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Bill· HRH.R. 3515 (103rd)open

Omnibus Agricultural Research and Promotion Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Egg Research and Consumer Protection Title II: Watermelon Research and Promotion Title III: Fresh Cut Flowers and Fresh Cut Greens Promotion and Information Title IV: Lime Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Omnibus Agricultural Research and Promotion Improvement Act - Title I: Egg Research and Consumer Information - Egg Research and Consumer Information Improvement Act - Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act to increase the maximum limit on assessment payments by egg producers to egg handlers. Permits an amendment to increase the assessment only if such increase is recommended by the Egg Board and approved by egg producers in a referendum. Increases the number of hens a producer may have to remain exempt from the assessment. Title II: Watermelon Research and Promotion - Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act - Amends the Watermelon Research and Promotion Act to: (1) change from two-thirds approval to a majority needed in a referendum to approve a plan; (2) revise the definitions of producers and handlers; (3) revise rulemaking procedures for changing the assessment rate; (4) to include imported watermelons within the definition of watermelon and make importers applicable to orders of the Secretary; and (5) provide for the separate consideration in a referendum of specified amendments made under this title. Title III: Fresh Cut Flowers and Fresh Cut Greens Promotion and Consideration - Fresh Cut Flowers and Fresh Cut Greens Promotion and Information Act - Declares it to be policy to establish, pursuant to this title, procedures to develop and finance (through assessments) an effective and coordinated program of generic promotion, consumer information, and related research designed to strengthen the cut flowers and greens industry's position in the marketplace and to maintain and expand markets for cut flowers and greens. Sets forth provisions designed to implement such policy. Title IV: Lime Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information - Lime Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Improvement Act - Amends the Lime Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act of 1990 to: (1) cover seedless and not seeded limes; (2) alter the composition of the Lime Board; (3) increase the de minimis exemption from the assessment; and (4) delay the initial referendum date.

Law· HRH.R. 3514 (103rd)open

To clarify the regulatory oversight exercised by the Rural Electrification Administration with respect to certain electric borrowers.

United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1993

Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), guided by private lending practices, to issue regulations for specified borrowers that minimize administrative requirements and restrictions. Provides for REA subordination or sharing of related liens.

Bill· HRH.R. 3490 (103rd)referred

Cooperative Agricultural Programs Extended Retirement Credit Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1993

Cooperative Agricultural Programs Extended Retirement Credit Act of 1993 - Provides for crediting under certain conditions, service in certain Federal-State cooperative agricultural and other programs under the Civil Service Retirement System.

Bill· HRH.R. 3492 (103rd)referred

United States Military Academy Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1993

United States Military Academy Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins emblematic of the U.S. Military Academy. Mandates that surcharges collected from coin sales be paid to the Association of Graduates, U.S. Military Academy, to assist its efforts to provide direct support to the Corps of Cadets, U.S. Military Academy.

Bill· HRH.R. 3465 (103rd)open

Wetlands Protection and Management Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1993

Wetlands Protection and Management Act - Prohibits the revision of the 1987 Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual before the Committee on Wetlands Characterization of the National Research Council publishes a specified report. Permits revisions afterward if the revisions: (1) take into account the findings and recommendations of the report; and (2) are made after field testing and public notice and comment. Requires wetlands identification and delineation to be carried out through the Manual until revised in accordance with this Act. Directs the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Secretaries of the Army and the Interior to issue a memorandum of agreement which sets forth procedures for identifying and delineating wetlands on agricultural lands. Requires the SCS Chief, after the issuance of the memorandum, to carry out such activities on agricultural lands and on non-agricultural lands which are contiguous to, or contained within, agricultural lands. Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize grants to States for wetlands conservation planning. Requires the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to ensure, in issuing permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters, that there is no net loss of wetland acreage, functions, and values. Establishes procedures for the issuance of permits for minor discharges into wetlands. Creates a Small Landowners Assistance Account to provide technical assistance to private landowners to aid in compliance with permit requirements. Authorizes the issuance of general permits on a State or nationwide basis for any category of activities involving discharges of dredged or fill material if the activities are similar in nature and will cause only minimal adverse environmental effects when performed separately and cumulatively. Exempts prior converted cropland (unless abandoned) and certain waters and activities from regulation under dredged and fill permit provisions. Establishes administrative appeal procedures for determinations of regulatory jurisdiction over property, permit issuance or denial, and imposition of administrative penalties. Requires the Administrator to establish compensatory wetlands mitigation guidelines. Provides for mitigation banks (wetlands restoration projects that provide advance mitigation to offset foreseeable wetlands losses from future discharges of dredged or fill material). Establishes wetlands delineator training and certification programs and wetlands education and outreach programs. Includes "wetlands" in the definition of navigable waters. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Wetlands Reserve Program is an effective program and should be fully funded.

Bill· HRH.R. 3433 (103rd)open

To provide for the management of portions of the Presidio under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior.

United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1993

Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Presidio Corporation to manage the leasing, maintenance, rehabilitation, repair, and improvement of the following properties within the Presidio in California leaseholds to which shall be transferred under this Act to the Corporation by the Secretary of the Interior: (1) the Letterman-LAIR complex; (2) Fort Scott; (3) Main Post; (4) Cavalry Stables; (5) Presidio Hill; (6) Wherry Housing; (7) East Housing; (8) the structures at Crissy Field; and (9) such other buildings within the Presidio as the Secretary determines appropriate. Requires the Corporation to establish competitive bidding procedures for issuance of leases and contracts under this Act. Reverts all interests and assets of the Corporation to the United States in the event the Corporation fails or defaults. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3436 (103rd)open

To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to ensure adequate access to retail food stores by recipients of food stamps and to maintain the integrity of the Food Stamp Program.

United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1993

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to redefine "retail food store" for purposes of food stamp program (program) eligibility as a store that sells food for home preparation and consumption and: (1) has 50 percent of its total sales volume in staple foods (as defined by this Act); or (2) offers on a continuous basis food in each of four staple food categories, including sales of perishable foods in at least two of such categories. Permits the use of program application information by Federal or State enforcement authorities and establishes fine and imprisonment penalties for information misuse. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use specified funds for demonstration projects aimed at coupon trafficking.

Bill· HRH.R. 3415 (103rd)referred

Family Violence Prevention Act

United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1993

Family Violence Prevention Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to require: (1) State demonstration grant applications to contain a plan to address the needs of specified underserved populations; (2) State grantees to file performance reports as a prerequisite for funding; and (3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to delegate to the Secretary of Education the power to implement and evaluate model programs to educate young people about domestic violence and violence among intimate partners and to transmit an evaluation of those plans to relevant congressional committees for review. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3397 (103rd)referred

Presidential FEMA Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1993

Presidential FEMA Reform Act of 1993 - Directs the President to establish a commission to review the Federal emergency management system and to report to him and the Congress on recommendations for improving the system.

Bill· HRH.R. 3372 (103rd)open

Guam and the Northern Marianas Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1993

Guam and the Northern Marianas Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar coins emblematic of the American forces that liberated Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in World War II. Requires payment of surcharges received from the coin sales to the Secretary of the Interior to construct a visitors center and museum at: (1) the War in the Pacific National Historical Park on Guam; and (2) the American Memorial Park on Saipan.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 281 (103rd)open

Respecting child pornography.

United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1993

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Justice should repudiate its reinterpretation of Federal child pornography laws, defend the conviction won in lower courts in Knox v. United States, and vigorously prosecute sexual exploitation of children.

Bill· HRH.R. 3270 (103rd)open

1995 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1993

1995 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue commemorative one-dollar silver coins bearing a likeness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Requires the Secretary to distribute proceeds from surcharges ($10 per coin) in equal allocations to: (1) the National Park Foundation Restricted Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and (2) the National Park Service Restricted Construction Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.

Bill· HRH.R. 3229 (103rd)referred

Bilingual Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Education Improvement Title II: Additional Education Amendments Title III: Bilingual Education Title I: Education Improvement - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make limited-English-proficient (LEP) children eligible under the ESEA title I program for disadvantaged children. Provides for assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of such programs. Title II: Additional Educational Amendments - Revises payments for State administration to include funds for coordinating inclusion of LEP students and for developing linguistically accessible assessment instruments. Provides for supplemental capacity building grants for improving schools capacity to meet standards for economically deprived and LEP students, as well as research-based approaches for educating such students, and innovative school-wide projects for schools in which half or more of the students are economically deprived. Requires that review of State regulations include teachers who are familiar with effective instructional approaches for economically deprived and LEP children. Title III: Bilingual Education - Revises ESEA title VII, which is the Bilingual Education Act, and extends the authorization of appropriations. Provides for revised programs to develop exemplary bilingual education and educational programs for language-minority and LEP students through: (1) bilingual education capacity and demonstration grants, including grants for program and development and implementation, program enhancement projects, whole-school programs, system-wide improvement, Puerto Rico programs, and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools programs; (2) research, development, and dissemination, including a national bilingual education network, education statistics coordination, grants for State programs, evaluation and assessment centers, multifunctional resource centers, national clearinghouse on bilingual education, and Blue Ribbon Bilingual Education Schools; and (3) bilingual education teacher training, including programs for training for all teachers, bilingual education teachers and personnel grants, bilingual education career ladder, and graduate fellowships in bilingual education. Provides that the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Affairs shall be headed by an Assistant Secretary (currently a Director). Directs the Secretary of Education to identify effective policies to strengthen the quality of education for all students, including language-minority and LEP students residing near the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico, as well as Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories and freely associated nations. Requires readers and scorers of applications for grants involving conservation of Indian languages and other indigenous languages subject to losses to include individuals with expertise in such programs. Allows Bilingual Education Act funds to be used to: (1) acquire or develop educational technology or instructional materials; and (2) conduct language and cultural institutes, with priority to applications that include secondary school personnel. Requires allocation of bilingual education funds in proportion to the geographical distribution of LEP children throughout the Nation.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 160 (103rd)open

To correct the enrollment of H.R. 3123.

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1993

Makes a technical correction in the enrollment of H.R. 3123 (revising the electric and telephone loan programs under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936).

Bill· HRH.R. 3171 (103rd)open

Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Farm and International Trade Services Title II: Rural Economic and Community Development Title III: Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Title IV: Natural Resources and Environment Title V: Marketing and Inspection Services Title VI: Research, Economics and Education Title VII: Ancillary Provisions Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1993 - Transfers to the Secretary of Agriculture all functions of the Department of Agriculture not already vested in the Secretary, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and utilize a National Appeals Division. Title I: Farm and International Trade Services - Establishes the position of Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and International Trade Services. Abolishes the position of Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs. Authorizes the Secretary to establish: (1) the Farm Service Agency; and (2) the International Trade Service. Makes conforming amendments. Abolishes the Foreign Agricultural Service. Title II: Rural Economic and Community Development - Amends the Rural Development Policy Act of 1980 to establish the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Economic and Community Development. Abolishes the position of Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture: (1) the Rural Utilities Services; (2) the Rural Community Development Service; and (3) the Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service. Abolishes the Rural Electrification Administration. Makes conforming amendments. Title III: Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture: (1) the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services; (2) the Food and Consumer Service; and (3) the Nutrition and Education Service. Title IV: Natural Resources and Environment - Authorizes the Secretary to establish the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Abolishes the Soil Conservation Service. Title V: Marketing and Inspection Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. Abolishes the Federal Grain Inspection Service. Title VI: Research, Economics and Education - Authorizes the Secretary to establish: (1) the Agricultural Research and Education Service; (2) the Agricultural Economic Service; and (3) the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Title VII: Ancillary Provisions - Establishes six Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture. Makes conforming amendments.

Bill· HRH.R. 3122 (103rd)open

Veterans' Long-Term Care Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993

Veterans' Long-Term Care Act of 1993 - Defines "long-term care," for veterans' benefits purposes, as a continuum of institutional and noninstitutional programs and services that provide restorative care and support through a time period generally exceeding 90 days. Makes eligible for long-term care provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs any veteran: (1) being treated for a service-connected disability (SCD); (2) who has an SCD of 50 percent or more, for the treatment of any disability; (3) who is eligible for pension from the Department, for the treatment of any disability; and (4) for any disability resulting from Department treatment. Authorizes the Secretary to provide long-term care to certain nonqualifying veterans when medically necessary and subject to facility availability. Requires the Secretary to establish a schedule of long-term care copayments, and a long-term care coinsurance plan. Deems Department long-term care providers to be Medicare participating providers for purposes of Medicare payments under the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with non-Department facilities for the provision of long-term care for veterans when Department facilities are inaccessible or otherwise incapable of providing such care. Requires such facilities to meet certain standards. Authorizes the provision of in-kind assistance to such facilities in lieu of payments. Authorizes the Secretary to provide social support services, including personal care and homemaker services, as part of long-term care services provided. Directs the Secretary to designate geographic areas of the United States as veterans' service areas in which long-term care will be available. Requires a report. Requires operation of such service areas by October 1, 1999. Directs the Secretary to regularly assess Department needs for new long-term care services. Establishes in the Treasury the Veterans' Long-Term Care Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements for the establishment on Department property of veterans' continuing care facilities in which veterans reside while receiving appropriate care. Requires a Department medical center, outpatient clinic, or nursing home to be colocated with such facilities. Requires at such facilities the establishement of a team of primary care providers to be known as the Veterans' Continuing Care Center Health team. Requires congressional reports.

Law· HRH.R. 3123 (103rd)open

Rural Electrification Loan Restructuring Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993

Rural Electrification Loan Restructuring Act of 1993 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to prescribe guidelines under which the Rural Electrification Administrator (the Administrator) shall make insured electric and telephone loans (including hardship, municipal rate, and cost of money loans). Repeals authority for the current two-percent interest hardship loan, setting such rate at five percent. Repeals authority for the current five-percent interest direct electric and telephone loan program. Caps both electric and telephone interest rates at seven percent, depending on specified circumstances. Directs the Administrator to approve State telecommunications modernization plans if they meet specified requirements. Prescribes guidelines for loans made by the Governor of a telephone bank in the rural telephone bank loan program. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) electric hardship loans; (2) electric municipal rate loans; (3) telephone hardship loans; and (4) telephone cost-of-money loans. Amends the parameters of the rural telephone bank loan program. Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor of the telephone bank from imposing any charges not expressly provided for in this Act in connection with any loan or guarantee made under this Act. Specifies circumstances under which the Administrator may use consultants funded by the borrower. Redefines the size of a statutorily defined rural area. Prescribes guidelines for: (1) distribution borrower eligibility for loans, loan guarantees, and lien accommodations; and (2) administrative prohibitions applicable to electric borrowers. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans for water and waste disposal facilities serving certain rural residents to any borrower to whom a loan has been made under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. States that a borrower of a loan or loan guarantee under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 is eligible for assistance under all programs administered by the Rural Development Administration.

Bill· HRH.R. 3085 (103rd)open

National Forest Foundation Act Amendment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993

National Forest Foundation Act Amendment Act of 1993 - Amends the National Forest Foundation Act to authorize start-up and matching funds to the National Forest Foundation to carry out project expenses. Extends the start-up funding to October 1, 1994, and the matching funding to October 1, 1997.

Bill· HRH.R. 2928 (103rd)referred

To authorize the Secretary of State, acting through the Commissioner of the International Boundary and Water Commission, to conclude agreements with the appropriate representative of the Government of Mexico to correct pollution along the U.S.-Mexico border.

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Authorizes the Secretary of State, acting through the U.S. Commissioner of the International Boundary and Water Commission, to conclude agreements with the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico to correct the problem of pollution along the U.S.-Mexican border caused by discharge of raw and inadequately treated sewage and other pollution related problems along the border. Declares that such agreements should consist of recommendations to the U.S. and Mexican Governments of measures to protect the health and welfare of persons along the border from the effects of pollution. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner, to act jointly with the appropriate representative of the Mexican Government to supervise the planning, construction, and operation of facilities recommended in agreements. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 2927 (103rd)open

Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to revise definitions and establish rules of construction concerning: (1) the sale and disposition of harvesting material, varieties, and hybrid seeds; (2) the filing of applications for the protection or entering of a variety in an official register; and (3) the basis of determining the distinctness of a variety or whether a variety is publicly known. Entitles breeders of sexually reproduced plant varieties (other than fungi or bacteria) (currently, other that fungi, bacteria, or first generation hybrids) who have reproduced a variety to plant variety protection if the variety is new, distinct, uniform, and stable. Provides that if two or more applicants for plant variety protection submit applications on the same filing date for indistinguishable varieties that fulfill the conditions for protection established by this Act, the applicant who first complies with this Act's requirements shall be entitled to protection to the exclusion of any other applicant. Issues a single protection certificate jointly to two or more applicants who comply with requirements on the same date for varieties that are indistinguishable. Lengthens the term of plant variety protection from 18 to 20 years from the date of issuance of the protection certificate (25 years for trees or vines). Adds the following activities to the list of actions which constitute infringement of an owner's right to plant variety protection if performed without an owner's authorization: (1) conditioning the variety for purposes of propagation; and (2) stocking the variety for any existing purpose which constitutes infringement. Permits owners to authorize the use of a variety subject to their own limitations. Provides that it shall not be an infringement of an owner's rights to perform any act: (1) concerning propagating material of a protected variety that has been marketed in the United States unless the act involves further propagation of the variety or involves an export into a country that does not protect such varieties of the plant genus or species (unless the export is for final consumption); or (2) done privately and for noncommercial purposes. Removes a provision that declares that it is not an infringement for a person whose primary farming occupation is the growing of crops for sale other than reproductive purposes to sell saved seed for reproductive purposes.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 234 (103rd)referred

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that obstetrician-gynecologists should be designated as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) obstetrician-gynecologists should be designated as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care; and (2) legislative proposals that define primary care should include services performed by obstetrician-gynecologists in such definition.

Bill· HRH.R. 2689 (103rd)open

United States Grain Standards Act Amendments of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1993

Amends Public Law 100-518 and the United States Grain Standards Act to extend Federal Grain Inspection Service administrative fee (and fee limitation) authority.

Bill· HRH.R. 2663 (103rd)referred

Air Traffic Controller Incentive and Retention Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1993

Air Traffic Controller Incentive and Retention Act - Increases the premium pay differential for certain air traffic control system employees and other specified employees of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense from five to 15 percent of the applicable rate of basic pay. Entitles such employees to Sunday premium pay for work performed on Saturday.

Bill· HRH.R. 2579 (103rd)open

Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993

Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990 to entitle Chapter 3 of Title XXII as the "Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act." Extends emergency crop loss assistance for: (1) wheat, feed grains, upland and extra long staple cotton, and rice; (2) peanuts, sugar, and tobacco; (3) oilseeds and nonprogram crops; (4) orchards; and (5) forest crops. Extends related program provisions, including quality reduction assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Extends emergency grant assistance coverage to low-income packinghouse workers. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make beekeepers eligible for emergency livestock assistance.

Bill· HRH.R. 2554 (103rd)open

Firefighters and Police Retirement Security Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1993

Firefighters and Police Retirement Security Act of 1993 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1986 to repeal a provision which would have terminated an exemption for certain bona fide hiring and retirement plans applicable to State and local fire fighters and law enforcement officers. (This Act thereby preserves such exemption beyond 1993.)

Bill· HRH.R. 2546 (103rd)open

Good Neighbor Environmental Assistance Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1993

Good Neighbor Environmental Assistance Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide financial assistance for the construction of projects in border States (Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) consisting of: (1) wastewater treatment works to protect residents and surrounding areas from pollution; and (2) treatment works to provide primary or more advanced treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste. Permits the Administrator to make grants for construction of treatment works in Mexico only if treatment works in Mexico are not sufficient to protect border State residents from water pollution originating in Mexico. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 2545 (103rd)open

Colonia Assistance Authorization Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1993

Colonia Assistance Authorization Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to any Federal agency, other appropriate entity, or border State (Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) to provide for the conservation, development, use, and control of water and the installation or improvement of sewers, wastewater treatment works, and essential community facilities. Makes such services available to colonias whose residents face significant health risks because they do not have access to, or are not served by, adequate, affordable water supply systems or wastewater treatment works. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 2460 (103rd)open

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide cost share assistance to construct reservoir structures for the storage of water in rural areas, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1993

Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide at least 50 percent of the costs for reservoir construction and other water supply projects in rural areas experiencing water quality or quantity problems.

Bill· HRH.R. 2443 (103rd)open

Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993

Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993 - Amends specified Federal law to prescribe guidelines under which unclaimed distributions of security interests shall be subject to the custodial taking (escheatment) by the State which contains the principal executive offices of either the issuer or the holder of those securities.