United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the current inquiries into the activities of the British West Midlands Crime Squad must be extended to cover the period of the Birmingham bombings of November 21, 1974; (2) the British Prime Minister should call upon the British Home Secretary to reopen the case of the Birmingham Six (those convicted for the bombings); (3) the convictions of such individuals should be quashed; and (4) the President should raise with the British Prime Minister concern for the basic human rights violations and miscarriage of justice arising from the continued incarceration of such individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) it would be inequitable for Civil Service retirees to receive smaller cost-of-living adjustments to their pensions than Social Security retirement beneficiaries; and (2) any budget adopted by the Congress should provide for full cost-of-living adjustments for all individuals receiving a Federal retirement pension or benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Medicare Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Payment Amendments of 1990 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish uniform national fee schedule payment rates for certified registered nurse anesthetist services.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Extends nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Romania for a three-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Urges the President to certify that Panama is fully cooperating in combating illicit drug production, trafficking, and money laundering pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Declares the intention to expeditiously enact a joint resolution approving such certification and removing other prohibitions on U.S. assistance for Panama. Commends the Government of Panama for committing itself to the anti-drug effort, negotiating a bilateral narcotics agreement with the United States, and demonstrating its determination to combat drugs.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1990
Congressional Commitment to Long-Term Care Concurrent Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that payments to long-term care providers under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act be sufficient to maintain the highest quality of patient care in nursing homes.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars for construction and related costs of a student residence and classroom building in Washington, D.C. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Government Printing Office Improvement Act of 1990 - Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of appropriated funds by any executive branch entity to: (1) establish any in-plant printing facility unless such facility has been specifically authorized by law; or (2) procure any printing or other information products and services related to the production of Government publications (including forms) from commercial sources unless such procurement is by or through the Government Printing Office (GPO). Requires printing and other information products and services authorized by law, which the Public Printer is not able or equipped to do at GPO, to be produced elsewhere under contracts made by the Public Printer with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. Requires the Superintendent of Documents to include data on information services in the comprehensive index of public documents. Authorizes the Superintendent to allow depository libraries access to information services subject to agreement between the Superintendent and the Government component issuing the service on the terms and conditions of access, including cost sharing arrangements.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Rose Kushner Medicare Screening Mammography Act of 1990 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover screening mammographies for women over age 34 at a frequency which varies on the basis of a woman's age and risk of developing breast cancer. Finances such coverage by increasing the Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) premium.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Department of Environmental Protection Act - Title I: Establishment of Department of Environmental Protection - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of Environmental Protection, an executive department to be administered by a Secretary of Environmental Protection. Establishes within the Department: (1) an Office of International Environmental Affairs; (2) an Office of Enforcement; and (3) a Center for Environmental Statistics (Center). Encourages the Secretary to assist the Secretary of State in negotiating and administering international environmental protection agreements and participating in the work of international environmental protection organizations. Encourages the Secretary to continue the Department's role in conducting international environmental research and providing technical assistance to other nations to improve environmental quality. Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Environmental Statistics to advise the Center and the Congress on the collection and dissemination of statistical data. Directs the Secretary to maintain a comprehensive guide to the Department's environmental and public health information services. Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Public Access to provide recommendations on improving public access to departmental information. Directs the Secretary to: (1) study the use of computer telecommunications and other means to provide for access to such information; and (2) permit the reduction or waiver of user fees for such access. Title II: Commission on Environmental Administration - Establishes the Commission on Environmental Administration to analyze and make recommendations on specified reorganization and management issues in the Department. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Electric Vehicle Technology Development and Demonstration Act of 1990 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to identify nonattainment areas (affected by conventionally fueled internal combustion engine vehicles) which are eligible to participate in this Act's program. Directs the Secretary of Energy to select manufacturers to receive reimbursement payments for the development, demonstration, manufacture, and sale of electric vehicles in nonattainment areas. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Boot Camp Prison Demonstration Program Act of 1990 - Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, to establish four military-style boot camp prisons within the Federal prison system. Requires the Attorney General to ensure that such prisons provide educational and counseling programs as part of the inmates' confinement. Amends the Federal criminal code to provide such prisons as a sentencing option and an alternative to conventional prisons for defendants who: (1) are sentenced to 12 to 16 months in prison; (2) are under 25 years of age; (3) are able-bodied; (4) have been convicted of a serious but nonviolent offense; (5) have no serious prior criminal history; and (6) consent to such confinement. Credits an inmate placed in a prison boot camp with three days toward completion of the sentence for each day served in such camp. Terminates such prisons five years after this Act's enactment. Directs the Attorney General to evaluate such prisons and report to the Congress within four and one-half years with respect to the efficacy of such prisons with an assessment of: (1) recidivism rates of defendants sentenced to boot camp prisons as compared to similar defendants not sentenced to such prisons; and (2) the cost effectiveness of such prisons as compared to conventional prisons. Authorizes the Attorney General, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense, to use closed military facilities for such prisons. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Fair Chance Act - Title I: Fair Funding Within States - Prohibits any State from receiving Federal funds from any program administered by the Department of Education to support its public schools after January 1, 1996, unless the Secretary of Education certifies that public education funding in that State meets certain standards for equalized spending. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review annually each State's method of financing its public elementary and secondary schools; and (2) certify all States in which public education funding meets equalized spending standards. Exempts from such funding prohibition any uncertified State which submits an approved plan for State compliance within five years of the notice of noncertification. Requires Federal funds allocated to a State prohibited from receiving them to be distributed to local education agencies within the State so that funding purposes may be carried out and equalized spending standards met. Title II: Fair Funding Among States - Authorizes appropriations for a program to assure a fair chance for a good education for children in all the States, contingent upon a certain level of appropriations for programs for education of disadvantaged children.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Calls upon the United Nations to repeal General Assembly Resolution 3379 (equating Zionism with racism). Commends the President for his commitment to this goal and requires progress reports to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Selma to Montgomery National Trail Study Act of 1989 - Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the route from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (traveled by the march dramatizing the need for voting rights legislation), for study for potential addition to the national trails system.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends Federal law to authorize and request the President to designate May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month annually, beginning in 1990. (Current law designates a seven-day period beginning on May 4, 1979).
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Federal Fire Service Pay Schedule Act of 1989 - Establishes a pay schedule for Federal fire service personnel. Excludes employees of the District of Columbia from such schedule. Provides for periodic and additional step increases, minimum hours of work, the computation of overtime, educational incentive service step increases, retirement, pay comparability, and additional compensation for technicians.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Proclaims Lech Walesa, the founder and leader of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, as an honorary citizen of the United States. Commends Solidarity for bringing democracy to Poland and starting the movement toward democracy throughout Eastern Europe.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Permits a naturalized citizen of the United States who is otherwise eligible to hold the office of the President or Vice President to hold such offices after being a citizen for 11 years.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that States and State regulatory State regulatory commissions should: (1) encourage their utilities to compare all feasible supply- and demand-side alternatives, taking into consideration the impact upon all ratepayers of utility investments in those alternatives; (2) consider the loss of earnings potential associated with utility investments in demand-side resources; and (3) adjust their regulatory systems to ensure that a utility's least-cost investment alternative is its most profitable course of action.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1990 - Title I: General Provisions - Provides for budget compliance of this Act for FY 1991 through 1992. Title II: Interagency Council on the Homeless - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (SBMHAA) to authorize appropriations through FY 1992. Extends the Interagency Council on the Homeless through FY 1992. Title III: Federal Emergency Management Food and Shelter Program - Amends SBMHAA to authorize appropriations for the Federal Emergency Management Food and Shelter Program through FY 1992. Title IV: Housing Assistance - Amends the SBMHAA to extend through FY 1992: (1) the emergency shelter grants program; (2) the supportive housing demonstration program; (3) supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless; and (4) section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Title V: Health Care for the Homeless - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize through FY 1992: (1) categorical grants for primary health services and substance abuse services; (2) block grants for community mental health services; and (3) alcohol and drug abuse treatment of homeless individuals. Amends SBMHAA to authorize appropriations for Community demonstration projects. Title VI: Education, Training, and Community Services Program - Amends SBMHAA to authorize appropriations for specified education, training, and community services programs through FY 1992. Title VII: Veterans Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for veterans medical programs through FY 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties for the possession or discharge of a firearm in a public elementary or secondary school zone, with exceptions for licensed or authorized individuals or programs.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose a mandatory minimum sentence for the illegal manufacture, distribution, or dispensation of 50 grams or more of smokable crystal methamphetamine.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1989
Waste Materials Management Act of 1989 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 to carry out the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Title I: Provisions Relating Primarily to Subtitles A and B of the Solid Waste Disposal Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to revise provisions concerning congressional findings and objectives. Declares it to be U.S. national policy that: (1) the creation of surplus and remnant material from production processes shall be reduced and residuals from post-consumer products shall be managed as material resources; (2) materials are to be managed at Federal, State, and local levels using specified waste reduction and management strategies; and (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the States shall not differentiate in the enforcement of this Act on the basis of whether an owner or person engaged in waste disposal activities is a public or private person, whether a facility is located on or off the premises where waste is generated, or whether an activity is carried out on or off the premises where the waste is generated. Requires the Inspector General of the EPA to report annually to the Congress on the implementation of, and compliance with, the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Adds specified annual reporting requirements. Directs the Administrator, for five years following the date of enactment of this Act, to identify five of the most toxic and common constituents of municipal waste. Requires the Administrator to consider, with respect to each of the constituents, imposing the following: (1) a ban on the use of such a constituent in production; (2) a ban on disposal in landfills or treatment in incinerators of any product containing such a constituent; (3) a requirement for special management standards for such products after discard; and (4) a requirement for the use of a substitute constituent. Permits the Administrator to impose such bans or requirements only by promulgating regulations. Requires the Administrator to publish annually in the Federal Register any information on such actions. Prohibits the disposal of used lead-acid batteries other than by recycling in accordance with this Act. Requires persons to dispose of such batteries only by delivery to: (1) battery retailers or wholesalers; or (2) secondary lead smelters or collection or recycling facilities permitted by a State or the Administrator. Sets forth battery disposal requirements for retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. Makes violators of such requirements subject to fines under the Federal criminal code. Requires battery retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers to accept from customers used batteries of the same type as the batteries sold. Directs retailers to post a notice for customers containing information about the illegality of improperly disposed batteries, the requirements for accepting and disposing of batteries, and the merits of conservation. Permits the Administrator to inspect any establishment pursuant to this Act and to issue warnings and citations for noncompliance. Subjects persons who fail to post notices after receiving a warning to penalties of up to $1,000 per day. Requires battery wholesalers who sell batteries to retailers to provide for removal of batteries from the retailers' place of business. Prohibits the charging of fees for accepting batteries from customers. Considers violations of battery collection requirements to be misdemeanors. Requires the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on the disposal and potential recyclability of household dry-cell batteries and the need for legislation, regulation, or further study on the disposal and recyclability of such batteries. Title II: Provisions Relating Primarily to Subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act - Identifies as a hazardous waste a waste containing more than .1 percent of any constituent listed in appendix VIII to part 261 of title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, unless the Administrator establishes another level for such constituent. Provides that: (1) the mixing of a hazardous waste with any other matter constitutes treatment requiring a permit; and (2) dilution of a hazardous waste through such mixing, such that the resulting mixture does not exceed the established concentration levels, does not alter the character of the material as a hazardous waste. Authorizes the granting of petitions to remove from the list a hazardous waste for periods of up to five years. Permits subsequent renewals of such petitions. Requires the Administrator to charge fees for the submission of such petitions. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations on the following characteristics of hazardous waste: (1) acute and aquatic toxicity; (2) persistence and bioaccumulation potential; (3) radioactivity; (4) carcinogenicity; (5) mutagenicity; and (6) phytotoxicity. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring: (1) owners or operators of facilities which use materials containing hazardous constituents listed in the Code of Federal Regulations in a manufacturing process to test the waste generated for the presence of such constituents; and (2) owners or operators of facilities generating hazardous waste subject to land disposal prohibitions to test the waste to determine if it meets applicable treatment standards. Provides for routine testing at least every two years and additional testing when a significant change in generation or waste management processes occurs. Requires the Administrator to carry out hazardous waste programs directly in States unless a State is authorized to administer such requirements. Requires the Administrator, if a State's program is equivalent, to grant interim authorization to such State to administer such program in lieu of direct administration by the Administrator. Directs States with hazardous waste programs to report annually to the Administrator on such programs. Prohibits the Administrator from identifying used oil as a hazardous waste under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Provides that any fuel derived from used oil that does not meet used oil specifications established by the Administrator and would otherwise be identified as a hazardous waste shall be deemed to be a hazardous waste. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations for persons who generate, transport, recycle, or dispose of used oil. Requires the Administrator, in developing such regulations, to conduct an analysis of the economic impact of such regulations on the used oil recycling industry. Provides that regulations for used oil generators shall: (1) prohibit the storage of used oil in an underground storage tank unless such tank meets requirements under this Act; (2) prohibit the storage of used oil for more than 12 months; (3) require generators to transfer such oil to specified permitted used oil recycling or disposal facilities or transporters; and (4) require generators to keep specified records on such oil. Requires used oil transporter regulations to provide that such transporters: (1) acquire identification numbers from EPA; (2) meet applicable financial responsibility requirements; and (3) keep specified records. Provides that used oil recycler regulations shall require recyclers to: (1) keep specified records; (2) test fuel produced from the recycling process before departure from the facility; and (3) obtain certain permits. Requires used oil disposal regulations to prohibit mixing used oil with any hazardous waste identified under the Solid Waste Disposal Act unless the resulting mixture does not exhibit hazardous waste characteristics or the mixture is burned to recover useful energy in a device designed such that protection of human health and the environment is assured. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring owners or operators of new and existing recycling facilities to have class permits. Provides for annual inspections of such facilities to assure permit compliance. Sets forth requirements for interim class permits. Exempts from permit requirements: (1) facilities which refine at least 10,000 barrels daily of crude oil into petroleum products, are classified as S.I.C. number 2911 (pursuant to the Office of Management and Budget Standard Classification Manual) facilities, and whose volume of refined used oil is less than one percent of the total crude oil refined into lubricant base stock annually; and (2) facilities which compound or blend lubricating base oil into finished lubricant products as their principal activity, are classified as S.I.C. number 2899 or 2992 facilities, and whose volume of used oil compounded or blended into such products is no more than ten percent of the lubricating base oil compounded or blended annually. Exempts from used oil regulation requirements on-site activities at facilities classified as S.I.C. number 4911 facilities. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations governing such facilities. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing specification standards for fuel derived from used oil to be burned in furnaces and boilers. Sets forth requirements to be effective if the Administrator fails to promulgate used oil regulations by the applicable deadline. Requires the Administrator to implement education programs to inform the public and small businesses about the environmental and safety hazards associated with improper handling and disposal of used oil and the benefits derived from used oil recycling. Authorizes appropriations. Requires producers or importers of lubricating oil to recycle for a period of ten years an amount of used oil equal to at least the amount determined by multiplying the amount of lubricating oil produced or imported that year by such persons by the recycling percentage established by the Administrator. Authorizes such individuals to comply with this Act by: (1) recycling (through re-refining) used oil or purchasing re-refined oil for purposes of producing lubricating oil; or (2) purchasing recycling credits under this Act. Requires producers and importers to report annually to the Administrator on the amount of oil produced or imported by such persons. Directs the Administrator to establish a recycling percentage that is two points higher than the existing recycling rate for lubricating oil. Provides for increases in such percentage of two points annually for ten years. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations allowing recyclers to create credits for used oil recycling and producers or importers of lubricating oil to purchase such credits. Provides that such regulations shall require: (1) owners or operators of used oil collection centers to keep receipts issued by transporters who take delivery of such oil and copies of agreements under which the transporter agrees to take such oil to a recycling facility; (2) such owners or operators to certify that oil taken by transporters is not mixed with hazardous wastes; (3) owners or operators of recycling facilities to be the only persons to create a recycling credit for the recycling credit system; (4) recyclers to certify that the substance being recycled is used oil that has not been mixed with hazardous wastes; (5) oil proposed to be recycled to have come from a used oil collection place or a transporter with an identification number; (6) specified records to be kept by recyclers and by importers or producers; and (7) recyclers to sell or distribute in commerce such oil as specification used oil, off-specification used oil, industrial specification used oil, or re-refined oil. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on such regulations and to include: (1) a discussion of the effects of such regulations on the oil industry and the environment; and (2) an evaluation of the level of the recycling percentage and whether such percentage should be increased in future years. Requires an updated version of such report to be submitted within ten years of this Act's enactment. Applies recycling requirements to persons who import or produce more than 100,000 gallons of lubricating oil annually. Sets the recycling percentage at 40 percent if the Administrator fails to promulgate such regulations. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring owners or operators of existing and new hazardous waste facilities to have class permits. Requires such permits to include provisions for: (1) public notice and comment; (2) environmental monitoring; (3) closure and post closure requirements; (4) financial responsibility; (5) annual on-site inspections; and (6) penalties for noncompliance. Requires the Administrator to impose additional requirements, as necessary. Requires the following facilities, unless excluded from regulation, to have such permits: (1) recycling facilities; (2) facilities engaged in precious metal recovery; (3) facilities engaged in spent lead-acid battery reclamation; and (4) hazardous waste storage facilities. Title III: Provisions Relating Primarily to Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Solid Waste Management Plans - Revises requirements for State solid waste management plans. Requires such plans to include: (1) an estimate of the capacity of the State to manage such waste; (2) permit programs; (3) solid waste recycling, reduction, incineration, and land disposal elements; (4) an overall waste materials strategy to cover one of two specified planning periods; (5) waste inventories; (6) personnel training and public education; (7) requirements for the management of household hazardous waste, tires, yard waste, and large household appliances; and (8) annual reporting requirements. Sets forth submission, approval, and implementation procedures for State plans. Authorizes a State with an approved plan and certification of compliance to: (1) prohibit the transportation of solid waste generated from another State into such State for disposal, storage, or incineration purposes; (2) prohibit the incineration, disposal, or storage of such waste; and (3) levy fees on solid waste or solid waste transporters that differentiate rates or other aspects of payment on the basis of waste origin. Requires such State, prior to exercising such authority, to certify to the Administrator that it has: (1) completed construction on facilities that will provide at least 70 percent of the capacity for solid waste management needed to implement the State plan; and (2) completed siting approval on facilities that will provide 100 percent of such capacity. Prohibits the interstate transport of solid waste in any State: (1) that does not have an approved plan within a specified time period; (2) that cannot certify continuing compliance; or (3) for which that the Administrator has withdrawn approval of the State plan. Permits the Administrator to develop a plan for, and charge, any State that has not submitted a plan. Requires States to establish permit programs and issue permits to solid waste management facilities in compliance with this Act. Prohibits the incineration, storage, or disposal of such waste at, or the transportation of such waste to, facilities without permits. Sets forth transitional permit requirements and deadlines. Limits permit terms to ten years and provides for permit modifications, as appropriate. Authorizes States to grant variances from permit requirements if demonstrated that no adverse effects to human health or the environment will result from such variances. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Federal Requirements - Directs the Administrator to promulgate standards, guidelines, and regulations for: (1) municipal solid waste landfills; (2) municipal solid waste incinerators; (3) industrial waste; (4) above-ground storage tanks; and (5) other waste categories, as appropriate. Permits State Governors to petition the Administrator for the promulgation of additional standards, guidelines, and regulations. Sets forth requirements for municipal solid waste landfills, to include: (1) specified detection and monitoring controls; (2) daily cover; (3) closure and postclosure requirements; (4) financial responsibility and corrective action requirements; (5) groundwater monitoring; (6) liners and leachate collection and removal systems, as appropriate; (7) construction quality assurance plans; and (8) prohibitions on landfills being located within the 100-year flood plain, within specified distances of faults, or within seismic impact zones or other unstable areas, unless certain conditions have been met. Requires the Administrator to publish guidelines for identifying materials which should be removed from solid waste before its incineration in a municipal solid waste incinerator. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations applicable to the operation and management of municipal solid waste incinerators and to the disposal or recycling and reuse of municipal solid waste incinerator ash. Prohibits the disposal of ash in units that are created as a result of vertical expansion of an existing waste disposal facility unless it is demonstrated that there will be no settling of waste that would impair the integrity of the liners. Requires that landfills into which such ashes are disposed provide for groundwater monitoring and: (1) place such ashes in a monofill having a leachate collection system and a single liner designed and operated to prevent the migration of any constituent into such liner; or (2) have two or more liners and a leachate collection system above and between such liners. Provides that landfill design requirements shall not apply to alternatively-designed units if demonstrated that such designs prevent such migration. Directs the Administrator to prescribe criteria and testing procedures for identifying the hazardous properties of municipal incinerator ash so that ash which does not exhibit such properties may be placed in sanitary landfills meeting current criteria under specified conditions. Requires ash which is hazardous to human health or the environment to be treated prior to recycling or reuse. Prohibits, four years after this Act's enactment, the operation of incinerators and the receipt of ash for treatment, storage, disposal, reuse, or recycling without a permit or prior approval under a State program. Requires civil penalties imposed against local governments for violations of this Act to be deposited into a trust fund for programs that serve to enhance the protection of human health and the environment. Sets forth transitional provisions. Requires the Administrator to identify, classify, and report to the Congress and States on specified types of industrial waste. Directs generators or transporters of such waste and owners or operators of facilities handling such waste to file notifications with the State concerning facility locations and descriptions of activities and wastes handled. Sets forth requirements for industrial waste management, to include: (1) authorizations to operate; (2) monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements; (3) performance standards; (4) financial responsibility assurances; (5) design, operating, closure, and postclosure criteria; and (6) corrective action requirements. Applies such requirements to the following facilities: (1) industrial waste facilities that produce such waste and are not implementing closure or postclosure plans; and (2) inactive or abandoned facilities that are reactivated. Requires the Administrator to study the adverse effects on human health and the environment of the disposal of other nonhazardous waste. Directs the Administrator to promulgate solid waste storage regulations. Excludes from such regulations storage at transportation-related facilities. Requires State plans and permits to include requirements for municipal solid waste landfills and incinerators and for industrial wastes. Subtitle C: Other Provisions - Directs the Administrator to compile and periodically update a non-hazardous solid waste inventory to determine, by State or region: (1) an estimate of the amount of such waste to be generated annually and likely to be generated in each of the next 20 years; and (2) the capacity of existing and proposed waste management facilities. Sets forth Federal enforcement provisions. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violations of solid waste management requirements. Title IV: Provisions Relating Primarily to Subtitle H of the Solid Waste Disposal Act - Requires the Administrator to: (1) develop model recycling programs for States and localities; and (2) carry out a continuing program to evaluate demonstrated waste management technologies that could be used by municipalities and report periodically on such program. Prohibits the Administrator from funding the development or demonstration of such technologies. Title V: Provisions Relating Primarily to Subtitle I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act - Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations applicable to above-ground storage tanks. Applies such requirements to all tanks except those subject to the requirements of subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Exempts from this Act's requirements releases of small quantities of regulated substances which will not endanger human health and the environment and particular tanks, as appropriate. Requires such regulations to include requirements for field-erected tanks. Directs owners and operators of such tanks to implement release prevention plans which provide for release prevention systems capable of: (1) catching and holding 110 percent of the full capacity of the tank and preventing releases beyond tank boundaries; and (2) restraining drainage and preventing contamination of soil and water. Requires the plan and system to be inspected by a registered engineer who is not employed by the owner or operator. Directs the engineer, if the system does not reflect good engineering practices or the tank does not comply with the regulations, to notify the Administrator or the State. Provides for amendments of release prevention plans whenever there is a major modification in the tank which affects the tank's potential to release substances. Sets forth recordkeeping and reporting requirements for field-operated tanks. Prohibits the operation of such tanks after a release unless the Administrator determines that such prohibition is not necessary. Requires the regulations to include requirements for shop-fabricated tanks. Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish an inspection program for such tanks in the factory when construction is complete and before the tanks enter interstate commerce; and (2) require such tanks to bear labels with specified manufacturing, capacity, and use information. Provides for requirements relating to the installation of such tanks. Directs the Administrator, as necessary, to promulgate financial responsibility requirements for taking corrective action and compensating third parties for bodily injury and property damage caused by accidental releases from above-ground storage tanks. Permits the establishment of financial responsibility for a spill by any means the Administrator deems appropriate. Authorizes the assertion of claims against guarantors providing evidence of financial responsibility for claims against insolvent owners or operators of tanks. Limits guarantor liability to the aggregate amount which the guarantor has provided as evidence of financial responsibility to the owner or operator. Authorizes the Administrator to establish coverage requirements which may vary among particular classes or categories of above-ground storage tanks. Permits the Administrator to make grants to States for carrying out enforcement requirements. Authorizes a State to submit for the Administrator's review and approval a program under which such State would assume primary responsibility for the enforcement of regulations pertaining to above-ground storage tanks. Requires that State regulation and enforcement procedures be at least as stringent as those used by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to: (1) monitor State programs for compliance with this Act's requirements; and (2) provide technical assistance to assist States, local governments, and owners and operators in complying with this title. Authorizes the Administrator to issue compliance orders or commence civil actions against violators of this Act's requirements, but requires that prior notification be given to States operating their own programs. Imposes criminal and civil monetary penalties for violations of this Act's requirements. Makes tank owners and operators liable for the Administrator's corrective action costs and damages. Authorizes the Administrator to require a tank owner or operator to undertake corrective action in response to any release of a regulated substance from the tank when such action will be done properly and promptly. Permits the Administrator, upon notification of a release, to prohibit operations in a facility until such action has been taken. Authorizes the Administrator to take corrective action where the owner or operator fails to take prompt and effective action and human health and the environment are endangered. Prohibits indemnification agreements from transferring liability under this title. Prohibits States or political subdivisions from enforcing requirements for shop-fabricated tanks that are more stringent than those imposed under this title. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits the Administrator from enforcing financial responsibility regulations with respect to an owner or operator of an underground storage tank if such owner or operator has applied for insurance. Revises provisions concerning financial responsibility for such tanks. Requires the Administrator to evaluate and report to the Congress on the effects of financial responsibility regulations on the cost and availability of insurance used to demonstrate financial responsibility. Title VI: Waste Materials Reduction - Authorizes any person to petition a Federal agency to undertake a waste reduction action if such action would bring about at least a ten percent increase in recycling of the petitioned item, reduce by at least ten percent the total volume or toxic constituents of a waste described in the petition, or would bring about a net savings in true cost to the Federal Government or be neutral in effect or cost. Requires each Federal agency to designate a waste reduction officer to oversee compliance with Federal agency waste reduction requirements, prepare agency waste reduction plans, and report annually to the Administrator on the implementation of such plans. Directs the Administrator to establish a clearinghouse within EPA to collect and disseminate information on waste reduction and recycling. Makes such information available to the public. Requires the Administrator to establish a commission to study and report to the President and the Congress on waste reduction with respect to consumer products and packaging. Provides for the submission of periodic reports by the commission on the status of waste reduction efforts by the Federal Government and industry. Terminates the commission five years after the date of its establishment. Title VII: Procurement and Marketing of Recycled Materials - Applies Federal procurement requirements concerning recycled goods to States or other entities if such entities use funds appropriated to a Federal agency to which such procurement requirements apply. Directs the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy to report to the Congress on the effect of a certain price preference concerning the procurement of recycled paper products. Requires affirmative procurement programs to include: (1) programs for monitoring compliance by States, political subdivisions, and contractors with recovered materials procurement requirements; and (2) a requirement that paper procured for uses which have enduring value be permanent paper. Requires such agencies to report annually to the Administrator on such programs and on the amount and value of recovered materials procured. Makes such report available to the public. Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) report biennially to the Congress on the progress made by Federal agencies in implementing recovered materials procurement programs; and (2) review and revise, if necessary, guidelines concerning such programs which were prepared before this Act's enactment. Prohibits Federal agencies from entering into procurement contracts with any persons convicted of specified offenses of the Solid Waste Disposal Act if such a contract is to be performed at the facility at which the violation occurred. Authorizes the President to make exemptions to such prohibition. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the implementation of such prohibition. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a biennial survey that: (1) identifies the major domestic uses for, and users of, recovered and recycled materials; (2) documents or estimates the amounts of such materials used, exported, and imported annually; and (3) identifies the markets for such materials and the products made from such materials. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to establish an interagency working group to: (1) promote markets in recovered and recycled materials and link sources of such materials with potential markets; (2) work cooperatively with generators, collectors, transporters, users, and regulators of such materials and with manufacturers of products containing such materials; (3) link businesses dealing in such materials with potential sources of capital; (4) educate government and business officials about potential commerce in such materials; (5) coordinate efforts to promote lawful commerce in such materials; (6) encourage reuse and recycling of solid waste; and (7) identify the institutional, economic, and technical barriers to the use of such materials. Directs the Secretary to take such actions as may be necessary to stimulate the development of new domestic markets for such materials. Requires the Secretary and the U.S. Trade Representative to: (1) identify foreign markets for recovered materials and products containing a high content of recycled materials; and (2) assist exporters in selling such materials and products in foreign markets. Title VIII: Financial Assistance - Authorizes the Administrator to provide financial assistance to States with approved solid waste management plans to develop programs to encourage and facilitate recycling. Permits the Administrator to: (1) provide financial assistance to States and local authorities for solid waste management planning; (2) make bonus grants to municipalities or other agencies that demonstrate achievement of a recycling rate greater than 25 percent; (3) make loans to States for waste reduction activities and programs in rural areas to collect household hazardous waste and waste from small quantity generators. Title IX: Other Provisions - Permits Government agencies to retain any amounts received from sales of materials or energy recovered from solid waste. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations for the use and composition of compost made from yard waste. Revises oil labeling requirements to direct the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring packages of lubricating oil (of less than five gallons) sold in commerce to bear a label stating that used oil should be taken to collection centers. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring rigid and semi-rigid plastic packaging and products sold in commerce to bear a label identifying the plastic resin used in such packaging and products. Authorizes the Administrator, subject to certain conditions, to: (1) treat Indian tribes as States under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) delegate to such tribes primary enforcement responsibility for programs under such Act; and (3) provide such tribes grant and contract assistance to carry out such functions. Permits States and Indian tribes, subject to the Administrator's approval, to enter into cooperative agreements to administer such Act. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress on measures for addressing hazardous and solid wastes and underground storage tanks in Indian country. Directs the Administrator to undertake a continuing program to establish an inventory of hazardous waste sites and solid waste open dumps in Indian country. Requires the Administrator to assist Indian tribes that operate such dumps in upgrading such facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the use of virgin materials in the manufacture or production of taxable products. Establishes the Recycling Assistance and Solid Waste Management Planning Trust Fund to support certain programs under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Provides for financing the trust fund with the excise tax on the use of virgin materials.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1989
Waste Export Control Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to incorporate requirements for the export of solid waste. Exempts from this Act's requirements waste paper, glass cullet, metal, or plastic that: (1) has been separated from solid waste before export; (2) is exported for incorporation into new products with recycled content; and (3) is not a hazardous waste under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes persons to apply to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the exemption of other recovered materials. Requires persons exporting exempted materials to notify the Administrator prior to such exporting. Prohibits the export of solid waste from the United States unless there is an agreement between the United States and the receiving country which provides for: (1) the exchange of information regarding such export and its management; (2) cooperation on compliance with, and enforcement of, such agreement; (3) biennial review and revision or suspension of such agreement under certain circumstances; and (4) a prohibition on further transport of such waste from the country of destination without the written consent of parties to the agreement. Deems any agreement concerning shipments of hazardous waste entered into by the United States and in force on this Act's enactment date to meet this Act's requirements for two years following such enactment date. Prohibits the export of solid waste from the United States unless the exporter has obtained a permit from the Administrator. Outlines information to be included in the permit application. Requires the Director of the National Enforcement Investigations Center to submit an investigative report on each applicant to the Administrator. Provides that permittees shall have the continuing duty to provide assistance or information requested by the Administrator or the Center and to cooperate in any inquiry conducted by the Center. Directs the Administrator, before issuing a permit under this Act, to determine that the solid waste will be managed in a manner protective of human health and the environment and which is no less strict than that which would be required if the waste were managed in the United States. Provides that such determination shall assure that certain facility operation and transportation requirements are met. Limits permit terms to a period of five years. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on all solid waste exports. Prohibits the issuance of any permit unless the Administrator determines that: (1) the waste generator has used reasonable efforts to eliminate or minimize waste generation prior to export; (2) the receiving facility is capable of treating, storing, and disposing of such waste in a manner protective of human health and the environment and no less strict than that which would be required if the waste were managed in the United States; and (3) the application meets the requirements of this Act. Directs the Administrator to make inspections of any permittee and of any facility handling waste subject to a permit, as necessary. Authorizes the Administrator to revoke a permit under specified circumstances. Directs the Administrator to establish a user fee to defray the cost of administering this Act. Requires such fee system to consist of a one-time permit application fee and a waste export permit fee to be paid over the life of the permit. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that payment under a life insurance contract to an insured who is terminally ill be treated as a death benefit, making such payment eligible for tax exclusion from gross income. Provides that any reference to life insurance shall be treated as referring to a qualified terminal illness rider. Provides for the tax treatment of such riders. Describes such a rider as one which provides for payments to an insured upon the insured's becoming terminally ill.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Authorizes the Rumsey Indian Rancheria in California to convey certain land in Sparks, Nevada, to any bona fide purchaser for value. Directs that proceeds from the conveyance of such land may be used only for the economic development and social welfare of the Rumsey Indian Rancheria.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy: (1) before fetal viability; or (2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Allows a State to impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of such women.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Provides that a Federal annuitant or member or former member of a uniformed service who is employed in a temporary position in the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall be exempt from a reduction in retirement pay, retainer pay, or annuity benefits while employed in connection with an emergency or major disaster. Limits the length of employment and rate of pay of such temporary employees.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Reauthorization Act of 1989 - Amends the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984 to require State Governors to maintain records on asbestos in school buildings. Deletes a requirement for the submission of asbestos abatement application materials by State Governors to the Secretary of Education. Requires State Governors, in determining the adequacy of financial resources available to a local educational agency for asbestos abatement, to consider the additional costs to such agency of meeting the needs of disadvantaged students. Removes a reporting requirement concerning actions taken by State Governors in accordance with State plans. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve applications for financial assistance no later than April 30 of each year. Prohibits the provision of such assistance to applicants who are not in compliance with title II of the Toxic Substances Control Act. Requires the proceeds from the repayment of Federal asbestos abatement loans and assistance recovery lawsuits to be deposited into the Asbestos Trust Fund. Removes a condition on the provision of financial assistance which requires the submission of an application within five years of the enactment of the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984. Prohibits the approval of assistance applications unless the local educational agency certifies that it is implementing an asbestos management plan and all abatement activities will be conducted by trained and accredited individuals in conformance with the Toxic Substances Control Act. Removes certain requirements for the promulgation by the Administrator of standards for asbestos removal contractors and the protection of school employees trained to carry out abatement activities. Requires the Administrator to report annually (until 1999) to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the loan and grant program under the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984. Authorizes appropriations for the asbestos abatement program for FY 1991 through 1995. Revises provisions concerning the allocation of appropriations. Permits up to five percent of appropriations to be reserved each fiscal year for the administration of asbestos abatement activities. Authorizes the Administrator to use up to five percent of such appropriations for grants to States for: (1) assisting local educational agencies in performing periodic reinspections and training activities; and (2) maintaining programs to accredit personnel performing asbestos inspections and response actions. Makes conforming amendments to provisions of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 concerning the Asbestos Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Education and Space Act of 1989 - Establishes the National Council on Education and Space. Directs the Council to develop and administer a Congressional Space Education Achievement Award Program for elementary and secondary school students of mathematics, science, space, and related fields. Requires the Council to report annually to specified congressional committees on programs to encourage study in such fields. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and subsequent fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1989
Government Ethics Reform Act of 1989 - Title I: Limitations on Outside Employment and Elimination of Honoraria - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to: (1) limit the outside income of Members of the House of Representatives and all other Federal employees and officials (except Senators) who are non-career employees paid at a grade GS-16 of the General Schedule or above to 15 percent of the pay for level II of the Executive Schedule in any calendar year; and (2) prohibit such individuals from receiving any honoraria while employed by the Government, beginning on January 1, 1991. Prohibits payments of honoraria on behalf of such an individual to a charitable organization in excess of $2,000 or to a charitable organization from which such an individual or his or her spouse or any relative derives any financial benefit. Prohibits such individuals from: (1) affiliating with, or being employed by, any entity to provide professional services which involve a fiduciary relationship for compensation; (2) permitting their names to be used by such an entity; (3) practicing a profession which involves such a relationship; (4) serving for compensation as an officer or member of any entity; or (5) receiving compensation for teaching without prior notification and approval of the appropriate supervising ethics office administering this title. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring civil actions to enforce this title. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) prohibit such payments to charitable institutions from being treated as received by the employee or official and used as deductions under Federal, State, and local tax law beginning on January 1, 1991; and (2) provide for the nonrecognition of gain for sales of property to comply with conflict-of-interest requirements after the enactment of this Act. Provides that a repeal of the provisions of this Act with respect to salary increases for senior Government officials shall repeal provisions concerning such limitation and prohibitions on outside income. Title II: Financial Disclosure - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require Members of Congress and legislative, executive, and judicial branch employees and officials paid at a grade GS-16 of the General Schedule or above to report the source, date, and amount of payments to charitable organizations in lieu of honoraria and to file, on a confidential basis, a corresponding list of all recipients of such payments with the dates and amounts of such payments after December 31, 1990. Requires the reporting of income other than from employment by the Government and gifts, respectively, totalling $200 or more in amount or value. Lowers the threshold for reporting gifts of transportation to require an individual receiving such a gift of at least $200 to report the dates and places of travel and a description of the nature of the expenses provided. Revises provisions requiring the reporting of liabilities owed to a relative by specifying that such reporting requirement applies only to liabilities owed to the spouse, parent, grandparent, sibling, or child of the reporting individual or such individual's spouse. Revises financial reporting requirements for assets, liabilities, and transactions in real property and securities by establishing new reporting categories above the current threshold of $250,000. Requires the reporting of the source and amount of any honorarium received by a spouse of a reporting individual. Allows the use of alternative forms for financial disclosure. Allows executive branch employees to file a confidential financial disclosure report in a form prescribed by the Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Requires the reporting of the category of the value of property interests held in qualified blind trusts. Requires that the trustee and any other entity designated in the trust instrument to perform fiduciary duties be a financial institution, an investment advisor, or a law, brokerage, or certified public accounting firm which is not an individual or entity owned entirely by an individual. Provides that the appropriate ethics office may exempt from reporting requirements the financial interests held by any entity which is either a regulated investment company or a pension, profitsharing, or other deferred compensation plan. Requires Members, officers, and employees of the Congress to file a termination report by May 15 or within 30 days of leaving office for the period before the individual left such office if a financial disclosure report has not been filed unless such Member or individual has accepted employment in another position subject to reporting under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Extends the period of time within which such reports must be made available for public inspection from 15 to 30 days after they are filed. Requires the appropriate ethics office to assess a $200 fine on any individual who files a report later than 30 days after its due date or any extension of the due date. Requires House and Senate Ethics Committees to establish procedures to ensure that each report under this title is reviewed within 60 days after it is filed. Increases the civil penalty from $5,000 to $10,000 for: (1) knowingly and willfully falsifying or failing to file a financial disclosure report; and (2) obtaining and using such a report for certain unlawful actions. Increases the civil penalties from $1,000 and $5,000 to $5,000 and $10,000, respectively, for a trustee of a qualified blind trust who knowingly or negligently: (1) discloses to an interested party any trust information that may not be disclosed; and (2) acquires any holding the ownership of which is prohibited by the trust instrument. Extends the deadline for completion of the General Accounting Office study of legislative personnel financial disclosure requirements to December 31, 1992. Increases from seven to 30 days the period prior to a congressional election in which a candidate in such an election must make a financial disclosure. Requires individuals employed in the Executive Office of the President who are appointed by the President to file financial disclosure statements. Title III: Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation - Redesignates the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries as the Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation. Increases the membership of the Commission from nine to 11 members, six of whom are to be selected for appointment without regard to political affiliation from among persons having experience or expertise in such areas as government, personnel management, or public administration. Prohibits Federal employees and officials, individuals registered under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act, and members of their immediate family from serving on the Commission. Requires the General Services Administration to establish procedures by regulation for: (1) selecting the five remaining members by lot from among names randomly selected from voter registration lists; and (2) providing for the maximum degree of geographic diversity practicable among such members. Establishes a four-year term of office for such members after FY 1993. Requires the President to transmit to the Congress on the first Monday after January 3 of the year after the Commission submits its report his or her recommendations regarding pay rates for certain Federal offices and positions in light of the Commission's report and recommendations, the prevailing market value of the services rendered in the offices and positions involved, the country's overall economic condition, and the fiscal condition of the Government. Requires such recommendations to take effect upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution approving such recommendations in their entirety. Declares that a privileged bill or resolution making such an approval, if offered by the majority leader of either House of the Congress, would be in order in each such House during the 60 days following submission. Requires recommendations of the President for pay adjustments that are approved to take effect as of the date proposed by the President, but only after a November congressional election occurs between the enactment of a bill or resolution approving such recommendations and such proposed date. Requires the Commission to review recruitment and retention problems and any public policy issues involved in maintaining appropriate ethical standards with respect to public service in Government and to report its findings and recommendations to the President. Prohibits any provision increasing the pay rates of Members of Congress, certain legislative positions, judges, justices, and certain other judicial personnel, and Executive Schedule positions from taking effect before the beginning of the Congress after the Congress during which such provision was enacted. Provides that the basic pay rates for positions in the Federal and District of Columbia governments shall be determined as if provisions of law prohibiting increases in pay rates in FY 1989 and 1990 for positions compensated at a rate higher than level III of the Executive Schedule had not been enacted. Authorizes appropriate increases for Federal judges and justices of the Supreme Court. Prohibits any corresponding adjustment in any pay rate until the first pay period after the President's sequestration order of October 16, 1989, is rescinded. Increases the annual salary rates for positions in the Executive Schedule, certain legislative branch positions (except Senators), and offices including the office of the Vice President, the Chief Justice, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, U.S. circuit judges, U.S. district judges, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade by 25 percent beginning on or after January 1, 1991. Revises the method for computing annual cost-of-living increases for certain executive, legislative, and judicial positions by using the most recent percentage change in the Employment Cost Index (a measure of wages and salaries for private industry) minus one-half of one percent. Prohibits the determination of any such percentage change from being less than zero or greater than five percent. Title IV: Miscellaneous Statutory Changes - Amends Federal criminal code provisions regarding the following to provide that the punishment for an offense under such provisions shall be imprisonment for not more than one year, or not more than five years for willful offenses, or for a fine in accordance with the criminal code, or both: (1) compensation to Members of Congress, officers, and others in matters affecting the Government; (2) practice in United States Claims Court or Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by such Members; (3) activities of officers and employees in claims against and other matters affecting the Government; (4) acts affecting a personal financial interest; and (5) salary of Government officials and employees payable only by the United States. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in the appropriate U.S. district court against any person who engages in conduct constituting an offense under such provisions. Subjects an individual proven to have engaged in such conduct by a preponderance of the evidence to a civil penalty of the greater of $50,000 for each violation or the amount of compensation the person received for the prohibited conduct. Provides that if the Attorney General believes that a person is engaging in conduct constituting an offense under such provisions or provisions with respect to disqualification of former officers, employees and partners, the Attorney General may petition an appropriate U.S. district court for an order prohibiting that person from engaging in such conduct. Allows such a court to issue an order prohibiting that person from engaging in such conduct if the court finds that the conduct constitutes such an offense. States that the imposition of a civil penalty or the filing of such a petition does not preclude any other remedy which is available by law to the United States or any other person. Includes officers and employees of the District of Columbia among the individuals subject to provisions with respect to: (1) compensation to Members of Congress, officers, and others in matters affecting the Government; and (2) activities of officers and employees in claims against and other matters affecting the Government. Revises provisions with respect to the disqualification of partners of current officers and employees to apply such disqualification to general partners instead of partners. Prohibits provisions concerning acts affecting a personal financial interest from applying: (1) in the case of a special Government employee serving on an advisory committee if the official responsible for the employee's appointment certifies that the need for the individual's services outweighs the potential for a conflict of interest created by the financial interest involved; or (2) if the financial interest that would be affected by the particular matter involved results solely from the interest of the officer or employee or his or her spouse or minor child in birthrights in certain Indian groups, allotments, or claims funds if the particular matter does not involve such groups, allotments, or funds as a specific party. Requires copies of any determination granting an exemption for such a special Government employee and or a Government employee with interests deemed not likely to affect the integrity of Government service under such provisions to be submitted to the Director of the Office of Government Ethics. Requires the Director to make all such determinations available to the public. Requires the information from the financial disclosure reports of the officer or employee involved describing the asset or assets that necessitated the waiver to be available to the public. Prohibits public disclosure of classified information with respect to such employees. Revises provisions with respect to gifts to supervisors to: (1) allow voluntary gifts or contributions of nominal value that are given or received in circumstances authorized by the appropriate supervising ethics office; and (2) repeal the requirement that employees violating such provisions be removed from the service and instead to subject such an employee to appropriate disciplinary action or additional remedial action by the employing agency or entity. Prohibits Federal employees and officials from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a person: (1) seeking official action from, doing business with, or conducting activities which are regulated by the employee's or officer's employing agency; or (2) whose interests may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the employee's or officer's official duties. Authorizes each supervising ethics office to prescribe regulations implementing such prohibition and providing for reasonable exceptions. Provides that employees and officials who violate such prohibition shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary and other remedial action. Establishes the President's Commission on the Federal Appointment Process to study the simplification of the presidential appointment process by reducing the number and complexity of forms to be completed by nominees. Directs the Commission to submit a report of such study to the President within 90 days after its first meeting. Terminates the Commission upon the submission of its report. Directs the Administrator of General Services to prescribe by regulation the conditions under which an agency or employee in the executive branch may accept payment from non-Federal sources for travel, subsistence, and related expenses with respect to attendance of the employee at any meeting or similar function relating to the employee's official duties. Requires any cash payment so accepted to be credited to the appropriation applicable to such expenses. Requires a pro rata reduction in any entitlement of the employee to payment from the Government for such expenses for payments in kind. Prohibits an agency or employee from accepting payment for such expenses except as provided under provisions concerning the acceptance of contributions, awards, and other payments. Provides that an employee who accepts payments for such expenses may be required, in addition to any penalty provided by law, to repay the amount of such payment for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury and is prohibited from entitlement to any payment from the Government for such expenses. Amends the Federal judicial code to require a justice or judge who has retired from regular service but still retains the office (Senior status) to be certified by the Chief Justice (for a justice) or by the chief judge of the circuit in which the judge sits in order to continue receiving the salary of the office. Sets forth certification criteria with respect to courtroom participation, judicial duties outside the courtroom, and administrative duties. Provides that in a case in which such justice or judge does not receive a certification, the justice or judge shall continue to receive the salary he or she was receiving when he or she was last in active service. Directs Federal agency or entity heads to prescribe appropriate conditions for the incidental use, for other than official business, of vehicles owned or leased by the Government. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to repeal provisions that exempt Members of Congress in office on January 8, 1980, from the prohibition against converting excess campaign funds to personal use. Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to repeal provisions with respect to procurement integrity during procurement of property or services. Amends uniformed services pay and allowances provisions regarding the restriction on payment to certain officers to: (1) repeal the prohibition against the employment of Regular Army or Marine Corps officers by a person furnishing naval supplies or war materials to the United States; and (2) decrease the period during which such payment may not be made from any appropriation to such an officer from three to two years after his or her name is placed on a retired list. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to repeal provisions concerning the: (1) disclosure of energy assets; (2) report on prior employment; (3) postemployment prohibitions and reporting requirements; and (4) participation prohibitions. Title V: Amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives - Amends rule XLIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to: (1) increase from $50 to $75 the fair market value of personal gifts of hospitality which a Member, officer or employee of the House may accept in any calendar year; (2) prohibit such individuals from accepting gifts in any calendar year aggregating more than the minimal value established under provisions regarding the receipt and disposition of foreign gifts and decoration from any person except to the extent permitted by written waiver granted in exceptional circumstances by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct; (3) mandate that House employees who are required to file financial disclosure reports refrain from contacting any executive or judicial branch agency with respect to nonlegislative matters affecting any nongovernmental person in which the employee has a significant financial interest unless such employee first advises his employing authority of such interest and obtains a waiver from such authority stating that his or her participation is necessary. Directs such Committee to amend its advisory opinions relating to the acceptance of gifts to: (1) prohibit the receipt of lodging as personal hospitality in excess of 30 days in any calendar year from any individual unless a written waiver is granted by the Committee; (2) exempt from coverage under rule XLIII gifts of food and beverages consumed not in connection with gifts of lodging. Amends House rules to make changes corresponding to provisions of previous titles of this Act with respect to the conversion of campaign funds. Amends rule XLIV to change the due date for the submission of financial disclosure reports. Directs the Committee to issue an advisory opinion to provide for appropriate conditions for the incidental noncampaign use of campaign vehicles. Amends Rule X to prohibit Members from serving on the Committee during more than three Congresses in any period of five successive Congresses, disregarding any service on such committee for less than a full session in any Congress. Directs each respective party caucus or conference of the House to nominate seven members at the beginning of each Congress to serve on the Committee. Directs the Committee to adopt rules to establish investigative subcommittees. Amends various rules with respect to the committee regarding adjudicatory subcommittees, administrative actions, reports to the House, the statute of limitations applicable to violations that may be investigated, and right to counsel for respondents in investigations. Directs the Committee to establish an Office on Advice and Education to: (1) provide information and guidance to House Members, officers and employees regarding laws and other standards of conduct applicable to such individuals in their official capacities and any interpretations and advisory opinions of the Committee; (2) recommend formal advisory opinions of general applicability; and (3) develop and carry out periodic educational briefings for Members, officers, and employees on those laws or other standards of conduct applicable to them. Amends rule XLVIII to make changes corresponding to provisions of previous titles of this Act with respect to the elimination of honoraria and limitations on outside earned income and employment. Directs the Committee to amend its advisory opinions relating to the acceptance of necessary travel expenses incurred on or after January 1, 1990, in connection with speaking engagements and similar events to: (1) prohibit the acceptance of such expenses for more than four consecutive days for domestic travel and seven consecutive days for foreign travel; and (2) permit the acceptance of travel expenses for the spouse or other family member in connection with any substantial participation event or fact-finding activity.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Upper Sacramento River Fishery Resources Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a ten-year program to restore salmon and steelhead trout populations of the Sacramento River (and its California tributaries and its drainage basin above the confluence with the Feather River) to the optimum carrying capacity equal to that of the habitat in a restored condition and to provide sufficient hatchery-produced fish to meet mitigation requirements. Requires a memorandum of agreement with Federal, State, and local agencies having jurisdiction over certain necessary activities. Requires the Secretary to ensure the technical adequacy and priorities of the program's elements. Establishes the Upper Sacramento River Fisheries Task Force to assist the Secretary and coordinate activities with governmental and private anadromous fish restoration projects within the basin. Authorizes appropriations for formulation, establishment, implementation, and maintenance of the program. Requires cost-sharing from California and the electric utilities, water districts, and other direct purchasers of water and power from the Central Valley Project. Provides for the repayment of costs of the decrease in the power output of Shasta Dam.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller in recognition of his leadership on behalf of natural resource conservation and historic preservation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1989
Camp Pendleton Preservation Act of 1989 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to notify the Secretary of the Interior upon determining that any real property located at Camp Pendleton, California, is excess property of the Department of Defense (DOD). Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon any such notification, to: (1) review such property to determine the suitability for preserving the natural features of such property; and (2) report to the Congress on necessary legislation for such use. Prohibits any real property at Camp Pendleton determined to be excess DOD property from: (1) being disposed of, or used by, any Federal agency before 270 days following submission of such report; and (2) being developed for residential or commercial use.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should vote in support of increasing the international minimum age for combat to 17 years of age in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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