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United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate June 27, 1980, as "Helen Keller Day."
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1979
Condemns the use of lethal chemical agents against the Hmong tribespeople in Laos and any such use in Kampuchea (Cambodia). Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should: (1) take action to bring about the cessation of such poison gas use; (2) direct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Committee on Disarmament to express strong concern over such use and reach agreement with the Soviet Union on a general prohibition of chemical warfare; and (3) report to the Congress concerning actions taken.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Reye's Syndrome Act of 1979 - Amends title IX of the Public Health Service Act (Genetic Diseases, Hemophilia Programs, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, through the National Institute of Neurological, Communicative Disorders, and Stroke, the Reye's Syndrome Coordinating Committee to make grants to and enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private entities for a three-year project to establish two comprehensive Reye's syndrome diagnostic and treatment centers. Includes among the duties of such centers: (1) the conduct of basic and clinical research; (2) the development of new and improved treatments; (3) the provision of physician training programs; and (4) informational services, with respect to the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of Reye's syndrome. Directs the Secretary to submit a report to Congress within six months of the end of the project with respect to its accomplishments. Authorizes the Committee to provide financial assistance to public agencies, nonprofit private entities, and entities and individuals not associated with the centers, to conduct research on Reye's syndrome.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Used Machinery Investment Credit Adjustment Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $100,000 to $200,000 the cost of used property which is eligible for the investment tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Limits the term of office of a Justice of the Supreme Court to a single twelve-year term during good behavior. Applies such limitation to persons appointed after the date of ratification.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1979
Condemns the use of lethal chemical agents against the Hmong tribes people in Laos and any such use in Kampuchae (Cambodia). Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should: (1) take action to bring about the cessation of such poison gas use; (2) direct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Committee on Disarmament to place such warfare on the U.S. agenda and reach agreement with the Soviet Union on a general prohibition of chemical warfare; and (3) report to the Congress concerning actions taken.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Authorizes the President to impose higher or additional duties on the products of any country which is not cooperating with the United States in its diplomatic or economic initiatives to terminate the unlawful actions of other foreign governments regarding U.S. citizens assigned to a U.S. diplomatic mission.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Elementary and Secondary School Student Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make elementary, secondary, and vocational students eligible for basic educational opportunity grants under such Act. Defines "elementary school" and "secondary school" for purposes of this Act as schools that are: (1) operated in accordance with applicable State law; and (2) tax exempt. Defines "vocational school" for purposes of this Act as such term is defined in the Vocational Education Act of 1963.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Designates the week of October 5 through October 11, 1980, as "National Diabetes Week."
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that social security benefits should remain exempt from all taxation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers aged 65 or older and disabled individuals aged 62 or older a refundable income tax credit for real property taxes paid by them with respect to their principal residences. Limits the amount of such credit to $600 for a taxable year. Reduces the amount of such credit by six percent of the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $11,000.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1979
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt the underground injection of natural gas for storage purposes from regulation under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Protection of Americans Abroad Act - Directs the President, if U.S. property abroad is illegally intruded upon or any Federal employee assigned abroad is illegally detained or attacked by foreign nationals, to determine whether: (1) such nationals were agents of the government; (2) their government sanctioned such actions; or (3) their government failed to respond to a U.S. request for assistance in preventing or terminating such actions. Requires the President, if an affirmative determination is made, to: (1) terminate diplomatic relations with such country as deemed appropriate; (2) terminate all U.S. military and economic assistance to such country; and (3) prohibit the transfer of such country's property and assets within U.S. jurisdiction. Provides for the removal of such sanctions if such country: (1) restores U.S. property and employees to the custody of the United States; and (2) makes adequate restitution. Authorizes the President to impose a fine to be paid out of such country's assets within U.S. jurisdiction for each day U.S. property or employees are illegally held by foreign nationals.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Title I: Fish Restoration Program - Amends the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act to: (1) define the term "coastal State" for the purposes of such Act; and (2) authorize appropriations in the amount equal to the revenue accruing from taxes relating to sport fishing equipment and certain recreational boats and boating equipment for fiscal year 1980 and each fiscal year thereafter. Title II: Fish Restoration Program - Increases the percentage of the annual appropriation deducted for administrative expenses. Sets forth the apportionment ratio for the Secretary of the Interior to use in distributing funds among the States under the fish restoration program. Authorizes the Secretary to expend unobligated funds to carry out the purposes of this Act. Eliminates the notification by a State of intent to accept such apportionment funds requirement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to finance up to 75 percent of the costs of the acquisition of lands or interests therein and the construction of structures or facilities. Permits each State to utilize up to ten percent of its apportionment for an aquatic resource education program. Title III: Tax on Sale of Sport Fishing Equipment and certain Recreational Boats and Boating Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to impose a tax on the sale by the manufacturer, producer, or importer of any article of sport fishing equipment, recreational boats, and boating equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1979
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage under the Medicare program for influenza and pneumococcal vaccines.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1979
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop a plan for local nutrition monitoring including: (1) the identification of priority target areas; (2) the development of a structure for monitoring specified regions; and (3) the choice of methodology and a timetable.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should establish a Federal strike force and implement a program in each Federal judicial district for the purposes of investigating and prosecuting members of outlaw motorcycle gangs who commit Federal crimes.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1979
Polygraph Control and Privacy Protection Act of 1979 - Prohibits any person engaged in interstate commerce from: (1) requiring any employee, officer, or applicant for employment to take a polygraph test in connection with such individual's employment; (2) denying employment or disciplining an employee by reason of such individual's refusal to submit to such test; or (3) using the results of such test in connection with such individual's employment. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of such provisions. Authorizes civil actions in U.S. district courts in behalf of aggrieved individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1979
Designates December 7, 1979, as "National Unity Day."
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1979
Condemns the use of lethal chemical agents against the Hmong tribespeople in Laos. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should: (1) take action to bring about the cessation of such poison gas use; (2) direct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Committee on Disarmament to place such warfare on the U.S. agenda and reach agreement with the Soviet Union on a general prohibition of chemical warfare; and (3) report to the Congress concerning actions taken.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1979
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the taxation of any title II benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1979
Requires each one-dollar, two-dollar, five-dollar, ten-dollar, and twenty-dollar bill to be trimmed in a manner which will enable the blind to determine its denomination.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1979
Pennsylvania Wilderness Act of 1979 - Designates specified lands in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania, as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire whatever mineral interests or rights he deems necessary to protect and preserve the wilderness characteristics of the area. Sets forth the procedures to be followed in compensating the owners of such rights. Directs the Secretary to administer such wilderness areas.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1979
Title I: - Amends the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act to extend the current reporting requirement to include persons "attempting" to transport monetary instruments into or from the United States. Title II: Authorizes any customs officer who has reasonable cause to suspect that monetary instruments are being transported for which a report is required to search, without a search warrant, any vehicle, vessel, aircraft, envelope or other container, or person entering or departing from the United States. Title III: - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a reward to any individual providing original information which leads to a recovery of at least $50,000 by way of a criminal fine, civil penalty, or forfeiture for a violation of such Act. Makes ineligible for such payment any Federal, State, or local employee who furnishes information in the performance of official duties.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1979
Irrigation Water Conservation Tax Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for equipment which conserves irrigation water an additional ten percent investment tax credit and an election to depreciate such equipment based on a useful life of three years.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1979
Amends the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a reward to any individual providing original information which leads to recovery of at least $50,000 by way of a criminal fine, civil penalty, or forfeiture for a violation of such Act. Makes ineligible for such payment any Federal, State, or local employee who furnishes information in the performance of official duties.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1979
Designates December 7, 1979, as "National Unity Day."
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1979
Designates January 15 of each year as "Martin Luther King, Junior, Day."
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1979
Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act to prohibit a prime sponsor from paying more than the average entry level wage for all employment positions (with specified exceptions) with such prime sponsor to public service jobholders as average federally supported wages. Requires a prime sponsor to submit to the Secretary of Labor the methods and, upon request, the data used in the computation of such average entry level wage.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify electric forklift vehicles for the additional ten percent investment tax credit for energy property.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1979
Limits the applicability of specified penalty provisions relating to failure to answer questions presented in the decennial and mid-decade census to questions approved for the particular census by a concurrent resolution passed by Congress. Prohibits compelling an answer to census questions which apply to persons or families or the farms they occupy, unless such questions have been so approved. Directs the Secretary of Commerce: (1) to study the effect of such removal of penalties upon the accuracy and completeness of responses to census questions; and (2) to report the results of such study to the appropriate committees of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1979
Designates the third week of September of each year as "National Cystic Fibrosis Week."
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1979
Repeals the provision prohibiting Federal recognition of Virgin Islands' National Guard Officers above the grade of colonel as members of the National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1979
Municipal Resources Management Act of 1979 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to include among the objectives of the State and Regional Solid Waste Plan provisions of such Act the maximum utilization of energy and materials recoverable from solid waste. Amends such Act to include among the considerations for promulgating State Plan guidelines the existence of available new and additional markets for energy and energy resources recovered from solid waste. Makes a State eligible for financial assistance for energy and materials recovery feasibility planning and assistance under such Act upon a determination that such State's solid waste plan includes specified provisions relating to energy and other materials recoverable from municipal waste. Authorizes such State to make any of such assistance available to municipalities for similar activities. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to municipalities to carry out energy and materials recovery feasibility planning and assistance activities. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to States and municipalities to assist in removing impediments to the development of systems and facilities designed to recover energy and materials from municipal waste. Directs the Administrator to collect and disseminate information relating to the recovery of energy and materials from solid waste.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1979
Designates the week beginning June 22, 1980, as "National Athletic Boosters Week."
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning on November 23, 1980, as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1979
Infant Formula Act of 1979 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to set forth requirements for infant formulas. States that formulas which do not conform to such requirements shall be deemed to adulterated. Requires each manufacturer of an infant formula to annually submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare) reports or test results which show that the formula meets such requirements. Directs the Secretary to notify the manufacturer if such Secretary determines the formula is adulterated. Requires such manufacturer to give the Secretary satisfactory assurances of initiating a recall to all retail purchasers of such formula within 48 hours of receiving notification of the Secretary's determination. Directs the Secretary to initiate actions for the seizure of such formula should the manufacturer fail to make such assurances. Permits an inspector enforcing the provisions of this Act access to specified test records of the manufacturer at all times. Makes the failure to submit required reports and test results a prohibited act under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1979
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the categories of deportable aliens foreign students: (1) who knowingly participated in a political demonstration resulting in, or intending to result in, injury or damage to another's person or property; or (2) whose government engages in or permits hostile actions against United States citizens or property, including the seizure of United States Embassy or Consulate buildings and the taking of hostages.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1979
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that infant formulas contain specified nutrients at specified levels. States that an infant formula not containing such levels of nutrients be deemed to be adulterated. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to establish nutrient levels for fluoride, chromium, selenium, and molybdenum in such formulas. Permits the Secretary to waive or modify such required nutrient levels in formulas to be used by infants having unusual medical or dietary problems. Directs each processor of an infant formula to submit to the Secretary, at specified times, reports or test results satisfactorily demonstrating that such formula meets the requirements as set forth. Requires a processor who has information that any infant formula leaving his control may be adulterated or misbranded to promptly notify the Secretary or institute a recall and then notify the Secretary. Prohibits the use of any information contained in such notification in a proceeding against such processor for a violation of such Act. Directs each processor of infant formula to establish and implement a food coding system to effect and monitor recalls of formula and to notify the Secretary of such system. Permits the Secretary to exempt specified processors from such requirements. Sets forth the requirements of a coding system. Permits the Secretary to provide technical assistance upon request to revise such a system to bring it into compliance. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to effectuate the requirements of such provisions. Directs each processor of an infant formula to make, retain, and make available to the Secretary such records as may be necessary to effect and monitor recalls and facilitate inspections. Permits the Secretary to promulgate regulations setting forth requirements with regard to such records. Makes a failure to submit specified reports, test results, or notices, or to revise a food coding system a prohibited act under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. States that infant formulas not packaged in accordance with the requirements set forth shall be deemed to be misbranded.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1979
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the categories of deportable aliens foreign students who knowingly participated in a political demonstration resulting in, or intending to result in, injury or damage to another's person or property. Permits the Attorney General to suspend deportation of such foreign students.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1979
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Attorney General should: (1) immediately revoke all student visas held by Iranians who have engaged in activities prejudicial to the public interest of the United States; (2) deny all future student visas to Iranians; and (3) deport immediately all Iranians who are in the United States illegally.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1979
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal of appropriate design to Bryan Lewis Allen, the first aviator to cross the English Channel in a self-powered plane. Authorizes appropriations of up to $15,000 to strike such medal. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike bronze duplicates of such medal for sale to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1979
Hazardous Waste Response Fund Act of 1979 - States that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to oil or other pollution of navigable waters. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to establish a hazardous waste response program for dealing with emergencies involving the release or threat of release of hazardous waste into the environment from sites now regulated under Federal law. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to take such emergency response actions as determined to be immediately necessary to prevent or minimize any harm to public health or the environment when any hazardous waste is released or is threatened to be released into the environment. Stipulates that where the Administrator determines that the owner or operator of such site, the generator of such waste, any other person responsible for such release or threatened release, or the State or local government concerned, will take such emergency actions, the Administrator shall not exercise such emergency response authority. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, State or local governments to undertake such emergency actions where it is determined that such entities have the capability to carry out those actions. Sets forth the types of emergency actions which are authorized. Authorizes the Administrator to remove, contain, and clean up hazardous waste at or associated with any hazardous waste site which may present a danger to public health or the environment. Directs the Administrator not to exercise such authority if he determines that the owner or operator of such site, the generator of waste treated, stored or disposed of at such site, any other person responsible for such site, or the State or local government concerned, will take the action referred to in this paragraph. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, State or local governments to undertake such actions where it is determined that such entities have the capability to carry out those actions. Sets forth the types of containment and removal actions which are authorized. Authorizes the Administrator to provide special rapid emergency assistance to State and local governments and to take such action, or assist other Federal agencies in taking actions as are deemed necessary to protect health and the environment from hazardous substances released into the environment in a manner which may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or the environment. Stipulates that such assistance may be rendered and actions taken even where the Administrator is unable to immediately determine the applicability of any Federal law other than this Act or the existence of any authority to take remedial action with respect to such hazardous substance release. Requires the Administrator or such other Federal agency or instrumentality to reimburse the Fund established under this Act for amounts expended for emergency assistance or actions where it is determined that such action taken or assistance provided is authorized under any authority of law other that this Act. Directs the Administrator to issue a National Hazardous Waste Response Plan after appropriate public review and public hearings are completed. Sets forth the components of such plan, and requires that hazardous waste removal and containment and emergency assistance for releases of such wastes shall be in accordance with such plan. Requires that such plan set forth recommended methods, procedures, criteria, and equipment for handling released hazardous waste. Authorizes the Administrator to provide equipment and other items necessary for damage assessment and response capability of Federal, State, and local strike forces or other emergency response teams. Limits the Federal share of the cost of actions taken by the Administrator under this Act. Establishes in the United States Treasury a Hazardous Waste Response Fund to finance emergency response, removal, containment, cleanup, and other actions authorized by this Act, including administrative and personnel costs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 for such fund. Includes in such fund: (1) fees collected under this Act; (2) damage payments received for liability for hazardous waste releases; (3) reimbursements for emergency assistance or for the costs of actions taken for removal, containment, or cleanup of hazardous waste releases; (4) penalties assessed under this Act; and (5) amounts authorized to be appropriated. Imposes fees to be set by the Administrator on: (1) suppliers of petrochemical feedstocks; (2) suppliers of inorganic elements and compounds; and (3) refiners and exporters of crude oil. Specifies the aggregate amounts of fees imposed under this Act which are to be collected from such parties. Authorizes the Administrator to reduce such fees upon his determination that any such feedstock, element, or compound is derived from the waste stream of a production process or from recycled materials. Imposes civil penalties for the failure or refusal to pay such fees. Directs the Administrator to issue regulations prohibiting the release of hazardous waste into the environment. Requires owners or operators of hazardous waste sites and persons responsible for hazardous waste releases or threatened releases violating the regulations issued under this Act to notify the Administrator thereafter. Prohibits any person from knowingly destroying or concealing records relating to hazardous wastes or hazardous waste sites. Authorizes the Administrator to require, by order, any owner or operator of a hazardous waste site or generator of hazardous waste to take such action as may be required for removal, containment, or cleanup of released hazardous waste. Authorizes the Administrator to commence a civil action against any person to impose a civil penalty for violation of regulations issued under this Act, up to $50,000 for single violations, and $250,000 for willful and knowing violations. Authorizes the Administrator to issue abatement orders or to seek equitable relief in the event of hazardous waste releases endangering or threatening to endanger public health or safety. States that the United States district courts shall have jurisdiction to grant such relief. Authorizes criminal penalties and imprisonment upon the owner or operator of a hazardous waste site or upon any other party responsible for a hazardous waste release for failure to comply with the notification requirements of this Act. Authorizes anyone taking actions under this Act as authorized by the Administrator to exercise the entry, inspection, and other authority contained in the applicable inspection provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Imposes strict liability upon any person causing or contributing to the release or threatened release of hazardous waste into the environment. Specifies the damages and costs for which such person shall be liable and states that such liability shall be to the governmental entity which incurred costs relating to removal, containment, emergency assistance or other actions, and to persons who sustained damages for personal injury, injury to property, and economic loss resulting from such release or threatened release. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall affect the liability of any person under any other law except that the amount recovered under such other laws shall reduce the amount recoverable under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for casualty loss of depreciable fruit or nut trees. Sets a minimum deduction of the fair market value on the date such loss occurs, with a further allowance for an up to ten-year carryback and an up to four-year carryover.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set the basis of the income tax deduction for casualty loss of timber at not less than the fair market value immediately before such casualty. Provides for a ten-year carryback and a four-year carryover of such deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1979
Appropriates sums necessary to continue any Federal purpose or function which is not funded on the first day of any fiscal year if such purpose or function was funded during the previous fiscal year. Stipulates that the level of funding may not exceed that applicable on the last day of the previous fiscal year. Declares that such continuing appropriations shall remain available for one fiscal year or: (1) the enactment of an appropriation for such purpose or function; or (2) the enactment of a general appropriation for the applicable department or agency without providing for such purpose or function. Makes such continuing appropriations available without regard to certain time limitations for submission and approval of apportionments required by law. States that while such continuing appropriations are available they shall cover all expenditures related to such purpose or function. Charges expenditures made under this Act to the applicable fund or authorization once legislation is enacted providing such an account.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of January 20 through January 26, 1980, as "Junior Achievement Week."
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1979
Amends the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Incorporated, to erect a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia in honor and recognition of the men and women of the armed forces who served in the Vietnam war.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1979
Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to authorize payment of a gratuity (equal to one year's salary at time of death) to the surviving dependents of officers or employees of the Central Intelligence Agency who die as a result of injuries sustained outside of the United States upon a determination by the Director of Central Intelligence that the death resulted from hostile or terrorist activity or occurred in connection with an intelligence activity having a substantial element of risk.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1979
Alternative Energy Incentive Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to 50 percent the rate of the income tax credit for residential energy conservation expenditures and for renewable energy source expenditures. Increases the amount of renewable energy source expenditures eligible for the credit to $10,000. Eliminates the requirement that such expenditures be limited to the taxpayer's principal residence. Qualifies expenditures for the drilling of an onsite well drilled for any geothermal deposit for the renewable energy source tax credit. Qualifies renewable energy source property which is also a structural component of a building for the energy tax credit. Permits lessors, lessees, and builders who are not the original users of property to claim a residential energy credit. Permits taxpayers, upon application to the Secretary of the Treasury, to claim an immediate tax credit for the taxable year previous to the year in which energy conservation expenditures are made. Provides a residential energy credit for heat pumps which replace an electric resistance heating system. Extends the termination date of the residential energy tax credit to December 31, 2000. Increases the investment tax credit for: (1) hydroelectric and cogeneration energy property; (2) solar and wind energy property; (3) geothermal energy property; (4) biomass property; (5) ocean thermal energy conversion property; and (6) utilities. Makes the credit for such properties refundable. Repeals the exemption from excise tax for gasohol. Allows an income tax credit for the use of gasohol. Bases the amount of such credit on the volume of alcohol mixed with gasoline.