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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 362
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 116-198
NEXUS OF ENERGY AND WATER FOR SUSTAINABILITY
ACT OF 2019
JANUARY 7, 2020.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2799]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2799) to require the Secretary of Energy and
the Secretary of the Interior to establish a joint Nexus of Energy
and Water Sustainability Office, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
AMENDMENT
The amendment is as follows:
In section 918 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (as added by sec-
tion 3(a)), strike subsection (c) and insert the following:
(c) Funding.-The Secretary shall use funds made
available to the Secretary and not otherwise obligated to
carry out this section..
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 2799 is to require the Secretary of Energy (Sec-
retary) and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a joint Nexus
of Energy and Water Sustainability Office (NEWS Office).
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Vast amounts of water are used every day to produce vital fuels
and to cool power plants in the United States. At the same time,
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