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United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates March 25, 1990, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Designates April 1990 as National Recycling Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1990
Calls upon all levels of government to continue efforts to enforce antidrug laws and to discourage the use of illegal drugs. Opposes the legalization of such controlled substances.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Central Utah Project Completion Act- Title I: Central Utah Project Construction - Authorizes additional appropriations for the Colorado River water storage project, to be available solely for design, engineering, and construction of the Central Utah Project and for certain related projects and the Colorado River Storage Project. Earmarks specified amounts of such additional funds for construction, rehabilitation, or realignment of various water storage and delivery features of the Bonneville Unit of the Project and for various reclamation projects and features within Utah. Requires that amounts appropriated by this Act be used only for design, engineering, and construction of the enclosed pipeline primary water conveyance system and that other incidental costs be borne by non-Federal contributions. Authorizes construction of Project features by the Central Utah Water Conservancy District in lieu of construction by the Secretary of the Interior under this Act, under certain conditions. Prohibits amounts appropriated under this Act from being available until firm contracts for purchase of at least 65 percent of the water to be delivered under the Project have been executed. Directs the District, in connection with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, to develop a comprehensive water conservation plan for each Project component. Earmarks specified funds for the development of such plans. Requires the District to utilize its best efforts to achieving operating agreements with the Jordanelle Reservoir, Deer Creek Reservoir, Utah Lake and Strawberry Reservoir by January 1, 1997. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate as nonreimbursable and nonreturnable the cost of repair and restoration of Reach 3 of the Jordan Aqueduct of the Bonneville Unit of the Project. Authorizes the prepayment of certain expenses in connection with the Jordan Aqueduct System. Title II: Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation Mitigation and Conservation in the Central Utah Project - Establishes the Central Utah Project Mitigation and Conservation Commission to oversee all matters in connection with fish, wildlife, and recreation mitigation and enhancement within the Project and the Colorado River Storage Project in Utah. Requires the Commission to complete certain plans and submit specified reports. Provides funding for the Commission. Authorizes the Commission to reallocate certain funds available for the benefit of fish, wildlife, or recreation. Directs the District to acquire, with funds provided by the Commission, specified additional permanent storage waters above Deer Creek Reservoir or the equivalent in the Provo River Drainage. Earmarks specified funds for such acquisition. Provides all water rights after such acquisition to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for maintaining instream flows in the Provo River between Deer Creek Reservoir and Utah Lake. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the District, annually, to provide amounts of water sufficient to sustain minimum stream flows established pursuant to a prior Stream Flow Agreement. Directs the District to acquire with Commission funds all of the Strawberry Basin water rights being diverted to the Heber Valley through the Daniel's Creek drainage and to apply such rights to increase the minimum stream flows of streams and rivers in the Strawberry River and Reservoir area. Earmarks funds for such acquisition. Requires the yield and operating plans for the Bonneville Unit of the Project to be established or adjusted to provide for specified minimum stream flows for streams and rivers in the Diamond Fork and Provo Rivers. Requires such minimum flows to be provided continuously and in perpetuity from a date first feasible as determined by the Commission. Directs the District to prepare a study and develop a mitigation plan of the effects of peak season flows in the Provo River. Earmarks specified funds for such study and plan. Provides that, after completion of the Diamond Fork water delivery system, deliveries of water shall begin through that system and the Strawberry Tunnel shall no longer be used, except for delivery of water for fishery purposes. Provides an exception. Requires the fish, wildlife, and recreation projects identified or proposed in the Definite Plan Report (a May 1988 report for the Bonneville Unit of the Project) which have not been completed as of the enactment of this Act to be completed in accordance with such Report and a fish, wildlife, and recreation mitigation schedule appearing later under this Act. Directs the Commission to acquire on an expedited basis big game winter range lands to compensate for the impacts of the Project. Requires such acquired lands to be transferred to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for management as a big game winter range. Requires the Commission to construct big game crossings and wildlife escape ramps for the protection of big game animals along the Provo Reservoir Canal, Highline Canal, Strawberry Power Canal, and others. Earmarks funds for such construction. Earmarks funds for the planning and implementation of rehabilitation and enhancement projects on wetlands areas around the Great Salt Lake in accordance with a plan to be developed by the Commission. Requires the Commission to complete an inventory of nongame wetland species throughout areas affected by the Project, including the Weber River drainage. Earmarks specified funds for fisheries acquisition, rehabilitation, and improvements within Utah. Requires the project plan for the stabilization of high mountain lakes in the Upper Provo River drainage to be revised to provide for the stabilization of specified lakes in such area. Earmarks specified funds for stabilization and of fish and wildlife habitat improvement in such lakes. Earmarks specified funds for stream access and riparian zone development in Utah at specified areas. Earmarks funds to the Commission to conduct a study of the impacts to wildlife and riparian zones in drainages that will experience substantially-reduced water flows resulting from operation of the Strawberry Collection System. Earmarks specified funds to the District for projects to reduce the salinity of Utah Lake. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) Jordan River riparian zone rehabilitation; (2) acquisition of the wetland acreages along the Jordan River; (3) recreational facilities for the Jordan River Parkway; and (4) riparian area enhancement, stream habitat improvements, and fisherman access along the Provo River in specified areas. Authorizes the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association to lease a specified area of land for golf course purposes, under specified conditions. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) specified Project recreation features; (2) watershed and fish and wildlife improvements in the Fremont River drainage; (3) small dams and watershed improvements in specified areas within Utah and the Project; and (4) improvements to existing hatchery facilities or the construction of new hatcheries for areas affected by the Colorado River Storage Project. Provides certain restrictions in connection with the appropriation of funds for the Colorado River Storage Project. Outlines the fish, wildlife, and recreation mitigation and enhancement plan for the Bonneville Unit of the Project. Title III: Uintah Basin Water Development - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with non-Federal entities to carry out the operation, maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of projects authorized by this title. Requires costs for irrigation facilities built pursuant to this title to be borne by water users from such facilities. Earmarks specified funds to increase efficiency, enhance beneficial uses, and achieve greater water conservation within specified water systems of the Uintah Basin. Directs the Secretary to undertake a programmatic review of the downstream fish and wildlife resources impacted by the construction of the offstream projects authorized in such Basin. Directs the Secretary to determine the non-Federal contribution for non-Indian water users. Requires firm contracts for the purchase of at least 65 percent of the water to be delivered to non-Indian water users before any funds may be obligated or expended. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, the Uintah Indian Irrigation Project Operation and Maintenance Company or other organization to: (1) administer the Uintah Indian irrigation project; and (2) operate, maintain, rehabilitate, and construct required irrigation project facilities. Provides for the following in connection with the Uintah Indian irrigation project: (1) title to certain rights-of-way and facilities; (2) the use of certain funds by the Secretary in connection with such project; (3) the treatment of noncontract costs; (4) the sale by the Secretary of equipment to a water user organization; and (5) the leasing by the Secretary of irrigation facilities to a water user organization. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a specified contract between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District providing for certain water supply responsibilities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a conservation pool in the Red Fleet Reservoir for fishery and recreational enhancement; and (2) enter into an agreement with the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation for the management and operation of the Red Fleet recreational facilities. Title IV: Central Utah Project Post-Construction Mitigation and Conservation Account - Establishes in the Treasury the Central Utah Project Mitigation and Conservation Account. Provides for deposits into such Account by Federal, State, and project beneficiary contributors. Entitles the Commission to administer and expend all sums deposited into the Account. Requires the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to receive all excess interest on the principal of the Account after the date on which the Commission is terminated. Requires funds from such Account to be expended in accordance with a conservation plan to be developed by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Title V: Ute Indian Rights Settlement - Provides that, commencing July 1, 1991, and continuing for 50 years, the Ute Indian Tribe shall receive from the United States 26 percent of the annual Bonneville Unit municipal and industrial capital repayment obligation attributable to 35,500 acre-feet of water representing a portion of the Tribe's water rights which will not be supplied from the Central Utah Project because the Upalco and Uintah units are not to be constructed. Directs the Tribe, commencing in the year 2042, to collect from the Central Utah Water Conservancy District a percentage (to be determined) of the then fair market value of the Bonneville Unit agricultural water which has been converted to municipal and industrial water. Provides that any unused capacity in the Bonneville Unit Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System diversion facilities shall hereafter be available for use by the Tribe. Allows the Tribe at any time to elect to return all or a portion of the water which is delivered for use in the Uintah Basin. Consents to the revised compact reserving waters to the Ute Indian Tribe and establishing the uses and management of such tribal waters, subject to reratification by the State of Utah and the Tribe. Authorizes specified appropriations: (1) to permit the Ute Tribe to develop a farming/feed lot operation equipped with satisfactory water facilities, as well as a plan and a fund in connection with other farming projects of the Tribe; (2) to permit the Secretary to repair a leak in the Cedarview Reservoir in Dark Canyon, Utah; (3) to undertake stream improvements for certain rivers and creeks within Utah, under a specified condition; and (4) to permit the Secretary to clean the Bottle Hollow Reservoir on the Ute Indian Reservation of trash and debris resulting from a submerged sanitary landfill, to remove all nongame fish, and to secure minimum flow of water to the reservoir to make it a suitable habitat for a cold water fishery. Directs the Secretary to endeavor to maintain minimum stream flows from the outlet works of the Upper Stillwater Dam into Rock Creek during specified periods of the year. Directs the Bureau of Reclamation to transfer specified real property in trust for the Ute Indian Tribe. Authorizes funds for the development of big game hunting, fisheries, campgrounds, and fish and wildlife management facilities on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. Authorizes appropriations to be paid in three annual installments to the Tribal Development Fund which the Secretary is authorized and directed to establish for the Ute Indian Tribe. Directs the Tribe to prepare a Tribal Development Plan for all or part of the Fund. Authorizes the Tribe to waive and release claims concerning or related to water rights as described. Authorizes the Tribe to resurrect such claims if funds authorized for the Tribe under this Act are not actually received. Provides that the design and construction functions of the Bureau of Reclamation authorized in this Act shall be subject to the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to the same extent as if such functions were performed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Federal Victim's Service and Protection Act of 1990 - Title I: Federal Victim's Services and Protections Compliance - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish an evaluation system for law enforcement officers which rates such officers on their compliance with specified laws protecting victims of crimes; and (2) use such evaluation system to create standards governing services to victims and witnesses in Federal cases and to serve as a model to States and localities. Requires the Office for Victims of Crime to report periodically to the public, the Congress, and the President on victim protections and on compliance with this Act. Title II: The Federal Child Victim's Bill of Rights - Amends the Federal criminal code to require the court, at the earliest possible stage, to determine whether the appointment of a guardian ad litem for a child who is an alleged victim or witness in a criminal proceeding would be in the best interests of the child and if so, to appoint such guardian. Sets forth provisions with respect to the qualifications, duties and powers, and immunity of such guardian. Grants a child testifying at a criminal proceeding the right to be accompanied by an adult. Authorizes the court to order that a child's testimony be taken by closed-circuit television (TV) if it finds that the child is unable to testify in open court because of: (1) the child's persistent refusal to testify despite judicial requests to do so; (2) the child's total inability to communicate about the offense because of extreme fear, failure of memory, or other similar reasons; or (3) the substantial likelihood that the child will suffer substantial emotional trauma from so testifying. Specifies that the prosecuting attorney and the defense attorney shall be present in the room with the child and the child shall be subject to direct and cross-examination. Requires that: (1) the child's testimony be transmitted by closed-circuit TV into the courtroom; (2) the defendant be provided with the means of private, contemporaneous communication with his attorney during the testimony; and (3) the closed-circuit TV transmission relay the defendant's image into the room in which the child is testifying, and the child's testimony into the room in which the defendant is viewing the proceeding. Sets forth provisions with respect to videotaped depositions of child victims and child witnesses. Authorizes the court to permit the child to use anatomical dolls, puppets, drawings, or any other demonstrative device it deems appropriate to assist a child in testifying. Sets forth requirements with respect to competency examinations for child witnesses. Prohibits: (1) the release to the public of the name, or other identifying information about the child victim or child witness except as authorized by the court; and (2) the name and any identifying information from appearing in any public record. Grants the child victim or witness the same right to submit victim impact statements prior to sentencing as prescribed for an adult victim. Directs that child victims or witnesses be assisted by their court appointed guardian ad litem in preparing victim impact statements. Authorizes the court, in any proceeding where a child is called to give testimony, to designate the case as being of special public importance and to expedite the action. Requires the court to ensure a speedy trial and, in deciding whether or not to grant a continuance, to take into account the child's age and the potential adverse impact the delay may have on the child's well-being. Creates a hearsay exception for an out-of-court statement related to sexual abuse, physical abuse, or sexual exploitation of that or another child if the court finds that: (1) the statement possesses particularized guarantees of trustworthiness; (2) the proponent of the statement has given sufficient notice to adverse parties of the intent to introduce the statement; and (3) there is corroborative evidence of the statement or the truth of the statement. Encourages the use of multidisciplinary teams designed to assist child victims or child witnesses. Delineates the role of such teams. Specifies that there shall be no statute of limitations for the prosecution of any child physical abuse, sexual abuse, or sexual exploitation offense. Requires physicians, social workers, teachers, and specified other individuals who, while involved in any such capacities on Federal land or in a federally operated (or contracted) facility, have reason to suspect that a child is an abused or neglected child to immediately report to the appropriate authorities. Grants civil and criminal immunity to individuals who, acting in good faith, make such a report or otherwise provide information or assistance with a report investigation, or legal intervention. Makes failure to report a misdemeanor. Makes spousal privileges and the privileged nature of any communications between physician (or psychotherapist, psychologist, social worker, and any other health care provider) and patient inapplicable in any criminal proceeding after a report of child abuse, neglect, or sexual exploitation. Title III: Child Care Worker Employee Background Check - Requires: (1) each Federal agency and facility that hires, or contracts for hire, individuals involved with the provision of services to children under age 18 to assure that all existing and newly-hired employees undergo a criminal history background check; and (2) all existing staff to receive such checks within six months and prohibits the hiring of additional staff without a check having been initiated. Sets forth procedures with respect to the conduct of such background checks. Specifies that: (1) any conviction for a sex crime, an offense involving a child victim, or a drug offense shall be grounds for denying employment or for dismissal of an employee engaged in specified child care services; (2) an incident in which an individual has been charged, but where the charge has not yet been disposed of, shall permit the employee's suspension from any job-related contact with children until the case is resolved; and (3) convictions of other crimes may be considered if they bear on an individual's fitness to have responsibility for the safety and well-being of children. Sets forth requirements with respect to questions to be asked in employment applications, criminal history records checks, and access to (and the right to challenge the accuracy of) the criminal history report.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Designates October 6, 1990, as German-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add a new title establishing, at the Centers for Disease Control, a Center for Tobacco Products to coordinate Federal education and research with regard to tobacco products. Directs the Center to conduct certain activities, including to study tobacco product additives and disclose their health risks to consumers and to establish ten model State programs to enforce laws concerning the sale of tobacco products to minors. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993. Transfers functions of the Federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health to the Center. Amends the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act to require the establishment of an outreach program to youth about the health consequences of smoking. Directs the Center to make grants: (1) for public information campaigns concerning the use of tobacco products; (2) to States for anti-tobacco use programs and programs to limit youth access to tobacco products; and (3) to unions and others to attempt to reduce the incidence of smoking among workers. Requires the establishment of a program, with an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, to inform the public of any dangers to human health presented by cigarette smoking and by smokeless tobacco products. Requires related reports to the Congress. Details administrative requirements of grants. Imposes criminal penalties allowing seizure of such products, and penalties against retailers engaged in a pattern of sale to minors. Declares tobacco products to be misbranded for not disclosing to the public information on additives and harmful constituents. Describes conditions which constitute adulteration of tobacco products, including if the product contains any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance. Makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, or package any tobacco product unless the person has provided the Center: (1) a complete list of tobacco additives and the quantity of each; and (2) a complete list of all brands that includes the levels of tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other constituents for each brand. Makes it unlawful to engage in certain types of advertising and promotion of tobacco products. Provides for establishment of an advisory committee to give advice on promulgation of regulations imposing additional restrictions or requirements on tobacco advertising and promotion. Repeals the Federal preemption of State regulation of local tobacco advertising, allowing the enactment by States and local governments of additional restrictions on the sale of tobacco products to minors and on the placement of tobacco advertising displayed solely within the applicable geographic area. Makes conforming amendments to the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act and the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986. Changes the warning label on cigarettes.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Smoke-Free Schools Act of 1990 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993 for the Secretary of Education to make incentive grants to establish smoke-free schools. Requires States, as a condition for receiving such grants, to enact and enforce certain types of legislation for smoke-free schools. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to include anti-tobacco education and smoke-free schools.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Designates September 21, 1990, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Recognizes the National League of Families POW/MIA flag as the official symbol of the United States' commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner or missing in action in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Provides for all Federal civilian and military retirees to receive the full cost-of-living adjustment in annuities payable under Federal retirement systems for FY 1991. (Includes benefits payable under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System, military retirement and survivor benefit programs, the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System, the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and railroad retirement programs.)
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Designates July 3, 1990, as Idaho Centennial Day.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1990
Designates April 22 through April 28, 1990, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends the National Trails System Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to study the historical significance of the Underground Railroad, the route taken by escaping slaves during the Civil War. Requires the Secretary to designate such route the Underground Railroad Historic Trail and examine the possibility of extending it into Canada and Mexico. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates May 6 through May 12, 1990, as Be Kind to Animals and National Pet Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates September 1990 as International Visitors Month.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates October 25, 1990, as National Arab-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Designates May 6 through May 12, 1990, as National Drinking Water Week.
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
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to declare that contributions, gifts, or payments by union members or by officials or employees of national banks or corporations to a separate fund which is used for political purposes must be voluntary and unrelated to monies required as a condition of employment. Declares it to be unlawful to use monies paid to an organization as a condition of employment, or money or anything of value secured by force, job discrimination, or financial reprisal, for any type of election or campaign activity by such organization.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Designates May 1990 as National Digestive Disease Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
National Forest Hunter Safety and Protection Act of 1989 - Prescribes civil penalties for knowingly interfering with the conduct of a lawful hunt in a national forest or on lands affected with a Federal interest. Authorizes injunctive relief, the recovery of actual and punitive damages, and the awarding of attorney's fees. Grants hunting and sportsman's organizations standing under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Amends the Endangered Species Act to require the Secretary of the Interior, if a petition to list a species as endangered or threatened is warranted, to accept written scientific biological data from the public on the status of the species. Requires the Secretary to designate an administrative law judge to conduct an evidentiary hearing to review such data.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to repeal an exemption from specified communicable disease control requirements of the Public Health Service Act for waste disposal from railroads operating in intercity rail passenger service. Prohibits the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) from discharging waste from its trains except at servicing areas approved by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs. Requires Amtrak to impose a service charge on its passengers to cover costs incurred by it in complying with 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 · 17 November 1989
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative to impose practices that prohibit or limit the foreign investment in the United States on those foreign countries that have similar practices against U.S. investment.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Access to Education Act of 1989 - Title I: Access and Choice in Federal Education Programs - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow the use of certain special education financial assistance (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children) funds for innovative projects to provide continued services to eligible children transferred to ineligible areas as part of an open enrollment public school system. Allows a local educational agency to provide basic program services to educationally deprived children who, under a desegregation plan or open enrollment system, attend a school not located in an eligible school attendance area. Requires that information on basic program services under an open enrollment system be provided to parents of eligible children. Allows the use of local targeted assistance program funds for the planning and implementation of open enrollment systems. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish special rules for Pell grant, supplemental educational opportunity grant, and State student incentive grant eligibility for secondary school open enrollment participants enrolled in or accepted for classes offered by higher education institutions. Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to provide for parental choice open enrollment for overseas military dependents. Title II: Demonstration Projects and Research - Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to State educational agencies to develop and expand policies, programs, and projects that increase opportunities of parents to select the public school or program attended by their children, particularly disadvantaged, minority, or rural area children. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to local educational agencies or consortia for open enrollment demonstration projects that increase parental access to excellent, distinctive, and diverse schools or programs that can meet their children's educational needs and promote parental choice. Provides for research and dissemination of results on open enrollment systems. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title for FY 1990 through 1995.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Designates April 1990 as National Prevent-A-Litter Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse the Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative, Idaho, for expenditures incurred to meet environmental protection requirements for hydroelectric power development at the Island Park Dam and Reservoir, Upper Snake River Division, Minidoka Project, Idaho and Wyoming. Requires that any moneys appropriated under this Act be placed in escrow until the hydroelectric power facilities are in service. Provides that if the facilities are not in service by December 31, 1992, all moneys and accumulated interest shall be returned to the Treasury. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Amends the Fair Housing Act to repeal the requirements that certain housing have special facilities and services to quality as housing for older persons under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1989
Designates the week beginning March 5, 1990, as Federal Employees Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1989
Accepts the statue of Philo T. Farnsworth (the father of television) furnished by the State of Utah. Authorizes the use of the rotunda of the Capitol on May 2, 1990, for a presentation ceremony for the statue. Requires the statue to be displayed in the rotunda for up to six months, after which it shall be moved to its permanent location in the National Statuary Hall. Requires the transcript of the ceremony proceedings to be printed as a House document.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Fishlake National Forest Enlargement Act - Transfers jurisdiction of certain public lands in Utah, currently under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, to the Secretary of Agriculture to be added to, and administered by the Secretary as part of, the Fishlake National Forest. Extends current land use authorizations with respect to such transferred lands.
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
Declares that no person who is a retired regular officer of the U.S. armed forces shall be considered as holding a public office for purposes of provisions that require anyone who destroys public records to forfeit public office and be disqualified from holding office.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1989
Directs the heads of Federal departments or agencies which hold or receive records and information which have or could possibly have been correlated to U.S. personnel listed as prisoners of war or missing in action in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts to publicly disclose such records and information, except where such disclosure would compromise national security. Requires the Department of Defense to publicly disclose a complete list of such personnel including those killed in action (body not returned) in such hostilities with each service member's current classification as well as any changes in such classification occurring during or after such hostilities.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that nothing in the Constitution shall prohibit the inclusion of voluntary prayer in any public school program or activity. Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall prescribe the content of any such prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1989
Benjamin Franklin Memorial Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Minting of Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin - Benjamin Franklin National Memorial Commemorative Coin Act - Provides for the sale of Benjamin Franklin commemorative coins at a surcharge of which 25 percent shall be paid to the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and the remainder be distributed in specified percentages to the National Fire Center and Museum Account, the National Hero Scholarship Account, the Firefighter's Tuition Assistance Account, the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account, the In Search of Excellence Research and Education Account, and the Burn Research Grant Account of the Firefighter Assistance Trust Fund (Fund). Prohibits the issuance of such coins from resulting in any net cost to the Federal government. Title II: Fire Service Bill of Rights - Fire Service Bill of Rights Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to establish a fire service bill of rights. Establishes the National Fire Center and Museum in the District of Columbia to provide information about the fire service and safety to the public and fire services. Funds such museum exclusively through the Fund. Establishes a National Hero Scholarship to fund the higher education of the children or spouse of a deceased firefighter. Establishes a scholarship providing tuition assistance to firefighters for higher education in fire safety or protection. Authorizes the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration to use amounts in the In Search of Excellence Research and Education Account of the Fund to fund other specified programs under the Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974. Establishes the Firefighters Assistance Trust Fund. Places the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control within the United States Fire Administration. Directs the Administrator to use funds from the Hazardous Materials Response Computer Account of the fund to procure computer equipment for fire services that want such equipment. Directs the Administrator to make a grant from the Burn Research Grant Account of the Fund to one national firefighter's burn foundation dedicated to reducing burn injuries. Requires the Administrator to prepare and make available to State fire marshals, upon request, a manual describing Federal procedures for disposing of surplus property and highlighting how fire services could obtain such property. Directs the Administrator to distribute to such marshals information on the infectious diseases to which firefighters are particularly vulnerable.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1989
Amends title II (Old, Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require that regular monthly OASDI payments be made in a manner which ensures their receipt no later than the first day following the month to which they are attributable.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Social Security Disabled Worker Incentives Act of 1989 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that individuals shall not be considered to have engaged in substantial gainful activity for disability benefit eligibility purposes unless their earnings exceed the amount persons of retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in OASDI benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Designates the week of December 10 through December 16, 1989, as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Designates December 1, 1989, as World AIDS Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1989
Designates the week of November 12 through November 18, 1989, as Community Foundation Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1989
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from refusing to issue or renew an airman's certificate, or terminate the employment of an airman, solely by reason of the airman's age if such person is under the age of 65.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1989
Small Business Access Improvement Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for small businesses for the expense of providing public accommodations access to the disabled. Reduces the tax deduction for expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped and elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1989
Declares it is in the interests of the United States to support efforts to protect South Pacific marine resources (including albacore tuna, porpoises, whales, seals and other marine mammals, birds, sea turtles, and fish) from the slaughter of driftnet fishing. Supports the Tarawa Declaration and the South Pacific Commission resolution calling for an immediate ban on driftnet fishing in the South Pacific. Urges the Secretary of State to work toward an international convention banning driftnet fishing in the South Pacific. Urges Japan and Taiwan to immediately cease the use of driftnets in international South Pacific waters.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1989
Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to prohibit discrimination against any individual with respect to entrance to wilderness areas because of disability. Allows a wheelchair to be used in wilderness areas, notwithstanding provisions of the Wilderness Act prohibiting the use of mechanical transport in such areas.
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1989
California Desert Conservation Act of 1989 - Title I: Wilderness Additions - Designates 81 wilderness areas in California as additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System. Releases certain non-designated areas administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) within the California Desert District and the Yuma District from otherwise applicable restrictions. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from conducting any future wilderness studies of land released from wilderness review unless authorized by the Congress. Title II: Preservation of California Desert Back Country Trails - Establishes the California Desert Back Country Trails System. Designates the following trails as components of such trail system: (1) the Mojave Trail/Old Government Road; (2) the Heritage Trail; (3) the Tonapah and Tidewater Railroad Right-of-Way Route; (4) the Bradshaw Trail; (5) the de Anza Trail; (6) the Butterfield Stage Route; (7) the Yuma to Picacho Road; and (8) the Old Spanish Road. Title III: Withdrawal of Military Lands - Withdraws from appropriation under public land laws, but not the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, and reserves for military use by the Department of the Navy specified lands in California known as the China Lake Naval Weapons Center in Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino Counties and Chocolate Mountain in Imperial County. Requires the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), every five years, to determine which such lands are suitable for opening to the operation of mining and mineral leasing laws. Opens such lands to such operation. Requires the Secretary to close such lands for purposes of national security. Provides that patents issued for locatable minerals shall convey title to such minerals only and shall reserve to the United States the surface of all patented lands and all nonlocatable minerals. Requires the Secretary to manage nonmilitary uses of, and to be responsible for, all easements, leases, permits, and rights-of-way over, the lands withdrawn and reserved under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretary of the Navy to continue cooperative management practices over such lands. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, to develop a land use plan and management program for Chocolate Mountain and China Lake within five years after this Act's enactment. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to report annually on the natural resource status of China Lake's lands to the Secretary. Provides that the Secretary of the Navy shall have the authority to control the military use of the lands withdrawn and reserved under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to close roads and trails for military operations or safety or security purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to prevent and suppress brush and range fires with reimbursable assistance from the Bureau of Land Management. Makes the Secretary of the Navy responsible for the management of wild horses and burros on China Lake and allows the Secretary of the Navy to utilize mineral resources for construction needs. Requires the Secretaries to enter into a memorandum of understanding to implement the plan and program developed for Chocolate Mountain. Declares that land withdrawals are not intended to: (1) withdraw any water for specified defense related uses; (2) affect future appropriation of water on such lands; and (3) affect water rights acquired by the Department of Defense prior to the enactment of this Act for use in military operations at China Lake and Chocolate Mountain. Terminates land withdrawals under this Act 25 years after this Act's enactment. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to maintain a decontamination program for such lands during their withdrawal. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on such decontamination efforts. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to notify the Secretary, at least three years before the termination of the withdrawal, whether an extension is going to be requested and, if not, to what extent such lands are contaminated with hazardous materials. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to decontaminate relinquished lands, but if such decontamination is not practicable or economically feasible, authorizes the Secretary to refuse to accept such lands. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to then: (1) warn the public of risks of entry; (2) conduct only decontamination activities on such lands after the expiration of the withdrawal; and (3) report to the Secretary and the Congress on the status of such lands. Directs the Secretary to publish the acceptance of withdrawn lands, indicating when such lands will be open and under what conditions. Exempts the United States from liability for injuries or damages resulting from nonmilitary activity on withdrawn lands. Amends the Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1986 to correct "Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Base" to read "Luke Air Force Base" as a depository for certain maps and legal descriptions of public lands withdrawn for military purposes. Authorizes an extension of the Navy's use of the El Centro Ranges in Imperial County, California, through 1989, subject to resource protection requirements. Directs the Secretary to complete land exchanges between the Nature Conservancy and the Bureau of Land Management concerning the Coachella Valley Preserve. Continues the status of the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in the Toiyabe National Forest, California, as both a training center and as part of such Forest, subject to resource protection requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1989
Amends the Federal criminal code to define as "property of the United States," for purposes of Federal provisions setting penalties for damaging Government property and for soliciting others to commit crimes of violence against such property, any property that belongs to, or is lawfully under the control of, any person, business organization, or other entity engaged in the furtherance of a commercial venture while: (1) such property is being used in or on Federal property; and (2) such person, business organization, or entity is engaged in a lawful activity upon such Federal land by virtue of a commercial contract, lease, or otherwise with the express permission of the Federal entity having control over such Federal land, with exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1989
Designates December 3 through December 9, 1989, as National Cities Fight Back Against Drugs Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1989
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Colorado River in Utah as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.