintenance" funds to the Fish and Wildlife Service to mitigate fisheries lost due to Corps projects. * **Department of the Interior (Bureau of Reclamation):** * Central Utah Project Completion Account: $19,556,000 is appropriated, with $4,650,000 designated for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account. * Water and Related Resources: $1,773,497,000 is appropriated for management, development, and restoration of water and related resources, including operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of facilities. * Central Valley Project Restoration Fund: Such sums as are collected in fiscal year 2024 are appropriated for programs, projects, and habitat restoration. * California Bay-Delta Restoration: $33,000,000 is appropriated for activities authorized by the Water Supply, Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act. * Policy and Administration: $66,794,000 is appropriated for administrative expenses, to be derived from the Reclamation Fund. * **Department of Energy:** * Energy Programs: Various energy-related activities receive funding, including Industrial Emissions and Technology Coordination ($3,500,000), Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ($3,686,749,000), Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response ($200,000,000), Electricity ($290,000,000), Grid Deployment ($60,000,000), Nuclear Energy ($1,550,887,000), Fossil Energy and Carbon Management ($892,000,000), Energy Projects ($87,896,000), Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves ($13,010,000), Strategic Petroleum Reserve ($214,908,000), SPR Petroleum Account ($100,000), Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve ($7,150,000), Energy Information Administration ($135,000,000), Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup ($354,000,000), Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund ($862,000,000), Science ($8,430,000,000), Nuclear Waste Disposal ($12,040,000), Technology Transitions ($20,000,000), Clean Energy Demonstrations ($89,000,000), Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy ($450,000,000), Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program (administrative expenses $70,000,000), Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (administrative expenses $13,000,000), Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program (administrative expenses $6,300,000), and Indian Energy Policy and Programs ($75,000,000). * Departmental Administration: $383,578,000 is appropriated for departmental administration. * Office of the Inspector General: $86,000,000 is appropriated. * Atomic Energy Defense Activities: National Nuclear Security Administration receives funding for Weapons Activities ($18,832,947,000), Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation ($2,596,522,000), and Naval Reactors ($1,964,100,000). Federal Salaries and Expenses for the NNSA are funded at $485,000,000. * Environmental and Other Defense Activities: Defense Environmental Cleanup is funded at $7,296,564,000, Defense Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning at $575,000,000, and Other Defense Activities at $1,079,867,000. * Power Marketing Administrations: Funds are appropriated for Bonneville Power Administration Fund, Operation and Maintenance for Southeastern Power Administration ($8,449,000), Operation and Maintenance for Southwestern Power Administration ($52,326,000), Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance for Western Area Power Administration ($313,289,000), and Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund ($3,425,000). * Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: $520,000,000 is appropriated for salaries and expenses. * **Independent Agencies:** * Appalachian Regional Commission: $200,000,000 is appropriated. * Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: $42,000,000 is appropriated. * Delta Regional Authority: $30,100,000 is appropriated. * Denali Commission: $17,000,000 is appropriated. * Northern Border Regional Commission: $41,000,000 is appropriated. * Southeast Crescent Regional Commission: $20,000,000 is appropriated. * Southwest Border Regional Commission: $5,000,000 is appropriated. * Great Lakes Authority: $2,500,000 is appropriated. * Nuclear Regulatory Commission: $941,703,450 is appropriated for salaries and expenses, with revenues from licensing fees and other collections offsetting a significant portion. The Office of Inspector General receives $15,769,000. * Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board: $4,064,000 is appropriated from the Nuclear Waste Fund. The bill also contains general provisions related to reprogramming of funds, contract modifications, environmental justice, and computer network security. It prohibits the use of funds for the Shasta Dam and Reservoir Enlargement Project. Additionally, it establishes a pilot program for licensing, constructing, and operating federal consolidated storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.