The House today approved a $30.6 billion fiscal 2012 spending bill for the Energy Department, Army Corps of Engineers and Interior Department water programs after a week of amendment debate.

The spending bill -- which provides $24.7 billion for DOE, $4.8 billion for the Army Corps and $934 million for Interior's Bureau of Reclamation -- passed on a largely party-line vote of 219-196 and now moves to the Senate.

The measure, (H.R. 2354), includes controversial provisions, like steep funding cuts for DOE renewable energy and energy efficiency research programs coupled with funding boosts for traditional energy research. The measure also would block funding for a new Obama administration policy aimed at expanding federal protections over wetlands and streams and provide $45 million in new funding for the shuttered Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

The bill also includes a provision that would provide $1 billion in emergency funding for this year's floods in the Mississippi and Missouri river basins at the expense of high-speed rail funds.

The chamber debated dozens of amendments to the language this week and approved a handful of them, including one that would defund a set of lighting efficiency standards set to go into effect later this year (see related story).

Many of the approved amendments trim funding for the agencies even further than the original GOP-authored bill did. But some, like one from Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) would boost funding by $10 million to advance a federal review of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada and one from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) that would boost funding for programs under a broad energy research and education law by $80 million. That measure to boost funding for programs authorized under the America COMPETES Act, like DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, passed on a slim 214-213 vote.

Most of the approved amendments from Republicans involved shifting minor amounts of funding within the agencies.

Included among the approved GOP amendments:

• A plan from Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) to defund a regulation that prohibits people from carrying firearms on federal parklands and refuges and at Army Corps facilities, which passed by voice vote.

• A bid by Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) to prohibit the use of funds to be used to enforce a section of a 2007 energy law that prohibits federal agencies from procuring synthetic fuel unless its life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions are less than those for conventional petroleum sources, which passed by voice vote.

• Rep. Todd Young's (R-Ind.) plan to prohibit the use of funds to be used to pay the salaries of DOE employees to carry out a weatherization assistance program funded in the 2009 stimulus law, which passed by voice vote.

Among the handful of passed Democrats' amendments:

• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's (D-Texas) proposal to prohibit the use of funds to be used in contravention of the Department of Energy Organization Act, which passed by voice vote.

• A bid by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) to prohibit the use of funds to be used by the Department of Energy or any other federal agency to lease or purchase new light-duty vehicles, for any executive fleet, or for any agency's fleet inventory, except in accordance with Presidential Memorandum-Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011, which passed by voice vote.

• A proposal from Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) to prohibit the use of funds to be used for any portion of the international activities at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the Department of Energy in China, which passed by voice vote.

• Rep. Marcy Kaptur's (D-Ohio) plan to reduce the Departmental Administration account under DOE by $10 million and increase the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy account by the same amount, which passed 212-210.