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Bill· HRH.R. 1650 (99th)open

Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1985

Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1985 - Title I: Public Water Systems - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) to make existing national interim primary drinking water regulations final. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within varying time periods for specified contaminants, to simultaneously propose and then publish either maximum contaminant level goals and national primary drinking water regulations or else a determination that such regulations are not justified because the levels of such contaminant in the public water systems do not represent a threat. Directs the Administrator to publish maximum contaminant level goals and simultaneously promulgate national primary drinking water regulations for each other substance which may have an adverse effect on human health. Requires the Administrator to publish an annual list establishing priorities for the review of such substances, considering substances regulated as toxic water pollutants under the Clean Water Act and substances registered as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Directs the Administrator, within three years of each contaminant's being listed on such priority list, to simultaneously propose and then publish either maximum contaminant level goals and national primary drinking water regulations or else a determination that such regulations are not justified. Requires that each maximum contaminant level goal allow an adequate margin of safety and that each national primary drinking water regulation specify a maximum level which is as close to the goal as is feasible. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation that requires the use of an acceptable treatment technique in lieu of establishing a maximum contaminant level if it is not economically or technologically feasible to establish such a level. Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate primary drinking water regulations specifying when public water systems using surface water as a source of supply must use filtration. Directs the Administrator to promulgate disinfection regulations applicable to all public water systems, including variances and technical assistance. Directs the Administrator to provide the Science Advisory Board an opportunity to comment prior to the proposal of a maximum contaminant level goal and national primary drinking water regulation. Authorizes the Administrator to take into consideration the size of a public water system and the contaminants likely to be found in its drinking water in requiring a system to monitor for unregulated contaminants. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring every public water system to conduct a monitoring program for unregulated contaminants at least once every five years, unless the number of persons served or the likely contaminants require greater frequency. Authorizes the primary State enforcement authority to delete contaminants for an individual system after Administrator approval of the assessment. Permits the waiver of such monitoring requirement for certain systems which have recently concluded such a program and for certain systems supplying fewer than 150 service connections. Authorizes the Administrator to issue compliance orders as well as bring civil suits to enforce these provisions. Directs the Administrator to amend regulations to provide for varying types and frequencies of public notice of violations by a public water system, depending upon their frequency and seriousness. Requires a State to prescribe within one year a schedule of compliance and implementation of control measures at the same time it grants an exemption. Permits the primary enforcing authority (State or Administrator in the case of four States and the District of Columbia) to extend the exemption for up to three years after the issue date if a system in good faith cannot meet the standard without capital improvements or financial assistance or has agreed to become part of a regional public water system. Permits exemption renewals for systems with 500 or fewer service connections. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for tampering with a public water system. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to small public water systems to enable them to comply with national drinking water standards. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989. Title II: Protection of Underground Sources of Drinking Water - Prohibits the disposal of hazardous waste by underground injection above or into a formation which contains an underground source of drinking water unless such injection is part of a required corrective or response action. Directs the Administrator to require groundwater monitoring at appropriate locations to detect fluid migration into underground drinking water sources from injection wells. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress within nine months of this Act's enactment on State surveys of disposal wells which discharge nonhazardous waste into or above underground sources of drinking water. Directs the Administrator to issue a compliance order or commence a civil action if a State does not enforce violations of the underground injection control program. Quintuples the maximum per day penalty for violations. Revises other provisions relating to the imposition of civil penalties. Requires each State to adopt and submit to the Administrator for approval a comprehensive State plan to protect underground sources of drinking water from unhealthful contamination. Requires such plans to: (1) identify the implementing agency; (2) identify each underground water source, its quality, patterns, and contamination potential; (3) identify the types of human development and their effects for each such source; (4) set forth regulations, including establishing best management practices for potential contamination activities; and (5) guarantee alternative drinking water supplies when an underground source becomes unhealthful to persons. Sets forth submission and resubmission procedures. Requires State compliance with these requirements as a condition of receiving funds for a State underground injection program. Extends to natural gas storage operations specified limitations on regulation of underground injection of brine or other fluids which are brought to the surface in connection with oil or natural gas production. Limits the use of funds authorized for such purposes to these purposes. Requires each State to implement its plan within two years of its adoption if possible, submitting a progress report to the Administrator within that time regarding implementation. Requires Federal agencies involved in activities affecting a critical recharge area identified in an approved State plan to act in a manner consistent with such plan. Authorizes municipalities within a sole source area to petition the Governor to designate part of such area as a "special protection area." Requires the Governor, if approving the petition, to: (1) designate or establish an entity to develop a comprehensive management plan; (2) assure and encourage public participation; and (3) submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency the proposed boundaries of the area and a description of the planning entity. Authorizes the Administrator, if approving the Governor's submission, to provide such State with a 50 percent matching grant for the costs of preparing the petition and developing and implementing the plan. Increases the Federal share to 60 percent for aquifers serving populations of 10,000 or less. Requires the plan to maintain the quality of the ground water recharged through the special protection area by maintenance, to the maximum extent possible, of the natural vegetative and hydrological conditions. Permits the resubmission of modified plans if earlier submissions to the Governor or Administrator are rejected. Authorizes the Administrator or a State with primary enforcing responsibility to order certain contaminators of a sole or principal source aquifer which supplies a public water system to provide potable water to affected persons. Establishes civil penalties for violations. Directs the Administrator to establish criteria for sole or principal source areas. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989.

Bill· HRH.R. 1616 (99th)failed

Labor-Management Notification and Consultation Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1985

Labor-Management Notification and Consultation Act of 1985 - Prohibits any employer (i.e. any business with 50 or more employees) from ordering a plant closing or permanent layoff until 90 days after the employer serves written notice of a proposal to issue such an order to: (1) the representative of the affected employees or, if none, to each affected employee; and (2) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Provides for reduction of such notification period if the Service determines that unavoidable business circumstances prevent the employer from withholding such closing or layoff until the end of such period. Provides for extension of such notification period thus prohibiting the ordering of such closing or layoff while the employer is subject to an order to continue to consult. Prohibits an employer from ordering a plant closing or permanent layoff unless the employer has: (1) met with representatives of the affected employees with respect to a proposal to order such closing or layoff; and (2) consulted in good faith with such representative for the purpose of agreeing to a mutually satisfactory alternative to or modification of such proposal. Makes such obligation to consult commence on the date of notice and continue until the end of the 90-day notification period. Provides that such consultation period shall be extended if the Service determines that the employer has failed to comply with such consultation requirements. Authorizes the Service to renew any such extension imposed. Requires the employer to disclose to the affected employees' representative information necessary for thorough evaluation of: (1) the proposal to order the closing or layoff; and (2) any alternatives or modifications suggested to such proposal. Authorizes the Service to issue protective orders to prevent disclosure of information which could compromise the employer's competitive position. Sets forth provisions for the administration and enforcement of requirements under this Act. Provides for: (1) assistance by the Service to employers, employee representatives, affected employees, State employment services, and other State and local officials; (2) investigations and injunctive actions by the Department of Labor; (3) civil actions against employers; and (4) civil actions against representatives of employees. Provides that the rights and remedies provided to employees by this Act are in addition to any other contractual, statutory, or other legal rights and remedies of the employees. Expresses the sense of the Congress that employers who, because affected employees do not have a representative, are not required to comply with the consultation and disclosure requirements under this Act should consult with and disclose information to such employees in order to reach a mutually satisfactory alternative or modification of the proposal to order the closing or layoff. Establishes a National Commission on Plant Closings and Worker Dislocation. Requires the Commission to report to the President and the Congress within 12 months of the appointment of members. Terminates the Commission 30 days after such report. Authorizes appropriations for the Commission.

Bill· HRH.R. 1562 (99th)failed

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of 1985 - Limits the total quantity of 1985 imports of textiles and textile products from a major exporting country to the lesser of an amount equal to 101 percent: (1) of the total quantity of textile products imported from such country if the total had increased by six percent annually (one percent annually for wool products) during 1981 through 1984; or (2) if the United States has an agreement with such country providing for an annual growth rate of less than six percent, of the total quantity of such products from such country imported during 1984. Limits the total quantity of 1985 imports of textiles and textile products from an exporting country to an amount equal to the total quantity of such products imported from such country during 1984 plus: (1) 15 percent of such quantity in the case of a category that is not an import sensitive category; or (2) one percent in the case of an import sensitive category. Provides for changing the classification of a country, except for a Caribbean country, from an exporting country to a major exporting country if the total textile imports from such country equals or exceeds one and one-quarter percent of all textiles imported into the United States. Sets forth a formula for adjusting the growth of textile imports annually. Sets forth certain minimum quantities of textile imports that all countries shall be allowed to export to the United States. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to enforce this Act. Directs the Secretary, within six months of enactment of this Act, to establish an import licensing system under which an importer of textiles will be required to present an import permit as a condition of entry of such textiles. Directs the President to report to the Congress annually on the administration of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 1567 (99th)open

A bill to exclude from the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act ethyl alcohol used for fuel which is merely distilled or denatured in a beneficiary country.

United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985

Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to exclude ethyl alcohol and any mixture containing ethyl alcohol which is suitable as a fuel or for creating specified fuel mixtures from eligibility for duty-free treatment merely by its having been subjected to distillation or denaturing within a beneficiary country. Provides for a refund of duties paid on such alcohol or mixture upon proof that such alcohol or mixture was not and can no longer be used as a fuel or to produce the specified fuel mixtures. Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to establish refund procedures. Restricts application of this Act to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after 15 days since this Act's enactment and before January 1, 1993.

Bill· HRH.R. 1591 (99th)open

A bill to amend the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to provide protection for agricultural purchasers of farm products.

United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985

Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to provide that a buyer in the ordinary course of business who buys farm products from a seller engaged in farming operations shall take free of any seller-created security interest even though the buyer knows of its existence, unless within 12 months before the sale the buyer: (1) received notice of the security interest and of any payment obligations imposed by the secured party as conditions for waiver or release of the security interest and (2) has failed to perform such obligations. Sets forth parallel provisions for commission merchants or selling agents.

Bill· HRH.R. 1559 (99th)referred

Agricultural Bank Capital Assistance Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1985

Agricultural Bank Capital Assistance Act - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to direct the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to use its authority under the Net Worth Certificate Act to purchase net worth certificates of certain qualified financial institutions which have made more than 20 percent of their loans for agricultural purposes. Revises capital to adjusted total asset ratio requirements for such qualified institutions. Amends the Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 to extend the Net Worth Certificate Act by three years.

Bill· HRH.R. 1517 (99th)referred

Agricultural Export Expansion Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1985

Agricultural Export Expansion Act of 1985 - Prohibits the cargo preference laws from applying to export activities of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) or the Department of Agriculture under which: (1) stocks of farm commodities or the products thereof acquired by the CCC are made available to U.S. exporters, users, or foreign purchasers for the maintenance or expansion of export markets for U.S. farm commodities; (2) commercial credit guarantees are blended with direct interest-free credits from the CCC to reduce the interest rate on export sales of U.S. farm commodities; or (3) the CCC or the Department of Agriculture promotes the export of U.S. farm commodities on a commercial basis.

Bill· HRH.R. 1420 (99th)open

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1985

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1985 - Title I: Agricultural Trade and Export Expansion - States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) promote free trade in agriculture by negotiating with key U.S. trading partners to remove agricultural trade restrictions; and (2) remove U.S. import restrictions as part of a program of mutual opening of markets. Amends the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, to require the U.S. Trade Representative to submit a separate compilation of the analysis and estimate of U.S. agricultural exports to the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative and the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to seek to eliminate barriers to U.S. agricultural products. Requires a report to the Congress if negotiations are not proceeding satisfactorily. Directs the President to recommend to the Congress a plan for the reciprocal phasing out of agricultural trade barriers. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), in making export credit guarantees, to consider a country's credit standing, and whether such guarantees will foster U.S. agricultural exports. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480) to extend sales and assistance program authority through FY 2000. Directs the Secretary to conduct an agricultural export study and report to the Congress within one year. Title II: Wheat - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of the 1986 and subsequent wheat crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each class of wheat at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each class of wheat based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 wheat crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Makes a producer in excess of the permitted acreage ineligible for loans and payments. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title III: Feed Grains - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of corn, grain sorghum, and barley who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each crop based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title IV: Cotton - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of upland cotton and extra long staple cotton who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each crop based on the payment rate, planted acreage, and the farm's payment yield. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title V: Rice - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent crops of rice who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to establish an acreage reduction program for the 1986 through 1988 crops. Requires planted acreage for such years to be reduced by 15 percent, ten percent, and five percent, respectively. Makes a person who produces in excess of the permitted acreage ineligible for loans and payments. Permits the Secretary to adjust farm acreage bases. Requires that a portion of such acreage be devoted to conservation uses. Title VI: Soybeans - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent soybean crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Title VII: Dairy - Sets the dairy price support level through FY 1987 at $11.60 per hundredweight. Provides for two specified 50-cent per hundredweight price support reductions if purchases exceed specified amounts. Directs the Secretary to make milk payments for each of the fiscal years after FY 1987 based upon the payment rate and quantity of milk or milk products marketed in such fiscal year. Sets forth payment rate schedules for each of FY 1988 through 1991 and subsequent fiscal years. Directs the Secretary to appoint a ten-member task force to: (1) study the milk marketing order program; and (2) prepare a report by September 30, 1990. Extends through December 31, 1989, the authority for seasonal adjustment plans in milk marketing orders. Title VIII: Peanuts - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of each of the 1986 and subsequent peanut crops who pledge their crops as loan security. Sets the basic loan rate for each crop at the smaller of: (1) 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price; or (2) $250 per ton. Requires loan repayment within nine months. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each of the 1986 and subsequent peanut crops based upon the quantity of eligible peanuts and the payment rate. Sets forth quantity eligible formulas for the 1986 through 1990 crops, and for the 1991 and subsequent crops. Sets the 1986 payment rate at the amount by which the national average market price is less than $550 per ton. Sets the 1987 and subsequent payment rates as the amount by which the year's market price is less than the three preceding years' national average market price multiplied by: (1) 95 percent for 1987; (2) 90 percent for 1988; (3) 85 percent for 1989; (4) 80 percent for 1990; and (5) 75 percent for 1991 and each subsequent year. Provides with regard to 1986 through 1990 payment quota transfers that: (1) if a farm is transferred to a new owner the quota shall remain with the farm; (2) a quota may be permanently transferred upon death, by gift, or to a family member's farm; and (3) a temporary quota transfer may be made if both owner and operator agree in writing and such transfer is to such operator's farm. Title IX: Sugar - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of the 1986 and subsequent sugar cane and sugar beet crops. Sets the basic loan rate at 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price (raw value). Limits the sugar cane rate to no more than 12 cents per pound. Authorizes the Secretary to determine parallel sugar beet loan rates. Directs the Secretary to take steps to avoid accumulating excess CCC sugar stocks. Directs the Secretary to make payments for each of the 1986 and subsequent sugar cane and sugar beet crops based upon payment rate and quantity. Sets the 1986 through 1990 payment rates for sugar cane as the amount by which the year's market price is less than the greater of 75 percent of the preceding three years' market price, or: (1) 18 cents per pound for 1986; (2) 16 cents per pound for 1987; (3) 14 cents per pound for 1988; and (4) 12 cents per pound for 1989 and 1990. Sets the payment rates for sugar beets as the amount by which the national average market price is less than: (1) for each of the 1986 through 1990 crops, an amount determined by the Secretary in relation to the sugar cane rate; and (2) for each of the 1991 and subsequent crops, 75 percent of the preceding three years' national average market price. Title X: Wool and Mohair - Directs the Secretary to make loans to producers of wool and mohair for each of the 1986 and subsequent crops. Sets the 1986 and subsequent payment rates for mohair and wool at the amount by which the year's market price is less than the smaller of $5.17 per pound or the three preceding years' national average market price multiplied by: (1) 100 percent for 1986; (2) 95 percent for 1987; (3) 90 percent for 1988; (4) 85 percent for 1989; (5) 80 percent for 1990; and (6) 75 percent for 1991 and subsequent years. Title XI: Food Assistance Reserve - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a wheat and feed grain food assistance reserve. Title XII: General Provisions - Places specified program limits on amounts that a person may receive under this Act. Permits a person applying for specified commodity loans under this Act to designate such a loan as a nonrecourse loan. Limits such total amounts to $200,000. Provides that: (1) the borrower shall not be personally liable for any deficiency arising from the sale of collateral securing such a loan unless the loan was fraudulently obtained; and (2) the payment rate shall be the lesser of the otherwise applicable payment rate or the amount by which the national average market price for the collateral-commodity is less than the loan rate for the collateral. Directs the Secretary to ascertain the acreage of any commodity or land use on a farm in order to determine program compliance under this Act. Permits remeasurement upon farm operator request. Provides that when the ownership of a tract of land is transferred from a parent farm, any payment quota, history acreage and base acreage for the farm shall be divided between such tract and the parent farm in the same proportion as the tract cropland acreage bears to the parent farm cropland acreage. Permits the Secretary to provide alternative apportionment in certain situations. Permits the Secretary to make advance commodity payments. Title XIII: Repeal of Prior Legislation - Repeals specified provisions of: (1) the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; (2) the Agricultural Act of 1949; (3) the Agricultural Act of 1948; (4) the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965; (5) the Food and Agriculture Act of 1962; (6) the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981; (7) the Agricultural Act of 1970; (8) the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980; (9) the Agricultural Trade Suspension Adjustment Act of 1980; (10) the National Wool Act; (11) the Agricultural Marketing Act; and (12) other specified Federal laws. Title XIV: National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 - National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act Amendments of 1985 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to repeal the provision requiring the Secretary, in cooperation with other appropriate agencies, to develop a long-term assessment for food, fiber, and forest products. Extends through FY 1989 the term of: (1) the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences; and (2) the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board. Increases such Board's membership and eliminates specified reporting requirements. Eliminates specified needs assessment information from the Secretary's annual agricultural extension, research, and teaching report. Amends Federal law to establish a program of competitive research grants, with emphasis in areas of high priority research, including new techniques, biotechnology, human nutrition, soil and water research, and industrial use of agricultural products. Authorizes annual appropriations. Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to increase administrative cost appropriations from four percent to five percent. Amends the Research Facilities Act to authorize grants on a matching basis. Permits such funds to be used to finance research equipment. Increases administrative cost appropriations from three percent to five percent. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Revises the definition of "State" to include the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Micronesia. Revises the definition of "eligible institution" to include forestry or veterinary departments. Eliminates the requirement that food and agricultural sciences education grants be made without regard to recipient-provided matching grants. Requires a recipient institution to have a significant commitment to the grant's specific subject area. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Repeals provisions requiring the Secretary: (1) to perform a regional food and nutrition center research study; (2) to conduct a weather and water allocation study; (3) to conduct an organic farming study; and (4) to conduct an agricultural research facilities study. Repeals the mandate for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a research and information management system. Authorizes FY 1986 through 1989 appropriations for: (1) agricultural research programs; and (2) extension education. Increases administrative cost appropriations from three percent to five percent. Authorizes the Secretary to use a cooperative agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Department of Agriculture and States, private, or Federal organizations when the Secretary determines that the agreement will serve mutual interests and all parties will contribute resources. Repeals provisions authorizing: (1) the Aquaculture Advisory Board; (2) the Rangeland Research Advisory Board; (3) the dairy goat research program; and (4) the Soybean Research Advisory Institute. Authorizes annual appropriations within the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Includes the acquisition and improvement of agricultural libraries within the scope of land-grant college research facilities grants. Extends grant authority through FY 1987 subject to the limits of specified overall authorizations of appropriations. Amends the Smith-Lever Act to authorize the transfer of specified appropriated funds. Title XV: Resource Conservation - Makes persons who cultivate crops on highly erodible land ineligible for price supports, crop insurance, and other specified agricultural loans. Provides exceptions for: (1) crops produced using approved conservation methods; and (2) certain previously cultivated land through FY 1985. Title XVI: Agricultural Credit - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase from one percent to one and one-eighth percent the maximum additional interest charge on farm ownership or operating loans. Modifies the Secretary's authority to sell notes on a nonrecourse basis from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund and the Rural Development Insurance Fund. Provides that with regard to emergency loan interest rates for post-FY 1985 disasters that such rates shall be: (1) based on the Government's borrowing cost with an additional cost of up to one and one-eighth percent for those persons unable to secure sufficient credit elsewhere; and (2) set at prevailing market rates for those persons able to secure credit elsewhere. Provides that for post-FY 1985 disasters, emergency loans will not be available to those producers to whom Federal crop insurance was available at the time of the disaster. Prohibits the Secretary from making insured farm ownership, operating, or disaster emergency loans after FY 1985. (Permits such loans to be guaranteed.) Provides an exception through FY 1990 for existing operating loan borrowers. Limits loan guarantees to 75 percent, with the Secretary having discretion to increase such limit to 90 percent. Title XVII: Miscellaneous - Amends the Agriculture Act of 1977 to make the existing annual farm report a biannual report. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to extend the authority of the Secretary to collect user fees to all Department of Agriculture publications, including software. Provides for a permanent Commodity Credit Corporation reimbursement appropriation.

Bill· HRH.R. 1308 (99th)open

Hennepin Canal National Heritage Corridor Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985

Hennepin Canal National Heritage Corridor Act - Establishes the Hennepin Canal National Heritage Corridor (the Canal) in the State of Illinois. Authorizes appropriations to the State of Illinois to develop the Canal for public recreational use.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 88 (99th)open

A resolution providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for expenses of investigations and studies by the Committee on Agriculture in the first session of the Ninety-ninth Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1985

Authorizes expenditures by the House Committee on Agriculture for the first session of the 99th Congress, including the procurement of consultant services and assistance for specialized training for its professional staff.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 69 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that payments by the Veterans' Administration to veterans as compensation for service-connected disabilities should remain exempt from Federal income taxation.

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1985

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) veterans' disability compensation payments should remain exempt from Federal income taxation; and (2) the President should reject any proposals to tax such payments.

Bill· HRH.R. 1247 (99th)referred

A bill to provide that each item of any general or special appropriation bill and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations that is agreed to by both Houses of the Congress in the same form shall be enrolled as a separate bill or joint resolution for presentation to the President.

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1985

Provides that each item of any general or special appropriation bill and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations that is agreed to in the same form by both Houses of the Congress shall be enrolled as a separate bill or joint resolution for presentation to the President (line-item veto).

Bill· HRH.R. 1188 (99th)referred

High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act of 1985

United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1985

High Technology Research and Scientific Education Act of 1985 - Title I: The Credit for Increasing Research Activities - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credit for research and development (R&D) expenditures. Modifies the definition of qualified research for purposes of the R&D credit to narrow the category of eligible activities for which the credit is allowable. Provides that in-house and contract research expenses paid or incurred by a regular corporation (not an S corporation, a personal holding company, or a service corporation) will constitute qualified research expenses for R&D credit purposes if the corporation undertakes the research with the intention to use the result thereof in the active conduct of a present or future trade or business. Provides that in the case of research being conducted in partnership form, research expenses will constitute qualified research expenses if they are incurred by the partnership in carrying on a trade or business as applied at the partnership level, and the credit is apportioned among the partners in accordance with general partnership rules. Provides exceptions to this general rule where: (1) there is a joint venture enterprise of regular corporations; or (2) not all of the members of the joint venture are regular corporations, but each member's own trade or business would satisfy the trade or business test with respect to the partnership's research expenditures. Provides that for these two exceptions the research expenses will flow through to the partners, with the trade or business test being applied at the partner level. Title II: Promotion of University Research and Scientific Investigation - Establishes a new income tax credit equal to 20 percent of that portion of a corporation's payments to universities (and other qualified non-profit tax-exempt organizations for basic research) which exceeds a fixed, historical "minimum university basic research" floor. Defines the "minimum university basic research" floor as one percent of the annual average of the corporate taxpayer's combined qualified in-house research expenses, contract research expenses and university basic research payments for the base period composed of the period from 1981 through 1983. Provides that the amounts of research expenses which fall below the floor shall remain eligible for the present R&D credit and are included in the corporation's base period for purposes of calculating the present R&D credit. Treats the amounts which exceed the "minimum university basic research" floor as ineligible for the present R&D credit and excludes such amounts from the corporate taxpayer's base year research expenses for purposes of calculating the corporations R&D credit under present law. Provides that a corporation's payments to universities for basic research that is eligible for the new tax credit shall be reduced to the extent that the corporation's general (i.e., not designated for research purposes) charitable giving to all universities falls below historical levels (the annual average of undesignated payments for three of the immediately preceding four years as selected by the taxpayer). Makes additions to the list of organizations to which corporate payments for basic research may be made and be eligible for the tax credit. Allows a corporation an income tax deduction for contributions of scientific or technical property to an institution of higher education. Defines scientific property to mean tangible personal property (including computer software) used in a trade or business, which is donated for the direct education of students or faculty, for research and experimentation, or for research training in the United States in mathematics, the physical, biological, or chemical sciences, engineering, or advanced computer sciences. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of the allowable deduction for contributions of scientific property. Provides for an income tax exclusion for the scholarships, fellowship grants, student loan forgiveness, or stipends of a graduate student in mathematics, engineering, computer science, or the physical or biological sciences. Provides that such tax exclusion is not forfeited merely because the student is required, as a condition of the scholarship or fellowship, to perform future service in teaching or research.

Bill· HRH.R. 1123 (99th)referred

Liberty Double-Eagle Bullion Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1985

Liberty Double-Eagle Bullion Coin Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue gold double-eagle coins. Sets forth specifications for and the design of such coins. Makes such coins legal tender. Permits the sale of such coins at a price equal to the cost of minting and issuing such coins plus a surcharge equal to the amount by which the fair market value of gold bullion held by the United States and used in the minting of the coins exceeds the statutory maximum value of any gold certificates outstanding against the bullion. Requires the revenue from such surcharges to be used to reduce the national debt. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 1059 (99th)referred

A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for administrative release of highway funds if Congress does not approve the interstate cost estimate and the interstate substitute cost estimate.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985

Revises Federal procedures regarding the establishment of interstate cost estimates to direct the Secretary of Transportation to apportion such estimates for construction funds and substitute highway and urban transit projects on October 1 of 1985-1988 if the Congress has not approved such estimates by that time.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 57 (99th)referred

A concurrent resolution encouraging private sector involvement in the worldwide effort to alleviate hunger.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1985

Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) in order to encourage private investment in developing countries, it is necessary to encourage the private sector to be involved with other nations in efforts to alleviate hunger; and (2) American institutions in the public and private sectors should jointly develop commitments and a plan to end world hunger.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 132 (99th)open

A joint resolution to designate May 7, 1985, "Helsinki Human Rights Day", to request the President to continue efforts to achieve full implementation of the Helsinki Accords, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1985

Designates May 7, 1985, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with the U.S.S.R. and the Warsaw Pact nations; and (3) convey to U.S. allies the necessity of unity on these points.