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United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Designates January 17, 1983, as Public Employees' Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Designates 1983 as the Tricentennial Anniversary Year of German Settlement in America. Expresses congressional support for the President's Youth Exchange Initiative, and especially the concept of a United States-German teenage exchange sponsored by the Congress and the West German Bundestag.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Urges the President to declassify and publicize to the American people existing intelligence information on the military threat to the United States and its allies posed by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Designates October 16, 1982, as National Newspaper Carriers Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Designates October 1982 as Head Start Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982
Designates October 10 through October 16, 1982, as Freedom Week, USA.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1982
Designates November 14, 1982, as National Retired Teachers Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1982
Authorizes the enlargement of the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir, Wyoming, for various purposes, including water supply, recreation, fish and wildlife conservation, and environmental quality. Requires that repayment contracts for the costs of municipal and industrial water supply be negotiated prior to construction of such facilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to construct transmission interconnections as necessary to interconnect the hydroelectric powerplant authorized by this Act with existing power systems. Authorizes appropriations: (1) for modifications to such dam; and (2) of such sums as may be required by the Secretary of Energy. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts with the State of Wyoming for the division of additional water impounded by, the sharing of revenues from, and the sharing of costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement of the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir modifications.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Residential Mortgage Investment Act of 1982 - Permits employee benefit plans, as defined under this Act, to engage in any qualified mortgage transaction involving any qualified residential mortgage loan, provided transactions between all parties are at arm's length. Permits such plans to participate in any mortgage pool, provided such pool conforms to specified requirements with regard to permitted investments. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act. Provides that this Act shall supersede any and all contrary provisions of State law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code. Prohibits the imposition of Federal excise tax on a plan or pool that engages in a transaction described under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Expresses the support of the Congress for beginning strategic arms reductions talks. Urges the Soviet Union to join with the United States in concluding an equitable and verifiable agreement which freezes strategic nuclear forces at equal and substantially reduced levels. Reaffirms congressional support for the position that the United States should not enter into an arms agreement which provides for force levels inferior to those of the Soviet Union. Declares that the United States should propose practical measures to: (1) reduce the danger of accidental nuclear war; (2) prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties, including terrorists; and (3) halt the worldwide proliferation of nuclear weapons. Insists that any arms control agreement must be fully verifiable.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Requests the President to designate January 1983 as National Snowmobiling Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 1 through August 7, 1982, as National Purple Heart Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that legislation should be proposed and enacted to: (1) establish parity between the compensation of Government Printing Office (GPO) employees and the compensation of other Federal employees performing similar work; (2) fix the wages of GPO employees in accordance with the prevailing wage rate system applicable to executive branch employees; and (3) strengthen the Public Printer's ability to manage without infringing on the oversight responsibilities of the Joint Committee on Printing.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Limits the outside earned income of Senators to $18,000 per calendar year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1982
Designates the Federal building in Lima, Ohio, as the Tennyson Guyer Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1982
Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of the disbursements from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and of the receipts from the old age, survivors and disability insurance taxes and the hospital insurance taxes on self-employment income, employees, and employers in the totals of the Federal budget. Exempts such disbursements and receipts from any general statutory limitation on Federal budget outlays.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1982
Designates the week of October 17 through October 23, 1982, as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Amends Federal judicial procedure provisions relating to venue to provide that: (1) if proceedings have been instituted in two or more courts of appeals with respect to the same agency action and the first such proceeding was instituted more than five days before the second, the record shall be filed in that court in which the proceeding was first instituted; and (2) if the first such proceeding was not instituted more than five days before the institution of a later proceeding with respect to the same agency action and the agency has received written notice from the parties instituting each of these proceedings, the agency shall advise the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, with respect to the first proceeding and all proceedings instituted within five days after the first proceeding, that such multiple proceedings have been instituted and shall identify each court for which it has notice that such proceedings are pending. Directs the Administrative Office, pursuant to a system of random selection, to select the court in which the record shall be filed from those identified by the agency, in the situation where the first proceeding was not instituted more than five days before the institution of a later proceeding. Requires all proceedings to be transferred to the court of appeals in which the record has been filed. Authorizes any court in which a proceeding with respect to any agency action is pending, including a court selected pursuant to a system of random selection, to transfer such proceeding to any other court of appeals in which the action under review would have a substantially greater impact, unless the interests of justice require the court to: (1) retain such proceedings; or (2) transfer the proceedings to a circuit other than one in which the impact would be substantially greater. Directs the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to administer the system of random selection. Prohibits a civil action in which the defendant is a Federal officer or employee, a Federal agency, or the United States from being brought in a judicial district in which a defendant resides or the plaintiff resides if no real property is involved, unless the action that is the subject of the lawsuit would substantially affect the residents of that judicial district. Requires that, in any action of a local environmental nature brought against the United States in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the plaintiff must forward a copy of the complaint to the attorney general of each affected State (but not more than five States). Requires a district court, in any civil action in which a defendant is a Federal officer or employee, a Federal agency, or the United States, upon motion of any party, to transfer an action to a district where the action might have been brought and in which the action would have substantially greater impact, unless the interests of justice require the court to: (1) retain the action; or (2) transfer the action to a district other than one in which the impact would be substantially greater.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1982
Requests the President to designate 1983 as Year of the Bible.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Amends the Clean Water Act to declare that "discharge of a pollutant or pollutants" does not include effects upon water quality resulting solely from the impoundment of waters or the release of impounded waters or the methods of such release.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Independent Contractor Tax Classification and Compliance Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify standards for determining whether certain individuals qualify as independent contractors for purposes of the tax on employment income. Treats an individual as an independent contractor if such individual: (1) controls the total number and scheduling of his work hours; (2) has no principal place of business provided rent-free by the service-recipient; (3) has substantial investment in his business (excluding vehicles) and earns income based upon sales or output rather than upon number of hours worked; and (4) performs services under a written contract and is provided written notice of his responsibilities with respect to income and self-employment taxes. Provides that the criteria established by this Act shall not be applicable to agent-drivers, commission-drivers, full-time life insurance salesmen, home workers, and traveling or city salesmen who are statutorily designated as employees for purposes of social security taxation. Sets forth special rules for: (1) contracts entered into before January 1, 1983; and (2) determining control of scheduling work hours. Provides that the failure of an individual claiming independent contractor status to meet the criteria established by this Act shall not create an inference that such an individual is an employee or that the recipient of his service is an employer. Limits the applicability of the criteria established by this Act to questions of employment status arising under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, self-employment tax provisions, and withholding requirements under the Internal Revenue Code. Requires a recipient of an independent contractor's services to file an information return disclosing payments made to such individual in excess of $600 per year. Requires persons who sell over $5,000 in consumer products to buyers on a buy-sell, deposit-commission, or similar basis to file a similar return. Permits an election to file such returns in certain circumstances. Requires individuals who file such information returns to furnish to persons with respect to whom such information is reported written statements which indicate the amount of payment reported. Provides penalties for failure to furnish information returns or statements. Requires the payment of a surcharge for multiple violations. Requires the withholding of tax on certain persons where the identifying number is incorrect or missing on any return filed by a service-recipient. Sets forth effective dates and transitional rules for provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1982
Amends the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to declare that actions concerning water and related land resources projects upstream from the Imperial Dam shall not be governed by specified provisions of the Water Resources Planning Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to give preference to those salinity control units that reduce the salinity of the Colorado River at the least cost per unit of salinity reduction. Deletes certain provisions of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act concerning agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture for the Grand Valley unit. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct and maintain the following salinity control units according to specified directions: (1) Stage I of the Lower Gunnison Basin, Colorado; (2) McElmo Creek, Colorado; (3) Stage I of the Uinta Basin, Utah; (4) Palo Verde Irrigation District, California; (5) saline water use and disposal opportunities, Colorado River Basin; and (6) Sinbad Valley, Colorado. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a voluntary cooperative program with private landowners to improve on-farm water management and reduce watershed erosion on non-Federal and Department of Agriculture lands. Directs the Secretary to issue reports to certain congressional committees and others. Prohibits the expenditure of funds for measures implementing such program: (1) until the lapse of 60 days following submission of such reports; or (2) if any of the congressional committees or the others reported to veto it. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1989. Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from assuming continuing operation and maintenance obligations for permanent salinity control measures constructed on non-Federal lands. Requires the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to comply with all applicable State water laws and with the Colorado River compact and the Upper Colorado River compact in implementing the voluntary cooperative program and the units authorized to be constructed under such Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a program for minimizing salt contributions to the Colorado River from lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth special temporary rules for the taxation of life insurance companies for 1982 and 1983. Revises provisions relating to policies reinsured under modified coinsurance contracts. Specifies that prescribed policy and other contract liability requirements shall not include interest payable after enactment of this Act by a reinsured to a reinsurer in connection with a coinsurance contract. Revises the method of computing the tax deductions for: (1) dividends to policyholders; (2) certain nonparticipating contracts; and (3) certain accident, health insurance, and group life insurance plans. Revises the method of determining adjusted life insurance reserves. Revises the method of computing the policyholder's share of investment yield, life insurance company taxable income, and net capital gain for companies filing consolidated returns. Specifies that the above method shall not apply to certain contract computations in effect before 1982. States that the determination for taxable years before 1982 as to whether a contract is a coinsurance contract shall be made solely by reference to the terms of the contract.
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
Designates September 19 through September 25, 1982, as National Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982
Declares that the United States should propose to the Soviet Union: (1) a long-term, mutual, and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced levels of forces; and (2) practical measures to reduce the danger of an accidental nuclear war and to prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties. States that the United States and the Soviet Union should channel their resources away from nuclear armaments and towards fighting poverty, hunger, and disease. Declares that the United States should continue to work for balanced arms reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act - Title I: Duty-Free Treatment - Authorizes the President to proclaim duty-free treatment for all eligible articles from Caribbean countries the President designates as beneficiary countries. Prohibits the President from terminating a country's beneficiary designation unless both Houses of Congress are notified 60 days before the termination. Requires the President to consider only specified countries and territories as beneficiary countries. Prohibits the President from designating as a beneficiary country any country that: (1) is a Communist country; (2) has nationalized or seized control, or effectively nationalized or seized control, of U.S. property, unless the President determines that a good faith effort is being made to compensate for such seizure; (3) fails to act in good faith in recognizing as binding or in enforcing arbitral awards in favor of U.S. citizens or corporations; or (4) grants preferential treatment to the products of a developed country other than the United States which may have a significant adverse effect on U.S. commerce, unless the President reports to Congress that certain assurances have been made. Permits the President to designate as a beneficiary country a Communist country, an expropriating country or a country that fails to act in good faith with respect to an arbitral award if the President determines and reports to Congress that such designation will be in the national interest. Lists factors the President should consider in determining whether to grant beneficiary designation. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to grant to imports from U.S. insular possessions, subject to specified provisions of this Act, duty treatment no less favorable than the treatment afforded such imports from a beneficiary country. Directs the President to withdraw or suspend a country's beneficiary designation, if the President determines that changed circumstances in such country would prohibit such designation under the guidelines in this title. Requires duty-free treatment to apply to any article imported from a beneficiary country, unless otherwise excluded from eligibility, if: (1) the article is imported directly from such country into U.S. customs territory; and (2) the sum of specified costs of the article is not less than 25 percent of its appraised value at the time of its entry. Prohibits this duty-free treatment from applying to textile and apparel articles covered by textile agreements. Sets forth the manner of governing the importation and duty-free treatment of certain sugars, sirups, and molasses. Authorizes the President to suspend the duty-free treatment provided by this title and to proclaim a duty for an eligible article if such action is taken pursuant to certain import relief or national security provisions. Requires the International Trade Commission (ITC) in any report on a petition for import relief under the Trade Act of 1974 to state how its findings and recommendations apply to any duty-free article imported from beneficiary countries. Authorizes the President to reduce or end the application of import relief measures with respect to articles imported from beneficiary countries earlier than otherwise scheduled. Provides that suspension of duty-free treatment provided by this title shall be treated as an increase in duty for purposes of the import relief section of the Trade Act of 1974. Prohibits such a suspension of duty-free treatment unless the ITC finds that the harm caused by the imports results from its duty-free treatment by this title. Authorizes the filing of petitions for import relief with the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as with the ITC, for injury from imports of perishable products from beneficiary countries. Directs the Secretary to recommend the granting or denying of such petition within 14 days of its filing. Requires the President to take emergency action or to publish a notice of determination not to take emergency action within seven days of receiving the Secretary's recommendation. Sets forth the limits on the duration of the emergency action. Defines perishable products to include certain fresh or chilled vegetables, fresh mushrooms, fresh fruit, and fresh cut flowers. Exempts from proclamations under this title certain fees imposed pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase to five liters (currently, four liters) the amount of duty-free liquor that may be brought into the United States. Requires that not more than four liters, of such five liter limit, may have been produced outside American Samoa, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Authorizes the President to withdraw duty-free treatment on rum if the amount of excise taxes on rum that is paid into the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands falls below the amount that would have been paid if the rum had been produced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to repeal the provision for protecting U.S. possessions against revenue losses caused by concessions granted by the United States in the Tokyo Round of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Prohibits any action under this title from affecting a tariff imposed by Puerto Rico on coffee imported into Puerto Rico. Limits the duration of duty-free treatment under this Act to 12 years. Title II: Emergency Economic Assistance - Authorizes FY 1982 appropriations for economic support funds for countries in the Caribbean Basin. Title III: Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require excise taxes on rum imported into the United States to be paid to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Limits the amount paid to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to the amount those possessions would have received if the rum had been produced in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands and transported to the United States. Provides an investment tax credit for investments in Caribbean Basin property placed in service within five years after enactment. Defines Caribbean Basin property as new investment credit property used predominantly in a country that is: (1) a beneficiary country, as defined under this Act; and (2) a party to a bilateral agreement providing for exchange of information between the United States and the beneficiary country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to conclude an agreement with a beneficiary country to provide information to carry out the tax laws of the United States and the beneficiary country. Prohibits allowing an investment tax credit to foreign corporations for Caribbean Basin property. Allows an investment tax credit to a U.S. shareholder of a foreign corporation that invests in Caribbean Basin property if the shareholder holds five percent of the foreign corporation's stock. Requires recapture of the investment credit if, during any taxable year, the Caribbean Basin property is used predominantly outside a qualifying country or the United States. Extends an investment tax credit and accelerated cost recovery deduction to property owned or used by U.S. corporations or citizens engaged in trade or business in Puerto Rico or other U.S. possessions. (Current law excludes such corporations and citizens from obtaining such credit and deduction.) Authorizes certain corporations that own stock in corporations doing business in Puerto Rico or another U.S. possession to receive a portion of the investment tax credit and accelerated cost recovery deduction available to corporations doing business in Puerto Rico or another U.S. possession. Authorizes certain corporations that own stock in corporations doing business in the Virgin Islands to receive a portion of the investment tax credit and the accelerated cost recovery deduction available to the corporations doing business in the Virgin Islands. Excludes from the definition of qualified leased property for purposes of the accelerated cost recovery deduction Caribbean Basin property and property in Puerto Rico or U.S. possessions owned by certain U.S. corporations or citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982
Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act to repeal provisions: (1) prohibiting the issuance of a lease to any entity which has held a coal lease for at least ten years and is not producing coal in commercial quantities under such lease; and (2) requiring diligent development of a logical mining unit such that the coal reserves of the entire unit must be mined within a period not to exceed 40 years. Provides that the Secretary of the Interior will not require the payment of advance royalties for failure to meet the production requirement unless the Secretary determines that the public interest will not be served thereby. (Current law authorizes the Secretary to suspend such requirement if the Secretary determines that it will serve the public interest.) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to exempt coking coal from the requirements of diligent development and continued operation. States that such exemption shall be applicable upon a showing that coking coal deposits are dedicated to the support of steelmaking facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to specified congressional committees on the advisability of replacing the Federal individual income tax or such income tax and the Federal corporate income tax with a simplified income tax on gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Amends the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to require that management activities with respect to wild free-roaming horses and burros be carried out in accordance with the resource management objectives for the area established in land use plans. Provides that not more than two such animals may be adopted per year by any individual. (Currently, not more than four such animals may be adopted per year by any individual unless the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture determines that an individual is capable of caring humanely for more.) Provides for the sale of excess wild free-roaming horses and burros for which there is no adoption demand. (Currently, such animals must be destroyed.) Requires that revenue from the sale or adoption of such animals be deposited in the account of the agency from whose lands the animals were removed. Extends the date of completion for the research study on wild horses and burros required under Federal law to January 1, 1985 (currently January 1, 1983). Provides that such animals shall lose their protected status upon their sale or adoption. Repeals the prohibition on the sale of such animals or their remains for processing into commercial products. Provides criminal penalties for anyone who knowingly removes a wild free-roaming horse or burro from public lands without the appropriate Secretary's authorization or knowingly violates a regulation issued with respect to the management of such animals. (Currently, individuals may be prosecuted for willful violations with respect to such animals.) Imposes criminal penalties for the processing into commercial products or the selling of the remains of such animals without authority from the Secretary. Increases the criminal penalties for such violations or for violations of Federal, State, or local humane laws in the case of an individual who previously was convicted of the same type of offense. Eliminates the requirement of public hearings on the use of helicopters or motor vehicles to transport such animals. (Permits the use of such transportation after public notification.) Eliminates the requirement that the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture submit a joint report biennially to Congress on the administration of this program. Requires administrators of Federal lands not subject to this program to consult with the appropriate Secretary before removing wild free-roaming horses and burros under their jurisdiction. Authorizes the appropriate Secretary to remove such animals from such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Directs the President to designate April 12, 1982, as American Salute to Cabanataun Prisoner of War Memorial Day.
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
Civil Rights Act of 1982 - Title I: Equal Opportunity Provisions - Establishes uniform procedures for the enforcement by the Federal Government of civil rights laws, including title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and numerous other discrimination laws and provisions. Continues to authorize individual Federal agencies to investigate, attempt to resolve, and monitor compliance with regard to discrimination complaints, but otherwise centralizes enforcement authority in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Attorney General. Permits an individual to bring a civil action directly in Federal court for an alleged act of discrimination. Requires an investigative agency to seek to develop a voluntary compliance agreement by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring civil actions in court for patterns or practices of unlawful discrimination. Prohibits a Federal agency from issuing any regulation with regard to employment discrimination without the prior approval of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Prohibits any Federal agency and the Commission from issuing any regulation without the approval of the Attorney General. Establishes a one-House congressional veto procedure for regulations under this Act issued by any Federal agency, the Commission, and the Attorney General. Makes any such regulation effective 45 days after its transmittal to Congress if it is not disapproved. Continues generally an "effects" standard for proving discrimination, but requires the effect to be "reasonably foreseeable" with regard to certain discriminatory acts, including denial of Federal benefits. Title II: Administrative Provisions - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to determine which personnel employed in connection with functions affected by this Act shall be transferred to the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1982
Comprehensive Smoking Prevention Education Act of 1982 - Amends title XVII (Health Information and Health Promotion) of the Public Health Service Act to establish in the Department of Health and Human Services an Office of Smoking and Health to inform the public of the health hazards of cigarettes. Sets forth the Office's authority and duties, including conducting research and assisting educational programs directly or through grants. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health to be composed of representatives from the Departments of Labor and Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and any other Federal agency designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Directs such Committee to meet at least four times a year and names the Director of the Office of Smoking and Health as chairman. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report annually to the Congress. Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to make it unlawful to advertise or export cigarettes without the required labeling (repeals the existing export exemption). Makes it unlawful to manufacture, package, import, or export cigarettes containing any chemical substances without the label so stating. Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to establish a cigarette labeling system under which each brand of cigarettes shall bear a different specified health warning each year of a seven-year cycle. Eliminates certain congressional notification and reporting requirements. Increases the fine for violation of such Act from $10,000 to $100,000. Permits individual civil actions to be brought in U.S. district courts for violations of such Act. Requires a plaintiff to give 60-day notice to the FTC and the defendant. Permits intervention and consolidation. Allows the court to award attorneys fees and other costs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1982
Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1982 - Title I: Short Title, Findings and Purposes - Sets forth the short title, findings, and purposes of this Act. Title II: Additions to National Wilderness Preservation System - Designates the following lands in Wyoming as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Cloud Peak Wilderness in the Bighorn National Forest; (2) the Popo Agie Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest; (3) the Gros Ventre Wilderness in the Bridger-Teton National Forest; and (4) the DuNoir Addition to the Washakie Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest. Prohibits the use of roads constructed within the special management unit of the Washakie Wilderness for general public travel. Repeals the prohibition on the use of existing roads in such unit for harvesting timber and on the construction and expansion of roads in such unit. Title III: Release of Lands for Multiple Use Management - States that the RARE II final environmental impact statement (dated January 1979) shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to national forest system lands in Wyoming. Requires that national forest system lands in Wyoming not designated as additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System by this Act or previous legislation be managed for multiple uses other than wilderness. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of national forest system lands in Wyoming to determine their suitability as wilderness without express congressional authorization. Abolishes the classification of the Glacier Primitive Area in Wyoming. Title IV: Withdrawal of Designated Wilderness Areas from Operation of the Mining and Mineral Leasing Laws - Withdraws designated wilderness areas in Wyoming from appropriation under the mining laws and from disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Title V: Assessment of Minerals, Prohibition on Drilling - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to continue to assess the minerals potential of wilderness lands in Wyoming. Prohibits exploratory drilling to assess oil and gas potential within any congressionally designated wilderness area in Wyoming. Requires the protection of the resources of such areas during the course of the minerals assessment. Requires that minerals assessment activities be carried out in an environmentally sound manner. Requires the Secretary to make available to the President and Congress all information on the minerals potential of Wyoming's wilderness areas. Authorizes the President to make recommendations to Congress that minerals development, exploration, or extraction not previously permitted be permitted in specified areas within any of Wyoming's wilderness areas. Sets forth the recommendation process. Makes such a recommendation effective only upon enactment of a joint resolution by Congress approving the recommendation. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to review Department of Agriculture policies and practices regarding livestock grazing in Wyoming's wilderness areas to ensure their compliance with the Wilderness Act and this Act. States that: (1) nothing in this Act shall constitute a claim or denial by the Federal Government as to exemption from Wyoming water laws; and (2) nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting Wyoming's jurisdiction over wildlife and fish in the national forests in the State. States that it is not Congress' intention that the designation of wilderness areas in Wyoming lead to the creation of buffer zones around each such area.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Wilderness Protection Act of 1982 - Withdraws the following lands from appropriation under the mining laws, disposition under oil and gas, mineral, and geothermal leasing laws, and energy and mineral exploration and development activities: (1) lands designated as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System; (2) congressionally designated wilderness study areas; (3) lands recommended for wilderness designation by the Forest Service in the second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE II) program; and (4) lands identified as wilderness study areas by the Bureau of Land Management. Authorizes the President to submit to specified congressional committees an order opening the lands withdrawn by this Act if there is a national need for mineral resources. Makes such an order effective 60 days after its submission. Permits activities compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment for the purpose of inventorying energy, mineral, and other resource values in areas withdrawn by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to prevent the disclosure of confidential, privileged, or proprietary information obtained under this Act. Exempts from withdrawal pursuant to this Act: (1) national forest system or Bureau of Land Management lands released from wilderness study to management for nonwilderness uses; (2) specified national forest system lands designated as congressional wilderness study areas; and (3) lands designated as conservation units under the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act, where such Act is inconsistent with this Act. Permits drilling, exploration, development, and resource extraction activities which do not require occupancy of the surface to be conducted on lands withdrawn pursuant to this Act or the Wilderness Act. Subjects provisions of this Act to valid existing rights (including mining claims, leases, and permits) established before the date of this Act. Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to manage lands recommended for wilderness designation so as not to impair their suitability for preservation as wilderness until Congress designates such lands as wilderness or the President recommends that such areas be released from wilderness study status. Provides for lands recommended for wilderness but not designated as wilderness within two years to be released for management by the Secretary for nonwilderness uses. Prohibits judicial and administrative review of the RARE II final environmental statement dated January 4, 1979. Provides for the following lands to be released for management for nonwilderness uses: (1) national forest system lands reviewed under the RARE II program but not recommended for wilderness or identified for further planning; (2) national forest system lands recommended for wilderness in the RARE II statement but not designated as wilderness by Congress by January 1, 1985; and (3) national forest system lands in the RARE II further planning classification not recommended for wilderness by September 30, 1985, or recommended for wilderness but not designated as wilderness by Congress by January 1, 1988. Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide, regional, or national roadless area review and evaluation of national forest system lands to determine their suitability as wilderness without express congressional authorization. States that the designation of any wilderness area shall not lead to the creation of buffer zones around such area. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to report jointly to the President every five years on the energy and mineral potential of areas withdrawn under this Act. Directs the President to report to Congress on such matters.
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 · 8 February 1982
Declares that any action by the United Nations to prevent a democratic state from exercising its rights to participate in the United Nations will seriously and harmfully affect congressional support for the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Requests the President to designate March 21, 1982, as Afghanistan Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981
Broadcast Licensing, Renewal, and Deregulation Act of 1981 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish new procedures for reviewing petitions to deny broadcast license applications. Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant a license renewal application by a radio or television broadcast station licensee unless the actions of the licensee evidence such serious disregard for the Communications Act and for the rules and policies of the FCC that denial of the application is justified. Prohibits the FCC from considering the applications of other persons for a broadcast station's facilities when the FCC is acting upon a license renewal application by a radio or television broadcast station. Permits persons holding construction permits or station licenses to transfer the permit or license without first obtaining an FCC finding that the transfer serves the public interest. Requires the FCC to be notified of such transfer. Provides for public notice of the transfer. Provides for disposition by the FCC of objections to such transfer. Prohibits the FCC from considering whether the public interest would be served by the transfer of the permit or license involved to a different person. Repeals certain provisions relating to the application of the antitrust laws. Prohibits the FCC from imposing requirements on radio or television licensees relating to: (1) programs; (2) programming formats; (3) ascertainment; (4) commercialization; and (5) maintenance of program logs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1981
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should halt any deportation proceedings of Polish citizens until he determines that the political situation in Poland is stable and such Poles will encounter no undue risk by returning.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1981
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit an individual to elect hospice care, in lieu of certain other benefits, during two periods of 180 days each during the individual's lifetime. Provides for full reimbursement of reasonable costs to a hospice program, subject to a ceiling. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the hospice reimbursement method. Defines hospice care as including items and services furnished to the terminally ill in their homes, on an outpatient basis, and on a short term inpatient basis.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1981
Grants a Federal charter to the National Federation of Music Clubs.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1981
Title I: Federal Royalties Collection - Federal Royalties and Rents Collection Act of 1981 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: establish a comprehensive system for accounts applicable to: (1) all mineral interests under the Secretary's jurisdiction; and (2) all revenues collected in connection with the sale or lease of such mineral interests. Requires the Secretary, upon promulgation of such system, to submit to Congress: (1) a report concerning such system; and (2) a report concerning the outstanding accounts due the United States from the sale or lease of U.S. mineral interests. Provides for an annual independent audit of Department of Interior accounts relating to the sale or lease of minerals. Makes individuals handling money in connection with a mineral sale or lease liable for negligent losses and requires such individuals to be bonded. Title II: State Collection of Federal Royalties - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 to direct the Secretary to collect all money due in connection with public land sales, rentals, interest, and penalties unless there is a State management program for the management of Federal leases. Requires 50 percent of all money collected to be paid to the State within which the leased lands or deposits are or were located, except that the rate shall be 90 percent for Alaska. Requires the Secretary, upon a State's request, to relinquish the administration of all contracts and leases issued by the Secretary within that State to the State, subject to stated requirements. Title III: Miscellaneous Amendments to the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920 - Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations applicable to lessees of oil or gas leases requiring certain: (1) recordkeeping practices; (2) accountability to the Secretary; and (3) reports to the Secretary. Sets forth provisions relating to enforcement of this Act. Title IV: Indian Access to Certain Records - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: promulgate regulations to make certain records available for mining purposes to lessees of Indian lands.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1981
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Bryan Lewis Allen, the first aviator to cross the English Channel in a self-powered plane. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise requirements for the tax deferral of amounts received under variable annuity contracts. Permits the use of an independent investment manager of such annuities. Allows the like-kind exchange of one annuity contract for another. Provides that the tax treatment of any payment made by a contract holder on or before September 25, 1981, shall be determined without regard to Revenue Ruling 81-225 (disallowing tax deferral of amounts received under certain variable annuity contracts).
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1981
Requests the President to designate the second week in May, starting in 1982, as "Municipal Clerk's Week."
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1981
National Petroleum Supply Evaluation Act of 1981 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with others, to investigate the impacts of acquisitions of domestic petroleum companies by major international concerns and to report to Congress concerning such investigation by May 1, 1982. Requires the investigation to evaluate the effect of such acquisition on the exploration, development, production, refining, transportation, distribution, and marketing of domestic petroleum supplies. Prohibits any major international energy concern from acquiring more than five percent of any domestic petroleum company between October 1, 1981, and June 30, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1981
Expresses the sense of the Congress that no limitation should be placed on the Federal income tax deduction for interest paid on a residential mortgage.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1981
Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. Permits Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless Congress passes a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Permits Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Prohibits the Congress from requiring that the States engage in additional activities without compensation equal to the additional costs. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States except those for repayment of debt principal.