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United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Designates July 9, 1982, and April 9, 1983, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1982
Declares that the House of Representatives should not make any reductions in old age, survivors and disability insurance benefits in its budget resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 to prohibit the export of major critical components of any facility for, and information and other assistance relevant to, the enrichment of uranium or other isotopic separation of special nuclear material, nuclear fuel reprocessing, or heavy water production. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit under any agreement of cooperation the reprocessing or the use or retransfer of any plutonium in quantities greater than 500 grams resulting from the reprocessing of any special nuclear material exported by the United States or produced through the use of any nuclear materials and equipment or sensitive nuclear technology exported by the United States, unless Congress enacts a joint resolution declaring that Congress finds that: (1) effective safeguards can be applied; and (2) adequate sanctions against violations of nonproliferation agreements have been established. Declares that the transfer or retransfer outside the United States of certain nuclear materials, facilities, or technologies: (1) may be engaged in only if authorized under an agreement for cooperation; (2) shall be considered exports; and (3) shall require a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Requires that the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards applied to U.S. nuclear exports provide the United States with a timely warning of any diversion of any nuclear material which a non-nuclear weapon state could transform into a nuclear bomb.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Air Traffic System Personnel Improvements Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) to certify promptly to specified congressional committees whenever: (1) the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic allocation system ceases to be in effect; and (2) the FAA has employed adequate civilian personnel to operate the Federal air traffic control system at full capacity. Entitles the following FAA employees to a lump sum bonus payment if such a certification is made before January 1, 1983: (1) certain employees directly involved in the operation or maintenance of the air traffic control system; (2) certain flight test pilots; and (3) certain employees at the Federal Aviation Administration Academy in Oklahoma responsible for training air traffic controllers. Prohibits such entitlement for air traffic controllers who were terminated because of their participation in the 1981 air traffic controller strike. Provides that employees eligible for such bonus payment shall not be disqualified from receiving it if they stop working due to a disability. Provides that air traffic controllers who were terminated because of their participation in the 1981 strike shall not, as a class, be considered unsuitable for reinstatement or appointment to any position in the FAA. Repeals the limit on premium pay for Federal employees. Provides for a prohibition on furloughs and reductions-in-force for FAA employees eligible for the bonus payment during the period beginning on the enactment of this Act and ending 180 days after the date of certification pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the Administrator of the FAA to pay premium pay to any air traffic controller assigned to provide on-the-job training to another controller. Provides that such premium pay shall be in addition to any other premium pay to which such a controller may be entitled. Entitles an air traffic controller to enter a training program for a second career if, in addition to the requirement that the controller is being removed from his or her position for medical reasons or because the Secretary determines the controller cannot maintain the necessary technical proficiency, the controller: (1) is not a supervisor; (2) has completed at least ten years of service as a controller; (3) is ineligible for immediate retirement; (4) within a specified time, has not declined a reasonable offer of a position in the Department of Transportation for which the controller is qualified and which is not lower than two grades below the controller's current grade level; (5) within a specified time, has notified the appropriate regional review board in writing of his or her intention to apply for such training; (6) submits to such board an application and a physician's certification that the controller will be able to complete the training and engage in the new occupation; and (7) within a specified time, notifies the Secretary in writing of the controller's intent to participate in an approved training program and agreement to repay training expenses if the controller fails to complete the program. Requires the Secretary to designate Department employees to serve as regional career counselors responsible for assisting controllers in developing proposed training programs. Directs the Secretary to establish regional review boards to consider applications for training. Sets forth the requirements for approval of a proposed training program. Requires a review board to modify a proposed training program which does not meet such requirements and approve it as modified. Requires a review board to notify the Secretary and the controller in writing of its approval and any modifications. Prohibits the approval of any training program which extends beyond two years. Requires each review board to maintain a list of physicians qualified to make the certification required under this Act. Directs a review board to notify the Secretary of Labor upon receiving notification of a controller's intention to apply for training and to request such Secretary to expedite any pending determination with respect to a disability compensation award. Permits the modification of an approved training program upon the controller's request with the consent of the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to pay, or reimburse a controller for, the expenses of an approved training program. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the controller's liability for training expenses in any case where a controller fails to complete an approved training program. Requires the Administrator to develop and implement a personnel management improvement program within the FAA which: (1) improves communication between employees and management; (2) allows for employee participation in, and takes into account personnel factors associated with, major technological changes; (3) provides cost-efficient responses to variations in air traffic levels; (4) provides for periodic employee surveys with respect to organizational conditions, supervision, employee interaction, and job satisfaction; (5) modifies criteria for selection of supervisors; and (6) modifies criteria used for performance appraisals. Requires the Administrator to report periodically on such program to the Advisory Committee on Federal Aviation Personnel Management established under this Act and annually to Congress, the Secretary, and the National Transportation Safety Board. Directs the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Federal Aviation Personnel Management to review the Administrator's reports and give advice on the program. Terminates the Committee ten years after the date of its establishment. Makes the 50-percent minimum annuity requirement for retiring Federal employees inapplicable in the case of an individual who: (1) has received a refund of retirement deductions covering any period in which the individual was an air traffic controller; and (2) has not made redeposits for credit for the amounts refunded.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Government should immediately cease purchasing Iranian crude oil.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1982
Expresses congressional approval of the 1979 strategic arms limitation agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States (SALT II). Directs the President to transmit to the Soviet Union the necessary instruments of ratification.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Urges the United States, the Soviet Union, and other countries possessing the technology to produce separated plutonium to begin negotiations leading to a verifiable halt in the production of separated plutonium and in the export of technology for such production. Calls for the United States and other nuclear supplier and consumer nations to begin negotiations leading to an agreement to: (1) reject the commercial use of separated plutonium as a nuclear power reactor fuel; (2) base civilian nuclear power technology only on nonweapons usable fuel; and (3) make available reliable supplies of natural and low-enriched uranium.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to eliminate provisions which: (1) permit petitions to the Secretary of Energy for prescription of rules which supersede State energy efficiency standards; and (2) provide for supersedure of State energy efficiency standards prescribed after January 1, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the Administrator of General Services to sell or lease to State and local governments surplus property that the Attorney General recommends to be suitable and necessary for correctional facility use.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1982
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to States which adopt and implement programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol. Limits the receipt of such grants to three fiscal years and sets forth the Federal share payable for each successive year. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for the grants based on areas of consideration provided under this Act. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for fiscal years 1983 through 1985. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations to implement such traffic safety programs after a period for public comment. Sets the effective date of such regulations, unless they are disapproved by either House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the month of May 1982, should be appropriately observed as Older Americans Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Requests the President to designate May 13, 1982, as American Indian Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1982
Designates the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, D.C., as a national historic site. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with the National Council of Negro Women which may provide technical and financial assistance to restore and maintain the historic site and property related to such site. Requires the Council to submit to the Secretary and Congress an annual report on the activities and expenditures for which such assistance was used as a condition of the receipt of such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1982
Amends the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 with respect to the employee protection program by eliminating provisions which make payments under such program subject to amounts provided in appropriation Acts. Requires that monthly assistance payments be equal to the average of such amounts provided in the previous year. Grants protected employees who were furloughed or terminated by air carriers certified under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 prior to enactment of this Act the first right of hire on a regional basis by any other such air carrier. Provides that flight deck operating crew members shall not retain rights of seniority or recall with the air carrier from which they were furloughed or terminated. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to periodically publish the comprehensive list of available jobs with certified air carriers on a regional basis. Terminates the Airline Employees Protective Account. Authorizes annual appropriations as may be necessary to carry out the employee protection program. Requires the Secretary of Labor to certify that employee protection agreements meet certain standards. Grants the United States district courts jurisdiction of actions to enforce duties under such agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Designates the week of November 7 through November 13, 1982, as National Respiratory Therapy Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Secretary of the Interior should refrain from issuing mineral leases in wilderness areas and lands under formal consideration for wilderness designation; (2) any Federal official who proposes to issue a mineral lease in such an area should provide prior notice to Congress in order to allow congressional prohibition of such lease; (3) additions to the Wilderness System should proceed expeditiously but without arbitrary deadlines; (4) lands under formal consideration for wilderness designation should be managed to preserve their wilderness character; and (5) Federal land management agencies should consider wilderness values in making land management decisions and recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) an effective Federal environmental program is necessary to protect U.S. citizens' health and well-being; (2) the Environmental Protection Agency should be appropriated increased funds to protect our environment and meet expanded responsibilities mandated by law; and (3) the President should submit a new budget for the Environmental Protection Agency for FY 1983 reflecting these principles.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the Attorney General, subject to disapproval by the Administrator of General Services, to sell or lease surplus property to State and local governments for correctional facility use.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Shared Housing Resident Assistance Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 and the Housing Act of 1949 to prohibit the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture from requiring that a dwelling unit in a shared housing project for the elderly or handicapped contain more than one sanitary facility or item of equipment for food preparation or storage for all residents as a condition of eligibility for low-income housing assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families to conduct a comprehensive study on their problems and to develop policies to coordinate governmental and private programs to address such problems. Provides that the committee shall not have legislative jurisdiction and shall terminate at the close of the Ninety-ninth Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) graduate and professional students should remain eligible for guaranteed student loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965; (2) Congress should provide Pell grant assistance for academic year 1982 through 1983 that fully funds the need analysis criteria of January 6, 1982, in order to provide assistance to 2,600,000 needy students; and (3) Congress should not further reduce the amount of funds available for campus-based student assistance programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 below the levels established by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Requests the President to designate April 25 through May 2, 1982, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that no cuts should be made in the cost of living adjustments under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1982
Amends the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 to repeal provisions providing for the decontrol of natural gas prices.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1982
War Powers Resolution Amendments of 1982 - Amends the War Powers Resolution to prohibit the use of U.S. armed forces in El Salvador for combat unless: (1) Congress has declared war or enacted specific authorization for such use of U.S. armed forces; (2) the armed forces are necessary to meet a clear and present danger of attack upon the United States; or (3) they are necessary to meet a clear and present danger to U.S. citizens and to evacuate the U.S. citizens. Requires the President to describe in a report to Congress the grounds for sending the troops into El Salvador if they were not sent pursuant to a declaration of war or a specific congressional authorization.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Requests the President to designate August 14, 1982, as National Navajo Code Talkers Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1982
Designates April 28, 1982, as National Nursing Home Residents Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit any U.S. aid that would support military or paramilitary operations in or against Nicaragua.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Electronic and Computer Technician Vocational Education Incentive Grants Act - Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to establish a program of incentive grants to States for electronic and computer technician training. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make such grants solely for vocational education programs for such training. Prohibits use of any such grant for job placement or for training or employment stipends. Requires States participating in such grants program to commit specified percentages of their basic grants under such Act to such programs. Directs States to consider specified factors in evaluating training program proposals of eligible recipients. Limits Federal funds made available to an eligible recipient for such programs to 25 percent of such recipient's proposed budget for such training. Requires such recipient to: (1) use such funds only for job-related training for a specific electronic or computer technical occupation; (2) obtain at least 25 percent of its projected training budget through financial support of the electronics or computer industry; and (3) obtain at least another 25 percent through non- Federal public vocational education funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and each succeeding fiscal year to carry out such grants program.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Designates the week of April 18, 1982, as National Architecture Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1982
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to apply duty-free treatment to certain athletic footwear imported for the use of nonprofit institutions in athletic competitions for physically or mentally handicapped persons.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1982
Designates the week beginning June 7, 1982, as National Theater Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1982
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve public utility rate increases for electric energy based on costs of proposed or ongoing construction in regard to: (1) pollution control facilities; or (2) conversion of oil or gas-fired facilities to use of other fuels. Directs the Commission to order rate increases to cover construction costs for facilities other than those above only after an evidentiary proceeding. Sets forth requirements concerning such proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Designates April 9 of each year as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1982
Prohibits the President from: (1) providing any military assistance for El Salvador under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) issuing any letters of offer or guarantees or extending any credits for El Salvador under the Arms Export Control Act; and (3) leasing defense articles and issuing export licenses for defense articles or services for El Salvador under the Arms Export Control Act. Directs the President to order the prompt withdrawal from El Salvador of all U.S. military personnel performing specified functions under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Prohibits a waiver of the requirements of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Prohibits the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Energy from contracting out firefighting or security functions at military installations or installations where functions relating to military applications of nuclear energy are performed.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. representatives at the arms reduction talks to inform the Soviets that: (1) the United States is willing to reduce its total strategic nuclear delivery vehicles and its total MIRVed launchers, ballistic missiles, and ICBM's by specified numbers if the Soviet Union will make corresponding reductions in its strategic force levels; and (2) each country should begin the reductions immediately and that the reductions should be verifiable. States that both countries should agree to a mutual ban on testing and deploying: (1) intercontinental and intermediate range ballistic missiles with new reentry vehicles; and (2) cruise missiles armed with multiple warheads. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should propose to the Soviet Union at the intermediate range nuclear weapons negotiations that: (1) both countries agree to a limit on the number of such weapons; (2) such limit be reduced by 50 percent by 1990 and by an additional 25 percent by 1992; and (3) both countries agree to eliminate all such weapons from Europe by 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1982
Home Recording Act of 1982 - Amends the copyright law to exempt from liability for infringement of copyright any individual who makes a single video recording of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, or a single audio recording of a musical work or sound recording, in his private home solely for the private use of his household. Requires the compulsory licensing of manufacturers and importers of video and audio recording devices and media. Directs the Chairman of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal to establish royalty fees to be paid by such manufacturers and importers. Sets forth a procedure for distributing such fees to the owners of copyright of audiovisual works included in television or radio transmissions or sold to the public on phonorecords. Sets forth penalties for violations of these requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Withdraws certain Federal lands in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota from public use for a period of ten years. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue a ten-year permit to the Yellow Thunder Camp community established by the Lakota-Dakota (Sioux) Nation to use such lands as a cultural and religious resource area. Prohibits any lease, permit, or contract with respect to such lands without Yellow Thunder Camp's consent. Requires that the Secretary assure that any land and resource management plan for lands in the Black Hills National Forest: (1) prohibits activities harmful to religious or cultural sites of the Lakota-Dakota Nation; (2) prohibits excavation of archeological resources on such lands without the Lakota-Dakota Nation's consent; and (3) guarantees to the Lakota-Dakota Nation and allied members of other Indian nations the free exercise of their religion on such lands. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to consult and negotiate with the leaders of the Lakota-Dakota Nation to resolve conflicts with respect to their religious freedom, activities harmful to their religious and cultural sites, and the excavation of archeological resources on such lands. Directs the Secretaries to report to the President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the Senate on such consultations and negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding for community service employment programs for senior citizens under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 for FY 1983 and subsequent fiscal years should be provided at levels sufficient to maintain or increase the number of employment positions provided under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1982
Designates the week beginning on June 6, 1982, as National Child Abuse Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Prohibits the production of lethal binary chemical munitions after the enactment of this Act. Defines lethal binary chemical munitions to mean: (1) toxic chemicals intended to injure or kill humans; and (2) devices intended to disseminate such chemicals. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should begin negotiations with the Soviet Union for a mutual, verifiable limitation on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Increases the monthly rate of dependency and indemnity compensation payable to the surviving spouse of a veteran who died from a service-connected or compensable disability by the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the Administrator to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to children of such deceased veterans between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of May 2 through May 8, 1982, as National Physical Fitness and Sports for All Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Requests the President to designate May 20, 1982, as Amelia Earhart Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should take no action to accelerate the decontrol of wellhead natural gas prices.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1982
Declares that the House of Representatives considers Arland D. Williams, Junior, to be a national hero for his heroic sacrifice after the airplane crash in the Potomac River on January 13, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
States that U.S. policy should encourage parties to the El Salvadoran conflict to: (1) begin cease-fire negotiations under international supervision; and (2) pursue a political settlement that would include open and free elections under international supervision.