95th Congress > Senate > Vote 949

Date: 1978-08-10

Result: 89-5

Vote Subject Matter: Government Management / Budget Special Interest

Bill number: HR12928

Description: TO PASS H.R. 12928, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS FOR WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT AND FOR ENERGY RESEARCH FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979.

Bill summary: (Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 95-1490) Energy and Water Development "Appropriation Act" =Title I: Department of Energy= - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1979 within the Department of Energy for the following: operating expenses; plant and capital equipment; special foreign currency programs; power marketing operations; and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Prohibits any funds appropriated to be available for: ((1) the issuing of a license to operate the waste isolation (...show more) pilot plant, Delaware Basin, New Mexico, and (2) the storage at such plant of radioactive waste not resulting from the national defense activities of the Department of Energy. =Title II: Department of Defense-Civil= - Makes appropriations within the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for the following for fiscal year 1979; construction (general), flood control and coastal emergencies, general expenses, general investigations, Mississippi River and tributaries, operation and maintenance (general), revolving fund, and special recreation use fee. Stipulates that specified appropriated funds shall not be expended to discharge sewage overflow from the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago into the Illinois Waterway. Stipulates that a certain amount of funds for construction shall be available for bank stabilization measures on the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania. =Title III: Department of the Interior= - Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1979 as follows: Bureau of Reclamation; general investigations; reclamation project construction; Upper Colorado River Storage project; Colorado River Basin project; reclamation projects maintenance; the reclamation loan program, and water resources planning. =Title IV: Independent Agencies= - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1979 to the following: Appalachian programs, Delaware River Basin Commission, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, and Tennessee Valley Authority. Makes a specified amount of funds appropriated to the Tennessee Valley Authority Fund available for the completion of the Tellico Dam and Reservoir. =Title V: General Provisions= - States that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond fiscal year 1979 unless expressly so provided.

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Bill titles: A bill making appropriations for public works for water and power development and energy research for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, and for other purposes.

Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 124-125, p. 13069;

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