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United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1984
Designates the week of September 23 through September 29, 1984, as National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1984
National Defense Shipyard Protection Act of 1984 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to revise the current construction-differential subsidy provisions by setting forth requirements for shipyard construction subsidies. Declares a shipyard qualified to receive a construction subsidy if it is capable of constructing: (1) seagoing vessels that meet the requirements of the Secretary of Transportation; and (2) simultaneously, at least three vessels of the type of which subsidy application is made. Prohibits a shipyard from making such application if more than 60 percent of its construction capacity in the previous year was used for vessel or other construction for the U.S. Government. Sets forth competitive bidding procedures for shipyard construction subsidies. Provides financial incentives and penalties on the use of such subsidies. Limits a subsidy to 40 percent of the shipyard's bid. Restricts vessels constructed under this Act to the foreign commerce of the United States or foreign-to-foreign commerce. Sets forth circumstances under which operating differential subsidy contractors may qualify for construction subsidies. Establishes the construction subsidy account in the U.S. Treasury for payment of subsidies under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 for such account. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such subsidies for State maritime academy training vessels or icebreakers for the Coast Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1984
Eastern Pacific Tuna Licensing Act of 1984 - Implements the Eastern Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishing Agreement of 1983. Directs the Secretary of State (the Secretary) to act for the United States under such Agreement. Directs the Secretary to appoint a U.S. representative to a specified international Council. Applies the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 to the seizure of a U.S. vessel by a party to such Agreement for a violation of such Agreement within an Agreement area, unless the Secretary makes a specified determination. States that the seizure of a U.S. vessel by a party to such Agreement shall not constitute a seizure under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act if such seizure is consistent with such Agreement. Requires disposition into the Treasury of fees collected under Article III of such Agreement. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to issue regulations to carry out such Agreement and this Act. Sets forth specified prohibited activities for persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction, including: (1) fishing for designated tuna within an Agreement area without an authorized license; (2) violation of regulations; and (3) failure to keep certain records. Establishes civil penalties for committing such prohibited activities, and subjects catches resulting from such prohibited activities to forfeiture. Sets forth enforcement authority for this Act, including the issuance of warrants. Establishes such authority as the joint responsibility of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Customs Service. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to designate enforcement officers. Provides for the disposal, or stay of disposal, of any species of tuna seized pursuant to a court order under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1984
Prohibits the President from issuing a letter of offer to Jordan or Saudi Arabia for basic Stinger air defense guided missile systems. Prohibits the President, if such a sale has already been made, from making deliveries to the recipient country without specific authorization by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Amends the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for certain studies on the population and distribution of striped bass.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Designates: (1) July 1, 1984, through June 30, 1985, as the Year of the Ocean; and (2) July 1, 1984, as Ocean Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to set forth circumstances under which vessels built with construction differential subsidies may be permitted to transfer to the domestic coastwise trade. Conditions such transfer upon repayment of the unamortized construction differential subsidy received and makes vessels so transferred ineligible for operating differential subsidies.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Amends the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 to make permanent the provisions relating to the reimbursement of U.S. commercial fishermen for certain losses incurred because of the seizure of their vessels by foreign nations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Directs the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration (the BPA) to transfer, for FY 1985 and each succeeding fiscal year, from the BPA Fund to the Secretary of Commerce an amount sufficient to pay the cost of operating and maintaining the BPA system of fish propagation facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1984
Amends the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to extend the authority and authorize appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 for the fisheries loan fund and for the incidental expenses of volunteers for certain programs under the Act. Amends the American Fisheries Promotion Act to extend the authority and authorize appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 for loans to avoid default on obligations covering fishing vessels and loans to cover fishing vessel operating losses.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of January 1985 as National Cerebral Palsy Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1984
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation, in the event of a default, to assume the obligor's rights and duties under a loan or other security agreement guaranteed by the Secretary to finance the purchase of vessels. Exempts from the automatic stay of bankruptcy proceedings the commencement of an action to foreclose a mortgage on a vessel by the Secretary and the Secretary of Commerce under the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920 and the Merchant Marine Act, 1936. Terminates the authority of the Federal Maritime Commission to initiate investigations necessary to carry out the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936. Reserves such investigations to the Secretary of Transportation. Extends the authority of the Secretary to provide war risk insurance and reinsurance until September 30, 1989. (Currently such authority expires on September 30, 1984.)
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1984
Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 as amended to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to the Marine Mammal Commission and to the Department of Commerce to carry out its responsibilities under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Designates the week beginning November 11, 1984, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Designates the month of September 1984 as National Sewing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Designates the week of October 21 through October 27, 1984, as Lupus Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Panama Canal Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1985 - Authorizes appropriations for the Panama Canal Commission for FY 1985 for: (1) operating expenses; (2) capital outlay; and (3) reimbursement of other agencies. Authorizes additional appropriations for the Commission for FY 1985 as may be necessary for specified purposes. Amends the Panama Canal Act of 1979 to terminate the Panama Canal Commission Fund on October 1, 1984. Requires that tolls for the use of the Panama Canal and all other receipts of the Commission shall, effective October 1, 1984, be credited to the miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Requires that: (1) any deficit incurred by the Commission shall be subtracted from the Commission's receipts for the second fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year in which the deficit is incurred; and (2) appropriations to or for the use of the Commission shall be limited to the remaining amount for the second fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year in which the deficit is incurred.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Acid Rain Control Act of 1984 - Amends the Clean Air Act ("the Act") to provide for reduction of acid deposition through reduction of emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Establishes a program for reduction of total sulfur dioxide emissions in the 48 contiguous States. Provides that such reduction is to be: (1) to a level 10,000,000 tons below the total sulfur dioxide emissions in 1980; and (2) achieved by December 1, 1995. Provides that the requirements of such program are to be in addition to other requirements under the Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to compute and publish State aggregate sulfur dioxide emission targets for January 1, 1989, and January 1, 1995. Sets forth formulas for calculating such targets for each State, based on reductions from the 1980 sulfur dioxide emissions levels which would have been achieved if all fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units in the State had complied with specified emissions limitations during 1980 (two pounds per million Btu for the 1989 target and one and two-tenths pounds per million Btu for the 1995 target). Requires each State, by January 1, 1986, to develop and submit State plans for emission limitations necessary to achieve such targets. Allows such plans to provide for compliance through: (1) the use of a technological sytem of continuous emission reduction; or (2) any other continuous emission reduction requirements (applicable to stationary sources) which the State finds appropriate. Directs the Administrator to approve such plans if they are adequate to achieve such targets. Prohibits commencement of construction of any new stationary source of sulfur dioxide if no State plan is submitted by the deadline or if the Administrator disapproves a State plan. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a plan for any State which fails to submit: (1) a plan by the deadline; or (2) a revised plan within six months after disapproval. Provides that the plan promulgated by the Administrator shall only be applicable to fossil fuel-fired steam generating units in the State which are not subject to more stringent emission limitations under any other provision of the Act. Provides that such plan shall require each such unit to comply with an emission limitation of: (1) two pounds per million Btu by January 1, 1989; and (2) one and two-tenths pounds per million Btu by January 1, 1995. Prohibits commencement of construction of any new stationary source of sulfur dioxide in any State which does not meet the 1989 or 1995 target. Provides for crediting toward the State target: (1) emissions reductions credited under a specified trading program; and (2) nitrogen oxide emissions reductions substituted for sulfur dioxide emissions reductions in accordance with a specified ratio. Prohibits the establishment, under any provision of the Act, of any sulfur dioxide emission limitation which would permit any stationary source (or unit) to exceed the sulfur dioxide emissions allowable from it in 1982 under the applicable implementation plan in effect on January 1, 1982. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations to facilitate the trading of emission reduction requirements, and actual reductions, on a State or regional basis under the sulfur dioxide emissions program of this Act. Allows such regulations to provide for emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions. Allows such trading to include trading of sulfur dioxide emissions for nitrogen oxide emissions in accordance with a specified ratio. Allows the State plan to permit any owner or operator of a stationary source of sulfur dioxide emissions to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions in lieu of any sulfur dioxide emissions reduction which would otherwise be required under the plan. Requires that such reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions be at a rate of two units by weight of nitrogen oxides for each unit of sulfur dioxide. Provides that State plan requirements under this Act shall be treated as requirements of applicable implementation plans for specified purposes under the Act. Imposes a fee for each kilowatt hour of electric energy which is either generated by an electric utility in or imported into the contiguous 48 States. Requires that EPA regulations for such fee allow utilities to pass through to customers the cost of the fee and indicate the fee as a separate item on bills. Provides that such fee shall: (1) take effect with respect to electric energy generated, or imported, after December 31, 1984; (2) cease to apply on December 31, 1990; (3) be applied during each calendar quarter at the rate of one and five-tenths mill per kilowatt hour; and (4) not apply to any electric energy (including imported electric energy) which is generated by nuclear or hydroelectric power. Sets civil and criminal penalties for specified violations of such fee requirements. Establishes the Acid Deposition Control Fund in the Treasury. Allows the Fund to be used for: (1) certain loans for capital costs of emission control; (2) specified studies, research, and demonstrations; and (3) assistance to States for acid deposition mitigation programs. Credits to the Fund amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be equivalent to the amount received into the Treasury from fees imposed under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to Congress on the Fund; and (2) make investments on behalf of the Fund. Directs the Administrator to: (1) report, within one year after enactment of this Act, to Congress on the expected costs of the construction and installation of technological systems of continuous emission reductions necessary to meet emission limitations; and (2) estimate the amount, and establish a schedule for issuance, of specified notes or other obligations which must be issued to meet such costs. Authorizes the Administrator to issue to the Secretary such specified notes and other obligations, but only in such amounts as may be specified in appropriation Acts. Directs the Administrator to make loans from the Fund, in the five-year period beginning on the date the Fund is established, for capital costs of emission control. Allows owners or operators of stationary sources subject to emission limitations under plans adopted or promulgated under this Act to apply for such loans. Authorizes the Administrator to make such loans only upon determination that loan proceeds will be used only for the costs of the construction and installation of any technological system of continuous emission reduction used to comply with such emission limitations in accordance with requirements which the Administrator deems appropriate. Provides that such loans shall be: (1) made without interest; (2) required to be repaid within such period and under such conditions as the Administrator shall establish. Directs the Administrator to require only such repayment of such loans as is necessary to assure the availability of adequate sums for the Administrator to make payments of principal and interest on specified notes and other obligations issued under this Act. Directs the Administrator, upon expiration of the five-year period beginning on the date of the establishment of the Fund, to report to Congress the amount required to pay such principal and interest. Directs the Administrator to issue regulations establishing the criteria upon which such loans shall be made and the procedures for handling applications. Revises provisions for new stationary source performance standards to direct the Administrator, promptly after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate or revise such performance standards for emissions of: (1) nitrogen oxides from fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units; and (2) sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides from other fossil fuel-fired steam generating units which are capable of combusting more than 50,000 pounds per million Btu/hour heat input of fossil fuel (either alone or in combination with any other fuel). Revises provisions for emissions standards for new motor vehicles or engines to direct the Administrator to revise specified regulations applicable to nitrogen oxide emissions from trucks and truck engines manufactured during and after model year 1986 so that total nitrogen oxide emissions will be reduced by 4,000,000 tons by January 1, 1995. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study and report to Congress on the rate-making policies of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and of State public utility regulatory authorities regarding the costs incurred by regulated electric utilities in complying with emission control requirements under the sulfur dioxide emissions program established under this Act. Requires that such study determine the extent to which: (1) such costs are equitably allocated, under rate schedules approved or established by the Commission and such State authorities, among the customers of such utilities; and (2) a disproportionate burden of such costs are borne by customers of any utility who are not located in the State in which the utility is located. Directs the Administrator to undertake studies regarding: (1) formation of acid deposition and interstate transport of acid deposition precursors; (2) effects of acid deposition on human health and the environment, including visibility; (3) adverse effects associated with acid rain in areas outside the northeast; (4) effectiveness of acid deposition mitigation measures; and (5) innovative means to control acid deposition. Directs the Administrator to carry out a demonstration program for clean coal technologies. Directs the Administrator to provide financial assistance to State programs for mitigation of the adverse effects of acid rain. Requires that at least one-third of the total amounts expended by a State for any such program in any fiscal year be derived from non-Federal sources. Limits to one percent of the amounts available in the Fund the amount which may be used to provide such assistance for such State programs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Designates June 6, 1984, as D-Day National Remembrance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of a physicians' and surgeons' mutual protection and indemnity association any initial payment made by a member upon joining such an association provided that the member does not elect to claim an income tax deduction for such payment. Allows a member of such an association to elect to claim an income tax deduction as a business expense any initial payment made to the association. Limits the amount of such deduction to an amount which would be payable to an independent insurance company for medical malpractice insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 6 through May 13, 1984, as Jewish Heritage Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1984 - Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for FY 1985 and 1986 for: (1) operation and maintenance, including icebreaking; (2) acquisition, construction, rebuilding, and improvement for aids to navigation, shore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) research, development, test, and evaluation; (4) alteration or removal of bridges over navigable waters of the United States constituting obstructions to navigation; and (5) retirement pay and benefits. Establishes an end-of-year strength for the Coast Guard for FY 1985 and 1986. Authorizes average military training loads for FY 1985 and 1986 for: (1) recruit and special training; (2) flight training; (3) professional training, and (4) officer acquisition. Sets the level for full-time civilian employment in the Coast Guard for FY 1985 and 1986. Authorizes the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to transfer up to five percent of appropriations among categories. Requires such Secretary to give the chairmen of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 15 days notice of any proposed transfer. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States has important interests in maintaining a fleet of icebreaking vessels for operation in the Arctic and Antarctic. Directs the Secretary to plan for the design and construction of at least two additional polar icebreaking vessels to be operational by the end of FY 1990. Requires the Secretary to make status reports on such plans in January of 1985 and 1986. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for operating a vessel while intoxicated. Requires marine casualty reports to include information indicating whether alcohol was a cause of the casualty. Requires State recreational boating safety programs to disseminate information concerning the hazards of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol. Excludes recreational vessels and associated components with safety defects which create a substantial risk of personal injury to the public from vessels which meet minimum safety standards. Directs the Commandant of the Coast Guard to establish a helicopter rescue swimmer program. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to proceed vigorously with efforts to develop improved lifesaving equipment for use on passenger ferries.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes expenditures by the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries for the second session of the 98th Congress, including assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1984
Designates the week of April 29 through May 5, 1984, as National Week of the Ocean.
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