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Rep. Howard, James J. [D-NJ-3]

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Bill· HRH.R. 3894 (99th)open

A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide assistance to promote immunization and oral rehydration, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1985

Calls upon the President to direct the Agency for International Development to work in a global effort to provide universal access to childhood immunization by 1990 by: (1) assisting in the delivery, distribution, and use of vaccines; and (2) performing and supporting research and development activities that will be targeted at developing new vaccines and at modifying existing vaccines to make them more appropriate for use in developing countries. Declares that the President should appeal to the public to provide the necessary resources to achieve universal access to childhood immunization by 1990. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the authorization of appropriations for FY 1987 for the Child Survival Fund.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 244 (99th)open

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of Congress regarding East Timor.

United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1985

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take measures to encourage the Government of Indonesia to: (1) allow and maintain access into East Timor for humanitarian organizations, journalists, church delegations, and human rights groups; (2) guarantee freedom of expression for the Roman Catholic Church in East Timor; (3) allow an impartial international examination of population limitation measures and the conditions that exist in areas where East Timorese have been resettled by Indonesian authorities; (4) allow qualified international observers to be present at the trials of East Timorese political prisoners; and (5) work with the U.S. and Portuguese governments to develop peace initiatives for East Timor.

Bill· HRH.R. 3866 (99th)open

A bill providing permanent authority to allow not-for-profit organizations operated in the interest of handicapped individuals to receive procurement grants and contracts under the Small Business Act.

United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1985

Amends the Small Business Act to make permanent the authority of the Small Business Administration to award Federal contracts to not-for-profit organizations that are operated in the interest of handicapped individuals.

Bill· HRH.R. 3852 (99th)referred

Superfund Amendments of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1985

Superfund Amendments of 1985 - Title I: Provisions Relating Primarily to Response and Liability - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA)(Superfund) to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish reportable quantities for all hazardous substances by December 31, 1986. Directs the Administrator to give primary attention to releases which may present a threat to public health. Grants the Administrator discretion to decide when responsible parties are authorized to conduct cleanup actions in lieu of Superfund-financed responses. Requires short-term removal actions undertaken by the Administrator to contribute to the degree possible to the efficient performance of any long-term action. Requires coordinated action among Federal and State natural resource trustees when hazardous substance releases threaten such resources. Increases the maximum time and funding limit on short-term response actions when appropriate. Requires States to assure the availability of hazardous waste disposal facilities sufficient for the next 20 years' wastes. Credits States with expenditures made at National Priorities List (NPL) sites on cost-eligible response actions. Revises other State cost-sharing measures. Treats long-term cleanup of groundwater or surface water as a part of the costs of remedial action. Grants EPA employees or contractors the necessary access to facilities and information to determine if the need for a response action exists. Prescribes a cleanup schedule for Superfund, requiring the Administrator to list at least 1,600 facilities on the NPL by January 1, 1988. Sets a schedule for the conduct of remedial investigations and feasibility studies (RIFS) and remedial action at a NPL sites. Directs the Administrator to revise the National Contingency Plan (NCP) within 18 months to reflect this Act's amendments. Requires the review of the hazard ranking system within one year. Permits individuals to petition the Administrator for a preliminary hazard assessment at a site. Includes contamination of the ambient air and damage to the human food chain as criteria for ranking a hazard. Eliminates the requirement that the NPL contain at least 400 sites. Prohibits the Administrator from taking abatement action against any release resulting from an applied pesticide registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Includes all vessels releasing hazardous substances within the jurisdiction of the United States under the liability provisions of CERCLA. Makes certain investigatory and assessment costs recoverable from the responsible party. Exempts Government agencies responding to a hazardous substance emergency from liability for all but negligent actions. Directs the Administrator and each Governor to appoint Federal and State trustees, respectively, for natural resources, creating a rebuttable presumption that their assessment of damages to such resources is valid. States that cleanup costs incurred in a response action constitute a Federal lien against the property of a responsible party. Sets forth evidentiary requirements for establishing financial responsibility. Permits direct action against a financial guarantor if the person liable is financially or physically unavailable for redress. Entitles such a guarantor to all rights and defenses available to the liable party. Limits the liability of such guarantor to its financial responsibility to the responsible party. Increases criminal penalties and adds certain civil penalties for violations of this Act, including failure to provide accurate information at specified times. Authorizes appropriations of $1,830,000,000 for each of FY 1986 through 1990 from Superfund, establishing the Fund level. Authorizes the use of Superfund monies for the authorities created by this Act. Eliminates the use of Superfund for payment of natural resource damage claims, except as specified. Revises auditing procedures to require annual audits and reports to the Congress by the Inspector General. Authorizes appropriations out of general revenue for Superfund for FY 1986 through 1990 of $250,000,000 per year. Establishes a six-year statute of limitations for Superfund claims, setting forth special rules for minors and incompetents. Authorizes nationwide service of process under CERCLA. Establishes a three year statute of limitations for the initiation of actions for contribution for response costs of damages and for recovery claims for damages to natural resources. Establishes a six-year statute of limitations for cost recovery actions. Prohibits pre-enforcement review of an ongoing removal. Limits judicial review of Federal decisions under this Act to the administrative record. Establishes new procedures for reimbursement of costs and provides opportunities for judicial review of administrative orders once the response action is completed. Authorizes a State to require contributions to a fund to pay the costs of hazardous substance response actions or damages. Establishes within the Public Health Service the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), headed by an Administrator. Requires ATSDR to implement the health-related authorities of this Act. Directs such Administrator to establish and maintain a listing of areas closed to the public or otherwise restricted in use because of contamination by hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants. Directs the Administrator of EPA to list and periodically revise a list of hazardous substances which pose the most significant potential threat to human health. Includes pollutants or contaminants to the degree they are determined to be hazardous. Directs the Administrator of ATSDR to establish and maintain an inventory of information on the health effects of each listed substance. Requires such Administrator to also develop toxicological profiles for each such substance, assessing the current state of knowledge of their deleterious effects, and revising such profiles at least every three years. Requires the Administrator to initiate research where inadequate information on a substance is available. Requires Federal coordination of research efforts. Requires the Administrator of ATSDR to perform a health assessment for each NPL facility where a significant possibility exists that a human population has been exposed to hazardous substances existing at such facility and a significant threat of adverse health effects exists. Bases the selection of such facilities on criteria developed by the Administrator of EPA. Permits the Administrator of ATSDR to conduct health assessments at other facilities as well. Authorizes individuals to petition the Administrator of EPA for a health assessment of a site where evidence of human exposure to hazardous substances exists. Requires the completion of health assessments before the completion of remedial investigation and feasibility studies (RIFS) whenever possible. Grants priority to those sites where the potential risk to human health appears highest. Requires State or local officials conducting a health assessment to report the results and recommendations to the Administrators. Requires the Administrator of ATSDR to provide the affected State and the Administrator of EPA with the results and recommendations of any ATSDR assessment. Includes the costs of an assessment among recoverable cleanup costs whenever such assessment reveals human exposure to a hazardous substance. Directs the Administrator of ATSDR to conduct a pilot study of health effects of exposure whenever justified by an assessment to determine if full scale epidemiological studies are appropriate. Requires the Administrator to establish a registry of exposed persons if appropriate. Directs the Administrator to initiate a health surveillance program for an exposed population if justified by an epidemiological study or exposure registry. Requires the Administrator to report biennially to the Administrator of EPA and ATSDR's activities under this Act. Directs the Administrator of EPA to abate significant risks to the human population through exposure by providing alternate household water or relocation of individuals. Requires peer review of all ATSDR studies and research. Requires the Administrator of ATSDR to provide States and health professionals with educational materials on exposure-related issues. Requires the Administrator of EPA to provide a reasonable opportunity for public comment on any proposed plan for remedial action before it is implemented. Requires the Administrator to publish an explanation of any divergences from such plan or public comments. Authorizes the Administrator to make assistance available to affected individuals to help them evaluate and assess technical information and data. Prohibits the Administrator from taking a response action to certain types of releases unless such releases constitute a public health or environmental emergency. Prohibits response to releases: (1) of naturally occurring substances; (2) of building products; (3) into drinking water supply systems due to ordinary deterioration; and (4) from specified coal mining sites. Grants highest cleanup priority to releases which have contaminated or closed a sole or principal drinking water source. Requires the consideration of certain factors when adopting offsite remedies, including the long-term risks and uncertainties of land disposal. Requires a study of the shortage of skilled personnel at EPA to administer this Act. Requires radon contaminated soil to be disposed of as low-level radioactive waste. Exempts response-action contractors from liability for nonnegligent cleanup activities if they would not otherwise have been liable. Opens competition for response-actions to all interested contractors, subject to Federal and State requirements. Includes Federal facilities under CERCLA as if they were private facilities, except for certain financial responsibility and time period provisions. Applies the relevant State law when a Federal facility is not on the NPL. Requires the Administrator to establish a Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket for each Federal agency and department which will include information on off-site contamination and monitoring data, and releases of reportable quantities of hazardous substances. Requires that such information be made available to the public. Requires the Administrator to evaluate certain Federal facilities by January 31, 1987, for placement on the NPL, using NCP criteria. Requires the commencement of a RIFS within six months of a Federal site's placement on the NPL. Directs the Administrator to review the RIFS and enter into interagency agreements for cleanup when necessary, allowing for public participation. Requires each agency to report annually to the Congress on its implementation progress. Requires Federal agencies to notify buyers or transferees of Federal land where hazardous substances were disposed of or stored. Authorizes a State to act as an on-scene coordinator at EPA expense for Federal facility cleanups in such State. Sets forth special rules to protect national security at defense facilities needing cleanup. Requires the Administrator to select appropriate cost-effective remedial actions in accordance with the NCP. Requires remedial actions selected to provide sufficient control or amelioration of the hazardous substance so as to protect human health and the environment. Requires such measures to take into account the long-term effectiveness of the solution and the alternative technologies available to the maximum extent possible. Requires a standard of control at least as strict as that provided by any other applicable Federal environmental law for onsite disposal. Requires offsite disposal to be in compliance with the relevant provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Permits waivers of otherwise applicable requirements under specified conditions. Requires compliance with otherwise applicable permit requirements for offsite and Federal site disposal, but not for onsite disposal. Requires States to pay any difference in costs for requiring a cleanup to achieve a standard more stringent than the Federal standard. Sets forth cooperative procedures between a State and EPA to determine which remedial action or siting will be followed under this Act, and who will bear what costs. Establishes standards of treatment technology for dioxin wastes. Requires a value engineering review of the cost-effectiveness of response actions in excess of $4,000,000 dollars. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into agreements whereby the releasor or any potentially responsible person conducts the remedial response. Permits the Administrator to fund part of such response. Limits the liability of the cleaning up party to that specified in the agreement. Permits the Administrator to take action against any person not a party to such agreement. Enters such agreements in the appropriate U.S. district court as consent agreements, enforceable as such. Directs the Administrator to notify potentially responsible parties of each other's identities and of the seriousness of the necessary cleanup, providing a moratorium on the commencement of remedial action for a specified period after such notice has been given. Grants notified persons an opportunity to submit a proposal to the Administrator for the undertaking or financing of remedial action. Permits the Administrator to commence remedial action if no good faith proposal is forthcoming within a specified period. Authorizes the Administrator to proceed on remedial actions where a significant public health threat exists regardless of the status of negotiations. Authorizes the Administrator to agree to refrain from pursuing any future liability of a person if an approved response action would be expedited and the person is in full compliance with the consent decree. Permits such an agreement only in the public interest after an evaluation of the effectiveness of the remedy and the nature of the remaining risks. Places premiums from such agreements into the Groundwater and Surface Water Protection Fund for future remedial actions at other facilities. Permits the Administrator to settle with persons whose share of response costs is not substantial. Authorizes EPA to settle certain claims not yet referred to the Department of Justice. Permits arbitration. Requires the Administrator to promulgate rules setting out procedures under which the Administrator would reimburse local governments for expenses incurred in carrying out temporary emergency measures necessary to prevent or mitigate injury to public health or the environment associated with the release or threatened release of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants. Exempts from Superfund liability landfill gas operators at facilities where such operators are recovering gas. Excludes such operators from coverage under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, except as specified. Requires the Administrator to revise the Hazard Ranking System as it applies to facilities that contain substantial volumes of wastes that relate to the combustion of coal or other fossil fuels. Prohibits the addition of facilities to the NPL on the basis of the volume of such waste until such revision is completed. Requires the Secretary of Labor to promulgate worker protection standards for the protection of government and nongovernment employees engaged in hazardous waste operations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990. Establishes liability limits for ocean incineration vessels under CERCLA. Authorizes the Administrator to require additional evidence of financial responsibility for such vessels. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Terminates the Post-Closure Liability Fund's responsibility to fund the cleanup of already closed sites where hazardous waste was stored in compliance with the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of options for a program for the management of the liabilities associated with hazardous waste disposal sites after their closure. Provides for the additional regulation of hazardous substances under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. Establishes a federally-required commencement date for the running of State statutes of limitations for injury or damages caused by exposure to a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Makes such date the time a plaintiff should reasonably have known exposure to such a substance caused or contributed to a personal injury. Renames the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund the Hazardous Substances Superfund. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator to provide for the cleanup of leaking underground storage tanks. Requires the Administrator to use funds in the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund for such purposes, but holds the owners and operators of such tanks strictly liable for such costs. Authorizes State implementation of such authority under specified conditions, authorizing the Administrator to make grants to such States for such purpose. Directs the Comptroller General to study the availability of pollution liability insurance for owners and operators of such tanks. Authorizes citizen suits against violators of this Act, including the Administrator and other government officials who have failed to perform nondiscretionary duties. Permits citizen suits against nongovernment officials in the Federal district court in which the violation occurred. Permits citizen suits against any Federal official only in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Empowers such courts to impose civil penalties and to order the performance of required acts. Requires plaintiffs to give notice to the Administrator, the alleged violator, and the State in which the violation occurred before commencing proceedings. Prohibits citizen suits where the Administrator has commenced and is pursuing an enforcement action. Permits the awarding of court costs to the substantially prevailing party. States that the United States may intervene as a matter of right in all citizen suits in which it is not otherwise a party. Requires the Federal Government to provide the assurances that it will pay a share of the remedial action and maintenance costs of a cleanup on Indian lands that is otherwise required to be made by a State. Authorizes Indian tribes to recover damages for injury to natural resources from hazardous substance releases, except as specified. Includes Indian tribes on the same basis as States under certain provisions of CERCLA. Requires the Administrator to commence a study on the adverse effects of drilling fluids, produced waters, and other wastes associated with the production of crude oil or natural gas on human health and the environment within six months of this Act's enactment. Directs the Comptroller General to appoint a study group to determine the insurability of the liability of persons who generate hazardous substances, own or operate facilities liable for costs under CERCLA, or are liable for harm to persons or property caused by the release of such substances into the environment. Requires the delivery of such report to the Congress within 18 months. Authorizes the formation of risk retention groups of corporations or insurance companies to assume and spread the pollution liability of its group members. Sets forth the relationship of such groups to State laws, insurance laws, and securities laws. Directs the Administrator to review State programs for the protection of public health and the environment where the annular injection of brines associated with oil and gas production is permitted. Requires the Administrator to order enforcement or corrective action as necessary. Requires completion of such review within 18 months of this Act's enactment. Establishes a comprehensive and coordinated Federal program of research, development, demonstration, and training to develop alternative and innovative treatment technologies for response actions under Superfund. Establishes a basic university research and education program within the Department of Health and Human Services and a research, demonstration, and training program within EPA. Establishes an advisory council. Directs the Secretary of Defense to carry out a program of environmental restoration on lands under the Secretary's jurisdiction through response and remedial actions covered by CERCLA. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on such program. Permits otherwise unauthorized military construction projects if necessary for a response action. Requires oversight hearings at least annually on CERCLA. Directs the Administrator to identify and assess the location and level of radon gas and radon daughters in naturally occurring deposits of uranium collecting in residences and structures. Requires the Administrator to conduct a demonstration program on methods to reduce or eliminate the threat and to report to the Congress by December 31, 1988, on the final results. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988. Title III: Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know - Subtitle A: Emergency Planning - Directs each Governor to appoint an emergency response commission to supervise and coordinate local emergency response committees appointed by the State commission to develop and, when necessary, implement an emergency response plan for hazardous substance emergencies arising out of activities carried on within such district. Subtitle B: Notification Requirements - Requires owners and operators of facilities which produce, use, or store hazardous chemicals to file with local and State officials and periodically revise a material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical. Requires such owners and operators to supply such information to any other facility owner or operator who is receiving shipments of such chemicals. Requires such owners and operators to prepare, update, and submit to the local committee a hazardous substance report showing the type, amount, location, and exposure symptoms for each covered hazardous substance. Requires such report to also include emergency notification procedures and telephone numbers. Sets forth procedures for listing such substances. Requires an extremely toxic substance status sheet for each extremely toxic substance present at a facility. Sets forth procedures for listing such substances. Requires owners and operators to maintain records of such information. Sets forth exemptions. Requires such information to be made available to the public and health professionals. Requires the owner or operator of a facility having a hazardous substance emergency to immediately notify the appropriate authorities according to the Plan, including providing an emergency bulletin for the community which provides sufficient chemical and response information to inform the public of the nature of the crisis. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Preempts State and local law in the area of chemical hazard communication. Establishes civil penalties for violations of these requirements and provides for court-ordered enforcement of the medical information provisions. Permits owners and operators to withhold trade secret information from their material safety data sheets, but not from medical personnel. Excludes from the requirements of this title the transportation of any hazardous substance. Authorizes existing Federal emergency training programs to provide training programs for government personnel in hazard mitigation, emergency preparedness, and other aspects of emergency training with response to hazardous chemical emergencies specifically in mind. Authorizes appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for FY 1986 through 1990 for such purpose. Requires the Administrator to carry out a pilot program for testing methods to determine emissions from facilities of covered substances. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation - Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act - Subtitle A: Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation - States that this title is inapplicable to the United States regarding oil pollution damages during any period in which both the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1984 and the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1984 are in force with respect to the United States and compensation is available. Permits claims for damages for economic loss arising from oil pollution for: (1) removal costs; (2) injury to or destruction of real or personal property; (3) reasonable costs incurred in assessing injury or destruction of natural resources and in planning, restoring, or acquiring the equivalent of the damaged resources; (4) loss of subsistence use of natural resources; (5) loss of profits or impairment of earning capacity due to such injury or destruction; and (6) loss of tax revenue for a period of one year due to injury to real or personal property. Specifies the potential claimants who have standing to assert claims involving such damages. Imposes joint, several, and strict liability on the party responsible for the source of oil pollution. Specifies liability limits (except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct) for vessels. Sets forth defenses to liability. Makes the Marine Oil Pollution Compensation Fund, established under subtitle B of this Act (the Fund), liable for damages not otherwise compensated. Requires the responsible party for certain vessels over 300 gross tons and the party responsible for offshore facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable liability limits. Limits the liability of a guarantor to the aggregate amount of financial responsibility that the guarantor provided. Specifies procedures whereby the Secretary of Transportation shall designate oil pollution sources. Directs the Secretary to advertise claims to be presented initially to the responsible party or to such person's guarantor, in instances in which: (1) the responsible party and guarantor both deny involvement; (2) the source of the discharge is a public vessel; or (3) the Secretary is unable to designate the pollution source. Permits claimants either to present a claim to the Fund or to bring an action in an appropriate U.S. court if liability is denied or the claim is not settled within a specified period. Permits States to have accelerated access to funds for compensation for cleanup costs incurred by that State as a result of an oil spill. Sets forth procedures for the disposition and appeal of claims submitted to the Fund. Requires both the plaintiff and the defendant in a court action brought against a responsible party or guarantor to forward copies of all pleadings to the Fund. Permits the Fund to intervene in such actions. Requires a claim to be presented within three years of discovery of an economic loss, or within six years of the date of the incident, whichever is earlier. Subrogates any person, including the Fund, to all the claimant's claims and rights under this title. Sets forth the measure of recovery for actions brought by the Fund against any responsible party or guarantor. Grants U.S. district courts exclusive original jurisdiction over all controversies arising under subtitles A, B, and C of this Act, without regard to the citizenship of the parties or the amount in controversy. Makes the rights and remedies under this title exclusive with respect to economic loss caused by oil pollution (but does not preclude State imposition of taxes or fees to finance the purchase and prepositioning of oil pollution cleanup and removal equipment). Sets penalties for persons failing to comply with specified provisions in this Act. Authorizes appropriations for this title. Subtitle B: Marine Oil Pollution Compensation Fund - Establishes the Marine Oil Pollution Compensation Fund to be administered by the Secretary. Makes the Fund available for purposes of: (1) removal costs incurred under specified laws; (2) costs incurred by the President or a State Governor (as trustee) in assessing damaged natural resources and preparing a restoration and acquisition plan regarding such damaged resources; (3) certain uncompensated damage claims; (4) implementing certain laws regarding oil pollution; and (5) contributions to the International Fund. Requires rebates from income to premium payers if the Fund exceeds $300,000,000. Credits against required premiums any amounts paid to the Deepwater Port Liability Fund and the Off-shore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund. Sets a maximum premium of 1.3 cents per barrel of crude oil or other petroleum products for payment into the Fund. Limits payment on any claim (except removal costs) to the extent that payment would result in the Fund having less than $30,000,000. Establishes a liability limit per incident for the Fund. Sets a maximum civil penalty for failure to pay premiums into the Marine Oil Pollution Compensation Fund. Provides that if the balance of any fund is to be transferred to the Fund, any claim arising before the effective date of this Act shall be paid from the Fund. Provides that if the Secretary determines that there is a Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund deficit, then the premium imposed on oil first transported through such Pipeline shall be increased by a certain amount until the total amount of increased premiums equals the deficit. Subtitle C: Regulations, Effective Dates, and Savings Provisions - Specifies the effective dates of specified provisions of this Act. Eliminates the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund and provides that all unused assets of such Fund shall be rebated directly to the operator of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline for pro-rata payments to those owners who had paid into such Fund. Amends specified laws, including the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Intervention on the High Seas Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, to conform with the provisions of this Act. Transfers to the Fund amounts remaining in the Deepwater Port Liability Fund and the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (both having been eliminated by the above repeals). Subtitle D: Implementation of Conventions - Recognizes the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (International Fund) as a legal person under the laws of the United States. Requires, in any action brought in the United States against the owner of a ship or his guarantor under the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, that the International Fund and the Marine Oil Pollution Compensation Fund be served a copy of the complaint and any subsequent pleading. Entitles the International Fund to intervene as a party in any such action. Exempts the International Fund from all direct taxation in the United States. Requires any contribution to the International Fund to be paid from the Marine Oil Pollution Compensation Fund. Sets forth the jurisdiction of the U.S. district courts for controversies arising under the Civil Liability Convention or the International Fund Convention. Requires U.S. courts to recognize final judgments of courts of nations which are a party to the Civil Liability Convention or the International Fund Convention. Requires the owner of each U.S. documented ship, or any ship, wherever registered, which enters or leaves a U.S. port or terminal carrying more than 2,000 tons of oil in bulk as cargo to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in amounts sufficient to cover the maximum liability arising from one incident under the Civil Liability Convention. Imposes a civil penalty for noncompliance with such financial responsibility requirement. States that the United States waives all defenses based on its status as a sovereign state with respect to any controversy arising under the Civil Liability Convention or the International Fund Convention relating to any ship owned by the United States and used for commercial purposes. Title V: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Superfund Revenue Act of 1985 - Part I: Superfund and Its Revenue Sources - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase and extend the environmental tax on petroleum and certain chemicals for five years, through FY 1990. Includes lead as a taxable chemical. Provides for inflation adjustments for such tax. Creates an exemption for: (1) exports; (2) lead having transitory presence during the extraction process; (3) certain recycled chemicals such as chromium, cobalt, nickel, and lead; and (4) animal feed substances. Provides a special rule for the treatment of xylene and nitric acid. Repeals the exemption for chemicals derived from coal. Repeals the Post-Closure Tax and Trust Fund of the Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980. Imposes a tax through 1990 in increasing amounts on: (1) the receipt of hazardous waste at a qualified hazardous waste management unit or the receipt of such waste for ocean disposal; or (2) on the exportation of such waste. Sets forth exemptions for certain removal and remedial actions under the Solid Waste Disposal Act or CERCLA for waste received at any Federal facility, and for waste received at waste water treatment units. Allows credits for incineration, qualified chemical fuels, and recycled batteries. Applies the tax while corrective action at a facility is uncompleted. Imposes a tax on hazardous waste which has not been received for disposal within 270 days of its generation. Sets forth specified exemptions, including small generators. Requires persons subject to these taxes to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury any required information, including information submitted to the Administrator under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Imposes penalties for violations of such and other information requirements. Imposes other penalties for violations of these tax requirements, including a negligence penalty. Imposes a tax through FY 1990 on any taxable substance (a substance whose value is more than 50 percent derived from petroleum or taxable chemicals) sold or used by its importer. Exempts substances already taxed as petroleum or feedstock chemicals. Imposes a Superfund excise tax on the sale or leasing of tangible personal property in connection with a trade or business or the importing of such property through December 31, 1990, or until September 30, 1990, if $10,000,000,000 has been collected and credited to the Hazardous Substance Superfund. Exempts certain small transactions, exports, and certain products, such as foods and unprocessed agricultural products from such tax. Sets forth the formula for determining the taxable amount. Sets forth rules on credits and their carryforward. Sets forth administrative provisions identifying return requirements, taxable periods, depository requirements, penalties and special rules for certain manufacturers, taxpayers under common control, and Indian tribal governments. Establishes in the Treasury the Hazardous Substance Superfund. Authorizes appropriations to Superfund for FY 1986 through FY 1990. States that such Fund replaces the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Part II: Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund and Its Revenue Sources - Imposes an additional tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and special motor fuels. Earmarks funds for the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund. Establishes in the Treasury the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund to be the sole sources of revenue for cleaning up such tanks. Part III: Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and Its Revenue Sources - Increases the environmental tax on petroleum, including an increase to fund the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Establishes such Fund in the Treasury, transferring funds from under the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act, the Deep Water Liability Fund, and the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund. Makes such monies available for removal costs under such Acts and for contributions to the International Fund of the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act. Sets forth administrative provisions for such Fund. Part IV: Studies - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study the impact of the waste management tax on domestic manufacturers and report to the appropriate congressional committees by July 1, 1986. Directs the Administrator of ATSDR to report to the appropriate congressional committees by March 1, 1986, on the nature and extent of lead poisoning in children from environmental sources, including an evaluation of specific sites. Part V: Coordination with Other Provisions of this Act - Makes title V of this Act the sole taxing and financial administration authority under CERCLA.

Bill· HRH.R. 3835 (99th)open

A bill entitled the "Ocean Incineration Research Act of 1985".

United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1985

Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing a permit for ocean incineration of hazardous wastes off the coast of Maryland until a hazardous waste reduction and management feasibility report has been completed and a plan based on such report has been submitted to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 3822 (99th)referred

A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program to fund research, training, and patient services in pediatric pulmonary medicine.

United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1985

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program in pediatric pulmonary medicine. Sets forth the eligibility requirements and application process for such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory council to assist in the formulation of policy for the administration of the grant program. Provides for the termination of the advisory council three years after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988.

Bill· HRH.R. 3799 (99th)referred

Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985

Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) increase dollar limits on personal contributions to candidates and their authorized political committees; and (2) decrease the amount one multicandidate political committee may contribute to any other political committee. Limits to $100,000 ($125,000 where two or more candidates qualify for the ballot) the aggregate amount which all multicandidate political committees may contribute to a candidate for the House of Representatives in a general or special election, including any primary election, convention, or caucus relating to such general or special election. Limits to $25,000 the aggregate amount allowed for multicandidate political committee contributions in a runoff election for the office of Representative. Establishes a formula for multicandidate political committee contributions to candidates for the Senate based upon State populations and limited to an aggregate total of $750,000. Requires multicandidate political committees which make independent expenditures for advertisements connected with a candidate's campaign to disclose such information within the advertisement. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require any station licensee which allows a person to broadcast material endorsing or opposing a candidate to provide the candidate opposing the endorsed candidate, or to the candidate opposed by the material, the opportunity to use the same amount of broadcasting time, without charge, during the same period of the day.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 462 (99th)open

A joint resolution to designate May 25, 1986, as "Hands Across America Day", for the purpose of helping people to help themselves, and commending United Support of Artists for Africa for their efforts toward combatting domestic hunger with a nationwide linkup coast-to-coast human chain 4000 miles long.

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1985

Designates May 25, 1986, as Hands Across America Day. Authorizes and requests the President to commend: (1) United Support of Artists for Africa for their Hands Across America project; and (2) the American people for their commitment to helping people help themselves.

Bill· HRH.R. 3780 (99th)referred

Small Contribution Tax Credit Reform Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1985

Small Contribution Tax Credit Reform Act of 1985 - Amends the the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the income tax credit for contributions to presidential, state, and local candidates, political action committees, and newsletter fund contributions. Allows an income tax credit for congressional candidate contributions. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 for a taxable year ($200 in the case of a joint return).

Bill· HRH.R. 3748 (99th)referred

A bill to establish a sanitation occupational health and safety standard with respect to agricultural employees engaged in hand-labor operations in the field.

United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1985

Establishes a field sanitation occupational health and safety standard with respect to agricultural employees engaged in hand-labor operations in the field. Provides that such standard shall be deemed to be an occupational health and safety standard promulgated, enforceable, and subject to penalties for violations under specified provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). Prohibits modification, revocation, or challenge of such standard under specified provisions of OSHA. Provides that this Act shall not preempt any State occupational health and safety standard, or any provision thereof, which is more effective in providing sanitized potable drinking water and toilet and handwashing facilities for agricultural employees than the standard established under this Act. Specifies that such more effective State standards need not encompass other standards. Provides that, should there be any statutory restrictions on OSHA's ability to regulate certain agricultural employers, the States are not preempted from developing and enforcing field sanitation standards to apply to such employers.

Bill· HRH.R. 3670 (99th)referred

Water Resources Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1985

Water Resources Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act of 1985 - Imposes a ceiling on amounts authorized for projects under this Act, subject to specified automatic increases. Title I: Port Development - Port Development and Navigation Improvement Act of 1985 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to develop the following port projects: (1) Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia; (2) Mobile Harbor, Alabama; (3) Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; (4) Texas City Channel, Texas; (5) New York Harbor and adjacent channels, New York and New Jersey; (6) Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, San Pedro Bay, California; (7) Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River, New Hampshire; (8) New Haven Harbor, Connecticut; (9) Gowanus Creek Channel, New York; (10) Kill Van Kull, New York and New Jersey; (11) Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey; (12) New York Harbor and adjacent channels, New York and New Jersey; (13) Wilmington Harbor--Northeast Cape Fear River, North Carolina; (14) Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; (15) Savannah Harbor, Georgia; (16) Manatee Harbor, Florida; (17) Tampa Harbor, East Bay Channel, Florida; (18) San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico; (19) Crown Bay Channel--St. Thomas Harbor, Virgin Islands; (20) Lake Charles, Louisiana; (21) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi; (22) Cleveland Harbor, Ohio; (23) Lorain Harbor, Ohio; (24) Grand Haven Harbor, Michigan; (25) Monroe Harbor, Michigan; (26) Brazos Island Harbor, Texas--Brownsville Channel; (27) Duluth-Superior, Minnesota and Wisconsin; (28) Oakland Outer Harbor and Oakland Inner Harbor, California; (29) Richmond Harbor, California; (30) Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, California; (31) Hilo Harbor, Hawaii; (32) Blair and Sitcum Waterways, Tacoma Harbor, Washington; (33) Grays Harbor, Washington; (34) East, West, and Duwamish Waterways, Washington; and (35) Saipan Harbor, Northern Mariana Islands. Requires non-Federal entities to submit any studies or documentation that may be required by Federal law. Allows non-Federal entities to submit to the Secretary for review plans for port development not authorized by Federal law. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report containing results and recommendations of such non-Federal port development review. Allows the Secretary to provide credit toward the non-Federal share of the cost of construction for plan development costs incurred by non-Federal entities. Provides for the undertaking by non-Federal entities of navigation projects approved by the Secretary. Provides for reimbursement to non-Federal interests of the Federal share of any navigation project approved. Specifies the Federal and non-Federal interests' share of the costs for lands, easements, and rights of way. Provides that the cost of removal, alteration, and reconstruction of the armor of an existing bridge tunnel for certain port navigation projects shall be borne by the Secretary. Specifies the non-Federal interests' costs for construction. Specifies the Federal share of the costs for utility relocations, operation, and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to guarantee loans to non-Federal entities to finance navigation projects. Establishes in the Treasury a Federal Port Navigation Project Financing Fund. Grants congressional consent for the levy of port or harbor dues (in the form of tonnage duties or fees) by non-Federal interests on vessels entering or departing from a port and on cargo loaded on or unloaded from such vessels. Requires a cargo fee to be levied on the value of cargo transported by a vessel entering or departing a port which is within the jurisdiction of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to non-Federal interests which provide emergency response services in a port. Provides congressional consent to the levy of tonnage duties by a non-Federal interest on vessels entering deep-draft ports, subject to certain conditions. Authorizes appropriations from the Port Infrastructure Development and Improvement Trust Fund for fiscal years after 1985, to make reimbursements and to pay the Federal share of project costs. Expresses the policy of the Congress that use of the disposal site known as "Mud Dump" near Sandy Hook, New Jersey, shall be terminated, and replacement sites shall be designated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency within four years of the enactment of this Act. Requires annual reports by the Administrator concerning such designation. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any non-Federal interest operating a project for a port for provision of emergency response services in such port. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the non-Federal interest operating Morro Bay Harbor, California, for construction of a new port office. Title II: Inland Waterway Transportation System - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following navigation improvement projects: (1) Oliver Lock and Dam, Black Warrior-Tombigbee River, Alabama; (2) Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia; (3) Winfield Locks and Dam, Kanawha River, West Virginia; (4) Lock and Dam 7, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (5) Lock and Dam 8, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (6) Lock and Dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois, and Missouri; and (7) Bonneville Lock and Dam, Oregon and Washington--Columbia River and tributaries, Washington. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and following fiscal years. Title III: Flood Control - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following flood control projects: (1) Quincy Coastal Streams, Massachusetts; (2) Roughans Point, Massachusetts; (3) Cazenovia Creek, New York; (4) Mamaroneck, Sheldrake, and Byram Rivers, New York and Connecticut; (5) Rahway River and Van Winkles Brook, New Jersey; (6) Robinson's Branch--Rahway River, New Jersey; (7) Green Brook Sub-Basin, Raritan River Basin, New Jersey; (8) James River Basin, Virginia; (9) Oates Creek, Georgia; (10) Village Creek, Alabama; (11) Threemile Creek, Alabama; (12) Bushley Bayou, Louisiana; (13) Louisiana State Penitentiary Levee, Mississippi River, Louisiana; (14) Sowashee Creek, Meridian, Mississippi; (15) Nonconnah Creek and St. Johns Creek, Tennessee and Mississippi; (16) Horn Lake Creek and Tributaries, Tennessee and Mississippi; (17) Island Creek Basin, West Virginia; (18) Muskingum River, Killbuck, Ohio; (19) Muskingum River, Mansfield, Ohio; (20) Hocking River, Logan, Ohio; (21) Hocking River, Nelsonville, Ohio; (22) Scioto River, Ohio; (23) Little Miami River, Ohio; (24) Miami River, Fairfield, Ohio; (25) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; (26) Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; (27) Schuylkill River Basin, Pottstown, Pennsylvania; (28) Saw Mill Run, Pennsylvania; (29) Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania; (30) Eight Mile Creek, Paragould, Arkansas; (31) Fourche Bayou Basin, Arkansas; (32) Helena and Vicinity, Arkansas; (33) West Memphis and Vicinity, Arkansas; (34) Mingo Creek, Oklahoma; (35) Fry Creeks, Oklahoma; (36) Maline Creek, Missouri; (37) St. John's Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri; (38) Ste. Genevieve, Missouri; (39) Brush Creek and Tributaries, Missouri and Kansas; (40) Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (41) Halstead, Kansas; (42) Upper Little Arkansas River, Kansas; (43) Rock River, Illinois; (44) Green Bay Levee and Drainage District Number 2, Iowa; (45) South Quincy Drainage and Levee District, Illinois; (46) North Branch of Chicago River, Illinois; (47) Little Calumet River, (48) Little Calumet River (Cady Marsh Ditch), Indiana; (49) Perry Creek, Iowa; (50) Muscatine Island, Iowa; (51) Des Moines River Basin, Iowa and Minnesota; (52) Redwood River, Minnesota; (53) Root River Basin, Minnesota; (54) South Fork Zumbro River, Minnesota; (55) Mississippi River at St. Paul, Minnesota; (56) Portage, Wisconsin; (57) Park River, Grafton, North Dakota; (58) Fountain Creek, Colorado; (59) Metropolitan Denver, Colorado; (60) Boggy Creek, Texas; (61) Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, Texas; (62) Lake Wichita, Holliday Creek, Texas; (63) Lower Rio Grande, Texas; (64) Sims Bayou, Texas; (65) Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico; (66) Puerco River and Tributaries, New Mexico; (67) Little Colorado River, Arizona; (68) Cache Creek Basin, California; (69) Redbank and Fancher Creeks, California; (70) Santa Ana River Mainstem, California; (71) Alenaio Stream, Hawaii; (72) Agana River, Guam; (73) Little Wood River, Idaho; (74) Yakima-Union Gap, Washington; (75) Chehalis River, Washington; (76) Centralia, Washington; (77) Licking River, Salyersville, Kentucky; (78) Gold Gulch, California; (79) Pearl River Basin, Louisiana; (80) Amite River, Louisiana; (81) Comite River, Louisiana; (82) Tangipahoa River, Louisiana; (83) Tchefuncte River, Louisiana; (84) Tickfaw River, Louisiana; (85) Bogue Chitto River, Louisiana; (86) Natalbany River, Louisiana; (87) International Levee, Noyes, Minnesota; (88) Calleguas Creek, Conejo Creek to the Pacific Ocean, California; (89) Coyote Creek, California; (90) Guadalupe River, California; (91) Monroe, West Monroe, and Ouachita Parish, Louisiana; (92) Passaic River Basin, New Jersey and New York; (93) Lower Saddle River Basin, New Jersey; (94) Illinois River at Meredosia, Illinois; (95) Mission Zanja Creek, Redlands, California; (96) Rio Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico; (97) Salt and Eel Rivers, California; (98) Malhauer and Harney Lakes, Oregon; (99) O'Hare System of the Chicagoland Underflow Plan, Illinois; (100) Louisville, Kentucky; (101) Poplar Brook, New Jersey; and (102) Pearl River Basin, Mississippi. Provides that the non-Federal share of the cost of any flood control project authorized under this Act shall be 25 percent. Defines certain costs, values, and non-Federal contributions for purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following flood control projects: (1) Pine Brook section of Manalapan Township, New Jersey; (2) Las Vegas Valley and tributaries area, Nevada; and (3) Brockton, Massachusetts. Title IV: Shoreline Protection - Authorizes the Secretary to effectuate the following shoreline protection projects: (1) Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point, New York; (2) Cape May Inlet to Lower Township, New Jersey; (3) Atlantic Coast of Maryland (Ocean City); (4) Willoughby Spit, Virginia; (5) Virginia Beach, Virginia; (6) Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; (7) Folly Beach, South Carolina; (8) Panama City Beaches, Florida; (9) St. Johns County, Florida; (10) Charlotte County, Florida; (11) Indian River County, Florida; (12) Dade County, Florida; (13) Monroe County, Florida; (14) Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania; (15) Casino Beach, Chicago, Illinois; (16) Illinois Beach State Park, Illinois; (17) Indiana Shoreline, Indiana; (18) Maumee Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio; (19) Tangier Island, Virginia; (20) Coconut Point Tutuila Island, American Samoa; and (21) Fort Elsinboro, Sea Breeze, Gandys Beach, Reeds Beach, Pierces Point, and Fortescue, New Jersey. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report on each site following its construction. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning with FY 1986. Title V: Water Resources Conservation and Development - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the following works of improvement for water resources development and conservation: (1) Neponset River, Norfolk, Massachusetts; (2) Merrimack River, Massachusetts; (3) Big River Reservoir, Rhode Island; (4) Olcott Harbor, New York; (5) Hampton Roads Debris Removal, Virginia; (6) Rudee Inlet, Virginia; (7) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Bridges, North Carolina; (8) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake, Georgia and South Carolina; (9) Metropolitan Atlanta Area, Georgia; (10) Jacksonville Harbor (Mill Cove), Florida; (11) Port Canaveral Harbor, Florida; (12) Yazoo Backwater Area, Mississippi; (13) Greenville Harbor, Mississippi; (14) Vicksburg Harbor, Mississippi; (15) Memphis Harbor, Memphis, Tennessee; (16) Lake Pontchartrain North Shore, Louisiana; (17) Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana; (18) Red River Waterway, Louisiana; (19) Cabin Creek,, West Virginia; (20) Obion Creek, Kentucky; (21) Muddy Boggy Creek, Parker Lake, Oklahoma; (22) Fort Gibson Lake, Oklahoma; (23) Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, Missouri; (24) Trimble Wildlife Area, Smithville Lake, Little Platte River, Missouri; (25) St. Louis Harbor, Missouri and Illinois; (26) Missouri River Mitigation, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska; (27) Davenport, Iowa (Nahant Marsh); (28) Helena Harbor, Phillips County, Arkansas; (29) White River Navigation to Batesville, Arkansas; (30) Trinity River, Texas; (31) Cooper Lake and Channels, Texas; (32) Sacramento River Bank Protection, California; (33) Sweetwater River, California; (34) Lava Flow Control, Hawaii; (35) Wailua Falls, Wailua River, Kauai, Hawaii; (36) City Waterway, Tacoma, Washington; (37) McNary Lock and Dam, Washington and Oregon; (38) Bethel Bank Stabilization, Alaska; (39) Kodiak Harbor, Alaska; and (40) St. Paul Island, Alaska. Requires the Secretary to submit to appropriate congressional committees recommendations on any of the above projects which may become available. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake the following demonstration projects: (1) Albert Lea Lake, Minnesota; and (2) Des Moines River, Iowa. Sets up an advisory committee for the Iowa demonstration project. Authorizes the Secretary to make any purchases deemed necessary to carry out such project. Sets forth the Federal share of such projects and authorizes appropriations beginning after FY 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following beach erosion control, navigation, storm protection, and other projects: (1) Hereford Inlet, Delaware Bay and Cape May Canal, New Jersey; (2) Barnegat Inlet to Longport, New Jersey; (3) Lake George, Hobart, Indiana; (4) Ohio River (various sites); (5) Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia; (6) Passaic, Pequannock, Pompton, and Ramapo Rivers, New Jersey; (7) Small Boat Harbor, Buffalo, New York; (8) Red Lake River, Minnesota; (9) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (10) Greenwood Lake and Belcher Creek, New Jersey; (11) Coosa River, Alabama; (12) Black Warrior River, Alabama; (13) Larkspur Ferry Channel, Larkspur, California; (14) Weeks Bay, Vermilion Bay, and Southwest Pass, Louisiana; (15) Swinomish Channel, La Conner, Washington; (16) Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Alabama and Mississippi; (17) Sauk Lake, Minnesota; and (18) Muck Levee, Salt Creek, Illinois. Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project for bank stabilization and development of a recreation area along the east bank of the Passaic River, New Jersey. Permits the Secretary to acquire all necessary lands and interests to carry out this project. Declares the Federal share of the cost of such project to be 100 percent. Authorizes appropriations for such project beginning with FY 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following waterway improvement and shore protection projects: (1) Rillito River, Tucson, Arizona; (2) Agat small boat harbor, Guam; (3) Little River, Horatio, Arkansas; (4) Swan Creek, Newport, Michigan; (5) Caney Creek, Jackson, Mississippi; and (6) Deal Lake, New Jersey. Directs the Secretary to transfer to New Hanover County, North Carolina, all title and interest to a surplus dredging vessel in Wilmington, North Carolina, known as the "Hyde hopper dredge." Authorizes the Secretary to construct a low level weir across the Wabash River, Grayville, Illinois. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to conduct for five years at multiple sites on the Platte River and its tributaries in Nebraska a flood control and erosion prevention demonstration program. Outlines measures to be taken under such program. Requires the Secretary to evaluate the environmental impacts of such project. Specifies sites on the Platte River at which such program shall be conducted. Directs the Secretary to establish a Platte River Advisory Group. Authorizes appropriations for this project beginning with FY 1986 and requires an annual report to the Congress by the Secretary on work undertaken. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake interim emergency flood control measures along Wheeling Creek in specified areas of Ohio. Authorizes appropriations for such project. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following navigation and flood control projects: (1) Wilson Harbor, Wilson, New York; (2) Oak Orchard Harbor, Carlton, New York; and (3) Five Mile Creek, Dallas, Texas. Authorizes the Secretary to construct bridges at specified locations across the Ohio River, Kentucky and Ohio. Authorizes the Secretary to construct: (1) a water resources development project on the former site of Tolay Lake, Sonoma County, California; (2) a demonstration project to remove silt from Lake Worth, Texas; and (3) a streambank protection project, Kanawha River, Charleston, West Virginia. Directs the Secretary to deepen the Fox River Channel, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Authorizes the Secretary to complete the following soil erosion prevention projects: (1) Bush River Watershed, Virginia; (2) Great Creek Watershed, Virginia; and (3) Cottonwood-Walnut Creek Watershed, New Mexico. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a demonstration project to remove silt and debris from Hamlet City Lake, North Carolina. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Water Resources Studies - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Congress feasibility reports on the following water resources projects: (1) Illinois River, Hardin, Illinois; (2) Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin; (3) Milton, Pennsylvania; and (4) Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Directs the Secretary to study the possibility of converting former industrial sites, millraces, etc. for use as new hydroelectric projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988. Directs the Secretary to study utilizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conserve fish and wildlife. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects of alternative habitats for fish and wildlife, including man-made reefs for fish. Authorizes a study of national flood control problems. Directs the Secretary to determine the extent of shoreline erosion damage due to joint U.S.-Canadian regulation of Lake Superior. Directs the Secretary to study the feasibility of requiring each boat loading facility built after a specified date to display sufficient safety lighting. Requires the Secretary to transmit a report of such study to the Congress by September 30, 1986. Directs the Secretary, within two years of enactment of this Act, to prepare and submit to the Congress an estimate of the long-range capital investment needs for water resources programs under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Defines the information to be included in such report. Directs the Secretary to expedite completion of the study of New York Harbor and Adjacent Channels, New York and New Jersey. Requires a study of the extent and adverse environmental effects of dioxin contamination in the Passaic River-Newark Bay navigation system. Requires a report to the Congress within a year of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a list of water resource studies authorized but not reported to the Congress. Outlines information concerning such studies to be included with the list. Directs the Secretary to submit certain reports, both for congressional use and for public information. Directs the Secretary to complete studies for shoreline protection and navigation improvement for the following: (1) Saginaw Bay and Saginaw River, Michigan; (2) Rancho Palos Verdes coastline, California; (3) Sunset Harbor, California; (4) Southwest Pass to Sabine Pass, offshore waters of Louisiana; and (5) Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne, Louisiana. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a study on the feasibility of opening a channel between Jamaica Bay and Reynolds Channel, Long Island, New York, for the purpose of water quality improvement. Directs the Secretary to study land acquisition policies applicable to water resources projects carried out by the Secretary. Requires a report by the Secretary concerning such study to the appropriate congressional committees within one year of enactment of this Act. Prohibits the study of any river basin plan which has as its objective the transfer of water from either the Columbia or Arkansas River Basins to any other region or major river basin unless such study is approved by the Governors of all affected States. Directs the Secretary to immediately investigate erosion problems of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River and make a report to the Congress within six months after the enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a feasibility study about controlling storm water runoff on a watershed basis and report to the Congress of such study within two years of enactment of this Act. Authorizes various further studies by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to complete a study of Army Corps of Engineers project evaluation and selection criteria in relation to rural areas and areas with greater percentages of low-income individuals. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to study the eradication and control of hydrilla in the Potomac River and to submit to the Congress a report on such study by September 30, 1986. Directs the Secretary to study the requirements relating to inclusion of storage for water supply in water resources projects constructed by the Secretary and report to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for drought management on tributaries entering the Chesapeake Bay and report to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to conduct a feasibility study on providing flood protection in the Guayanilla River Basin, Puerto Rico. Title VII: Project Modifications - Modifies the following channel improvement and flood control projects: (1) Lynnhaven Inlet and Bay, Virginia; (2) Southern Branch of Elizabeth River, Virginia; (3) Ohio River Basin; (4) Mamaroneck Harbor, New York; (5) Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana; (6) Reelfoot Lake Number 9, Kentucky; (7) Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oregon; (8) South Platte River Basin, Colorado; (9) Sacramento River, California; (10) King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California; (11) Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii; (12) Santa Cruz Harbor, Santa Cruz, California; (13) Colorado River, Texas; (14) Niobrara, Nebraska; (15) Alabama-Coosa River, Alabama; (16) Kickapoo River, Wisconsin; (17) East St. Louis and vicinity, Illinois; (18) Winona, Minnesota; (19) Wenatchee, Washington; (20) Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri; (21) Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana; (22) Houston Ship Channel, Greens Bayou, Texas; (23) Rio Grande bank protection, Texas; (24) Anacostia River, District of Columbia and Maryland; (25) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (26) Corte Madera Creek, California; (27) Mississippi River, Teche-Vermilion Basins, Louisiana; (28) Granger Dam, San Gabriel River, Texas; (29) Lewisville Lake, Texas; (30) Dardanelle lock and dam, Arkansas; (31) Susquehanna River, Sunbury, Pennsylvania; (32) Hudson River, New York; (33) San Lorenzo River, California; (34) Sacramento River, California; (35) New Melones Dam and Reservoir, California; (36) McMicken Dam and Outlet Channel, Gila River Basin, Arizona; (37) Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Peck Beach, New Jersey; (38) Corson Inlet and Ludlam Beach, New Jersey; (39) Townsend Inlet and Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey; (40) Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers, Georgia and Florida; (41) Racine Harbor, Wisconsin; (42) Milk River, Havre, Montana; (43) Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; (44) Curwensville Lake, Pennsylvania; (45) Waterloo, Iowa; (46) Western Tennessee tributaries, Tennessee and Kentucky; (47) Kawkawlin River, Michigan; (48) Denison Dam (Lake Texoma), Red River, Texas and Oklahoma; (49) Buffalo Ship Canal, Buffalo, New York; (50) Jackson Hole, Snake River, Wyoming; (51) Newport Bay Harbor, California; (52) South Platte River Basin, Colorado; (53) Beaver Lake, Arkansas; and (54) Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico. Modifies channel improvement and flood control projects in: (1) Saginaw River, Michigan; (2) Brunswick Harbor, Georgia; (3) Houston Ship Channel, Texas; (4) Hansen Dam, Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers, California; (5) Newport News Creek, Virginia; (6) Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania; (7) Dunkirk Harbor, New York; (8) Bayport Ship Channel, Texas; (9) Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii; (10) Bayou Lafourche and Lafourche-Jump Waterway, Louisiana; (11) Noyo, California; (12) Endicott, Johnson City, and Vestal, New York; (13) Sardis Lake, Oklahoma; (14) Cambridge Creek, Maryland; (15) Sandy Hook to Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey; (16) Taylorsville Lake, Kentucky; (17) Lower Snake River; (18) Illinois River, Peoria, Illinois; (19) Tampa Harbor, Florida; (20) Coralville Reservoir, Iowa River, Iowa; (21) Chariton River, Iowa and Missouri; (22) Salem River, New Jersey; (23) Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey; and (24) Fort Peck, Montana. Title VIII: Water Supply - Subtitle A: Loan Program - Water Supply Rehabilitation and Conservation Act of 1985 - Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to departments, agencies, units of State or local government, or any person operating a water supply system for the purpose of improving such system. Provides that the amount of such loan shall not exceed 80 percent of the cost of the project. Sets limitations on the total amount of loans permitted. Enumerates conditions upon which no loan will be made. Requires approval of any loans made by both houses of the Congress. Lists requirements for loan applications, including: (1) a detailed plan and estimated cost of the project; (2) a showing that the applicant holds all necessary rights to land and water use; (3) applicant ability to finance the non-Federal portion of the project; and (4) a showing of the improvements the plan would make in water supply. Gives priority in loans to water systems currently polluted and posing a potential danger to human health. Allows the granting of loans only if the operator of a water supply system to whom the loan is granted implements a model water conservation program. Defines a "model water conservation program." Requires that the agreement reached between the Secretary and any loan grantee include: (1) the amount of the loan and its interest rate; (2) a repayment period; and (3) such provisions deemed necessary to assure prompt repayment. Allows the Secretary to increase the maximum percentage of the cost of a project in specified circumstances. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989, and such sums as may be necessary thereafter. Authorizes the following water supply projects to receive loans: (1) Buffalo, New York; (2) Berlin, New Hampshire; (3) Rochester, New Hampshire; (4) Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, and Saint John, Virgin Islands; (5) Dupage County, Illinois; (6) New York City, New York; (7) Fort Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas; (8) American Samoa; (9) William H. Harsha Lake, Ohio; (10) Totowa, New Jersey; (11) Jersey City, New Jersey; (12) Rockaway Township, New Jersey; (13) Falmouth, Kentucky; (14) Borough of Ford City, Pennsylvania; (15) Tucson, Arizona; (16) Boston, Massachusetts; (17) Cook County, Illinois; (18) Brockton, Massachusetts; (19) Hesperia, California; (20) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; (21) Huntington, West Virginia; (22) Grand Haven, Michigan; (23) Battle Creek, Michigan; (24) Western Tutuila Island, American Samoa; (25) Beccaria-Houtzdale area, Pennsylvania; (26) Blue Creek, Ohio; (27) Morris County, New Jersey; (28) Johnstown, Pennsylvania; and (29) East Hazelcrest, Illinois. Subtitle B: Water Supply Projects - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to survey, plan, and recommend to the Congress: (1) projects for the repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement of water supply systems; and (2) projects for the construction of single and multiple-purpose water supply systems needed to meet existing and anticipated future demand. Allows no appropriation for any survey unless such appropriation has been approved by either house of the Congress. Requires the appropriate non-Federal interests to provide the necessary land, easements, and rights-of-way for any such project. Allows the Secretary to reduce the percentage amount of the project to be paid by non-Federal interests in specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to water supply system operators in identifying problems and initiating repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement to the system. Directs the Secretary to study existing water resources projects to determine the feasibility of using such projects for water supply on an interim or permanent basis. Authorizes the Secretary to design and construct a treatment plant and water conveyance system from Lake Arcadia to Edmond, Oklahoma, with specified conditions. Authorizes and directs the construction of treatment and conveyance facilities for Parker Lake, Oklahoma. Modifies the water supply project at Caesar Creek, Ohio River Basin, Ohio. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the States, to make a detailed estimate of needed repair, rehabilitation, and construction of water supply and distribution facilities and the costs thereof in each and all of the States. Requires the transmitting of such estimate to the Congress within two years of enactment of this Act. Title IX: Namings - Designates the following reservoirs, harbors, and locks and dams: (1) Winthrop Rockefeller Reservoir, Arkansas; (2) Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (3) Joe Hardin Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (4) James W. Trimble Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (5) Arthur Ormond Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (6) Greilickville Harbor, Michigan; (7) Elvis Stahr Harbor, Kentucky; (8) Wilbur D. Mills Dam, Arkansas; (9) S.W. Taylor Memorial Park, Alabama; (10) Jack D. Maltester Channel, California; (11) Peyton S. Hawes Visitors Center, South Carolina and Georgia; (12) H.K. Thatcher Lock and Dam, Arkansas; (13) Tom Bevill Lock and Dam and Tom Bevill Visitor Center, Alabama; (14) Jim Rampey Recreation Area, South Carolina and Georgia; and (15) J.E. Carnahan Visitors Center, Ohio. Title X: Project Deauthorizations - Deauthorizes the following flood control, hydroelectric power, or navigation projects, by State: (1) Alabama: (a) Alabama River; (b) Big Wills Creek Lake; (c) Crooked Creek Lake; (d) Hatchet Creek Lake; (e) Little River Lake; (f) Mill Creek Lake; (g) Terrapin Creek Lake; (h) Waxahatchee Creek Lake; (i) Weogufka Creek Lake; (j) Yellowleaf Creek; (k) Big Canoe Creek Lake; (2) Alaska: (a) Myers Chuck Harbor; (b) Nome Harbor; (c) Skagway River; (3) Arkansas: (a) Crooked Creek Lake Levee; (b) Gillette New Levee, Lower Arkansas River; (c) Murfreesboro Reservoir; (4) California: (a) Alhambra Creek; (b) Aliso Creek Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (c) Bear River; (d) Butler Valley Dam, Mad River; (e) Eel River; (f) Sierra Madre Wash, Los Angeles County Drain Area; (g) Monterey Harbor; (h) Napa River Basin; (i) Napa River; (j) Old River; (k) San Juan Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (l) Trabuco Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (m) University Wash and Spring Brook; (n) Calusa to Red Bluff, Sacramento River; (o) San Joaquin River; (5) Colorado: (a) Boulder; (b) Castlewood Lake; (6) Connecticut: (a) Bridgeport Harbor--Black Rock Harbor; (b) Connecticut River below Hartford; (c) Mystic River; (d) Silver Beach to Cedar Beach; (e) Stonington Harbor; (f) Thames River; (g) New Haven Harbor; (h) Milford Harbor; (7) District of Columbia: Washington, D.C. and vicinity; (8) Florida: (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Cross Bank to Key West; (b) Biscayne Bay; (c) Cedar Keys Harbor; (d) Intracoastal Waterway, Sebastian Channel; (e) Jacksonville Harbor Mooring Basin; (f) Key West Harbor; (g) Miami Harbor River; (h) Okeechobee Waterway; (i) Oklawaha River; (j) Palm Beach Harbor; (k) Lake Worth Inlet to South Lake Worth Inlet; (l) Carrabelle to St. Marks; (m) Pensacola Harbor; (n) Saint Augustine Harbor; (o) Tampa Harbor; (9) Georgia: (a) Canton Lake; (b) Cartecay Lake; (c) Gilmer Lake; (d) Kingston Lake; (e) Lazer Creek Lake; (f) Lower Auchumpkee Creek Lake; (g) Spewrell Bluff Lake; (10) Hawaii; (a) Ala Wai Harbor, Oahu; (b) Hanapepe Bay Seawall, Kauai; (c) Kaunakakai Deep Draft Harbor, Molokai; (d) Waimea Beach Seawall, Kauai; (11) Idaho: (a) Mud Lake Area; (b) South Fork, Clearwater River; (c) Teton River; (d) Blackfoot Reservoir; (e) Boise Valley; (f) Cottonwood Creek Dam; (g) Heise-Roberts Levee Extension; (h) Weiser River; (i) Whitebird Creek; (12) Illinois: (a) Chicago River, Cook County; (b) Dam 43, Ohio River; (c) Farmers Drainage and Levee District; (d) Freeport; (e) Illinois Waterway Navigation Project; (f) Kenilworth, Shore of Lake Michigan; (g) Levee Unit 1, Wabash River; (h) Levees District 21, Vandalia; (i) Little Calumet River; (j) Metropolis; (k) Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis; (l) Ohio River Open Channel, Louis District; (m) Ice Pier; (n) Peoria County Levees, Peoria; (o) Shawneetown; (p) Scott County Drainage and Levee District; (q) South Beloit; (r) Waukegan Harbor; (s) William L. Springer Lake; (t) Alton Commercial Harbor; (u) Keach Drainage and Levee District, Green County; (v) Big Swan Drainage and Levee District; (w) Fort Chartres and Ivy Landing Drainage District 5; (13) Indiana: (a) Anderson, Madison County; (b) Illinois Waterway, Cal-Sag Channel, Part 2; (c) Levees between Shelby Bridge and Baums Bridge; (d) Marion; (e) Vincennes; (14) Iowa: (a) Davids Creek Lake; (b) Fort Madison Harbor; (c) Keokuk Small Boat Harbor; (d) Missouri Levee System; (15) Kansas: (a) El Dorado, West Branch, Walnut River; (b) Garnett Lake, Pottawatomie Creek; (c) Grove Lake; (d) Indian Lake; (e) Kansas River Navigation; (f) Missouri River Levee System; (g) Neodesha Lake, Verdigris River; (h) Tomahawk Lake, Blue River; (i) Towanda Lake; (j) Tuttle Creek Lake; (k) Wolf-Coffee Lake; (l) Cedar Point Lake; (m) Cow Creek-Hutchinson; (n) Missouri River Levee System; (16) Kentucky: (a) Caseyville; (b) Cloverport; (c) Concordia; (d) Louisville; (e) Middlesboro, Yellow Creek; (f) Tolu; (17) Louisiana: (a) Black Bayou Reservoir; (b) Overton-Red River Waterway above Mile 31; (c) Bayou La Fourche; (18) Maine: (a) Bar Harbor; (b) Dickey-Lincoln School project, Saint John River; (c) Kennebec River; (d) Rockland Harbor; (19) Maryland: Baltimore Harbor and channels; (20) Massachusetts: (a) Edgartown Harbor; (b) Fall River Harbor Channel; (c) Ipswich River; (d) Nantucket Harbor of Refuge Anchorage; (e) New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbor; (f) Newburyport Harbor; (g) Nookagee Lake, North Nashua River; (h) Pleasant Bay; (i) Salem Harbor; (j) Winthrop Beach; (k) Lynn Harbor; (l) Monoosnoc Brook; (m) Monoosnoc Lake; (n) Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown; (21) Michigan: (a) Forestville Harbor; (b) Middle Channel, Saint Clair River; (c) Red Run Drain, Lower Clinton River; (d) Grand Marais Harbor; (e) Keweenaw Waterway; (f) Ontonagon Harbor; (g) Sanilac Flats, Saginaw River; (h) Corunna feature, Saginaw River; (i) Owosso feature, Saginaw River; (j) Berrien County; (k) Alpena Harbor; (22) Minnesota: (a) Warroad River and Bull Dog Creek; (b) Mississippi River between the Missouri River and Minneapolis; (23) Mississippi: (a) Biloxi Harbor, Old Fort Bayou; (b) Buffalo River; (c) Pascagoula Harbor, Main Channel; (24) Missouri: (a) Angler Use Sites; (b) Braymer Lake Shoal Creek; (c) Brookfield Lake, Yellow Creek; (d) East Muddy Creek; (e) Mercer Lake; (f) Mississippi River Agricultural Area 12; (g) Pattonsburg Lake; (h) Pomme de Terre Lake; (i) Sandy Slough Remedial Measures; (j) Trenton Lake; (k) Upper Grand River; (l) Mill Creek Lake; (25) Nebraska: Little Nemaha River; (26) Nevada: (a) Gleason Creek Dam; (b) Humboldt River and Tributaries; (27) New Jersey: Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers; (28) New York: (a) Unit 2, Five Mile Creek; (b) Unit 1, Allegany River; (c) Hudson River, New York City to Albany; (d) Ogdensburg Harbor; (e) Red Creek; (f) Ticonderoga River; (g) Cape Vincent Harbor; (h) East Chester Creek; (i) East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, Part 2; (j) Hammondsport, Glen Brook; (29) North Carolina: (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Peltier Creek; (b) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Tidal Lock in Snows Cut; (c) Carolina Beach and Vicinity, South Area; (d) Fort Macon State Park; (e) Morehead City Harbor; (f) Ocracoke Island; (g) Ocracoke Island--Village Shore; (h) Ocracoke Inlet Jetty; (i) Roanoke River; (30) Ohio: (a) Ohio River; (b) Burlington; (c) Chesapeake; (d) Empire-Stratton; (e) Martins Ferry; (f) Powhatan Point; (g) Proctorville; (h) South Point; (i) Salt Creek Lake; (31) Oregon: (a) Columbia Drainage District No. 1; (b) Deer Island Drainage; (c) Shelton Ditch; (d) Umpqua River-Scholfield River; (e) Cascadia Lake; (f) Gate Creek Lake; (g) Grande Ronde Lake; (h) Grande Ronde Valley; (i) Holley Lake; (j) Pendleton Levees, Riverside Area; (k) Willamette River above Portland and Yamill River; (l) Willamette River at Willamette Falls; (32) Pennsylvania: (a) Brackenridge, Tarentum, and Natrona; (b) Chester River; (c) Leetsdale; (d) Muddy Creek Lake; (e) Neville Island; (f) New Kensington and Parnassus; (g) Rochester; (h) Trexler Dam and Lake; (i) Youghiogheny River Canalization; (j) Aquashicola Lake; (k) Maiden Creek Lake Earth Dam; (33) Puerto Rico: (a) Fajardo Harbor; (b) Guayanes Harbor; (34) Rhode Island: (a) Great Salt Pond; (b) Harbor of Refuge, Block Island; (c) Pawcatuck River; (d) Providence River and Harbor; (e) Westerly Hurricane Protection; (35) South Carolina: (a) Charleston Harbor, Ft. Moultrie Anchorage Area; (b) Myrtle Beach, Anchorage Basin; (c) Reedy River, Greenville; (36) Tennessee: (a) Cumberland River above Nashville; (b) Hiwassee River; (c) Rossview Lake; (d) Alabama-Coosa River Basin, Jacks River Lake; (37) Texas: (a) Alpine; (b) Brazos Island Harbor; (c) Brazos River, Velasco to Old Washington; (d) Cedar Bayou, Harris; (e) Channel to Port Bolivar; (f) Duck Creek Channel Improvement; (g) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Channel to Harlingen; (h) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway--Chocolate Bayou; (i) Houston Ship Channels, Greens Bayou; (j) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Matagorda Bay; (k) Lake Brownwood; (l) Lake Fork Lake - Lake Fork Creek; (m) Navasota Lake; (n) Pecan Bayou Lake; (o) Peyton Creek; (p) Plainview; (q) Roanoke Lake; (r) Sabine Neches Waterway Channel to Echo; (s) Sabine River, Echo to Morgan Bluff; (t) Trinity River; (u) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway-Channel to Port Mansfield; (38) Utah: Weber River and Tributaries; (39) Vermont: (a) Bennington; (b) Otter Creek; (c) Rutland Otter Creek; (40) Virginia: (a) Thimble Shoal Channel; (b) Moore's Ferry Lake; (c) Pamunkey River; (41) Virgin Islands: (a) Christiansted Harbor-St. Croix; (b) St. Thomas Harbor; (42) Wake Island: Wake Island Harbor; (43) Washington: (a) Entiat River; (b) Lower Walla Walla River; (c) Methow River; (d) Okanogan River, Okanogan; (e) Quillayute River; (f) Seattle Harbor; (g) Spokane River, Spokane; (h) Yakima River at Ellensburg; (i) Palouse River; (j) Pullman Palouse River; (k) Stillaquamish River; (44) West Virginia: (a) Moundsville, Marshall County, Levees; (b) Panther Creek Lake; (c) Proctor; (d) Ravenswood; (e) Rowlesburg Lake; (f) Warwood, Wall and Drainage; (g) North Wheeling; (h) Wheeling; (i) Wheeling Island; (j) Birch Lake; (k) Woodlands; (45) Wisconsin: (a) Hudson Small Boat Harbor; (b) Cassville Small Boat Harbor; and (46) Wyoming: Buffalo. Deauthorizes the following projects after the date of enactment of this Act: (1) Eastport Harbor, Maine; (2) Onaga Lake Project, Vermillion Creek, Kansas; (3) William L. Springer Lake, Sangamon River, Illinois; and (4) Lakeport Lake, California. Title XI: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to prepare a feasibility report for every water resource study authorized. Enumerates information to be included in such report. Directs the Secretary, before preparing a feasibility report, to perform a reconnaissance survey of the potential water resources project to define problems with the project, together with their possible solutions. Provides that non-Federal interests shall agree, by contract, to contribute 50 percent of the cost of any feasibility report for any water resources study. Establishes an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund. Authorizes appropriations for this Fund for fiscal years beginning with FY 1986. Authorizes use of the Fund moneys to mitigate project-induced losses to fish and wildlife production and habitat. Authorizes the Secretary to study the water resources needs of river basins and regions of the United States, and report the results of such study to the Congress by October 1, 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and develop campgrounds for individuals 62 years of age or older at any lake or reservoir under the Secretary's jurisdiction. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning with FY 1986. Authorizes the development of and appropriations for a 62-or-older campground in Texas at the Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir. Identifies such parcel of land by metes and bounds. Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake measures to prevent flood damage along the route of the Meramec River in Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary to repair dams found to be in a hazardous or unsafe condition. Authorizes the Secretary to repair the dam spillway at Schuyler County Public Water Supply District No. 1, Missouri. Directs the Secretary to make necessary repairs to the Milton Dam in Mahoning County, Ohio. Requires the Secretary to annually update the inventory of dams. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning with FY 1986. Directs the Secretary to maintain a drift and debris removal project at Buffalo Harbor, New York. Declares Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, to be nonnavigable water. Authorizes the Secretary, upon official State request, to provide designs, plans, and/or technical assistance to States or local governments for removing snags and other debris in navigable streams. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance in the breakup of river and harbor ice. Directs the Secretary to provide such assistance on a priority basis with respect to the Kankakee River, Wilmington, Illinois. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress annually on the effectiveness of such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988. Authorizes the Secretary to preserve historic sites under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army if such properties are entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Directs the Secretary to convey a parcel of surplus land to Metropolitan Park in Ohio for a flood control project. Directs the Secretary to maintain the navigation projects on the Delaware River in the Philadelphia and Trenton areas. Declares downstream recreation on the Gauley River, West Virginia, to be an additional project. Provides for incremental whitewater release and water storage at the Summersville Dam in West Virginia to aid in such recreation project. Recognizes the Upper Mississippi River to be a nationally significant ecosystem and commercial navigation system. Approves a master plan as a guide for future water policy on the Upper Mississippi River. Grants the consent of the Congress to Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin to enter into negotiations for agreements for cooperative efforts and mutual planning in the development of such river. States that such agreements shall become final only after ratification by the Congress. Designates the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association as the caretaker of the master plan. Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the aforementioned midwestern States, to undertake: (1) a program for planning, construction, and evaluation of fish and wildlife enhancement measures; (2) implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; and (3) implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system. Provides for termination of such programs ten years from the date of enactment of this Act, with specified evaluations and reports. Authorizes appropriations for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to implement a program of recreational projects for the Upper Mississippi River System. Authorizes appropriations for this purpose for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act, along with specified evaluations and reports. Directs the Secretary to dispose of dredged materials from the System and to request funding for a program to facilitate productive uses of dredged materials. Declares the intent of the Congress to recognize the importance of the economic vitality of the Great Lakes region and Saint Lawrence Seaway as the "Fourth Seacoast" of the United States. Establishes the Great Lakes Commodities Marketing Board (the Board) to develop a strategy to improve the capacity of the Great Lakes region to produce, market, and transport commodities in a timely manner and to maximize the efficiency and benefits of market products produced in and/or shipped through the Great Lakes region. Requires the strategy to address environmental issues relating to transportation on the Great Lakes and marketing difficulties experienced due to late harvest seasons in the Great Lakes region. Requires such strategy to develop and analyze various information concerning marketing and shipping in the Great Lakes region. Outlines the composition and organizational rules for the Board. Requires the Board, no later than September 30, 1988, to submit a report to the President and both Houses of the Congress on strategies to assure maximum economic benefits to users of the Great Lakes region. Terminates the Board 180 days after such report is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989. Directs the President to invite the Government of Canada to join in the formation of an international advisory group to: (1) develop a bilateral program for improving navigation on the Great Lakes; and (2) conduct investigations and make recommendations for a systemwide navigation improvement program on the Great Lakes. Outlines the composition and organizational rules for such advisory group. Requires such group, one year after its formation and biennially thereafter, to report to the Congress and the Canadian Parliament on its progress. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a review of the environmental, economic, and social impacts of navigation in the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to submit an interim report to the Congress by September 30, 1987, and a final report by September 30, 1989. Requires acquisition by the Secretary of all lands and interest before authorized construction begins on any water resources project in this Act. Establishes an Office of Environmental Policy within the Office of the Chief of Engineers to be responsible for all environmental policy matters as they relate to the water resources programs of the Army Corps of Engineers. Limits appropriations for the repair and modification of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Provides that certain prohibitions and provisions for review of activities in waters of the U.S. shall not apply to any water development projects at the Great Miami River Basin or the Great Miami River and its tributaries in Ohio. Directs the Secretary, when analyzing the costs and benefits of any recommended flood control project along the Pearl River near Jackson, Mississippi, to take into account the costs and benefits of any measures undertaken under Federal law enacted between July 1, 1983, and December 31, 1986. Provides a maximum time limitation for construction of any project in this Act of five years after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that any lease for projects in this Act shall continue in effect on and after December 31, 1989, until such lease is terminated by the leaseholder. Requires fair market values for such leases after such date. Enumerates conditions required before the Secretary may terminate a lease on or after December 31, 1989. Limits modifications to projects to those which: (1) do not materially alter the scope or function of the project; and (2) reflect changes in construction costs and are the result of additional plans and studies. Authorizes review by the Secretary of water projects constructed before enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program within two years of enactment of this Act for the purpose of making modifications in the structures and operations of water projects constructed before enactment. Requires a report to the Congress concerning such project. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the State of New York for 50 percent of the costs of maintaining and operating the New York State Barge Canal, and 50 percent of the cost of reconstructing and rehabilitating the Canal. Requires the Secretary to study the need for reconstructing and rehabilitating the New York State Barge Canal for commercial, recreational, historic, and environmental purposes. Requires the Secretary and New York State to each provide 50 percent of the annual cost of maintaining such canal. Requires a report on the Canal to both houses of the Congress within two years of enactment of this Act. Provides that no appropriation shall be made for such Canal project unless both houses of the Congress approve of such by resolution. Defines areas included within the New York State Barge Canal. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and implement a flood warning system for the Whitewater River, California. Requires the Secretary to provide for the employment of residents in high-unemployment areas where water projects are being constructed. Requires a report to the Congress by the Secretary within 90 days after requests for project appropriations. Requires such reports to contain current information on the potential benefits of such project to unemployed residents of the area. Requires the Secretary to amend a Federal contract with the State of Illinois concerning the use of water supply storage space on the Big Muddy River in Illinois. Directs the Secretary to make a loan to the city of Hawaiian Gardens, California, to pay the cost of acquisition and rehabilitation of a water supply system. Abolishes the California Debris Commission, transferring its duties to the Secretary. Authorizes the Chief of Engineers to perform emergency work upon public or private land for ten days following a Governor's request for such emergency or disaster relief. Makes technical amendments to various flood control acts relating to amounts of appropriations. Requires the Secretary to expedite completion of a study for a new lock parallel to Poe Lock on the Saint Lawrence Seaway and submit a report to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress every January 15th on activities undertaken in the development of water resources projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and 1987. Directs the Secretary to reevaluate the feasibility of the Elk Creek Lake feature of the project for the Rogue River, Oregon and California. Directs the Secretary to implement a study of the possibility of increased capabilities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the planning and construction of water resources projects on an expedited basis. Requires the Secretary to transmit to both Houses of the Congress an annual report specifying the amount of electricity generated, the revenues received, and the operational costs of each water resource project constructed by the Secretary. Authorizes the President to appoint a regular officer from the Armed Forces as the Federal Commissioner of the Red River Compact Commission. Amends the River and Harbor Act to provide for reconstruction of water works as necessary to provide adequate facilities for navigation. Requires congressional approval of such reconstruction before any appropriations are made. Authorizes the Secretary to construct and improve facilities at the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Port of Buffalo. Authorizes the Secretary to construct and maintain a navigation channel from the mouth of the Beaver River at Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, to New Brighton, Pennsylvania. Authorizes the Secretary to plan, design, and construct a demonstration project for groundwater recharge in the drainage basin of Tucson, Arizona. Authorizes the Secretary to modify the water delivery schedule from the central and southern Florida project to the Everglades National Park and to conduct experimental delivery programs there. Authorizes modifications in the flood control plan for central and southern Florida in order to restore the natural flow of water to the Everglades National Park. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire interests in agricultural lands which are adversely affected by such water delivery schedule. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake emergency bank stabilization measures to protect bridges on Elm Creek near Decatur, Nebraska. Authorizes the Secretary to improve public access to and lessen the safety hazard of Pearson-Skubitz Big Hill Lake, Kansas. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1970 to prohibit funds from being appropriated or expended to construct chloride control projects within the Arkansas River Basin. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a feasibility restudy of the Arkansas River chloride control project and report the findings to the Congress. Requires a value engineering review during design for each water resources project whose cost is in excess of $10,000,000. Defines "value engineering review." Requires appropriate non-Federal interests to provide the necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way for any water resources demonstration project authorized by this or any future Act. Requires the Secretary, beginning October 1, 1985, to carry out measurements and make necessary computations relating to the diversion of water from Lake Michigan and to coordinate the results with downstate Illinois interests. Defines the measurements to be taken. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1986. Provides that the total amount for construction of water resources projects shall not exceed $1,500,000,000 for each of FY 1986 and 1987, and $1,600,000,000 for each of FY 1988 through 1990. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to remove the Berkeley Pier, San Francisco Bay, California. Authorizes the Secretary to implement a cropland irrigation research program for the Saint John River Basin, Maine. Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 1986 through 1988. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake certain construction and repair on the Tutuila Islands, American Samoa. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to increase the per-project Federal reimbursement to States or political subdivisions for water resources development projects. Directs the Secretary, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service to ensure that information relating to flood hazard areas is generally available to the public. Authorizes the Secretary to accept funds from any entity for the purpose of protecting fish and wildlife in connection with projects constructed or operated by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to take certain specified actions upon a finding that any non-Federal interest is not complying with cooperation requirements in carrying out any water resources project. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study concerning Great Lakes water use. Specifies certain analyses and reviews to be included in such study. Authorizes appropriations, beginning with FY 1986, for such study. Prohibits water from being diverted from any portion of the Great Lakes within the United States unless such diversion is approved by the Governor of each of the Great Lake States. Authorizes the Secretary to remove and dispose of toxic pollutants from areas of the Buffalo River, New York, if such removal is approved by appropriate congressional committees. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study concerning toxic pollutants in such river and report the findings to the appropriate congressional committees within one year of enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for such study, beginning with FY 1986. Declares Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, to be a nonnavigable waterway. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire from willing sellers land which is subject to frequent flood damage, located within the Passaic River Basin flood control study area. Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to appropriate congressional committees concerning civil works construction contracts and their availability to small businesses. Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of any dredging vessels under the control of the Corps of Engineers. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to construct a second lock adjacent to the existing lock at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Authorizes the collection of tolls or user fees from vessels using the William G. Stone Lock in Yolo County, California. Authorizes the Secretary to construct a water transmission line in Bristol, Tennessee. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a demonstration project to reduce shoaling in the Satilla River Basin, Camden County, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations to be expended for various projects within the "National Area," Kentucky and Tennessee. Authorizes the Secretary to permit the delivery of water from the Dalecarlia filtration plant, the District of Columbia, to any State or local authority in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in Maryland. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase water from any such State or local authority. Authorizes the Secretary to study measures to prevent flooding in the Thurman to Hamburg area of the Missouri River, Iowa. Requires the Secretary to submit a report on the results of such study to the Congress within two years of the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to install pumping facilities in such area. Authorizes the Secretary to design, construct, operate, and maintain a project for flood control and navigation maintenance on the Toutle, Cowlitz, and Columbia Rivers, Washington. Directs the Secretary to disclose petroleum product information to any State taxing agency making such a request provided that such agency has in effect provisions of law which protect the confidentiality of such information. Increases the fine for the failure to furnish information required by the Secretary of the Army to $500 (previously $100). Directs the Secretary to consider structural and nonstructural alternatives to solving the water resources problem of the Upper St. John's River Basin, Florida. Directs the Secretary to conduct recommended mitigation activities for Gorton's Pond, Warwick, Rhode Island. Authorizes appropriations for such project beginning in FY 1986. Directs the Secretary to construct a set of emergency gates in the conduit of the Abiquiu Dam, New Mexico. Directs the Secretary to undertake measures to protect and restore the Acequia irrigation ditch systems in New Mexico, and to study the feasibility of constructing flood storage reservoirs. Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct feasibility studies on authorizing water resources projects for: (1) flood prevention; (2) conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water; and (3) conservation and utilization of land. Directs the Secretary to consult with concerned Great Lake States regarding the selection of disposal areas for dredged material. Establishes the Cross Florida National Conservation Area. Provides that the State of Florida shall retain jurisdiction and responsibility for water resources planning, development, and control of the surface and ground water of the Conservation Area. Deauthorizes the lock barge canal from the Saint Johns River across Florida to the Gulf of Mexico. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the State of Florida, to develop and transmit to the Congress a comprehensive management plan with respect to lands in the Conservation Area. Directs the Secretary to operate the Rodman Dam in a manner which will assure the continuation of Lake Ocklawaha. Prohibits the Secretary from operating the Eureka Lock and Dam in a manner which would create a reservoir on lands not flooded on January 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary to acquire lands held by the Canal Authority of the State of Florida for the barge canal deauthorized by this Act. Directs the Canal Authority to make payments to specified Florida counties. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce and appropriate State agencies, to develop projects for the creation, protection, restoration, and enhancement of wetlands in the lower Mississippi Valley. Allows the Secretary to waive local cost-sharing requirements up to $200,000 and approve the construction of projects with a lower benefit to cost ratio in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific. Title XII: Water Resources Policy Act - Subtitle A: Short Title - Water Resources Policy Act of 1985. Subtitle B: National Board - Establishes a National Board on Water Resources Policy (the Board) to: (1) perform studies and prepare assessments of the adequacy of water supplies in each water resource region in the United States; and (2) study and assess the adequacy of administrative and statutory means for the coordination of water and related land resources policies and programs of the several Federal agencies and make recommendations to the President and the Congress with respect to such programs. Directs the Board to assist in interagency coordination of Federal water resources research, including review, research, and recommendations to Federal agencies. Requires the Board to report annually to the Congress. Requires the Board to establish principles, standards, and procedures for Federal participants in the preparation of regional or river basin plans and for the formulation and evaluation of Federal water and related land resources projects. Directs that such principles, standards, and procedures shall be designed so as to: (1) reduce the demand for water; (2) improve efficiency in use and reduce losses and waste of water; or (3) improve land management practices to conserve water. Authorizes the Board, in carrying out its functions, to: (1) hold hearings, take testimony, and distribute reports; (2) acquire and equip necessary office space; (3) use the U.S. mails in the same manner as other departments and agencies of the United States; (4) employ personnel; (5) procure services; (6) purchase and maintain motor vehicles; and (7) incur such necessary expenses and exercise such powers as are consistent with their function. Authorizes any member of the Board to administer oaths. Makes all appropriate records and papers of the Board available for public inspection. Authorizes the head of any Federal department or agency to: (1) furnish necessary information; and (2) detail necessary temporary personnel to the Board as it requires. Establishes a regional-State water resources advisory committee (the committee). States membership qualifications for the committee. Authorizes the committee to submit to the Board recommendations on any matter before the Board, such recommendations to be included in the Board's report to the President and the Congress. Requires certain reports to be filed by the Board with the House of Representatives and the Senate. Directs that any rules promulgated by the Board shall not take effect before 90 days of continual session of the Congress after the date such reports are filed. Defines terms. Requires the Board, no later than 15 days after the President's budget is submitted to the Congress, to transmit to both houses of the Congress reports on water resources studies or projects: (1) which are not included in the President's budget submittal; (2) for which feasibility studies or construction have been previously authorized; and (3) construction of which have not been completed. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Assistance for State Water Planning and Management - Authorizes the Board to make grants to States for the development, implementation, and modification of comprehensive programs and plans for State and regional water and related land resources. Specifies application criteria for such grants. Requires such Federal grants to be matched at least dollar-for-dollar by non-Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: General Provisions - Repeals the Water Resources Planning Act. Title XIII: Bridges Over Navigable Waters - Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the owners of the Port of Houston Authority bridge and the pipeline bridge over Greens Bayou, Texas, for work done prior to the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to transmit to the Congress a list of those bridges over navigable waters of the United States constructed, reconstructed, or removed between January 1, 1948, and January 1, 1985. Amends Federal law to grant the State of Massachusetts exclusive authority to regulate the opening of the James A. Burke Bridge. Title XIV: Reports - Requires that any report required to be transmitted to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and pertaining in whole or in part to fish and wildlife mitigation, benthic environmental repercussions, or ecosystem mitigation shall also be transmitted to the House of Representatives Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Title XV: Miscellaneous Inland Waterways - Amends the Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978, with respect to the tax on fuel used in commercial transportation on inland waterways, to include the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway as an inland and intracoastal waterway. Title XVI: Revenue Provisions - Port Revenue Act of 1985 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the value of commercial cargo loaded onto or unloaded from commercial vessels at U.S. ports. Provides an exemption from such tax: (1) for cargo loaded in or destined for Hawaii or any possession of the United States; (2) where the transportation of such cargo has been subject to the excise tax for fuels used in commercial transportation on inland waterways; and (3) for the Government of the United States. Allows a credit against the port tax for Saint Lawrence Seaway tolls paid with respect to such cargo. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the Port Infrastructure Development and Improvement Trust Fund (Port Trust Fund). Provides that amounts from such trust fund shall be available for: (1) feasibility studies, construction, operation, and maintenance of ports; (2) any relocation of utilities or structures necessary for such construction, operation, or maintenance; (3) payments to non-Federal interests which planned, designed, or constructed ports in accordance with this Act; (4) specified grants; and (5) expenses incurred in administering the Port Trust Fund. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the Inland Waterways Trust Fund. Provides that amounts from such trust fund shall be available for construction and rehabilitation expenditures for navigation on inland and coastal waterways. Amends the Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978 to include the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway from Pickwick Pool to Demopolis, Alabama, as an inland and intracoastal waterway.

Bill· HRH.R. 3662 (99th)open

Maritime Agreements Act of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985

Maritime Agreements Act of 1985 - Authorizes the President to negotiate a maritime agreement with a U.S. trading partner whenever: (1) an opportunity exists to promote free, fair, and open competition in international ocean shipping services; (2) it is necessary to protect national security interests; (3) a trading partner imposes restrictive trade barriers or unfair trade practices on the U.S. ocean shipping service industry; or (4) it furthers certain other purposes. Directs the President to negotiate a maritime agreement: (1) within two years, with a trading partner whose waterborne trade with the United States equals or exceeds one percent of the total U.S. foreign waterborne trade and where less than one-third of that trade is carried by U.S. documented vessels; or (2) with a lesser trading partner whenever that trading partner requests a maritime agreement. Sets forth certain essential provisions that must be contained in such agreement. Prohibits the United States from restricting a U.S. documented vessel from participating in the U.S. share of a trade that is the subject of a maritime agreement as long as the vessel complies with other U.S. laws. Provides sanctions if a trading partner whose waterborne trade equals or exceeds one percent of the total U.S. waterborne trade refuses to accept the essential conditions that must be contained in a maritime agreement.

Bill· HRH.R. 3663 (99th)referred

A bill to provide for the striking of medals commemorating the 100th Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike bronze medals commemorating the 100th Congress. Specifies the size of the medals, leaving their quantity and design to the Secretary's determination. Authorizes appropriations which are to be reimbursed out of proceeds from sales of the medals.

Bill· HRH.R. 3660 (99th)open

Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985

Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System Act of 1985 - Title I: Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System - Establishes a Civil Service Supplemental Retirement Plan for Federal employees, postal employees, and Members of Congress who began service after December 31, 1983. Sets forth provisions for the benefit plan including: (1) eligibility for an annuity after five years of creditable service; (2) entitlements to retirement based on age and years of service; (3) the formulas for computing an annuity; (4) survivor election reductions; and (5) funding. Sets forth provisions for mandatory retirement for air traffic controllers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters. Establishes a Thrift Savings Plan under which participants may contribute up to 10 percent of their annual basic pay. Requires employing agencies to contribute the lesser of: (1) 50 percent of amounts contributed by the employee; or (2) three percent of such employee's basic pay. Provides for the payment of benefits, lump sum or annuity, at the employee's separation from service. Establishes in the Treasury the Thrift Savings Fund for the deposit and accounting of amounts under the Plan. Prescribes how money in such Fund shall be invested. Describes survivor annuities under the supplemental retirement plan. Describes disability benefits for employees who have completed five years of creditable service. Sets forth general and administrative provisions. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to pay all benefits payable under the benefit plan and administer provisions not specifically assigned to another entity. Directs the Office to adjudicate all claims under provisions it administers. Provides for annual cost-of-living adjustments in basic pensions based upon an increase in the Consumer Price Index. Provides for withholding of State income taxes from retirement annuities. Declares that basic annuities, survivor annuities, and disability benefits are exempt from legal process (i.e. levy, attachment, garnishment) unless otherwise provided by Federal law. Establishes in the executive branch the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to be responsible for policies and regulations for, and review of, the investment and management of the Thrift Savings Fund. Directs the Board to establish an Employee Thrift Advisory Council to advise the Board on matters relating to investment policies for the Fund. Directs the Board to appoint an Executive Director to carry out its policies, invest and manage the fund, and administer provisions of the Thrift Savings Plan. Title II: Amendments to Chapter 83 of Title 5, United States Code - Provides for civil service retirement for certain employees excluded from the supplemental retirement plan. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Federal Employees' Retirement Contribution Temporary Adjustment Act of 1983 to extend its provisions until January 1, 1987. Allows employees covered under such Act to elect participation in the supplemental retirement plan. Title IV: Effective Dates - Declares this Act in effect on January 1, 1987, with specified exceptions.

Bill· HRH.R. 3661 (99th)referred

Anti-Terrorism Trade Preference Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1985

Anti-Terrorism Trade Preference Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of State to identify and publish the name of each country that repeatedly supports acts of international terrorism. Requires the Secretary to provide the Congress with a list of such countries annually. Imposes the following sanctions on countries identified as supporting international terrorism: (1) termination, withdrawal, or suspension of any treaty that relates to most-favored-nation treatment of such country; (2) denial of most-favored-nation treatment and imposition of column 2 tariff rates on imports from such countries; (3) non-application of the Generalized System of Preferences on imports from such countries; and (4) non-application of the provisions of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act with respect to the products of such countries. Authorizes the President to waive such sanctions if it would be in the best interests of the United States. Directs the President to notify the Congress 30 days before any such waiver takes effect.

Bill· HRH.R. 3655 (99th)reported

Equitable Automobile Transportation Act of 1986

United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1985

Equitable Automobile Transportation Act of 1985 - Requires a person exporting Japanese motor vehicles to be imported into the United States to: (1) transport an equal number of such vehicles on U.S. - documented vessels as are transported on Japanese vessels; and (2) file an annual certification with the Department of the Treasury which contains specified assurances and information. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to enforce this Act. Provides penalties for the violation of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 3644 (99th)open

Fair Furniture Trade Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1985

Fair Furniture Trade Act of 1985 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to enter into a trade agreement with Canada which provides for changes in the Canadian tariff treatment for U.S. furniture products. Requires such agreement to provide for the elimination of: (1) differing tariff levels on furniture trade between the United States and Canada; and (2) any Canadian nontariff barrier to U.S. furniture products. Sets forth factors the President shall consider in negotiating such agreement. Provides for staged increases in the tariff on imports of Canadian furniture until such a trade agreement is implemented. Directs the President to consult with specified congressional and other committees in negotiating such agreement. Directs the President to proclaim the necessary changes in the Tariff Schedules of the United States in order to implement such a trade agreement.

Bill· HRH.R. 3651 (99th)referred

Sioux Nation Black Hills Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1985

Sioux Nation Black Hills Act - Reconveys certain Federal lands to the Sioux Reservation. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to identify and inventory such re-established lands, both privately and federally owned, and to accept comments on such inventory from the Sioux Nation and any other interested party. Requires the head of each Federal agency owning lands, water rights, or sub-surface mineral estate within such re-established lands to convey such Federal interests to the Sioux Nation. Grants a specified easement to the United States. Prohibits the conveyance of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial to the Sioux Nation. Grants the Sioux Nation first preference in the bidding for the operation of any concessions at such memorial. Conveys all water rights within the re-established areas to the Sioux Nation. Exempts all such re-established areas from Federal and State taxation and from acquisition for public purposes without the consent of the Sioux Nation. Provides that privately held lands within the re-established lands shall not be disturbed and may be held by the owners, subject to specified conditions. Gives the Sioux Nation the right of first refusal to purchase privately held lands in the re-established areas. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire, by purchase or exchange, all State school lands and interests therein that are located within such re-established lands. Requires the Secretary to undertake to acquire those lands held by the State of South Dakota at Bear Butte. Requires such lands acquired by exchange to be conveyed to the Sioux Nation. Sets forth specified compensation to be paid by the United States to the Sioux Nation for the loss of the use of its lands from 1877 to the present. Establishes Sioux Park (out of national park and other lands) within the re-established lands and provides specified conditions for its use. Designates specified lands (including national forest and other lands) acquired by the Sioux Nation under this Act as the Black Hills Sioux Forest. Sets forth specified conditions for its use. Establishes the Sioux National Council for the management of the re-established lands. Establishes an Interim Management Board to manage such lands until the Council has been selected. Provides that nothing in this Act shall deprive any person or government of any valid existing mineral lease, grazing permit, timber lease and permit, contract rights, or access to any lands conveyed to the Sioux Nation. Grants the Sioux Nation exclusive jurisdiction to regulate hunting and fishing on all lands conveyed to it within the re-established lands. Provides that all former treaties between the United States and the Sioux Nation, to the extent not inconsistent with this Act, shall continue in full force and effect and any claims the Nation may have against the United States are not extinguished. Sets forth criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit crimes on re-established lands. Extinguishes all claims of the Sioux Nation that arise from the previous taking by the United States of Sioux reservation lands upon the transfer of such lands to the Sioux Nation.

Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 436 (99th)enacted

A joint resolution to designate 1986 as "Save for the U.S.A. Year", and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1985

Designates 1986 as Save for the U.S.A. Year. Requests the President to initiate a nationwide campaign, to be known as the Buy Back America campaign, to encourage the people of the United States to buy U.S. savings bonds and certificates and thereby reduce borrowings from foreign sources. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to enhance the marketability of such bonds and certificates.

Bill· HRH.R. 3635 (99th)referred

A bill to amend part A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reduce the rate of increase of the inpatient hospital deductible and the rate of the extended care coinsurance amount.

United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1985

Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the method of determining the inpatient hospital deductible to make such deductible equal to the preceding year's deductible increased by the lesser of the applicable increase percentage determined under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Act or the increase in the Consumer Price Index. Reduces the rate of increase of the coinsurance amount payable for extended care services.

Bill· HRH.R. 3630 (99th)referred

Medicare Fair Hospital Deductible Act

United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1985

Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the method of determining the inpatient hospital deductible, extended care services coinsurance amount, and monthly premium. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an additional excise tax on cigarettes. Deposits revenues raised by the additional tax into the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 221 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that Medicare patients are entitled to accurate and timely information regarding their Medicare benefits.

United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1985

Reaffirms congressional support for the Medicare Program and for the right of all Medicare beneficiaries to receive accurate and timely information regarding their benefits. Urges the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) convene a group of program participants to draft a simple statement of the rights and responsibilities of Medicare patients; and (2) transmit copies of the statement to all Members of Congress and hospitals and physicians participating in the program; and (3) urge participating hospitals to distribute copies of the statement to Medicare beneficiaries upon their hospitalization and to their families upon request.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 428 (99th)open

A joint resolution to prohibit the sales of certain advanced weapons to Jordan.

United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1985

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.

Bill· HRH.R. 3569 (99th)open

A bill to restrict the dumping of sewage sludge in the ocean site off the coast of New York and New Jersey known as the "106-Mile Ocean Waste Dump Site" to certain authorities currently authorized to dump sewage sludge in the New York Bight apex.

United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1985

Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing or renewing an ocean dumping permit for dumping municipal sludge within the "106-Mile Ocean Waste Dump Site" off New York and New Jersey, except for those authorities eligible to dump such sludge at the New York Bight Apex.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 217 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution condemning the hijacking of the "Achille Lauro" and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer and commending President Reagan and others who assisted in the apprehension of the perpetrators of such acts.

United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1985

Declares that the Congress: (1) condemns the hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer; (2) commends the President and others who assisted in the apprehension of the perpetrators of such hijacking and murder; and (3) calls on all governments having jurisdiction over such matter to ensure that the individuals responsible for such hijacking and murder are prosecuted and punished. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convene an international meeting to determine the steps which must be taken to rid the world of hijacking and the taking of hostages.

Bill· HRH.R. 3555 (99th)open

A bill to amend the "Joint Resolution to provide for accepting, ratifying and confirming the cessions of certain islands of the Samoan group to the United States, and for other purposes".

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1985

States that a person shall be considered an American national if such person completes 15 years of lawful continuous residence in the United States or American Samoa, and one of his or her parents was a national of the United States and a resident of the United States or American Samoa at the time of that person's birth.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 211 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution in support of universal access to immunization by 1990 and accelerated efforts to eradicate childhood diseases.

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1985

Declares that the Congress calls upon the President to direct the Agency for International Development (AID) to work in a global effort to provide support toward achieving the goal of universal access to childhood immunization by the year 1990. Sets forth specified actions to be taken by AID, in conjunction with the World Health Organization and UNICEF, in reaching such goal. Urges the President to seek both private and public assistance in the United States to achieve universal access to childhood immunization.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 213 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution on reducing the threat of international terrorism.

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1985

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should initiate, in cooperation with our Western allies, the negotiation of a multinational agreement to establish an allied strategy to respond to international terrorism, procedures to provide and to disseminate intelligence information relating to such terrorism, and a multinational unit to resolve terrorist incidents; and (2) the United States should adopt as a national policy the termination of U.S. foreign assistance to nations that assist or fail to prosecute international terrorists.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 210 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to human rights in Poland.

United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1985

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Government of Poland should comply with basic human rights agreements to which it is a signatory, including the Helsinki accords, and initiate a policy of National Reconciliation; (2) the prosecution of those responsible for the death of Father Jerzy Popieluszko should be supported by Poland; (3) human rights monitoring committees in Poland should be supported; (4) the free flow of information on the activities of such committees can improve human rights policies in Poland and the continued improvement of human rights there would better relations between the United States and Poland; and (5) the President should convey Congress' concerns to Polish officials and to U.S. allies.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 417 (99th)open

A joint resolution to establish a United States Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations.

United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1985

Establishes the United States Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the United Nations to examine and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the United Nations and to submit to the President recommendations on ways to improve its effectiveness and the role of the United States in such organization. Sets forth specified items which the Commission should focus on in carrying out its duties. Requires the Commission to transmit to the President and to the Congress a report containing a detailed statement of its findings, conclusions, and recommendations. Authorizes appropriations and private contributions for the Commission. Terminates the Commission 60 days after the submission of its report.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 209 (99th)open

A concurrent resolution asking that the President bring the rights of the Polish people to the attention of the Soviet Government.

United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1985

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should raise with the Soviet Union, at the November 1985 summit in Geneva, Switzerland, the matter of Poland's suppression of speech and political activity, and that by so doing the President raises and defends the principles of human rights as embodied in the Helsinki Accords.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 207 (99th)passed

A concurrent resolution to recognize the 20th anniversary of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and reaffirm its purpose.

United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1985

Recognizes the 20th anniversary of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the important role that the legislation has played in the Nation's development. Reaffirms the historic partnership between the Federal Government and the colleges and universities toward the development of human resources required for an increasingly complex and technological society.