United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that no court of the United States shall have authority to issue any order or ruling, on the grounds of failure to comply with any provision or rule of law relating to the environment, impeding or halting construction of any project authorized prior to January 1, 1970, to be constructed by the Corps of Engineers, if there has been expended toward such project by the date of the commencement of the litigation in which such order or ruling is sought not less than 10 percent of the total authorized cost of such project or $15,000,000, whichever is greater.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Exempts any nonmanufacturing business, or any business having twenty-five or less employees, in States having laws regulating safety in such businesses, from the Federal standards created under the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make a study of the overwithholding from wages of the Federal income tax under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Directs the Secretary to report, with legislative recommendations, to the Congress on his study under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that daylight saving time shall be in effect in the United States pursuant to the Uniform Time Act from May 30th to the first monday in September of each year.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Prohibits the payment of aid or assistance by approved State public assistance plans under the Social Security Act to aliens who are illegally within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for Federal assistance to State and local governments in establishing, equipping and operating emergency communications centers to make 911 the national emergency telephone number. Authorizes the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make grants under this title to assist State and local units of Government in establishing such number. Provides that no grant shall exceed one-half the cost of implementing such a center. Limits the amount of such grant which may be used for personnel compensation to no more than one-third the granted amount, or that amount expended by the State from its own funds for such purpose. Authorizes $5 million for fiscal year 1971 and $7.5 million for fiscal year 1972 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Directs the Federal Communications Commission, in its processing of renewal applications for broadcast licenses, to grant such applications if it finds that the public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served thereby. Provides that in its consideration of any such application the Commission may not consider the application of any other person for the facilities for which renewal is sought. Provides that if the Commission determines after hearing that a grant of the renewal application would not be in the public interest, convenience, and necessity, it may deny such application.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that while serving as a permanent professor at the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, or the United States Air Force Academy, or as a member of the permanent commissioned teaching staff at the United States Coast Guard Academy, an officer who has over thirty one years of service, in addition to the pay and allowances to which he is otherwise entitled, shall be entitled to additional pay in the amount of $250 a month. Provides that an officer while serving as a permanent professor, who has over thirty-six years of service, is entitled to total additional pay in the amount of $500 a month. States that the additional pay provided by this Act shall not be used in the computation of retired pay. (Amends 37 U.S.C. 203(b))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that a member of the armed force may be separated under other than honorable conditions as a result of any of the following: (1) absence without authority for one year; (2) adjudication as a juvenile offender or final conviction by a civilian court for an offense punishable by death or imprisonment for more than one year; (3) during a 3 year period, three convictions by separate courts-martial or civilian courts of offenses punishable by three months imprisonment; (4) an approved recommendation of a board of officers upon a finding of misconduct or moral or professional dereliction or that a member's retention would not be consistent with the interests of national security; (5) resignation or request for discharge in place of trial by court-martial; and (6) in time of war, by Presidential order. Grants th board of officers and the member equal opportunity to obtain witnesses and other evidence. Grants the board power to issue process to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production or evidence. Requires that a board of officers hold a hearing at which the member can appear and present evidence in his own behalf, be represented by qualified counsel; confront witnesses and examine evidence. Allows the member to appeal any adverse recommendations of a board of officers to a review board. Restricts the review board to the record of the proceedings of the board of officers and to written arguments of counsel. Permits a review board to recommend only a mitigation of a Board recommendation. Asserts that a member who has been retained as a result of the proceedings may not be required to appear before another board of officers for conduct, which was the subject of previous proceedings, except in the cases of fraud or collusion. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to at any time convene a board of officers to review the record of any commissioned or warrant officer of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps to determine whether he shall be required, because his performance of duty has fallen below standards prescribed by the Secretary, to show cause for his retention on active duty; or to determine whether he should be removed from active duty because of misconduct, moral or professional dereliction, or because his retention is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security. Provides that Boards of Inquiry, each composed of three or more officers, shall be convened, at such places as the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe, to receive evidence and make findings and recommendations whether an officer who is required to show cause for retention due to substandard performance should be retained on active duty. Requires a fair and impartial hearing before a board of inquiry for such officers. Directs the board of inquiry upon determination that the officer has failed to establish that he should be retained, to send the record of its proceedings to a board of review. Provides that Boards of Review, each composed of three or more officers shall be convened by the Secretary of the military department concerned, at such times as he may prescribe, to review the records of cases of regular commissioned or warrant officers recommended for removal by a board of inquiry. Asserts that if after reviewing the record of the case, a board of review determines that the officer: (1) has failed to establish that he should be retained, it shall sent its recommendation to the Secretary for his action; or (2) has established that he should be retained on active duty, his case is closed, except that after one year from the date of that determination, he may be again required to show cause for retention. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to remove an officer from active duty in the regular component of armed force if his removal is recommended by a board of review under this chapter. Makes the Secretary's action in such a case final and conclusive. Sets forth the rights of officers in the proceedings outlined above, which rights include that of notice, representation by counsel, etc. Permits voluntary retirement or voluntary discharge where removal of an officer is sought. Sets forth criteria for eligibility of officers to serve on Boards.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for the designation of the 11th day of November of each year as Veterans Day (presently the fourth Monday in October). (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Establishes a Joint Congressional Committee on the Environment to consist of eleven Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker and eleven Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate. Gives the Committee the duty: (1) to conduct a continuing comprehensive study and review of the character and extent of environmental changes that may occur in the future and their effect on population, communities, and industries, including but not limited to the effects of such changes on the need for public and private planning and investment in housing, water resources (including oceanography), pollution control, food supplies, education, automation affecting interstate commerce, fish and wildlife, forestry, mining, communications, transportation, power supplies, welfare, and other services and facilities; (2) to study methods of using all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster, promote, create, and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans; (3) to develop policies that would encourage maximum private investment in means of improving environmental quality; and (4) to review any recommendations made by the President (including the environmental quality report required to be submitted pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) relating to environmental policy. Grants the Committee necessary powers to carry out the objectives of this Act, and requires a final report to the House of Representatives and the Senate on the studies and projects undertaken by the Committee. Authorizes necessary appropriations to enable the committee to carry out its functions under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Creates a non-legislative Select Committee on Aging, consisting of fifteen members of the House of Representatives, and directs the Committee to conduct a full investigation on all matters pertaining to problems of older people, including problems of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive retirement activity, of securing proper housing, and when necessary, of assuring adequate care or assistance. Authorizes such committee to hold hearings and subpena witnesses and the production of records in carrying out its duties. Directs the Committee to report to the House the results of its study, together with legislative recommendations, as soon as practicable during the 93rd Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Establishes a Committee on Environment in the House of Representatives, consisting of 25 members. Provides that such Committee shall deal with all measures relating to the quality of the physical environment of the United States and its possessions, including: (1) water quality; (2) air quality; (3) weather modification; (4) waste disposal and management; (5) pesticides and herbicides; and (6) acoustic problems.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Declares that the House has learned with regret and profound sorrow of the death of Harry S. Truman, former President of the United States, who as an illustrious Member of the Senate of the United States, Vice President, and President gave so generously of his energy and wisdom and contributed so greatly to the cause of freedom. Directs the Clerk to communicate these resolutions to the Senate and to transmit a copy of the same to the family of the deceased.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of the longstanding debts which are delinquent in nature. Makes it the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury submit to the Congress within ninety days of passage of this resolution a list and report on the extent of such indebtedness on the part of foreign nations. Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury, through the appropriate departments and agencies, should, immediately after the filing of this report, begin consultations with foreign governments involved for the purpose of making arrangements for the prompt repayment of those longstanding debts which are delinquent.