After the budget was submitted, both the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees voted to reorganize the subcommittee structure, and with it the programs included in specific appropriations bills. Under the reorganization, the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill acquired Department of Energy (DOE) programs that previously had been included in the appropriations bill for Interior and Related Agencies. Including these programs, the requested amount for FY2006 Energy and Water Development totaled $29.75 billion. For FY2005, $30.17 billion was appropriated for comparable programs (including emergency supplemental appropriations for the Corps of Engineers). 109-86 ). 2419 would have appropriated $29.75 billion for FY2006 for energy and water development programs, including those formerly included in the Interior and Related Agencies bill. The Senate Appropriations Committee reported out its version of H.R. 2419 on June 16 ( S.Rept. 109-84 ). The bill totaled $31.245 billion. On November 7, 2005, the House-Senate conference on H.R. 2419 agreed to a bill funding these programs at $30.49 billion. The House approved the conference report ( H.Rept. 109-275 ) on November 9; the Senate approved it on November 14. President Bush signed the bill on November 19 ( P.L. 109-103 ). Status

	Overview

The Energy and Water Development bill has historically included funding for civil works projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), most of DOE, and a number of independent agencies, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). 2419 , as reported out by the House Appropriations Committee May 18 and passed by the House May 24, would have appropriated $29.746 billion for energy and water development programs for FY2006. The major actions by the conference committee were to raise funding for the Corps of Engineers by $749 million over the requested amount, in the wake of the Katrina and Rita disasters, and to resolve a difference in the House and Senate bills regarding reprogramming of funding and contracts for Corps projects. (See " Title I: Corps of Engineers .") The conference also reduced funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal project. (See " Title III: Department of Energy ," " Nuclear Waste Disposal .") 2419 ( H.Rept. The Senate version of H.R.
The Energy and Water Development appropriations bill in the past included funding for civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), most of the Department of Energy (DOE), and a number of independent agencies.
After the budget request for FY2006 was submitted in February 2005, both the House and the Senate Appropriations Committees reorganized their subcommittee structure and with it the content of the various appropriations bills to be introduced. In the case of Energy and Water Development, the only changes were the consolidation of DOE programs that had previously been funded by the Interior and Related Agencies bill. When these programs are included, the requested amount for FY2006 Energy and Water Development totals $29.75 billion. For FY2005, $30.17 billion was appropriated for comparable programs.
On May 18, 2005, the House Appropriations Committee reported out H.R. 2419 (H.Rept. 109-86), with a total appropriation of $29.75 billion, including the programs formerly funded in the Interior and Related Agencies bill. The House passed the bill May 24. The Senate Appropriations Committee reported out its version of H.R. 2419 on June 16 (S.Rept. 109-84), and the Senate passed it June 30. The Senate bill totaled $31.245 billion.
On November 7, 2005, the House-Senate Conference on H.R. 2419 agreed to a bill funding Energy and Water Development programs at $30.49 billion (H.Rept. 109-275). The House approved the conference report November 9, and the Senate November 14. President Bush signed the bill November 19 (P.L. 109-103).
Key budgetary issues involving these programs include:
— the effects of performance-based budgeting and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Army Corps of Engineers priorities, and limiting the reprogramming of funds from one Corps project to another and restricting the use of multiyear contracts (Title I);
— support of major ecosystem restoration initiatives, such as Florida Everglades (Title I) and California "Bay-Delta" (CALFED) (Title II);
— funding for the proposed national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (Title III: Nuclear Waste Disposal);
— funding for developing nuclear warheads, in light of congressional action last year to cut funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator and for a "Modern Pit Facility" to build nuclear weapons components (Title III: Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Stewardship); and
— plans to reduce the time necessary to prepare the Nevada Test Site to resume nuclear weapons testing (Title III: Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Stewardship).
This report will be updated as events warrant.