Appropriations for FY2004: Energy and Water Development (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised Jan. 30, 2004 |
| Report Number |
RL31807 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Carl Behrens and Mark Humphries, Resources, Science, and Industry Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
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Summary:
The Energy and Water Development appropriations bill includes funding for civil works projects
of
the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation
(BOR), most
of the Department of Energy (DOE), and a number of independent agencies. The Bush
Administration requested $26.95 billion for these programs for FY2004 compared with $26.20
billion appropriated for FY2003. On July 18 the House passed a bill, H.R. 2754 ,
containing appropriations of $27.08 billion. On September 16 the Senate passed its version of H.R.
2754, funding energy and water development programs at $27.38 billion. The conference
committee on the bill approved $27.33 billion on November 5, 2003. Both the House and the Senate
agreed to the conference report on November 18, and the President signed the bill December 1 ( P.L.
108-137 ).
Key issues involving Energy and Water Development appropriations programs include:
funding and progress of Corps projects not considered priorities by the
Administration;
funding for major water/ecosystem restoration initiatives such as Florida
Everglades and California "Bay-Delta";
funding for the proposed national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain,
Nevada;
funding for developing a new nuclear warhead, the Robust Nuclear Earth
Penetrator; and
DOE's "Nuclear Power 2010" initiative, to "identify the
technical, institutional
and regulatory barriers to the deployment of new nuclear power plants by
2010."
This report will be updated as events warrant.
