United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Exxon Company should dedicate whatever resources are necessary and pay all expenses required to compensate affected parties expeditiously, mitigate impacts, and complete cleanup of Prince William Sound and other Alaska lands and waters damaged by the Exxon Valdez oilspill; (2) the scope and thoroughness of the cleanup should not be determined by Exxon, but by the U.S. Coast Guard; (3) if the cleanup has not been completed to the Coast Guard's satisfaction by September 15, 1989, Exxon should renew the cleanup in the spring, until the Coast Guard has determined that the cleanup is complete; and (4) Exxon should maintain a contingency force in affected Alaskan communities from September 15, 1989, until full-scale cleanup efforts renew in the spring.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1989
Chemical and Biological Warfare Elimination Act - Title I: Measures to Prevent the Proliferation of Chemical and Biological Weapons - Declares it is U.S. policy to seek multilaterally coordinated efforts with other countries to control the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons. Requires the President to use the U.S. export control laws to control the export of defense articles, defense services, goods, and technologies that he determines would assist a country in acquiring the capability to produce or use such weapons. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require a validated export license for the export of any goods or technology that the President determines would assist a country in acquiring such weapons, unless the destination of such export is a country with which the United States has an arrangement for their control. Requires the President to impose certain sanctions against foreign persons if he determines that such persons knowingly contributed to the efforts of a country to acquire or use chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law. Declares such sanctions to include: (1) denial of U.S. procurement contracts for goods or services from such foreign persons; and (2) prohibition against importation of products from such persons. Authorizes the President to waive imposition of such sanctions if he determines that it is in the national security interests of the United States. Title II: Measures to Deter the Use of Chemical or Biological Weapons - Requires the President to determine whether a foreign country is using or developing chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law. Requires the President to impose certain sanctions against countries that do so. Declares such sanctions to include: (1) prohibition against arms sales and security-sensitive goods and technology; (2) prohibition of the export of U.S. goods and technology (except agricultural products); (3) import restrictions; (4) denial of foreign assistance; (5) U.S. opposition to loan or financial assistance from international and U.S. financial institutions; and (6) the suspension of diplomatic relations. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the President to transmit to the Congress a report regarding the use or development of chemical or biological weapons by countries in violation of international law.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1989
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1989 - Title I: Provisions for Attainment and Maintenance of National Ambient Air Quality Standards - Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after promulgating a new or revised national ambient air quality standard, to require States to submit air quality implementation plans. Requires State Governors to designate areas within a State as nonattainment, attainment, or unclassifiable, with regard to air quality standards, and to submit such designations to the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to modify such designations, as necessary. Designates areas currently required to be listed under the Clean Air Act as nonattainment, attainment, or unclassifiable areas, as specified. Provides for the redesignation of areas, as appropriate. Prohibits the redesignation of any area from nonattainment to unclassifiable. Directs State Governors to submit to the Administrator a list of areas designated or redesignated as carbon monoxide and ozone attainment, nonattainment, and unclassifiable areas. Designates: (1) areas identified (in 52 Federal Register 29383) as Group I areas as particulate matter 10 (PM-10) nonattainment areas; (2) counties containing sites for which air quality monitoring data show a violation of national air quality standards for PM-10 before 1989 as PM-10 nonattainment areas; and (3) areas not meeting either description as PM-10 unclassifiable areas. Authorizes the Administrator to require States to designate areas with respect to the national air quality standard for lead. Permits the Administrator, with respect to attainment or unclassifiable areas, to require States to submit implementation plans that provide for the maintenance of such standards. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning plan requirements. Sets forth provisions for plan approval and revisions. Requires plans to provide for attainment of national air quality standards in nonattainment areas within three years of this Act's enactment or within five years of a finding of substantial inadequacy. Retains a moratorium on construction or modification of major stationary sources in certain areas until such areas meet applicable requirements concerning permit programs or attainment standards for sulfur oxides. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) extensions of time for plan submissions and attainment dates; (2) requirements concerning parking surcharges and transportation regulations; and (3) suspensions of certain plan requirements. Requires the Administrator to publish a triennial (currently, annual) document which sets forth applicable requirements of the implementation plan for each State. Revises provisions concerning stack heights to require such heights to equal the height prescribed by the Administrator (currently, the height shall not exceed two and a half times the height of the source), unless the owner or operator demonstrates the need for a greater height and such source has met applicable emissions standards. Sets the date of attainment of national air quality standards for a nonattainment area at five years from the date such area was designated. Authorizes the Administrator to extend such attainment date, provided that such extension does not exceed 20 years. Permits up to two one-year extensions to be granted to a single area upon application by a State. Requires States to submit nonattainment plans within three years of the designation of an area. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning nonattainment plan requirements. Authorizes the issuance of a permit to construct or operate a new source if demonstrated that the benefits of such source significantly outweigh environmental and social costs. Prohibits the use of existing growth allowances in areas which are notified that implementation plans containing such allowances are substantially inadequate. Requires States containing ozone or carbon monoxide nonattainment areas, together with local officials of such areas, to review and update, as necessary, planning procedures for such areas. Authorizes States, in the case of areas included in more than one State, to implement jointly such planning procedures. Provides that maintenance plans required as preconditions to area redesignations shall provide for maintenance of air quality standards for at least ten years after a redesignation petition is submitted to the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator, whenever it is determined that the interstate transport of air pollutants from one or more States contributes significantly to a violation of an air quality standard in such States, to establish a transport region for such pollutants within such States. Requires the Administrator to establish a transport commission for each such region to: (1) assess the degree of interstate transport of the pollutant or precursors to the pollutant throughout the transport region; (2) assess strategies for mitigating the interstate pollution; and (3) recommend to the Administrator such measures as may be necessary to ensure that State plans meet requirements of this Act. Permits such commissions to request the Administrator to issue a finding that one or more of the States in a transport region have inadequate implementation plans. Applies program cost limitations for interstate air quality agencies to such commissions. Imposes the following sanctions on States which fail to comply with requirements concerning nonattainment areas: (1) a moratorium on the construction or modification of any major stationary source of the relevant pollutants in the nonattainment area, or with respect to ozone, the nonattainment area and the area within 25 miles of the nonattainment area; (2) restrictions on Department of Transportation assistance to such areas; (3) restrictions on the provision of new drinking water service in such areas; or (4) a withholding of all or part of assistance for air pollution planning and control. Requires States which fail to attain air quality standards by the required attainment date to submit plan revisions. Prohibits the construction or modification of any major stationary source of a pollutant in a nonattainment area after 1992 or 42 months after the designation of such area, whichever is later, unless the Administrator has approved a plan submission for such area. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate a Federal implementation plan if any State fails to make a required submission or such submission is not approved. Classifies ozone nonattainment areas as Marginal, Moderate, Serious, and Severe, based upon the amount by which the air quality standard is exceeded in the area. Authorizes the Administrator to adjust the classification of areas which would be classified in another area if the ozone level were five percent greater or less. Prohibits more than two one-year attainment extensions from being issued for a single nonattainment area. Sets forth the following attainment dates: (1) December 31, 1995, for Marginal and Moderate areas; (2) December 31, 2000, for Serious areas; and (3) December 31, 2010, for Severe areas. Provides for the reclassification of areas which fail to meet required standards. Requires States in which Marginal areas are located to submit to the Administrator a current inventory of actual emissions from all sources. Directs such States to submit plan revisions to require: (1) correction requirements for available control technology; (2) a vehicle inspection and maintenance program; (3) permits for the construction and operation of new or modified stationary sources; (4) triennial inventories; and (5) emissions statements from owners or operators of stationary sources of oxides of nitrogen or volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Waives requirements for the submission of triennial inventories for sources which emit less than 25 tons annually of nitrogen oxides or VOCs if the State provides an emissions inventory for such sources to the Administrator. Requires States in which Moderate areas are located to submit plan revisions which provide for emission reductions, by December 31, 1995, of at least 15 percent from baseline emissions. Prohibits the following measures from being credited to the 15 percent reduction: (1) measures relating to motor vehicle tailpipe or evaporative emissions promulgated by the Administrator; (2) regulations concerning Reid Vapor Pressure promulgated by the Administrator; (3) measures concerning required corrections to implementation plans; and (4) measures concerning motor vehicle inspection and maintenance. Provides that plan revisions shall require: (1) the implementation of reasonably available control technology with respect to all VOC sources covered by a Control Techniques Guideline document and all sources with the potential to emit at least 100 tons annually of VOCs; and (2) owners and operators of gasoline dispensing systems to install and operate systems for gasoline vapor recovery of emissions from the fueling of motor vehicles. Sets forth deadlines for the installation of such systems. Requires States in which Serious areas are located to submit the same plan revisions as those applicable to Moderate areas. Directs such States, by December 31, 1995, to submit revisions to provide for: (1) the attainment of the ozone air quality standard by the applicable attainment date; and (2) certain VOC emissions reductions from the baseline emissions averaged over three-year periods, beginning in 1996. Sets forth provisions concerning creditable emissions reductions. Permits such revisions to provide for combined VOC and nitrogen oxide emissions reductions (in lieu of sole VOC reductions) that would result in reductions equivalent to those required for VOC emissions from the baseline level. Requires such States to revise plans to provide for programs to reduce hydrocarbon emissions from in-use motor vehicles in urbanized nonattainment areas with populations over 200,000. Sets forth minimum requirements for such programs, including waiver and enforcement provisions. Requires States containing certain Serious or Severe areas with populations over 250,000 to submit plan revisions to ensure the implementation of clean-fuel vehicle programs, including measures to make the use of clean alternative fuels economic for owners. Permits the Administrator to approve substitutes for such programs if such substitutes will achieve equivalent reductions of ozone-producing emissions. Requires States with Serious areas in which the levels of vehicle miles traveled or congestion levels exceed levels projected for purposes of the area's demonstration of attainment or progress to submit plan revisions providing for transportation control measures. Requires States in which Severe areas are located to make the same submissions as those applicable to Serious areas and to submit an attainment demonstration by December 31, 2000. Provides that States containing non-self-generating ozone nonattainment areas that do not include or are not adjacent to metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) shall be treated as satisfying the requirements of this Act if they make submissions required for Marginal areas. Permits the Administrator to treat such areas as non-self-generating if found that VOC and nitrogen oxides emissions within such areas do not contribute significantly to ozone concentrations in such areas or other areas. Sets forth requirements for areas reclassified as Moderate. Requires the Administrator to: (1) issue control techniques guidelines for seven categories of stationary sources of VOC emissions for which guidelines have not been issued; and (2) issue a document analyzing alternative control techniques for stationary sources of nitrogen oxides. Directs the Administrator to: (1) report to the Congress on VOC emissions from consumer or commercial products; and (2) promulgate regulations to aid in the attainment of the ozone air quality standard by decreasing emissions from such products. Authorizes such regulations to exempt health use products for which there are no suitable substitutes. Permits the transfer of enforcement authority for such regulations to States with the approval of the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to promulgate standards applicable to air pollutant emissions from loading and unloading of marine tank vessels which may endanger public health or welfare. Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue regulations to ensure the safety of the equipment and operations to control such emissions. Prohibits States from adopting any less stringent emissions standards. Requires the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on whether current methodology used to establish a design value for ozone provides a reasonable indicator of the ozone air quality of ozone nonattainment areas. Subjects such study to peer review. Establishes an ozone transport region comprised of coastal States on the east coast between Maine and Maryland and the consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA) including the District of Columbia. Sets a fee of $5,000 per ton of VOC emitted during a calendar year in excess of 80 percent of the baseline amount for major stationary sources in severe ozone nonattainment areas which fail to attain standards by the applicable date. Requires such fee to be adjusted annually. Exempts from such fee areas with populations under 200,000 if demonstrated that attainment is prevented because of ozone transported from other areas. Classifies carbon monoxide nonattainment areas as Moderate or Serious. Authorizes the Administrator to adjust such classifications under conditions parallel to those for ozone nonattainment areas. Sets forth attainment dates of December 31, 1995, and December 31, 2000, for Moderate and Serious areas, respectively. Sets forth provisions for attainment extensions and reclassifications parallel to those for ozone nonattainment areas. Requires States in which Moderate carbon monoxide areas are located to submit to the Administrator a current inventory of actual emissions from all sources. Directs such States to submit plan revisions to require: (1) vehicle inspection and maintenance programs; and (2) triennial inventories. Requires States in which Serious carbon monoxide areas are located to make the same submissions as those required for Moderate areas. Directs such States to submit plan revisions to require: (1) attainment demonstrations; (2) vehicle inspection and maintenance programs; (3) transportation control measures; and (4) the use of oxygenated fuels in CMSA or MSA. Classifies PM 10 nonattainment areas as Moderate or Serious. Sets forth procedures and a timetable for reclassification of such areas. Provides for attainment dates of December 31, 1994, and December 31, 2001, for Moderate and Serious areas, respectively. Sets forth provisions for attainment extensions parallel to those for ozone and carbon monoxide nonattainment areas. Permits additional extensions to be granted to Serious areas, under specified conditions. Limits such extensions to a period of five years. Authorizes the Administrator to waive any requirement or attainment date for a Serious PM-10 area if determined that anthropogenic sources of PM-10 do not contribute significantly to violations of the PM-10 standard in such area. Requires States in which Moderate PM-10 areas are located to submit plans that include a permit program for the construction and operation of new and modified PM-10 sources and a demonstration on whether attainment is practicable by the applicable date. Directs States in which Serious PM-10 areas are located to submit plans that include a demonstration on whether attainment is practicable by the applicable date and the implementation of reasonably available control measures. Sets forth a timetable for the submission of attainment demonstrations. Requires the Administrator to: (1) issue technical guidance on reasonably available control measures for urban fugitive dust and emissions from residential wood combustion and prescribed silvicultural and agricultural burning; and (2) examine other categories of sources contributing to nonattainment of PM-10 and issue any additional guidance. Directs States containing nonattainment areas with respect to air quality standards for sulfur oxides, nitrogen dioxide, or lead to submit implementation plans to the Administrator. Requires such plans to provide for attainment of such standards within five years of the date of designation or, for States without approved plans, within five years of this Act's enactment. Applies requirements of approved plans submitted by Indian tribes to all areas located within a reservation. Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) treat Indian tribes as States under the Clean Air Act, except with respect to a requirement that makes available at least one-half of one percent of annual appropriations to States; and (2) provide such tribes with grant and contract assistance to carry out air pollution control functions. Outlines requirements for such authorization. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate other means for administering such authorities where such treatment is inappropriate. Revises provisions concerning transportation planning and guidelines to require the Administrator to update the June 1978 Transportation-Air Quality Planning Guidelines. Requires States to submit such reports as the Administrator may require concerning emissions reductions, vehicle miles traveled, congestion levels, and any other information necessary for the Administrator to assess the effectiveness, implementation, or revision of any State plan. Extends the deadlines by which the Administrator must promulgate and revise regulations concerning new source standards of performance. Sets deadlines for the promulgation of regulations for sources for which the Administrator has not proposed regulations. Applies recordkeeping, inspections, monitoring, and entry requirements to persons who manufacture emissions control or process equipment or who may have information relevant to emissions sources. Exempts from interstate pollution abatement requirements States with permit programs approved under title IV of the Clean Air Act. Exempts concentrations of particulate matter attributable to increases in fugitive emissions from surface coal mines for purposes of determining compliance with maximum allowable increases in ambient concentrations of particulate matter. Revises provisions concerning pollutant increments and preconstruction requirements to lower the ceilings on maximum allowable increases in concentrations of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter. Authorizes the Administrator, in the case of pollutants other than sulfur dioxide or particulate matter for which standards are promulgated or revised, to promulgate or revise air quality increments or other regulations to prevent the significant deterioration of air quality which would result from emissions of such pollutants. Permits the Administrator, if the indicator for the particulate matter air quality standard has been changed, to modify the maximum allowable increases in particulate matter specified under this Act. Provides that the Administrator's interpretation of State implementation plans shall, if contested by a State or other party, be given deference by a court if the interpretation concerns compliance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act and is rational. Repeals provisions concerning financial disclosure and conflicts of interest. Authorizes the Administrator to assess the risks to ecosystems from exposure to criteria air pollutants. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Title II: Provisions Relating to Mobile Sources - Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring the use of clean alternative fuel in new urban buses operated primarily in MSAs with populations over 1,000,000. Establishes a schedule for the phasing-in of such program, to require the use of such fuels by all model year 1994 buses. Limits emissions of particulate matter from such buses. Permits a delay of up to two years for the application of such requirements if the Administrator determines that such delay will advance the technology, improve the benefits, or lower the costs of the urban bus program. Requires the Administrator to establish a program to increase the number of clean-fuel vehicles in the most serious ozone nonattainment areas. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations to establish performance standards for such programs, based on the long-term reductions in ozone-producing and toxic air emissions anticipated to result from the use of such fuels. Requires the following amount of clean-fuel vehicles to be produced and sold: (1) 500,000 in model year 1995; (2) 750,000 in model year 1996; and (3) 1,000,000 in model years 1997 through 2004. Authorizes the Administrator to grant credits toward emissions standards compliance to manufacturers who sell clean-fuel vehicles that achieve emissions reductions greater than required or sell more of such vehicles than required. Permits such manufacturers to transfer credits to other manufacturers. Requires at least one clean fuel to be sold at service stations dispensing an average of at least 50,000 gallons per month in clean-fuel vehicle areas. Permits the Administrator, if the sale of such vehicles has created a demand for such fuels outside the areas in which they are sold, to make such fuels available in major nationwide transportation corridors. Requires clean-fuel vehicles to be sold in: (1) certain Serious or Severe ozone nonattainment areas with populations over 250,000; or (2) any other area, at the request of a State Governor and with the approval of the Administrator. Permits State Governors to request the Administrator to increase the number of clean-fuel vehicles to be sold in an area. Requires the Administrator, in developing clean-fuel regulations, to hold at least one public hearing and to consider the environmental, energy, economic, health, national security, and safety implications of such program. Authorizes the Administrator to require manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of motor vehicles or motor vehicle fuels to maintain records, make reports, and provide information regarding such vehicles and fuels. Makes such records, reports, and information available to the public, with the exception of any information considered to be a trade secret. Sets standards for emissions of: (1) hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles (passenger cars) manufactured after 1979 and light duty trucks manufactured after 1993; (2) carbon monoxide from light duty vehicles manufactured after 1980 and light duty trucks manufactured after 1993; and (3) nitrogen oxides from light duty vehicles manufactured after 1980. Applies high altitude regulations requirements to light duty trucks manufactured after 1983. Requires the Administrator to set carbon monoxide emissions standards for light duty vehicles and light duty trucks operated at 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Provides that such standards shall be met by averaging emissions levels established for engine families. Directs the Administrator, no later than December 31, 1993, to complete a study assessing the need for further reductions of carbon monoxide emissions and the maximum reductions achievable from light duty vehicles and light duty trucks manufactured after 1997 when operated at 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate further cold temperature regulations for carbon monoxide emissions from such vehicles and heavy duty vehicles. Permits the Administrator to promulgate regulations for evaporative emissions of hydrocarbons from gasoline-fueled motor vehicles during operation and over two or more days of nonuse, under ozone-prone summertime conditions. Requires the Administrator to study the need for and feasibility of controlling emissions of unregulated toxic air pollutants associated with motor vehicles and motor vehicle fuels. Allows the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring: (1) manufacturers to install emissions malfunction diagnostic systems on all new motor vehicles and engines; and (2) States with implementation plans to revise such plans to provide for inspection of such systems. Revises provisions concerning the promulgation of regulations for heavy duty vehicles. Requires the Administrator to study the practice of rebuilding heavy duty engines and the impact of such rebuilding on engine emissions. Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe requirements to control rebuilding practices. Permits the Administrator to set emissions standards for nonroad engines and vehicles. Prohibits the use of emissions control systems in such engines or vehicles if the operation of such systems will cause or contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health or safety. Requires the Administrator to add test procedures to vehicle certification regulations to determine whether light duty vehicles and light duty trucks manufactured after 1992 will pass inspection methods under conditions likely to be encountered in inspection and maintenance programs. Prohibits the Administrator from granting a certificate to any vehicle or engine not passing the test. Directs the Administrator, to the maximum extent feasible, to prescribe regulations permitting manufacturers to comply with emissions standards through averaging of emissions of vehicle or engine families within a manufacturer's fleet. Requires the Administrator to apply specified standards to nonconforming emissions of: (1) hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles or engines manufactured after 1992; and (2) hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide from light duty trucks manufactured after 1993. Permits the Administrator to require a manufacturer to: (1) audit the effectiveness of repairs made to remedy such nonconformities; and (2) procure or test in-use vehicles to determine whether a notice of nonconformity or failure should be issued. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing fees to recover all costs to the U.S. Government associated with vehicle or engine certification and compliance monitoring and testing and vehicle fuel economy programs under the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act. Provides for the deposit of such fees in a special U.S. Treasury fund. Authorizes representatives of the Administrator to enter any manufacturer's establishment, at reasonable times, for purposes of inspecting or observing any activity associated with motor vehicle manufacturing or testing. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations to: (1) make it unlawful for any person to introduce into commerce gasoline whose Reid Vapor Pressure exceeds nine pounds per square inch; and (2) establish more stringent Reid Vapor Pressure standards to achieve comparable evaporative emissions. Provides that such regulations shall take effect no later than the high ozone season for 1992. Permits gasoline containing between nine and ten percent ethanol (by volume) to exceed the applicable Reid Vapor Pressure by up to one pound per square inch. Makes it unlawful, effective October 1, 1993, to introduce into commerce motor vehicle diesel fuel which contains sulfur in excess of .05 percent (by weight) or which fails to meet a cetane index minimum of 40. Permits the Administrator to require manufacturers and importers of diesel fuel not used in motor vehicles to dye such fuel to segregate it from motor vehicle diesel fuel. Sets a sulfur content limit for diesel used in model years 1991 through 1993 heavy duty vehicles and engines. Authorizes the Administrator to control the introduction into commerce of any fuel for nonroad engines or vehicles. Makes it unlawful for manufacturers of fuels or fuel additives to introduce into commerce, or increase the concentration in use of, any fuel or fuel additive for use in motor vehicles manufactured after 1974 which is not substantially similar to a fuel or additive utilized in the certification of any subsequent model year vehicle or engine. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations that allow manufacturers or fuel refiners to control emissions from motor vehicles and fuels by means different than required vapor recovery measures as long as the alternative measures achieve equivalent reductions over the same time period. Requires such regulations to establish performance standards for motor vehicles and fuels marketed in certain Serious or Severe ozone nonattainment areas with populations of at least 250,000. Permits averaging of such reductions if such averaging achieves reductions equivalent to those achieved by compliance with performance standards. Prohibits the manufacture or sale of any part which bypasses or renders inoperative any device installed on motor vehicles or engines in compliance with this title. Increases penalties for certain violations of the Clean Air Act. Authorizes the Administrator to commence a civil action to recover such penalties, subject to certain limitations. Sets forth judicial review and collection provisions, including requirements for the imposition of nonpayment penalties. Expands the scope and increases the amount of penalties for fuel regulations violations. Prohibits the introduction of leaded gasoline into any motor vehicle manufactured after 1989 which is designed solely for the use of unleaded gasoline. Repeals specified provisions concerning: (1) a study concerning aircraft emissions; (2) reporting requirements; (3) waivers of emissions standards; (4) propulsion and emissions control systems; and (4) exemptions from emissions control systems modifications. Title III: Hazardous Air Pollutants - Establishes a list of hazardous air pollutants. Provides for additions to or deletions from such list, based upon the degree to which a pollutant is known to cause cancer or any other chronic or adverse health effects in humans. Permits any person to petition the Administrator for modifications to such list. Requires the Administrator to list and establish emissions standards for all categories of major and area sources of such pollutants. Authorizes the Administrator to set emissions standards for radionuclides from such sources separately from regulating such pollutants. Requires such standards to be no less stringent than standards achieved by the best controlled similar source. Directs the Administrator to review and revise such standards, as necessary. Establishes a timetable for the promulgation of such standards, requiring standards for all categories within ten years of this Act's enactment. Requires compliance by existing sources within three years of the promulgation of such standards. Directs the Administrator, within seven years of the promulgation of such standards, to evaluate the risks remaining to public health after the promulgation of such standards. Requires the Administrator, if the application of such standards presents an unreasonable risk, to promulgate standards to protect adequately against such risk. Authorizes States with approved programs to issue permits providing for alternative emissions limitations from major sources or extensions of compliance dates for certain existing sources. Requires such limitations to be approved by the Administrator. Permits the Administrator to grant compliance extensions to sources in States without approved programs. Prohibits: (1) the construction of any new major source subject to standards under this title unless the Administrator or a State with an approved program determines that such source complies with such standards; and (2) the operation of any source subject to such standards, except in compliance with such standards. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air toxics clearinghouse and centers to provide technical information and assistance to State and local agencies. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct research on methods for preventing, measuring, and controlling emissions and evaluating associated health and ecological risks. Permits the President to exempt any source from standards for up to two years if it is in U.S. national security interests to do so. Authorizes additional two-year extensions of such exemptions. Requires the President to report to the Congress on each exemption or extension. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on the anticipated health hazards resulting from pollutant emissions by electric utility steam generating units after imposition of this Act's requirements. Requires the Administrator to describe alternative control strategies for emissions warranting regulation under this Act. Title IV: Permits - Makes it unlawful to violate any permit requirement or to operate a source subject to standards under the Clean Air Act, except in compliance with a permit. Authorizes the Administrator to exempt sources from permit requirements if consistent with the purposes of this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing the minimum elements of a permit program to be administered by any air pollution control agency. Requires such program to include requirements for: (1) permit applications; (2) monitoring and reporting; (3) permit fees of at least $25 per ton of each regulated pollutant to be increased in accordance with the Consumer Price Index; (4) adequate personnel and funding; (5) certain authorities for the permitting authority; and (6) adequate procedures for public notice and comment on permit applications. Authorizes the Administrator to collect fees from any source if determined that the permitting authority is not adequately administering or enforcing a permit program. Requires sources that fail to pay fees to the Administrator to pay penalties of 50 percent of the fee amount plus interest. Requires such fees to be used to support the air pollution control program of a State or interstate agency. Directs State Governors to submit: (1) permit programs to the Administrator within three years of this Act's enactment; and (2) legal opinions from the attorney general that the laws of the State, locality, or interstate compact provide adequate authority to carry out such program. Sets forth approval and modification procedures for such programs. Authorizes the submission and approval of partial permit programs which meet certain minimum requirements. Provides that approval of a partial program shall not relieve a State of its obligation to submit a complete program. Sets forth interim approval, administration, and enforcement procedures. Requires owners or operators of regulated sources to submit compliance plans with permit applications and to periodically certify that such facilities are in compliance with this Act's requirements. Makes permit applications, compliance plans, monitoring reports, certifications, and permits available to the public. Requires permits to include emissions limitations and standards, schedules of compliance, and such other conditions as are necessary to assure compliance with applicable requirements. Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe procedures for determining compliance and for monitoring and analysis of pollutants regulated under this Act. Requires permits to set forth inspection, entry, monitoring, compliance certification, and reporting requirements. Authorizes permitting authorities to issue: (1) general permits covering numerous similar sources; or (2) single permits authorizing emissions from similar operations at multiple temporary locations. Requires owners or operators of temporary sources to notify the permitting authority in advance of any change in location of such sources. Authorizes the permitting authority to require separate fees for operations at each location. Allows the reissuance or modification of permits which provide for less stringent emissions limitations or other requirements under certain conditions. Requires permitting authorities to: (1) submit to the Administrator any application for alternative emissions limitations or permit modifications; and (2) notify all States contiguous to the State in which the emissions originate of each permit application and provide an opportunity for such States to submit recommendations regarding such permit. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) issuance or denial of permits; (2) waivers of notification requirements; and (3) notifications to States regarding termination, modification, revocation, or reissuance of permits. Title V: Acid Deposition Control - Declares that the purpose of this title is to achieve nationwide reductions in annual emissions of: (1) sulfur dioxides of approximately 10,000,000 tons from 1980 emissions levels (in two phases); and (2) nitrogen oxides of 2,000,000 tons relative to levels in 2000. Directs the Administrator to transfer annual allowances to owners or operators of affected sources in amounts equal to the annual tonnage emissions limitations under this Act. Continues the allocation of such allowances to an owner or operator if an existing affected unit is removed from commercial operation. Permits the transfer of such allowances between owners or operators, subject to certain limitations. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations to establish an allowance system which shall provide for unused allowances to be carried forward and added to allowances for subsequent years. Provides for the trading of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide allowances, including the crediting of nitrogen oxide reductions in phase I against those required in phase II. Subjects trades in nonattainment areas to the approval of the Administrator. Requires owners or operators of new units to hold allowances equal to the annual tonnage of sulfur dioxide emitted by such units after December 31, 2000. Makes such units ineligible for allocations of sulfur dioxide allowances. Permits such units to obtain allowances from any unit allocated allowances under this title. Makes it unlawful to hold or transfer any allowance, except in accordance with regulations issued by the Administrator. Lists affected sources and units and their sulfur dioxide allowances. Provides that existing steam-electric units with nameplate capacities of 100 MWe or greater that emit sulfur dioxide at a specified annual rate between this Act's enactment date and 2001 shall be considered to be affected units. Sets emissions limitations for such sources. Authorizes owners or operators of affected units to submit proposals to the Administrator to reassign sulfur dioxide emissions requirements to any other unit under their control. Sets forth approval procedures for such proposals. Provides that existing steam-electric units with nameplate capacities of 75 MWe or greater and with specified 1985 emissions rates shall be affected units for purposes of this Act after December 31, 2000. Subjects such units to specified emissions limitations after such date. Prohibits existing steam-electric units, after December 31, 2000, from exceeding annual emissions rate requirements equal to actual 1985 emissions rates. Requires nitrogen oxide emissions rate requirements to be met in the second phase by coal-fired steam-electric units with nameplate capacities of 75 MWe or greater. Sets nitrogen oxide emissions limitations for such units after December 31, 2000. Requires this title to be implemented by permits that prohibit exceedances of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions rates, limitations, or allowances or contravention of any permit provisions. Requires permits to be accompanied by compliance plans. Authorizes the Administrator to require: (1) a demonstration of attainment of national air quality standards for sources; and (2) an integrated compliance plan from owners or operators of two or more sources. Directs the Administrator to issue permits to listed affected sources. Sets forth permit application and approval procedures. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations to implement a Federal permit program for affected sources. Directs owners or operators submitting phase I permit applications and compliance plans to request certifications from State Governors that such applications and plans are in compliance with State law. Permits such certifications to preclude the use of coal produced outside the State at such sources. Waives such requirements if the Governor fails to act on such a request. Establishes deadlines for phase II sulfur dioxide emissions and nitrogen oxide emissions requirements with respect to: (1) the submission of permit applications and compliance plans; (2) the issuance of permits by States to affected sources; and (3) the issuance of allowances by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator, if a State fails to issue permits by the required deadline, to issue such permits by July 1, 1997. Directs States to submit permit programs for new units to the Administrator. Sets deadlines for the submission of permit applications and compliance plans for such units. Authorizes the submission of revised applications or plans. Makes it unlawful to: (1) fail to submit an application or plan in accordance with deadlines; or (2) operate any source, except in compliance with a permit program. Authorizes owners or operators of existing sources, by January 1, 1998, to demonstrate to the permitting authority that one or more units will be repowered with a qualifying clean coal technology. Directs owners or operators, as part of such demonstration, to provide documentation of a preliminary design and engineering effort for such repowering, an executed contract for the majority of the repowering equipment, and such other information as may be required by December 31, 2000. Grants owners or operators satisfying such requirements extensions of emissions limitations or rate requirements for such units from December 31, 2000, to December 31, 2003. Provides that qualifying sources that increase emissions of a pollutant relative to potential pre-repowering levels shall not be subject to requirements of title I of the Clean Air Act for such pollutant if the owners or operators of such sources demonstrate that the increased emissions will not: (1) cause or contribute to an exceedance in any area of a national air quality standard or of a maximum allowable increase in concentrations under such Act; (2) interfere with reasonable progress; or (3) result in an adverse impact on visibility or air quality related values in any Class I area under part C of title I of such Act. Directs the Administrator, for the period of an extension, to grant annual allowances for sulfur dioxide to the owners or operators of affected sources. Prohibits the transfer or use of such allowances by any other source to meet emissions requirements under this title. Requires owners or operators to notify the Administrator in advance of the date on which the affected unit is to be removed from operation to install repowering technology. Establishes emissions rates and allowances for such sources. Makes it unlawful to fail to comply with such requirements. Authorizes owners or operators of existing units that emit sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides to: (1) elect to designate such sources as affected units; and (2) submit such designations to the Administrator for approval. Directs the Administrator to establish a baseline for such units based on fuel consumption and operating data from 1985 through 1987. Establishes emissions limitations for such sources. Applies allowance and permit requirements for affected sources to designated affected sources. Authorizes the Administrator to establish a program for the designation of process sources as affected sources. Prohibits designated sources from transferring or banking allowances produced as a result of reduced utilization or shutdown. Makes owners or operators of affected sources that emit excess sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides liable for the payment of an excess emissions fee based on excess tonnage. Requires such individuals to: (1) offset the excess emissions by an equal tonnage amount in the following year or such period as the Administrator may prescribe; and (2) submit a plan to achieve such offsets to the Administrator and the State. Directs the Administrator to: (1) deduct allowances equal to the excess tonnage from those issued for the source for the years following the year in which the excess emissions occurred; and (2) adjust the fee for inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index, beginning in 1996. Makes it unlawful for liable owners or operators to fail to comply with such requirements. Requires sources subject to this title to install and operate continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) and to assure the data for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, opacity, and volumetric flow for each unit. Directs the Administrator to specify the requirements for CEMS, alternative methods that provide reliable and timely information, and recordkeeping and reporting of information from such systems. Sets first and second phase deadlines for compliance with such requirements. Requires the Administrator to prescribe means for calculating emissions for any unit for which CEMS data is not available. Makes it unlawful to operate any source not in compliance with CEMS requirements. Deems excess emissions from an affected source to be a violation of this Act, with each ton emitted in excess of allowances constituting a separate violation. Requires the Administrator to assess and report to the Congress on the environmental effects of emissions reductions under this title. Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to establish a demonstration program for regulatory incentives to promote the development of clean coal technologies and other control technologies to limit power plant emissions. Requires such incentives to include: (1) an incentive rate of return for clean coal or other technologies that recognizes their inherent risk; and (2) a ten to 20 year amortization period to recover the capital costs of such technologies. Provides that: (1) the program will have a five year life; (2) the program will cover no more than four units in each technology class; and (3) technology classes eligible for the program should be likely to realize significant cost reductions when employed. Requires FERC to review the merits of the program and determine whether it should be extended or made permanent. Requires FERC to establish a process for negotiating with potential developers of clean coal or other control technologies to agree upon cost caps for future projects and preapproval of the prudency of expenses for such projects if the expenses fall within the agreed-upon cap. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations to revise existing clean coal technology requirements and to facilitate clean coal projects. Requires such regulations to address physical or operational changes to existing facilities for the installation, operation, or removal of such projects. Provides that the Federal share for a qualifying project shall be at least 20 percent of the total cost of such project. Encourages States and political subdivisions which regulate public utility rates and charges to provide additional incentives for the implementation of clean coal technologies. Title VI: Provisions Relating to Enforcement - Authorizes the Administrator to issue administrative penalties for certain violations of the Clean Air Act. Makes Federal enforcement procedures currently applicable to implementation plans applicable to permit programs. Authorizes the Administrator to ask the Attorney General to commence criminal actions against violators of specified provisions of such Act. Permits the Administrator to prohibit the operation of sources for specified violations. Revises penalty provisions of, and makes technical amendments to, such Act. Establishes fines and prison sentences for knowing failures to pay fees under such Act. Doubles the maximum punishment for specified subsequent violations. Prescribes fines and up to 15 years' imprisonment, or both, for knowing releases of hazardous substances that place another person in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. Makes organizations responsible for such releases subject to fines of up to $1,000,000 per day for each violation. Limits the Administrator's authority to assess certain administrative penalties to matters where the total penalty does not exceed $200,000 and the first violation occurred no more than 12 months prior to the initiation of the administrative action, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Administrator to implement a field citation program for appropriate minor violations for the purpose of assessing civil penalties of up to $5,000 per day for each violation. Sets forth provisions concerning judicial review and civil actions with respect to the assessment of such penalties. Outlines criteria to be considered by the court in determining the assessment of penalties. Authorizes the Administrator to pay rewards of up to $10,000 for information or services leading to criminal convictions or judgments of liability for violations of the Clean Air Act. Makes Federal, State, and local officials or employees ineligible for such rewards. Authorizes the Administrator to require owners or operators of sources subject to such Act to: (1) keep records on control equipment parameters, production variables, or other indirect data when direct emissions monitoring is impractical; and (2) submit compliance certifications. Directs the Administrator to require enhanced monitoring and submission of compliance certifications from owners or operators of major stationary sources. Authorizes the Administrator to apply such requirements to any other source. Makes such information available to the public. Removes an exemption for public disclosure of emission source records that may be trade secrets. Repeals a provision concerning penalties for violations of administrative orders. Authorizes the Administrator to extend a prohibition on Federal procurement from violators of the Clean Air Act to contracts performed at any facility owned or operated by such persons. (Current law prohibits such procurement for contracts to be performed at facilities where the violation occurred.) Authorizes the assessment of civil penalties for violations of such Act. Requires such penalties to be deposited in a special Treasury fund and to be available to finance air compliance and enforcement activities. Revises provisions concerning citizen suits under such Act. Requires the Administrator to take necessary measures to prevent the operation, construction, or modification of certain major emitting facilities. Makes noncomplying stationary sources subject to penalties. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to air pollution control agencies in amounts of up to three-fifths of the total cost of programs for the prevention and control of air pollution or implementation of national standards. Grants agencies contributing less than the required two-fifths minimum three years to attain the minimum level. Reduces the Federal contribution to agencies which fail to meet such minimum. Requires at least one-half of one percent of the annual State grant appropriation to be for grants to air pollution control agencies. Prohibits agencies from receiving grants during any fiscal year when expenditures of non-Federal funds for recurrent expenditures for air pollution programs will be less than expenditures for such programs during the preceding fiscal year. Requires the Administrator to revise current regulations defining nonrecurrent and recurrent expenditures to consider exempting agencies with acceptable periodic increases from such limitations. Authorizes the Administrator to award grants to agencies not meeting such requirements if determined that a reduction in expenditures is attributable to a non-selective reduction in the expenditures of applicable Federal agencies. Decreases the Federal contribution to interstate air quality agencies. Repeals provisions concerning annual reporting requirements. Requires the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on the role of ozone precursors in tropospheric ozone formation and control. Revises provisions (including deadlines) concerning the issuance and revision of criteria for national air quality standards. Establishes within EPA an Air Pollutant Release Investigation Board to investigate major life-threatening releases of air pollutants. Excludes from such investigations releases associated with nuclear incidents and transportation-related releases. Requires the Board to make reports on such releases to the Congress and, upon reasonable cost, to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1989
Commends the citizens of the Sioux City, Iowa, tri-State area for their heroism and volunteerism in providing assistance to the passengers and crew of crashed United Airlines Flight 232.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1989
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Leavenworth, Kansas, as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1989
Designates the week of October 22 through October 29, 1989, as National Red Ribbon Week. Recognizes and commends the hard work and dedication of certain individuals and organizations and urges activities that support community and alcohol education during such week. Encourages Americans to wear or display red ribbons during such Week to present and symbolize their commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle, and to develop an attitude of intolerance to the use of drugs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1989
Drug War Bond Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue: (1) Drug War Bonds for a three-year period with a 12-year maturity date; and (2) Drug War Stamps to evidence payments for or on account of such bonds. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude the interest earned on such War Bonds from an individual's gross income. Authorizes a taxpayer to designate a specified portion of any tax overpayment or make cash contributions to the War on Drugs Trust Fund (established by this Act). Authorizes the Attorney General to make expenditures from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund into the War on Drugs Trust Fund. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the War on Drugs Trust Fund. Transfers to such Fund: (1) proceeds from the sale of Drug War Bonds and stamps; and (2) certain cash contributions and portions of tax overpayments. Prescribes expenditures from the War on Drugs Trust Fund, including the construction of Federal prison facilities and education and rehabilitation programs. Precludes the receipts and disbursements from the War on Drugs Trust Fund from being included in either the congressional budget totals or in the budget totals as submitted by the President. Exempts the receipts and expenditures from the War on Drugs Trust Fund from: (1) statutory expenditure and lending limitations; and (2) certain orders issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on programs established by this Act. Directs the Attorney General to make recommendations to the Congress regarding the merits of privatizing Federal prisons.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1989
Dolphin Protection Act of 1989 - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to require any person who sells tuna or a product made from tuna which was caught using a method which directly results in the death of a marine mammal to disclose such information on the tuna or product label.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1989
Birth Control and Infertility Research Centers Act of 1989 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Institute of Child Health and Human Development to make grants and enter into contracts for centers for improving methods of birth control and centers for diagnosing and treating infertility. Requires the Director, subject to appropriations, to provide for three centers with respect to birth control and two centers with respect to infertility. Requires each center to: (1) conduct clinical and other applied research; (2) develop training protocols for and conduct training of physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; (3) develop model continuing education programs; and (4) disseminate information to such professionals. Allows a center to use the funds to provide: (1) stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in the training programs; and (2) fees to individuals serving as subjects in the clinical trials. Requires each center to use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting requirements as prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Allows support for a center to be for a period of up to five years, with extensions of one or more periods of up to five years if the center's operations have been reviewed by a peer review group and the group has so recommended. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to establish a program of entering into agreements with health professionals, including graduate students, under which the professionals agree to conduct research with respect to birth control or infertility in consideration of the Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than a specified amount of the principal and interest of their educational loans. Applies provisions of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program, except as inconsistent. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Requires amounts appropriated to remain available until the end of the second fiscal year after they are appropriated.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1989
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from engaging in any leasing activity with respect to specified submerged lands of the Outer Continental Shelf off the State of Florida. Directs the Secretary to promulgate guidelines for the United States to follow when buying back any existing oil or gas lease on such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, for purposes of determining child custody, evidence of spousal abuse should create a statutory presumption that it is detrimental to the child to be placed in the custody of the abusive parent.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1989
Declares that the Congress should: (1) establish a program of research for the development of methods of birth control and methods of diagnosing and treating infertility; (2) provide adequate long-term resources for the program; (3) ensure that Federal programs with respect to sexually transmitted diseases adequately respond to the role of such diseases in infertility; (4) ensure public education on birth control and infertility; (5) establish as Federal goals the development, by the year 2010, of improved barrier methods to protect against pregnancy and diseases, new methods of birth control for use by men, a vaccine-like drug for women that prevents pregnancy for a significant period of time without other specified effects, and new and improved techniques of diagnosing and treating infertility; (6) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reestablish the Ethical Advisory Board in order to facilitate research with respect to infertility; (7) review the policies and procedures of the Food and Drug Administration with respect to expediting approval of drugs and devices for use by the public, especially with respect to birth control and infertility; and (8) determine to what extent measures can be implemented by public or private entities to resolve liability issues involved with drugs and devices concerned with birth control and infertility.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1989
Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act of 1989 - Provides for the labeling of all tuna products as "DOLPHIN SAFE" if the products are, in their entirety: (1) not caught with specified nets or technologies; and (2) regardless of the country of origin, sold or consumed in the United States. Requires tuna products sold or consumed in the United States and not so labeled to bear the statement: "The tuna in this product has been captured with technologies that are known to kill dolphins." Deems a can, box, or package containing any tuna product mislabeled if it is not labeled as required by these provisions, or if its label contains any false or misleading information pertaining to dolphins, whales, or other cetaceans. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Food and Drug Administration, to conduct inspections to determine if tuna products are being labeled in accordance with provisions of this Act. Authorizes any person to commence a civil action against the Secretary where there is alleged a failure of the Secretary to perform the inspection. Provides for injunction proceedings, jurisdiction, burden of proof, trial by jury, and awarding of costs. Authorizes any U.S. citizen to seek an injunction or restraining order. Provides for criminal penalties.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1989
Amends the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 to repeal a provision relating to the regulation of air carrier flights from Love Field, Texas, to destinations outside the State of Texas.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1989
Directs the Administrator of the U.S. Fire Administration to review existing response information used by emergency response personnel at the State and local levels to evaluate its accuracy, consistency, and clarity. Specifies that such information should clearly communicate to such personnel the probable hazards in an emergency situation involving hazardous materials and the appropriate response to such hazards. Directs the Administrator to establish a working group to develop and disseminate hazardous materials identification, response, and incident data. Requires such working group to submit a report to the Administrator, along with recommendations to ensure that response information disseminated to emergency response personnel is appropriate for operational personnel at the local level. Requires the working group to meet at least once a year to review and recommend changes to the report.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1989
Equity for Election Judges' Compensation Act of 1989 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to permit a State to exclude from coverage service performed by election officials or election workers if the remuneration paid for such service is less than: (1) $300 in a calendar year; or (2) $100 in a calendar quarter.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1989
Designates October 29, 1989, as Fire Safety at Home Day: Change Your Clock, Change Your Battery. Directs the President to issue a proclamation to urge people to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they reset their clocks from daylight savings time.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1989
Declares it is U.S. policy to provide a national air transportation system which: (1) enhances the general welfare and security of the United States; and (2) is free of regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict the right of citizens to travel by air. Requires the President to submit to the Congress a plan for a new comprehensive national aviation policy.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1989
United Services Organization's 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of five dollar gold coins, one dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Services Organization (USO). Requires such coins to be emblematic of USO Services to military service personnel and families. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Terminates the minting of such coins after February 4, 1991. Requires surcharges from the sale of such coins to be deposited in a coinage profit fund and used for USO programs and to reduce the national debt. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress semiannually through December 31, 1992, on activities under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that individuals throughout the United States should observe Independence Day, July 4, 1989, as Take Pride in the Flag Day to celebrate the 213th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the 201st anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the act of desecration of the U.S. flag and to set criminal penalties for that act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that: (1) the misuse or desecration of the symbol, emblem, seal, or flag of the United States or of the several States is not protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and (2) the Congress and the legislatures of the several States shall have power to enforce the Article proposed by this Joint Resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Spending Control Enhancement Act of 1989 - Adds a title to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to rescind all or part of any budget authority provided in an appropriations bill by notifying the Congress of the rescission by a special message within ten calendar days after enactment of the Act in question. Makes such rescission effective unless the Congress, within ten days after receiving the special message, completes action on a bill disapproving the proposal. Describes: (1) information to be included in the President's message; and (2) procedures to govern consideration of rescission disapproval legislation in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Product Liability Reform Act of 1989 - Declares that this Act governs any product liability action brought in any State or Federal court against a manufacturer or product seller, on any theory, for harm. States that a civil action brought against a manufacturer or product seller for commercial loss shall be governed by applicable commercial or contract law. Supersedes any inconsistent State law regarding recovery in such actions. Lists specific laws not superseded, including: (1) defense of sovereign immunity asserted by any State or by the United States; (2) any Federal law (except the Federal Employees Compensation Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act); (3) the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976; (4) State choice-of-law rules; (5) the right of any court to transfer venue or to apply the law of a foreign nation or to dismiss a claim of a foreign nation or citizen on the ground of inconvenient forum; and (6) any statutory or common law cause of action which is not an action for harm caused by a product or an action to abate a nuisance and which is for civil damages or civil penalties, clean up costs, injunctions, restitution, cost recovery, punitive damages, or any other form of relief from contamination or pollution of the environment or the threat of it. Makes this Act (except provisions relating to workers' compensation offset) inapplicable to any product liability action brought in State or Federal court, on any theory, for harm caused by asbestos or asbestos products. Provides that, with respect to civil actions brought for vaccine-related injury or death, if specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) take effect and establish a Federal rule of law or defense applicable to such actions, then this Act does not affect the application of such rule of law or defense and any conflicting rule or defense prescribed by this Act shall not apply to such an action. Provides that if there is an aspect of such an action for which a PHSA rule or defense does not apply, then this Act or otherwise applicable law will apply to such aspect. Establishes a standard of manufacturer liability in product liability actions for proximate causes of harm, established by a preponderance of the evidence, which fall under the categories of: (1) negligence; (2) strict product liability; or (3) intentional wrongdoing. Provides that negligence shall be in terms of a manufacturer's failure to act as a reasonably prudent person would with respect to product design, construction, warnings, or instructions. Provides that strict liability shall be with respect to a product's being in an unreasonably dangerous defective condition in: (1) deviation from standards; (2) nonconformance with an express warranty; (3) failure to contain adequate warnings or instructions; or (4) design (in which case State law governs with respect to establishment of a prima facie case). Provides that a manufacturer's intentional wrongdoing shall be determined under applicable State law. Sets forth a defense to manufacturer liability based on a product's inherent characteristics. Provides that a product shall not be considered to be in an unreasonably dangerous defective condition if the product aspect which allegedly caused the harm cannot be made safe and is not dangerous to an extent beyond that which would be contemplated by the ordinary person who uses or consumes the product with the knowledge common to the community as to its characteristics. Provides that such defense does not limit a manufacturer's liability solely because the risk of harm is patent, open, or obvious. Provides that a manufacturer shall not be relieved of liability on the grounds that the product that allegedly caused the harm was unavoidably unsafe, unless the product is a drug or medical device. Provides that in product liability actions involving an improperly designed and unavoidably unsafe drug or medical device, the manufacturer's liability shall be determined under State law (and the state-of-the-art defense under this Act shall not apply). Sets forth a state-of-the-art defense. Provides that the manufacturer shall not be liable for the design of the product if the manufacturer establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that at the time the product left its control: (1) the manufacturer did not and could not know that the product was in an unreasonably dangerous defective condition because of its design in light of knowledge reasonably available to experts; or (2) there was not a feasible alternative design that would have prevented the harm without substantially impairing the reasonably anticipated or intended function of the product (considering specified factors). Makes the state-of-the-art defense inapplicable if the court finds, on its own or on a party's motion, that a claimant has established by a preponderance of the evidence that the product is so unsafe compared to its usefulness that it should not have been marketed. Sets forth standards for product warnings and instructions. Provides that a product is in an unreasonably dangerous defective condition because it failed to contain adequate warnings and instructions if reasonably prudent, adequate warnings or instructions, in the light of knowledge reasonably available to experts, on the aspect (including a design aspect) which caused the harm: (1) did not accompany the product at the time it left the manufacturer's control; or (2) were not given on a timely basis by the manufacturer before the harm. Requires that specified factors be considered. Establishes, in addition to the general standard of manufacturer's liability, a presumption of liability applicable to manufacturers of fire fighting equipment or protective clothing for harm suffered by any fire fighter performing interior structural firefighting if: (1) the harm was the result of the use of such equipment or clothing which left the manufacturer's control after the enactment of this Act; and (2) the equipment or clothing did not comply with the OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) fire brigade occupational safety and health standards or a more stringent State standard. Establishes a standard of product seller liability in product liability actions for proximate causes of harm, established by a preponderance of the evidence, which fall under the categories of: (1) negligence; (2) express warranty; or (3) intentional wrongdoing. Provides that such negligence shall be in terms of a product seller's failure to exercise reasonable care with respect to the product. Provides that it shall not be such a failure based on an alleged failure to inspect a product where there was no reasonable opportunity to inspect it in a manner which would or should, in the exercise of reasonable care, have revealed the aspect which allegedly caused the harm. Provides that such product seller's express warranty must be independent of any express warranty of the manufacturer. Provides that a product seller's intentional wrongdoing shall be determined under applicable State law. Establishes an additional product seller liability as a manufacturer. Makes the product seller liable as if it were the manufacturer if: (1) the manufacturer is not subject to service of process under the laws of the State in which the claimant brings the action; or (2) the court determines that the claimant would be unable to enforce a judgment against the manufacturer. Sets forth a defense based on a claimant's being, as a result of the influence of intoxicating alcohol or any non-over-the-counter drug which has not been prescribed for the claimant by a physician, more than 50 percent at fault for the harm. Reduces the manufacturer's or product seller's liability for damages by the percentage of responsibility for the harm attributable to misuse or alteration of a product. Allows punitive damages to be awarded, to the extent provided by applicable State law, if the claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the manufacturer or product seller engaged in conduct giving rise to punitive damages under applicable State law, with the following exception. Provides that a failure to exercise reasonable care in selecting among alternative product designs, formulations, instructions, or warnings shall not, by itself, constitute conduct that may give rise to punitive damages. Requires separate proceedings for punitive damages if such separate proceedings are requested by the defendant. Makes evidence in such separate proceedings which is relevant only to the claim of punitive damages inadmissible in any proceeding for compensatory damages. Directs the trier of fact, in determining the amount of punitive damages, to consider all relevant evidence, including specified factors. Prohibits punitive damages against a manufacturer of a drug or medical device unless the claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the manufacturer or product seller engaged in conduct giving rise to punitive damages under applicable State law and unless the manufacturer engaged in: (1) intentional and wrongful withholding or misrepresentation of information, material and relevant to the harm, which either was required to be submitted before the approval of the drug or device or was related to the safety and efficacy of the drug or device after its approval, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) or the Public Health Service Act; or (2) a violation of the FFDCA which was material and relevant to the harm and was committed with the intent to defraud or mislead, as determined by the court and proven by clear and convincing evidence. Prohibits punitive damages against a drug manufacturer where the harm is alleged to relate to the adequacy of the packaging or labeling of a drug required to have tamper-resistant packaging (and related labeling), unless the drug is found by clear and convincing evidence to be substantially out of compliance with Federal regulations. Makes findings with respect to punitive damages relating to drugs and medical devices inadmissible in any criminal proceeding. Requires that civil actions subject to this Act be brought within two years from the time the individual discovered or should have discovered the harm and its cause, with the following exception. Bars actions for harm caused by a product which is a capital good unless the complaint is served and filed within 25 years of the date of delivery of the product to its first purchaser or lessee who was not engaged in the business of selling or leasing it or using it as a component in the manufacture of another product. Applies this capital goods rule only if: (1) the court determines that the claimant has received or would be eligible to receive State or Federal workers' compensation for the harm; and (2) the harm did not include chronic illness. Reduces any damages awarded under this Act by the amount paid in workers' compensation benefits which the claimant-employee is or would be entitled to receive. Provides for such reduction only where the employer or the employer's workers' compensation insurance carrier does not have a lien against the claimant's recovery in a product liability action against a claimant or product seller. Provides that determinations under this Act of workers' compensation benefits shall have no binding effect on, and shall not be used as evidence in, any other proceeding. Allows the claimant to stay product liability actions under this Act until the workers' compensation benefits have been determined. Provides that the employer and its insurance carrier shall have no right of subrogation, contribution, or implied indemnity against an award made under this Act, unless the employer establishes, and the trier of fact determines, that the harm was not caused in any way by fault of the employer or a co-employee. Prohibits any third-party tortfeasor from maintaining any action for implied indemnity or contributions against the employer, any co-employee, or the exclusive representative of the injured party. Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect any provision of State or Federal workers' compensation law which: (1) prohibits a person who is or would have been entitled to receive compensation under such law, or any derivative claim, from recovering in any other action against an employer, employer's insurer, co-employee, or exclusive representative; or (2) permits recovery based on an intentional tort by the employer or co-employee. Declares that this Act's restrictions on third-party claim tortfeasors shall not apply and applicable State law shall control if the employer or its insurer, in a product liability action subject to this Act, asserts or attempts to assert, because of provisions relating to its lack of fault under this Act, a right of subrogation, contribution, or implied indemnity against the manufacturer or product seller or a lien against the claimant's recovery from them. Sets forth standards, procedures, and sanctions relating to frivolous pleadings under this Act. Provides for the availability of information under this Act. Provides that U.S. district courts shall not have jurisdiction over any civil action arising under this Act. Requires the court in which any action is brought under this Act, upon the application of any party to the action, to refer the action to mediation, unless the court determines that the action involves novel or unsettled issues of law or is otherwise unsuitable for mediation. Allows the court to impose fees to cover the costs of the mediation. Makes mediation statements, briefs, and summaries inadmissable in any court or any other evidentiary proceeding. Requires the evaluation by the mediation panel to include a separate award for each claim, crossclaim, counterclaim, or third-party claim. Requires each party to file an acceptance or rejection of the panel's award, with special procedures for multiple parties. Requires that the action proceed to trial with respect to any claim for which any party rejects the mediation award. Makes the findings, evaluations, and awards of the panel and the parties' acceptance or rejection inadmissable at trial. Requires the rejecting party to pay the opposing party's costs, upon request, unless the verdict is more favorable to the rejecting party than the mediation award. Requires each State Attorney General and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to report to the Attorney General, and the Attorney General to report to the Congress regarding implementation of the mediation provisions of this Act. Sets forth definitions under this Act. Excludes commercial loss from the definition of harm. Defines harm as any of the following caused by a product: (1) personal physical illness, injury, or death; (2) mental anguish or emotional harm caused by or causing personal physical illness or injury; or (3) physical damage to property other than the product itself. Directs the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) to report to the Congress on the effect of the implementation of this Act upon the cost and availability of product liability insurance. Sets forth requirements relating to the information on which such report is based. Requires such a report annually for ten years, after which the Secretary shall report on the costs and benefits of continuing such reports and continue them only if so requested by a majority of specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on what information is needed to enable the Congress to measure the effect of product liability reforms on product liability actions. Requires consultation with specified entities in making such report. Requires specified information to be included in such report. Requires the report to be submitted within 18 months after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the effect of this Act upon product liability actions, product manufacturers, and product sellers (including small businesses), claimants, and Federal and State courts. Requires such report to assess specified factors. Requires such a report to be made biennially five times, after which the Secretary shall report on the costs and benefits of continuing such reports and continue them only if so requested by a majority of specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary, upon determining that sufficient data does not exist to measure the effect of product liability reform on litigation, to report on what information is needed to enable the Congress to measure the effect of product liability reforms on product liability actions. Requires consultation with specified entities in making such report. Requires specified information to be included in such report. Requires the report to be submitted within 18 months after enactment of this Act. Declares that this Act shall not apply to any product liability cause of action arising from the use of a product before the date of enactment of this Act against a person who is a debtor in a case commenced on a specified date under bankruptcy provisions of Federal law.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
International Cooperation Act of 1989 - Title I: Economic Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise policy provisions concerning economic assistance. Sets forth the objectives of U.S. development cooperation policy and economic assistance programs as the: (1) promotion of broad based economic growth; (2) improvement of resource management to bring about environmentally and economically sustainable patterns of development; (3) alleviation of poverty through the development of human resources; and (4) promotion of democracy and political, social, and economic pluralism. Requires the President to use the authorities of this Act to provide assistance to meet long-term development needs in developing countries. Authorizes the President to provide such assistance to promote specified activities contributing to broad based, sustainable, and participatory development and economic growth. Directs the President to develop a plan to ensure that U.S. development assistance contributes measurably to eradicating the worst aspects of absolute poverty by the year 2000 and to seek international cooperation in achieving the goals of such plan. Requires such plan to include the following goals for the year 2000: (1) reduction of under-five mortality rates by at least 50 percent of the 1980 rates or to not more than 70 per 1000 live births, whichever achieves the greatest reduction; (2) achievement of universal primary education and at least 80 percent female literacy for age groups defined by each country; (3) reduction of the proportion of the population living in absolute poverty by at least 50 percent of the 1980 proportion; and (4) such other quantifiable goals that the President determines to be crucial to the elimination of poverty. Directs the President to submit such plan to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for family planning projects. Earmarks funds for child survival and health activities out of amounts made available for development and economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires the President to use such assistance and assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa for: (1) special health needs of children and mothers; and (2) activities relating to research on and the treatment and control of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the President to use assistance available under this title to improve the performance of institutions of democracy and to promote pluralism. Outlines programs eligible for funding under this title, including programs to: (1) encourage the growth of independent associations; (2) increase awareness of internationally recognized human rights and to support victims of human rights abuses; (3) support a free and independent press; (4) provide training, scholarships, and exchanges for continuing legal education and to promote the role of the bar in judicial selection, ethical standards, and legal reform; and (5) increase the availability of legal publications and to support the revision of legal codes and procedures. Requires a substantial portion of such assistance to be provided to nongovernmental organizations. Provides that funds made available for famine recovery and development in Africa may be used only for countries in Subsaharan Africa. Increases the amount of grants that may be made available to nongovernmental organizations in South Africa promoting efforts to foster a just society and to help victims of apartheid. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available under this title for assistance to disadvantaged South Africans, to include scholarships, assistance to promote the participation of disadvantaged South Africans in trade unions, private enterprise, and alternative education and community development programs. Authorizes the President to use funds available under this title to: (1) support activities to reduce illicit cultivation of narcotic and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances by stimulating broader development opportunities; and (2) increase awareness of the effects of production and trafficking of such substances on source and transit countries. Permits the deposit into the private sector revolving fund of a specified amount of funds made available under this title for FY 1990 and 1991. Grants the President (currently, the agency responsible for administering this section) certain authorities with respect to the revolving fund. Removes a restriction on the amount required to be available in the guaranty reserve of such fund. Authorizes funds made available under this title to be used for: (1) economic and social development through regional cooperation and integration; (2) development education programs for U.S. citizens; and (3) U.S. research and educational institutions for developing and carrying out programs for the economic and social development of developing countries. Requires agencies responsible for environmental programs in developing countries to prepare initial examinations of such programs to ensure that such programs are environmentally sustainable. Declares that beneficiary countries should bear a share of the costs of development assistance programs under this Act. Prohibits funds made available under this title from being used for military or paramilitary purposes. Authorizes the President to furnish economic support assistance to countries and organizations to promote economic or political stability. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for such assistance. Declares that economic support assistance should be provided through commodity import programs, project assistance, sector programs, or the provision of U.S. goods and services. Permits such assistance to be provided as a cash transfer only pursuant to an agreement requiring that the country spend an amount equal to such transfer to purchase U.S. goods and services. Requires such agreements to include provisions to ensure that representatives of the U.S. Comptroller General have access to necessary records and personnel for monitoring and auditing purposes. Exempts from such requirements countries which: (1) receive less than $10,000,000 cash transfer assistance annually; or (2) have certain agreements with the United States. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this section when it is in the national interest. Requires the President to report such waivers to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Authorizes the President to make voluntary grants to international organizations to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such appropriations for the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the United Nations University. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available under this title for the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Authorizes funds to be earmarked for the International Atomic Energy Agency only if the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Congress that Israel is not being denied the right to participate in the Agency. Prohibits the United States from making contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East unless the Agency assures that no U.S. contribution is used to assist any refugee who: (1) is receiving military training as a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) or any other guerrilla organization; or (2) has engaged in any act of terrorism. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress (currently, semiannually) on U.S. voluntary contributions to international organizations. Applies evaluation and auditing procedures for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank to the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, and the Asian Development Fund. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United Nations Development Program should allocate at least $8,000,000 per fiscal year to develop and implement area management plans to ensure the protection of national parks and reserves of global biological significance under immediate threat of the loss of biological diversity; and (2) consideration be given to providing grants to nongovernmental organizations to undertake such activities. Requests the President to instruct the U.S. representative to the Administration and Governing Committee of the United Nations Development Program to express the sense of the Congress with respect to such plans. Requires the President, in FY 1990 and 1991, to designate at least five countries in which development assistance or assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa is furnished for the purpose of evaluating programs of the United Nations to which U.S. voluntary contributions are made. Revises provisions regarding the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Directs OPIC to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations prior to issuing insurance for civil strife or business interruptions in instances where risks are significantly expanded. Requires OPIC to maintain development impact profiles on each insured, financed, or reinsured project. Directs OPIC to: (1) give preferences to projects sponsored by U.S. small businesses; and (2) maintain the proportion of projects sponsored by or significantly involving such businesses at a level of at least 30 percent of all projects. Authorizes OPIC to establish a revolving fund to be available solely for a pilot equity finance program. Authorizes (currently, requires) OPIC to charge fees for any service performed under this title. Authorizes the Inspector General of the administering agency (currently, the Agency for International Development) to conduct audits, investigations, and security activities of OPIC. Eliminates OPIC's exemption from Federal taxation. Revises the authorities of the Director of the Trade and Development Agency (replaces the Trade and Development Program). Requires the Agency to disseminate information about its activities to the private sector. Sets forth the duties of the Inspector General of the administering agency with respect to the Agency. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for international disaster assistance. Permits the President to appoint a Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance to: (1) promote maximum effectiveness and coordination in responses to foreign disasters by U.S. agencies and between the United States and other donors; and (2) formulate and update contingency plans for providing such disaster relief. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for American schools, libraries, and hospital centers abroad. Authorizes the President (currently, the administering agency) to provide guarantees to the Export-Import Bank in connection with liabilities incurred with respect to exports to Central America. Revises a provision concerning limits on guarantee commitments to limit to $200,000,000 outstanding commitments of contingent liability for loan principal during any fiscal year. Authorizes the Bank, in connection with guarantees or insurance, to charge fees and premiums commensurate with the Bank's administrative costs and the risks covered by the administering agency's guarantees. Terminates the President's authority to guarantee liabilities after FY 1992. Revises provisions concerning the housing and urban development guarantee program. Raises the limit on: (1) the face value of guarantees with respect to any country; (2) the average face value of guarantees; and (3) the total principal amount of guarantees issued. Terminates authorities with respect to housing guarantees after FY 1993. Deems to be payments made by eligible developing countries to the United States for economic assistance loans: (1) local currency deposited in local currency accounts to be used for specific development purposes; and (2) payments waived by the President under certain conditions. Directs the President to notify specified congressional committees on any approved debt relief. Authorizes the President to use funds made available under this title for grants to enable nongovernmental organizations to: (1) purchase debt obligations owed by developing countries to commercial lending institutions or private parties; and (2) cancel such obligations subject to the President's approval, to the extent that such country makes available assets or policy commitments to promote the objectives of this title. Authorizes Federal agencies to: (1) furnish services and commodities on an advance-of-funds or reimbursement basis to friendly countries, international organizations, the American Red Cross, and private voluntary organizations registered with and approved by the administering agency; and (2) contract with individuals for personal services abroad or in the United States to perform such services in lieu of Federal employees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for operating expenses of the agency administering this title and of the Office of the Inspector General of such agency. Permits funds authorized to be appropriated under this title for development assistance, economic support assistance, or assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa to be used for such operating expenses. Requires the administrator of the administering agency to: (1) establish a system of quantitative and qualitative indicators of country, regional, and centrally funded program and development achievement; (2) create and support systems of data collection and analysis to produce objective and timely reports; (3) strengthen the linkage between evaluation findings and policy and program formulation by the agency and assure the widest possible distribution of formal evaluation findings; and (4) develop with the Inspector General of the agency an appropriate division of responsibility and system of coordination. Directs the administrator to establish within such agency a Center for Development Information and Evaluation. Requires the Director of the Center to report annually to the Congress on: (1) progress toward achieving the four basic objectives set forth under this title; and (2) a country-by-country analysis of the impact on economic development in each country during the preceding three to five years of U.S. economic assistance programs, with a discussion of U.S. interests that were served by such assistance. Directs the administrator to establish a Center for University Cooperation in Development and a Center for Voluntary Cooperation in Development. Provides that the respective purposes of such centers shall be to strengthen the partnership for development between the U.S. Government and: (1) U.S. institutions of higher education engaged in education, research, and public service programs relevant to developing countries; and (2) U.S. private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and credit unions engaged in activities relevant to such countries. Establishes a private sector advisory board for the administering agency. Requires the administrator to establish procedures to ensure coordination of the activities and recommendations of such boards. Title II: Military Assistance and Sales Programs - Chapter 1: Consolidation of Military Assistance Accounts - Revises U.S. policy provisions concerning military assistance to express needs for more equitable distribution of collective defense responsibilities and multilateral controls on transfers of defense articles and services. Revises the President's authority to furnish military assistance to friendly countries to permit the President to: (1) finance the sale of defense articles or services; or (2) finance the procurement of such articles (under certain circumstances and with notification of the appropriate congressional committees) by any member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or any major non-NATO ally through leases from U.S. commercial suppliers. Requires sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act which are wholly paid from funds made available on a grant basis under this Act or were transferred or made available under former authorities prior to this Act's enactment to be priced to exclude the costs of salaries of members of the U.S. armed forces, other than members of the Coast Guard. Prohibits members of the U.S. armed forces detailed to carry out certain services under this Act from performing duties of a combat nature. Prohibits funds made available under this chapter from being used for any research or development activities, manufacturing or production, or other work performed by a foreign government or firm pursuant to an offset arrangement with a U.S. firm in connection with the procurement of defense articles or services by a foreign country. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to funds made available for Israel for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits assistance from being furnished under this chapter in any case involving coproduction or licensed production outside the United States of any defense article of U.S. origin unless the President furnishes full information on the proposed transaction to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Prohibits the obligation of certain assistance for the procurement of: (1) any vessel of war built pursuant to a prime contract awarded to a foreign shipyard; or (2) any weapons system or other major system for a vessel of war built pursuant to such a contract awarded to a foreign rather than a U.S. shipyard because of unfair foreign competition. Exempts from such prohibition vessels of war built in the foreign country which is the recipient of such assistance or built pursuant to a prime contract signed before the effective date of this Act. Requires assistance agreements under this chapter to grant the U.S. Government the express right to deobligate any furnished funds that have not been committed for an approved use by the end of a 3-year period. Authorizes assistance provided under this chapter to be on a grant or credit basis. Outlines criteria to be considered by the President in determining the terms of assistance. Requires repayment in U.S. dollars within 12 years of the signature of a loan agreement for credit assistance. Provides that the interest rate on such loans shall be at least five percent annually. Outlines disbursement procedures for funds used to finance the procurement of defense articles and services. Makes provisions concerning eligibility for the receipt of defense articles or services applicable to the financing of such articles or services. Makes defense articles sold or leased under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act or furnished under predecessor foreign assistance or military sales legislation subject to the eligibility provisions of this title. Raises the ceiling on the value of defense articles and services authorized to be made available under certain emergencies. Authorizes the President to transfer excess defense articles to any country: (1) which is a major illicit drug producing country in Latin America and the Caribbean with a democratic government; and (2) whose armed forces do not engage consistently in gross violations of human rights. Requires such countries to ensure that such articles will be used only in support of antinarcotic activities. Declares that the Congress intends that excess defense articles be made available to maintain the military balance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Requires the President to ensure, over a three-year period beginning in FY 1990, that the ratio of the value of such articles made available for Turkey to those made available for Greece closely approximates the ratio of the amount of foreign military financing provided for Turkey to the amount provided for Greece. Directs the Secretary of State to determine the eligibility of illicit drug producing countries to receive excess defense articles under this Act. Limits the aggregate value of such articles transferred to such a country to $10,000,000 per fiscal year. Limits the aggregate acquisition cost to the United States of excess defense articles ordered for foreign countries or organizations pursuant to this chapter or to sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act to $250,000,000 (exclusive of ships and onboard stores and supplies). Directs the President to establish controls to make financed commercial arms sales subject to monitoring and auditing requirements no less stringent in accountability than requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation applicable to sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act relating to improper business practices and personal conflict of interest, quality assurance, payment, price, and profit. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this chapter for FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such appropriations for financing government-to-government procurement under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Sets aside two percent of such appropriations for assistance to otherwise eligible countries for which the Congress has not by law specified an amount of assistance. Requires the President, at least 15 days before obligating funds for a country under this chapter, to notify specified congressional committees. Revises provisions concerning the location of stockpiles. Places ceilings on the value of additions to stockpiles for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires at least one member of the U.S. armed forces assigned to each country overseas to be primarily responsible for monitoring international security assistance and sales programs. Prohibits more than six members of the armed forces from being assigned to a country in Africa (other than Egypt, Morocco, or Tunisia) unless the President determines and reports to the Congress that U.S. interests require that more than six members be assigned to such country. Authorizes the President to furnish military education and training to foreign military and civilian personnel. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for: (1) international military education and training; and (2) peacekeeping activities. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Arms Export Control Act. Revises a provision concerning the Guaranty Reserve Fund under such Act. Repeals a provision concerning the availability of funds for procurement of defense articles and services outside the United States. Makes requirements under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning the disposition of defense articles and services inapplicable on the effective date of this title. Chapter 2: Foreign Military Sales Program - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to rename such Act as the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Repeals a provision concerning purposes for military sales or leases. Deems references to the Arms Export Control Act to be references to the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Requires the President to take the following steps to address the financial management problems that exist with respect to payments on account of sales under such Act: (1) establish a new account for the deposit of funds with respect to any sale of defense articles or services or certain design and construction services entered into after FY 1990 in order to isolate financial transactions relating to new sales; (2) establish a centralized accounting system with respect to payments under such Act; (3) improve coordination and uniformity among the accounting and billing systems maintained by each of the military services with respect to such sales; and (4) reconcile the discrepancies between reported disbursements and reported performance with respect to sales which are still being implemented and those which have been completed. Directs the President to notify the Congress at least 30 days before designating a country as a major non-NATO ally or terminating such a designation. Deems Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and the Republic of Korea to have been so designated by the President. Revises provisions concerning: (1) presidential certifications and congressional procedures for certain arms transfers, export and manufacturing licenses, and leases of defense articles to foreign countries or international organizations; and (2) contents of required reports on arms sales, coproduction agreements, and price and availability estimates. Applies certain sanctions if: (1) a foreign party to a coproduction agreement violates the restrictions in such agreement regarding unauthorized third party transfers or dispositions of defense articles or services or technical data provided under such agreement; and (2) the violation is substantial. Lists such sanctions as: (1) the suspension of the authority or license to produce defense articles abroad granted by all coproduction agreements to which such foreign party is a party; and (2) a prohibition on the issuance or approval of licenses for such party. Requires the President to report to the Congress with respect to such determinations. Authorizes up to $500,000 of registration fees for munitions control licenses to be credited to a Department of State account. Disqualifies for financing under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 12 months any contracts of a person convicted or debarred for a violation of international traffic in arms regulations under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Requires the biennial review of international traffic in arms regulations. Revises provisions regarding administrative surcharges for the sale of defense articles or services from Department of Defense stocks. Prohibits the sale of antitank shells containing a depleted uranium component to any country except a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally, or Pakistan. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) discrimination; (2) restraint in arms sales to Subsaharan Africa; (3) foreign military sales credit standards; (4) foreign military sales to less developed countries; and (5) technical amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Title III: Assistance to Combat International Terrorism and Narcotics Trafficking - Chapter I: Permanent Authorities, Requirements, and Restrictions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to incorporate provisions of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 concerning coordination of U.s. antiterrorism assistance. Permits antiterrorism training services to be conducted outside the United States under certain circumstances. Authorizes appropriations for antiterrorism assistance for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the United States from providing any assistance under this Act, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, the Peace Corps Act, or the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to any country which the President determines: (1) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or group which has committed an act of international terrorism; or (2) otherwise supports international terrorism. Waives such prohibition if the President determines that national security or humanitarian reasons justify such waiver. Declares that if sanctions are imposed upon a country because of its support for international terrorism, the President should call upon other countries to impose similar sanctions on such country. Incorporates provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 concerning coordination of U.S. anti-narcotics assistance into the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for narcotics control assistance. Directs the President to monitor and report to the Congress on the use of herbicides for aerial eradication of drug crops (currently, coca) and any impacts on the environment and human health. Incorporates provisions of a specified Act concerning retention of title to aircraft and records of aircraft use into the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Waives certain restrictions on assistance to countries in arrears or default to the United States to permit assistance to such countries (if major illicit drug producers) if such countries had verifiable net reductions in the production of controlled substances. Authorizes the President to release a country which is a major illicit drug producer because of coca production from any obligation to the U.S. Government of principal and interest on a U.S. loan or credits if the President determines that such country is participating in a program for the use of a herbicide for the aerial eradication of coca. Incorporates provisions of the International Narcotics Control Act of 1988 concerning reporting requirements for the Secretary of State into the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Revises provisions concerning reporting requirements and certification procedures with respect to international narcotics control. Chapter 2: Assistance for Narcotics-Related Purposes - Requires the Secretary of State to use at least $500,000 of narcotics control funds in each of FY 1990 and 1991 to finance the testing and use of safe and effective herbicides for the aerial eradication of coca. Earmarks $1,000,000 in foreign military financing funds for each of FY 1990 and 1991 for defensive arms for aircraft used in narcotics control eradication or interdiction efforts. Earmarks $2,000,000 in military education and training assistance for each of FY 1990 and 1991 for education and training in the operation and maintenance of equipment used in narcotics control interdiction and eradication efforts for eligible countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Permits the provision of such assistance only to foreign law enforcement agencies or other units organized for the specific purpose of narcotics enforcement. Allows the provision of narcotics control assistance and military assistance for antinarcotics efforts only to Latin American and Caribbean countries which meet the same eligibility requirements as those specified under title II for the receipt of excess defense articles. Waives restrictions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning police training and prohibitions on foreign military financing (for FY 1991) with respect to such countries. Directs the President to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the provision of military assistance for antinarcotics efforts. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for foreign military financing for FY 1990 and 1991 to provide such assistance to Caribbean and Latin American countries. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Assistance Recipients - Prohibits the provision of economic and military assistance to Bolivia unless the President certifies that Bolivia has enacted legislation to establish legal coca requirements and make unlicensed coca production illegal. Authorizes the President to make certain certifications under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to Boliva only if the Government of Bolivia; (1) has entered into the narcotics cooperation agreement with the United States specified in the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985; (2) has fully achieved the eradication targets specified in such agreement; and (3) has begun a program of forced eradication of illicit coca cultivation if the targets for voluntary eradication are not being met or continued. Outlines elements to be included in a certain project agreement document for Bolivia for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires the President, in making determinations with respect to Peru concerning narcotics control cooperation, to give foremost consideration to whether Peru made substantial progress in meeting its coca eradication targets during the previous year. Limits the amount of narcotics control assistance to be provided to Mexico in FY 1990 and 1991. Requires congressional notification if additional assistance to Mexico is to be made. Waives restrictions on U.S. assistance for major drug-transit countries for FY 1990 and 1991 if the President makes a specific certification to the Congress. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for narcotics control assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 to any country which: (1) is a major illicit drug producing country because of coca production; and (2) met or exceeded its coca eradication targets or has otherwise taken actions which have significantly reduced the amount of cocaine flowing to the United States. Title IV: Special Authorities, Restrictions on Assistance, and Reports - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to permit up to ten percent of funds made available to carry out such Act to be transferred to, and used for, any other account under such Act. Prohibits the transfer of funds made available for: (1) foreign military financing; (2) OPIC; (3) the trade credit insurance program; (4) the housing and urban development guarantee program; or (5) assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa. Limits the increase in any account due to such transfers to 20 percent of the amount otherwise made available to such account. Authorizes the President, when it is essential to the national interest or national security interest, to waive restrictions concerning nonmilitary assistance and military assistance, sales, and leases upon notification of the Congress. Revises provisions regarding limitations on such funding. Authorizes the President to use any funds made available under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for emergency purposes except for funds made available for development assistance or assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa. Limits such assistance to $50,000,000 per fiscal year. Requires the President to report to specified congressional committees upon exercising such authority. Prohibits such assistance from being used to pay for gifts for any foreign official. Authorizes the President to adopt as a U.S. contract or obligation any contract with a United States or third-country contractor which had been funded with assistance prior to the termination of such assistance. Applies termination provisions to any provision of law. Requires the President to consider, in any case in which a restriction on assistance would be applicable, whether assistance for nongovernmental organizations is in the U.S. national interest. Directs the President to notify specified congressional committees upon furnishing restricted assistance to a nongovernmental organization. Exempts from such restrictions assistance for training activities as long as the recipient country has a democratically elected government and the assistance is otherwise consistent with this Act. Prohibits assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from being furnished for: (1) a country whose government engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations; (2) a country whose government has expropriated the property of any U.S. person, repudiated or nullified a contract with a U.S. person, or taken any other action which has the effect of seizing control of such person's property and has not provided adequate compensation or is not engaged in good faith efforts to negotiate a settlement; and (3) direct support for activities to increase exports of agricultural, textile, or apparel commodities from developing countries if such exports would be in direct competition with U.S. exports and can reasonably be expected to cause substantial injury to U.S. exporters of the same or similar commodities. Exempts from such prohibitions assistance: (1) for alleviation of suffering resulting from a disaster; and (2) to be furnished through nongovernmental organizations to directly benefit poor people or to promote increased respect for human rights and the development of democracy. Directs the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with respect to assistance provided for such exceptions. Requires the President to maintain a list of Communist countries for purposes of restricting assistance. Authorizes the President to remove or exempt a country from the list or prohibitions on assistance, with prior notification of the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Outlines factors to be considered in the drafting of such list, including the human rights practices of countries in question. Authorizes the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, at the request of the President, to evaluate the value of any expropriated property of a U.S. person and render an advisory opinion to such person, the President, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Prohibits funds made available to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or currencies generated under such Act to be used to support foreign law enforcement forces or intelligence, with specified exceptions. Prohibits the provision of certain funds for: (1) Central Intelligence Agency operations in foreign countries unless the President finds that an operation is important to U.S. national security; and (2) activities related to abortion or involuntary sterilization as a method of family planning. Revises provisions concerning prohibitions on assistance to countries involved in the transfer of nuclear materials or in nuclear detonations. Requires consideration to be given to excluding from assistance any country which seizes or imposes a penalty or sanction against any U.S. fishing vessel on account of fishing in international waters. Prohibits assistance to any country which is more than one year in arrears to the U.S. Government on loan payments under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or former authorities of the Arms Export Control Act. Prohibits the provision of assistance to any government of Cuba, except as deemed necessary, until such government: (1) takes steps to return to U.S. citizens and entities certain property taken by the Government of Cuba after January 1, 1959; or (2) provides compensation to such citizens. Outlines required elements of annual congressional presentation documents on foreign assistance. Directs the Secretary of State to promote increased respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout the world. Requires the President to conduct U.S. assistance and military sales programs in a manner which will: (1) promote and advance human rights; (2) strengthen relationships between civilian and military sectors appropriate to a democratic system of government; and (3) avoid identification of the United States with governments which deny their people human rights and fundamental freedoms. Directs the Secretary to report annually to: (1) the Congress on the observance of human rights in each foreign country, including information on coercion in population control; and (2) the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, upon the request of such committees for a report on any specific country. Revises provisions concerning congressional notification for program changes and reprogramming of funds. Directs the President to submit to specified congressional committees quarterly reports on funds obligated for development and economic support assistance. Makes technical amendments to a provision concerning the exercise of special authorities by the President. Directs the President to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on: (1) the percentage of the budget of each country receiving assistance under this Act that is devoted to military purposes; and (2) the degree to which such countries are using foreign exchange or other resources to acquire military equipment. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on: (1) money, property, and services made available under this Act; and (2) gifts accepted under the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 with respect to functions under this Act. Directs the administrator for title I of this Act to report to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee whenever a foreign country requires a private organization to pay taxes on any funds provided to such organization under economic assistance programs of this Act. Title V: General Provisions - Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning the authorities of the Secretaries of Defense and State. Directs the President to designate a single agency to administer title I and specified chapters of title VI of this Act. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning: (1) the publication of presidential determinations; (2) the allocation and reimbursement of funds among Federal agencies; and (3) general assistance authorities. Limits to ten (currently, five) years contracts or agreements entailing commitments for the expenditure of funds under this Act. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning administrative uses of funds. Removes a limit on the amount of funds to be made available for education of dependents of U.S. personnel stationed abroad. Authorizes the use of funds made available for development or economic support assistance for reimbursement to Federal and State agencies and institutions of higher education which detail employees to carry out such assistance. Excludes such employees from Federal personnel ceilings. Applies a certain requirement for specific authorization of appropriations for foreign assistance to assistance for the Peace Corps. Authorizes deobligated funds to be reobligated for the purpose for which they were originally appropriated. Provides that if an amount appropriated for a fiscal year pursuant to any authorization of appropriations provided by this Act is less than the authorization amount and this Act provides for earmarked funds, such funds shall be deemed to be reduced to an amount bearing the same ratio to such funds as the amount appropriated bears to the authorization amount. Exempts funds for Israel or Egypt from such reductions. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning the use of foreign currencies owned by the United States. Authorizes the use of such currencies for certain assistance under this Act if in excess of amounts required for payment by U.S. agencies of obligations outside the United States. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in cases where assistance to a recipient country will result in the accrual of foreign currency proceeds to the United States, to require assistance agreements to include provisions for the receipt of interest on proceeds deposited in authorized depositories. Directs the President to take steps to assure that: (1) recipient countries contribute local currencies to meet the cost of services rendered in connection with assistance programs; and (2) foreign currencies owned by the United States are utilized to meet the costs of such services. Authorizes nongovernmental organizations to invest local currencies which accrue to such organizations as a result of certain assistance provided under this Act and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and to use interest earned on such investments for assistance purposes. Makes technical amendments to policy provisions concerning the use of private enterprise for the procurement of commodities and defense articles and services. Authorizes the use of Federal facilities for technical assistance purposes when such facilities are not competitive with private enterprise. Outlines procurement methods and standards. Requires administrators of this Act to report to the Congress on revised procurement and contracting procedures. Allows (currently, requires) the use of excess personal property or property already owned by a Federal agency (if a substantial savings would occur) in lieu of, or supplementary to, the procurement of new items for U.S.-assisted programs. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning excess property. Removes a ceiling on the amount of domestic excess property that may be held. Prohibits excess property from being made available for use under certain titles of this Act, unless approval is given and the administrator makes certain determinations regarding such property. Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning personnel. Removes a limit on the number of contracts with experts, consultants, and retired officers which may be renewed annually. Authorizes personnel detailed to foreign governments or organizations to be assigned on a leave without pay status. Permits the detailing or assignment of Department of Defense personnel to any civil office to carry out this Act. Title VI: Technical and Conforming Provisions - Amends existing law to incorporate provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 concerning the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Prohibits U.S. courts from declining on the ground of the Federal act of state doctrine to make a determination on the merits of international law in any case in which claim of title or right to property is asserted by any party, based upon a confiscation after January 1, 1959, by a State in violation of international law. Exempts from such prohibition cases in which: (1) an act of a foreign state is not contrary to international law or cases with respect to a right to property acquired pursuant to an irrevocable letter of credit issued in good faith prior to the time of taking; or (2) the President determines that application of such doctrine is required by U.S. foreign policy interests. Amends Federal provisions governing coins and currency to grant the Secretary of the Treasury: (1) responsibility with respect to foreign credits owed to or by the United States; and (2) sole authority to establish for all foreign currencies or credits the exchange rates at which such currencies are to be reported by Federal agencies. Redesignates the Trade and Development Program as the Trade and Development Agency. Makes technical and conforming amendments to specified Acts. Repeals specified Acts. Title VII: Latin America and the Caribbean - Chapter I: Central America - Expresses the sense of the Congress concerning the development of, and U.S. assistance for, the adoption of a plan by the governments of Central American countries consistent with the recommendations of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development. Declares that the United States should assist in the implementation of the Commission's proposals in order to support the Central American Recovery and Development Program. Authorizes funds made available for economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 to be used for a U.S. contribution to the United Nations Development Program for the Special Plan of Economic Cooperation for Central America. Requires the President to assist Central American governments in efforts to coordinate donor assistance. Authorizes funds made available for economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 to be used for such efforts. Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be closer cooperation between the United States and the Organization of American States (OAS), including the payment by the United States of its contributions to such organization. Prohibits the provision of any military aircraft to any Central American country unless specified congressional committees are notified in advance. Requires the Secretary of State to notify such committees whenever any helicopters or other military aircraft are provided to such countries by any foreign country. Expresses congressional support for the Bush Administration's policy of linking U.S. assistance for El Salvador to promotion of a political settlement of the conflict, an end to human rights abuses, and respect for democracy and the rule of law. Limits the amount of military financing to be made available to El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes up to 60 percent of such financing to be obligated after specified dates only if the President reports to the Congress that the Government and armed forces of El Salvador: (1) were actively seeking to achieve an equitable political settlement of the conflict, including free and fair elections, through a mutual cease fire and a dialogue with opposition forces; and (2) made demonstrated progress in protecting internationally recognized human rights and in respect for and protection of the rights of the press, speech, assembly, and association, internationally recognized worker rights, and other attributes of political pluralism and democracy. Withholds a specified amount from military assistance to be made available to El Salvador until the Government of El Salvador has: (1) pursued all legal avenues to bring to trial those responsible for the September 1988 massacre of ten peasants near the town of San Francisco, El Salvador; and (2) satisfied its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons Including Diplomatic Agents with respect to the prosecution or extradition of those responsible for the murder of Mark Pearlman in January 1981. Permits the expenditure of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Prohibits the obligation of economic and food assistance for El Salvador until the President reports to the Congress that the Government and armed forces of El Salvador are adhering to their stated policy of allowing international humanitarian organizations and religious relief agencies free access to conflict areas, with specified exceptions. Prohibits the use of such assistance for El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991 for programs administered by the National Commission on the Restoration of Areas (CONARA) unless the President reports to the Congress that such assistance meets specified requirements. Provides that economic and food assistance for El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991: (1) may not be used for the forced relocation of the civilian population, to coerce participation in civil defense patrols, or as a reward for political activities; (2) shall be used only for programs which are controlled and implemented by civilian agencies independent of military operations; and (3) shall, to the maximum extent possible, be channeled through private voluntary organizations with a proven record of providing assistance for basic human needs. Requires at least one-third of agricultural commodities made available for El Salvador for FY 1990 and 1991 under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to be provided to private voluntary organizations. Authorizes funds made available for FY 1990 and 1991 to be obligated to El Salvador for assistance in judicial reform only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Sets forth congressional review procedures concerning privileged joint resolutions with regard to assistance to El Salvador. Limits the amount of military assistance to be made available to Guatemala for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the obligation of such assistance unless, during the preceding fiscal year: (1) the civilian government gained authority in relation to the military and there was progress in separating the military and civilian police forces; (2) there was increased respect for the rights of freedom of the press, speech, assembly, and association and other attributes of political pluralism; (3) progress has been made in reducing political killings and other human rights violations; (4) people were not forced to participate in civil defense patrols; (5) the Guatemalan military did not harass Guatemalan human rights organizations; and (6) the office of the Guatemalan human rights ombudsman was adequately funded and functioned effectively. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Prohibits the use of: (1) military financing for FY 1990 and 1991 by the Government of Guatemala for the procurement of weapons, ammunition, or aircraft (unless unarmed); and (2) authorities of the Defense Trade and Export Control Act to export such items to Guatemala during FY 1990 and 1991. Exempts from such prohibition the export under such Act of certain M-16 rifles to Guatemala with prior notification of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Applies requirements for the use of economic and food assistance by El Salvador to Guatemala. Requires the Secretary of State to study and report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the Guatemalan system of military justice for the investigation of offenses by military personnel and the prosecution of those responsible for such offenses. Makes funds available for such study from amounts allocated for FY 1990 for foreign military financing. Prohibits the provision of foreign military financing and international military education assistance for police and prison authorities in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras during FY 1990 and 1991. Earmarks a specified amount of economic support assistance for Costa Rica for FY 1990. Prohibits the provision of assistance to any person or group engaging in an insurgency or rebellion against the Government of Nicaragua. Prohibits the United States from entering into any agreement or understanding under which a recipient of U.S. economic or military assistance or purchaser of U.S. military equipment shall provide assistance of any kind to such persons or groups. Requires the United States to: (1) encourage monitoring of the 1990 Nicaraguan elections by the United Nations and the OAS; and (2) pay an appropriate share of the costs of such monitoring. Declares that the United States should encourage the establishment, and pay an appropriate share of the costs, of United Nations verification units to monitor compliance with the peace accord agreed to by the governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua on February 14, 1989, and all subsequent agreements in furtherance of such accord. Chapter 2: The Caribbean - Caribbean Regional Development Act of 1989 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that priority in the provision of development assistance to the Caribbean shall be given to supporting indigenous Caribbean institutions that represent, work with, and benefit the poor. States that for purposes of determining the eligibility of any Caribbean country for development assistance, the per capita income of that country shall be deemed to be no greater than the per capita income for the Caribbean as a whole. Requires that priority in the allocation of funds and local currencies for development and economic support assistance for the Caribbean be given to: (1) food self-sufficiency; (2) rural development; (3) community-based agro-industries; (4) financial resources for small- and medium-sized farm and manufacturing enterprises; (5) expansion of tourism; (6) regional integration; (7) upgrading technical and managerial skills; (8) enhancing the natural resource base; (9) private sector development; (10) development of democratic institutions and the administration of justice; and (11) access to human services and assistance for human resources development. Prohibits the provision of any assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (except for development or international narcotics control assistance) for: (1) any government of any country in the Caribbean that does not enforce internationally recognized worker rights; and (2) a Caribbean country if the provision of that assistance would be inconsistent with promoting respect for international recognized worker rights. Authorizes such assistance if that government is taking steps to implement laws that demonstrate significant advancement in providing internationally recognized worker rights throughout the country. Prohibits the agency responsible for administering title I of this Act from providing any assistance for the use of any chemical or other substance in the Caribbean if such use: (1) is not permitted under the public health laws of that nation; or (2) would not be permitted in the United States under U.S. public health laws. Specifies that in the provision of development assistance to the Caribbean, such agency shall place emphasis on ensuring the active participation of Caribbean women in the development process. Requires such agency to: (1) consult with Caribbean organizations that work with the poor in all stages of the design and implementation of assistance policies; and (2) monitor socioeconomic conditions in the Caribbean and the effect of economic assistance programs and policies on those conditions. Requires the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct an evaluation of and report to the Congress on the performance of such agency in carrying out this Act. Earmarks: (1) economic support and development assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for assistance to the Caribbean; and (2) a specified amount, out of Caribbean assistance, to the Eastern Caribbean and Belize. Prohibits the provision of assistance to Haiti under any Act for FY 1990 and 1991 unless the Government of Haiti has embarked upon a credible transition to democracy by: (1) restoring the 1987 Constitution; (2) appointing an independent electoral commission to conduct free, fair, and open elections as soon as possible; and (3) taking adequate steps to provide electoral security. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees prior to the obligation of funds for such assistance. Exempts from such prohibition assistance: (1) provided through private voluntary or nongovernmental organizations to meet humanitarian and developmental needs or to promote respect for human rights and democracy; (2) provided by or through the Inter-American Foundation, OPIC, or the Peace Corps; (3) to enable the continuation of migrant and narcotics interdiction operations; (4) for the financing of education for Haitians in the United States; and (5) to an independent electoral commission responsible for the holding of elections consistent with the 1987 Constitution. Earmarks economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for Haiti if: (1) such conditions are met; (2) a civilian government is in power and such government was elected in free, fair, and open elections consistent with the 1987 Constitution that were held under international supervision; and (3) the armed forces have demonstrated a willingness to submit to legally constituted civilian authority and to abide by the Constitution. Provides that such funds are in addition to funds provided for Caribbean regional development. Chapter 3: South America - Declares that the Congress supports the democratic transition underway in Chile and intends to assist the new government with assistance to: (1) strengthen democratic institutions; and (2) establish a new relationship with the Chilean armed forces appropriate to a democratic system of government. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for international military education and training for FY 1990 and 1991 for Chile. Prohibits the obligation of such funds until: (1) a civilian, democratically elected president is in power in Chile and has requested such funds; (2) human rights are being respected and the civilian government is exercising independent and effective authority; and (3) the Chilean Government is making good faith efforts to resolve the murders of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Amends the International Security and Cooperation Act of 1981 to exempt from a prohibition on assistance to Chile certain aircraft parts, tools, technical manuals, or related services to enhance the safety of Chilean Air Force aircraft. Prohibits the use of funds made available for FY 1990 and 1991 for foreign military financing for assistance to Paraguay until: (1) a democratic government is in power in Paraguay as a result of a free and fair election; (2) the practice of torture and abuse of individuals held in detention by the military and security forces has ended; (3) procedures have been instituted by the Paraguayan Government to ensure that those arrested are promptly charged and brought to trial; (4) political rights necessary for democracy have been restored and steps toward internal reconciliation have been taken by such government. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Authorizes the provision of development and economic support assistance to Peru for FY 1990 and 1991 to combat illicit narcotics production, trafficking, and use in Peru. Earmarks a specified amount of funds made available for human rights and democratic initiatives for FY 1990 and 1991 for Peru for the reopening and expansion of the Office of the Special Prosecutor to Investigate Disappearances. Chapter 4: Other Provisions Relating to the Region - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for the Inter-American Foundation. Provides for the suspension of assistance allocated for FY 1990 and 1991 for any Latin American or Caribbean country if an elected president of such a country is deposed by military coup or decree. Expresses congressional concern about the continuing pattern of human rights abuses in countries with civilian regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Directs the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs to submit to the Congress a special analysis of the human rights situation in such countries, along with recommendations to combat such abuses. Makes assistance available for countries with democratically-elected governments in such regions. Permits the provision of such assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras only with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Prohibits the use of such funds for: (1) lethal equipment; and (2) the participation of Department of Defense personnel and members of the U.S. armed forces in law enforcement training. Limits law enforcement assistance for Latin America and the Caribbean to 25 percent of the total amount authorized to be appropriated for such assistance under this Act. Title VIII: Europe and the Middle East - Chapter 1: Assistance to Further Middle East Peace - Earmarks funds for military financing and economic support assistance for Israel for FY 1990 and 1991. Makes certain amounts of military financing available for the procurement of defense articles and services by Israel. Earmarks funds for military financing and development and economic support assistance for Egypt for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes a limited amount of economic support assistance to be provided as a cash transfer under the condition that Egypt will undertake additional and significant economic reforms. Earmarks specified amounts for FY 1990 and 1991 for: (1) military financing and economic support and development assistance for Jordan; (2) development assistance for the West Bank/Gaza direct program and for regional cooperative projects in the Middle East; and (3) economic support assistance for scholarships to enable Israeli Arabs to attend institutions of higher education in the United States. Authorizes a grant for such scholarships to be made only if private sector contributions to the scholarship endowment total at least $5,000,000 by the end of FY 1990. Chapter 2: Other Provisions Relating to the Middle East - Requires the President to provide information on the impact of proposed arms transfers to the Middle East to the Congress: (1) concurrent with certain certifications concerning specified transfers under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act; and (2) at least 30 days before approving any transfer of certain missiles or associated launchers. Directs the President to report to the Congress on: (1) the Middle East arms balance based upon the impact of U.S. transfers of defense articles to the region; (2) how U.S. policy goals are advanced by such transfers; and (3) what type of military or economic compensation is required to countries whose qualitative edge the United States is committed to maintaining. Expresses concern over the proliferation of sophisticated and deadly weapons in the Middle East. Urges the President to: (1) call for multilateral talks among the world's major arms suppliers to draw up guidelines to govern weapons transfers to the Middle East; (2) urge our allies to cease or slow such transfers; (3) encourage the Soviet Union to restrain its allies on the issue of proliferation; (4) raise such issues with China to encourage a more responsible policy by the Chinese Government; and (5) initiate bilateral talks with friendly potential arms recipients in the Middle East to restrain the transfer of such arms. Requires the President to report to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the progress in achieving such goals. Declares that military financing for Jordan is provided in recognition of the progress Jordan has made for peace in the Middle East. Authorizes the President to make a certain submission under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act with respect to proposed arms sales to Jordan only if such submission states that Jordan is publicly committed to recognition of Israel and to negotiating with Israel under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Declares that: (1) the use of military financing to finance the procurement by Jordan of advanced aircraft, new air defense weapons systems, or other advanced military systems would constitute the use of such financing for a significantly different purpose than was justified to the Congress; and (2) any proposal to use such financing for such procurement would be subject to notification and reprogramming procedures under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Prohibits the United States from selling or making available Stinger missiles to any Persian Gulf country. Makes certain prohibitions concerning the transfer of Stingers inapplicable to Stingers previously transferred to Bahrain if the President notifies the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that: (1) the Stingers are needed by Bahrain to counter an immediate air threat or to protect U.S. personnel, facilities, equipment, or operations; (2) no other appropriate system is available from the United States; and (3) Bahrain has agreed to safeguards to protect against diversion of the Stingers as may be required by the United States and to return to the control of the United States all Stingers transferred or replaced at any time. Authorizes the replacement, pursuant to certain determinations by the President, of Stingers previously made available to Bahrain that were fired or destroyed. Permits Stingers to be made available to Oman, provided that: (1) the number of Stingers controlled by Oman is limited to ten; (2) certain certifications by the President are made to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; and (3) the President makes the same determinations required for Stingers transferred to Bahrain. Requires Stingers made available to Oman pursuant to this Act to be returned to the possession of the United States by the end of FY 1991, unless the President determines that certain conditions warranting the control of such missiles by Oman continue to apply and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations are notified. Directs the President to report annually to such committees an accounting for all Stingers made available to Bahrain and Oman by the United States. Prohibits the sale of defense articles or services to Qatar under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act until the President has notified the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that Qatar has returned to the United States all illegally obtained Stingers. Earmarks funds for development assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for cooperative development projects among the United States, Israel, and developing countries. Authorizes the President, during FY 1990 and 1991, to make certain submissions with respect to proposed sales under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act to countries in the Middle East which have acquired intermediate-range ballistic missiles made by China only if the President determines that such countries do not have chemical, biological, or nuclear warheads for such missiles. Requires the President to notify the Congress promptly if such a country has acquired such warheads after such determination has been made. Chapter 3: Eastern Mediterranean - Requires U.S. policy regarding Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey to be directed toward maintaining a stable and peaceful atmosphere in the Eastern Mediterranean region such that: (1) the United States shall actively support the resolution of differences through negotiations; (2) the United States will accord full support and high priority to efforts to bring about a prompt, peaceful settlement on Cyprus; (3) all defense articles furnished by the United States to Eastern Mediterranean countries will be used only in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Defense Trade and Export Control Act, and the agreements under which such articles were furnished; (4) the United States will furnish military assistance for Greece and Turkey only when such assistance is intended solely for defensive purposes and to ensure that the present balance of military strength between Greece and Turkey is maintained; (5) any agreement entered into by the United States for the provision of any defense article on the U.S. Munitions List shall expressly state that the article is being provided only with the understanding that the article will not be transferred to, or used to further the division of, Cyprus; and (6) the United States shall use its influence to achieve the withdrawal of Turkish military forces from Cyprus. Directs the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on progress made toward a solution of the Cyprus problem. Earmarks specified amounts of development assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for Cyprus and for bicommunal development projects in Cyprus. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Government of Greece should adhere to the U.S.-Greek extradition treaty by granting the extradition of Mohammed Rashid; and (2) a failure to extradite such individual would be regarded as a breach of such treaty and would cause grave concern regarding the Greek Government's stated commitment to combat international terrorism. States that the Congress deplores the decision of the Greek Government to permit Abdel al-Zomar to leave Greece and to deny the extradition request of Italy. Earmarks specified amounts of funds for military financing for FY 1990 and 1991 for Greece and Turkey. Chapter 4: Other Provisions - Earmarks a specified amount of economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for the U.S. contribution to the Anglo-Irish International Fund. Authorizes such contribution only if the Fund agrees to an audit to determine whether funds are being distributed in accordance with the principle of equality of opportunity and nondiscrimination in employment, without regard to religious affiliation, and are addressing the needs of both communities of Northern Ireland. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Board of the International Fund should give great weight in the allocation of funds contributed to the International Fund by the United States to projects to create permanent, full-time jobs in areas that have suffered most severely from the instability of recent years. Amends the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986 to repeal certification requirements and to incorporate such requirements into annual reporting requirements under such Act. Prohibits funds made available for economic support assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from being used for a contribution to the International Fund until 15 days after such annual report has been submitted. Title IX: Asia and the Pacific - Chapter 1: East Asia and the Pacific - Directs the President, in determining whether to furnish assistance to Burma under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (other than emergency humanitarian assistance) and to make sales of defense articles or services to Burma during FY 1990 and 1991, to take into account whether the Government of Burma: (1) has held free and fair elections and a civilian government has assumed power, including whether international rights of freedom of speech, the press, and assembly were respected during the electoral campaign, the elections were conducted in the presence of international observers, and whether there is an independent judiciary; and (2) is committed to implementing fundamental economic reforms to ensure that U.S. assistance can be used effectively. Directs the President, during FY 1990 and 1991, to notify specified congressional committees before: (1) obligating funds for any assistance for Burma under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; or (2) issuing a letter of offer to sell any defense articles or services to Burma under the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Authorizes the President to make available to non-Communist resistance forces in Cambodia funds made available for military financing and economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of such funds to promote the capacity of the Khmer Rouge to conduct military or paramilitary operations in Cambodia or Indochina. Authorizes the President to use: (1) funds available for development and economic support assistance for FY 1990 and 1991 for nonmilitary training of non-Communist Cambodians outside of Cambodia in skills that would be used by them upon returning to Cambodia in the context of internationally acceptable political settlement in such country; and (2) funds available for FY 1990 and 1991 for U.S. contributions to an international program of relief and reconstruction in Cambodia in the context of such a political settlement. Prohibits the provision of military financing and international military education and training made available for FY 1990 and 1991 to Fiji unless the President certifies to the Congress that Fiji has returned to a freely elected democratic government under a constitution acceptable to all communities in Fiji. Allows uncommitted balances of loans made since October 1, 1984, to the Philippines pursuant to the former authority of the Arms Export Control Act to be disbursed without requirement for repayment of principal or interest to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to express the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should participate with multilateral financial institutions and other bilateral donors in an economic reform and development program in the Philippines; and (2) a multiyear commitment of resources by the United States, donors, and institutions with a continued reform effort and leadership role by the Government of the Philippines will be necessary to ensure continued economic growth in the Philippines and enhanced participation of the Filipino people in the democratic process. Authorizes the President to provide assistance to promote the four basic objectives of this Act. Links such assistance to progress by the Government of the Philippines in implementing its economic, structural, judicial, and administrative reform program and includes support for: (1) programs necessary to stimulate and strengthen private sector growth, voluntary debt reduction, import liberalization, export growth and diversification, and the privatization of enterprises; and (2) greater U.S. participation in such sector. Requires the Secretary of State and the administrator of title I of this Act, beginning with the submission of the budget request for FY 1991, to report annually to the Congress on progress in implementing the objectives of this program. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the amount of appropriations for FY 1990. Authorizes the President to transfer funds available to carry out other provisions of this Act to carry out the Philippine program without regard to the 20 percent limitation, except that: (1) the total amount of transferred funds and funds appropriated for such programs during FY 1990 may not exceed $200,000,000; and (2) the total amount so transferred in any fiscal year may not exceed the amount requested for such programs. Prohibits funds appropriated for FY 1990 from being made available until the President has received a document developed by the Government of the Philippines and acceptable to the bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions that sets forth the framework and objectives of macroeconomic, administrative, and structural reforms and voluntary debt reduction programs which the multilateral assistance program is designed to support. Requires such reforms to include specific measures to enhance debt exchange programs, facilitate market-oriented debt reduction programs and debt-equity exchanges, and to encourage foreign investment by simplifying licensing and registration requirements. Prohibits the obligation of funds for the Philippines unless the President reports to the Congress that a majority of the assistance will be provided by other bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions. Authorizes the obligation of such funds only upon prior notification of the Congress. Expresses the sense of the Congress that prior to requesting additional amounts to carry out this Act, the President should take into account: (1) the progress being made by the Philippines toward achieving such reform objectives; (2) the extent of participation by the bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions; and (3) the efforts to coordinate the assistance program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the coordination of objectives and programs by donors, institutions, and the Government of the Philippines is critical to the success of the multilateral assistance program; (2) all donors should simplify procurement and disbursement procedures to ensure that conditions on the provision or use of assistance are complementary; and (3) the Philippines will ensure the most effective use of such assistance. Earmarks specified amounts out of amounts allocated for the South Pacific regional program for scholarships for study at postsecondary institutions in the United States for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires the President to transfer a specified amount of development and economic support assistance for Asia Programs for FY 1990 and 1991 for expenses incurred by the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should use available appropriations to provide up to $200,000 in each of FY 1990 and 1991 to support joint U.S.-Laotian efforts to resolve questions concerning Vietnam era prisoners of war or those missing in action; and (2) the President should encourage the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to actively undertake study and consultation appropriate to consider for membership in the OECD the Governments of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Chapter 2: South Asia - Authorizes the President to make available development and economic support assistance funds for the provision of food, medicine, or other humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people. States that the primary purpose of U.S. economic assistance for Bangladesh is to foster economic development and political pluralism. Requires the President to take specific factors into account in determining whether to provide economic assistance to Bangladesh. Expresses the sense of the Congress that India and Nepal should work together to resolve differences in their relationship. States that the primary purpose of U.S. assistance for Pakistan is to support democracy and that the maintenance of a democratic government in Pakistan is a precondition for continued U.S. assistance. Reaffirms the commitment made in a 1959 United States-Pakistan agreement relating to aggression from a Communist-dominated state. Requires the United States to continue to ensure that defense articles provided by the United States to Pakistan are used solely for defensive or nonaggressive purposes specified in the Defense Trade and Export Control Act. Authorizes the President to waive any prohibitions under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to Pakistan if such waiver is in the U.S. national interest. Prohibits: (1) the provision of assistance or sale of defense articles or services to Pakistan unless the President certifies to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear explosive device and that such assistance will reduce significantly the risk that Pakistan will possess such a device; and (2) the aggregate amount of assistance available for Pakistan for FY 1990 and 1991 under such Act and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 from being less than the aggregate amount made available for FY 1989. Earmarks specified amounts of development assistance available for Pakistan for FY 1990 and 1991 for literacy programs for females. Title X: Africa - Chapter 1: Africa Famine Recovery and Development - Africa Famine Recovery and Development Act - Authorizes the President to provide project and program assistance for long-term development in Subsaharan Africa. Requires the purpose of such assistance to be to help the poor majority of men and women in Subsaharan Africa to participate in a process of long-term development through economic growth that is equitable, participatory, environmentally sustainable, and self-reliant. Provides that such assistance should also encourage private sector development and promote individual initiatives and help to reduce the role of central governments in areas more appropriate for the private sector. Requires the administering agency to: (1) take into account the local-level perspective of the rural and urban poor in Subsaharan Africa during the planning process for project assistance under this Act; and (2) make available funds for a significant long-term expansion of development efforts by private and voluntary organizations which have demonstrated effectiveness in or commitment to the promotion of local grass-roots activities on behalf of long-term development in Subsaharan Africa. Requires: (1) the close consultation and involvement of local people in projects that have a local focus; and (2) the participation and integration of African women in development projects assisted by this Act. Requires the administering agency to use the program assistance provided by this Act to: (1) emphasize projects to address critical sectoral priorities for long-term development; and (2) promote reform of national economic policies to support these priorities. Sets forth examples of national economic policy reforms which can be supported by assistance provided by this Act. Requires such reforms to include provisions to protect vulnerable groups, especially poor farmers and the urban poor, from possible negative consequences of such reforms. Authorizes limited amounts of assistance furnished under this Act to be used to address other long-term development priorities in Subsaharan Africa with prior notification of specified congressional committees. Designates as the critical sectoral priorities for long-term development: (1) increased agricultural production and the maintenance and restoration of renewable natural resources; (2) improved health conditions; (3) voluntary family planning services; (4) improved relevance and efficiency of education; and (5) development of income generating opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed. Imposes minimum levels of assistance for certain critical sectors. Requires the assistance provided under this Act to be concentrated in countries that will make the most effective use of such assistance. Prohibits the administering agency from using less than specified amounts for in-country natural resources and environmental training in Subsaharan Africa. Specifies uses for local currencies generated by assistance provided under this Act and other Acts. Provides that funds made available under this Act may be used to assist the countries in Subsaharan Africa to increase their capacity to participate in donor coordination mechanisms at the country, regional, and sector levels. Requires that it be the policy of the United States that the funds made available by this Act are not used by a country to repay loans, with exceptions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 for long-term development assistance for Subsaharan Africa. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the authorization should be extended whenever appropriate. Requires the administrator of the administering agency to develop a plan for organizational changes within such agency in order to carry out the long-term development assistance program for Subsaharan Africa with maximum effectiveness. Requires the administrator to submit such plan to specified congressional committees. Authorizes the administrator to transfer certain funds in order to increase the agency resources for development assistance activities for Subsaharan Africa. Requires the annual report by the President to the Congress on foreign assistance programs to include a report on the progress made in carrying out this Act. Makes reprogramming notification requirements inapplicable to funds used to carry out this Act. Makes conforming amendments to various Acts. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the purposes of the African Development Foundation are consistent with the purposes of this Act. Amends the African Development Foundation Act to: (1) authorize appropriations for the African Development Foundation for FY 1990 and 1991; and (2) require that no more than four members of the Foundation's Board are from any one political party. Repeals a provision of such Act requiring the expiration of the Foundation's authorities on September 30, 1990. Expresses the sense of the Congress that special efforts should be undertaken to reduce trade barriers and promote economic interchange between the United States and developing countries in Subsaharan Africa. Chapter 2: Other Provisions Relating to Sub-Saharan Africa - Earmarks specified amounts of economic support assistance made available for FY 1990 and 1991 for Subsaharan Africa. Earmarks specified amounts of development assistance made available for FY 1990 and 1991 to assist sector projects supported by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC). Provides that such funds shall be available for the transportation, manpower development, agricultural and natural resources, energy, and industrial development and trade sectors. Urges: (1) the President to use diplomatic means to protect the security of such projects; and (2) the Government of South Africa to respect the territorial integrity of SADCC states and to refrain from military aggression across its borders. Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish assistance to Burundi for FY 1990 and 1991, to take into account whether the Government of Burundi is: (1) making progress in advancing internal reform of its military and civil administration and ensuring discipline and control in interactions with people of Hutu ethnicity; and (2) making progress in reversing patterns of discrimination against the majority Hutu. Declares that the provision of development and economic support assistance to Kenya for FY 1990 and 1991 shall bear a relation to significant steps by the Government of Kenya to increase respect for human rights. Requires the Secretary of State, during 1990 and 1991, to report to specified congressional committees on the steps taken by the United States to carry out such policy. Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish economic and military financing assistance to Liberia for FY 1990 and 1991, to take into account whether the Government of Liberia has: (1) demonstrated its commitment to economic reform; and (2) has taken significant steps to increase respect for human rights. Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) continue and expand bilateral development assistance to Mozambique; (2) strengthen Mozambique's transport sector through U.S. assistance to the SADCC; (3) identify additional opportunities for U.S. support of Mozambique's reconstruction; (4) contribute to Mozambique's national reconciliation in ways which do not legitimate the behavior of the Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) or subordinate Mozambique's sovereign interests to RENAMO's principal patron, South Africa; and (5) encourage international support for generous levels of emergency humanitarian aid for displaced or otherwise at-risk Mozambicans, including Mozambican refugees in neighboring countries. Requires the United States to use diplomatic and other means to condemn and achieve the immediate termination of South African and other external assistance to RENAMO. Declares that the provision of economic support and military financing assistance to Mozambique shall bear a relation to significant steps by the Mozambican Government to increase respect for human rights and raise hope for a political settlement. Directs the Secretary of State to report to specified congressional committees on U.S. actions concerning Mozambique. Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish economic support and military financing assistance to Somalia, to take into account whether the Government of Somalia has taken steps to increase respect for human rights that provide hope for political reconciliation. Authorizes assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 for FY 1990 and 1991 to be provided to refugees in Somalia only if: (1) an impartial counting of eligible beneficiaries of food assistance by the United States and other donors has been completed; and (2) all beneficiaries of such assistance are disarmed and the amount of such assistance does not exceed the number of beneficiaries. Requires international disaster assistance provided by the United States to northern Somalia on account of the violence in 1988 to directly benefit the victims of such violence, with primary emphasis on the original inhabitants of the regions affected. Directs the President, in determining whether to furnish economic support and military financing assistance to Sudan, to take into account whether the Government of Sudan has: (1) made substantial progress in the effective delivery of increased relief to displaced populations in areas controlled by the Sudanese Government; and (2) made good faith efforts to achieve progress in negotiations with the Sudan People's Liberation Army for a national peace accord. Limits the amount of military financing to be made available to Zaire for FY 1990 and 1991. Prohibits the provision of economic support assistance to Zaire for FY 1990 and 1991. Requires assistance for famine recovery and development in Africa and development assistance for Zaire for FY 1990 and 1991 to be provided through private voluntary organizations to the maximum extent practicable. Encourages the President to use funds available for FY 1990 and 1991 for funding at levels greater than those for previous years for treatment of and research on AIDS in Africa. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees prior to the obligation of funds for Burundi, Liberia, Somalia, and Sudan. Chapter 3: Other Provisions Relating to Africa - Declares that: (1) it is in the interest of the United States to encourage the promotion of human rights and political and economic freedom in African countries; and (2) the President, in furnishing assistance to such countries for FY 1990 and 1991, should consider each country's record in human rights and economic reform and its friendship to the United States. Title XI: Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to set deadlines for payments for agricultural commodity sales made for foreign currencies. Prohibits the use of more than five percent of foreign currencies obtained for use from such sales to defray administrative costs of the U.S. Government. Prohibits the use of proceeds for private sector development activities to support any activity to increase exports of agricultural, textile, or apparel commodities from a developing country if such exports: (1) would be in direct competition with U.S. exports; and (2) can reasonably be expected to cause substantial injury to U.S. exporters of similar commodities. Title XII: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Authorizes Peace Corps technical publications to be sold at cost in furtherance of the purposes of such Act. Permits up to $200,000 of the proceeds of such sales to be credited to the applicable Peace Corps appropriation. Title XIII: United States Commission on Southern Africa - United States Commission on Southern Africa Act - Establishes the United States Commission on Southern Africa to solicit private sector funds to develop skilled personnel in South Africa and Namibia, particularly in middle management business and government positions, by providing for the training of disadvantaged South Africans and Namibians in the fields of education, health care, law, and housing. Authorizes the Commission to establish and provide funds for human resource development programs and to provide scholarships and internships for appropriate study and training. Prohibits the use of such funds for programs conducted by or through South African organizations which are financed or controlled by the Government of South Africa. Authorizes the use of such funds only for programs which clearly reflect the objective of an end to apartheid. Provides for the annual audit of the Commission by certified public accountants. Authorizes the U.S. Comptroller General to carry out an annual audit of the Commission. Requires the Comptroller General to report such audits to the Congress. Directs the Commission to ensure that: (1) recipients of Commission assistance keep separate accounts of such assistance and records to facilitate effective audits; and (2) the Commission has access to such records. Requires the Commission to report annually to the Congress on its activities. Directs the Secretary of State to grant $1,000,000 of funds made available to the Department of State to the Commission for FY 1990. Title XIV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the administrator of title I of this Act to use U.S.-owned excess foreign currencies to: (1) carry out the purposes of title I of this Act; and (2) support any institution providing education for a significant number of U.S. nationals. Prohibits such currencies from being used in Communist countries. Requires at least ten percent of the aggregate amounts of development and famine recovery and development in Africa assistance for each of FY 1990 and 1991 to be made available only for activities of the following U.S. organizations and individuals: (1) business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; (2) historically black colleges and universities; (3) colleges and universities in which more than 40 percent of the students are Hispanic Americans; and (4) private voluntary organizations controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Directs the administrator, with respect to development and famine recovery and development in Africa assistance for FY 1990 and 1991, to: (1) utilize the authority of the Small Business Act; (2) enter into contracts with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; and (3) issue regulations requiring contracts in excess of $500,000 to require at least ten percent of the dollar value of such contracts to be subcontracted to minority U.S. organizations and individuals, except under specified conditions. Requires persons with contract authority in the administering agency to notify the agency's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization before advertising contracts in excess of $100,000. Directs the administrator to: (1) include as part of the performance evaluations of agency mission directors such directors' efforts to carry out such contracting; and (2) report annually to the Congress on such contracts. Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) oppose restrictive trade practices or boycotts imposed by foreign countries against any U.S. person or countries friendly to the United States; and (2) encourage the world's major trading nations to refuse to take actions which have the effect of supporting such trade practices or boycotts. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report annually on the extent to which members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade encourage actions which further or support such boycotts.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Designates August 1, 1989, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation, in particular, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) convey to U.S. allies the necessity of unity regarding such Accords.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means should review the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 and hold hearings in the process of such review.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1989
Truth in Legislating Resolution - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each report or joint explanatory statement accompanying each bill or joint resolution to contain: (1) an identification of each provision which benefits only ten or fewer beneficiaries; (2) the name of each beneficiary; (3) the name of the Member who sponsored such provision and an identification of each such provision requested by a Federal agency or Federal officer; and (4) an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint Committee on Taxation of the costs or loss in revenues resulting from such provision.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Workers' Political Rights Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to include political committees among those entities to which contributions by national banks, corporations, or labor organizations are restricted. Provides that communications to its members and their families and the establishment of, and solicitation of contributions for, a separate segregated political fund by a labor organization shall not be considered to be prohibited political contributions or expenditures only if such organization provides to employees it represents written notification of the following information: (1) that no employee is required to join the labor organization, and if the collective bargaining agreement purports to require membership in, or the payment of any amounts to, such organization, the employee instead may pay an agency fee to such organization; (2) the amount of the agency fee for the current year and the amount of union membership dues, initiation fees, and assessments for the current year; (3) that employees who choose to join the union will be subject to the labor organization's reasonable internal rules, regulations, and discipline; (4) that employees who resign from such organization may do so without being subject to internal union discipline for any post-resignation conduct; (5) that the amount of the agency fee for the current year is limited to the employee's pro rata cost of the labor organization's exclusive representation services to the collective bargaining unit; (6) that a procedure is in place to determine those costs which are chargeable to agency fee payors and such procedures are fully explained; and (7) that due regard is given to the fact that the labor organization holds a fiduciary position of trust with respect to the employees it represents and that the rights of employees to associate freely are not infringed any more than necessary for such organization to defray its reasonable costs of providing exclusive representation services. Requires a labor organization which does not provide employees with such notification to finance those political activities which are not considered contributions or expenditures with funds collected for its separate, segregated political fund.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1989
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (the Act) to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring any generator of a shipment of hazardous materials to transmit a manifest of its contents and the license plate or other identifying number of the carrier to the central reporting system and data center. Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract under which a private entity shall establish a central reporting system and data center to provide law enforcement and firefighting personnel with information and advice on dealing with emergencies connected with the transportation of hazardous materials (currently the Secretary is required to establish and maintain such a system and data center). Prohibits the appropriation of Federal funds for such system and data center. Permits the private entity to impose a fee for manifesting such a shipment if the generator is a Federal agency. Directs the Secretary to study the flow of hazardous materials in the United States. Requires the Secretary, in collaboration with the private entity, to report the results of such study to the Congress. Increases both civil and criminal penalties for violations under the Act. Sets forth specified terms and conditions with respect to the private entity's establishment and maintenance of the reporting system and data center.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1989
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to present a bronze medal to individuals: (1) who were members of the armed forces and were present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941; and (2) who participated in combat operations that day against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike such medals. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations which are to be reimbursed out of the proceeds from sales of the medals.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to increase the number of criminal investigators assigned to its Office of Criminal Investigations by at least 30 percent in each of the next five fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Designates June 21, 1989, as Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Day. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has helped to fulfill the promise of democracy in this Nation. Reaffirms the goal of removing remaining barriers to full voter participation in this Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
Oil Spill Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code relating to trade or business expenses to disallow the deduction for oil and hazardous substances cleanup costs if the Secretary of the Treasury receives notification from the relevant authority that the taxpayer has failed to comply with specified Federal environmental law. Disallows such deduction where it can be shown that the oil or hazardous substance discharge was the result of willful negligence or willful misconduct. Reduces the tax attributes of the taxpayer by the amount disallowed. Disallows a deduction for losses resulting from any oil or hazardous substance discharge if the cleanup costs of such discharge are disallowed as a deduction. Sets forth time limits for: (1) the Secretary to assess any deficiency attributable to the notification of noncompliance with Federal environmental law; and (2) the taxpayer to file a claim for credit or refund attributable to receipt of such notification. Establishes an account in the Treasury to consist of the increase in revenues resulting under this Act. Makes such amounts available for: (1) the revolving fund under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for expenses related to removal of discharged oil; or (2) the Hazardous Substance Superfund. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the decrease of Federal revenues because of the allowance of the deduction for oil and hazardous substances cleanup costs. Requires the Secretary to report annually to such committees on the amount expended on environmental cleanup costs and the amount accruing to the Treasury by reason of the disallowance of such deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Amends Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 provisions relating to correctional facility use of surplus property to allow the Administrator of General Services to transfer or convey to any State or nonprofit institution property determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be required for substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation under an appropriate program approved by the Secretary. Declares that transfers and conveyances under this Act shall be made by the Administrator without monetary consideration to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Older Americans' Freedom to Work Act of 1989 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which beneficiaries who have attained retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in benefits.
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