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The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 refers to appropriations bills introduced during the 113th United States Congress. There are two different versions: H.R. 2609 in the House of Representatives and S. 1245 in the Senate. The bill was later incorporated as Division D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, which was enacted in January 2014. The money would be appropriated to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and other U.S. Department of the Interior projects, and Department of Energy projects. Many of these projects relate to electricity generation, transmission, and sale; nuclear power cleanup projects; hydropower; flood control; and so forth. This funding would be used during fiscal year 2014, which starts on October 1, 2013 and ends September 30, 2014. The House version totals 30.4billioninspending.TheSenateversion,asapprovedbythefullSenateAppropriationsCommitteeonJune27,appropriates30.4 billion in spending. The Senate version, as approved by the full Senate Appropriations Committee on June 27, appropriates 30.4billioninspending.TheSenateversion,asapprovedbythefullSenateAppropriationsCommitteeonJune27,appropriates34.8 billion. The Senate bill was 1.96billionbelow,andtheHousebillwas1.96 billion below, and the House bill was 1.96billionbelow,andtheHousebillwas2.9 billion lower, the enacted funding level for the previous fiscal year (FY 2013) before sequestration. The Senate bill is $4.4 billion more than the House version of the bill, and funds Obama administration priorities for DOE Office of Science and clean energy basic research, which were significantly reduced in the House version of the bill. Both bills are below the budget request of President Barack Obama. The decreases in funding were "made possible by agency consolidations and rolling back of government regulations." (en) |
