H.R. 4394: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
Bill · 118th Congress (2023–2024). Passed House, 26 Oct 2023. Introduced 30 Jun 2023.
Official title: Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Vote results
- House, 26 Oct 2023: Passed, 210 Yea, 199 Nay, 0 Present, 24 Not voting. The House’s roll call
- President: Not presented to the President.
How each member voted
House
Yea (210): Harold Rogers (R-KY-5); Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4); Ken Calvert (R-CA-41); Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3); Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4); Kay Granger (R-TX-12); Michael K. Simpson (R-ID-2); Pete Sessions (R-TX-17); Sam Graves (R-MO-6); Joe Wilson (R-SC-2); Michael C. Burgess (R-TX-26); John R. Carter (R-TX-31); Tom Cole (R-OK-4); Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-26); Mike Rogers (R-AL-3); Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10); Darrell Issa (R-CA-48); Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5); Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10); Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC-10); Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-5); Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12); Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16); Jim Jordan (R-OH-4); Doug Lamborn (R-CO-5); Adrian Smith (R-NE-3); Robert E. Latta (R-OH-5); Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1); Steve Scalise (R-LA-1); Tim Walberg (R-MI-5); Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2); Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO-3); Tom McClintock (R-CA-5); Bill Posey (R-FL-8); Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15); Larry Bucshon (R-IN-8); Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR-1); Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-4); Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3); Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3); Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ-9); H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9); Andy Harris (R-MD-1); Bill Huizenga (R-MI-4); David Schweikert (R-AZ-1); Austin Scott (R-GA-8); Daniel Webster (R-FL-11); Steve Womack (R-AR-3); Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-2); Thomas Massie (R-KY-4); Andy Barr (R-KY-6); Richard Hudson (R-NC-9); David P. Joyce (R-OH-14); Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1); Ann Wagner (R-MO-2); Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX-14); Brad R. Wenstrup (R-OH-2); Roger Williams (R-TX-25); Jason Smith (R-MO-8); Rick W. Allen (R-GA-12); Brian Babin (R-TX-36); Mike Bost (R-IL-12); Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1); Tom Emmer (R-MN-6); Garret Graves (R-LA-6); Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6); J. French Hill (R-AR-2); Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11); John R. Moolenaar (R-MI-2); Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV-2); Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4); Gary J. Palmer (R-AL-6); David Rouzer (R-NC-7); Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21); Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4); David G. Valadao (R-CA-22); Trent Kelly (R-MS-1); Darin LaHood (R-IL-16); Warren Davidson (R-OH-8); James Comer (R-KY-1); Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX-19); Don Bacon (R-NE-2); Jim Banks (R-IN-3); Jack Bergman (R-MI-1); Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5); Neal P. Dunn (R-FL-2); A. Drew Ferguson IV (R-GA-3); Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1); Clay Higgins (R-LA-3); Mike Johnson (R-LA-4); David Kustoff (R-TN-8); Brian J. Mast (R-FL-21); John H. Rutherford (R-FL-5); Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11); Ron Estes (R-KS-4); Ralph Norman (R-SC-5); John R. Curtis (R-UT-3); Michael Cloud (R-TX-27); Troy Balderson (R-OH-12); Kevin Hern (R-OK-1); James R. Baird (R-IN-4); Tim Burchett (R-TN-2); Ben Cline (R-VA-6); Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2); Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1); Lance Gooden (R-TX-5); Mark E. Green (R-TN-7); Michael Guest (R-MS-3); Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL); John Joyce (R-PA-13); Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9); Carol D. Miller (R-WV-1); Greg Pence (R-IN-6); Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14); John W. Rose (R-TN-6); Chip Roy (R-TX-21); Bryan Steil (R-WI-1); W. Gregory Steube (R-FL-17); William R. Timmons IV (R-SC-4); Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2); Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24); Dan Bishop (R-NC-8); Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC-3); Mike Garcia (R-CA-27); Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7); Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT-1); Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2); Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5); Lauren Boebert (R-CO-3); Kat Cammack (R-FL-3); Jerry L. Carl (R-AL-1); Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9); Byron Donalds (R-FL-19); Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4); Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7); Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5); Scott Franklin (R-FL-18); Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2); Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL-28); Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23); Bob Good (R-VA-5); Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1); Ashley Hinson (R-IA-2); Ronny Jackson (R-TX-13); Young Kim (R-CA-40); Jake LaTurner (R-KS-2); Nancy Mace (R-SC-1); Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11); Tracey Mann (R-KS-1); Lisa C. McClain (R-MI-9); Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1); Barry Moore (R-AL-2); Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1); Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22); Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23); Burgess Owens (R-UT-4); August Pfluger (R-TX-11); Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr. (R-MT-2); Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27); Victoria Spartz (R-IN-5); Michelle Steel (R-CA-45); Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24); Julia Letlow (R-LA-5); Jake Ellzey (R-TX-6); Mike Carey (R-OH-15); Mike Flood (R-NE-1); Brad Finstad (R-MN-1); Rudy Yakym III (R-IN-2); Mark Alford (R-MO-4); Aaron Bean (R-FL-4); Josh Brecheen (R-OK-2); Eric Burlison (R-MO-7); Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR-5); Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-6); Mike Collins (R-GA-10); Elijah Crane (R-AZ-2); Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY-4); John S. Duarte (R-CA-13); Chuck Edwards (R-NC-11); Mike Ezell (R-MS-4); Russell Fry (R-SC-7); Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-AL); Erin Houchin (R-IN-9); Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38); John James (R-MI-10); Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R-NJ-7); Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2); Kevin Kiley (R-CA-3); Nick LaLota (R-NY-1); Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY-23); Michael Lawler (R-NY-17); Laurel M. Lee (R-FL-15); Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13); Morgan Luttrell (R-TX-8); Richard McCormick (R-GA-6); Cory Mills (R-FL-7); Marcus J. Molinaro (R-NY-19); Nathaniel Moran (R-TX-1); Zachary Nunn (R-IA-3); Andrew Ogles (R-TN-5); Keith Self (R-TX-3); Dale W. Strong (R-AL-5); Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-3); Brandon Williams (R-NY-22); Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-20); Bill Johnson (R-OH-6); Matt Gaetz (R-FL-1); Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8); Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL).
Nay (199): Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD-5); Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9); Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-11); Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6); Richard E. Neal (D-MA-1); Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-12); Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-2); James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6); Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-16); Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-3); Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7); Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2); Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37); Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18); Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3); Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7); Diana DeGette (D-CO-1); James P. McGovern (D-MA-2); Brad Sherman (D-CA-32); Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5); Barbara Lee (D-CA-12); John B. Larson (D-CT-1); Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA-31); Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9); Mike Thompson (D-CA-4); Rick Larsen (D-WA-2); Betty McCollum (D-MN-4); Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ-7); C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD-2); David Scott (D-GA-13); Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38); Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5); Jim Costa (D-CA-21); Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28); Al Green (D-TX-9); Gwen Moore (D-WI-4); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25); Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-7); Kathy Castor (D-FL-14); Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9); Joe Courtney (D-CT-2); Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA-4); John P. Sarbanes (D-MD-3); André Carson (D-IN-7); Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11); James A. Himes (D-CT-4); Paul Tonko (D-NY-20); Judy Chu (D-CA-28); John Garamendi (D-CA-8); Bill Foster (D-IL-11); William R. Keating (D-MA-9); Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7); Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24); Dina Titus (D-NV-1); Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7); Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1); Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1); Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3); Ami Bera (D-CA-6); Matt Cartwright (D-PA-8); Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20); Lois Frankel (D-FL-22); Jared Huffman (D-CA-2); Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY-8); Daniel T. Kildee (D-MI-8); Derek Kilmer (D-WA-6); Ann M. Kuster (D-NH-2); Grace Meng (D-NY-6); Scott H. Peters (D-CA-50); Mark Pocan (D-WI-2); Raul Ruiz (D-CA-25); Mark Takano (D-CA-39); Juan Vargas (D-CA-52); Marc A. Veasey (D-TX-33); Robin L. Kelly (D-IL-2); Katherine M. Clark (D-MA-5); Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12); Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1); Pete Aguilar (D-CA-33); Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA-8); Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-2); Ed Case (D-HI-1); Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-10); Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6); Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-3); Ted Lieu (D-CA-36); Seth Moulton (D-MA-6); Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35); Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12); Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10); Dwight Evans (D-PA-3); Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44); Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-AL); Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA-24); Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13); Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34); Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5); Steven Horsford (D-NV-4); Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7); Ro Khanna (D-CA-17); Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8); Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19); Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8); Darren Soto (D-FL-9); Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34); Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25); Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5); Susan Wild (D-PA-7); Colin Z. Allred (D-TX-32); Sean Casten (D-IL-6); Angie Craig (D-MN-2); Jason Crow (D-CO-6); Sharice Davids (D-KS-3); Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4); Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7); Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL-4); Josh Harder (D-CA-9); Jahana Hayes (D-CT-5); Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6); Susie Lee (D-NV-3); Mike Levin (D-CA-49); Lucy McBath (D-GA-7); Joe Neguse (D-CO-2); Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14); Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5); Chris Pappas (D-NH-1); Katie Porter (D-CA-47); Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7); Kim Schrier (D-WA-8); Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11); Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-7); Abigail Davis Spanberger (D-VA-7); Greg Stanton (D-AZ-4); Haley M. Stevens (D-MI-11); Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12); Lori Trahan (D-MA-3); David J. Trone (D-MD-6); Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14); Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10); Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4); Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16); Cori Bush (D-MO-1); Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51); Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3); Kathy E. Manning (D-NC-6); Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN-1); Deborah K. Ross (D-NC-2); Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10); Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15); Nikema Williams (D-GA-5); Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2); Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1); Shontel M. Brown (D-OH-11); Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20); Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK-AL); Patrick Ryan (D-NY-18); Becca Balint (D-VT-AL); Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13); Yadira Caraveo (D-CO-8); Greg Casar (D-TX-35); Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-30); Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1); Christopher R. Deluzio (D-PA-17); Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC-4); Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10); Robert Garcia (D-CA-42); Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3); Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY-10); Val T. Hoyle (D-OR-4); Glenn Ivey (D-MD-4); Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL-1); Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37); Greg Landsman (D-OH-1); Summer L. Lee (D-PA-12); Seth Magaziner (D-RI-2); Morgan McGarvey (D-KY-3); Robert Menendez (D-NJ-8); Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23); Kevin Mullin (D-CA-15); Wiley Nickel (D-NC-13); Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7); Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL-3); Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6); Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI-3); Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17); Emilia Strong Sykes (D-OH-13); Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13); Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI-2); Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-2); Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4); Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-9); Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-30); Brian Higgins (D-NY-26); Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10); Ken Buck (R-CO-4); Andy Kim (D-NJ-3); Jeff Jackson (D-NC-14).
Not voting (24): Maxine Waters (D-CA-43); Adam Smith (D-WA-9); Steve Cohen (D-TN-9); Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1); Mike Quigley (D-IL-5); Mike Kelly (R-PA-16); Julia Brownley (D-CA-26); Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29); Scott Perry (R-PA-10); Eric Swalwell (D-CA-14); J. Luis Correa (D-CA-46); Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-8); Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16); Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX-29); Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2); Dean Phillips (D-MN-3); Pete Stauber (R-MN-8); Michael Waltz (R-FL-6); Pat Fallon (R-TX-4); Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14); Monica De La Cruz (R-TX-15); Max L. Miller (R-OH-7); Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18); George Santos (R-NY-3).
Not in office (12): Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3); Gabe Amo (D-RI-1); Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2); Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY-26); Vince Fong (R-CA-20); Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6); Greg Lopez (R-CO-4); LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10); Erica Lee Carter (D-TX-18); Tony Wied (R-WI-8); David N. Cicilline (D-RI-1); Chris Stewart (R-UT-2).
Summary
Main subject: Provides fiscal year 2024 appropriations for the Army Corps of Engineers civil works, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy, and several independent agencies, and sets conditions on how those funds are used. Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV, Title VI
Its core areas: Army Corps of Engineers civil works funding; Bureau of Reclamation and Central Utah Project funding; Department of Energy energy programs funding; National Nuclear Security Administration and defense environmental cleanup funding; Independent agencies, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and regional commissions; Central Valley Project and State Water Project operations in California; Restrictions on use of funds, including Department of Energy rules and programs.
Unexpected Items: 43 provisions
These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.
Not related to the bill’s main subject (7)
- Sec. 110: Bars the Secretary of the Army, as of enactment and each fiscal year thereafter, from promulgating or enforcing regulations that prohibit lawful firearm possession at covered water resources development projects.
- Sec. 511. Operation of the CVP and SWP: Among its provisions on Central Valley Project and State Water Project operations, subsection (f) bars the State of California from imposing bag, catch, or size limits on the take or harvest of striped bass and black bass species in the Delta and its tributaries.
- Sec. 552. Establishment of lead agency and cooperating agencies: Makes the Bureau of Reclamation the lead agency coordinating all Federal reviews, permits, and approvals for qualifying new surface water storage projects, and has it designate cooperating agencies.
- Sec. 607: Bars use of funds in this Act or earlier appropriations Acts for discriminatory action against a person who acts on a belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman, and defines such action to cover tax treatment, grants, benefits, property access, and accreditation.
- Sec. 605: Bars use of funds in this Act for any program, project, or activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory or any concept associated with it.
- Sec. 609: Bars use of funds in this Act for any diversity, equity, and inclusion office, program, or training.
- Sec. 625: Bars use of funds in this Act to enforce any COVID–19 mask mandates.
Applies only to a specific place or group (2)
- Sec. 112: Allows certain unobligated Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Corps construction balances to go to projects that previously received Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 construction funds and have binding non-Federal agreements, subject only to that Act's terms.
- Sec. 531. Shasta reservoir enlargement project: Amends section 40902(a)(2) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act by striking the clauses that carve certain projects out of subparagraph (B) and the parenthetical making those projects ineligible under subparagraph (C).
Funds a specific named project or event (6)
- Title II, “WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES”: Directs $5,500,000 of the amounts under this heading to be deposited in the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund. ($5,500,000)
- Title III, “Falcon and Amistad Operating and Maintenance Fund”: Appropriates $3,425,000 for operation, maintenance, and emergency costs of the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams. ($3,425,000)
- Sec. 316: Makes $1,197,000,000 of unobligated Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act nuclear energy funds available for the ongoing demonstration project under the Advanced Small Modular Reactor RD&D program, along with $2,400,000,000 for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability. ($1,197,000,000)
- Sec. 618: Bars the National Nuclear Security Administration from using funds from this Act to halt construction of a High Explosive Synthesis, Formulation, and Production facility at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas.
- Sec. 621: Bars use of funds from this Act to close seven named campgrounds at Lake Sidney Lanier, Georgia.
- Title III, “Naval Reactors”: Transfers $99,747,000 of the Naval Reactors appropriation to the Nuclear Energy account for the Advanced Test Reactor. ($99,747,000)
Different amount for specific places or groups (2)
- Title IV, “Denali Commission”: Provides $17,000,000 for the Commission and sets different caps on its share of construction project cost: not more than 80 percent for distressed communities and not more than 50 percent for non-distressed communities.
- Sec. 522. Allocations of water: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make every reasonable effort to allocate irrigation water to existing Central Valley Project agricultural contractors within the Sacramento River Watershed at set minimum percentages, including not less than twice the south-of-Delta allocation percentage in other years.
Exception or delay for a subset (6)
- Sec. 105: Bars use of funds in this Act for an open lake placement alternative for dredged material from Lake Erie or its tributaries unless approved under a State water quality certification, and requires upland placement until then.
- Sec. 106: Bars use of funds in this Act for any water supply reallocation study at one named dam and lake project.
- Sec. 535. Shasta dam enlargement: Provides that no State law may prevent a public water agency that contracts for Central Valley Project water from assisting or cooperating, by loan, grant, license, or otherwise, in a Bureau of Reclamation project to enlarge Shasta Dam.
- Sec. 604: Bars federal funds for agreements among private entities for consolidated interim storage of spent nuclear fuel not specifically authorized by federal law until host state, local and tribal consent is formalized, but exempts facilities already storing commercial spent fuel under an NRC license.
- Sec. 101: Sets reprogramming limits and notice requirements for Corps of Engineers civil works funds, and exempts projects and activities under the continuing authorities program from the bar on reprogramming that starts a new program, project, or activity.
- Sec. 201: Sets reprogramming and transfer limits for Bureau of Reclamation Water and Related Resources funds, and exempts transfers within the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation category from the percentage and dollar transfer limits in subsection (a)(5).
Delays or blocks a specific regulation (15)
- Sec. 109: Provides that the January 18, 2023 rule on the revised definition of 'Waters of the United States' (88 Fed. Reg. 3004) has no force or effect.
- Sec. 111: Bars use of funds to alter the eligibility requirements for assistance under section 5 of the Act of August 18, 1941 as they stood on November 14, 2022, without express authorization by Congress.
- Sec. 307: Bars use of funds in this Act to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce an energy efficiency standard that increases efficiency standards on distribution transformers, including the proposed rule published January 11, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 1722).
- Sec. 317: Bars use of funds in this title to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the February 1, 2023 proposed rule on energy conservation standards for consumer conventional cooking products as it applies to gas kitchen ranges and ovens, or any substantially similar rule.
- Sec. 514. Reconsultation of NOAA biological opinion and FWS biological opinion: Bars the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce from starting, completing, or requesting reinitiation of consultation that would change or replace the 2019 biological opinions and the 2020 Record of Decision, unless drought, factor, and 120-day notice conditions are met.
- Sec. 608: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, or enforce a specific Department of Energy proposed rule on energy conservation standards for residential clothes washers, or any substantively similar rule.
- Sec. 610: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce section 370 of Public Law 116–283 with respect to civil works projects.
- Sec. 614: Bars use of funds to finalize any rule or regulation that meets the definition in section 804(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code.
- Sec. 615: Bars use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce a specific Department of Energy final rule on energy conservation standards for consumer furnaces.
- Sec. 617: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce a specific Department of Energy proposed rule on energy conservation standards for consumer water heaters.
- Sec. 620: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce a specific Corps of Engineers memorandum on approval of perpetual beach storm damage reduction easements as a standard estate.
- Sec. 622: Bars use of funds to carry out a specific Department of Energy final rule on energy conservation standards for manufactured housing.
- Sec. 626: Bars use of funds to finalize a specific Department of Energy rule on energy conservation standards for automatic commercial ice makers.
- Sec. 627: Bars use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce a specific Department of Energy rule on energy conservation standards for room air conditioners.
- Sec. 616: Bars use of funds to implement the Department of Energy's Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap dated September 2022.
Changes a government process (4)
- Sec. 401: Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to follow the July 5, 2011 version of Chapter VI of its Internal Commission Procedures when responding to Congressional requests for information.
- Sec. 555. Funding to process permits: Allows the Secretary to accept and spend funds contributed by a non-Federal public entity to expedite evaluation of that entity's permit for a qualifying project, with conditions on how those permits are reviewed and made public.
- Sec. 553. Bureau responsibilities: Sets the Bureau's coordination duties for permit reviews of qualifying projects, including a lead point of contact, a unified environmental review document, and decision deadlines of 1 year (or 1 year and 30 days) for cooperating agencies.
- Sec. 554. Cooperating agency responsibilities: Requires each cooperating agency to submit timeframes, environmental review material and project data to the Bureau and to follow the project schedule the Bureau sets for qualifying projects.
Condition defined by a narrow set of criteria (1)
- Sec. 612: Bars the Secretary of Energy from awarding contracts, grants or loans to entities related to a corporation based in a country meeting three listed trade-designation criteria, or to entities on a specified Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act list, with a waiver for minority relationships.
What it does
- Title I, “OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE”: Provides $5,496,622,000 for Corps of Engineers operation and maintenance of existing river, harbor, flood and related projects, of which $2,691,391,000 is to be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.
- Title II, “WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES”: Provides $1,693,366,000, with listed increases, for the Bureau of Reclamation's Water and Related Resources account, which covers management, development and restoration of water resources and operation and maintenance of facilities.
- Title III, “Science”: Provides $8,100,000,000 for Department of Energy science activities, to remain available until expended.
- Title III, “Weapons Activities”: Provides $19,114,167,000, with a listed increase of $3,000,000, for Department of Energy atomic energy defense weapons activities.
- Sec. 311: Permanently rescinds $15,000,000,000 in principal of loan guarantee commitment authority made available in Public Law 117–328 for the Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program.
- Sec. 312: Permanently rescinds $1,000,000,000, $4,500,000,000 and $200,000,000 of unobligated balances made available under sections 50131, 50122 and 50123 of Public Law 117–169.
- Title IV, “Nuclear Regulatory Commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $960,560,450 for Nuclear Regulatory Commission salaries and expenses, to remain available until expended, with listed adjustments of $1,000,000.
- Sec. 511. Operation of the CVP and SWP: Requires the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project to be operated in accordance with the Preferred Alternative, the FWS Biological Opinion and the NOAA Biological Opinion, with listed exceptions.
- Sec. 552. Establishment of lead agency and cooperating agencies: Makes the Bureau of Reclamation the lead agency for coordinating the reviews, permits and approvals required under Federal law to construct qualifying new surface water storage projects.
- Sec. 307: Bars use of funds in this Act to finalize, implement, administer or enforce a Department of Energy energy efficiency standard that increases efficiency standards on distribution transformers, or a substantially similar rule.
Written automatically from the official text by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model. Written 2 Oct 2026 and published after the automatic checks, without a person reading it first. Every line names the section it came from.