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105 STAT. 536 PUBLIC LAW 102-104—AUG. 17, 1991 SEC. 502. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pay the ~ expenses of, or otherwise compensate, parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. SEC. 503. None of the programs, projects or activities as defined in the report accompanying this Act, may be eliminated or disproportionately reduced due to the application of "Savings and Slippage", "general reduction", or the provision of Public Law 99-177 or Public Law 100-119 unless such report expressly provides otherwise. SEC. 504. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 505. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to implement a program of retention contracts for senior employees of the Tennessee Valley Authority. SEC. 506. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other provision of law, none of the funds made available under this Act or any other law shall be used for the purposes of conducting any studies relating or leading to the possibility of changing from the currently required "at cost" to a "market rate" or any other noncost-based method for the pricing of hydroelectric power by the six Federal public power authorities, or other agencies or authorities of the Federal Government, except as may be specifically authorized by Act of Congress hereafter enacted. SEC. 507. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1992 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act. This Act may be cited as the "Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1992". Approved August 17, 1991. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2427: HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 102-75 (Comm. on Appropriations) and 102-177 (Comm. of SENATE REPORTS: No. 102-80 (Comm. on Appropriations). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 137 (1991): May 29, considered and passed House. July 9, 10, considered and passed Senate, amended. July 31, Aug. 1, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in certain Senate amendments, in others with amendments. Aug. 2, Senate agreed to conference report; concurred in House amendments. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 27 (1991): Aug. 17, Presidential statement.