operating expenses

operating expenses Sec. 101. For “Operating expenses”, for the following programs, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the following amounts: Fossil Energy Development (1) Coal: (A) Coal liquefaction, $107,000,000. (B) High Btu gasification (coal), $51,200,000. (C) Low Btu gasification (coal).$73,900,000. (D) Advanced power systems, $25,500,000. (E) Direct combustion (coal). $65,200,000. (F) Advanced research and supporting technology, $50,000,000: Provided, That of those funds authorized, funds as may be necessary are hereby authorized for the following purpose: The Secretary of Energy shall conduct a feasibility study of the technology and the commercial applications of the process of fine grinding of coal and dry vegetable residues for the purpose of preparing these substances as clean burning fuels. (G) Demonstration plants and major test facilities (coal), $60,900,000. (H) Magnetohydrodynamics, $70,800,000: Provided, That at least 5 percent of the amount appropriated for magnetohydrodynamics shall be expended for closed cycle technology. (2) Petroleum and natural gas: (A) Enhanced oil recovery, $46,100,000. (B) Enhanced gas recovery, $30,000,000. (C) Drilling, exploration and offshore technology, $7,600,000. (D) Processing and utilization, $1,400,000. (3) Oil shale and in situ technology: (A) Oil shale, $28,000,000. (B) In situ coal gasification, $19,000,000. 92 STAT. 48 Solar Energy Development (4) Thermal applications, $104,700,000, including $94,400,000 for heating and cooling of buildings. (5) Fuels from biomass, $20,500,000; and under such rules and regulations as he may establish, the Department of Energy is authorized to guarantee a loan or loans for the demonstration of a 50 MW wood-fueled power generating facility. (6) Other Solar Energy Programs, $219,700,000, including $7,000,000 for a parallel design of a 1500 kilowatt wind energy conversion system and the production of two test units, and $203,700,000 for other solar electric applications: Provided, That $7,500,000 of such sum is hereby authorized for design work for small community applications. Geothermal Energy Development (7) Engineering research and development, $15,500,000. (8) Resource exploration and assessment, $17,600,000. (9) Hydrothermal technology applications, $28,000,000. (10) Advanced technology applications, $24,300,000. (11) Utilization experiments, $16,000,000. (12) Environmental control and institutional studies, $8,100,000. (13) Low head hydroelectric program, $15,000,000. Conservation Research and Development (14) Electric energy systems and energy storage: (A) Electric energy systems, $36,800,000. (B) Energy storage systems, $48,500,000. (15) End use conservation and technologies to improve efficiency: (A) Industrial energy conservation, $38,000,000. (B) Buildings and community systems, $59,500,000: Provided, That $2,000,000 of such sum are hereby authorized for a research and development program in residential gas and oil furnaces. (C) Transportation energy conservation, $87,000,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be available to the Alternative Fuels Utilization Program for study of automotive utilization of alcohol fuels and blends: Provided, That of those funds authorized for the Alternative Fuels Utilization Program, funds as may be necessary are hereby authorized for the Department of Energy to conduct studies to determine the feasibility of utilizing existing distillery facilities or other types of refineries including but not limited to sugar refineries, in the implementation of programs to extend the supply of gasoline by means of a mixture of gasoline and alcohol. (D) Improved conversion efficiency, $69,700,000. (16) Energy extension service, $8,000,000. (17) Small grants for appropriate technology, $8,000,000. Environment and Safety Research and Development (18) Environmental and Safety Research and Development: (A) Overview and Assessment, $50,010,000. (B) Environmental Research, $143,970,000. (C) Life Sciences Research, $38,113,000. (D) Decontamination and Decommissioning, $19,000,000. Nuclear Research and Development (19) Magnetic fusion, $207,900,000. (20) Fuel cycle research and development, $363,885,000, including $20,000,000 for international spent fuel disposition, pursuant to section 107 and including $13,000,000 for research, development, assessment, evaluation, and other activities at the Barnwell Nuclear Fuels 92 STAT. 49Plant related to alternative fuel cycle technologies, safeguard systems, spent fuel storage and waste management, except that none of the authorized funds may be used for operations of the plant to process spent fuel from reactors. (21) Liquid metal fast breeder reactor, $333,300,000: Provided, That $5,000,000 of such sums are hereby authorized for research and development on means to reduce the ability to divert, plutonium from its intended purposes and to increase the detectability of plutonium if it should be so diverted. (22) Nuclear research and applications, $228,829,000. (23) Light water reactor safety facilities, $24,000,000. (24) High energy physics, nuclear physics, and basic energy sciences, $413,394,000. (25) Nuclear materials security and safeguards, $40,106,000. (26) Uranium enrichment, $989,185,000. All Other Programs, $444,604,000, including— (27) (i) Not more than $1,000,000 for the Water Resources Council to carry out the provisions of section 13 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5912); (ii) Funds to carry out the, provisions of section 11 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5910), in the amount of $500,000 for the Council on Environmental Quality; and (iii) Program management and support: (a) Program direction, $222,900,000. (b) Institutional relations, $34,179,000, including funds to reimburse the National Bureau of Standards for costs incurred in carrying out the provisions of section 14 of the Federal Non-nuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5913), as amended and including $1,800,000, is authorized to be appropriated pursuant to this paragraph (iii) for financial awards by the Department of Energy to independent inventor’s for tire purpose of carrying out section 14 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5913) as amended. (c) Supporting activities, $37,460,000. (d) International cooperation, $5,000,000. Prior Year Authorizations (28) The sum of $40,000,000 which represents the portion of the appropriations heretofore made in the total amount of $56,000,000 for project 76–1–a (clean boiler fuel demonstration plant (A–E) and long-lead procurement) which remains unobligated and is no longer needed is hereby authorized to be made available instead, in addition to any amounts appropriated for the purposes involved pursuant to this Act for the low Btn gasification program.