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United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1979
Disapproves the Reorganization Plan No. 3 transmitted to Congress by the President on September 25, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1979
Federal Firearms Law Reform Act of 1979 - Title I: Amendments to Gun Control Act - Amends the Gun Control Act of 1968 to redefine: (1) "manufacturer" to mean any person engaged in the "business of manufacturing" (instead of "manufacture" of) firearms or ammunition; and (2) "dealer" to exclude dealers in ammunition and persons engaged in the business of repairing firearms. Adds a new definition, "engaged in the business", with respect to manufacturers, dealers, and importers. Includes as a manufacturer of ammunition a person whose gross sales of his own ammunition exceed $1,000 in any calendar year. Includes as a dealer in firearms a person who deals in firearms as a regular course of business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit through the repetitive purchase and resale of firearms. Replaces the current term "crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year" with a new definition of "disabling crime." Eliminates certain activities regarding ammunition from the coverage of the current prohibitions. Revises current provisions respecting the interstate sale or transfer of firearms. Revises the current prohibition against selling a firearm or ammunition to certain persons (such as persons under indictment for a felony or addicted to drugs) to apply such prohibition only to persons convicted of a disabling crime. Revises the current prohibition against certain persons transporting a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce to: (1) extend such prohibition to possession or receipt in commerce or affecting commerce of any firearm or ammunition; (2) conform such prohibition to the new "disabling crime" provision; and (3) include as additional categories illegal aliens, persons dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces, and persons who have renounced their United States citizenship. Makes the same changes to the current prohibition against certain persons who receive a firearm or ammunition which has been transported in interstate commerce, but applies such prohibition to persons who are employed by specified individuals. Excludes ammunition dealers from the current licensing requirements. Stipulates that the Secretary of the Treasury may revoke a license only where the holder of such license has "knowingly" violated a provision of the Act or regulation. Bars the Secretary from denying or revoking a license on the basis of violations under this Act which are alleged in criminal proceedings instituted against a licensee, but for which such individual has not been convicted. Imposes as a condition for the inspection or examination of records, documents, and any firearm or ammunition kept by an importer, manufacturer, or dealer pursuant to this Act that the Secretary has reasonable grounds to believe that a violation has occurred and that evidence may be found on the premises of such persons. Restricts the firearm information obtained from licensees which the Secretary may make available to State or local governments. Establishes a limited recordkeeping requirement for firearms collectors. Stipulates that the general penalty under this Act shall apply to whoever "willfully" violates any provision. Prohibits, with respect to a person's second or subsequent conviction for illegally using or carrying a firearm during the commission of a felony, the granting of parole before completion of the minimum sentence. Amends the forfeiture provision to subject to seizure any firearm or ammunition "involved in or used" in any violation of the Act (instead of "involved in or used or intended to be used"). Requires a court to award attorney's fees to the prevailing party (other than the United States) in an action or proceeding for the return of seized firearms or ammunition. Allows the court to award such fees in any other action upon a finding that the action was initiated in bad faith. Amends the rulemaking authority of the Secretary to provide that no regulation may require (1) the transfer of records required under this Act to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or (2) the establishment of any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions. Requires a 90-day public comment period for proposed regulations (no period is currently specified). Allows one House of Congress to disapprove by resolution any firearms regulation within 90 days of continuous session of the promulgation of such rule. Set forth procedures for such resolutions. Prohibits the Secretary from prescribing any rules identical to regulations disapproved by Congress without the enactment of additional legislation respecting his authority. Prohibits the Secretary from prescribing regulations which require purchasers of black powder to complete affidavits or forms attesting to their exemption from certain provisions of the Federal criminal code. Makes any law or regulation promulgated by any State prohibiting the transfer of an unloaded and not readily accessible firearm or ammunition null and void. Title II: Amendments to title VII of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 - Repeals title VII of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act (relating to the receipt, possession, or transportation of firearms by felons, veterans dishonorably discharged, mental incompetents, illegal aliens, and persons renouncing their United States citizenship).
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to stipulate that an automobile manufacturer's failure to comply with any average fuel economy standard shall not be deemed "unlawful conduct" under such Act unless the Secretary of Transportation has determined that: (1) any credits which the manufacturer may have received for exceeding such standards in any model year do not fully offset any penalty for failure to achieve such standards; and (2) the time for which such credits could be earned to offset such a penalty has expired. Allows such a credit to be used to offset any penalty which may have been assessed against the manufacturer in the three consecutive years prior to the model year in which the manufacturer exceeds such a standard.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1979
Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to declare national goals for the domestic production of synthetic fuels and synthetic chemical feedstocks. Directs the Secretary of Energy to acquire for use or resale by the United States Government not less than 1,000,000 barrels per day crude oil equivalent of synthetic fuels and synthetic chemical feedstocks within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for purchases of such fuels and feedstocks and to provide for the development and production thereof for national defense preparedness. Sets forth terms and conditions for such contracts. Directs the Secretary to install additional equipment and facilities in federally-owned industrial facilities and to organize corporations for the purposes of achieving the goals set forth under this Act. Directs the Secretary to require suppliers to provide such fuels and feedstocks and to install Government-owned equipment in privately-owned industrial facilities when the President deems it necessary for national defense purposes. Establishes in the United States Treasury a synthetic fuel fund for the purpose of carrying out the programs authorized by this Act. Directs each Federal officer and agency responsible for issuing permits or other authorizations for construction or operation of synthetic fuel and synthetic chemical feedstock facilities to expedite actions necessary for such issuance or authorization, upon receipt of a timely application from prospective applicants. Directs Federal agencies involved in the approval of such projects to submit to the Secretary: (1) a compilation of all significant actions required by such agency before rendering a decision on such projects; (2) a compilation of all actions required of the applicant; (3) a tentative schedule for completing agency and applicant actions; and (4) all necessary application forms required for such approval. Directs the Secretary to publish a Facility Decision Schedule setting deadlines for all such actions. Authorizes the President to act in lieu of any Federal agency failing to meet its deadline. Authorizes the Secretary to establish deadlines for Federal agency action which are shorter than the minimum period required under existing legislation in cases of exceptional national need. Requires the Secretary to certify the proper completion of all Federal agency actions and approvals necessary to the completion of such projects. Directs the Secretary to notify the Governor of any State selected for the siting of such projects and to request the Governor to supply information as to significant State and local actions required before such projects can be completed. Authorizes the Secretary to propose a voluntary decision schedule to assist State and local authorities in coordinating their actions with Federal actions. Directs the Secretary to recommend to a State Governor and to the Congress actions to alleviate or prevent any delays in a project schedule created or threatened by any State or local government. Limits judicial review of Federal agency actions made under this Act to claims alleging that an action taken pursuant to this Act will deny constitutional or statutory rights or exceed statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations. Sets time limits for filing appeals or petitions for review of actions taken pursuant to this Act, and bars any challenges to such actions which are not in conformance with these actions. Stipulates that such challenges shall be brought in the United States courts of appeals for the circuit where the project would be located, and grants exclusive original jurisdiction to such courts in such matters. Directs such courts to give precedence to such matters over all other matters on the docket. Authorizes the Supreme Court to review interlocutory judgments or orders of the court of appeals pursuant to this Act and directs the Supreme Court to give precedence to such matters to the greatest extent practicable. Amends the Government Corporation Control Act to include corporations formed pursuant to this Act within the definition of 'wholly owned Government corporation.'
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1979
Declares it the sense of Congress that the Postmaster General and the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee should give favorable consideration to the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Americans of Italian descent and the 250th anniversary of the birth of Philip Mazzei on December 25, 1980, or as soon as possible thereafter. States that the Postmaster General and the Committee should honor other foreign-born contributors to the revolutionary cause, from countries which have not yet been commemorated, prior to the conclusion of the American Bicentennial celebration in 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1979
Capital Cost Recovery Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and a six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits taxpayer to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1979
Increases from two to three the number of divisions within the Northern District of Ohio. Requires that the Central Division leave two active judges sitting full time in Akron and one active judge setting full time in Youngstown, unless an alternative assignment is authorized which will result in an equitable allocation of caseloads among the judges of such district court.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1979
Title I: Foreign Claims Settlement Commission - Transfers the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to the Department of Justice. Requires the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a full-time chairman and two part-time members to the Commission to serve staggered three-year terms. Sets forth the compensation, administrative powers, and responsibilities of members of the Commission. Directs the Attorney General to provide administrative services to the Commission. States that the claims decisions of the Commission are not subject to review by the Attorney General. Title II: Annual Assay Commission - Abolishes the Annual Assay Commission and the positions of assay commissioners. Transfers the functions of such Commission and commissioners to the Secretary of the Treasury. Title III: United States Marine Corps Memorial Commission - Abolishes the United States Marine Corps Memorial Commission. Title IV: The Low Emission Vehicle Certification Board - Abolishes the Low Emission Vehicle Certification Board. Title V: Determination Order - Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to make such determinations and take such actions as are necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Title VI - States that this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1979
Changes the name of the National Historical Publications Commission to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1980 and 1981 to the General Services Administration for such Commission and for providing funds to Federal, State, and local agencies and to nonprofit organizations for the collecting, preserving, and publishing of historically significant documents.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1979
Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1979 - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to change the duties and authority of the Administrator of such Office. Directs the Administrator to: (1) provide leadership in the development of Federal procurement policy; (2) coordinate programs to improve the quality and performance of procurement personnel; (3) develop a uniform procurement system which includes uniform policies, regulations, procedures, and forms to be used for the procurement of property and services by executive agencies and by recipients of Federal grants or assistance; and (4) develop a central management system consisting of the Office of Management and Budget, the General Services Administration, and the procurement offices of executive agencies to implement such procurement system. Lists other functions of the Administrator which includes: (1) determining whether recommendations of the Commission on Government Procurement (CGP) should be completed, amended, or rejected; (2) developing standard contracts and contract language for Government procurements; and (3) directing formulation of executive branch positions on legislation relating to procurement. Establishes, within the Office, the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI) through which the Administrator shall: (1) promote and conduct research in procurement policies; and (2) promote and recommend programs of the Office of Personnel Management and executive agencies for recruitment, training, and evaluation of procurement personnel. Authorizes the Administrator, until the uniform procurement system is implemented, to issue policies to ensure that procurement measures promulgated by executive agencies are consistent with the development of such system. Requires the Administrator to submit to Congress within one year of the enactment of this Act: (1) a proposal for such procurement system; (2) a report on the recommendations of the CGP; (3) recommended changes in procurement legislation; and (4) a proposal for the central management system. Authorizes the appropriation of $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that one-third of the funds appropriated for each fiscal year be made available to the FAI.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1979
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1980 through 1984 to the General Services Administration for: (1) the National Historical Publications Commission; and (2) making funds available to Federal, State, and local agencies and to nonprofit organizations for the collection, preservation, and publication of documentary sources significant to the history of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the seven-day period beginning October 7, 1979, as "National Port Week."
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1979
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives to Reorganization Plan No. 2.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to annually inform individuals covered by the OASDI program of their contributions and potential benefit rights, as based on their current wage records.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Soft Drink Interbrand Competition Act - Declares that exclusive territorial arrangements made as a part of a licensing agreement for the manufacture, distribution, or sale of a trademarked soft drink product are lawful under the antitrust laws provided such product is in substantial and effective competition with other products of the same general class. Prohibits recovery in private actions under the Clayton Act based on territorial provisions in a trademark licensing agreement prior to a final determination that such provisions are unlawful.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1979
Paperwork and Redtape Reduction Act of 1979 - Title I: Central Management and Control Responsibility - Requires Federal agencies to utilize methods of collecting information which: (1) impose a minimum burden on business; (2) require a minimum cost to the Government; and (3) eliminate any unnecessary duplication of efforts. Establishes, within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Federal Information Management Policy (OFIMP) to have government-wide responsibility for setting policies and coordinating procedure governing the planning, budgeting, management, and control of Federal information management activities and of the measurement of the burdens imposed by such activities on businesses, State and local governments, and individuals. Requires the Administrator of OFIMP to: (1) publish annually, a report of the burdens imposed by the reporting requirements of each agency; (2) review, at least every three years, the information management activities and the paperwork reduction activities of each agency; (3) establish goals for the reduction of reporting requirements; (4) assist agencies in developing information management programs; (5) recommend policies to Congress, the President, and agencies concerning the confidentiality and security of information; (6) study and develop improved information and paperwork cost accounting and reduction techniques; and (7) promulgate standards concerning recordkeeping requirements imposed on the public. Sets forth procedures which enable the Administrator to designate one agency to collect information for two or more agencies requiring similar data. Prohibits any agency from collecting information which: (1) is collected by a designated agency; or (2) the Administrator determines is unnecessary. Authorizes the Administrator to order the exchange of information among agencies. Requires an agency, before collecting any information, to: (1) eliminate reporting requirements which seek information which is available through another Government source; (2) minimize the compliance burden on respondents; (3) plan the tabulation of the information in a manner which maximizes its usefulness to other agencies; and (4) obtain the Administrator's approval of such collection. Directs the Administrator to approve a collection request within 60 days after its receipt for a period not to exceed two years. Directs the Administrator to report annually to Congress on the activities of the OFIMP. Grants access to all records of such office to the Comptroller General. Requires that formal meetings of OFIMP to establish policies and regulations be open to the public. Specifies conditions under which confidential information may be released from one agency to another. Delegates specified information management duties of the Director of the OMB to the Administrator. Title II: Elimination of Unnecessary Duplication - Establishes, within OFIMP, a Federal Locator System composed of an information locator, a data element dictionary, and an information referral service. Directs the System to serve as the authoritative register for all recordkeeping requirements and all public-use, interagency, and intra-agency reports. Directs the Administrator to: (1) design and operate the system; (2) require the head of each agency to insert into the system a synopsis of the questions of each report and the information maintained for each reporting requirement of that agency; (3) compare the information sought by proposed reporting requirements to information in the system; and (4) make available the comparison results to agencies and the public. Requires the Administrator to insure that no actual data is contained within the locator system, except descriptive data profiles necessary to identify duplicative data or to locate information. Requires that any information holding which contains a data element of a personal or proprietary nature within the meaning of the Privacy Act of 1974 be identified as such and restricted in access and use. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that this Act take effect 60 days after its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1979
Disapproves the Reorganization Plan No. 1 transmitted to Congress by the President on April 2, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1979
Reaffirms the United States commitment to the North Atlantic Alliance.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of September 16 through 22, 1979, as "National Meals on Wheels Week."
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1979
Designates the rose as the national floral emblem of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1979
Department of Education Organization Act - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be: (1) to strengthen the Federal commitment ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every American; (2) to support more effectively States, localities and public and private institutions in carrying out their responsibilities for education; (3) to promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through federally supported research, evaluation, and the sharing of information; (4) to improve the management and efficiency of Federal education activities; (5) to increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public; (6) to encourage the involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs; (7) to improve the coordination of Federal education programs; and (8) to prohibit Federal control of education. Title II: Establishment of the Department - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education. Establishes within such Department: (1) a position of Under Secretary of Education; (2) six Assistant Secretary positions; (3) an Office for Civil Rights headed by an Assistant Secretary; (4) an Office of Postsecondary Education headed by an Assistant Secretary; (5) an Office of Elementary and Secondary Education headed by an Assistant Secretary; (6) an Office of Educational Research and Improvement headed by an Assistant Secretary; (7) an office to administer functions relating to the education of overseas dependents of Department of Defense personnel; (8) a General Counsel; (9) an Office of Inspector General; (10) an Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education to provide an educational forum and to promote better intergovernmental relations; and (11) an Interdepartmental Education Coordinating Committee to assure effective coordination of Federal educational programs and practices. Title III: Transfers - Transfers from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) educational functions and offices vested in: (1) the Assistant Secretary for Education; (2) the Education Division; (3) the Office for Civil Rights; (4) any statutory advisory committee or authority giving advice primarily concerning functions transferred under this Act; (5) the Institute of Museum Services; (6) the Advisory Council on Education Statistics; (7) the Federal Education Data Acquisition Council; and (8) certain functions of the Office of Inspector General. Transfers from HEW educational functions vested in the Secretary under: (1) the General Education Provisions Act; (2) the Emergency School Aid Act; (3) the Higher Education Act of 1965; (4) the Education Amendments of 1978; (5) the Act of August 30, 1898; (6) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (7) the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Act; (8) the Environmental Education Act; (9) the National Defense Education Act of 1958; (10) the Education of the Handicapped Act; (11) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act; (12) the Vocational Education Act of 1963; (13) certain provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; (14) certain parts of the Public Health Service Act regarding student aid; (15) the Model Secondary School for the Deaf Act; (16) certain telecommunications grants under the Communications Act of 1934; and (17) certain provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Transfers from HEW educational functions relating to Gallaudet College, Howard University, the American Printing House for the Blind, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Transfers to the Department of Education from the Departments of: (1) Labor, certain functions regarding migrant and seasonal farmworker employment and training programs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973; (2) Defense, the administration and operation of overseas dependents schools under the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978; (3) Justice, the student loan and grant programs known as the law enforcement education program and the law enforcement intern program under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; and (4) Housing and Urban Development, the administration of college housing loans under the Housing Act of 1950. Transfers to the Department of Education specified science education programs of the National Science Foundation. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to appoint and fix the salaries for the Department's employees in accordance with the Civil Service laws. Allows certain higher level appointments to be made by the Secretary without Civil Service Commission approval if the individual so appointed is transferred to the Department in connection with a transfer of functions under this Act. Grants rulemaking authority to the Secretary. Requires such rules to be in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act and specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) employ experts and consultants; (2) enter into contracts with public agencies and private persons and organizations; (3) provide technical advice to participants or potential participants in Departmental programs; (4) establish, maintain, alter, or discontinue field offices; (5) acquire and maintain schools, laboratories, and related facilities; (6) provide and maintain various facilities for employees and their dependents at remote locations; (7) utilize, with their consent, Federal, State, or foreign facilities; (8) acquire necessary copyrights and patents; (9) accept and utilize gifts and requests of real and personal property; (10) establish a working capital fund for administrative expenses; and (11) transfer funds within the Department. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress concerning the Department's activities. Stipulates that such report include a statement of goals and priorities and an assessment of progress. Authorizes the appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and additional functions that may be vested in the Department, to remain available until expended. Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Title VI: Effective Date and Interim Appointment - Directs that this Act shall take effect 180 days after the Secretary of Education takes office. Allows the President to make initial interim appointments to the Department of Education under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1979
Authorizes expenditures, not to exceed $2,193,500, by the House Committee on Government Operations for investigations, studies, oversight responsibilities, and committee functions. Terminates the authorization granted by this resolution on January 3, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1979
Abolishes diversity of citizenship as a basis of jurisdiction of Federal district courts, but retains as a basis of jurisdiction "alienage," involving foreign states or citizens of foreign states. Increases the amount in controversy requirement in such cases from $10,000 to $25,000. Abolishes the amount in controversy requirement in Federal question cases. Retains as a basis for Federal jurisdiction statutory interpleader, which includes actions between citizens of different States. Permits venue for a Federal civil action in any judicial district in which a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the claim occurred, or in which a substantial part of property that is the subject of the action is situated. Requires, in suits for damages brought under the Consumer Product Safety Act, that the matter in controversy exceed the sum or value of $10,000. Exempts from such requirement actions brought against the United States, Federal agencies or employees of such agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Select Committee on Congressional Operations in the House of Representatives. Requires the committee to: (1) make a continuing study of the organization and operation of Congress and recommend improvements; (2) identify any court proceeding or action of vital interest to Congress or the House; (3) conduct a continuing study of the jurisdiction of various standing committees of the House, their workloads, and ways of rationalizing committee jurisdictions between the two Houses of Congress; and (4) supervise and control the functions of the Office of Placement and Office Management as they relate to the House.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Meat Import Act of 1979 - Limits the maximum aggregate quantity of specified meat articles which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouses, for consumption in the customs territory of the United States in any calendar year after 1978 to 1,204,600,000 pounds, adjustable according to a specified formula. Excludes from the domestic commercial production factor in such formula the carcass weight of live cattle specified in certain Tariff Schedules. Requires a further adjustment of such annual aggregate quantity by multiplying it by a ratio of: (1) the average annual per capita production of domestic cow beef during a calendar year (as estimated) and the four preceding calendar years; and (2) to the average annual per capita production of domestic cow beef in the calendar year (as estimated) and the preceding calendar year. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, for each calendar year after 1978, to estimate and publish the aggregate quantity of meat articles prescribed for such year as well as the quantity that would be entered into the United States but for the limitations. Directs the President to limit by proclamation, upon giving 30 days notice in the Federal Register, the total quantity of meat articles entered into the United States, whenever such quantity equals or exceeds 110 percent of the Secretary's estimate; but prohibits any limitation below 1,200,000,000 pounds. Requires the termination of any limitation as of the first day of a calendar quarter, under most circumstances, if before such quarter the aggregate quantity is less than 110 percent of the Secretary's estimate. Permits the President, upon giving 30 days notice in the Federal Register, to suspend any proclamation or increase any amount proclaimed as required by the preceding provision if: (1) required by economic or national security interests; (2) supplies are inadequate to meet domestic demand at reasonable prices; or (3) trade agreements ensure the execution of the policy. Prohibits the President from increasing the total quantity of meat imports if the above ratio is less than 1.0 unless: (1) a period of national emergency is declared; or (2) supplies are inadequate because of a natural disaster to meet demand at reasonable prices. Prohibits such suspension or increase from extending beyond the termination of the national emergency. Requires the Secretary to allocate the entry quota of meat articles proclaimed by the President among supplying countries on the basis of their respective shares of the United States market for meat articles during the representative period, taking into account any special factors. Directs the Secretary to study the regional economic impact of imports of meat articles and report any recommendations to the appropriate committees of Congress by December 31, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Modifies the Galveston Channel, Texas, navigation project to provide that non-Federal interests contribute 25 percent of the costs for disposal sites. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to waive such non-Federal contribution upon a finding by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that: (1) the State, political subdivisions, and industrial concerns are participating in an approved plan for waste treatment facilities; and (2) applicable water quality standards are not being violated.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Title I: Statement of Antitrust Policy - Amends the Clayton Antitrust Act to set forth Congressional findings that private antitrust suits are a vital part of the effort to enforce the antitrust laws and that taxation of punitive damages received by private antitrust litigants discourages such litigants from filing suit. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income punitive damages (two-thirds of antitrust treble damages) received by a private litigant if such litigant brings suit against a particular defendant before the Federal Government institutes criminal proceedings. Disallows tax deductions for antitrust punitive damages paid or incurred by a taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to determine and settle claims for damages of less than $2,500 arising by reason of acts for which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall be found to be responsible.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Designates the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a cabinet official.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
General Accounting Office Act of 1979 - Title I: General Accounting Office Provisions - Amends the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950 to require that the Comptroller General be furnished any information he requests which relates to any Federal expenditure which is subject to a GAO audit, including those expenditures which heretofore were accounted for only on the certificate of the President. Exempts from the terms of this Act any information concerning: (1) the expenditures of the Central Intelligence Agency; and (2) financial transactions relating to foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities, as determined by the President. Provides that such exempted information shall be reviewable by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to authorize the Comptroller General to bring an action in the United States District Court of the District of Columbia to compel the furnishing of such information. Authorizes the Comptroller General to subpena contractor's and subcontractor's records pertaining to negotiated contracts and records of other non-federal persons or organizations to which the Comptroller General has a right of access by law or agreement. Stipulates that an agency shall have a period of not more than 30 days in which to comment on an expenditure report prepared by the Comptroller General, unless the Comptroller General deems more time is necessary to improve the accuracy of the report. Directs that the Comptroller General and the Deputy Comptroller General shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate from a list of at least three names submitted by a commission of congressional leadership representatives impaneled for the purpose of submitting such names. Requires the Deputy Comptroller General to serve until any vacancy in the Office of Comptroller General is filled. Title II: Conforming Amendments with Respect to the Inspectors General of the Departments of Energy and Health, Education, and Welfare - Requires the Inspectors General of the Departments of Energy and Health, Education, and Welfare to comply with standards established by the Comptroller General for audits of Federal programs and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Paperwork and Redtape Reduction Act of 1979 - Title I: Central Management and Control Responsibility - Establishes, within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Federal Information Management Policy to have Government-wide responsibility for setting policies and coordinating procedures governing the budgeting, management, and control of Federal information management activities and of costs imposed by Federal programs on individuals, organizations, and other institutions outside the Federal Government. Directs the Administrator of such office to: (1) set annual levels for the number of person-hours of reporting and recordkeeping which each agency may require of individuals, organizations, and other institutions outside the Federal Government; (2) publish an annual report of the costs to each Federal agency of the administration of, and to organizations of compliance with, Federal agency reporting requirements; (3) annually review the paperwork reduction activities of each Federal agency to ascertain their adequacy; (4) develop and recommend to the President and the Congress policies and standards on information disclosure, confidentiality, and safeguarding the security of information collected or maintained by Federal agencies or in conjunction with Federal programs; (5) conduct a research program to develop improved cost accounting and reduction techniques; and (6) keep Congress fully informed of the activities of such office. Requires that the formal meetings of such Office for the purpose of establishing information management procedures be open to the public. Delegates to the Administrator the authority and responsibility of the Director of the OMB under the Federal Reports Act and the Privacy Act of 1974. Makes it the responsibility of the Administrator of the General Services Administration to conduct studies and promulgate standards with respect to records retention requirements imposed on the public by Federal agencies. Title II: Elimination of Unnecessary Duplication - Establishes a Federal Information Locator System composed of an information locator, a data element dictionary, and an information referral service. Directs the System to serve as the authoritative register of all public use reports. Establishes within the General Services Administration a Federal Information Locator Office. Requires the Director of such Locator Office to: (1) prepare a data profile for each public use report; and (2) register all approved new reports and other information holdings in the Federal Information Locator System. Requires data profiles for planned new requirements to be matched against existing profiles in the information locator. Directs the results of such matching to be made available to Federal agencies and the general public. Requires the Director to establish procedures and to insure that at a minimum all data items in public-use reports are registered in the Federal Locator System. Requires the Director to insure that no actual data is contained within the locator system, except descriptive data profiles necessary to identify duplicative data or to locate information. Requires that any information holding which contains a data element of a personal or proprietary nature within the meaning of the Privacy Act of 1974 be identified as such and restricted in access and use. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Designates the square dance as the national folk dance of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1978
Prohibits the opening of mail which is sealed against inspection except: (1) with the consent of the sender or addressee; (2) pursuant to a search warrant; (3) by a Postal Service employee for the purpose of determining an address of delivery or upon suspicion that the mail contains an explosive device; or (4) by an employee of the Customs Service upon suspicion that an item weighing more than one ounce contains material which is being imported illegally. Authorizes any person whose mail is illegally opened to bring a civil action against those persons responsible and to a recover a minimum of $1,000 plus court costs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1978
Presidential Records Act - States that the United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of all Presidential records. Requires the President to assure that the performance of official Presidential duties is adequately documented and that documentary materials be appropriately maintained. Permits the President to dispose only of such records which have no administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value if: (1) the President obtains the views, in writing, of the Archivist of the United States concerning the proposed disposal schedule of such records; (2) copies of such schedule and the Archivist's views are submitted to Congress at least 60 days in advance of the proposed disposal; and (3) the President receives notification that the Archivist does not intend to consult with Congress on the disposal of such records. Directs the Archivist to consult with Congress on the disposal of such records when such a consultation is in the public interest or when the records to be disposed of may be of special interest to Congress. Requires the Archivist to assume custody, control, and preservation of and access to the records of a President upon the conclusion of the President's term of office. Requires the Archivist to place such records in a Presidential archival depository or another archival facility operated by the United States. Authorizes the Archivist to designate, after consultation with the President, a director for each depository or facility. Permits restrictions on access to Presidential records for up to 12 years if such documents have been validly classified as secret, relate to a Federal appointment, certain trade secrets or other commercial information obtained under privileged circumstances, consist of confidential communications requesting or submitting advice between the President and his advisers or between advisers, or contain personal information, disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy. Establishes limits on the duration of the restriction of disclosure of Presidential records. Subjects Presidential records to subpena or other judicial process for the purposes of any civil or criminal investigation or proceeding. States that such records shall be available to an incumbent President and to either House of Congress. Makes the records of a former President available to such former President or the designated representative of such former President. Applies all provisions of this Act to Vice-Presidential, as well as Presidential records.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1978
Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude from inpatient hospital services provided under such Title the services of a physician in a teaching hospital only if: (1) the hospital elects to receive any payment due under Medicare for reasonable costs of such services; and (2) all physicians in the hospital agree not to bill charges for professional services rendered in such hospital to individuals covered by Medicare.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1978
Department of Education Organization Act - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to establish an executive department to administer Federal education laws. Provides that no Federal control shall be exercised over curriculum, program of instruction, school personnel, accrediting agencies, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks or other instructional materials. Title II: Establishment of the Department - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education, with a Secretary of Education as its head. Provides for the appointment by the President with the consent of the Senate of 13 principal officers of such Department. States their functions to include (1) intergovernmental relations; (2) congressional relations; (3) public information; (4) management and budgeting; (5) planning and policy development; and (6) monitoring and assisting public involvement in the development and implementation of departmental programs. Establishes within such department: (1) an Office of Inspector General; (2) a General Counsel; (3) a Research and Development Office; (4) an Elementary and Secondary Education Office; (5) a Postsecondary Education Office; (6) an Office for Civil Rights; (7) a special education and rehabilitation services office; and (8) an overseas dependents office. Establishes an Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education. Directs such Council to conduct studies and make recommendations for improving the intergovernmental system for developing and carrying out educational policies. Directs that such council shall remain in existence until terminated by Act of Congress. Title III: Transfers of Functions - Transfers to the Secretary from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1) all functions vested in the Assistant Secretary for Education or in the Education Division of such Department; (2) specified educational functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; (3) specified functions administered through the Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Randolph-Shepard Act, and all functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under certain sections of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (4) authority for any advisory committee established by statute under such Department primarily concerned with education; (5) all functions vested in the Institute of Museum Services in such Department; and (6) all functions vested in the Advisory Council on Education Statistics. Transfers to the Secretary of Education all functions of the (1) Secretary of Defense or the Department of Defense regarding schools for overseas dependents of Defense Department personnel; (2) Attorney General, the Department of Justice, or the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration regarding certain student loan and grant programs authorized under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; and (3) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding college housing loans under the Housing Act of 1950. States that the effect of any transfer of a function or program from an officer or an agency to the Secretary of Education or the Department of Education under this Act includes any aspect of such function or program vested in a subordinate of such officer or in a component of such agency. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to appoint and fix the salary for the Department's employees in accordance with the civil service laws. Allows certain higher level appointments to be made by the Secretary without Civil Service Commission approval if the individual so appointed is transferred to the Department in connection with a transfer of functions under this Act. Provides that personnel working in schools for overseas dependents of Defense Department personnel shall be treated as if employed by such Department for access to Defense Department services and facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to employ the services of experts and consultants as needed. Grants rulemaking authority to the Secretary. Requires such rules to be in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act and specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act. Requires that each proposed rule of the Department be accompanied by an economic impact statement containing (1) the cost impact of the rule; (2) its effect on productivity, efficiency, and economy; (3) its effect on the improvement of education; (4) the estimated cost of its implementation; (5) its unavoidable adverse economic impact; and (6) alternatives to the proposed rule. Authorizes the Secretary to (1) enter into contracts with public agencies and private persons and organizations; (2) maintain, alter, or discontinue field offices; (3) construct or acquire schools (to the extent operation of schools is authorized by this Act), laboratories, and related facilities, to contract for eating and related facilities, and to provide day care centers; (4) provide and maintain various facilities for employees and their dependents at remote locations; (5) utilize, with their consent, Federal, State, local, or foreign facilities; (6) rent out departmental real property; (7) acquire necessary copyrights and patents; (8) accept and utilize gifts and bequests of real and personal property; (9) transfer funds within the Department if so authorized in an appropriation; and (10) provide technical advice to participants or potential participants in Departmental programs. Authorizes the establishment of a working capital fund without fiscal year limitation for the operation of common administrative services. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the President. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Provides that except where inconsistent with provisions of this Act the General Education Provisions Act shall apply to functions transferred by this Act. Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Secretary of Health and Welfare. Title VI: Effective Date and Interim Appointments - Provides that this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1979. Authorizes the President to make initial interim appointments to the Department of Education under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1978
Authorizes the printing of the report entitled "Freedom of Information Act Requests for Business Data and Reverse-FOIA Lawsuits" for the use of the Committee on Government Operations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Paperwork and Redtape Reduction Act - Title I: Central Management and Control Responsibility - Establishes, within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Federal Information Management Policy to have Government-wide responsibility for setting policies and coordinating procedures governing the budgeting, management, and control of Federal information management activities and of costs imposed by Federal programs on individuals, organizations, and other institutions outside the Federal Government. Directs the Administrator of such office to: (1) publish an annual report of the costs to each Federal agency of the administration of and to organizations of compliance with Federal agency reporting requirements; (2) annually review the paperwork reduction activities of each Federal agency to ascertain their adequacy; (3) develop and recommend to the President and the Congress policies and standards on information disclosure, confidentiality, and safeguarding the security of information collected or maintained by Federal agencies or in conjunction with Federal programs; (4) conduct a research program to develop improved cost accounting and reduction techniques; and (5) keep Congress fully informed of the activities of such office. Requires that the formal meetings of such office for the purpose of establishing information management procedures be open to the public. Delegates to the Administrator the authority and responsibility of the Director of the OMB under the Federal Reports Act and the Privacy Act of 1974. Makes it the responsibility of the Administrator of the General Services Administration to conduct studies and promulgate standards with respect to records retention requirements imposed on the public by Federal agencies. Title II: Elimination of Unnecessary Duplication - Establishes a Federal Information Locator System composed of an information locator, a data element dictionary, and an information referral service. Directs the System to serve as the authoritative register of all public use reports. Establishes within the General Services Administration a Federal Information Locator Office. Requires the Director of such Locator Office to: (1) prepare a data profile for each public use report; and (2) register all approved new reports and other information holdings in the Federal Information Locator System. Requires data profiles for planned new requirements to be matched against existing profiles in the information locator. Directs the results of such matching to be made available to Federal agencies and the general public. Requires the Director to establish procedures and to insure that at a minimum all data items in public-use reports are registered in the Federal Locator System. Requires the Director to insure that no actual data is contained within the locator system, except descriptive data profiles necessary to identify duplicative data or to locate information. Requires that any information holding which contains a data element of a personal or proprietary nature within the meaning of the Privacy Act of 1974 be identified as such and restricted in access and use. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - States that a finding of invalidity of any section of this Act shall not affect the remaining sections. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Recognizes the great contribution of Bernardo de Galvez to the independence of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1978
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives of Reorgnaization Plan No. 4 of 1978, relating to the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, transmitted to the Congress on August 10, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Federal courts should expedite all remaining administrative and judicial proceedings with respect to the Seabrook Nuclear Station project (New Hampshire), and that all licensing and permitting procedures for the construction and operation of nuclear generating stations should be reviewed and modified to improve the efficiency of such procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1978
Designates the United States post office and courthouse at 341 Pine Street, Abilene, Texas, as the "Omar Burleson Federal Building."
United States · United States Congress · 8 August 1978
Department of Education Organization Act - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to: (1) promote the quality of education; (2) enable the Federal Government to more effectively coordinate its education activities; and (3) prohibit Federal control of education. Title II: Establishment of the Department - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education, with a Secretary of Education as its head. Establishes within such Department: (1) an Office of Inspector General; (2) a General Counsel; (3) a research and development office; (4) an elementary and secondary education office; (5) a postsecondary education office; (6) an Office for Civil Rights; and (7) an overseas dependents office. Establishes an Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education. Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Education to assure effective coordination of Federal programs affecting education. Title III: Transfers of Functions - Transfers to the Secretary of Education specified functions of the (1) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; (2) Department of Defense; (3) Department of Justice; and (4) Department of Housing and Urban Development. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth the authority of the Secretary of Education. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Secretary of Health and Welfare. Title VI: Effective Date and Interim Appointments - Sets out the effective date of this Act. Authorizes the President of the United States to make initial interim appointments to the Department of Education under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1978
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to direct the Administrator of General Services to fix prices for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of motor vehicle pools and to furnish vehicles and related equipment to requisitioning agencies at prices fixed by the Administrator at levels which will recover all elements of cost. Authorizes the Administrator to include increments for the estimated replacement cost of such vehicles and equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1978
Federal Information Centers Act - Requires the General Services Administration to establish a nationwide network of Federal Information Centers for the purpose of informing the public of programs and procedures of the Federal Government and for other appropriate and related purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1978
Title I: Statement of Antitrust Policy - Amends the Clayton Antitrust Act to set forth Congressional findings that private antitrust suits are a vital part of the effort to enforce the antitrust laws and that taxation of punitive damages received by private antitrust litigants discourages such litigants from filing suit. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income punitive damages (two-thirds of antitrust treble damages) received by a private litigant if such litigant brings suit against a particular defendant before the Federal Government institutes criminal proceedings. Disallows tax deductions for antitrust punitive damages paid or incurred by a taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1978
Presidential Records Act - States that the United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of all Presidential records. Requires the President to assure that the performance of official Presidential duties is adequately documented and that documentary materials be appropriately maintained. Permits the President to dispose only of such records which have no administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value if the President obtains the views, in writing, of the Archivist of the United States concerning the proposed disposal schedule of such records, and copies of such schedule and the Archivist's views are submitted to Congress at least 60 days in advance of the proposed disposal. Requires the Archivist to assume custody, control, and preservation of and access to the records of a President upon the conclusion of the President's term of office. Requires the Archivist to place such records in a Presidential archival depository or another archival facility operated by the United States. Authorizes the Archivist to designate, after consultation with the President, a director for each depository or facility. Permits restrictions on access to Presidential records for up to ten years if such documents have been validly classified as secret, relate to a Federal appointment, certain trade secrets or other commercial information obtained under privileged circumstances, consist of confidential communications requesting or submitting advice between the President and his advisers or between advisers, or contain personal information, disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy. Establishes limits on the duration of the restriction of disclosure of Presidential records. Subjects Presidential records to subpena or other judicial process for the purposes of any criminal investigation or proceeding. States that such records shall be available to an incumbent President and to either House of Congress. Makes the records of a former President available to such former President or the designated representative of such former President. Applies all provisions of this Act to Vice-Presidential, as well as Presidential records.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Department of Education Organization Act - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to promote the quality of education and to enable the Federal Government to more effectively coordinate its education activities. Title II: Establishment of the Department - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education, with a Secretary of Education as its head. Establishes within such Department: (1) an Office of Inspector General; (2) a General Counsel; (3) a research and development office; (4) an elementary and secondary education office; (5) a postsecondary education office; (6) an Office for Civil Rights; (7) a child nutrition office; (8) an Indian, Alaskan Natives, and Aleut office; and (9) an overseas dependents office. Establishes an Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education. Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Education to assure effective coordination of Federal programs affecting education. Title III: Transfers of Functions - Transfers to the Secretary of Education specified functions of the: (1) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; (2) Department of Defense; (3) National Science Foundation; (4) Department of Justice; and (5) Department of Housing and Urban Development. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth the authority of the Secretary of Education. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Secretary of Health and Welfare. Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to enter into contracts with tribal organizations to carry out functions transferred to the Secretary from the Department of the Interior under this Act. Title VI: Effective Date and Interim Appointments - Sets out the effective date of this Act. Authorizes the President of the United States to make initial interim appointments to the Department of Education under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Disapproves the Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 transmitted by the President to Congress which recommends creating a Federal Emergency Management Agency to consolidate Federal emergency activities.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1978
Modifies the Galveston Channel 40-foot project for navigation in Galveston Bay, Texas, as authorized under the Flood Control Act of 1965, to provide that non-Federal interests contribute 25 percent of the costs of areas required by disposal of spoil and of necessary retaining dikes, bulkheads, embankments, levees, and spillways. Allows a credit for reasonable expenditures for such acquisition and construction. Waives the 25 percent contribution requirement upon findings by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that political and industrial concerns are complying with an approved waste treatment plan and water quality standards are not being violated.