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On March 26, 2013, the President signed H.R. 933, the FY2013 Defense and Military Construction/VA, Full Year Continuing Resolution (P.L. 113-6). The act funded Energy and Water Development accounts at the FY2012 enacted level for the rest of FY2013, with some exceptions. However, under BCA, an automatic spending reduction process, consisting of a combination of sequestration and lower discretionary spending caps, went into effect March 1, 2013. \nFor FY2014, as in previous years, the level of overall spending was a major issue. President Obama\u2019s FY2014 budget request for Energy and Water Development was released in April 2013. The request totaled $34.4 billion. On June 26 the House Appropriations Committee reported a bill, H.R. 2609, with a total of $30.4 billion; the bill passed the House, with amendments, on July 10. The Senate Appropriations Committee reported out a bill, S. 1245, on June 27, with a total of $34.4 billion. On October 16, 2013, Congress passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, H.R. 2775, P.L. 113-46, extending funding for all federal programs, including Energy and Water Development, through January 15, 2014, at the FY2013 post-sequestration spending level. On December 26 the President signed H.J.Res. 59 (P.L. 113-67), which contained the Bipartisan Budget Act establishing less stringent spending caps for FY2014 and FY2015 than the BCA and easing the way for an appropriations agreement. On January 17, 2014, the President signed H.R. 3547, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (P.L. 113-76), containing appropriations for all 12 FY2014 appropriations bills, including Energy and Water Development programs (Division D).\nIn addition to funding levels, issues specific to Energy and Water Development programs included \nthe distribution of appropriations for Corps (Title I) and Reclamation (Title II) projects that have historically received congressional appropriations above Administration requests; \nalternatives to the proposed national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, which the Administration has abandoned (Title III: Nuclear Waste Disposal);\nproposed FY2014 spending levels for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs (Title III) that were more than 50% higher in the Administration\u2019s request than the amount appropriated for FY2012; and,\nfunding for the nuclear weapons program and other defense activities, which make up half of the total Department of Energy budget.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R43121", "sha1": "624671c4a2ffd26acf93d7b026282c01f3f5c517", "filename": "files/20140225_R43121_624671c4a2ffd26acf93d7b026282c01f3f5c517.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R43121", "sha1": "821a8cf3fcc95feb51c9d2fd32b37587ee508ef1", "filename": "files/20140225_R43121_821a8cf3fcc95feb51c9d2fd32b37587ee508ef1.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 2343, "name": "Energy and Water Development Appropriations" } ] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc807981/", "id": "R43121_2014Jan13", "date": "2014-01-13", "retrieved": "2016-03-19T13:57:26", "title": "Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations", "summary": null, "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20140113_R43121_debb6406f2d37eaa1d5b19863ae6fbf72cabd996.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20140113_R43121_debb6406f2d37eaa1d5b19863ae6fbf72cabd996.html" } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc267850/", "id": "R43121_2013Nov01", "date": "2013-11-01", "retrieved": "2013-12-03T12:16:12", "title": "Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations", "summary": "This report discusses the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill that provides funding for civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the Department of Energy (DOE), and several independent agencies.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20131101_R43121_a586164b778e5c75c3dffbaf039ee64f4def1446.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20131101_R43121_a586164b778e5c75c3dffbaf039ee64f4def1446.html" } ], "topics": [ { "source": "LIV", "id": "Energy law and legislation", "name": "Energy law and legislation" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Water law and legislation", "name": "Water law and legislation" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Appropriations", "name": "Appropriations" } ] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc267818/", "id": "R43121_2013Sep13", "date": "2013-09-13", "retrieved": "2013-12-03T12:16:12", "title": "Energy and Water Development: FY2014 Appropriations", "summary": "This report discusses the Energy and Water Development bill, which includes funding for civil works projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Department of the Interior's Central Utah Project (CUP) and Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the Department of Energy (DOE), and a number of independent agencies, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC).", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/20130913_R43121_548588e763dbd1ad6dfe792c18856885fea67ba8.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/20130913_R43121_548588e763dbd1ad6dfe792c18856885fea67ba8.html" } ], "topics": [ { "source": "LIV", "id": "Water", "name": "Water" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Energy", "name": "Energy" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Appropriations", "name": "Appropriations" } ] } ], "topics": [ "Appropriations", "Energy Policy", "Environmental Policy", "Intelligence and National Security", "National Defense", "Science and Technology Policy" ] }