Eric Arnold - Civil Engineering

H.R.3183

Background :

This is the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010. It consists of many different rules and laws that make appropriations for energy and water development. It was eventually signed and passed by the president 10/20/2009. It became law 111-85. It has also had 111 amendments.


Goal of Action:
Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.

Makes appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for FY2010.


Specifics/Means of Goal:

Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers-Civil, for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration (including the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri); (2) the regulatory program pertaining to navigable waters and wetlands; (3) the formerly utilized sites remedial action program for cleanup of early atomic energy program contamination; and (4) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).

Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Energy (DOE) for energy and science programs, including: (1) energy efficiency and renewable energy; (2) electricity delivery and energy reliability; (3) nuclear energy and nuclear waste disposal; (4) fossil energy research and development; (5) naval petroleum and oil shale reserves; (6) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve; (7) the Energy Information Administration; (8) non-defense environmental cleanup activities; (9) the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund; (10) science activities; (11) the Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program; (12) the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program; (13) departmental administration; (14) Office of the Inspector General; (15) the National Nuclear Security Administration and atomic energy defense weapons activities; (16) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (17) naval reactors activities; (18) Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (19) defense environmental cleanup; (20) Defense Nuclear Waste Disposal; and (21) other defense activities.

Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to influence congressional action on legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress.

Type of Power:

This is using an implied power. There is nothing in the expressed powers about all these specifics; however, these can be implied on the basis that it is necessary for regulations of our nations energy and water development.


Analysis (Do you think Congress should do this according to its Constitutional powers?)

Yes, I think all these things are necessary for the regulation and development of our energy system. These were brought upon by many professional engineers and other professionals and these situations should be left to those who are very educated on the subject.