Bill > HR4553

This bill makes appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. * **Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation:** * Central Utah Project Completion Account: $23,000,000 for authorized activities, with specific amounts for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account and administrative expenses for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission. * Water and Related Resources: $1,710,630,000 for management, development, and restoration of water resources, including operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of facilities, and grants. Funds are available until expended, with specific amounts for transfers to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund. * California Bay-Delta Restoration: $32,000,000 for activities authorized by the Water Supply, Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act, to remain available until expended. * Policy and Administration: $64,000,000 for policy, administration, and related functions, to be derived from the Reclamation Fund and available until September 30, 2027. * **Department of Energy - Energy Programs:** * Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: $1,830,000,000 for energy efficiency and renewable energy activities, to remain available until expended. * Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response: $200,000,000 for cybersecurity, energy security, and emergency response activities, to remain available until expended. * Electricity: $225,000,000 for electricity activities, to remain available until expended. * Grid Deployment: $25,000,000 for grid deployment activities, to remain available until expended. * Nuclear Energy: $1,795,000,000 for nuclear energy activities, to remain available until expended. * Fossil Energy: $687,500,000 for fossil energy research and development activities, to remain available until expended. * Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves: $13,000,000 for naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities, to remain available until expended. * Strategic Petroleum Reserve: $294,628,000 for Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility development and operations, to remain available until expended. * SPR Petroleum Account: $100,000 for acquisition, transportation, and injection of petroleum products, to remain available until expended. * Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve: $7,150,000 for Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve storage, operation, and management, to remain available until expended. * Energy Information Administration: $135,000,000 for activities of the Energy Information Administration, to remain available until expended. * Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup: $337,700,000 for non-defense environmental cleanup activities, to remain available until expended. * Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund: $844,380,000 for uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning, to be deposited into and derived from the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund, to remain available until expended. * Science: $8,400,000,000 for science activities, to remain available until expended. * Nuclear Waste Disposal: $12,040,000 for nuclear waste disposal activities, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, to remain available until expended. * Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy: $350,000,000 for ARPA-E activities, to remain available until expended. * Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program: $35,000,000 for administrative expenses, to remain available until September 30, 2027, with additional amounts from collected fees. Also appropriates $150,000,000 for the cost of loan guarantees for small modular or advanced nuclear reactors. * Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program: $13,000,000 for administrative expenses, to remain available until September 30, 2027. * Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program: $6,300,000 for administrative expenses, to remain available until September 30, 2027. * Indian Energy Policy and Programs: $75,000,000 for Indian Energy activities, to remain available until expended. * Departmental Administration: $304,653,000 for salaries and expenses for departmental administration, to remain available until September 30, 2027. * Office of the Inspector General: $90,000,000 for expenses of the Office of the Inspector General, to remain available until September 30, 2027. * **Department of Energy - Atomic Energy Defense Activities:** * National Nuclear Security Administration - Weapons Activities: $20,661,993,000 for atomic energy defense weapons activities, to remain available until expended. * Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation: $1,993,060,000 for defense nuclear nonproliferation activities, to remain available until expended, with a rescission of $9,422,000 from prior year unobligated balances. * Naval Reactors: $2,171,023,000 for naval reactors activities, to remain available until expended, including a transfer of $96,740,000 to the Nuclear Energy account for the Advanced Test Reactor. * Federal Salaries and Expenses: $500,000,000 for Federal Salaries and Expenses in the National Nuclear Security Administration, to remain available until September 30, 2027. * Defense Environmental Cleanup: $6,521,396,000 for atomic energy defense environmental cleanup activities, to remain available until expended. * Other Defense Activities: $1,179,950,000 for other defense activities and classified activities, to remain available until expended. * **Power Marketing Administrations:** * Bonneville Power Administration Fund: Expenditures approved for official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $5,000; no new direct loan obligations may be made. * Operation and Maintenance, Southeastern Power Administration: $9,285,000 for operation and maintenance and marketing of electric power, to remain available until expended. * Operation and Maintenance, Southwestern Power Administration: $59,766,000 for operation and maintenance, construction, and administrative expenses, to remain available until expended. * Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area Power Administration: $311,035,000 for carrying out functions, including conservation and renewable resources programs, to remain available until expended, derived from the Department of the Interior Reclamation Fund. * Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund: $6,510,000 for operation, maintenance, and emergency costs for hydroelectric facilities at Falcon and Amistad Dams, to remain available until expended. * **Federal Energy Regulatory Commission:** * Salaries and Expenses: $520,000,000, to remain available until expended, with revenues from fees and charges to be retained and used for expenses. * **Independent Agencies:** * Appalachian Regional Commission: $162,535,255 for programs authorized by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, to remain available until expended. * Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: $45,000,000 for activities authorized by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, to remain available until September 30, 2027. * Delta Regional Authority: $25,274,232 for expenses and activities, to remain available until expended. * Denali Commission: $13,815,497 for expenses, to remain available until expended, with provisions for funding construction projects. * Northern Border Regional Commission: $33,319,727 for activities, to remain available until expended. * Southeast Crescent Regional Commission: $16,253,526 for activities, to remain available until expended. * Southwest Border Regional Commission: $4,063,381 for activities, to remain available until expended. * Great Lakes Authority: $4,063,381 for activities, to remain available until expended. * Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Salaries and Expenses: $952,700,000, to remain available until expended, with revenues from licensing fees and other services to be retained and used for expenses. * Office of Inspector General (NRC): $18,795,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027, with revenues from licensing fees and other services to be retained and used for expenses. * Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board: $4,000,000, to be derived from the Nuclear Waste Fund, to remain available until September 30, 2027. The bill also includes numerous provisions regarding the reprogramming of funds, limitations on the use of funds, and specific requirements for various agencies and programs.