United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1974
Provides that Federal employees whose basic pay is frozen shall be credited, for civil service retirement purposes, with the pay which would be received if the pay limitations were not in effect. Makes this Act effective January 1, 1973, and requires the employee to deposit the additional amount which would have been deducted from his pay, in order to receive the full annuity. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8331 (3))
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1974
United States Enrichment Corporation Act - Establishes the United States Enrichment Corporation for the following purposes: (1) to acquire feed material, enriched uranium, and the Commission's uranium enriching and related facilities, and to enrich uranium; (2) to distribute enriched uranium to the Atomic Energy Commission for governmental purposes and to qualified domestic and foreign persons by sale or by the provision of enrichment services; (3) to take all appropriate action to stimulate and assist in the development of a private enterprise uranium enrichment capability; (4) to conduct its activities so as to strengthen free competition in private enterprise and assumption by private industry of full commercial and industrial responsibility for uranium enrichment as soon as possible, and promote international cooperation in matters relating to availability of enriched uranium for nuclear reactor fuel as well as retention for the United States of an appropriate share of the market for enriched uranium for peaceful purposes in cooperating nations; (5) to expedite attainment of the maximum production potential of its own plans as soon as practicable in order to preproduce enriched uranium for future deliveries, while planning and, as circumstances permit, taking appropriate action to withdraw from its own commitments for future delivery of enriched uranium as private enterprise becomes able to assume such commitments; (6) to operate, to the extent consistent with its other objectives, on a businesslike, economic, efficient, and self-financing basis; (7) to transfer part or all of its business and properties to private ownership as provided for in this Act; (8) to pursue in coordination with the Atomic Energy Commission and private industry, as appropriate, a vigorous course of research and development; and (9) to take all other lawful action in furtherance of the foregoing purposes, except that the Corporation shall not construct any new enrichment capacity or additions to existing enrichment plants without an amendment to this Act expressly granting such authority. Provides that this provision shall not apply to improvements, alterations, maintenance, or repairs to the existing Government-owned gaseous diffusion plants, or new enrichment capacity planned primarily for research, development, demonstration, or experimentation purposes. Provides for the composition of a Board of Directors. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Uranium Enrichment to advise the Corporation. Authorizes the President, with respect to any matter in which he determines that the national interest so requires, to issue directives to the Corporation as to the exercise of its authority, and such directives shall be binding upon the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Title I: Increases the authorizations of specified appropriations, under the Land and Water Conservation Funds Act, for land and water conservation funds. Sets additional requirements on the State grant programs administered under such Act. Title II: Establishes the historic preservation fund in the Treasury. Provides that during the period concering July 1, 1975, and ending June 30, 1989, there shall be covered into such fund $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1977; and 100,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 and each fiscal year thereafter, from revenues due to the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the rental and sale of public lands for lease under Federal law (30 U.S.C. 191).
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
United States Enrichment Corporation Act - Establishes the United States Enrichment Corporation for the following purposes: (1) to acquire feed material, enriched uranium, and the Commission's uranium enriching and related facilities, and to enrich uranium; (2) to distribute enriched uranium to the Atomic Energy Commission for governmental purposes and to qualified domestic and foreign persons by sale or by the provision of enrichment services; (3) to take all appropriate action to stimulate and assist in the development of a private enterprise uranium enrichment capability; (4) to conduct its activities so as to strengthen free competition in private enterprise and assumption by private industry of full commercial and industrial responsibility for uranium enrichment as soon as possible, and promote international cooperation in matters relating to availability of enriched uranium for nuclear reactor fuel as well as retention for the United States of an appropriate share of the market for enriched uranium for peaceful purposes in cooperating nations; (5) to expedite attainment of the maximum production potential of its own plans as soon as practicable in order to preproduce enriched uranium for future deliveries, while planning and, as circumstances permit, taking appropriate action to withdraw from its own commitments for future delivery of enriched uranium as private enterprise becomes able to assume such commitments; (6) to operate, to the extent consistent with its other objectives, on a businesslike, economic, efficient, and self-financing basis; (7) to transfer part or all of its business and properties to private ownership as provided for in this Act; (8) to pursue in coordination with the Atomic Energy Commission and private industry, as appropriate, a vigorous course of research and development; and (9) to take all other lawful action in furtherance of the foregoing purposes, except that the Corporation shall not construct any new enrichment capacity or additions to existing enrichment plants without an amendment to this Act expressly granting such authority. Provides that this provision shall not apply to improvements, alterations, maintenance, or repairs to the existing Government-owned gaseous diffusion plants, or new enrichment capacity planned primarily for research, development, demonstration, or experimentation purposes. Provides for the composition of a Board of Directors. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Uranium Enrichment to advise the Corporation. Authorizes the President, with respect to any matter in which he determines that the national interest so requires, to issue directives to the Corporation as to the exercise of its authority, and such directives shall be binding upon the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Stipulates that it is the policy of the United States that it will pay claims or judgments for bodily injury, death, or damage to or loss of real or personal property resulting from a nuclear incident involving a utilization facility in a United States nuclear powered warship: provided, that the injury, death, or damage was not caused by the act of an armed force engaged in combat or as a result of civil insurrection. States that the President may authorize, under such terms and conditions as he may direct, the payment of such claims or judgments from any contingency funds available to the Government or may certify such claims or judgments to the Congress for appropriation of necessary funds.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1974
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act - Establishes a body corporate with the name "Reconstruction Finance Corporation" with a principal office to be located in the District of Columbia. Provides that the Corporation shall have a capital stock of $2,000,000,000 to appropriated from the Treasury of the United States. Specifies the membership of the Board of Directors of such Corporation and grants the Corporation the powers necessary to function as such. Authorizes the Corporation, in order to aid in financing agriculture, commerce, and industry, to make loans to any business concern: (1) to enable such business concern to finance plant construction, conversion, or expansion, or the acquisition of equipment, facilities, machinery, supplies, or materials; (2) to supply such business concern with working capital; or (3) to aid such business concern in the payment of current debts or obligations, if such aid is considered by the Board of Directors to be in the public interest. Provides that no loan may be made to any business concern under this Act unless such business concern is unable to obtain a loan on reasonable terms from any other source. Provides that each loan made under this Act may be made for a period not exceeding 10 years, and the Corporation may extend the time of payment of any such loan up to 12 years from the date upon which such loan was made originally. States that each such loan shall bear interest at a rate equal to the current average yield (as certified by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Corporation) on all outstanding obligations of the United States as of the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which the loan is made. Requires all loans made under this Act to be fully and adequately secured, and specifies the requirements of any collateral to be accepted by the Corporation as security for such loans. Authorizes the Corporation to guarantee the payment of principal and interest on a loan made to such business concern by a non-Federal lender under the same circumstances in which the business would be eligible for a loan from the Corporation if it was not available on reasonable terms from any other source. Provides that the aggregate of the principal amounts of the loans outstanding at any time with respect to which guarantees have been made under this section shall not exceed $2,000,000,000. Authorizes the Corporation to have outstanding at any one time, obligations in an aggregate amount not exceeding three times its subscribed capital. Provides that such obligations shall be free from taxation. Provides criminal sanctions for: (1) false statements in the attempt to secure loans under this Act; (2) false statements or fraudulent acts in connection with any obligation incurred by the Corporation under this Act; or (3) willful misapplication of funds by any individual entrusted with such funds under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1974
Public Land Policy and Management Act - Title I: Short Title, Declaration of Policy and Definitions - Declares the public policies of the United States, including that the public lands be retained in Federal ownership unless disposal of a particular parcel will best serve the national interest. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Planning Future Public Land Use - Directs the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture to: (1) prepare inventories of all public lands and resources; (2) develop and revise land use plans; and (3) manage public lands under principles of multiple use and sustained yield, with specified exceptions. Prescribes the criteria governing the issuance of permits, licenses, and leases. Specifies the conditions under which a tract of the public lands may be sold and the procedures for competitive bidding. States that all withdrawals of public lands shall be reviewed at the end of the withdrawal period and enumerates additional rules with regard to such withdrawals. Details the conditions governing; (1) the acquisition of land; (2) exchanges; (3) the recordation of mining claims and abandonment; (4) recordable disclaimers of interest in land; and (5) the conveyance of reserved mineral interests. Provides that with regard to specified lands along the lower Colorado River the United States shall be subject to all legal and equitable defenses in any case where the United States seeks to establish title or obtain relief dependent on ownership of such lands. Sets forth the procedures for computation of grazing fees and the duration of grazing leases. Title III: Bureau of Land Management - Establishes within the Department of Interior a Bureau of Land Management, granting such Bureau specified enforcement authorities. Provides for cooperation between the Bureau and State and local law enforcement agencies. Creates a working capital fund for the management of the public lands administered by the Bureau. Authorizes to be appropriated $3,000,000 as initial capital for the fund. Provides for contracts for surveys and resource protection to be made by the Secretary of the Interior. Authorizes the establishment of local advisory councils by the Secretary, outlining the rules governing such councils. Requires the Secretary to file an annual report to review roadless areas of 5,000 contiguous acres and report on the suitability of such areas for preservation as wilderness. Title IV: Desert Lands - Expresses the findings of Congress with respect to deserts. Directs the Secretary to implement a plan for the management, use, development, and protection of the public lands within the California desert area and to create a California Desert Conservation Area Advisory Committee, enumerating the duties of such committee. Provides, under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1926, for specified criteria to be met prior to the conveyance of land for recreation purposes. Requires the Secretary to conduct a desert areas study, authorizing $1,500,000 for such purposes. Title V: Rights-of-Way - Authorizes the Secretaries to grant rights-of-way through public lands for canals, tunnels, pipelines, roads, airways, and other specified systems. Enumerates the procedures, terms, and conditions for such right-of-way granting. Title VI: Effect on Existing Rights; Repeal of Prior Laws; Appropriation Authorization, and Effective Date - Repeals specified laws relating to: (1) homesteading, desert entry, and small tracts; (2) disposal laws; (3) administration of public lands; and (4) rights-of-way. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1974
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $187,500 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for fiscal year 1975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1974
States that the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards shall review safety studies, facility license applications, and site permit applications, and shall advise the Commission with regard to the hazards of proposed or existing reactor facilities and the adequacy of proposed reactor safety standards. Authorizes the Atomic Energy Commission to cooperate with persons proposing to construct and/or operate atomic power plants in advance planning for the selection of power production sites. Directs the Commission to require approval of the preliminary or final design of a production or utilization facility for industrial or commercial purposes. Directs the Commission to undertake a national survey to locate and designate possible nuclear energy center sites, and specifies the factors to be evaluated in the process of selection of such sites. Provides that the terms and conditions of all licenses and site permits shall be subject to amendment, revision, or modification to conform with rules and regulations issued under this Act. Authorizes the Atomic Energy Commission to take specified measures to expedite the conduct of administrative proceedings under this Act and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, including coordination with State agencies in the overall regulatory decision process.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1974
Public Land Policy and Management Act - Title I: Short Title, Declaration of Policy and Definitions - Declares the public policies of the United States, including that the public lands be retained in Federal ownership unless disposal of a particular parcel will best serve the national interest. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Planning Future Public Land Use - Directs the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture to: (1) prepare inventories of all public lands and resources; (2) develop and revise land use plans; and (3) manage public lands under principles of multiple use and sustained yield, with specified exceptions. Prescribes the criteria governing the issuance of permits, licenses, and leases. Specifies the conditions under which a tract of the public lands may be sold and the procedures for the competitive bidding. States that all withdrawals of public lands shall be reviewed at the end of the withdrawal period and enumerates additional rules with regard to such withdrawals. Details the conditions governing; (1) the acquisition of land; (2) exchanges; (3) the recordation of mining claims and abandonment; (4) recordable disclaimers of interest in land; and (5) the conveyance of reserved mineral interests. Provides that with regard to specified lands along the lower Colorado River the United States shall be subject to all legal and equitable defenses in any case where the United States seeks to establish title or obtain relief dependent on ownership of such lands. Sets forth the procedures for computation of grazing fees and the duration of grazing leases. Title III: Bureau of Land Management - Establishes within the Department of Interior a Bureau of Land Management, granting such Bureau specified enforcement authorities. Provides for cooperation between the Bureau and State and local law enforcement agencies. Creates a working capital fund for the management of the public lands administered by the Bureau. Authorizes to be appropriated $3,000,000 as initial capital for the fund. Provides for contracts for surveys and resource protection to be made by the Secretary of the Interior. Authorizes the establishment of local advisory councils by the Secretary, outlining the rules governing such councils. Requires the Secretary to file an annual report to review roadless areas of 5,000 contiguous acres and report on the suitability of such areas for preservation as wilderness. Title IV: Desert Lands - Expresses the findings of Congress with respect to deserts. Directs the Secretary to implement a plan for the management, use, development, and protection of the public lands within the California desert area and to create a California Desert Conservation Area Advisory Committee, enumerating the duties of such committee. Provides, under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1926, for specified criteria to be met prior to the conveyance of land for recreation purposes. Requires the Secretary to conduct a desert areas study, authorizing $1,500,000 for such purposes. Title V: Rights-of-Way - Authorizes the Secretaries to grant rights-of-way through public lands for canals, tunnels, pipelines, roads, airways, and other specified systems. Enumerates the procedures, terms, and conditions for such right-of-way granting. Title VI: Effect on Existing Rights; Repeal of Prior Laws; Appropriation Authorization, and Effective Date - Repeals specified laws relating to: (1) homesteading, desert entry, and small tracts; (2) disposal laws; (3) administration of public lands; and (4) rights-of-way. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Expresses the findings of Congress, including that Federal information reporting requirements have placed an unprecedented paperwork burden upon private citizens, recipients of Federal assistance, businesses, governmental contractors, and State and local governments. Establishes a Commission on Federal Paperwork to study procedures and practices of the Federal Government relating to information gathering, dissemination, and the management and control of information activities. Enumerates the areas to be considered by the Commission in its studies. Directs the Commission to make a final report to the Congress and the President within two years of the date of its first meeting. Sets forth the membership composition of the Commission and their compensation. Details the administrative powers of the Commission. Calls for cooperation between Federal agencies and the Commission. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1974
Empowers the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to discharge specified responsibilities for actions, determinations, or approvals with repect to projects for treatment works under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act by accepting a certification by the State water pollution control agency of its performance of such responsibilities.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Makes a supplemental appropriation of $187,500 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for fiscal year 1975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) act to relieve immediate threats of famine where it exists and assist food-short nations in increasing food production; (2) attempt to achieve an international agreement on a food reserve to be used in emergencies; (3) assist in social and economic growth and in population control (as requested) in underdeveloped nations; and (4) support the efficient use and equitable distribution of food worldwide.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
National Commission on Epilepsy and Its Consequences Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a National Commission to determine the most effective means of finding the cause and cures and treatments for epilepsy. Directs that such Commission shall develop a national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences. Provides for the membership of such Commission. Sets forth the duties of such Commission. Requires that it shall be a duty of the Commission to develop a comprehensive national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences based on the most thorough, complete, and accurate data available on the disorder. Requires the Commission to make recommendations concerning the proper roles of the Federal and State governments, and the national and local public and private agencies in research, prevention, identification and rehabilitation of persons with epilepsy. Requires the transmittal to the President and to the Congress of a final report under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1974
Designates specified lands as wilderness areas for inclusion within the National Wildlife Refuge System. States that such lands are in California, Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, and Vermont. Designates specified lands in Oregon, Utah, Alaska, Montana, Washington, and Colorado as wilderness areas within the National Park System. Provides for the administration of such lands by the Secretary of the Interior.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that regulations requiring a statement of ingredients on bottles of distilled spirits and wine not be promulgated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms until Congress has considered the matter fully.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Requires the President to make the provision of assistance to foreign countries contingent, to the maximum extent practicable, on reception of strategic or critical raw materials in return.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1974
Stipulates that it is the policy of the United States that it will pay claims or judgments for bodily injury, death, or damage to or loss of real or personal property resulting from a nuclear incident involving a utilization facility in a United States nuclear powered warship: provided, that the injury, death, or damage was not caused by the act of an armed force engaged in combat or as a result of civil insurrection. States that the President may authorize, under such terms and conditions as he may direct, the payment of such claims or judgments from any contingency funds available to the Government or may certify such claims or judgments to the Congress for appropriation of necessary funds.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1974
Provides that immediately upon the adoption of this resolution the House shall resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 988), a resolution to reform the structure, jurisdiction, and procedures of the committees of the House of Representatives by amending rules X and XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. States that after general debate, which shall be confined to the resolution and shall continue not to exceed three hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Select Committee on Committees, the resolution shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Stipulates that, at the conclusion of the consideration of the resolution for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report the resolution to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the resolution and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Reclamation Development Act - Title I: Page, Arizona, Community Act - States that the purpose of this title is to separate the town of Page, Arizona, from the Colorado River storage project so that the United States may withdraw from ownership and operation of the town, and the town may be incorporated and self-governing. Transfers designated properties to such town without cost. Provides for water rights for Page, Arizona from Lake Powell. Specifies projects to be completed in Page by the United States. Authorizes payment of $500,000 to Page, upon its incorporation, for specified municipal services and facilites. Authorizes appropriations from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund to Page in the amount necessary for Page to acquire electric distribution facilities. Transfers 808 acres in Cocomino County, Arizona, to the Navajo Indian Reservation. Authorizes the use of up to $4,000,000 from the Upper Colorado Basin Fund to carry out this title. Title II: Cibolo Project, Texas - Authorizes the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam on recreational facilities on Cibolo Creek, Texas, including provision of water for municipal and industrial use. Authorizes appropriations of $24,160,000 for flood control, fish and wildlife, and recreation in connection with such project. Title III: Mountain Park Project Oklahoma - Provides for the construction and operation of municipal water supply facilities, and authorizes appropriations therefor, for Frederick, Oklahoma. Title IV: Casitas Reservation Open Space, California - Directs the purchase of, and authorizes appropriations for, private lands to add to the Lake Casistas Reservoir area in California. Title V: Klamath Project Right-of-Way, Oregon - Directs the conveyance by quitclaim deed to the owners of record of specified lands in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Title VI: Solana Project Recreational Facilities, California - Authorizes the development and operation of short-term recreational facilities at Lake Berryessa, Solano Project California, and authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Title VII: Miscellaneous Drainage Construction, Utah - Authorizes the construction of specified drainage facilities in the Central Utah and Emery County projects in Utah. Title VIII: Belle Fourche Dam Rehabilitation, South Dakota - Authorizes the construction and operation of an adequate spillway and improvement of the upstream slope protection at the Belle Fourche Dam, South Dakota. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Title IX: Glendo Unit Road Reconstruction, Wyoming - Authorizes the relocation and reconstruction, and appropriations therefor, for a highway near the Glendo Dam and Reservoir, Wyoming. Title X: Nueces River Project, Texas - Authorizes the construction and operation, and appropriations therefor, for the Nueces River project in Texas, including furnishing of water for municipal, industrial, and recreational uses. Title XI: Elephant Butte Recreation Pool, New Mexico - Authorizes the releases from Heron Reservoir, New Mexico, to provide storage and a recreation pool in Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico. Title XII: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado - Authorizes additional appropriations for construction and operation at the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, Colorado. Title XIII: Savage Rapids Fish Way, Oregon - Authorizes the construction of improved fish passages at the Savage Rapids Dam, Oregon, and authorizes appropriations therefor. Title XIV: Feasibility Study Authorities - Authorizes feasibility studies of water resource development programs in California, Arizona, and North Dakota.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Save Outdoor America Act - Establishes an expanded funding program of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to "Save Outdoor America" by increasing and extending through fiscal year 1989 authorizations for the Fund. Provides that the Federal share payable to any State through fiscal year 1982 shall cover not less than 50 percent of the cost of planning, 60 percent of the cost of development, and 70 percent of the cost of acquisition projects undertaken by the State. Provides that, beginning with fiscal year 1982, the aforementioned percentage payments shall change to 50 percent for all functions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Provides that any proposed agreement for cooperation in the (1) sale, lease, or loan to other nations of nuclear reactors or materials for military applications, (2) communication to foreign countries of restricted data concerning nuclear reactors or materials by the Department of Defense, (3) exchange of information concerning weapons, or research, development, or design of nuclear reactors, (4) domestic or foreign distribution of nuclear materials, and (5) the granting of licenses for commerical or medical activities necessitating the utilization or production of atomic energy shall be subject to the disapproval of Congress, provided that such disapproval is registered within 60 days of submission of the agreement to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1974
Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act - Title I: Findings and Purposes - Sets forth the findings of Congress and declares the purposes of this Act. Title II: Control of Environmental Impacts of Surface Coal Mining Operations - Provides, as an interim regulatory procedure, that on and after 90 days from the date of enactment of this Act, no person shall open or develop any new or previously mined or abandoned site for surface coal mining operations on lands on which such operations are regulated by a State regulatory authority unless such person has obtained a permit from such regulatory authority. States that within 60 days from the date of enactment of this Act the State regulatory authority shall review and amend all existing permits in order to incorporate in them the interim surface coal mining and reclamation performance standards of this Act. Sets forth the interim surface coal mining and reclamation performance standards that shall be applicable to surface coal mining operations on lands on which such operations are regulated by a State regulatory authority. Declares that not later than the end of the 180 day period immediately following the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall promulgate and publish in the Federal Register regulations covering a permanent regulatory procedure for surface coal mining and reclamation operations setting permanent surface coal mining and reclamation performance standards, and procedures and requirements for preparation, submission and approval of State programs, and the development and implementation of Federal programs under this title. Provides that each State in which surface coal mining operations are or may be conducted, and which proposes to assume State regulatory authority under this Act, shall submit to the Secretary, by the end of the twenty-four month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a State program which demonstrates that such State has the capability of carrying out the provisions of this Act. Establishes the procedure which the Secretary shall follow before approving any State program submitted under this Act. Directs the Secretary to prepare, promulgate, and implement a Federal program for the regulation of surface coal mining operations in any State which fails to submit a State program covering surface coal mining and reclamation operations by the end of the twenty-four month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act; resubmit an acceptable State program, or portion thereof, within sixty days of disapproval of a proposed State program, in whole or in part; or adequately implement, enforce, or maintain a State program approved pursuant to this Act. Declares that the Secretary, and, in the case of national forest lands, the Secretary of Agriculture, shall conduct a review of the Federal lands and determine areas or types of areas on Federal lands which cannot be reclaimed with existing techniques to satisfy applicable standards and requirements of law. States that permits for surface coal mining will not be issued to mine such areas unless it is determined, with respect to any such permit, that the technology is available to satisfy applicable performance standards. Provides that in no event is an area to be designated unsuitable for surface coal mining operations on which surface coal mining operations are being conducted on the date of enactment of this Act, or under a permit issued pursuant to this Act, or where substantial legal and financial commitments in such operations are in existence prior to the date of enactment of this Act. Enumerates the permit application requirements. Declares that each applicant for a permit shall be required to submit to the regulatory authority, as part of the permit application, a surface coal mining and reclamation plan. Directs the regulatory authority to notify the applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit within a period of time established by law or regulation, not to exceed ninety days, that the application has been approved or disapproved. Provides that after a surface coal mining and reclamation permit application has been approved but before such a permit is issued, the applicant shall file with the regulatory authority, on a form prescribed and furnished by the regulatory authority, a bond for performance payable, as appropriate, to the United States or the State, under an approved State program, and conditioned that the applicant shall faithfully perform all the applicable requirements under this Act. Makes provisions for the release of performance bonds or deposits. States that during the term of the permit the permittee may submit an application, together with a revised surface coal mining and reclamation plan, to the regulatory authority for a revision of the permit. Provides that any permit issued under any approved State or Federal program pursuant to this Act to conduct surface coal mining operations shall require that such surface coal mining operations shall meet all applicable surface coal mining and reclamation performance standards of this Act. Lists the general surface coal mining and reclamation performance standards that shall be applicable to all surface coal mining and reclamation operations. Lists the mining and reclamation performance standards to be applicable to steep-slope surface coal mining in addition to the general performance standards required by this Act. Provides mining and reclamation performance standards for surface operations incident to underground coal mining. States that the Secretary shall cause to be made such inspections of any surface coal mining and reclamation operations as are necessary to evaluate the administration of approved State programs, or to develop or enforce any Federal program, and for such purposes authorized representatives of the Secretary shall have a right of entry to, upon, or through any surface coal mining and reclamation operations. Provides that if the State regulatory authority, if one exists, fails, within ten days after notification of a violation of this Act, to cause that violation to be corrected or to show good cause for such failure and transmit notification of its action to the Secretary, the Secretary shall immediately order Federal inspection of the surface coal mining operation at which the alleged violation is occurring (unless the information available to the Secretary is a result of a previous Federal inspection of such surface coal mining operation). Allows any person having an interest which is or may be adversely affected by a notice or order issued as a result of the above inspection to apply to the Secretary for review of the notice or order within thirty days of its receipt or within thirty days of its modification, vacation, or termination. Provides a maximum civil penalty of $10,000 for each violation of this Act, and a criminal penalty, for willful and knowing violations of this Act, of not more than a $10,000 fine or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Makes provisions for the applicability of this Act to Federal lands. Title III: General Provisions and Administration - Declares that in carrying out his responsibilities under this Act the Secretary shall: (1) administer the State grant-in-aid program for the development of State programs for surface coal mining and reclamation operations provided for in this title; (2) maintain a continuing study of surface coal mining and reclamation operations in the United States; (3) assist the States in the development of State programs for surface coal mining and reclamation operations which meet the requirements of this Act; (4) publish and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act; and (5) conduct hearings, administer oaths, issue subpenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and production of written or printed materials as are necessary to carry out his duties under this Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct a full and complete study and investigation of the practices of backfilling all coal mine wastes and coal processing plant wastes in mine voids or other equally effective disposal methods and the control of subsidence to maximize the stability, value, and use of lands overlying underground coal mines. States that the Secretary shall report to the Congress the results of such study and investigation no later than the end of the two-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to any State for the purpose of assisting such State in developing, administering and enforcing State programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than receipts of trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing, and his recommendations with respect to expenditures to be made by the Government, other than expenditures from trust funds, during such ensuing fiscal year, which shall not exceed his estimate of such receipts; and (2) his estimate of the receipts of Government trust funds during such ensuring fiscal year under the laws then existing, and his estimate and recommendations with respect to expenditures from such trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year. Provides that on or before the last day of the second month following the close of each fiscal year, the President shall report to the Congress the actual amount of receipts and expenditures of the Government during such fiscal year, other than receipts and expenditures of trust funds. States that if, for the period of two consecutive fiscal years, the aggregate expenditures by the Government, other than expenditures from trust funds, exceed the aggregate receipts of the Government, other than the receipts of trust funds, neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate shall have power to pass any bill or other measure appropriating any moneys out of the general fund of the Treasury until such time as provisions of law have come into effect which will provide additional revenue in an amount not less than the amount by which such expenditures exceeded such receipts. Suspends the provisions of this Act during a war or other national emergency if the President so recommends and the Congress by a two-thirds vote of each House agrees.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1974
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year to: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Directs the President during the last month of each fiscal year to review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays other than trust funds for that fiscal year. Provides that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Authorizes the suspension of the provisions of this Article in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress (including a state of war formally declared by Congress) by a concurrent resolution, agreed to by a rollcall vote of three-fourths of all the Members of each House of Congress, with each such resolution providing the period of time (not exceeding one year) during which those provisions are to be suspended.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1974
Revises, under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the method of providing for public remuneration in the event of a nuclear incident and the classes of persons eligible for such remuneration. Extends exemptions from the financial protection requirements and indemnification requirements for nonprofit educational institutions until August 1, 1997. Requires the Atomic Energy Commission to submit to the Congress by August 1, 1987, a detailed report concerning the need for continuation or modification of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Federal Election Campaign Reform Act - Establishes the Federal Elections Commission as an independent establishment in the executive branch, which shall be composed of six members, no more than three of which shall be of the same party. Provides that two members shall be appointed by the President, two by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and two by the President pro tempore of the Senate. Empowers the Commission to subpoena or require testimony and records. Requires each candidate to designate a central campaign committee, which shall forward all reports and statements to the Commission and shall receive reports from subordinate political committees. Provides that upon written request the Commission may render an advisory opinion with respect to whether any specific transaction or activity by the requesting individual, candidate, or political committee would constitute a violation of the law. Transfers specified materials from the Comptroller General, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives to the Commission. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. Provides that no individual or organization, with the exception of specified political committees, may make any contributions to or for any candidate for Federal office. Sets limits on the aggregate amount of contributions which an individual may make. Sets limitations on contributions of currency, United States and foreign, which a person may make for the benefit of any candidate or political committee. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop a system for the payment, on a staggered or cyclical basis during each month, of old-age, survivors and disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income benefits under the Social Security Act. Requires that such system shall take effect not later than July 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Provides for television and radio coverage of proceedings in the Chamber of the House of Representatives on any resolution to impeach the President of the United States. Authorizes the Speaker to appoint a committee of five members to provide such arrangements as may be necessary in connection with such a broadcast.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1974
Makes it unlawful, under the Interstate Commerce Act, for any railroad to refuse to transport any refrigerator car because of the fact that such car is owned or controlled by a shipper or a nonrailroad owner. Makes it the duty of every carrier by railroad to handle all refrigerator equipment in the same manner and subject to the same rules and regulations, regardless of whether such equipment is owned or controlled by railroad or nonrailroad interests.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1974
Small Investors Act - Provides that, in the case of a taxpayer other than a corporation, gross income under the Internal Revenue Code does not include an amount representing the excess of the net long-term capital gain for the year over the net short-term capital loss from the sale or exchange of a security or securities, to the extent that such amount does not exceed $1,000. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 124)
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
National Energy Research and Development Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares it to be the policy of the Congress to establish and vigorously conduct a National program of research and energy development. Directs the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration to: (1) formulate a 10-year national energy research and development program; (2) conduct a study on the personnel necessary to carry out energy research and development; and (3) submit such program and study to appropriate congressional committees. Describes the scope of research and development to be conducted by Administrator in carrying out his responsibilities under the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, including the desirability of advancing technologies in recycling, magnetohydrodynamics, inertial energy storage, systems approaches to energy use, and solar energy sytems. States that, in the conduct of activities under the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, the forms of Federal assistance and participation may include: (1) joint Federal-industry corporations; (2) Federal purchases or guaranteed price of the products of demonstration plants; and (3) Federal loans under contractural arrangements for demonstration projects. Details the guidelines to be met by the joint Federal-industry model corporations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for carrying out the purposes of this Act, setting limitations on the extent of appropriations in connection with any demonstration project in excess of $10,000,000 and any Federal arrangement for guaranteed price of products or loans in excess of $5,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Adds to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act which allows the Commission to cooperate with any nation (subject to conditions) in the distribution of nuclear materials, to allow cooperation with any specified group of nations. Adds to the provisions of such Act which allows specified distributions to the International Atomic Energy Agency and distributions established in writing to any group of nations, the requirement that such distribution be subject to disapproval by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism in the Middle East; (2) the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to (a) call upon all governments to condemn this inhuman act of violence against innocent victims; and (b) strongly urge the governments who harbor these groups and individuals to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terrorism and senseless violence; and (3) the President should request the American Ambassador to the United Nations to take appropriate action before that body in order to have introduced a Security Council resolution condemning this brutal act of violence.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Designates for study specified rivers in California, Michigan, Alabama, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Wisconsin as potential additions to the national wild and scenic rivers system.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Designates for study specified rivers in California, Michigan, Alabama, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Wisconsin as potential additions to the national wild and scenic rivers system.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Requires reports accompanying each bill or joint resolution in the House of Representatives of a public character (except revenue measures) reported by a committee to contain estimates of the costs, to both public and nonpublic sectors, of carrying out the measure reported.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1974
Provides for the Federal incorporation of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Sets forth the powers of such corporation. Provides that the corporation, and its officers and directors shall not contribute to or otherwise support or assist any political party or candidate for elective public office.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Provides for certification by the State water pollution control agency of treatment projects within such State where the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that such projects will be carried out in accordance with State laws and standards at least equivalent to those established by Federal law.
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