United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Women's Business Ownership Act of 1983 - Establishes the National Commission on Women's Business Ownership to review: (1) the status of women business owners nationwide; (2) the role of the Federal Government in aid to and the promotion of women business owners; and (3) data collection procedures with regard to women-owned businesses and Federal initiative and procurement. Directs the Commission to recommend: (1) new private sector initiatives regarding management and technical assistance to women business owners; (2) ways to create greater access to credit for women in business; and (3) ways to enhance procurement opportunities for women business owners. Terminates the Commission on the date that it transmits its final report to the President and to each House of the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Commemorates the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the State of Georgia. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and furnish national medals to the Semiquincentenary Commission of the State of Georgia.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should not export nuclear reactor components for the nuclear power station at Tarapur, India, unless India provides stronger nuclear nonproliferation guarantees. Specifies what guarantees should be included.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Urges the Secretary of Education to postpone further action on the reorganization of certain programs in the Department of Education until a study by the General Accounting Office determines that such reorganization would not reduce the ability of the Department to achieve the goals intended by Congress when it authorized the affected programs.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1983 - Title I: Standards of Disability - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual who is receiving disability benefits or child, widow's, or widower's insurance benefits based on disability may be determined not to be entitled to such benefits on the grounds that the disability involved has ceased, does not exist, or is not disabling, only if: (1) there has been medical improvement in the individual's impairment so that the individual can engage in substantial gainful activity; (2) the individual can engage in substantial gainful activity as a result of medical or vocational therapy or technology; or (3) on the basis of new or improved diagnostic techniques, the individual's impairment is not considered as disabling as it was at the time of the most recent prior disability determination and the individual can engage in substantial gainful activity. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct a study, in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences, on the use of subjective evidence of pain in making disability determinations; and (2) submit the study results to specified congressional committees. Requires the Secretary to consider the combined effect of all of an individual's impairments in determining whether such individual is unable to engage in substantial gainful activity. Title II: Disability Determination Process - Requires the Secretary to revise the criteria under the category "Mental Disorders" in the "Listing of Impairments" in effect under part 404 of title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations which are used to make individualized determinations of disability for purposes of determining eligibility for disability benefits under title II of the Social Security Act. Prohibits the Social Security Administration from carrying out continuing eligibility reviews with respect to individuals previously determined to be under a disability due to mental impairment until such revisions have been established by final regulation. Makes such prohibition inapplicable in any case involving fraud or where an individual is engaged in substantial gainful activity. Sets forth requirements for the redetermination of disability determinations made after the enactment of this Act and before the date on which the Secretary's revisions are established by final regulation. Provides that an initial disability determination by the Secretary or by a State agency which is unfavorable to a disability benefit applicant shall remain pending until after notice and opportunity for review. Requires that such a determination contain a statement of the case which indicates the basis of the disability determination, the right to a review, and the right to submit additional medical evidence before such review. Entitles the applicant or the applicant's spouse, divorced spouse, surviving divorced spouse, surviving spouse, surviving divorced mother, child, or parent to a review of a pending disability determination upon request and upon a showing that his or her rights may be prejudiced by such determination. Sets forth procedural requirements with respect to such a review. Requires the Secretary or the State agency to affirm or modify a pending disability determination on the basis of such a review. Provides that an initial decision by the Secretary as to an individual's eligibility for disability benefits which is based upon an initial disability determination and which is unfavorable to such individual shall contain a statement of the case which indicates the basis of such decision, the individual's right to a hearing, and the individual's right to submit additional evidence before or at such hearing. Entitles an individual who is dissatisfied with an initial decision by the Secretary to judicial review. Requires the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects in at least five States implementing the amendments made by this Act. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on such projects. Removes certain time restrictions on the continued payment of disability benefits during the appeal process. Requires the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the effect of the continued payment of benefits during the appeal process upon the expenditures of the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund; and (2) the rate of appeals to administrative law judges of unfavorable disability benefit entitlement determinations. Provides that a disability determination in the case of an individual with a mental impairment shall be made only after a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist employed by the State agency or the Secretary has made the proper medical evaluation. Requires the Secretary to prescribe standards with respect to consultative examinations which must be obtained for disability determinations. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for the application of Federal rulemaking and administrative procedure requirements to disability determinations under title II of the Social Security Act. Specifies certain decisions by a U.S. court of appeals with which the Secretary and the Department of Health and Human Services must comply, unless there is a review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Expands the types of cases with respect to which States may be reimbursed by the Secretary for the costs of furnishing vocational rehabilitation services. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Advisory Council on the Medical Aspects of Disability, which shall advise and make recommendations to the Secretary on disability standards, policies, and procedures. Terminates the Council on December 31, 1985. Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to require that each report by the Secretary to Congress on the administration of the Social Security Act contain a description of the current status of the disability insurance program under title II of such Act. Requires the Secretary to establish enough attorney adviser positions in the Department of Health and Human Services to insure adequate opportunity for career advancement for attorneys in the Social Security Administration. Requires that such attorneys be given qualifying experience for appointment to administrative law judge positions. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees with respect to complying with these requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Prohibits sending combat troops into Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua for training exercises or any other purposes unless: (1) Congress has authorized their presence in advance by a joint resolution signed by the President; or (2) the presence of such troops is necessary to provide for the immediate evacuation of U.S. citizens, or to respond to a clear and present danger of military attack on the United States. Declares that, in either case, the President should advise and consult, to the extent possible, in advance with the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
Political Tax Credit Reform Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the income tax credit for contributions made to candidates for President, candidates for State and local offices, political action committees, and newsletter funds. Allows an income tax credit for one-half of the amount contributed to a political party and the full amount contributed to a congressional candidate. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require any candidate or committee receiving contributions eligible for such tax credit to include in its required report the number and aggregate amount of all eligible contributions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that gratitude and commendation be extended to community arson prevention organizations and that the U.S. Fire Administration is to be encouraged to work to reduce the crime of arson and develop national fire prevention policy.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Fair Trade in Steel Act of 1983 - Title I: Steel Tripartite Advisory Council - Directs the President to establish within the Executive Office of the President a Steel Tripartite Advisory Council which shall: (1) advise the President and Congress on problems within the basic steel industry; (2) provide advice and make recommendations on certain international and domestic issues; and (3) perform other duties required by title II of this Act. Requires other Federal agencies to cooperate with the Council. Directs the Council to report to the President and Congress on its activities. Title II: Quantitative Restrictions on Imports of Certain Steel Products - Limits annual imports of steel mill product categories to 11 percent of the expected apparent consumption for that year. Defines steel mill product categories to mean specified categories of carbon and alloy steel articles and stainless steel articles identified in the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to announce on October 1, and April 1, of each year the quantitative limitation on imports for the six months beginning on the following January 1, and July 1. Prohibits imposing limits on any steel product category unless the Secretary finds that the sector of the domestic steel industry which produces like or competitive articles has, and is engaging in, a verifiable investment plan to modernize that sector. Imposes additional quantitative limits on imports of steel mill product categories. Declares that it is the intent of this title to ensure, to the extent practicable, that the entry of articles in all steel mill product categories that are products of a foreign nation be equalized on a monthly basis. Provides for imposing additional limitations on imports from a foreign nation if imports from such nation, in any two consecutive months, exceed five percent of an amount equal to one-sixth of the total permissible imports for such nation for the year concerned. Terminates this title on December 31, 1988, unless extended by the President. Title III: Quantitative Restrictions on Iron Ore Imports - Imposes limits on the imports of iron ore for the last six months of 1983, and for calendar years 1984 and 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to permit imports of iron ore in excess of such limits in order to insure continued operation of domestic steelmaking facilities. Permits such waiver only on a plant-by-plant basis and only if the Secretary makes specified determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1983
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants and enter into contracts for State and local public health emergency prevention and treatment programs. Establishes in the Treasury a Public Health Emergency Fund for such purposes. Authorizes $60,000,000 for FY 1984 and for subsequent years such sums as necessary to have $60,000 in the Fund at the beginning of each fiscal year. Requires a report to the appropriate congressional committees on any such expenditures made during a fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1983
Water Resources, Conservation, Development, and Infrastructure Improvement and Rehabilitation Act of 1983 - Title I: Port Development - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to develop the following port projects: (1) Norfolk Harbor and Channels, Virginia; (2) Mobile Harbor, Alabama; (3) Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; (4) Texas City Channel, Texas; (5) New York Harbor and adjacent channels, New York and New Jersey; (6) Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataquo River, New Hampshire; (7) New Haven Harbor, Connecticut; (8) Gowanus Creek Channel, Brooklyn, New York; (9) Kill Van Kull, New York and New Jersey; (10) Wilmington Harbor-Northeast Cape Fear River, North Carolina; (11) Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; (12) Savannah Harbor, Georgia; (13) Manatee Harbor, Florida; (14) Tampa Harbor, East Bay Channel, Florida; (15) San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico; (16) Crown Bay Channel-St. Thomas Harbor, Virgin Islands; (17) Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi; (18) Cleveland Harbor, Ohio; (19) Lorain Harbor, Ohio; (20) Grand Haven Harbor, Michigan; (21) Monroe Harbor, Michigan; (22) Brazos Island Harbor, Texas-Brownsville Channel; (23) Duluth-Superior, Minnesota and Wisconsin; (24) San Francisco Harbor, California-Fisherman's Wharf area; (25) Oakland Outer Harbor, California; (26) Richmond Harbor, California; (27) Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, California; (28) Hilo Harbor, Hawaii; (29) Blair and Sitcum Waterways, Tacoma Harbor, Washington; (30) Grays Harbor, Washington; and (31) East, West, and Duwamish Waterways, Washington. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress any final environmental impact statements concerning any such port development project. Allows any non-Federal entity to submit to the Secretary for review plans for port development not authorized by Federal law. Requires the Secretary within 180 days to submit to Congress a report containing results and recommendations of such non-Federal port development review. Provides for reimbursement to non-Federal entities for plan development costs. Provides for the undertaking by non-Federal entities of navigation projects approved by the Secretary. Provides for reimbursement to non-Federal interests of the Federal share of any navigation project approved. Specifies the Federal share of costs for planning, designing, engineering, and surveying of navigation projects. Allows ship levies and fees to be collected in limited circumstances. Title II: Inland Waterway Transportation System - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following navigation improvement projects: (1) Oliver Lock and Dam, Black Warrior-Tombigbee River, Alabama; (2) Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia; (3) Winfield Locks and Dam, Kanawha River, West Virginia; (4) Lock and Dam 7, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (5) Lock and Dam 8, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (6) Lock and Dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois, and Missouri; and (7) Bonneville Lock and Dam, Oregon and Washington-Columbia River and tributaries, Washington. Title III: Flood Control - Authorizes the Secretary to commence the following flood control projects: (1) Quincy Coastal Streams, Massachusetts; (2) Roughans Point, Massachusetts; (3) Cazenovia Creek, New York; (4) Mamaroneck, Sheldrake, and Byram Rivers, New York and Connecticut; (5) Rahway River and Van Winkles Brook, New Jersey; (6) Robinson's Branch-Rahway River, New Jersey; (7) Green Brook Sub-Basin, Raritan River Basin, New Jersey; (8) James River Basin, Virginia; (9) Oates Creek, Georgia; (10) Village Creek, Alabama; (11) Threemile Creek, Alabama; (12) Bushley Bayou, Louisiana; (13) Louisiana State Penitentiary Levee, Mississippi River, Louisiana; (14) Sowashee Creek, Meridian, Mississippi; (15) Nonconnah Creek, Tennessee and Mississippi; (16) Horn Lake Creek and Tributaries, Tennessee and Mississippi; (17) Muskingum River, Killbuck, Ohio; (18) Muskingum River, Mansfield, Ohio; (19) Hocking River, Logan, Ohio; (20) Hocking River, Nelsonville, Ohio; (21) Scioto River, Ohio; (22) Little Miami River, Ohio; (23) Miami River, Fairfield, Ohio; (24) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; (25) Lock Haven, Pennsylvania; (26) Schuylkill River Basin, Pottstown, Pennsylvania; (27) Saw Mill Run, Pennsylvania; (28) Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania; (29) Eight Mile Creek, Paragould, Arkansas; (30) Fourche Bayou Basin, Arkansas; (31) Helena and Vicinity, Arkansas; (32) West Memphis and Vicinity, Arkansas; (33) Mingo Creek, Oklahoma; (34) Fry Creeks, Oklahoma; (35) Maline Creek, Missouri; (36) St. John's Bayou and New Madrid Floodway, Missouri; (37) Brush Creek and Tributaries, Missouri and Kansas; (38) Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (39) Halstead, Kansas; (40) Upper Little Arkansas River, Kansas; (41) Rock River, Illinois; (42) Green Bay Levee and Drainage District Number 2, Iowa; (43) South Quincy Drainage and Levee District, Illinois; (44) North Branch of Chicago River, Illinois; (45) Little Calumet River, Indiana; (46) Perry Creek, Iowa; (47) Muscatine Island, Iowa; (48) Des Moines River Basin, Iowa and Minnesota; (49) Redwood River, Minnesota; (50) Boot River Basin, Minnesota; (51) South Fork Zumbro River, Minnesota; (52) Mississippi River at St. Paul, Minnesota; (53) Park River, Grafton, North Dakota; (54) Fountain Creek, Colorado; (55) Metropolitan Denver, Colorado; (56) Boggy Creek, Texas; (57) Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, Texas; (58) Lake Wichita, Holliday Creek, Texas; (59) Lower Rio Grande, Texas; (60) Sims Bayou, Texas; (61) Middle Rio Grand, New Mexico; (62) Little Colorado River, Arizona; (63) Cache Creek Basin, California; (64) Redbank and Fancher Creeks, California; (65) Santa Ana River Mainstem, California; (66) Alenaio Stream, Hawaii; (67) Agana River, Guam; (68) Little Wood River, Idaho; (69) Yakima-Union Gap, Washington; (70) Chehalis River, Washington; (71) Centralia, Washington; (72) Licking River, Salyersville, Kentucky; (73) Gold Gulch, California; (74) Pearl River Basin, Louisiana; (75) Amite River, Louisiana; (76) Comite River, Louisiana; (77) Tangipahoa River, Louisiana; (78) Tchefuncte River, Louisiana; (79) Tickfaw River, Louisiana; (80) Bogue Chitto River, Louisiana; and (81) Natalbany River, Louisiana. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to purchase certain land in Minnesota for construction of a levee and to upgrade existing facilities in Noyes, Minnesota. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Congress any final environmental impact statement required by law. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake flood control projects at: (1) Calleguas and Conego Creek, California; (2) Coyote Creek, California; and (3) Guadalupe River, California. Directs the Secretary to include as part of the non-Federal contribution of the projects any local flood protection work carried out by non-Federal interests after January 1, 1983, and before the enactment of this Act. Provides that the non- Federal share of the cost of any flood control project authorized under this Act shall be 25 percent. Defines certain costs, values, and non-Federal contributions for purposes of this Act. Title IV: Shore Protection - Authorizes the Secretary to effectuate the following shoreline protection projects: (1) Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point, New York; (2) Cape May Inlet to Lower Township, New Jersey; (3) Atlantic Coast of Maryland (Ocean City); (4) Willoughby Spit, Virginia; (5) Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; (6) Folly Beach, South Carolina; (7) Panama City Beaches, Florida; (8) St. John's County, Florida; (9) Charlotte County, Florida; (10) Indian River County, Florida; (11) Dade County, Florida; (12) Monroe County, Florida; (13) Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania; (14) Indiana Shoreline, Indiana; (15) Maumee Bay, Lake Erie, Ohio; (16) Tangier Island, Virginia; (17) Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright, New Jersey; (18) Fort Elfsborg, New Jersey; (19) Sea Breeze, New Jersey; (20) Gandy's Beach, New Jersey; (21) Reeds Beach, New Jersey; (22) Pierces Point, New Jersey; and (23) Fortescue, New Jersey. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report on each site following its construction. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984. Title V: Water Resources Conservation and Development - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the following works of improvement for water resources development and conservation: (1) Big River Reservoir, Rhode Island; (2) Olcott Harbor, New York; (3) Hampton Roads Debris Removal, Virginia; (4) Rudee Inlet, Virginia; (5) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Bridges, North Carolina; (6) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake, Georgia and South Carolina; (7) Metropolitan Atlanta Area, Georgia; (8) Jacksonville Harbor (Mill Cove), Florida; (9) Yazoo Backwater Area, Mississippi; (10) Greenville Harbor, Mississippi; (11) Vicksburg Harbor, Mississippi; (12) Memphis Harbor, Memphis, Tennessee; (13) Lake Pontchartrain North Shore, Louisiana; (14) Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana; (15) Cabin Creek, West Virginia; (16) Obion Creek, Kentucky; (17) Muddy Boggy Creek, Parker Lake, Oklahoma; (18) Fort Gibson Lake, Oklahoma; (19) Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, Missouri; (20) Trimble Wildlife Area, Smithville Lake, Little Platte River, Missouri; (21) St. Louis Harbor, Missouri and Illinois; (22) Missouri River Mitigation, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska; (23) Davenport, Iowa (Nahant Marsh); (24) Helena Harbor, Phillips County, Arkansas; (25) White River Navigation to Batesville, Arkansas; (26) Trinity River, Texas; (27) Cooper Lake and Channels, Texas; (28) Sacramento River Bank Protection, California; (29) Sweetwater River, California; (30) Lava Flow Control, Hawaii; (31) City Waterway, Tacoma, Washington; (32) McNary Lock and Dam, Washington and Oregon; (33) Bethel Bank Stabilization, Alaska; (34) Kodiak Harbor, Alaska; and (35) St. Paul Island, Alaska. Requires the Secretary to submit to appropriate congressional committees any final environmental impact studies on any of the above projects which may become available. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake the following demonstration projects: (1) Albert Lea Lake, Minnesota; and (2) Des Moines River, Iowa. Sets up an advisory committee for the Iowa demonstration project. Authorizes the Secretary to make any purchases deemed necessary to carry out such project. Sets forth the Federal share of such projects and authorizes appropriations beginning after September 30, 1983. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake the following waterway improvement and shore protection projects: (1) Hereford Inlet, Delaware Bay and Cape May Canal, New Jersey; (2) Barnegat Inlet to Longport, New Jersey; (3) Lake George, Hobart, Indiana; (4) Ohio River (various sites); (5) Bird Island, Niagara River and Lake Erie, Buffalo, New York; (6) Passaic and Pequannock Rivers, New Jersey; (7) Small Boat Harbor, Buffalo, New York; (8) Red Lake River, Minnesota; (9) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (10) Greenwood Lake and Belcher Creek, New Jersey; (11) Coosa River, Alabama; (12) Black Warrior River, Alabama; (13) Larkspur Ferry Channel, Larkspur, California; (14) Weeks Bay, Vermillion Bay, and Southwest Pass, Louisiana; (15) Swinomish Channel, La Conner, Washington; and (16) Sauk Lake, Minnesota. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a wildlife mitigation project for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Alabama and Mississippi. Title VI: Water Resources Studies - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to prepare and submit to Congress feasibility reports on the following water resources projects: (1) Illinois River, Hardin, Illinois; (2) Kinnickinnic River, Wisconsin; (3) Milton, Pennsylvania; and (4) Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Directs the Secretary to study the possibility of converting former industrial sites, millraces, etc. for use as new hydroelectric projects. Authorizes appropriations for this section. Directs the Secretary to study utilizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conserve fish and wildlife. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects of alternate habitats for fish and wildlife, including man-made reefs for fish. Authorizes a study of national flood control problems. Directs the Secretary to determine the extent of shoreline erosion damage due to joint U.S.-Canadian regulation of Lake Superior. Directs the Secretary, within two years of enactment of this Act, to prepare and submit to Congress an estimate of the long-range capital investment needs for water resources programs under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Defines the information to be included in such report. Directs the Secretary to expedite completion of the study of New York Harbor and Adjacent Channels, New York and New Jersey. Directs a study of the extent and adverse environmental effects of dioxin contamination in the Passaic River-Newark Bay navigation system. Requires a report to Congress within a year of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a list of water resource studies authorized but not reported to Congress. Outlines information concerning such studies to be included with the list. Directs the Secretary to submit certain reports, both for congressional use and for public information. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to undertake a feasibility study of navigation improvements at Saginaw Bay and River, Michigan. Title VII: Project Modifications - Modifies the following channel improvement and flood control projects: (1) Lynnhaven Inlet and Bay, Virginia; (2) Southern Branch of Elizabeth River, Virginia; (3) Ohio River Basin; (4) Mamaroneck Harbor, New York; (5) Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana; (6) Reelfoot Lake Number 9, Kentucky; (7) Yaquina Bay and Harbor, Oregon; (8) South Platte River Basin, Colorado; (9) Sacramento River, California; (10) King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California; (11) Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii; (12) Santa Cruz Harbor, Santa Cruz, California; (13) Colorado River, Texas; (14) Niobrara, Nebraska; (15) Alabama-Coosa River, Alabama; (16) Kickapoo River, Wisconsin; (17) East St. Louis and vicinity, Illinois; (18) Winona, Minnesota; (19) Wenatchee, Washington; (20) Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri; (21) Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana; (22) Houston Ship Channel, Greens Bayou, Texas; (23) Rio Grande bank protection, Texas; (24) Anacostia River, District of Columbia and Maryland; (25) Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake Project, Abbeville, South Carolina; (26) Yazoo River, Mississippi; (27) Corte Madera Creek, California; (28) Mississippi River, Teche-Vermillion Basins, Louisiana; (29) Granger Dam, San Gabriel River, Texas; (30) Lewisville Lake, Texas; (31) Dardanelle lock and dam, Arkansas; (32) Susquehanna River, Sunbury, Pennsylvania; (33) Hudson River, New York; (34) San Lorenzo River, California; (35) New Melones Dam and Reservoir, California; (36) McMicken Dam and Outlet Channel, Gila River Basin, Arizona; (37) Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Peck Beach, New Jersey; (38) Corson Inlet and Ludlam Beach, New Jersey; (39) Townsend Inlet and Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey; (40) Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Rivers, Georgia and Florida; (41) Cowlitz and Toutle Rivers, Washington; (42) Milk River, Havre, Montana; (43) Snake River, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; (44) Curwensville Lake, Pennsylvania; (45) Waterloo, Iowa; (46) Western Tennessee tributaries, Tennessee and Kentucky; (47) Kawkalin River, Michigan; (48) Licking River, Kentucky; (49) Buffalo Ship Canal, Buffalo, New York; (50) Fort Gibson Lake and Teukiller Ferry Lake, Oklahoma; (51) Newport Bay Harbor, California; (52) Beaver Lake, Arkansas; and (53) Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico. Directs the Secretary to make a maximum effort to employ minority groups in any construction required in the aforementioned projects. Title VIII: Water Supply - Subtitle A: Loan Program - Water Supply Rehabilitation and Conservation Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to departments, agencies, units of State or local government, or any person operating a water supply system for the purpose of improving such system. Provides that the amount of such loan shall not exceed 80 percent of the cost of the project. Sets limitations on the total amount of loans permitted. Enumerates conditions upon which no loan will be made. Requires approval of any loans made by both houses of Congress. Lists requirements for loan applications, including: (1) a detailed plan and estimated cost of the project; (2) a showing that the applicant holds all necessary rights to land and water use; (3) applicant ability to finance the non-Federal portion of the project; and (4) a showing of the improvements the plan would make in water supply. Gives priority in loans to water systems currently polluted and posing a potential danger to human health. Allows the granting of loans only if the operator of a water supply system to whom the loan is granted implements a model water conservation program. Defines a "model water conservation program." Requires that the agreement reached between the Secretary and any loan grantee include: (1) the amount of the loan and its interest rate; (2) a repayment period; and (3) such provisions deemed necessary to assure prompt repayment. Allows the Secretary to increase the maximum percentage of the cost of a project in specified circumstances. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1987, and such sums as may be necessary thereafter. Authorizes the following water supply projects to receive loans: (1) Buffalo, New York; (2) Berlin, New Hampshire; (3) Rochester, New Hampshire; (4) Saints Thomas, Croix, and John, Virgin Islands; (5) Dupage County, Illinois; (6) New York City, New York; (7) Fort Smith, Arkansas; (8) American Samoa; (9) William H. Harsha Lake, Ohio; (10) Totowa, New Jersey; (11) Jersey City, New Jersey; and (12) Rockaway Township, New Jersey. Subtitle B: Water Supply Projects - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to survey, plan, and recommend to Congress: (1) projects for the repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement of water supply systems; and (2) projects for the construction of single and multiple-purpose water supply systems needed to meet existing and anticipated future demand. Allows no appropriation for any survey unless such appropriation has been approved by either house of Congress. Requires the appropriate non-Federal interests to provide the necessary land, easements, and rights-of-way for any such project. Allows the Secretary to reduce the percentage amount of the project to be paid by non-Federal interests in specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to water supply system operators in identifying problems and initiating repair, rehabilitation, expansion, and improvement to the system. Directs the Secretary to study existing water resources projects to determine the feasibility of using such projects for water supply on an interim or permanent basis. Authorizes the Secretary to design and construct a treatment plant and water conveyance system from Lake Arcadia to Edmond, Oklahoma, with specified conditions. Authorizes and directs the construction of treatment and conveyance facilities from Kaw Lake to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Modifies the water supply project at Caesar Creek, Ohio River Basin, Ohio, with specified conditions. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the States, to make a detailed estimate of needed repair, rehabilitation, and construction of water supply and distribution facilities and the costs thereof in each and all of the States. Directs the transmitting of such estimate to Congress within two years of enactment of this Act. Title IX: Namings - Designates the following harbors and locks and dams: (1) Elvis Stahr Harbor, Port of Hickman, Kentucky; (2) Wilbur D. Mills Dam, Arkansas; and (3) S.W. Taylor Memorial Park, Alabama. Title X: Project Deauthorizations - Deauthorizes the following flood control, hydroelectric power, or navigation projects, by State: (1) Alabama: (a) Alabama River; (b) Big Wills Creek Lake; (c) Crooked Creek Lake; (d) Hatchet Creek Lake; (e) Little River Lake; (f) Mill Creek Lake; (g) Terrapin Creek Lake; (h) Waxahatchee Creek Lake; (i) Weogufka Creek Lake; (j) Yellowleaf Creek; (k) Big Canoe Creek Lake; (2) Alaska: (a) Myers Chuck Harbor; (b) Nome Harbor; (c) Skagwar River; (3) Arkansas: (a) Bayou Bartholomew; (b) Crooked Creek Lake Levee; (c) Gillete New Levee, Lower Arkansas River; (d) Murfreesboro Reservoir; (4) California: (a) Alhambra Creek; (b) Aliso Creek Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (c) Bear River; (d) Butler Valley Dam, Mad River; (e) Eel River; (f) Sierra Madre Wash, Los Angeles County Drain Area; (g) Lower San Francisco Bay; (h) Monterey Harbor; (i) Napa River Basin; (j) Napa River; (k) Old River; (l) San Juan Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (m) Trabuco Dam, Santa Ana River Basin; (n) University Wash and Spring Brook; (o) Lakeport Lake; (p) Calusa to Red Bluff, Sacramento River; (q) San Joaquin River; (5) Colorado: (a) Boulder; (b) Castlewood Lake; (6) Connecticut: (a) Bridgeport Harbor-Black Rock Harbor; (b) Connecticut River below Hartford; (c) Mystic River; (d) Silver Beach to Cedar Beach; (d) Stonington Harbor; (e) Thames River; (7) District of Columbia: Washington, D.C. and vicinity; (8) Florida: (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Miami to Key West; (b) Biscayne Bay; (c) Cedar Keys Harbor; (d) Broward County and Hillsboro Inlet; (e) Intracoastal Waterway, Jacksonville to Miami; (f) Jacksonville Harbor Mooring Basin; (g) Key West Harbor; (h) Miami Harbor, Miami River; (i) Okeechobee Waterway; (j) Oklawaha River; (k) Palm Beach Harbor; (l) Lake Worth Inlet to South Lake Worth Inlet; (m) Apalachicola Bay to St. Marks River; (n) Saint Marks to Tampa Bay; (o) Pensacola Harbor; (p) Saint Augustine Harbor; (q) Tampa Harbor; (9) Georgia: (a) Canton Lake; (b) Cartecay Lake; (c) Gilmer Lake; (d) Kingston Lake; (e) Lazer Creek Lake; (f) Lower Auchumpkee Creek Lake; (g) Spewrell Bluff Lake; (10) Hawaii: (a) Ala Wai Harbor, Oahu; (b) Hanapepe Bay Seawall; (c) Kaunakakai Deep Draft Harbor, Molokai; (d) Waimeo Beach Seawall, Kauai; (11) Idaho: (a) Mud Lake Area; (b) South Fork, Clearwater River; (c) Teton River; (d) Blackfoot Reservoir; (e) Boise Valley; (f) Cottonwood Creek Dam; (g) Heise-Roberts Levee Extension; (h) Weiser River; (i) Whitebird Creek; (12) Illinois: (a) Chicago River, Cook County; (b) Dam 43, Ohio River; (c) Farmers Drainage and Levee District; (d) Freeport; (e) Illinois Waterway Navigation Project; (f) Kenilworth, Shore of Lake Michigan; (g) Levee Unit 1, Wabash River; (h) Levees District 21, Vandalia; (i) Little Calumet River; (j) Metropolis; (k) Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis; (l) Ohio River Open Channel, Louis District; (m) Ice Pier; (n) Peoria County Levees, Peoria; (o) Shawneetown; (p) Scott County Drainage and Levee District; (q) South Beloit; (r) Wankegan Harbor; (s) William L. Springer Lake; (t) Alton Commercial Harbor; (u) Keech Drainage and Levee District, Green County; (v) Big Swan Drainage and Levee District; (w) Fort Chartres and Ivy Landing Drainage District 5; (13) Indiana: (a) Anderson, Madison County; (b) Illinois Waterway, Cal-Sag Channel, Part 2; (c) Levees between Shelby Bridge and Baums Bridge; (d) Marion; (e) Vincennes; (14) Iowa: (a) Davids Creek Lake; (b) Fort Madison Harbor; (c) Keokuk Small Boat Harbor; (d) Missouri Levee System; (15) Kansas: (a) El Dorado, West Branch, Walnut River; (b) Garnett Lake, Pottawatomie Creek; (c) Grove Lake; (d) Indian Lake; (e) Kansas River Navigation; (f) Missouri River Levee System; (g) Neodesha Lake, Verdigris River; (h) Onaga Lake; (i) Tomahawk; (j) Towanda Lake; (k) Tuttle Creek Lake; (l) Wolf-Coffee Lake; (m) Cedar Point Lake; (n) Cow Creek-Hutchinson; (o) Missouri River Levee System; (16) Kentucky: (a) Caseyville; (b) Cloverport; (c) Concordia; (d) Louisville; (e) Middlesboro, Yellow Creek; (f) Tolu; (17) Louisiana: (a) Bayou Bartholomew; (b) Bayou Teche, Saint Martin, Saint Mary and Iberia Parish; (c) Black Bayou, Reservoir; (d) Overton-Red River Waterway above Mile 31; (e) Bayou La Fourche and La Fourche Jump; (f) Bayou La Fourche; (g) Bayou Segnette; (18) Maine: (a) Bar Harbor; (b) Dickey-Lincoln School project, Saint John River; (c) Kennebec River; (d) Rockland Harbor; (19) Maryland: Baltimore Harbor and channels; (20) Massachusetts: (a) Edgartown Harbor; (b) Fall River Harbor Channel; (c) Ipswich River; (d) Nantucket Harbor of Refuge, Anchorage; (e) New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbor; (f) Newburyport Harbor; (g) Nookagee Lake, North Nashua River; (h) Pleasant Bay; (i) Salem Harbor; (j) Winthrop Beach; (k) Lynn Harbor; (l) Monoosnoc Brook; (m) Monoosnoc Lake; (n) Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown; (21) Michigan: (a) Black River Harbor; (b) Forestville Harbor; (c) Middle Channel, Saint Clair River; (d) Red Run Drain, Lower Clinton River; (e) Detroit River, Trenton Channel; (f) Grand Marais Harbor; (g) Keweenaw Waterway; (h) Outonagon Harbor; (i) (h) Sanilac Flats, Saginaw River; (j) Corunna feature, Saginaw River; (k) Owosso feature, Saginaw River; (l) Berrien County; (22) Minnesota: (a) Warroad River and Bulldog Creek; (b) Mississippi River between the Missouri River and Minneapolis; (c) Harriet Island Harbor; (23) Mississippi: (a) Biloxi Harbor, Old Fort Bayou; (b) Buffalo River; (c) Pascagoula Harbor, Main Channel; (24) Missouri: (a) Angler Use Sites; (b) Braymer Lake Shoal Creek; (c) Brookfield Lake, Yellow Creek; (d) East Muddy Creek; (e) Mercer Lake; (f) Mississippi River, Agricultural Area 12; (g) Pattonsburg Lake; (h) Pomme de Terre Lake; (i) Sandy Slough Remedial Measures; (j) Trenton Lake; (k) Upper Grand River; (l) Mill Creek Lake; (25) Nebraska: Little Nemaha River; (26) Nevada: (a) Gleason Creek Dam; (b) Humboldt River and Tributaries; (27) New Jersey: (a) Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers; (b) Way Cake Creek; (c) Perth Amboy; (28) New Mexico: (a) Rio Grande Floodway, San Acacia to Bosque; (b) Rio Grande Floodway, Espanola Valley Unit; (29) New York: (a) Allegany; (b) Unit 1, Allegany River; (c) Hudson River, New York City to Albany; (d) Ogdensburg Harbor; (e) Oswego Harbor; (f) Red Creek; (g) Ticonderoga River; (h) Cape Vincent Harbor; (i) East Chester Creek; (j) East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet, Part 2; (k) Hammondsport, Glen Brook; (30) North Carolina: (a) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Peltier Creek; (b) Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Tidal Lock in Snows Cut; (c) Carolina Beach and Vicinity, South Area; (d) Fort Macon State Park; (e) Morehead City Harbor; (f) Ocracoke Island; (g) Ocracoke Island-Village Shore; (h) Ocracoke Inlet Jetty; (i) Roanoke River; (31) Ohio: (a) Ohio River; (b) Burlington; (c) Chesapeake; (d) Empire-Stratton; (e) Martins Ferry; (f) Powhatan Point; (g) Proctorville; (h) South Point; (32) Oregon: (a) Columbia Drainage District No. 1; (b) Deer Island Drainage District; (c) Shelton Ditch; (d) Umpqua River-Scholfield River; (e) Cascadia Lake; (f) Gate Creek Lake; (g) Grande Ronde Lake; (h) Grande Ronde Valley; (i) Holley Lake; (j) Pendleton Levees, Riverside Area; (k) Willamette River above Portland and Yamill River; (l) Willamette River at Willamette Falls; (33) Pennsylvania: (a) Brackenridge, Tarentum, and Natrona; (b) Chester River; (c) Leetsdale; (d) Muddy Creek Lake; (e) Neville Island; (f) New Kensington and Parnassus; (g) Rochester; (h) Trexler Dam and Lake; (i) Youghiogheny River Canalization; (j) Aquashicola Lake; (k) Maiden Creek Lake Earth Dam; (34) Puerto Rico: (a) Fajardo Harbor; (b) Guayanes Harbor; (35) Rhode Island: (a) Great Salt Pond; (b) Harbor of Refuge, Block Island; (c) Pawcatuck River; (d) Providence River and Harbor; (e) Westerly Hurricane Protection; (36) South Carolina: (a) Charleston Harbor, Ft. Moultrie Anchorage Area; (b) Myrtle Beach, Anchorage Basin; (c) Reedy River, Greenville; (37) Tennessee: (a) Cumberland River above Nashville; (b) Hiwassee River; (c) Rossview Lake; (d) Alabama-Coosa River Basin, Jacks River Lake; (38) Texas: (a) Alpine; (b) Brazos Island Harbor; (c) Brazos River, Velasco to Old Washington; (d) Cedar Bayou, Harris; (e) Channel to Port Bolivar; (f) Duck Creek Channel Improvement; (g) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Channel to Harlingen; (h) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway-Chocolate Bayou; (i) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Harbor of Refuge at Seadrift; (j) Houston Ship Channels, Greens Bayou; (k) Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Matagorda Bay; (l) Lake Brownwood; (m) Mill Creek Brazos River; (n) Navasota Lake; (o) Navidad and Lavaca Rivers; (p) Pecan Bayou Lake; (q) Peyton Creek; (r) Plainview; (s) Roanoke Lake; (t) Sabine Neches Waterway Channel to Echo; (u) Sabine River, Echo to Morgan Bluff; (39) Utah: Weber River and Tributaries; (40) Vermont: (a) Bennington; (b) Otter Creek; (c) Rutland Otter Creek; (41) Virginia: (a) Thimble Shoal Channel; (b) Neabasco Creek; (c) Moore's Fairy Lake; (d) Pamunkey River; (42) Virgin Islands: (a) Christiansted Harbor-St. Croix; (b) St. Thomas Harbor; (43) Wake Island: Wake Island Harbor; (44) Washington: (a) Eutiat River; (b) Lower Walla Walla River; (c) Methow River; (d) Okanogan River, Okanogan; (e) Quillayute River; (f) Seattle Harbor; (g) Spokane River, Spokane; (h) Yakima River at Ellensburg; (i) Palonse River; (j) Pullman Palouse River; (k) Stillaquamish River; (45) West Virginia: (a) Moundsville, Marshall County, Levees; (b) Panther Creek Lake; (c) Proctor; (d) Ravenswood; (e) Rowlesburg Lake; (f) Warwood, Wall and Drainage; (g) North Wheeling; (h) Wheeling; (i) Wheeling Island; (j) Birch Lake; (k) Woodlands; (46) Wisconsin: (a) Hudson Small Boat Harbor; (b) Cassville Small Boat Harbor; (47) Wyoming: Buffalo. Deauthorizes the following projects after the date of enactment of this Act: (a) Eastport Harbor, Maine; (b) Kalihi Channel, Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii; (c) Onaga Lake Project, Vermillion Creek, Kansas; and (d) William L. Springer Lake, Sangamon River, Illinois. Title XI: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to prepare a feasibility report for every water resource study authorized. Enumerates information to be included in such report. Directs the Secretary, before preparing a feasibility report, to perform a reconnaissance survey of the potential water resource project to define problems with the project, together with their possible solutions. Provides that non-Federal interests shall contribute 25 percent of the cost of any such report or survey. Establishes an Environmental Protection and Mitigation Fund. Authorizes appropriations for this Fund for fiscal years beginning 1984. States various purposes for which the Fund may be used. Authorizes the Secretary to study the water resources needs of river basins and regions of the United States. Requires a report to Congress on the results of such study before October 1, 1987. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and develop campgrounds for individuals 62 years of age or older at any lake or reservoir under the Secretary's jurisdiction. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning 1984. Authorizes the development of and appropriations for a 62-or-older campground in Texas. Identifies such parcel of land by metes and bounds. Authorizes and direct the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake measures to prevent flood damage along the route of the Meramec River in Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary to repair dams found to be in a hazardous or unsafe condition. Authorizes the Secretary to repair the spillway at Schuyler County Public Water Supply District No. 1. Requires the Secretary to annually update the inventory of dams. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984. Directs the Secretary to maintain a water resources project at Buffalo Harbor, New York. Declares Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, to be nonnavigable. Authorizes the Secretary, upon official request, to provide designs, plans, and/or technical assistance to States or local governments for removing snags and other debris in channels. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance in the breakup of river and harbor ice. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1986. Authorizes the Secretary to preserve historic sites under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army if such properties are entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning in 1984. Directs the Secretary to convey a parcel of land to Metropolitan Park in Ohio for a flood control project. Directs the Secretary to maintain the navigation projects on the Delaware River in the Philadelphia and Trenton area. Declares downstream recreation on the Gauley River, West Virginia, to be an additional project. Provides for incremental whitewater release and water storage at the Summerville Dam in West Virginia to aid in such recreation project. Recognizes the Upper Mississippi River to be a nationally significant ecosystem and commercial navigation system. Approves a "master plan" as a guide for future water policy on the Upper Mississippi. Grants the consent of Congress to several midwestern States bordering the Mississippi for cooperative efforts and mutual planning in the development of such river. Designates the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association as the caretaker of the "master plan." Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the aforementioned midwestern States, to undertake: (1) a program for planning, construction, and evaluation of fish and wildlife enhancement measures; (2) implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; and (3) implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system. Provides for termination of such programs ten years from the date of enactment of this Act, with specified evaluations and reports. Authorizes appropriations for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to implement a program of recreational projects for the Upper Mississippi River System. Authorizes appropriations for this purpose for ten fiscal years after the date of enactment of this Act, along with specified evaluations and reports. Directs the Secretary to dispose of dredged materials from the System and to request funding for a program to facilitate productive uses of dredged materials. Directs the Secretary to extend the navigation season on the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Requires approval by both houses of Congress before any extension is granted. Requires acquisition by the Secretary of all lands and interest before authorized construction begins on any water resources project in this Act. Establishes an Office of Environmental Policy within the Office of the Chief of Engineers, to be responsible for all environmental policy matters as they relate to the water resources programs. Limits appropriations for the repair and modification of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Provides that certain prohibitions and provisions for review of activities in waters of the U.S. shall not apply to any water development projects at the Great Miami River Basin or the Great Miami River and its tributaries in Ohio. Provides a maximum time limitation for construction of any project in this Act of five years after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that all leases for projects in this Act shall continue in effect on and after January 1, 1990, until such lease is terminated by the leaseholder. Requires fair market values for such leases after such date. Enumerates conditions required before the Secretary may terminate a lease on or after January 1, 1990. Limits modifications to projects to those which: (1) do not materially alter the scope or function of the project; and (2) reflect changes in construction costs and are the result of additional plans and studies. Authorizes review by the Secretary of previous (before this Act) water projects. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project within two years from enactment of this Act for the purpose of making modifications in the structures and operations of water projects constructed before the enactment of this Act. Requires a report to Congress concerning such project. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to reconstruct and rehabilitate the New York State Barge Canal for commercial, recreational, historic, and environmental purposes. Requires the Secretary and New York State to each provide 50 percent of the annual cost of maintaining such canal. Requires a report on the Canal to both houses of Congress within two years of enactment of this Act. Provides that no appropriation shall be made for such Canal project unless both houses of Congress approve of such by resolution. Defines areas included within the New York State Barge Canal. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and implement a flood warning system for the Whitewater River, California. Requires the Secretary to provide for employment of residents in high-unemployment areas where water projects are being constructed. Requires a report to Congress by the Secretary within 90 days after requests for project appropriations. Such report shall contain current information on the potential benefits of such project to unemployed residents of the area. Defines terms. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to the State of Georgia all right, title, and interest to a parcel of land in Savannah, Georgia, conditioned upon certain payments being made to the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to construct a depot in Savannah Harbor, Georgia. Authorizes the Secretary to straighten bends in rivers and channels to improve navigation, within certain cost limitations. Abolishes the California Debris Commission, transferring its duties to the Secretary. Authorizes the Chief of Engineers to perform emergency work upon public or private land for ten days following a Governor's request for such emergency or disaster relief. Makes technical amendments to various flood control acts relating to amounts of appropriations. Requires the Secretary to expedite completion of a study for a new lock parallel to Poe Lock on the Saint Lawrence Seaway and submit a report to Congress. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress every January 15th on activities undertaken in the development of water resources projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985. Directs the Secretary to reevaluate the feasibility of the Elk Creek Lake feature of the project for the Rogue River, Oregon and California. Directs the Secretary to implement a study of the possibility of increased use of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the planning and construction of water resources projects. Requires the Secretary to transmit to both Houses of Congress a report which specifies the amount of electricity generated, the revenues received, and the operational costs of each water resource facility. Authorizes the President to appoint a regular officer from the Armed Forces as the Federal Commissioner of the Red River Compact Commission. Amends the River and Harbor Act to provide for reconstruction of water works as necessary to provide adequate facilities for navigation. Requires congressional approval of such reconstruction before any appropriations are made. Authorizes the Secretary to construct and improve facilities at the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Port of Buffalo. Authorizes the Secretary to construct and maintain a navigation channel from the mouth of the Beaver River at Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, to New Brighton, Pennsylvania. Provides that the total amount for construction of water resources projects shall not exceed $1,500,000,000 for each of FY 1984 and 1985, and $1,600,000,000 for each of FY 1986 through 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1983
Establishes the Kamehameha National Monument in Hawaii. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to provide facilities to commemorate the historical significance of the monument. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) legislation is immediately required to protect Medicare and Medicaid (titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act); and (2) an urgency exists to assure affordable health care for older Americans. States that Congress should enact legislation to reduce and control the rising cost of health care.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983 - Provides that, effective as of enactment of this Act, the decisions and orders of the Federal Communications Commission in C.C. docket numbered 78-72 shall cease to have effect. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Commission to establish a system of charges to compensate exchange common carriers for exchange access, and to reform the system of settlements and jurisdictional separation of property and expenses in force on the date of enactment. States that the purposes of such system of charges shall be: (1) to compensate exchange common carriers for all costs associated with providing or making available exchange access; (2) to achieve equitable treatment of all interexchange carriers and other persons who benefit from the services and facilities of each exchange common carrier, and to prevent contributions between exchange services or functions and interexchange services or functions of such carriers, except as provided below; (3) to ensure the continued universal availability of communications service provided by exchange common carriers at reasonable and affordable charges; (4) to assure that payments and assignments of costs relating to exchange access are carried out in a manner which ensures accountability and is open to public examination; and (5) to encourage efficient investment decisions and technological development. Requires the system to provide that an exchange common carrier shall file to the Commission a tariff for exchange access for each of its exchange areas. Authorizes a carrier to file, or the Commission or State Commission may require a carrier to file, a joint tariff for exchange access for all of its exchange areas within a single State until January 1, 1988, or later as the Commission may provide. Requires each tariff to specify separate charges for each type of exchange access on an element-by-element basis. Requires the charges for each type of tariff to be justified by costs. Requires each tariff to consist of four charges to be recovered from interexchange carriers. Provides that three of the charges shall encompass all costs associated with exchange access and one shall be the surcharge determined by the Universal Service Board (established by this Act). Requires the charges of each tariff which encompass all costs associated with exchange access to specifically identify the separate charges involved. Requires the system to provide that an exchange common carrier shall submit to the Commission a tariff for exchange access available from such carrier for interexchange carriers or other persons who indirectly interconnect with the facilities of such exchange carrier. Requires each tariff to include: (1) a charge for the direct costs of any services, facilities, or other factors required solely for the provision of such interconnection; (2) a charge reflecting an appropriate portion of the cost of services, facilities, and other factors which are used jointly or in common to provide exchange service and exchange access; (3) a charge reflecting the availability of the facilities of the exchange carrier for exchange access as an alternative for indirectly interconnecting interexchange carriers and interexchange customers to the extent such facilities are not used for exchange access by such carriers and customers; and (4) the surcharge determined by the Universal Service Board. Requires any person who owns or operates facilities to originate or terminate interexchange communication other than through direct interconnection to notify the appropriate exchange carriers, the Commission, and the appropriate State Commissions. Imposes a $50,000 fine on any person who is required, but fails, to make such notification. Directs the Commission, after consideration of recommendations of the Universal Service Board, to establish practices and methods to ascertain and fully apportion the cost of services, facilities, and other factors used jointly or in common to provide exchange services and exchange access. Provides that the initial tariffs for exchange access shall take effect on July 1, 1985. Sets forth provisions governing the transitional period. Establishes the Universal Service Fund, in order to assure the continued availability of universal transmission services, including service in rural or remote areas, at reasonable and affordable charges. Directs the Universal Service Board to annually determine uniform surcharges on the amounts collected by exchange common carriers under this Act, such that the Fund is sufficient to make required payments. Provides that an exchange common carrier is entitled to receive payments from the Fund if it certifies to the Universal Service Board that its average costs for nontraffic sensitive facilities per customer access line is in excess of 115 percent of the national average of such costs. Provides that the amount of such payments for an eligible exchange carrier shall be determined by the Universal Service Board. Directs the Universal Service Board to establish and oversee an exchange access board (consisting of representatives of exchange common carriers, interexchange carriers, and other customers directly obtaining exchange access) to administer the accounts of the Universal Service Fund. Directs the Commission to establish the Universal Service Board for the purpose of: (1) ensuring equitable and efficient economic treatment of users of common carrier services and exchange services and carriers providing such services; (2) providing for an orderly transition to the system of charges for exchange access established by this Act; and (3) achieving cooperation between the Federal Government and the States. Directs the Board to: (1) establish and maintain formulas for defining and comparing national average costs and charges and uniform practices for determining the payments required by the Fund, and to oversee the distribution of funds from the Fund by the exchange access board; (2) make such changes and modifications in the system of jurisdictional separation of carrier property and expenses in force as may be necessary for the transitional system of charges for exchange access; and (3) determine at regular intervals the relative assignment by exchange common carriers of the cost of factors of production which are used jointly or in common to provide exchange service and exchange access. Grants State commissions authority: (1) to establish classifications for exchange facilities and the portion of facilities used jointly for exchange and interexchange services assigned to the States by the Board; and (2) to prescribe the methods by which exchange carriers shall recover investments in such facilities. Requires such methods to provide for recovery of investments in such classes of facilities in a manner which promotes the economic viability of the exchange carriers involved. Provides that in the case of any interexchange service provided by any carrier under a tariff in effect July 1, 1983, which was filed jointly with another carrier or under any successor tariff in effect after such date, the tariff applicable to such service provided by such carrier shall be based on the nationwide average of the cost of providing interexchange service. Authorizes a State commission to require any exchange common carrier to lease and maintain on request a single basic one-line telephone instrument, and associated wiring, to any subscriber within such State on the basis of a tariff that includes all costs of providing and maintaining such instrument and wiring. Requires each State commission to establish rules for the provision of lifeline telephone service by exchange carriers which consists of providing minimum telephone exchange service at a discounted rate for low-income residential customers. Prohibits any carrier or exchange carrier from using revenues from regulated communications services to defray any costs associated with its entry into or engaging in commercial activities the prices for which are not regulated by the Commission or any State commissions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal to Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of Harry S. Truman, in recognition of the lifetime of outstanding public service he gave to the United States. Commemorates his one hundredth birthday which will be celebrated on May 8, 1984. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual may become entitled to widow's or widower's insurance benefits on the basis of a disability during the first month of such disability if such individual is entitled to a disability insurance benefit under title II for such month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that nursing care and home health aid services may be provided on a daily basis as home health services for up to 90 days with monthly physician certification of the need for such services, and after the 90 day period, on a physician certification of exceptional circumstances. Limits to 20 the number of home health service visits covered under Medicare in the case of individuals who were furnished certain home health services but continue to need nursing care or the services of a home health aide.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1983
Sales Representation Contractual Relations Act - Title I: General Provisions - Sets forth findings and definitions. Title II: Contracts Between Sales Representatives and Principals - Subjects a principal to an indemnification action by a sales representative where a written contract exists between them under which the sales representative solicits orders from accounts and prospective accounts for the merchandise of the principal. Enumerates items to be included in any such written contract in order to conform with this Act. Title III: Indemnification - Exempts a principal from any indemnification action brought under this Act where: (1) a contract exists between the principal and sales representative which meets the requirements of Title I; or (2) the conduct of the principal for which indemnification is sought occurred before the sales representative had solicited orders on behalf of the principal for a period of 18 months. Permits a sales representative to bring an action for indemnification against a principal in any U.S. district court or State court where the principal: (1) terminates, without good cause, a sales representative from the assignment to solicit orders; or (2) reduces the size of any geographical territory assigned, the rate of commission paid, or the number of accounts assigned to a sales representative. Sets forth a formula for the computation of the amount of indemnification a principal shall pay in such an action. Provides that in an indemnification brought under this Act, the burden of proof shall be placed on the principal to show that the termination or reduction was for good cause if the sales representative presents certain evidence.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that if a hospice program does not provide its own nursing care, such care must be provided through a certified Medicare provider.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Amends Part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to redefine the term "aid to families with dependent children" and to eliminate certain restrictions on the coverage of pregnant women so that the aid shall include payments to meet the needs of a pregnant woman if a child born as a result of such pregnancy would be eligible for aid to families with dependent children.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Delays by one year the deadline after which Federal employees or Members of Congress must include interest on any amount deposited into the Treasury for the purpose of obtaining civil service retirement credit for military service.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Changes the amount a Federal employee or Member of Congress must pay to receive civil service retirement credit for certain military service. Requires such individuals to pay the same percentage of basic military pay as would have been payable had such pay been provided for civilian service. Delays by one year the deadline after which such individuals must include interest on such amounts paid to receive retirement credit.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of Agriculture should: (1) take immediate steps to establish a more effective domestic surplus food distribution program; and (2) increase rather than decrease food distribution.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Victims of Crime Act of 1983 - Title I: Crime Victim Compensation - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to qualified state programs for the compensation of victims of crimes. Provides that such grants shall total: (1) 50 percent of allowable compensation paid to victims of State crimes designated by the State to be appropriate for compensation; and (2) 100 percent of allowable compensation to victims of crimes which would constitute designated crimes but are subject to exclusive Federal jurisdiction. Specifies criteria for a State plan to qualify for grants, including that the program: (1) offer compensation for medical expenses and loss of wages; (2) condition compensation on cooperation with law enforcement officials; and (3) deny or reduce recovery where the claimant contributed to the injury. Title II: Crime Victim Assistance - Allows the Attorney General to make grants to the chief executive of each State for the financial support of crime assistance programs. States that such program must provide crisis intervention and mental health counseling services to victims and their families. Title III: Crime Victims Fund - Establishes within the U.S. Treasury the Crime Victims Fund. Provides that the Fund shall consist of: (1) fines collected in Federal criminal cases; (2) proceeds of all forfeitures in Federal criminal cases; and (3) taxes imposed on pistols and revolvers. Title IV: Changes in Criminal Fine Levels and Related Matters - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish alternative, increased fines for any person convicted of a Federal offense. Requires the Federal courts to impose a penalty assessment on all persons convicted of Federal offenses. Title V: Effective Dates - Establishes effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1983 - Enacts into law the short titles "Civil Rights Act of 1968" and "Fair Housing Act". Amends the Fair Housing Act to expand the definition of "discriminatory housing practice" to include any violation under such Act (thus codifying case law which holds that the obligation of Federal agencies to administer programs affirmatively to further the purposes of fair housing and the prohibition against interference with rights under the Act are separately actionable). Adds new definitions of "handicap", "aggrieved person", and "familial status". Excludes from the meaning of "handicap" any impairment consisting of alcohol or drug abuse which would be a direct threat to the property or safety of others. Defines "familial status" as one or more minors being domiciled with their parent or guardian. Retains the two current exemptions from the prohibition against the discriminatory sale or rental of housing which are given to: (1) an owner of three or fewer single-family houses; and (2) the owner of a dwelling consisting of four or fewer family units who also resides in such dwelling (the "Mrs. Murphy" exemption). Makes it unlawful to: (1) refuse to sell or rent to a handicapped person unless such handicap would prevent a prospective occupant from conforming to specified non-discrimination rules and practices; and (2) discriminate against a handicapped person in the conditions of sale or rental, or in the provision of related services or facilities. Includes within such discrimination a refusal to: (1) permit reasonable modifications to permit access to the premises (but only if a renter agrees to restore the premises to their original condition); and (2) make reasonable accommodations in policies, services, or facilities to afford handicapped persons equal enjoyment of the premises. States that such discrimination shall not include a refusal to: (1) make alterations at the expense of sellers, landlords, owners, or persons acting on their behalf; (2) make modifications which would unreasonably inconvenience others; and (3) allow architectural modifications which materially decrease the value of a building or alter its intended use. Prohibits discrimination against families with children. Makes it unlawful for an insurer to discriminate in the provision or terms of insurance against hazards to a dwelling because of the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, national origin or familial status of persons owning or residing in or near the dwelling. Adds handicapped persons as a protected class under other existing prohibitions on discriminatory activities. Modifies the housing financing discrimination provision to prescribe all conduct which denies or "otherwise makes unavailable" financial assistance because of race, color, religion, handicap, national origin or familial status. Includes within such prohibition persons in the business of selling, brokering, or appraising real property. States that nothing in this Act is to be construed to defeat any reasonable local, State or Federal restrictions on the maximum number of persons permitted to occupy a dwelling unit. Provides that familial status does not apply to any State or Federal programs aimed at assisting elderly persons. Establishes the Fair Housing Review Commission, composed of three members appointed by the President for staggered six year terms. Stipulates that no more than two members may be of the same political party. Directs the Commission to: (1) appoint administrative law judges and other employees as necessary to carry out its functions (2) promulgate a code of ethics to assure the independence of such judges; (3) promulgate rules of discovery for its proceedings consistent insofar as practicable with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; and (4) consider appeals from the proposed orders of the administrative law judges upon application of a party. Includes Federal agencies having regulatory authority over financial institutions within the executive departments and agencies which are currently required to administer their housing programs in an affirmative manner. Authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide financial as well as technical assistance to public and private organizations seeking to remedy housing discrimination. Establishes a new administrative enforcement procedure within the Department of Housing and Urban Development in addition to the current enforcement provisions of title VIII (allowing civil actions by private parties and the Attorney General). Directs the Secretary to make an investigation of all alleged discriminatory housing practice on his or her own initiative or upon the filing of a charge by an aggrieved person within one year of the alleged discrimination. Requires the Secretary to attempt to correct the discriminatory practice by informal methods of conciliation. Requires the Secretary, if the aggrieved person and respondent consent to binding arbitration, to refer the charge to an arbitrator made available by the Community Relations Service of the Department of Justice. Continues the current authority of the Secretary to utilize discovery measures. Retains the current penalty for failing to produce information (up to a $1,000 fine and/or one year's imprisonment). Makes certain changes in the current requirements for referring charges to State or local agencies for investigation and enforcement. Specifies, with respect to the rights and remedies provided by such agencies, the elements of "substantial equivalency" which permit certification and referrals of discrimination charges. Eliminates the Secretary's authority to recall referrals in the interest of justice or to protect the rights of the parties. Prohibits further action by the Secretary unless the agency fails to act in a timely fashion (current law gives the agency 30 days to commence proceedings). Requires the Secretary and other Federal agencies to cooperate to avoid duplication of their housing discrimination authority. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements to permit other agencies to carry out such responsibilities within their jurisdictions. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with specified Federal agencies for such purpose with respect to depository institutions. Permits an action for temporary or preliminary relief to be brought on behalf of the Secretary in accordance with rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the Secretary establishes that voluntary compliance is unobtainable and prompt judicial action is necessary. Permits the Secretary to file an administrative complaint or refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action if the investigation supports a finding of reasonable cause, except with respect to matters involving land use controls, which must be referred. Specifies the hearing procedures to be utilized if an administrative complaint is issued. Permits the administrative law judge to award appropriate relief and a civil penalty of up to $10,000. Permits the filing of a petition for judicial review of a final order in an appropriate court of appeals within 60 days after entry of such order. Provides that the findings of fact shall be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence in the record considered as a whole. Authorizes the administrative law judge to assess civil penalties for noncompliance with a final administrative order. Makes certain revisions in the private right of action for aggrieved persons under the Fair Housing Act. Extends the statute of limitations from 180 days to two years. Disallows simultaneous administrative and judicial proceedings involving the same charge. Permits the Attorney General to intervene upon certification that the civil action is of general public importance. Continues the current provision permitting the appointment of counsel. Removes the existing $1,000 limit on punitive damages for willful violations. Continues the authority of the Attorney General to initiate civil actions where there is reasonable cause to believe that a pattern or practice of resistance to title VIII rights has occurred. Permits the intervention of aggrieved persons in such actions. Permits the award of costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, to prevailing parties in court and administrative proceedings (current law permits an award of attorney's fees only to prevailing parties who are financially unable to assume them). Authorizes appropriations for this Act, effective October 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Soil Conservation Act of 1983 - Title I: Policy, Findings, and Definitions - States policy, findings and definitions. Title II: Program Eligibility on Highly Erodible Land - Declares that any person who produces an agricultural commodity on highly erodible land shall be ineligible with respect to such commodity for: (1) price or income support assistance; (2) a loan for the construction or purchase of a storage facility; (3) crop insurance; (4) a disaster payment; or (5) any new loan if used for a purpose which will contribute to excessive erosion of highly erodible land. Exempts from such restrictions lands and crops cultivated before enactment of this Act and any crop produced under an approved conservation system. Title III: Certified Voluntary Set-Aside - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program whereby owners and operators of cropland certify that certain crops have been planted with grass or legumes as part of a rotation pattern designed to reduce soil erosion or build soil productivity. Provides for annual renewal. Provides for the classification of croplands eligible for certification. Directs the Secretary to allow any farmer who has certified lands to designate those lands as cropland in rotation for purposes of establishing a normal crop acreage base for his farm. Allows farmers to designate certified lands as set-aside land or conserving-use acreage in a commodity stabilization program before the Secretary announces such program. Title IV: Conservation Reserve Program - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program to assist owners and operators of erosion-prone land in making changes in land-use needed to conserve and protect soil and water resources. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to carry out these purposes. Prescribes the contents of such contracts. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance, to share the cost of conservation measures, and to pay land-rental fees on conserved lands to the contracting owner or operator. Provides a formula to determine the Secretary's share of conservation costs. Requires bids from owners and operators to determine land rental fees. Title V: Rules and Regulations - Requires the Secretary, within 120 days of enactment of this Act, to publish regulations to effectuate its purpose. Title VI: Additional Authority - States that any authority provided by this Act is in addition to other authorities available to the Secretary and the Commodity Credit Corporation for carrying out soil and water conservation programs. Title VII: Authorization for Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Requires the appropriate United States attorney to bring before the grand jury within 60 days of receiving a certified statement from the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives that a Congressional witness has failed to testify before the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Northern Ireland Fair Employment Practices Act - Requires any U.S. person who has or controls an enterprise in Northern Ireland which employs more than 20 people to insure that in operating such enterprise the following employment principles are implemented: (1) desegregation in any employment facility; (2) equal employment for all employees; (3) equal pay for equal work; and (4) increase in the representation of individuals from underrepresented religious groups in managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs. Directs the Secretary of State to establish an Advisory Council in Northern Ireland to advise the Secretary with respect to the implementation of such employment principles and to review the annual reports which each U.S. person covered by this Act must submit to the Secretary on the progress made in implementing such principles. Directs the Secretary to establish in the United States an American Advisory Council to make policy recommendations regarding labor practices of U.S. persons in Northern Ireland and to review such persons' progress in implementing such employment practices. Directs the Secretary: (1) to take specified actions to insure compliance with the implementation of such employment principles; and (2) to review the compliance of such persons at least biennially. Sets forth penalties for noncompliance. Authorizes the President to waive compliance with the implementation of such principles if such compliance would harm U.S. national security, unless Congress adopts a concurrent resolution disapproving the waiver. Provides for expedited consideration of such resolution. Requires that other Federal agencies cooperate in carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts received by the taxpayer from the U.S. Forest Service as a result of restricting motorized traffic in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Prohibits a Federal agency from fixing the maximum age limit at less than 45 years of age for original appointments to a position as a law enforcement officer whose duties primarily involve detention activities. Increases from 55 to 65 years the age at which such an officer who is eligible for immediate retirement must be separated from the service.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that use of the five year quantitative restrictions recommended by the domestic specialty steel industry on imported specialty steel will: (1) eliminate unfair competition; and (2) provide time for plant modernization and for research and development projects. Urges the President to implement such import relief for the domestic industry in lieu of the restrictions recommended by the United States International Trade Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
National Acid Deposition Control Act of 1983 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control and Assistance Program - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish new requirements for acid deposition control. Sets forth direct federally mandated emission reductions and retrofit technology for the 50 fossil fuel fired electric utility generating plants which had the largest total emissions of sulfur dioxide during the calendar year 1980. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) identify each such plant which emitted sulfur dioxide during calendar year 1980 at an annual average rate equal to or exceeding three pounds per million Btu; (2) within two months after enactment of this Act, publish a list of the 50 plants which have the largest total emissions; (3) notify the owner or operator of each of the 50 plants listed; and (4) within four months after such enactment, and after notice and opportunity for comment, publish a final list of the 50 plants with the largest total emissions. Requires the owner or operator of each plant on the final list to submit to the Administrator, by January 1, 1985, a compliance schedule, including increments of progress. Directs the Administrator to approve or disapprove such schedule, within one year after submission, and after notice and opportunity for hearing. Directs the Administrator, if such schedule is not submitted by the deadline or is not approved, to promulgate a compliance schedule for such plant on January 1, 1986. Provides for modification and publication of such schedules. Requires that each compliance schedule provide that: (1) a technological system of continuous emission reduction be used for each steam generating unit in the fossil fuel fired electric utility generating plant concerned; and (2) sulfur dioxide emissions from such plant for the calendar year 1990 and each calendar year thereafter shall not exceed 1.2 pounds per million Btu heat input and ten percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during calendar year 1980 (90 percent reduction) or 0.6 pounds per million Btu and 30 percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during the calendar year 1980 (70 percent reduction). Sets forth procedures for determining plant compliance with such emission limitation. Requires that: (1) contracts be entered into for the purchase and installation of the technological systems of continuous emission reduction by January 1, 1988; (2) such systems be installed and in operation by January 1, 1990; and (3) the emission limitation be achieved for each calendar year after 1989. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund established under this Act, to pay for 90 percent of the costs of construction and installation of the technological system of continuous emission reduction necessary for each such plant to comply with the emission limitation. Directs the Administrator, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to promulgate regulations under which such payments: (1) may be made to utilities only if they will be used entirely to reduce those electric rate increases which would otherwise result from such construction and installation; and (2) shall be made at such times as will minimize rate increases. Sets forth requirements for State plans for additional emission reductions of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator, within four months after the enactment of this Act, to compute a State share, for each of the 48 contiguous States, of a 10,000,000 ton reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide by 1993 below that of 1980. Sets forth a formula for computation of State shares. Permits the Governors of two or more States to reallot State shares among agreeing States, if there is an equal or greater total reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide through such reallotment. Sets deadlines and procedures for submission and approval of State plans for such State shares. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a State plan on January 1, 1988, if no State plan has been: (1) submitted by June 1, 1985; or (2) approved by January 1, 1988. Requires State plans for State shares to provide for emission limitations applicable to any stationary sources in the State for which the actual annual sulfur dioxide emission rates have been calculated by the Administrator for the calendar year 1980, other than a source which is one of the listed 50 electric utility plants subject to direct federally mandated emission reductions. Requires that the emission limitations for each stationary source subject to the State plan establish an allowable average annual sulfur dioxide rate at a level such that the total reduction would equal the State share, with specified credits for States in which any of the 50 listed plants are located. Permits State plans for State shares to provide for compliance with emission limitations through use of technological systems of continuous emission reduction or any other appropriate requirements. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund (established within this Act), to pay for 90 percent of the costs of the construction and installation at an electric utility generating plant of any technological system of continuous emission reduction necessary to comply with requirements under a State plan for a State share of sulfur dioxide emission reductions. Subjects such payments to regulations relating to reduction of increases in utility rates. Establishes a trust fund in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Acid Deposition Control Fund, consisting of amounts generated by fees imposed under this Act. Directs the Administrator to make payments from the fund first to facilities covered by direct federally mandated emission reductions and then to facilities covered by State share plan requirements. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to be the trustee of the Fund and to report to the Congress for each fiscal year ending on or after September 30, 1984, on its financial condition and the results of its operation during such fiscal year and on its expected condition and operations during the next five fiscal years. Sets forth Fund investment duties of the Secretary. Imposes, under regulations promulgated by the Administrator, a fee of one mill for each kilowatt hour of electric energy: (1) generated in the contiguous 48 States by an electric utility; and (2) imported into the contiguous 48 States. Exempts from such fee electric energy: (1) used at the electric generating facility concerned; or (2) generated by a nuclear generating facility. Makes such fee effective with respect to electric energy generated, or imported, after December 31, 1984. Makes the fee cease to apply on the earlier of: (1) December 31, 1995; or (2) the date on which all payments required under this Act have been made. Authorizes the Administrator to terminate the fee at an earlier date upon estimation that sufficient funds have been collected to fund all such required payments. Directs the Administrator to promulgate within six months after enactment of this Act regulations setting forth the time and manner required for payment of such fee and related reporting requirements. Establishes civil penalties for: (1) electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which fail or refuse to pay such fees or to file required reports; and (2) any person who makes false or misleading statements in such required documents. Directs the Administrator to bring civil actions in such cases. Establishes additional criminal penalties for electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which knowingly commit such violations. Makes conforming amendments. Title II: Control of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions - Directs the Administrator to revise standards of performance for new stationary sources for emissions of nitrogen oxides from electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and which commence construction after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the emission of nitrogen oxides from such units at a rate which exceeds: (1) 0.30 pounds per million Btu, in the case of subbituminous coal; and (2) 0.40 pounds per million Btu, in the case of bituminous coal. Adds to provisions relating to emissions from mobile sources to set the following nitrogen oxide emission standards for model year 1986 and after truck and truck engines: (1) gross vehicle weight of 6,000 pounds or less - 1.2 grams per vehicle mile; (2) 6,000 to 8,500 pounds - 1.7 grams per vehicle mile; and (3) more than 8,500 pounds - 4.0 grams per brake horsepower-hour.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
State Justice Institute Act of 1982 - Establishes the State Justice Institute as a tax-exempt private nonprofit corporation to further the development of improved judicial administration in State courts in the United States. Permits the Institute to be incorporated in any State or the District of Columbia. Directs the Institute to: (1) direct a national assistance program to assure persons ready access to a fair and effective system of justice; (2) foster coordination and cooperation with the Federal judiciary; (3) make recommendations concerning the proper allocation of responsibility between the State and Federal court systems; (4) promote recognition of the importance of the separation of powers doctrine to an independent judiciary; and (5) encourage education for State court judges and support personnel. Authorizes the Institute to award grants and enter into cooperative agreements or contracts to: (1) conduct research, demonstrations, or special projects relating to the purposes of this Act; (2) serve as a clearinghouse of information regarding State judicial systems; (3) participate in joint projects with other agencies, including the Federal Judicial Center; (4) evaluate the impact of programs carried out under this Act upon the quality of criminal, civil, and juvenile justice; (5) encourage judicial education; (6) serve in a consulting capacity to State and local justice systems; and (7) be responsible for the certification of national programs to improve State judicial systems. Prescribes uses and limitations on uses of grant and contract funds. Specifies restrictions on activities of the Institute. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide full benefits under title II for disabled wives, husbands, widows, and widowers without regard to age. Makes the method for determining disability under title II applicable to widows, surviving divorced wives, and widowers as well as to all other individuals. (Under current law, a separate method is used for determining whether a widow, a surviving divorced wife, or a widower is under a disability.) Authorizes benefits for essential spouses of disability beneficiaries without regard to age.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the requirement that the 20 quarters of coverage necessary for disability insurance must have occurred within a 40 quarter period.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1983
Establishes the Commission on Capital Markets to evaluate the regulation of financial intermediaries by the Federal and State governments and the functioning of such intermediaries in the accumulation and allocation of capital within the United States economy. Sets forth the information to be included in such evaluation. Requires the Commission, within nine months after the initial meeting, to submit to Congress a report on the results of its evaluation. Terminates the Commission ninety days after the submission of its final report. Authorizes appropriations.
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