United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1976
Federal-Aid Highway Act Amendments - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1976 to increase and extend the appropriations authorized under such Act for the fiscal years 1977 and 1978 for the Federal-aid primary system to $3,350,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1978 through 1990. Increases the Federal share for projects financed with primary funds on the Federal-aid primary system from 70 percent of its cost to 80 pecent, or to 95 percent under specified circumstances. Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from approving projects on such system if the portion of the project that is on a new location does not provide for complete control of access. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 109, 120)
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Civil Aeronautics Board to grant exemptions from the requirements of such Act for all-cargo operations in interstate air transportation pending consideration of an application for initial certification under such Act if such exemption is in the public interest.
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Authorizes the Sergeant at Arms to employ with the approval of the Speaker a special counsel to represent the Sergeant at Arms in all civil proceedings relating to the pending action entitled Larry Pressler against William E. Simon, et al., civil action numbered 76-0782 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in which action the Sergeant at Arms is named as a defendant.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1976
Title I: Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act - Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1959 and the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the Administrator of General Services, when acquiring or managing space necessary for Federal agencies, to: (1) utilize space in buildings of historic, architectural, or cultural significance where feasible; (2) encourage the location of commercial, cultural, educational, or recreational activities within or near public buildings; and (3) encourage the public use of public buildings outside of regular Federal working hours. Requires the Administrator to place on the access level of Federal buildings those activities requiring regular public contact. Title II: Requires the Administrator to report annually to Congress with respect to his activities and those of other departments with regard to standards issued, revised, repealed, or waived under the Act to insure that certain buildings financed with Federal funds are so designed and constructed as to be accessable to the physically handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1976
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to allow air carriers to offer reduced-rate transportation on a space-available basis to persons who are 65 years of age or older or 21 years of age or younger, to handicapped persons, and to an attendant of such a handicapped person.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1976
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities which are engaged in the development of new schools of veterinary medicine to assist in such development. Requires applying schools to demonstrate that there is a reasonable indication that non- Federal financial resources for development will be available and that Federal assistance will accelerate the date on which the school will be able to begin its teaching program.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1976
Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the Office of Inspector General comprised of an Inspector General and a Deputy Inspector General appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that the Inspector General and Deputy shall be removed from office only by impeachment or by the President but only for malfeasance, criminal conduct, incompetence, gross neglect of duty, or disability. States that they shall be subject only to the general supervision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Sets forth the duties of the Office which include promoting economy and efficiency and preventing and detecting fraud and abuse of the programs and operations of the Department. Requires the Office to report to the Secretary and Congress with respect to its findings and activities quarterly or whenever the Office becomes aware of particularly serious or flagrant problems or abuse. Transfers to the Office the functions of the HEW Audit Agency and the Department's Office of Investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1976
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Civil Aeronautics Board to grant exemptions from the requirements of such Act for all-cargo operations in interstate air transportation pending consideration of an application for initial certification under such Act if such exemption is in the public interest.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1976
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a charitable deduction against the income, estate, and gift tax for contributions by an individual to a domestic fraternal society operating under the lodge system for the purpose of constructing or maintaining a building the principal purpose of which is to house such organization.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1976
Revises the formula for determining when to make cost-of-living adjustments in Federal civil service annuities. Eliminates the one percent increase which is automatically added on to such adjustments.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1976
Revises the formula for determining when to make cost-of-living adjustments in Federal civil service annuities. Eliminates the one percent increase which is automatically added on to such adjustments.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1976
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service shall not close or suspend the operation of any post offices, unless there is a clear and compelling need to do so. Encourages the service to continue cost-cutting programs which do not affect levels of service.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as are necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1976
Extends to former employees of county soil conservation committees who are employed by any Federal agency, specified leave and seniority benefits presently afforded to former employees of such county committees who are employed by the Department of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1976
Civil Service Amendments - Revises the authority of the Civil Service Commission to prescribe and enforce regulations for the administration of provisions relating to Federal employees and executive orders issued in furtherance of such laws. Directs the Commission to establish programs and procedures to increase the effectiveness of the recruitment, training, and utilization of career executives. Requires the Commission to conduct investigations to insure the proper execution of, and compliance with, the laws and regulations administered by it. Empowers the Commission to order any agency to take disciplinary or corrective action against an agency employee who it has determined has violated or is holding a position in violation of such laws and regulations. Directs the Commission to report to the President and each House of Congress instances in which it appears that a Presidential appointee has violated or is holding a position in violation of such rules and regulations. Confers concurrent investigatory authority upon the General Accounting Office. Requires any Federal officer or employee who takes, directs others to take, recommends, processes, or approves any personnel action to do so solely on the basis of the character, abilities, knowledge, and skills of the individual involved. Authorizes the Commission to except any position from the competitive service upon determining that either: (1) the duties of such position entail advocacy or formulation of Presidential Administration programs; or (2) it would be otherwise impracticable to apply competitive examination procedures in the filling of such position. Directs the Commission to periodically review exceptions from the competitive service made by statute and pursuant to this Act. Places responsibility on the head of each executive agency and military department for personnel management within such agency or departments. Directs each such head to establish a personnel office and to designate an individual within the competitive service to oversee personnel matters. Directs the Commission to prescribe regulations governing the competitive service. Repeals provisions relating to apportionment of appointments in the departmental service in the District of Columbia among the States, territories, and the District of Columbia on the basis of population. Prohibits individuals and organizations from making recommendations with respect to civil service personnel actions and prohibits service employees from soliciting such actions. Excepts from such prohibitions statements requested or required by the agency involved and statements related solely to character and based on personal knowledge. Establishes the Board on Federal Employee Appeals. Permits an individual against whom an adverse decision has been rendered with respect to a civil service personnel action to appeal the decision to the Board. Includes within the Board's jurisdiction appeals from final agency action on complaints alleging discrimination in personnel actions based on age, race, religion, sex, or national origin. Revises provisions relating to penalties for employees who use their official authority to interfere with or affect the result of an election or who take an active part in political management or in political campaigns. Revises provisions relating to the removal or suspension of a civil service employee and to the procedural rights of an employee whose removal or suspension is sought.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1976
Provides for the incorporation of the Gold Star Wives of America. Sets forth the objectives, purposes and powers of such corporation. Stipulates the nonpolitical nature the corporation is to be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1976
Consumer Communications Reform Act - States that Congress finds that the revenues from integrated interstate and foreign common carrier telecommunications services helped maintain a level of charges for telephone exchange service which is lower than otherwise would be required. Expresses the sense of Congress that the authorization of lines, facilities, or services of specialized carriers which duplicate the lines, facilities, or services of other telecommunications common carriers is contrary to the public interest. Reaffirms the intent of Congress that the complete authority to regulate terminal and station equipment used for telephone exchange service shall rest with the States even though such terminal and station equipment also may be used in connection with interstate services. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that no compensatory charges for or in connection with such communication service may be found to be unjust or unreasonable on the ground that it is too low. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from holding the charge of a carrier up to a particular level to protect the traffic or revenues from a communication service offered or provided by another carrier if such charge proposed by the carrier is compensatory. Provides that the Commission shall not grant or authorize any construction permit, station, license, or certificate for the construction, acquisition, or operation of any communication or transmission line or facility, or extension thereof, or any modification or renewal thereof, unless the Commission shall find, after full opportunity for evidentiary hearing on the record, that such permit, license, or certificate, will not result in increased charges or unnecessary duplication of communication lines.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1976
Increases the number of members of the Civil Service Commission from three to five. Empowers the Commissioners, rather than the Chairman, to appoint the Executive Director of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1976
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to designate a specified segment of the New River, North Carolina, as a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System upon application of the Governor of North Carolina. Prohibits the Federal Power Commission from issuing any license for any undertaking which would adversely affect such segment.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1976
Recognizes the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of American commercial aviation. Requests that all concerned governmental agencies join in participating in appropriate national and local ceremonies celebrating such anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1976
Title I: Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to increase the amount of appropriations authorized under such Act to $300,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $450,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $625,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and $800,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 1989. Revises procedures for the apportionment of land and water conservation fund moneys to States by the Secretary of the Interior. Imposes public participation requirements with respect to the preparation of comprehensive statewide outdoor recreation plans. Authorizes Federal financial assistance for the planning and development of sheltered facilities for swimming pools and ice skating rinks, provided specified conditions are met. Title II: Amends the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 to establish a historic preservation fund in the United States Treasury. Stipulates that $24,400,000 for fiscal year 1977, $75,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1978 and 1979 and $100,000,000 annually for each fiscal year thereafter until fiscal year 1989 be covered into the fund from revenues due and payable to the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and other Federal Mining laws. Stipulates that such moneys shall remain available until appropriated to carry out the purposes of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Authorizes the appropriation of $175,000 per year for fiscal years 1977,1978, and 1979 for the International Center for the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President shall seek the elimination of surety deposit requirements on vegetable protein products imposed by the European Economic Community. Provides that if the President shall fail to eliminate such requirements, he shall obtain full compensation for such actions under article XXIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1976
Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Economic Development Administration, to make grants to any State or local government for local public works projects, including but not limited to: (1) those public works projects of State and local governments for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act; and (2) the architectural design, engineering, and related planning of local public works projects. Stipulates that the Federal share of any project for which a grant is made under this Act shall be 100 percent of the cost of such project. Authorizes the Secretary to make an additional grant for the purpose of increasing to 100 percent the Federal contribution to a public works project for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act. Stipulates that no such grants shall be made for any project which has as its principal purpose the channelization, damming, dredging, or diversion of a natural watercourse, or the enlargement of any canal other than a canal designated as a historic site. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedures necessary to carry out this Act. Lists factors that the Secretary shall consider in accordance with the relative needs of the various sections of the country, with priority consideration to those areas where unemployment exceeds the national average. Stipulates that not less than one-half of one percent nor more than ten percent of all amounts authorized under this title shall be allocated for local public works projects within any one State. Authorizes the appropriation of $2,500,000,000 through fiscal year 1977 in order to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1976
Public Works and Economic Development Act Amendments - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to extend the authorizations for financial assistance to States and localities under the Act through September 30, 1979. Removes the prohibition on Federal assistance to competitors of regulated public utilities. Requires a decrease in the amount of Federal assistance to States and localities which have exhausted their effective taxing and borrowing capacity. Increases from ten percent to 25 percent the minimum amount of Federal funds that must be expended on redevelopment areas under the Act. Allows for additional funds to cover increased construction costs, provided the percentage of the Federal share for such project is not increased. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to agree to pay a portion of the interest on loans guaranteed under this Act. Revises the criteria for designation of redevelopment areas to include all municipalities with a population of 50,000 or more as eligible for such designation. Establishes a program of urban economic development and redevelopment to allievate problems of unemployment, migration, and long-term economic deterioration in urban areas. Details requirements for Federal assistance under such program. Authorizes annual appropriations of $200,000,000 per fiscal year from fiscal year 1977 through 1979. Authorizes an initial appropriation of $50,000,000 for the transitional period from July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary of Labor to take steps to assure the validity of unemployment rate information. Repeals the prohibition on financial assistance for electric energy generating and transmission facilities. Authorizes additional assistance to areas suffering from long-term economic deterioration under the special economic development assistance program under Title IX of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1976
Suspends payment of civil service retirement annuities to any former Federal employee during any period which such former employee is employed as a judge or justice of the United States. Permits any former Federal employee or former Member of Congress who becomes employed as a justice or judge of the United States to be paid the amount by which such individual's lump-sum credit exceeds the total annuity paid. Permits any present or former judge or justice of the United States who has voided the right to receive an annuity by receiving a refund of the lump-sum credit, and any surviving spouse of such an individual, to reestablish the right to receive an annuity by repaying, within one year of the effective date of this Act, the amount of the lump-sum refund, plus interest. Extends provisions allowing an irrevocable election of a reduced annuity by individuals who marry after retirement to specified annuitants who married after retirement but before January 8, 1971.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1976
Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make specified corrections in the enrollment of the bill (H.R. 8617) which restores to Federal civilian and Postal Service employees their rights to participate voluntarily, as private citizens, in the political processes of the Nation, and to protect suc employees from improper political solicitation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1976
Peanut Act - Provides, under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, for a national acreage allotment of not less than 1,247,000 acres for the 1977 crop of peanuts. States that the farm yield for such crop shall be determined on a basis equal to 96 percent of the average actual yield per acre on the farm for the three highest yield years out of the five years preceding the year such yield determination is made. Provides that if peanuts were not produced on such farm in at least three years of such five-year period, the Secretary of Agriculture shall have a yield appraised at 90 percent of the yields established for similar farms. Establishes a farm marketing quota for such peanut crop equal to the quantity determined by multiplying the farm peanut acreage allotment by the farm yield. Sets forth economic penalties for the marketing of nonquota peanuts or the marketing of peanuts in a larger quantity or higher grade or quality than could reasonably be proved from the quality of peanuts or the grade acquired by handlers for marketing. States that only quota peanuts may be retained for use as seed on a farm and when so retained shall be considered as marketings of quota peanuts. Requires that all acreage planted to peanuts be measured and that the disposal of nonquota peanuts be supervised by area marketing associations designated pursuant to the Agricultural Act of 1949. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture under such Act to make price supports available to producers of the 1977 crop of peanuts through loans, purchases or other operations on quota peanuts at a net level of not less than 70 percent of the parity price as of April 1, 1977, and on nonquota peanuts at not more than 60 percent of the loan and purchase level for quota peanuts or 90 percent of the estimated value of peanuts for crushing, export, or both, whichever is lower. Directs the Commodity Credit Corportation to make warehouse storage loans available to marketing associations of specified producing areas which are selected and approved by the Corporation and which are operated primarily for the purpose of conducting such loan activities. Requires such associations to establish pools and maintain records by type for quota peanuts handled under loans and for nonquota peanuts produced without a contract between handler and producer. States that net gains on peanuts in such pool shall be distributed in proportion to the value of the peanuts placed in the pool by each grower. Provides that peanuts received under loan by such associations shall be offered for sale for domestic food and related uses. Sets forth the prices to be charged for such peanuts. Authorizes the sale for crushing or export of any peanuts received under loan which are not needed for domestic purposes. States that for the 1977 crop and subsequent crop of peanuts the Secretary shall permit the owner and operator of any farm for which a peanut acreage allotment is established to sell, lease, or transfer all or part of such allotment.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1976
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish procedures for the certification by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency of State areawide management plans for areas not previously designated as having serious water quality problems.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1976
Extends to former employees of county soil conservation committees who are employed by any Federal agency, specified civil service compensation, leave, and seniority benefits afforded to former employees of such county committees who are employed by the Department of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1976
Civil Service Amendments - Revises the authority of the Civil Service Commission to prescribe and enforce regulations for the administration of provisions relating to Federal employees and executive orders issued in furtherance of such laws. Directs the Commission to establish programs and procedures to increase the effectiveness of the recruitment, training, and utilization of career executives. Requires the Commission to conduct investigations to insure the proper execution of, and compliance with, the laws and regulations administered by it. Empowers the Commission to order any agency to take disciplinary or corrective action against an agency employee who it has determined has violated or is holding a position in violation of such laws and regulations. Directs the Commission to report to the President and each House of Congress instances in which it appears that a Presidential appointee has violated or is holding a position in violation of such rules and regulations. Requires any Federal officer or employee who takes, direct others to take, recommends, processes, or approves any personnel action to do so solely on the basis of the character, abilities, knowledge, and skills of the individual involved. Authorizes the Commission to except any position from the competitive service upon determining that either: (1) the duties of such position entail advocacy or formulation of Presidential Administration programs; or (2) it would be otherwise impracticable to apply competitive examination procedures in the filling of such position. Directs the Commission to periodically review exceptions from the competitive service made by statute and pursuant to this Act. Places responsibility on the head of each Executive agency and military department for personnel management within such agency or departments. Directs each such head to establish a personnel office and to designate an individual within the competitive service to oversee personnel matters. Directs the Commission to prescribe regulations governing the competitive service. Repeals provisions relating to apportionment of appointments in the departmental service in the District of Columbia among the States, territories, and the District of Columbia on the basis of population. Requires that personnel actions be taken without regard to any recommendation by any elected official, political official, or other individual or by any organization. Prohibits individuals and organizations from making recommendations with respect to civil service personnel actions and prohibits service employees from soliciting such actions. Excepts from such prohibitions statements requested or required by the agency involved and statements related solely to character and based on personal knowledge. Establishes the Board on Federal Employee Appeals. Permits an individual against whom an adverse decision has been rendered with respect to a civil service personnel action to appeal the decision to the Board. Includes within the Board's jurisdiction appeals from final agency action on complaints alleging discrimination in personnel actions based on age, race, religion, sex, or national origin. Revises provisions relating to penalties for employees who use their official authority to interfere with or affect the result of an election or who take an active part in political management or in political campaigns. Revises provisions relating to the removal or suspension of a civil service employee and to the procedural rights of an employee whose removal or suspension is sought.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1976
Requires, under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, that any label or advertisement for a beverage having more than 14 percent of alcohol by volume contain a specified health warning.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Suspends payment of civil service retirement annuities to any former Federal employee or Member of Congress who is appointed to serve as a justice or judge of the United States during the period for which such individual is entitled to receive compensation for service as such a justice or a judge. Permits such individuals to be paid the amount by which their retirement annuity lump-sum credit exceeds the total annuity previously paid. Extends provisions allowing an irrevocable election of a reduced annuity by individuals who marry after retirement to specified annuitants who married after retirement but before January 8, 1971.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Authorizes the expenditure of $698,000 by the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service for inquiries and investigations. Allocates $70,000 to be expended for the procurement of consultant services. Directs that no part of the funds authorized by this resolution shall be available for expenditure in connection with the study or investigation of any subject which is being investigated for the same purpose by any other committee of the House. Requires the chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service to furnish the Committee on House Administration information with respect to any study or investigation intended to be financed from funds authorized by this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1976
Sets forth the findings of Congress with respect to the United States contribution to the United Nations. Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to limit the contribution of the United States to the United Nations to one-sixth of the total assessment of the United Nations for that year. Excludes the International Atomic Energy Agency and the joint financing program from limitation under this Act. Declares it the sense of Congress that the President direct the Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations to assure that, in apportioning its assessment to member states, the United Nations will consider the financial resources of the oil-producing nations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1976
Includes Federal employees serving under overseas limited appointments within those provisions relating to the acquisition of career appointments by individuals serving under temporary or indefinite appointments.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Grants Federal and Congressional employees leave without reduction in pay or leave to which they are otherwise entitled for absences due to service as a witness in any judicial proceeding to which the United States, the District of Columbia, or a State or local government is a party. Allows amounts appropriated for government contributions to Federal employee and retired Federal employees health plans to remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1975
Prohibits civil service annuity payments during periods an annuitant is entitled to receive salary as a justice or judge of the United States. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8344)
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1975
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to use sampling methods in taking agricultural censuses, except that he may substitute another method where he determines that sampling methods would be inappropriate. (Amends 13 U.S.C. 142(a))
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1975
Provides that the compensation and emoluments of the Office of the Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission (vacated by the resignation of Commissioner George Henry Hearn) shall be those which were in effect on January 1, 1975. Allows any individual with standing to bring an action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to contest the constitutionality of the appointment and continuance of the person filling such vacancy without regard to the sum or value of the matter in controversy. Vests exclusive jurisdiction in such court. Requires any such action to be heard by a three-judge panel and any appeal to lie in the Supreme Court.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1975
Declares it to be the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal and zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) that there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States sovereign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible, except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1975
Revises the Domestic Volunteer Service Act to provide that developmentally disabled children receiving services under the foster grandparent program may continue to receive such services regardless of the age of such individual, if the continuation of such aid mutually benefits such individual and the volunteer. Provides that Federal funds may be expended for such program only if the child is being fully served in accordance with the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1975
Propane Allocation Act - States the purpose of the Act of requiring the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to deal on a temporary basis with propane shortages to minimize their impact. Directs the Administrator, within given limitations, to regulate the equitable allocation of propane and its wholesale price. Outlines procedures for computing the price of propane recovered from oil and that derived from gas. Terminates authority granted under this Act at midnight, June 30, 1976, except for actions or pending proceedings not finally determined and actions and proceedings based upon any act committed prior to that date. Provides that willful violators may be fined not more than $5000 for each violation. Subjects any violator to a civil penalty of not more than $2500 for each violation. Grants United States district courts exclusive original jurisdiction of all cases or controversies arising under this Act, subject to enumerated conditions. Preempts State and local law whenever there is a conflict involving the allocation of propane. Mandates submission to the Attorney General of any proposed regulations on allocation. Directs the Attorney General to advise the President on the possible effect of such regulations on anticompetitive practices, and to suggest any alternatives which might be more consistent with the antitrust laws. Requires that whenever two or more individuals involved in the propane business meet, confer, or communicate in such a manner as might be construed to violate the antitrust laws, they shall do so only: (1) upon a personal or delegated order of the Administrator, specifying and limiting the subject matter and objectives, and (2) in the presence of a representative of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, with a verbatim transcript taken and deposited for public inspection with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. Restricts, to levels of prior usage, purchase or use of propane for feedstock for any synthetic natural gas or peak shaving for any gas utility.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1975
Creates a body corporate to be known as the United States Athletic Hall of Fame, Incorporated. Makes it a purpose of the corporation to establish a hall for the display of memorabilia relating to the history of organized sports in the United States. Provides for an Advisory Committee to guide the activities of the corporation. Sets forth the duties and powers of the corporation. Prohibits specified political activities by the corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1975
Stipulates that recipients of loans which relate to real property under programs administered by the Department of Agriculutre may engage any individual admitted to the practice of law in the State in which such real property is located as their legal counsel for such loan with the Secretary of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1975
Condemns the resolution adopted by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly which equates Zionism with racism, and urges the U.N. General Assembly to disapprove such resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1975
Authorizes a study under the National Trail Systems Act for the purpose of determining the feasibility and desirability of designating the Daniel Boone Trail as a national scenic trail.
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