Rep. Edgar, Robert W. [D-PA-7]

An amendment to remove liability for costs or damages from contractors who contract to provide planning, evaluation, engineering, design, construction, equipment, or any ancillary services to respond to an approved plan to deal with an identified toxic substance site. The amendment specifically states that this exemption is not to apply to those responsible for the site to which the contractor is to address in response to such a plan.

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An amendment to the Whitten amendment to decrease from $148,500,000 to $50,000,000 of Construction, General funds and from $1,500,000 to $1,000,000 of Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee funds.

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An amendment to change the word "modification" to "structural modifications, operational modifications, replacement, or removal". The amendment thus broadens the changes the Secretary may consider in repairs of dams and other structures under the act.

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An amendment to reduce from $696,538,000 to $640,485,000 funds for the Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation construction programs. It also reduces from $161,104,000 to $105,051,000 the amount available for transfer from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund. The intent of the amendment is to delete $56 million for Dallas Creek and Dolores water projects in Colorado.

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An amendment to reduce funding for the Corps of Engineers, civil programs, from $103,096,000 to $51,596,000 deleting 20 unauthorized projects. The amendment also strikes language that prohibited funding for the projects striken un- til they were authorized.

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An amendment to specify goals and other requirements for the water conservation programs. The bill has general language saying programs with goals will be established. The amendment has the following specifications: a) include loss reduction measures and measures that are economically efficient and environmentally sensitive, b) contain time schedules for meeting goals with actions to be taken by the Secretary if goals are not met, and c) have reviews at at least five year intervals.

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An amendment to change the prohibition against contracts made by GSA for services if the service is already performed for GSA by veterans to permit contracts for the service if priority is given to qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or severely handicapped.

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An amendment to the Solomon amendment to change the requirement that payment be made when projects are "substantially" complete to when they are simply complete.

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An amendment to direct the Corps of Engineers to complete the navigation and related features of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway at a total additional federal cost of $202 million.

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An amendment to prohibit the GSA to contract out services which were performed by employees of the GSA who were veterans.

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An amendment to provide that the Secretary shall provide, either directly or through grant or contract, for the conduct of programs to meet the employment needs of veterans. Such programs for veterans shall emphasize the needs of disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam era and veterans who have recently been separated from military service . The amendment also provides that .4 percent of Title II funds of the act (Employment and Training Services for the Disadvantaged) shall be spent on veterans' programs.

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An amendment to the Myers amendment to reduce funds for general construction by the Corps of Engineers from 1,518,941,000 dollars to 1,429,941,999 dollars. The purpose of the cut is to reduce funds for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project in Alabama and Mississippi by 89,000,000 dollars.

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An amendment to require that the funds under the bloc grants section of the bill be apportioned to designated recipients with 30 days of enactment of the act. The full amount authorized is to be apportioned.

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An amendment to the Roe substitute amendment to add a new section dealing with sewage sludge. The amendment requires the EPA to identify within 18 months toxic pollutants in sewage sludge that may adversely affect human health or the environment. Within 30 months regulations for the control of such toxins must be published by EPA. If such regulations are determined not to be feasible by the Administrator he must promulgate a program of management that will protect public health and the environment from those pollutants. The amendment authorizes scientific studies, demonstration projects, and public information and education projects to carry out the provisions of the amendment and appropriates up to 15 million dollars for FY'85 to carry them out.

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An amendment to strike language in the bill dealing with deep port financing.

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An amendment to require companies to inventory and keep track of chemical emissions that are known to cause or suspected of causing cancer, birth defects, heritable genetic mutations, or other chronic health effects in humans.

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An amendment to strike the stipulation that funds under the Urban Formula Grants (Urban Mass Transportation Administration) may not be used to purchase rolling stock, including buses, unless an evaluation of performance, standardization, lifecycle cost, and other factors determined by the Secretary, has been made. This applies only to purchases that entail federal financial assistance.

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An amendment requiring that any new projects built within the overall Mississippi River and Tributaries Flood Control program meet the bill's new cost sharing requirements. Excepted from this requirement are channel and levee construction work and acquisition of related lands, easements and rights-of-way on the main stem of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers.

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An amendment to provide that 75 percent of the funding for job creations in the bill must be spent in civil jurisdictions that have had unemployment rates averaging at least 90 percent of the average national unemployment rate for the last 12 months.

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A bill to designate the Veterans' Administration Medical Center located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the "Charles E. Kelly Veterans' Administration Medical Center".

United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1986

Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the Charles E. Kelly Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Farm Credit Act Amendments of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1986

Farm Credit Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to terminate the Farm Credit Administration's (FCA) prior approval authority over Farm Credit System (FCS) loan interest rates. Authorizes FSC banks, from July 1, 1986 through December 31, 1988, to reduce borrowing costs by capitalizing "excess" borrowing costs (amounts by which debt incurred before January 1, 1985, exceeds prevailing market rates) and loan losses and amortizing such amounts over 20 years. Terminates FCA's prior approval authority over interest rates on FCS direct and discounted loans. Exempts FCS banks from having to follow generally accepted accounting principles in preparing financial statements relating to amortization of capitalized costs.

A bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to require hospitals participating in the medicare and medicaid programs to establish protocols for organ procurement, to establish standards for organ procurement agencies, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1986

Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require hospitals to establish written protocols assuring that: (1) families of potential organ donors are informed of the option of organ donation; and (2) a certified organ procurement agency is notified of potential donors. Requires hospitals performing transplants to abide by the rules of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (Network). Conditions coverage under title XVIII (Medicare) or XIX (Medicaid) of the Act of an organ procurement agency's organ procurement costs on the agency's being: (1) a "qualified organ procurement organization" under the Public Health Service Act or biennially certified as meeting the standards required of such organizations; and (2) a member of and in compliance with the rules of the Network. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from providing coverage to more than one organization per service area.

Save the Family Farm Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1986

Save the Family Farm Act - Title I: Agricultural Commodity Supply Management - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to implement an agricultural commodity supply management program for the 1988 through 2000 crops of wheat, feed grains, and soybeans, including an emergency program for the 1987 crops. Title II: Milk Marketing Control - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for suspension of the current milk price support program and implementation of an alternative program under which the percentage of the parity price of milk shall escalate by increments from 71 percent to 80 percent during the calendar years 1988 through 1997, and remain at 80 percent through 2000. Title III: Agricultural Exports and Imports - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to direct the President to enter into multilateral agreements with other food exporting nations in order to fulfill the food aid requirements of needy nations. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to examine and report to the President about any imported articles that interfere with any program or operation undertaken by the Department of Agriculture. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require processed agricultural products to label any imported ingredients and their countries of origin. Title IV: Food Assistance - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide for increased food assistance benefits. Title V: Farm Debt Restructuring - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make farmer debt restructuring loans to any qualifying State under a specified program. Prohibits debt restructuring aid to borrowers who produce commodities on erodible land or on converted wetlands.

A bill to designate the United States Courthouse and Customhouse at 601 West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky, as the "Gene Snyder United States Courthouse and Customhouse".

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1986

Designates the United States Courthouse and Customhouse on West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky, as the Gene Snyder United States Courthouse and Customhouse.