Energy and Water Development Appropriation Act, 1983

Energy and Water Development Appropriation Act, 1983 - Title I: Department of Energy - Appropriates specified sums for FY 1983 for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment expenses of the Department of Energy for: (1) energy supply, research, and development activities; (2) nuclear fuel cycle activities, including uranium supply and enrichment activities, the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project, nuclear waste management activities, and reprocessing and demonstration projects; (3) general science and research activities; and (4) national security programs. Appropriates funds for Department of Energy departmental administration expenses.

Appropriates funds for: (1) the Alaska Power Administration; (2) the Southeastern Power Administration; (3) the Southwestern Power Administration; (4) the Western Area Power Administration; and (5) the Emergency Fund of the Western Area Power Administration. Approves expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration Fund for: (1) construction of Boundary Integration and Colville Valley Support; and (2) official reception and representation expenses. Appropriates funds for borrowing authority of the Bonneville Power Administration Fund for conservation and renewable resource loans and grants. Limits the aggregate principal amount of such borrowing and gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans. Makes appropriated funds available for Colorado River Storage Project construction.

Appropriates funds for: (1) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; (2) the Geothermal Resources Development Fund; and (3) motor vehicles, aircraft, uniforms, and security guard services for the Department of Energy.

Prohibits the reprogramming of more than five percent of the funds appropriated for the current fiscal year for Department of Energy activities funded in this Act. Prohibits the increase or decrease of any such appropriation by more than five percent by such reprogramming.

Title II: Department of Defense-Civil - Appropriates specified sums for FY 1983 for the Department of the Army for: (1) general investigations pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects; (2) construction of such projects; (3) flood control work, including bank stabilization measures for the Yazoo Basin; (4) general operation and maintenance of existing river and harbor, flood control, and related works; (5) general administration in the office of the Chief of Engineers and offices of the Division Engineers, activities of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and the Coastal Engineering Research Center, commercial statistics, and miscellaneous investigations; (6) construction, operation, and maintenance of outdoor recreation facilities, including collection of special recreation use fees; and (7) expenses of attendance at certain military meetings, uniforms and allowances, printing of survey reports authorized by law, official reception and representation expenses, and the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles (out of the revolving fund of the Corps of Engineers). Limits the total expenditures of the capital investment program of the Corps of Engineers' revolving fund to $70,000,000 in fiscal year 1983.

Makes funds available for channel clearing of Bayou Rigolette in the project Aloha-Rigolette Area in Louisiana.

Authorizes Federal establishment of intake and treatment facilities and a regional conveyance system of water from Sardis Lake in Oklahoma for the ownership and use of non-Federal entities. Requires non-Federal entities benefitting by such facilities to repay the construction costs.

Authorizes Federal establishment of treatment facilities and a regional conveyance system of water from Skiatook Lake in Oklahoma for the ownership and use by the Skiatook Area Reservoir Authority. Requires the Authority to repay the construction costs.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to perform clearing and snagging on the San Joaquin River from Stockton, California, to Friant Dam. Sets forth the conditions for construction of such project.

Provides for the modification of the Wallisville Reservoir project in Texas as recommended in the Wallisville Lake, Texas, Post Authorization Change Report.

Provides for the use of funds for the Wister Lake project in Oklahoma to reduce sedimentation impacts.

Requires that architect and engineering service contracts and surveying and mapping service contracts be awarded in accordance with the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.

Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to include in the survey report on Three Mile Creek, Mobile, Alabama, a cost-benefit analysis of the flood damage reduction on measures initiated by the city of Mobile after January 1, 1982, which are compatible with and constitute an integral part of the recommended plan of the Chief of Engineers.

Authorizes the preparation of a study with recommendations on water and water resources development and use in southcentral and southeast Oklahoma and for the Red River and its tributaries in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

Makes funds available for: (1) emergency shore protection at Beverly Shores, Indiana; (2) bank erosion control works along the Sacramento River in California from Chico Landing to the upstream ends of the project levees; (3) the Kawkawlin River, Michigan, project; and (4) maintenance and operation of the Control Structure and Lock in the Chicago River and other facilities needed to sustain through navigation from Chicago Harbor to Lockport.

Title III: Department of the Interior - Appropriates specified sums for FY 1983 for the Bureau of Reclamation for: (1) engineering and economic investigations of Federal reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and development plans and activities; (2) construction and rehabilitation of projects and transfers to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund; (3) operation and maintenance of reclamation projects and a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the Bureau's jurisdiction; (4) loans to irrigation districts and other public agencies for construction of distribution systems on Federal reclamation projects and loans and grants to non-Federal agencies for such construction projects; (5) general administration in the Offices of the Commissioner and regional offices of the Bureau; and (6) the emergency fund which is available to assure continuous operation of irrigation and power systems maintained by the Bureau.

Prohibits the determination of the final discharge point for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit in California until development of a plan to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters.

Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for construction or operation of facilities to prevent the waters of Lake Powell from entering any national monument.

Makes appropriated funds available to the Bureau for: (1) passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; (2) certain safety modifications for Bureau offices in Lakewood, Colorado; (3) payment of damage claims against the Bureau; (4) compensation of Bureau employees appointed as U.S. representatives to interstate compact negotiations; (5) experts and consultants; (6) rewards for information on property violations; (7) operation and maintenance functions; (8) preparation and dissemination of useful information; and (9) studies of recreational uses of reservoir areas and investigation and recovery of archeological and paleontological remains in such areas.

Prohibits the use of funds appropriated for operation and maintenance for the benefit of lands in an irrigation district or lands owned by any member of a water users' organization or any individual if such district, organization, or individual is in arrears for more than 12 months in the payment of charges under a contract with the United States.

Makes the Department of the Interior appropriations in this title available for: (1) emergency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, facilities, or equipment; (2) suppression or emergency prevention of forest or range fires; (3) operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities; and (4) aircraft, passenger motor vehicles, reprints, telephone services in private residences in the field, and dues for library membership in certain societies and associations.

Amends the Colorado River Basin Project Act to authorize funds for the construction of distribution and drainage facilities for non-Indian lands.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to engage in a feasibility study for the Prairie Bend unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program in Nebraska for irrigation, stabilization of ground-water levels, water quality enhancement, small community and rural domestic water supplies, fish and wildlife habitat management, public outdoor recreation, flood control, and other appropriate purposes.

Title IV: Independent Agencies - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for: (1) salaries and expenses and the Federal share of expenses of the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) Appalachian Regional Development programs; (3) expenses of the U.S. member of the Delaware River Basin Commission and payment of the U.S. share of current expenses of such Commission; (4) expenses of the U.S. member of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission and payment of the U.S. share of the current expenses of such Commission; (5) salaries and expenses of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (6) the Tennessee Valley Authority Fund; and (7) salaries and expenses of the Water Resources Council.

Makes funds available for: (1) experts and consultants; (2) publication and dissemination of atomic information; (3) employment aliens; (4) uniforms; (5) official representation expenses; (6) security guard services; (7) motor vehicles and aircraft; and (8) rental of Nuclear Regulatory Commission offices.

Prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act: (1) to implement the systematic safety evaluation plan for all currently operating utilization facilities licensed under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954; (2) in connection with the interim consolidation of Nuclear Regulatory Commission offices; or (3) to implement the Uranium Mill Licensing Requirements, to require any State to adopt such requirements in order for the State to continue to exercise authority for uranium mill and mill tailings licensing, or to allow Federal exercise of regulatory authority over uranium mill and mill tailings licensing in a State. Authorizes the Commission to use appropriated funds to continue to regulate byproduct material to the same extent permitted before October 3, 1980.

Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the obligation of any funds appropriated by this Act beyond the current fiscal year except as provided in this Act. Prohibits the use of any such funds to pay the expenses of parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. Limits the use of any such funds for consulting services through procurement contract to contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record.

Prohibits the use of such funds to reimburse the General Services Administration for payment of Standard Level User Charges in excess of the FY 1982 level.