United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act - Title I: Health Revenue Sharing - Special Health Revenue Sharing Act- Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to State health and mental health authorities to assist in meeting the costs of providing comprehensive public health services under State plans approved under this Act. Sets forth the required elements of the content of such State plans. Authorizes the appropriation of $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $220,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 to make grants pursuant to this title. Title II: Family Planning Programs - Flamily Planning and Population Research Act - Authorizes appropriations for the family planning and population research programs of the Public Health Service Act for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct, make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or private entities for, project for research in the biomedical, contraceptive development, behavioral, and program implementation fields related to family planning and population. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975 and 1976 to carry out such research. Sets forth reporting requirements for the Secretary to Congress. Title III: Community Mental Health Centers - Community Mental Health Centers Amendments - Presents the finding of the Congress that: (1) community mental health care is the most effective and humane form of care for a majority of mentally ill individuals; and (2) federally funded community mental health centers have had a major impact on the improvement of mental health care by fostering coordination and cooperation between various agencies responsible for mental health care which in turn has resulted in a decrease in overlapping services and more efficient utilization of available resources. Provides that the comprehensive mental health services which shall be provided through a community mental health center under the Community Mental Health Centers Act shall include: (1) services for individuals who are inpatients in a hospital or other health services delivery facility, outpatient services, day care and similar partial hospitalization services, and emergency services; (2) detoxification and referral services for the treatment of alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and other drug abuse and drug dependence problems (including narcotic addiction); (3) consultation and education services for health professionals, schools, State and local law enforcement and correctional agencies, public welfare agencies, health services delivery agencies, and other appropriate entities; (4) assistance to courts and other public agencies in screening residents of the center's catchment area who are being considered for referral to a State mental health facility for treatment to determine if they should be so referred and provision, where appropriate, of treatment for such persons through the center as an alternative to treatment at such facility; and (5) provision of followup care for residents of its catchment area who have been discharged from a State mental health facility. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to carry out projects to develop community mental health center programs. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private community mental health centers to assist them in meeting their costs of operation during the first five years after their establishment. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to any community mental health center for the costs of providing consultation and education services under this Act. Sets forth criteria for such grants. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Sets forth general regulations governing grants made under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the operation of community mental health centers which are under financial distress. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such grants. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Directs the Secretary to pay the Federal share of projects for the acquisition, leasing, and construction of community mental health centers, and for the acquisition of initial equipment for such facilities. Defines "Federal share" with respect to such projects. Sets forth the procedures for approval of, payment of grants to, and allocation of funds for, projects under this Act. Defines the terms used in this Act. Sets forth general regulations with respect to the administration of this Act. Title IV: Migrant Health - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to assist in the establishment, initial operation, and continued operation of migrant health centers serving high impact areas. Defines "migrant health center" as an entity which provides health services to agricultural migratory workers and their families. Defines the terms used in this title. Sets forth health services to be supplied by migrant health centers. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public and private entities, in areas in which no migrant health centers exist and which are not high impact areas, to provide health care to agricultural workers and their families. Authorizes appropriations for the payment of such grants for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of (1) the quality of housing which is available to agriculltural migratory workers in the United States while away from their permanent abodes; (2) the effect on the health of migrant workers of deficiencies in such housing; and (3) Federal, State, and local government standards respecting housing conditions for such workers during such period. Sets forth the reporting requirements for the Secretary for such study. Title V: Community Health Center - Defines the term "community health center" as meaning under the Public Health Service Act an entity which provides primary health services and referral to providers of supplemental health services for all residents of the area it serves, and is organized in the manner prescribed under this Act. Requires the services of a community health center to be provided directly through its staff and supporting resources or through contracts or cooperative arrangements with public or private entities. Requires primary health services to be available and accessible in the area served by the center promptly, as appropriate, and in a manner which assures continuity. Provides that the governing body of a community health center shall have at least a majority of its members selected in a democratic manner by the persons receiving services from the center, shall meet at least once a month, shall establish general policies for the center, shall approve the center's annual budget, and shall approve the selection of a director for the center. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to assist in: (1) the establishment and initial operation of community health centers which will service a medically underserved population; and (2) meeting the cost of the continued operation of such centers. Authorizes to be appropriated $220,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $240,000,000 for fiscal year , 1976 for grants under this title.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Developmental Disabilities Amendments - Authorizes appropriations of $12,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, for the purpose of making grants to assist institutions of higher education to contribute more effectively to the solution of complex health, education and social problems of children and adults suffering from developmental disabilities. Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may make grants to public or nonprofit private entities for: (1) demonstration projects for the provision of services to persons with developmental disabilities who are also disadvantaged because of their economic status or the location of their residences, (2) technical assistance relating to services and facilities for persons with developmental disabilities, including assistance in State and local planning or administration, (3) training of specialized personnel needed for the provision of services for persons with developmental disabilities, or for research directly related to such training, (4) developing or demonstrating new or improved techniques for the provision of services to persons with developmental disabilities, or (5) gathering and disseminating information relating to developmental disabilities. Authorizes payments of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for the purpose of making payments under these grants. Provides for the allotment of funds to States. States that not less than ten percent of that allotment shall be used by such State for the purpose of assisting it in developing and implementing plans designed to eliminate inappropriate placement in institutions of persons with developmental disabilities, and to improve the quality of care and the state of surroundings of persons for whom institutional care is appropriate; and of the amount allotted to any State for each succeeding fiscal year, not less than 30 percent of that allotment shall be used by such State for such purposes. Stipulates that, in order to be approved by the Secretary, a State plan must provide reasonable assurance that adequate financial support will be available to complete the construction of, and to maintain and operate when such construction is completed, any facility, the construction of which is assisted with sums allotted under the provisions of this Act. Provides that for purposes of any determination by the Secretary as to whether any urban or rural area is a poverty area, the Secretary may not determine that an area is an urban or rural poverty area unless: (1) such area contains one or more subareas which are characterized as subareas of poverty; (2) the population of such subarea or subareas constitutes a substantial portion of the population of such rural or urban area; and (3) the project, facility, or activity, in connection with which such determination is made, does, or (when completed or put into operation) will, serve the needs of the residents of such subarea or subareas.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Authorizes the appropriation of $105,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, $175,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and $200,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977 for the expenses of the Justice Department in carrying out its control and enforcement functions under the Controlled Substances Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
States that in implementing any proposed program for the establishment of Agricultural Service Centers in any State, the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide for the establishment of such a center in each county of such State if, on the date of enactment of this Act, one or more local field offices of the Department of Agriculture were located within such county. Authorizes the Secretary to provide, in the Agricultural Service Center, as many services of the Department of Agriculture (applicable to such county) as practicable.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Requires, under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, that the President of the United States allocate plastic feedstocks produced from petrochemical feedstocks. Requires the President to report to the Congress on a monthly basis changes made under this Act. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Foreign Investment Study Act - Requires the President to conduct a study of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States and to: (1) compare foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment activities in the United States with investment activities of American investors abroad, and compare the impact of such foreign activities in the United States with the impact of investment activities of Americans abroad; (2) determine the impact of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States on United States national security, energy resources, balance of payments and trade, agriculture (and other real estate), and international economic position; (3) determine the effect of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States on levels of employment and personnel practices in the United States; and (4) evaluate the costs and benefits and determine the various international implications of alternate policy choices available to the United States regarding foreign investment in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the heads of other departments affected by this Act, to issue and revise regulations from time to time, relating to the trapping and capturing of animals and birds. Imposes a fine of $500 and/or imprisonment of up to one year for violations of this Act. Establishes an advisory commission of 7 members to consult with the Secretary and make recommendations with respect to regulations concerning trapping and capturing of animals and birds. Imposes a fine of $5,000 and/or imprisonment or of one year, for the sale, shipment, or transport, of any unapproved trap or any animal skin or hide or bird feathers taken in violation of this Act. Outlines those trapping regulations specifically applicable to Federal lands. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with any affected State pursuant to which the Secretary shall assist such State to enable it to comply with the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Food and Drug Administration Act - Title I: Food and Drug Administration - Creates a Food and Drug Administration within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Provides that the function of such Administration shall be to promote the public health, safety and welfare. Directs the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Commissioner of the Administration. Directs the Commissioner to: (1) attempt to eliminate products presenting unreasonable risk of disease, injury, or death; (2) establish a capability within the Commission to engage in risk-based analysis; (3) establish an interdisciplinary epidemiology capability and undertake investigations in coordination with the Food and Drug Administration Information Clearinghouse to facilitate regulation-making and to assist in risk-based analysis; (4) establish a scientific capability within the Administration to assist in hazard detection, test method development, and quality control requirements; and (5) utilize field operations to conduct product evaluation, facilitate detection of conditions associated with products subject to his jurisdiction which might lead to disease, injury, or death, to monitor compliance with required levels of safety performance, to report violations, and to assist the Commissioner in any enforcement action taken by him. Title II: Food Amendments - Requires food processors to include on the label, in such form as to be readily understandable by the consumer, the date recommended for sale and for use. States that food shall be considered to be misbranded if its nutritional additives as stated on the label are not in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Expresses the intent of Congress to supercede all State and local food labeling laws that are different from this Act. Provides for food establishment registration. Requires, every other year, persons owning or operating food processing establishments to register with the Secretary. Prohibits the importation of food from establishments not so registered. Provides for food inspection at critical control points. Provides that, in the case of establishments manufacturing, processing, preparing, packaging, or holding food, inspection shall extend to critical control point records bearing upon whether a food may be adulterated, if the Secretary has reason to believe that any such food may be so adulterated and that the public health and safety requires access to such records. Requires that, within one hundred and eighty days after enactment, any person who owns or operates any establishment in which food is processed shall, unless exempted by regulations promulgated by the Secretary, develop a critical control points system for such establishment set out in a written document in such manner and form as the Secretary may require. States that critical control points are limited to those processing factors bearing upon whether a food may be adulterated. Provides that whenever the Secretary finds that a food (or class of food) is being processed in a significant number of establishments in such a manner as to present an unreasonable risk of adulteration, he may promulgate regulations establishing a critical control points standard for such processing of such food to reduce or eliminate such risk. Prescribes what such standard must designate, including: (1) those points in a particular food process which are critical to prevent the food from being adulterated; (2) the contaminants, properties, unsanitary practices, or other factors intended to be detected and reduced or eliminated; (3) the sampling methods and methods of examinations to be conducted at such critical control points; and (4) the circumstances under which reports of such examinations and test results shall be submitted to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to refer such a proposed critical control points standard which has been published in the Federal Register to an advisory committee of experts for a report and recommendation with respect to any matter involved in such proposal which requires the exercise of scientific or technical judgment, on the petition (within sixty days after the publication of a proposed standard) of any person who may be adversely affected if such proposal were to be placed in effect. Allows the Secretary to revoke any standard when the need no longer exists and to immediately modify a standard if he finds a threat to the public health. Requires persons who must comply with a critical control points standard to maintain records as the Secretary may require. Title III: Cosmetics - Cosmetic Amendments - Requires the registration of cosmetic processors and cosmetic formulas. Requires manufacturers and distributors of cosmetics to substantiate the safety of their products before beginning commercial distribution of any cosmetic products. Sets standards for cosmetic labeling under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Medicare Long-Term Care Act - Establishes, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare), a voluntary program to provide long-term care benefits for aged and disabled individuals who elect to enroll under such program, financed from premium payments by enrollees together with contributions from funds appropriated by the Federal Government and contributions by the States. Lists criteria for eligibility for long-term care service benefits. Provides that the benefits provided to an individual by this Act shall consist of (1) home health services, (2) homemaker services, (3) nutrition services, (4) long-term institutional care services, (5) day care and foster home services, and (6) community mental health center outpatient services. Enumerates the requirements for a State long-term care agency. Provides for the payment of premiums for benefits received under this Act. Establishes on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund. Creates a body to be known as the Board of Trustees, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, all ex officio. States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees and that the Commissioner of Social Security shall serve as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Provides that the Board of Trustees shall meet not less frequently than once each calendar year. Enumerates the duties of the Board of Trustees. Declares that a community long-term care center shall: (1) provide the items and services listed in this Act to each individual (i) who is eligible for benefits under this part, (ii) who resides in the area served by such center and (iii) who is certified as requiring such services; (2) evaluate and certify the long-term care needs of an individual for whom such care may be required in order to maintain such individual in an independent living arrangement which is reasonable given such individual's state of health and other circumstances (but not including such individual's economic circumstances); (3) maintain a continuous relationship with (and periodically evaluate not less than annually) each individual who is receiving any of the items and services listed in this Act; (4) provide full opportunity for such individual and his family to participate in the determinations and functions under this Act; (5) provide an organized system for making its existence and location known to all individuals in its service area who are eligible for benefits under this part, and for making known to such individuals the method or methods by which they may most efficiently obtain and use the services which it makes available; and (6) performs such other functions as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may by regulation prescribe in order to have such center most effectively carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides a formula for payments to States for the reimbursement of community long-term care centers. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with organizations representing the chief executives of the various States, and other interested parties, to develop and make available to community long-term care centers one or more methods of obtaining payment for the benefits covered under this Act on a prospective basis. States that once a community long-term care center elects a particular prospective method, it may not alter its election without the prior approval of the Secretary. Provides that whenever the Secretary finds that the number of community long-term care centers electing a particular prospective payment method promulgated in accordance with this Act is not sufficient to provide an adequate basis for either the operation or evaluation of that method, the Secretary shall withdraw that method and allow the community long-term care centers which have elected such method to select another method withn 30 days of notice of such withdrawal. Permits a Governor of a State to certify to the Secretary a method of prospective payment other than those promulgated under this Act. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this Act shall be made by the Secretary in accordance with regulations prescribed by him. Provides for increases in supplemental security income benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1974
Provides, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, that under specified circumstances exclusive territorial arrangements relating to the manufacture, distribution, or sale of food and beverage products shall be deemed lawful provided that substantial and effective competition between products and between vendors of those products is maintained, and the licensor retains control over the nature and quality of such product pursuant to the Trademark Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Provides under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that persons who are blind and have at least six quarters of coverage shall be eligible for disability insurance benefits. Outlines those regulations which apply to the amount of benefits to be received. Defines blindness as used in this Act. Continues payment of such benefits as long as the blindness lasts, notwithstanding the amount of the individual's earnings.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1974
Empowers the Atomic Energy Commission to enter into an agreement with any State agency or regional agency under which such State or regional agency shall conduct an environmental review of and shall issue or deny an application for a site certificate for any proposed nuclear power reactor site in the State or region with respect to which such agency has jurisdiction. States that any such agreement shall expire five years from its effective date and the parties may agree to enter into subsequent five-year agreements. Directs the Atomic Energy Commission to, in consultation with the Council on Environmental Quality, formulate any requirements to be imposed in any such agreement. Provides that such an agreement shall provide that a State or regional agency may issue a site certificate for a proposed nuclear power reactor only if such agency finds, after having considered and balanced the environmental and economic costs and benefits of the nuclear power reactor if constructed on the site proposed, the need for electric power, and other relevant factors, that the construction and operation of the nuclear power reactor on the proposed site is in the public interest. States that any such agreement shall provide that in making site certification decisions the State or regional agency which is a party to the agreement shall, on its own motion or on application of any person proposing to construct a nuclear power reactor: (1) hold public hearings and offer to consider comments from any affected Federal, State, or local agency; and (2) prepare a detailed environmental impact statement on the proposed site. Requires such an agency to issue, within one year after submission of an application for a site certificate by a person proposing to construct one or more nuclear power reactors, a final decision granting or denying a site certificate to the applicant. States that in any proceeding under this Act concerning a license or construction permit, or application to transfer control, and in any proceeding dealing with the activities of licenses, or for the payment of compensation, the Commission shall grant a hearing upon the request of any person whose interest may be affected by the proceeding. Provides that, unless a State or regional agency is party to such an agreement at the time site approval is sought for one or more nuclear power reactors, the Commission is authorized to consider and grant or deny by order an application by any person for approval of a site for one of more nuclear power reactors, except that such construction permit or operating license or amendment to a construction permit or operating license for a nuclear power reactor shall not be issued unless all site-related restrictions in the site approval are complied with. Authorizes the Commission to consider and grant or deny petitions for the issuance of a rule or on its own initiative issue a rule approving the preliminary or final design of part of a nuclear power reactor. States that Congress finds that it is in the national interest to minimize the environmental impact of nuclear powerplants by locating and designating sites for nuclear power parks in each region of the Nation. States that such parks may be the site for locating several nuclear powerplants serving the region in which they are located, and may include nuclear fuel fabricating and reprocessing facilities, and all other facilities required for a complete fuel cycle. Directs the Atomic Energy Commission to make or cause to be made a national survey to locate and designate a nuclear power park site in each of the existing nine electric reliability regions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1974
Confers jurisdiction upon the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia of civil actions brought by the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary for the purposes of procurement of documents, tape recordings and other information related to its official investigations concerning the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1974
Comprehensive Health Insurance Act - Title I: National Health Care Benefits Program - States that the purpose of this title is to provide adequate protection against costs by requiring all employers to offer health care plans to their employees; and to assist the States in making similar plans available to individuals in need of such protection. Requires, under the Social Security Act, that every employer provide to each of his employees under the age of 65 a reasonable opportunity, as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to obtain coverage for himself and the members of his family under the age 65 at the option of the employee: (1) an employee health care insurance plan approved under this title or an assisted health care insurance plan obtained by the employer, (2) a group practice prepaid health care plan approved under this title, or (3) an individual practice prepaid health care plan approved under this title. States that the employer shall provide an amount equal to at least 75 percent of the cost of that coverage. Prohibits discrimination against an individual with respect to the opportunity for employment, or the compensation, terms, condition, or privileges of employment, because of the individual's health status or the health status of his dependents, except when directly related to the capacity of the individual to perform his duties as an employee. Directs the Secretary to make grants for health care programs to States which have submitted approved plans for the provision of health care benefits to individuals under the age of 65 who are otherwise unable to obtain such benefits. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year of sums necessary to carry out this purpose. Requires that employee health care insurance plans provide for the following services for each covered individual: (1) inpatient hospital services; (2) physicians' services; (3) medical and other health services; (4) home health services; (5) post-hospital extended care services; (6) outpatient drugs and biologicals; (7) routine dental services for individuals under the age of 13: (8) developmental vision care services, as defined in regulations prescribed by the Secretary as routine eye and vision examinations, and eyeglasses, for individuals under the age of 13; and (9) hearing aids and examinations therefor, for individuals under the age of 13. Sets forth limits for employee health care insurance plans, including the following: (1) post-hospital extended care services shall be limited to 100 days per calendar year; (2) home health services must be limited to 100 visits per calendar year; and (3) inpatient hospital services for the treatment of mental illness shall be limited to 30 days per calendar year, with each day of partial hospitalization, as defined in regulations prescribed by the Secretary, counting as one-half day of inpatient services. Enumerates the requirements for meeting the provisions of this Act. States that a group practice pre-paid health care plan must: (1) provide physicians' services (other than infrequently used services, as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary) through physicians who are employees or partners of the organization, or through arrangements with one or more groups of physicians engaged in the coordinated practice of their profession for the organization; and (2) meet such requirements concerning its organizational structure and financial arrangements as the Secretary may, by regulation, prescribe. Provides that the Secretary may, by regulation, make such modifications in the requirements imposed by this section as he determines are appropriate with respect to group practice prepaid health care plans offered to employees whose place of employment is outside the United States. Sets forth requirements for approval of individual practice prepaid health care plans, approval of special employee health care programs, and requirement for certification of providers. States that any State dissatisfied with a determination of the Secretary with respect to whether the State is meeting the provisions of this Act may file a petition for review of such determination with the United States court of appeals to the circuit in which such state is located. Stipulates that the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Secretary, or to set it aside, in whole or in part. Sets forth judicial remedies and criminal sanctions for noncompliance. Title II: General Provisions - States that if a provision of this Act is held invalid, all other provisions so enacted shall remain in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
National Health Service Corps Amendment - Establishes, within the Public Health Service, the National Health Service Corps to improve the delivery of health services to medically underserved populations. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to designate the medically underserved populations in the States. Defines the term "medically underserved population" and enumerates the factors to be taken into account in making such designations, including: (1) ratios of available health manpower to the population; (2) indicators of the population's access to health services; and (3) indicators of health status and need of the population. Empowers the Secretary to assign Corps personnel to State health agencies, private health entities, local governments, and medical, dental or other appropriate health societies. Enumerates the requirements to be met prior to the making of any such assignments and for the continuing of expired assignments. Provides that Corps personnel shall be assigned on the basis of the extent of the population's need for health services and without regard to the ability of members of the population to pay for health services. Directs the Secretary, in making an assignment, to seek to match characteristics of the assignee and of the population in order to increase the likelihood of the assignee remaining to serve the population upon completion of his assignment period. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance to all medically underserved populations to which are not assigned Corps personnel; (2) make arrangements to enable Corps personnel to utilize the health facilities of the areas in which the population resides; and (3) make grants, with specified limitations, for purposes of providing health services. States that the Secretary shall require as a condition to the approval of an application that the entity enter into an appropriate arrangement with the Secretary under which: (1) the entity shall be responsible for charging for health services by the Corps personnel to be assigned; (2) the entity shall take action for the collection of payments for such health services; and (3) the entity shall pay to the United States specified, calculated amounts. Directs the Secretary to conduct, at schools of the health professions and allied health professions, recruiting programs for the Corps. Provides for the Secretary to adjust the monthly rate of pay of each physician and dentist member of the Corps who is directly engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress and specifies the content of such reports. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps to consult with, advise, and make recommendations to, the Secretary with respect to his responsibilities in carrying out this Act, and to review and approve regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Authorizes to carry out the provisions relating to the National Health Service Corps to be appropriated $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $30,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975; $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress the criteria used by him in designating a medically underserved populations, and the number of populations in each State meeting such criteria; and (2) conduct or contract for studies of methods of assigning National Health Service Corps personnel to medically underserved populations and of providing health care to such populations. Directs the Secretary to establish the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program to obtain trained physicians, dentists, nurses, or other health-related specialists for the National Health Service Corps or other units of the Service. Enumerates the eligibility requirements for participation in such program and the regulations governing program members. Provides that, to carry out the program, there is authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
National Commission on Epilepsy and Its Consequences Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a National Commission to determine the most effective means of finding the cause and cures and treatments for epilepsy. Directs that such Commission shall develop a national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences. Provides for the membership of such Commission. Sets forth the duties of such Commission. Requires that it shall be a duty of the Commission to develop a comprehensive national plan for the control of epilepsy and its consequences based on the most thorough, complete, and accurate data available on the disorder. Requires the Commission to make recommendations concerning the proper roles of the Federal and State governments, and the national and local public and private agencies in research, prevention, identification and rehabilitation of persons with epilepsy. Requires the transmittal to the President and to the Congress of a final report under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that accurate and complete data on imports of oil and oil products into the United States, oil and oil products inventories in the United States or under the control of companies owned by United States citizens, and distribution of oil and oil products within and from out of the United States are essential to the national security of the United States, the safety of its citizens, and the proper conduct of its domestic and international commerce. Authorizes the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the importing, inventorying, and disposition of crude oil, residual fuel oil, and refined petroleum products.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Prohibits the exportation of fertilizer from the United States until the Secretary of Agriculture determines that an adequate domestic supply of fertilizer exists.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Comprehensive Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to propose guidelines, based on specified national objectives, for the adoption, submission, implementation, and enforcement of effective State waste management and resource recovery plans. Requires the adoption of such plans within 12 months of the promulgation of guidelines by the Administrator. Requires the acceptance or rejection based on specified criteria, of such a plan by the Administrator within six months of its submission by the State. Provides for modifications of a State plan, or plans developed by units of local government of a State, where the cost of such a plan would be greatly disproportionate to the benefit conferred on the State by such a system, or under other specified circumstances. Requires the Administrator to propose regulations establishing Federal standards of performance for new sources of waste generation. Requires the Administrator to issue, from time to time, information on processes or techniques which reduce or eliminate the generation or toxicity of wastes, or permit resource recovery in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Provides that, within 18 months of enactment of this Act and from time to time thereafter, the Administrator shall identify hazardous wastes and specified characteristics thereof, and shall promulgate regulations establishing requirements for generation of hazardous wastes and to enter into agreements with the States for the purpose of enactment of these regulations. Defines the rights of the Administrator or his authorized representative with respect to gathering information for the purpose of developing or assisting in the development of any State waste management and resource recovery plan under this Act. Provides for Federal enforcement of the provisions of this Act and states that the Administrator may issue orders requiring compliance with the provisions of this Act. States that any person who knowingly violates any requirement of an applicable waste management and resource recovery plan or State program for implementing hazardous waste treatment and disposal standards during any period of federally assumed enforcement under this Act or more than thirty days after having been notified by the Administrator that such person is violating such requirement, or violates or fails or refuses to comply with any order issued by the Administrator, or violates any requirement, of this Act, or engages in any act prohibited by this Act, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $25,000 per day of violation, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both. States that, in any instance in which there is a substantial factual basis for the Administrator to commence an administrative or judicial proceeding under this section and in which the Administrator does not commence such preceeding within one hundred and eighty days after the agency has obtained information which provides such a basis, he shall not later than thirty days thereafter publish notice of his decision not to commence a proceeding along with the reasons for such decision. States that citizens may commence civil actions under this Act, but specifies the circumstances under which such a suit may be brought. Provides for judicial review of any nationally applicable regulation promulgated under this Act. Stipulates that no Federal agency may enter into any contract with any person who is convicted of any offense under this Act for the procurement of goods, materials, and services to perform such contract at any facility at which the violation which gave rise to such conviction occurred if such facility is owned, leased, or supervised by such person. Provides for comprehensive economic cost studies to provide the basis for evaluating programs authorized by this Act and the development of new programs and to furnish Congress with the information necessary for authorization of appropriations by fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1974. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal years 1975 and 1976 specified sums to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Interior, and the several States to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the establishment within the Environmental Protection Agency an Office of Technical Assistance to provide to the States adequate technical assistance to meet specified requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Safe Drinking Water Act - Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish proposed national interim primary drinking water regulations within 90 days after the date of this Act's enactment. Makes provisions for national drinking water regulations including the determination of maximum contaminant levels. Declares that for purposes of this Act, a State has primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems during any period the State meets the criteria set forth in this Act as determined by the Administrator. Provides for civil actions to require compliance by any State failing to assure enforcement of drinking water regulations. Allows a State to grant variances from an applicable national primary drinking water regulation to one or more public water systems within its jurisdiction. Permits a State which has primary enforcement responsibility to exempt any public water system within the State's jurisdiction from any requirement respecting a maximum contaminant level or any treatment technique requirement, or from both, of an applicable national primary drinking water regulation upon a finding that (1) due to compelling factors (which may include economic factors), the public water system is unable to comply with such contaminant level or treatment technique requirement, and (2) the public water system was in operation on the effective date of such regulation. Provides for the protection of underground sources of drinking water through underground injection control programs. Provides civil penalties for violation of an applicable underground injection control program. Sets forth provisions on the availability of adequate supplies of chemicals necessary for the treatment of water. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct research and programs to control diseases resulting from contaminants in water, including improved methods to identify and measure contaminants, and improved methods of water treatment, purification, and distribution. Authorizes grants for projects designed to train personnal for occupations involving the public health aspects of providing safe drinking water. Authorizes appropriations for grants to States to carry out the drinking water programs established under this Act. Makes provisions for State plans and applications for assistance. Allows the Administrator to make special study and demonstration project grants. Directs the Administrator to carry out a program of guaranteeing loans made by private lenders to small public water systems for the purpose of enabling such systems to meet primary drinking water regulations. Establishes a National Drinking Water Advisory Council of 15 members to advise the Administrator on matters relating to this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe such regulations as are necessary to carry out his functions under this Act. Directs the Administrator to enter into arrangements with public or private entities to conduct a survey of the quantity, quality and availability of rural drinking water supplies. Provides for bottled drinking water standards under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Automobile Fuel Consumption Tax Act - Imposes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a tax on all passenger automobiles equipped with an internal combustion engine, to be based on each automobile's fuel economy deficiency. Defines the fuel economy deficiency as the rate of fuel consumption which is below the fuel economy standard applicable for the period during which such automobile is sold. Sets forth the fuel economy standards. Imposes a floor stock tax on new automobiles held by a dealer for sale. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to determine the fuel consumption rate of each new automobile and provides that this rate and the tax paid pursuant to this Act be posted on a label affixed to the automobile pursuant to the Automobile Information Disclosure Act. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the "Energy Research and Development Trust Fund." Provides that there shall be appropriated to the Trust Fund any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated which is equal to the amount attributable to revenue received under this Act. Sets forth regulations for investment of the Trust Fund and provides that amounts in the Trust Fund shall be available for: (1) research and development to increase supplies of, and efficient use of, fossil fuels, and (2) exploration, research, and development to obtain and utilize new sources of energy.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance), that increases in monthly insurance benefits (whether occurring by reason of increases in the cost of living or enacted by law) shall not be considered as annual income for purposes of the following benefit programs: dependency and indemnity compensation to parents of a deceased veteran, pension for non-service-connected disability or death or for service, and the Veterans' Pension Act of 1959.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Narcotic Addict Treatment Act - Defines the terms "maintenance treatment" and "detoxification treatment" as used in the Act. Provides, under the Controlled Substances Act, that practitioners who dispense narcotic drugs to individuals for maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment shall obtain annually a separate registration for that purpose from the Attorney General. States that the Attorney General shall register an applicant to dispense narcotic drugs to individuals for maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment (or both): (1) if the applicant is a practitioner who is determined by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to be qualified (under standards established by the Secretary) to engage in the treatment with respect to which registration is sought; (2) if the Attorney General determines that the applicant will comply with standards established by the Attorney General respecting (A) security of stocks of narcotic drugs for such treatment, and (B) the maintenance of records, in accordance with the Controlled Substances Act, on such drugs; and (3) if the Secretary determines that the applicant will comply with standards established by the Secretary (after consultation with the Attorney General) respecting the quantities of narcotic drugs which may be provided for unsupervised use by individuals in such treatment. Grants the Attorney General the power to revoke or suspend a registration upon a finding that the registrant has failed to comply with any standard of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Community Mental Health Centers Amendments Act - Enumerates the comprehensive mental health services which shall be provided through a community mental health center. Directs that the provision of comprehensive mental health services through a center shall be coordinated with the provision of services by other health and social service agencies in the center's area. Sets forth the elements to be included in applications for Federal grants to community mental health centers, including assurance that the center will provide an adequate reporting system, provide services responsive to the needs of the local population, develop a plan for adequate financing when assistance under this Act is reduced or terminated, and provide a reasonable volume of services for persons unable to pay for them. Sets forth additional criteria for approval of the application by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private community mental health centers to assist them in meeting their costs of operation during the first five years after their establishment. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to any community mental health center for the costs of providing the consultation and education services described in this Act if the center received a staffing grant under this Act or other grants as provided by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to carry out projects to develop community mental health center programs for areas designated by the Secretary as urban or rural poverty areas. Lists authorized appropriations for grants provided under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make financial distress grants for the operation of community mental health centers. Sets forth criteria for such grants. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976 for such grants. Directs the Secretary to pay the Federal share of projects for: (1) the acquisition and/or remodeling of facilities for community mental health centers; (2) the leasing of facilities for such centers; (3) the construction of new facilities or expansion of existing facilities for community mental health centers; and (4) the initial equipment of a facility receiving financial assistance through these methods. Sets forth the method of computation of the Federal share. Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year, to make allotments from the sums appropriated under this Act to the States on the basis of: (1) population; (2) the extent of the need for community mental health centers; and (3) the financial need of the respective States. Provides that such allotment may not be made to a State unless the State has submitted an approved State plan to the Secretary for community mental health centers. Sets forth the necessary elements to be contained in State plans. Provides for judicial review of any disapproval by the Secretary of projects under State plans. Provides for the recovery by the United States of any community mental health center facility remodeled, constructed, or acquired with funds provided under this Act, at any time within twenty years after completion, if such facility: (1) is transferred to any person or entity not qualified to file an application under this Act; or (2) ceases to be used by a community mental health center.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop ground propulsion systems which are energy conserving, have clean emission characteristics, and are capable of being produced in large numbers at a reasonable mass production per unit cost. Requires that such ground propulsion systems must meet or better all air quality standards set by or under the National Emission Standards Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Air Quality Act of 1967, while substantially reducing per mile energy consumption. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act not to exceed $30,000,000 in the aggregate for the fiscal years 1974 through 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
National Diabetes Mellitus Act - Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health, with the advice of the advisory council to the Director, to establish a National Commission on Diabetes within 60 days of enactment of this Act. Directs the Commission to formulate a long range plan to combat diabetes mellitus, which shall include a coordinated research program proposed Federal, State, and local programs for screening and detection of diabetes, referral for treatment, and counseling on how to live with diabetes. Authorizes an appropriation of $1,000,000 to carry out such long-range plan. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop or substantially expand centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine metabolic disorders. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for fiscal 1975, $7,500,000 for fiscal 1976, and $10,000,000 for fiscal 1977 for such centers. Directs the Director to establish an Inter-Institute Diabetes Mellitus Coordinating Committee to coordinate the total National Institutes of Health research activities relating to diabetes mellitus.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
National Cancer Act Amendments - Increases the authorization of appropriations under the Public Health Service Act for the basic cancer research and training program and the prevention and control program. Extends such Act for three years with appropriations of $750,000,000 $830,000,000 and $985,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively. Authorizes the awarding of grants for the improvement of basic research laboratory facilities, including those related to biohazard control, as deemed necessary, for the national cancer program.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
States that it is the purpose of this Act to provide for the immediate and future protection and administration of public lands in the California desert within the framework of a program of multiple use, sustained yield, and maintenance of environmental quality. Establishes the California Desert Advisory Commission which shall consist of Federal and State representatives, representatives of the academic community, representatives of residents of the desert, and representatives of groups which make use of the desert and its resources for recreational, study, or business purposes. States that it shall be the function of the Commission to advise the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the program for the desert under this Act. Establishes the National Conservation Area of the California Desert to carry out the purposes of the Act. Gives the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for the preparation of a long-range program for the management, development, and use of the California Desert. Provides that such program shall include a plan, to be completed and reported to Congress within seven years from the date of enactment of this Act. Requires consultation with the Advisory Commission and with State organizations concerning such plan. Provides for an interim program to manage and protect the desert resources now in danger of destruction, and to provide for the public use of the desert. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire such lands or interests therein as he deems necessary to provide access to the facilities of the desert, to facilitate efficient and beneficial management of the desert. Empowers the Secretary to issue such regulations as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Provides that all mining carried out within the conservation area shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as the Secretary may prescribe to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that such regulations shall provide for such measures as may be reasonable to protect the scenic, scientific, and environmental values of the California Desert against undue impairment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1973
Emergency Chlorine Allocation Act - Declares that there is a national shortage of chlorine and other chemicals and substances used for safe drinking water and for waste water treatment purposes and that such shortage presents a substancial threat to the public health. Revises the Public Health Service Act by providing that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall promulgate regulations providing for mandatory allocation of chlorine, activated carbon, lime, ammonia, soda ash, or other chemical or substance used in the treatment of drinking water or waste water, such regulations to only apply to chlorine unless the other chemicals are also found to be in short supply. Authorizes the Administrator to hold such hearings and receive such evidence as he deems necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to gather such information from and make such inspections of producers and importers of chlorine or other allocated chemicals as are necessary to carry out this Act. Provides penalties for failure to comply with regulations promulgated under this Act. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be deemed to convey to any person subject to the Act immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create defenses to actions, under the antitrust laws. Sets forth exceptious to the antitrust provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1973
Energy Reorganization Act - Title I: Energy Research and Development Administration Establishes the Energy Research and Development Administration headed by an Administrator appointed by the President. Describes the functions of the Administrator as including: (1) exercising central responsibility for policy planning, coordination, support, and management of research and development programs respecting all energy sources; (2) undertaking research and development in the extraction, conversion, transmission, and utilization phases related to the development and use of energy from fossil, nuclear, solar, geothermal, and other energy sources; (3) participating in and supporting cooperative research and development projects which may involve contributions by public or private persons or agencies, of financial or other resources to the performance of the work; and (4) developing, collecting, distributing, and making available for distribution, scientific and technical information concerning the manufacture or development of energy and its efficient extraction, conversion, transmission, and utilization. Transfers to the Administrator all functions of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Chairman and members of the Commission, and the officers and components of the Commission, except as otherwise provided in this Act. Transfers to the Administrator such functions of the Secretary of the Interior, the Department of the Interior, and officers and components of such department: (1) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Coal Research; and (2) as relate to or are utilized in connection with fossil fuel energy research and development programs and related activities conducted by the Bureau of Mines. Transfers to the Administrator such functions of the National Science Foundations as relate to or are utilized in connection with: (1) solar heating and cooling development; and (2) geothermal power development. Transfers to the Administrator such functions of the Environmental Protection Agency and the officers and components thereof as relate to or are utilized in connection with the development and demonstration of alternative automotive power systems. Title II: Nuclear Energy Commission - Provides that the Atomic Energy Commission is renamed the Nuclear Energy Commission and shall continue to perform the licensing and related regulatory functions of the Chairman and members of the Commission, the general counsel, and other officers and components of the Commission, which functions, officers, components, and personnel are excepted from the transfer to the Administrator by this Act. Grants the Nuclear Energy Commission licensing authority as to the following facilities of the Administration: (1) demonstration liquid metal fast breeder reactors when operated as part of the power generation facilities of an electric utility system; (2) other demonstration nuclear reactors when operated as part of the power generation facilities of an electric utility system, except those in existence, under construction or authorized or appropriated for by the Congress on the date this part becomes effective; or (3) facilities used primarily for the receipt and storage of high level radioactive wastes resulting from activities licensed under such Act. Allows the Nuclear Energy Commission to engage in or contract for research which the Commission deems necessary for the discharge of its licensing and regulatory functions. Title III: Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions - Provides that except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever all of the functions or programs of an agency, or other body, or any component thereof, affected by this Act, have been transferred from that agency, or other body, or component, the agency, or other body, or component shall lapse.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1973
Emergency Chlorine Allocation Act - Declares that there is a national shortage of chlorine and other chemicals and substances used for safe drinking water and for waste water treatment purposes and that such shortage presents a substancial threat to the public health. Revises the Public Health Service Act by providing that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall promulgate regulations providing for mandatory allocation of chlorine, activated carbon, lime, ammonia, soda ash, or other chemical or substance used in the treatment of drinking water or waste water, such regulations to only apply to chlorine unless the other chemicals are also found to be in short supply. Authorizes the Administrator to hold such hearings and receive such evidence as he deems necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to gather such information from and make such inspections of producers and importers of chlorine or other allocated chemicals as are necessary to carry out this Act. Provides penalties for failure to comply with regulations promulgated under this Act. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be deemed to convey to any person subject to the Act immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create defenses to actions, under the antitrust laws. Sets forth exceptious to the antitrust provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1973
Health Revenue Sharing and Health Services Act - Title I: Health Revenue Sharing - Special Health Revenue Sharing Act - Authorizes the appropriation of $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, for the programs providing grants to States for comprehensive public health services under the Public Health Service Act. Title II: Community Mental Health Centers - Community Mental Health Centers Amendments - Presents the finding of the Congress that: (1) community mental health care is the most effective and humane form of care for a majority of mentally ill individuals; and (2) federally funded community mental health centers have had a major impact on the improvement of mental health care by fostering coordination and cooperation between various agencies responsible for mental health care which in turn has resulted in a decrease in overlapping services and more efficient utilization of available resources. Provides that the comprehensive mental health services which shall be provided through a community mental health center under the Community Mental Health Centers Act shall include: (1) services for individuals who are inpatients in a hospital or other health services delivery facility, outpatient services, day care and similar partial hospitalization services, and emergency services; (2) detoxification and referral services for the treatment of alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and other drug abuse and drug dependence problems (including narcotic addiction); (3) consultation and education services for health professionals, schools, State and local law enforcement and correctional agencies, public welfare agencies, health services delivery agencies, and other appropriate entities; (4) assistance to courts and other public agencies in screening residents of the center's catchment area who are being considered for referral to a State mental health facility for treatment to determine if they should be so referred and provision, where appropriate, of treatment for such persons through the center as an alternative to treatment at such a facility; and (5) provision of followup care for residents of its catchment area who have been discharged from a State mental health facility. Authorizes appropriations for grants under such Act. Title III: Family Planning Programs - Family Planning and Population Research Act - Authorizes appropriations for the family planning and population research programs of the Public Health Service Act for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975 and June 30, 1976. Title IV: Development Disabilities - Developmental Disabilities Amendments - Authorizes appropriations for demonstration and training grants under the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975 and June 30, 1976. Eliminates specified present requirements of Federal approval of each construction project under such Act. Title V: Migrant Health - Authorizes appropriations under the Public Health Service Act for grants and contracts in the area of migrant health for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975 and June 30, 1976. Title VI: Neighborhood Health Centers - Defines the term "neighborhood health center" as meaning under the Public Health Service Act an entity which provides primary health services and referral to providers of supplemental health services for all residents of the area it serves, and is organized in the manner prescribed under this Act. Requires the services of a neighborhood health center to be provided directly through its staff and supporting resources or through contracts or cooperative arrangements with public or private entities. Requires primary health services to be available and accessible in the area served by the center promptly, as appropriate, and in a manner which assures continuity. Provides that the governing body of a neighborhood health center shall have at least a majority of its members selected in a democratic manner by the persons receiving services from the center, shall meet at least once a month, shall establish general policies for the center, shall approve the center's annual budget, and shall approve the selection of a director for the center. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to assist in: (1) the establishment and initial operation of neighborhood health centers which will service a medically underserved area or group; and (2) meeting the cost of the continued operation of such centers. Authorizes to be appropriated $220,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $240,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976; for grants under this title.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1973
Solar Energy Act - Requires that the Secretary of Commerce shall conduct research into how solar energy can be used to heat and cool buildings and shall collect appropriate weather data for the various climatic regions of the United States for the purpose of determining the extent to which reliance upon solar energy is feasible in each region. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop and test new building designs and construction methods which involve the utilization of solar energy equipment; and (2) prescribe standards and specifications for such building designs and construction methods. States that in determining the maximum dollar amount of a mortgage which may be insured under the National Housing Act, with respect to any dwelling or residence which involves a building design or construction methods which meet the standards prescribed by the Secretary, he may increase the maximum amount of a mortgage which may be insured with respect to such dwelling or residence by the amount by which the cost of using such building design or construction methods exceeds the cost of using conventional building design and construction methods.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1973
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Allows, under the Internal Revenue Code, a deduction for expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped and elderly. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 189)
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1973
Directs the President to halt all exports of gasoline, distillate fuel oil, and propane gas until he determines that no shortage of such fuels exists in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Food Establishment Reporting Act - States that whenever the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare determines that any person or class of persons manufacturing, processing, preparing, packaging, labeling, or holding food in any State may have in their possession any information, documents, records, or data which may assist him in carrying out the purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (relating to misbranding) he may, by an order published in the Federal Register or sent to any such person by registered or certified mail to his last known address, require the submission of annual or special reports or answers in writing to specific questions. Provides that no information included in any submission required under this Act shall be used as evidence in any proceeding brought against an individual pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Geothermal Energy Research, Development, and Commercial Demonstration Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to initiate and support basic and applied research relating to geothermal energy development. Requires the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate and carry out commercial demonstrations, research, and development in geothermal energy technology. Provides that the Administration shall dispose of, by sublease or otherwise, all projects undertaken under this Act. Directs the Administration to assure the protection of the environment, persons, and property in projects undertaken pursuant to this Act. Requires the Administration to report to the Congress and the President every six months on the progress made under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for six fiscal years of $80,000,000 to carry out programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Food Amendments - Title I: Food Labeling - Requires food processors to include on the label in such form as to be readily understandable by the consumer the date recommended for sale and for use. States that food shall be considered to be misbranded if its nutritional additives as stated on the label are not in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Expresses the intent of Congress to supersede all State and local food labeling laws that are different from this Act. Title II: Food Establishment Registration - Requires, every other year, persons owning or operating food processing establishments to register with the Secretary. Prohibits the importation of food from establishments not so registered. Title III: Food Inspection and Critical Control Points - Provides that, in the case of establishments manufacturing, processing, preparing, packaging, or holding food, inspection shall extend to critical control point records bearing upon whether a food may be adulterated, if the Secretary has reason to believe that any such food may be so adulterated and that the public health and safety requires access to such records. Requires that, within one hundred and eighty days after enactment, any person who owns or operates any establishment in which food is processed shall, unless exempted by regulations promulgated by the Secretary, develop a critical control points system for such establishment set out in a written document in such manner and form as the Secretary may require. States that critical control points are limited to those processing factors bearing upon whether a food may be adulterated. Provides that whenever the Secretary finds that a food (or class of food) is being processed in a significant number of establishments in such a manner as to present an unreasonable risk of adulteration, he may promulgate regulations establishing a critical control points standard for such processing of such food to reduce or eliminate such risk. Prescribes what such standard must designate, including: (1) those points in a particular food process which are critical to prevent the food from being adulterated; (2) the contaminants, properties, unsanitary practices, or other factors intended to be detected and reduced or eliminated; (3) the sampling methods and methods of examinations to be conducted at such critical control points; and (4) the circumstances under which reports of such examinations and test results shall be submitted to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to refer such a proposed critical control points standard which has been published in the Federal Register to an advisory committee of experts for a report and recommendation with respect to any matter involved in such proposal which requires the exercise of scientific or technical judgment, on the petition (within sixty days after the publication of a proposed standard) of any person who may be adversely affected if such proposal were to be placed in effect. Allows the Secretary to revoke any standard when the need no longer exists and to immediately modify a standard if he finds a threat to the public health. Requires persons who must comply with a critical control points standard to maintain records as the Secretary may require.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, under the Clean Air Act to temporarily suspend specified stationary source fuel and emission limitations, based upon his finding of an unavailability of types or amounts of fuels.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1973
Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Medical Libraries Act - Title I: Health Services Research and Evaluation: Health Statistics - Health Services Research and Evaluation and Health Statistics Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to undertake, through the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Statistics and such other units of the Department as he may select, and support health statistical activities and health services research, evaluation, and demonstrations. Declares that the Secretary may do the following: (1) utilize personnel and equipment, facilities, and other physical resources of the Department, permit appropriate entities and individuals to utilize the physical resources of the Department, provide technical assistance and advice, make grants to public and nonprofit private entities and individuals, and enter into contracts with public and private entities and individuals, for health services research, evaluation, and demonstrations and for health statistical activities; (2) admit and treat at hospitals and other facilities of the Service persons not otherwise eligible for admission and treatment at such facilities; (3) secure, from time to time and for such periods as the Secretary deems advisable, the assistance and advice of experts and consultants from the United States or abroad; and (4) acquire, construct, improve, repair, operate, and maintain laboratory, research, and other necessary facilities and equipment, and such other real or personal property (including patents) as the Secretary deems necessary; and acquire, by lease or otherwise, through the Administrator of General Services, buildings or parts of buildings in the District of Columbia or communities located adjacent to the District of Columbia. Establishes in the Department the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Statistics. Declares that the Secretary, acting through the Center, may undertake and support research, evaluation, and demonstration projects respecting: (1) the accessibility, acceptability, organization, distribution, utilization, quality, and financing of health services and systems; (2) the supply and distribution, education and training, quality, utilization, organization, and costs of health manpower; and (3) the design, construction, utilization, organization, and cost of facilities and equipment. Directs the Secretary to collect specified statistics. Provides that the Secretary shall, by grants or contracts, or both, assist public or private nonprofit entities in meeting the costs of planning and establishing new centers, and operating existing and new centers, for multidisciplinary health services research, evaluations, and demonstrations. States that for the purpose of advancing the status of the health sciences in the United States, the Secretary may participate with other countries in cooperative endeavors in biomedical research and the health services research and statistical activities authorized by this Act. Requires the Secretary to call annual conferences of the health authorities of the several States. Provides that not later than September 1 of each year, the Secretary shall make a report to Congress respecting the administration of this Act during the preceeding fiscal year and the current state and progress of health services research and health statistics. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Revision and Extension of Medical Library Assistance Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriation for medical library assistance programs for fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976. Title III: Conforming and Technical Amendments - Directs the Secretary to conduct, encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to appropriate public entities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct and promotion of the coordination of biomedical research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man. States that for the purpose of advancing the status of the medical sciences in the United States the Secretary may participate with other countries in cooperative endeavors in the research activities authorized by this Act. Provides that the Secretary may authorize persons engaged in research on the use and effect of drugs to protect the privacy of individuals who are the subject of such research by withholding from all persons not connected with the conduct of such research the names or other identifying characteristics of such individuals. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct such studies and investigations as may be necessary to determine the quantities of crude opium, coca leaves, and their salts, derivatives, and preparations, and other drugs subject to control under this title and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, together with reserves thereof, as may be necessary to supply the normal and emergency medical and scientific requirements of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1973
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a program to develop materials relating to sudden infant death syndrome and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care, public safety officials, and to the public generally. Allows the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities, and enter into contracts with public and private entities, for projects which include both the collection, analysis, and furnishing of information relating to the causes of the sudden infant death syndrome, and the provision of information and counseling to families affected by the sudden infant death syndrome. Limits such grants to $50,000. Provides that no grant may be made or contract entered into under this act unless an application therefor has been submitted to and approved by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to submit, within two years following the date of the enactment of this Act, a comprehensive report to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives respecting the administration of this Act and the results obtained from the program authorized by it.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1973
Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments - Title I: Federal Assistance for State and Local Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Programs - Authorizes appropriations, for grants to States for alcoholism and alcohol abuse programs, of $60,000,000 for fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to arrange for the assignment of officers and employees of the Department or provide equipment or supplies in lieu of a portion of the allotment to States. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the National Institute, on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse to, during the period beginning July 1, 1973, and ending June 30, 1976, make grants to States for the implementation of the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act. Provides that the Secretary may not approve an application of a State under this section unless he determines that under the laws of that State and of each of its political subdivisions no individual may be subject to criminal prosecution solely on the basis of his consumption of alcoholic beverages. Provides that for the purpose of making payments for grants, there is authorized to be appropriated $13,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for each of the next two fiscal years. Allows the Secretary, acting through the Institute, to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities and to enter into contracts with public and private entities and with individuals: (1) to conduct demonstration, service, and evaluation projects; and (2) to provide counseling and education activities on an individual or community basis, for the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism and for the rehabilitation of alcohol abusers and alcoholics. Authorizes, payments for grants and contracts under this section, appropriation of $60,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976. Prohibits alcohol abusers and alcoholics who are suffering from emergency medical conditions from being refused admission or treatment, solely because of their alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence, by any private or public general hospital which receives support in any form from any program supported in whole or in part by funds appropriated to any Federal department or agency. States that records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient which are maintained in connection with the performance of any program or activity relating to alcoholism or alcohol abuse education, training, treatment, rehabilitation, or research, which is conducted, regulated, or directly or indirectly assisted by any department or agency of the United States shall be confidential and may be disclosed only for the purposes and under the circumstances expressly authorized under this Act. Provides that except as authorized by a court order granted under this Act, no such record may be used to initiate or substantiate any criminal charges against a patient or to conduct any investigation of a patient. Title II: Administration and Coordination of the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Addiction and Mental Health Administration. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administration, to supervise the functions of the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to assure that the programs carried out through each such Institute receive appropriate and equitable support, and that there is cooperation among the Institutes in the implementation of such programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Panel on Addiction and Mental Health to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to, the Secretary concerning the activities to be carried out through the Administration. Establishes a National Institute of Mental Health to administer the programs and authorities of the Secretary with respect to mental health functions. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Institute, to develop and conduct comprehensive health, education, training, research, and planning programs for the prevention and treatment of mental illness and for the rehabilitation of the mentally ill. Establishes the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to administer the programs and authorities assigned to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by this Act and the Community Mental Health Centers Act. Directs the Secretary, to develop and conduct comprehensive health, education, training, research, and planning programs for the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism and for the rehabilitation of alcohol abusers and alcoholics. Establishes the National Institute on Drug Abuse to administer the programs and authorities of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with respect to drug abuse prevention functions. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Institute, to develop and conduct comprehensive health, education, training, research, and planning programs for the prevention and treatment of drug abuse and for the rehabilitation of drug abusers. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Federal Activities for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. Directs the Committee to evaluate the adequacy and technical soundness of all Federal programs and activities which relate to alcoholism and alcohol abuse and provide for the communication and exchange of information necessary to maintain the coordination and effectiveness of such programs and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1973
Confers jurisdiction upon the District Courts for the District of Columbia over civil actions brought by the Congress or its committees enforcing a declaration concerning the validity of any subpoena or order issued by Congress or its committees to any executive employee, including the President and Vice-President. (Adds 28 U.S.C. 1364)
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1973
Confers jurisdiction upon the District Courts for the District of Columbia over civil actions brought by the Congress or its committees enforcing a declaration concerning the validity of any subpoena or order issued by Congress or its committees to any executive employee, including the President and Vice-President. (Adds 28 U.S.C. 1364)
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