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United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates February 21 through 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates September 1992 as Childhood Cancer Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1992
Designates August 2, 1992, as National Family Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Entitles Federal employees to: (1) family leave in certain cases involving a birth, an adoption, or an employee's parent's or child's serious health condition; and (2) temporary medical leave in certain cases involving a serious health condition of the employee. Provides protection for an employee's employment and health benefit rights. Limits such leave to leave without pay.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Prohibits a member of the armed forces or person seeking to become a member from being discriminated against by the armed forces on the basis of sexual orientation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Designates September 10, 1992, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1992
Tax Extension Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the low-income housing credit permanent law. Modifies the rule for unused housing credit carryovers allocated among certain States. Expands the ten-year anti-churning rule waiver to certain projects substantially assisted, financed, or operated under the National Housing Act. Allows units occupied by certain full-time students to qualify for such credit. Authorizes the Treasury Department to waive penalties for certain de minimis errors and recertifications. Excludes assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act from the definition whether a building is federally subsidized. Permits the use of tax-exempt bond financing for such purposes. Provides for State housing credit agencies to designate difficult development areas (in lieu of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development). Allows the use of the rehabilitation investment credit for qualified low-income buildings without regard to whether interior walls are preserved. Prohibit discrimination against section 8 voucher holders in leasing units in qualified low-income buildings. Requires notice before termination of tenancy in such buildings. Allows certain building owners to elect to use apartment size or family size in determining the low-income credit gross rent limitation. Extends the following provisions from June 30, 1992, until December 31, 1993: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; (2) the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property; (3) employer-provided educational assistance; (4) the tax credit for increasing research activities; (5) the tax exclusion for employer-provided group legal services plans; (6) the targeted jobs credited; and (7) the credit for clinical testing expenses for certain drugs for rare diseases or conditions. Provides for the tax treatment of resale price control and subsidy lien programs under mortgage revenue bond provisions. Excludes from the five-year occupancy requirement under the tax-exempt mortgage revenue bond program any two-family residence which: (1) is a targeted area residence; or (2) is located in an area designated as an economic development zone or enterprise zone by Federal or State law. Suspends, for 1992 and 1993, the tax preference for the appreciated property charitable deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Airfare Advertising Reform Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prevent domestic and foreign air carriers from disseminating, or causing dissemination of, false, misleading, or deceptive advertisements. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the Civil Aeronautics Board (sic) from taking action with respect to deceptive advertisement violations committed by such air carriers if such violation also constitutes a violation under the Federal Trade Commission Act and this Act. Requires the FTC to issue a final rule which at a minimum provides that dissemination of any advertisement for air transportation between two points by an air carrier which contains a rate for such transportation shall constitute an unfair or deceptive practice affecting commerce, unless: (1) the advertisement clearly and conspicuously discloses all material restrictions governing the rate offered; (2) the rate includes all costs for obtaining such air transportation (including taxes, fees, fuel, and other surcharges) and is the round trip rate (if a round-trip ticket must be purchased to obtain such rate); and (3) the advertisement also contains the minimum number of seats per flight to which such rate applies.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Designates November 13, 1992, as Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Congratulates the residents of Jerusalem and the peopole of Israel on the 25th anniversary of the reunification of that city. Urges that: (1) Jerusalem remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected; and (2) the President and Secretary of State issue an unequivocal statement in support of such principle.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Long Island Sound Water Quality Research Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to expand the duties of the Environmental Protection Agency Long Island Sound Office to include the conduct of studies of: (1) alternative or innovative technologies to decrease pollution in the Sound; (2) present and foreseeable population and demographic trends in the Sound drainage area and the relation of land use patterns to point source and nonpoint source pollution; (3) a drainage area data base that evaluates the water quality capacity of the area, incorporates resource inventories and analyses, evaluates specified environmental features, and utilizes a format that can be integrated into Federal, State, and local management programs and systems; (4) a land use watershed model for coastal and upland areas of the Sound; (5) sensitive areas for the creation or restoration of degraded mudflats or wetlands in the drainage area; (6) sensitive areas for the remediation of contaminated sediments in the Sound; and (7) methods to refine the Long Island Sound Water Quality Model to improve the analysis of findings of nonpoint source pollutants and to better understand historical water quality trends. Requires the Office to prepare recommendations, using the land use watershed model: (1) for promoting least-cost land use strategies and water quality planning for municipalities in the drainage area; and (2) that incorporate relevant policies adopted by the Management Conference of the Long Island Sound Study. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act and extends existing authorizations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Designates September 18, 1992, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the POW/MIA flag to be flown on a flagstaff of the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service Commission, each national cemetery, and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on such day. Requires the flag to be flown on a flagstaff of each national cemetery and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1992 (Memorial Day), and on November 11, 1992 (Veterans Day). States that the flag shall be displayed as a symbol of national concern and commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner, missing, and unaccounted for.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1992
Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for grants for the prevention, control, and elimination of tuberculosis. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct or support research and research training regarding tuberculosis. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants for the prevention, control, and elimination of tuberculosis for: (1) construction or modernization of outpatient medical facilities serving medically underserved populations; (2) conversion of existing facilities into outpatient or long-term care facilities for such populations; and (3) renovation of inpatient facilities. Authorizes appropriations. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to mandate provision to eligible persons with tuberculosis of certain drugs and services under Medicaid. Allows a State to limit the provision of case management services to such persons. Adds such persons to provisions defining "medical assistance."
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Designates October 4 through 10, 1992, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to allow as grounds for nonrenewal of a franchise relationship the failure of the parties to agree to changes to the franchise provisions as long as such failure is not the result of the franchisor's insistence for the purpose of converting a franchisee operation into one operated by the franchisor's employees or agents (that is, turning the franchise into a company-owned station). Prohibits a State or any political subdivision from implementing any law or regulation which requires payment for a franchisee's goodwill upon either termination or nonrenewal of a franchise. Permits State law to specify the terms and conditions under which a franchise or franchise relationship may be transferred to a franchisee's designated successor upon the franchisee's death. Requires a franchisor that does not wish to exercise its underlying lease options to lease or purchase the marketing premises, to offer to assign them to the franchisee as a prerequisite to termination or nonrenewal of the franchise relationship. Bars a franchisor from requiring, as a condition of the franchise relationship, that the franchisee waive or release its rights under Federal or State law. Declares invalid and unenforceable any franchise provision which specifies that franchise interpretation or enforcement shall be governed by the law of any State other than the one in which the franchisee has its principal place of business.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Prohibits the proposed sale to Kuwait of an air defense system described in the certification submitted to the Congress pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act on March 31, 1992 (transmittal number 92-18, including PATRIOT and HAWK missiles).
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Federal Facilities Toxics Release Act - Amends the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act to require Federal facilities that are subject to safety or chemical inventory reporting requirements under such Act or that manufacture or use a toxic chemical listed under such Act in excess of threshold amounts to comply with all Federal, State, and local requirements respecting emergency planning, notification, and reporting on substances covered by such Act. Waives sovereign immunity and the immunity of Federal employees for purposes of enforcement and injunctive relief. Authorizes the President to exempt a facility from requirements for one year if it is in the U.S. interest. Prohibits such an exemption due to lack of appropriations unless the President has specifically requested the appropriation as part of the budgetary process and the Congress failed to make it available. Authorizes additional exemptions for periods of up to one year. Permits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to commence administrative enforcement actions against Federal agencies pursuant to this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on making chemicals used by Federal facilities subject to toxic chemical release form requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Withdraws until September 30, 1993, the authority of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prohibit or impede any proposed transfer of a soft drink trademark licensing contract or to challenge the lawfulness of any such past transfer. Permits the FTC, during such period, to retain whatever authority it may have had prior to enactment of this Act with respect to any proposed or past transfer otherwise subject to such provision, under specified limitations, if: (1) the licensee transferring the license has a market share of at least 15 percent; (2) there is a third-tier alternative licensee; or (3) as a direct result of such transfer, one licensee would become the sole licensee for trademarked soft drinks in the relevant geographic market. Specifies that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the authority of the Department of Justice to challenge transfers of soft drink trademark licensing contracts under the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Designates September 16, 1992, as National Occupational Therapy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Designates September 1992 as National Spina Bifida Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Designates the second Sunday in October 1992 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that market demand "prorationing" policies being considered by several States are not in the best interests of the American people, and urges that such policies be abandoned before more stringent measures are adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Hudson River Artists National Historical Park Act of 1992 - Establishes, as a unit of the National Park System, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, New York. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Hudson River Artists National Historical Park, subject to specified requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) acquire specified lands and improvements, as well as historic objects, artifacts, and other personal property associated with and appropriate for the interpretation of the Park; (2) enter into cooperative agreements with the State of New York (the State), specified entities, and individuals; and (3) accept donated funds, property, and services. Specifies that lands and improvements owned by the State may be acquired by the State only by transfer at no cost to the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary to: (1) administer the Park in accordance with this Act and all laws generally applicable to national historic sites; (2) preserve and interpret the Site; (3) preserve and perpetuate knowledge and understanding, and provide for public understanding and enjoyment, of the lives and works of the Hudson River artists (the artists); and (4) assist public and private entities in the interpretation of the artists, their houses and studios, and the vistas depicted by the artists throughout the Hudson River Valley region (region). Specifies that: (1) the Secretary shall take no action with respect to the lands and structures owned by the State within Park boundaries except through cooperative agreements in accordance with this Act; and (2) with regard to lands within the State Forest Preserve, the provisions of such cooperative agreements shall be in strict conformance with the pertinent provisions of the New York State Constitution. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance to cooperating entities for the marking, interpretation, restoration, preservation, or interpretation of Site property; and (2) enter into cooperative agreements to plan and coordinate the interpretation of the cultural and natural history of the region, and with the Greene County Historical Society to provide for the establishment of a library and research center at the Site. Directs the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for the Site and Park, including: (1) recommendations and cost estimates for the identification, marking, interpretation, and preservation of properties and landscapes associated with the artists and located throughout the region; and (2) recommendations on ways to broaden public understanding of the region and its role in American prehistory, history, and culture, and to foster relevant public education, resource preservation, and appropriate levels of regional tourism. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Every Fifth Child Act - Makes appropriations for FY 1993, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in specified amounts to begin a phase-in toward full funding of: (1) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC) under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; (2) Head Start programs under the Head Start Act; and (3) the Job Corps program under the Job Training Partnership Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such programs should receive specified minimum levels of funding to allow: (1) the WIC program to be fully funded through FY 1996; (2) Head Start programs to be fully funded through FY 1998; and (3) the Job Corps to establish at least 50 additional centers and serve at least 50 percent more of low-income disadvantaged youth by the year 2000.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a first-time homebuyer who purchases a principal residence a tax credit of ten percent of the purchase price of such residence. Limits the credit to $5,000. Requires married individuals filing jointly to both be first-time homebuyers. Allows the use of 50 percent of the credit in the first taxable year in which the residence is purchased and the remaining 50 percent in the succeeding taxable year. Makes this credit applicable to residences acquired after February 1, 1992, and before January 1, 1993, or for which a binding contract is entered into during such period.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Designates April 26 through May 2, 1992, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1992
Designates the week beginning March 21, 1993, as National Endometriosis Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
Global Climate Protection Act - Directs the President to promulgate final regulations that will achieve stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions by January 1, 2000. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate and report biennially to the Congress on the progress made pursuant to such regulations. Directs the President to promulgate additional regulations to achieve stabilization if the Administrator finds that the regulations will not achieve stabilization. Permits citizen suits against officers of the United States for failures to perform duties in accordance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U.S. Government should not condone foreign trade distorting subsidies, including development subsidies, that cause material injury to U.S. industries.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Designates the week beginning July 26, 1992, as Lyme Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Urges the Government of Romania to uphold all existing human rights treaties and decrees to ensure the safety of the minorities who reside in Romania. Requests the President and Secretary of State to discuss the human cultural and self-determination rights of the Hungarians of Transylvania with the Government of Romania and other appropriate governments.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Iraq must not be allowed to ignore with impunity the decisions of the United Nations (UN) Security Council expressed in resolutions pertaining to the Gulf War ceasefire and the requests of the UN Special Commission on Iraq and the International Atomic Energy Agency pertaining to such resolutions; and (2) the United States and its allies should take all necessary actions, including the selective use of military strikes, to demonstrate that further Iraqi evasions of the ceasefire will not be tolerated.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1992
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1992, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1992
National Energy, Environment, and Competitiveness Research Act of 1992 - Title I: Reduction of Oil Vulnerability - Subtitle A: Oil and Gas Supply Enhancement - Directs the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to conduct research and development programs in the following energy technologies in order to reduce national dependence upon imported oil, increase efficiency in meeting future energy needs, and reduce the adverse environmental consequences of energy production: (1) accelerated recovery of oil from domestic reservoirs in producing fields; (2) oil shale extraction and conversion for both Eastern and Western shales; (3) natural gas extraction from tight gas sands and devonian shales (or other unconventional sources); and (4) cofiring of natural gas with coal in utility and large industrial boilers to determine optimal natural gas injection levels for both environmental and operational benefits. Sets forth program goals, including short, mid-term, and long-term priorities. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Oil and Gas Demand Reduction and Substitution - Directs the Secretary to conduct research and development programs on: (1) cost effective technologies to reduce the demand for oil in the transportation sector through increased energy efficiency and the use of alternative fuels; (2) advanced technologies to improve fuel economy of light-duty passenger vehicles powered by a piston engine, and hybrid vehicles powered by a combination of piston engine and electric motor; (3) techniques to improve natural gas and other alternative fuel vehicle technology; (4) biofuels user facilities to expedite industry adoption of biofuels technologies; (5) electric vehicles and batteries (in cooperation with the electric utility industry and the automobile industry); and (6) wider application of advanced electric vehicle technology, including advanced battery technologies. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress and the President on encouraging the purchase and use of electric vehicles. Directs the Secretary to conduct a research and development program on: (1) renewable hydrogen energy systems to supplement similar ongoing DOE activities; and (2) diesel engine combustion and engine systems, related advanced materials, and fuels and lubricants to reduce emissions oxides of nitrogen and particulates. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Oil Substitution Through Coal Liquefaction - Directs the Secretary to conduct a research and development program for economically and environmentally acceptable advanced technologies for oil substitution through coal liquefaction. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Energy and Environment - Subtitle A: Improved Energy Efficiency - Directs the Secretary to conduct a research and development program for: (1) cost effective technologies to improve energy efficiency and increase the use of renewable energy in the buildings, industrial, and utility sectors; (2) energy efficient natural gas and electric heating and cooling technologies for residential and commercial buildings; (3) advanced pulp and paper technologies; (4) new technologies for integrated building design and products that provide affordable and commercially viable low emission, low energy buildings by the year 2005; and (5) expedited adoption of energy efficient industrial electric drive technologies, including adjustable speed drives, high speed motors, and high efficiency motors. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a Federal agency demonstration program for advanced commercially available energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies for use in federally-owned buildings and facilities; and (2) a demonstration program at federally-owned buildings and facilities designated for long-term commitment of specified emerging energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies that were substantially developed or derived from DOE research and development, and that are not commercially available. Subtitle B: Electricity Generation and Use - Directs the Secretary to conduct a research and development program: (1) to provide cost-effective options for the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources for grid and nongrid application; (2) on high efficiency heat engines to prove their technical and economic feasibility, emphasizing advanced gas turbine cycles, and the incorporation of energy efficient materials in such cycles for high efficiency electric and industrial power generation; and (3) to encourage the deployment of advanced nuclear reactor technologies. Requires the Secretary to establish a Federal financial and technical assistance program for the first-of-a-kind engineering design of standardized commercial nuclear powerplants which are included in the DOE certification program for advanced light water reactor designs. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on program status and nuclear research, development, and demonstrations. Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to report annually to the Congress, along with the President's annual budget request, on the certification process for certain standardized advanced light water reactor designs. Directs the Secretary to conduct a research and development program on: (1) new technologies for mitigating hazards associated with high level radioactive waste and spent fuel from nuclear reactors; (2) fusion energy technologies whose main focus shall be a cooperative effort to develop the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER); (3) advanced technologies that use coal to generate electricity in a more efficient and environmentally acceptable manner; and (4) efficient and environmentally benign decentralized power generation using fuel cells. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish the Electric Generation Technology Demonstration Task Force (the Task Force) to annually submit a report to the Secretary and the Congress on the status of electric generation technology. Authorizes appropriations for the Fast Flux Test Facility. Subtitle C: Pollution Prevention, Information, and Audits - Requires the Secretary to establish an Energy Efficient Pollution Prevention Program to implement research and development on energy efficient pollution prevention technologies and processes, emphasizing source reductions and a systems approach to minimizing adverse environmental effects of industrial production in the most cost-effective and energy efficient manner. Directs the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration to: (1) expand the scope and frequency of data collection and reports on domestic energy use in order to significantly improve the ability to evaluate the efficacy of national energy efficiency and renewable energy policies and programs; and (2) report annually to the Congress on energy efficiency and on the gathered data. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to incorporate into a certain energy conservation audit program for small and medium sized manufacturers an identification and analysis of applicable energy savings and environmental benefits from the adoption of innovative energy efficient pollution prevention and waste minimization techniques. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Energy and Economic Growth - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Critical Advanced Materials Initiative in the Office of Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy to implement a research and development program on production techniques for critical advanced materials and associated components with energy efficiency and renewable energy applications, to supplement similar ongoing DOE activities; (2) a program to expedite the use of critical advanced materials technologies in goods and services acquired by the General Services Administration; and (3) a National Critical Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Initiative in the Office of Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy to supplement similar ongoing DOE activities to improve energy efficiency and productivity in manufacturing. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to grant priority to user facilities to provide special scientific and research capabilities to serve the research needs of universities, industry, and private and Federal laboratories. Authorizes the construction of the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory. Prohibits the Secretary from changing the user fee practice in effect as of October 1, 1991, unless expressly authorized to do so by law enacted subsequent to this Act. Requires the Secretary to expedite the construction of the Advanced Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) support university research reactor improvement programs, and report a five year-improvement plan to the Congress; and (2) develop a method to evaluate the effectiveness of DOE science and mathematics education programs. Requires the Director of the Office of Energy Research to operate an Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research as part of DOE's University and Science Education Programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) support technology transfer activities conducted by the National Laboratories, and report to the Congress on the adequacy of their funding; (2) implement a least cost strategy for facility support and maintenance with respect to multiprogram energy laboratories; and (3) report to the Congress a comprehensive facilities plan for multiprogram energy laboratories. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress a five-year program plan for improving DOE integration of basic and applied renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. Title IV: International Transfer of Advanced Energy Technology - Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a program of developing and adapting new energy technologies to the needs of developing countries to provide technological alternatives to meet their energy needs more efficiently and in an environmentally sound and economically competitive manner; and (2) establish in the Office of Policy an Office of Energy Coordination for Developing Countries to provide an information exchange program. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Policy and Administrative Provisions - Directs the Secretary to expedite procedures for reviewing cooperative research and development agreements entered into by DOE or its laboratories to make the administrative review process consistent with those at other Federal agencies and their laboratories, and to report on them to the Congress. Permits program funds authorized for Conservation Research and Development, and Fossil Energy Research and Development to be used for the implementation of cooperative research and development agreements by DOE laboratories. Prohibits the Secretary from obligating funds for substantial or major construction projects, or equipment acquisition without specific authorization by statute. Directs the Secretary to establish an Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Advisory Board (Advisory Board) to provide impartial technical advice with respect to energy research and development, and to submit periodic evaluations to the Congress of the effectiveness of DOE energy research and development programs in meeting the objectives of the previous National Energy Policy Plan. Declares that it is the policy of the United States that: (1) specified percentages of funds appropriated for DOE environmental restoration and waste management programs shall be used for research and development; and (2) where private sector technologies are more advanced than those used by the Federal Government, they shall be used for environmental restoration and waste management. Amends the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 to require the Secretary (currently the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration) to submit to the Congress an annual comprehensive plan for energy research and development. Amends the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989 to reflect the amendments made by this Act. Requires proposals submitted under this Act to include commitments of specified percentages from non-Federal sources. Authorizes the Secretary to vary such requirements upon determining that the proposed research is of a more basic or fundamental nature. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop an inventory and status report of technologies to enhance energy supply and to improve the efficiency of energy end uses; (2) establish comprehensive energy research and development program priorities as part of the National Energy Policy Plan, with highest priority given to the development of technologies assessed in such inventory and status report; and (3) enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences (the Academy) to study factors which promote or inhibit the widespread domestic adoption of energy-efficient end-use technologies and energy-conserving practices. Directs the Academy to submit its findings and conclusions to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth conditions under which the Secretary shall disregard costs related to the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, or the storage and disposal of nuclear waste when awarding contracts to perform nuclear hot cell services. Title VI: Joint Ventures - Amends the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989 to direct the Secretary to evaluate emerging renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies suitable for joint ventures, and to solicit proposals for, and provide assistance to, at least ten high priority joint ventures (currently three) that can expedite the commercialization of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Includes within the list of required joint ventures: (1) oil displacement by fuel cell technology; (2) renewable energy and energy efficiency technology export training; and (3) source reduction technology. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Uranium Enrichment - Subtitle A: Uranium Enrichment Corporation - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish the Uranium Enrichment Corporation as a wholly owned government corporation to: (1) operate as a business enterprise on a profitable, efficient basis; (2) acquire uranium for uranium enrichment; (3) acquire DOE facilities related to atomic vapor laser isotope separation technology (AVLIS) for uranium enrichment, and to commercialize alternative enrichment technologies; (4) market and sell its enriched uranium and related services; and (5) conduct the business as a self-financing corporation, eliminating the need for Federal financing. Vests Corporation powers in the Board of Directors appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Grants the Comptroller General audit powers over the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to submit an annual status report to the President and the Congress. Establishes the Uranium Enrichment Corporation Fund, which shall be available to the Corporation without fiscal year limitation. Prescribes guidelines under which the Corporation may issue bonds and notes. Provides for the Corporation to make payments to States and local governments in lieu of taxes. Exempts all Corporation property, activities, and income from any State, local, or Federal taxation. Applies to the Corporation Federal antitrust, occupational safety and health laws, and environmental laws, among others. Permits the Corporation to restrict the dissemination of trade secrets and commercial or financial information to the same extent as a privately owned corporation. Sets forth the Corporation's marketing and contracting authority. Grants the Corporation exclusive rights to: (1) an option to lease DOE gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facilities; and (2) deploy, license, and use federally-owned AVLIS processes and technical information upon completion of a royalty agreement with DOE. Directs the President, upon Corporation request, to transfer without charge to the Corporation DOE rights and interests in property related to the performance of its purposes regarding AVLIS. Transfers to the Corporation as assets any balances in the Uranium Enrichment Special Fund, and balances appropriated to DOE for uranium supply and enrichment activities. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to lend the Corporation a specified sum in the form of a loan from balances in the Uranium Enrichment Special Fund receipt account ("Initial Debt"). Precludes the Corporation from receiving any Federal financial assistance other than as provided for in this Act. Permits the Corporation to apply to DOE for a patent license to use an invention or discovery useful in the production or utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy when the patent has not been declared to be affected with the public interest. Requires DOE to: (1) establish standards to govern its gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facilities; and (2) report annually to the Congress on the health, safety, and environmental conditions at such facilities. Prohibits the Corporation from operating such facilities unless DOE has determined its compliance with such standards. Subjects Corporation uranium enrichment facilities using AVLIS to the same licensing strictures as production and utilization facilities under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Requires the Corporation to: (1) prepare a strategic plan for privatization; and (2) begin activities necessary to prepare AVLIS for commercialization. Authorizes the Corporation to issue capital stock representing an equity investment in its uranium enrichment assets, as well as enter into joint ventures and majority held subsidiaries. Sets forth guidelines for privatization of the Corporation. Establishes the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund to implement decontamination and decommissioning, and other environmental restoration and waste management activities at DOE uranium enrichment facilities. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to submit annual Fund status reports to the Congress. Sets forth funding guidelines. Requires the Corporation to: (1) direct a pilot research and development program at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant to identify, evaluate, and implement decontamination and decommissioning approaches; and (2) submit an annual cost estimate review to the Congress regarding decontamination, decommissioning, and other environmental restoration and waste management activities at its uranium enrichment facilities. Subtitle B: Remedial Action At Active Processing Sites - Declares that remedial action costs shall be borne by certain persons licensed under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 for any activity resulting in the production of by-product material. Sets forth guidelines under which the Secretary shall annually reimburse such licensees for the portion of the remediation costs attributable to byproduct material generated as an incident of sales to the United States, and incurred by the licensee before a specified date. Requires the Secretary to promulgate reimbursement regulations. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1992
Community and Residents Education at Hazardous Waste Sites Act of 1992 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to conduct health studies at any hazardous waste facility and take other actions with respect to risks to human health posed by such facility. Requires the ATSDR Administrator, if a health study finds that the exposure concerned may present a health risk, to notify the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State (if the State has an authorized hazardous waste program) and recommend actions necessary to reduce the exposure and eliminate or mitigate risks. Directs the EPA Administrator or the State to order the owner or operator of the facility to take steps to reduce the exposure and eliminate or mitigate the risks. Provides for public participation in health studies, including public meetings and comments on proposed studies and public availability of completed studies. Permits petitions to request the performance of a health study. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the ATSDR Administrator to: (1) develop a plan to perform health assessments at hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facilities identified under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) give priority in selecting such facilities to the 25 facilities believed to present the highest risk to human health; and (3) report to the Congress on such assessments, including findings on exposure and risk reduction and efforts to improve responsiveness to communities. Establishes: (1) an ATSDR Peer Review Board to carry out technical and scientific peer review of ATSDR health studies; and (2) an ATSDR Citizen Review Board to monitor ATSDR and EPA responsiveness to citizen concerns and to make recommendations on ways to improve citizen involvement and the readability of documents intended for public consumption. Requires: (1) the Peer Review Board to review and report to the Congress on the quality of the ATSDR health assessments; and (2) the Citizen Review Board to report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the ATSDR in responding to the needs of communities for information on health effects of hazardous wastes. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the ATSDR Administrator to make health education grants to any group that may be affected by exposure to hazardous wastes from a facility with respect to which a health study is being conducted. Permits such grants to be used for obtaining the following from health professionals: (1) information about threats of exposure and actions that can be taken to reduce exposure; (2) assistance in interpreting and reviewing health assessments and studies and other information developed by the ATSDR and other agencies; and (3) assistance in preparing public comments and in designing community health surveillance techniques. Limits the amount of such grants. Authorizes grant cost recovery from hazardous waste facility owners or operators as a condition of receiving a facility permit. Applies small purchase or other simplified procurement procedures to grant recipients. Permits grant cost recovery as a response cost under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 from persons contributing to hazardous substance releases in cases where a health assessment or study discloses exposure of a population to such releases. Authorizes the EPA Administrator to make specified amounts available to the Director of the Office of Research and Development for grants to demonstrate nonincineration technologies for the treatment of dioxin and hazardous wastes and substances. Requires the EPA Administrator to consider the use of nonincineration treatment technologies in corrective and response actions and to promote public participation in such demonstrations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1992
Makes the conveyance of National Refuge System lands in the Long Island Refuge System, New York, valid only if the deed of conveyance prohibits in perpetuity commercial development of the lands. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to include in the deed of conveyance for any lands in the Long Island Refuge System conveyed by the Secretary, terms adequate to prohibit in perpetuity the commercial development of the lands.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1992
Anti-Car Theft Act of 1992 - Title I: Tougher Law Enforcement Against Auto Theft - Subtitle A: Enhanced Penalties for Auto Theft - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for a fine, up to 20 years imprisonment, or both, for taking (or attempting to take) a motor vehicle from the person or presence of another by force, violence, or intimidation. Increases penalties for: (1) the importation and exportation of stolen motor vehicles, off-highway mobile equipment, vessels, or aircraft (stolen vehicles); and (2) the transportation, sale, or receipt of stolen vehicles. Makes altering or removing motor vehicle identification numbers, exporting or importing stolen vehicles, and dealing in counterfeit obligations or securities predicate offenses to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Subtitle B: Targeted Law Enforcement - Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to Anti-Car Theft Committees submitting applications in compliance with the requirements of this subtitle. Sets forth application requirements, including a statement from a chief executive of such committee that the applicant committee: (1) is either a State agency, an agency of a unit of local government, or a nonprofit entity organized pursuant to specific authorizing legislation by a State or such unit; (2) is or will be financed in part by a tax or fee on motor vehicles registered by or possessed within the State of not less than one dollar per vehicle; and (3) will devote its resources entirely to combating motor vehicle theft. Establishes formulas for the allocation of grant funds. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Automobile Title Fraud - Directs the Attorney General: (1) by March 1, 1993, to conduct a review of information systems pertaining to the titling of motor vehicles utilized by one or more States or by a third party which represents the interests of States, and promulgate such regulations as the Attorney General deems necessary to the establishment of an information system to serve as a clearinghouse for information pertaining to the titling of motor vehicles; and (2) within six months of the promulgation of regulations, and by no later than September 1, 1993, to establish such a system. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to: (1) system operation; (2) user fees; (3) minimum capabilities of the system (such as enabling the user to determine the validity and status of a document purporting to be a certificate of title); and (4) information availability. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes a State, by written notice to the operator, to elect to participate in the system. Grants the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation authority to deny access to the National Crime Information Center system to any State failing to participate in the information system pursuant to this Act. Sets forth: (1) title verification requirements (by participating States); (2) reporting requirements (by operators of junk or salvage yards and by insurance carriers); and (3) enforcement provisions (providing for the assessment and collection by the Attorney General of a civil penalty, which sum may be deducted from any sums owed by the United States to the person charged, subject to specified requirements). Title III: Illicit Trafficking in Stolen Auto Parts - Directs the Attorney General to promulgate a vehicle theft prevention standard which conforms to the requirements of this Act and which applies with respect to major automobile parts and replacement parts. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) deadlines for promulgation of a proposed and final standard, extensions, and the effective date of such standard; and (2) application of such standard (to major parts installed by the motor vehicle manufacturer in automobiles with a model year designation later than the calendar year in which such standard takes effect and major replacement parts manufactured after such standard takes effect). Requires that engines and transmissions installed by the motor vehicle manufacturer be permanently stamped with the vehicle identification number and that other major parts have labels affixed meeting certain specifications. Prohibits the standard, in the case of major replacement parts, from requiring identification of any part which is not designed as a replacement for a major part required to be identified under such standard and the inscribing or affixing of any identification other than a symbol identifying the manufacturer and a common symbol identifying the part as a major replacement part. Prohibits such standards from imposing costs, to comply with such standard, upon any manufacturer of: (1) motor vehicles in excess of $15 per vehicle; or (2) major replacement parts in excess of such reasonable lesser amount per major replacement part as the Attorney General specifies in such standard. Specifies that the cost of identifying engines and transmissions shall not be taken into account in calculating a manufacturer's costs under such provision. Directs the Secretary of Labor, at the beginning of each calendar year commencing on or after January 1, 1993, as data becomes available, to certify to the Attorney General and publish in the Federal Register the percentage difference between the average of the Consumer Price Index for the 12 months preceding the beginning of such calendar year and such average for the base period. Specifies that, effective for model years beginning in such calendar year, the amounts specified in the previous paragraph shall be adjusted by such percentage difference. Requires every manufacturer of a motor vehicle part which is subject to the standard and any manufacturer of major replacement parts subject to such standards: (1) to establish and maintain such records, make such reports, and provide such items and information as the Attorney General may reasonably require to enable the Attorney General to determine whether such manufacturer has acted or is acting in compliance with this Act and such standard; and (2) upon request of an officer or employee (officer) designated by the Attorney General, to permit such officer to inspect vehicles and major parts subject to the standard and appropriate documents relevant to determining whether such manufacturer has acted or is acting in compliance with this Act and such standard. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to inspections, certification of compliance with such standard, notification of errors to the Attorney General, and inapplicability of certification requirements (to motor vehicles or major replacement parts intended solely for export, which are so labeled or tagged on the vehicle or replacement part itself and on the outside of the container, if any, until exported, and which are exported). Directs the Attorney General to enter into an agreement for the operation of an information system containing the identification numbers of stolen motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts and to designate an individual or entity as the operator of such system. Requires such system to include, at a minimum, the following information pertaining to each motor vehicle reported to a law enforcement authority as stolen and not recovered: (1) the vehicle identification number; (2) the make and model year; (3) the date on which the vehicle was reported as stolen; (4) the location of the law enforcement authority that received the reports of the vehicle's theft; and (5) if the vehicle at the time of its theft contained parts bearing identification numbers different from the vehicle identification number of the stolen vehicle, such identification numbers. Sets forth additional provisions regarding availability of information, recordkeeping, and user fees. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits (with exceptions) any person from: (1) manufacturing for sale, selling, offering for sale, or introducing or delivering for introduction in interstate commerce or import into the United States any motor vehicle subject to the theft prevention standard under this Act or any major replacement part subject to such standard which is manufactured on or after the date the standard takes effect unless it is in conformity with such standard; (2) failing to comply with any rule prescribed by the Attorney General under this Act; (3) failing to keep specified records (or refusing access to or copying of records), make reports or provide items or information, or permit (or refusing to permit) entry or inspection as required by this Act; or (4) failing to furnish certification, or issuing a certification if such person knows that such certification is materially false or misleading, pursuant to this Act. Prohibits (with exceptions) any person from selling, transferring, or installing a major part marked with an identification number without: (1) first making a request of the operator of the system and determining that such major part has not been reported as stolen; and (2) providing the transferee with a written certificate bearing a description of such major part and the identification number affixed to such major part. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for violation of this Act, including injunctions (upon petition by the Attorney General) to restrain specified violations of, and criminal contempt for violation of an injunction or restraining order issued pursuant to, this Act. Sets forth provisions with respect to venue and subpoenas. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the confidentiality of information reported to, or otherwise obtained by, the Attorney General pursuant to this Act, with exceptions; (2) judicial review; and (3) coordination of State and local law with the Federal vehicle theft prevention standard. Directs the Attorney General to conduct three- and five-year studies regarding motor vehicle theft and make recommendations to the Congress. Title IV: Export of Stolen Vehicles - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the Commissioner of Customs to direct customs officers to conduct random inspections of motor vehicles and shipping containers that contain motor vehicles being exported for purposes of determining whether such vehicles were stolen. Directs the Commissioner to require all persons or entities exporting used self-propelled vehicles by air or ship to provide to the U.S. Customs Service, at least 72 hours before the export, the vehicle identification number of each such vehicle and proof of ownership of such vehicle. Makes such requirement applicable to vehicles exported for personal use. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a pilot study of the utility of a nondestructive examination system for inspection of containers that contain motor vehicles leaving the country for the purpose of determining whether such vehicles are stolen.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1992
AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish the AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development as an endowed, nongovernmental, nonprofit foundation to: (1) promote and support joint research for peaceful purposes between scientists and engineers in the United States and former Soviet states; (2) establish joint nondefense industrial research and development through private sector linkages which may involve the academic sectors and shall include some contribution from industrial participants; and (3) ensure equal distribution of Foundation funding. Authorizes the Foundation to accept funding from governmental appropriations, private donations, debt conversions, and local foreign currencies generated by U.S. assistance programs as available. Requires a specified percentage of royalty revenues on patents resulting from Foundation projects to be returned to the Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Vatican should grant recognition to and establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1992
Coral Reef Environmental Act - Establishes a joint program between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct environmental research, monitoring, and public education relating to coral reef ecosystems. Directs the EPA Administrator and the Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to jointly develop guidelines for assessing quality of coastal and marine waters in which coral reef ecosystems are found to ensure the sustainable use and conservation of such ecosystems. Requires the President to direct the Secretary of State to work with other nations and international organizations to: (1) implement an international research program to monitor the status of coral reef and related ecosystems; (2) implement a global strategy for the sustainable use of coral reef ecosystems and to encourage multilateral research efforts on sustainable management of such ecosystems; and (3) promote public education on the conservation of such ecosystems. Directs the President to convene conferences of the parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention) and the South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) for purposes of identifying research and management needs in coral reef ecology and their sustainable use and the implementation of such programs in the Caribbean and South Pacific. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1992
Youth Employability Services 2000 Act of 1992 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to authorize appropriations to establish five additional Job Corps centers during each of the ten fiscal years beginning with FY 1993. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to evaluate the educational curricula offered by the Job Corps as to whether participants are being adequately prepared with skills to meet the technological demands of the marketplace. Requires a report to the Congress and dissemination of evaluation results. Revises the age limits for participation in the Job Corps to allow not more than 20 percent of the enrollees to be from age 22 through 24. Declares that JTPA allows participants to participate concurrently or sequentially in both the Job Corps and training services for the disadvantaged. Increases from ten to 20 percent the allowable number of nonresidential participants enrolled in the Job Corps in any year. Requires that, in enrolling nonresidential participants, priority be given to those eligible individuals who are single parents with dependent children. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing the number of residential participants in Job Corps programs during any program year below the number during 1991 in order to increase the number of nonresidential participants. Prohibits use of Department of Labor funds to contract with a nongovernmental agency to administer or manage a Civilian Conservation Center of the Job Corps on public land. Directs the Secretary, as practicable, to provide child care at or near Job Corps centers for individuals who require such care for their children in order to participate in the Job Corps. Requires each Job Corps center to provide alcohol and drug abuse counseling and referral to participants who need such services. Directs the Secretary to provide all nonprofit Job Corps contractors with an equitable and negotiated management fee of not less than one percent of the contract amount.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1992
Condemns the March 17, 1992, bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Declares that the U.S. Government should fully cooperate with the Governments of Argentina and Israel in identifying and bringing to justice all of the individuals responsible.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that any legislation passed by the Congress to address American health care needs must include coverage for mental disorders.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1992
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal provisions providing reduced Medicare reimbursements for new physicians.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1992
Designates June 1992 as National Scleroderma Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1992
Designates the week beginning May 17, 1992, as National Senior Nutrition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should appoint a special envoy to be personally and actively involved in bringing a solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1992
Commends the New York Stock Exchange on the occasion of its bicentennial on May 17, 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1992
Designates April 9, 1992, as Child Care Worthy Wage Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, consistent with national sovereignty considerations, the position of the United States at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development should: (1) place the highest priority on the success of the Conference by participating actively, particularly through the personal participation of the President; (2) negotiate international agreements that effectively reduce the threat of climate change and biological diversity loss; (3) propose or support an initiative on financing global environmental cooperation efforts that takes into account the additional costs of international environmental protection and the basic development goals of developing countries and increases accountability for the use of funds provided for environmental purposes; (4) seek to advance the development of a stronger international legal framework and the creation of appropriate institutional mechanisms for protecting the global environment; (5) promote public participation in environmental and development decisions at all levels; and (6) support new programs and institutions to help developing countries become more energy efficient and otherwise increase their capacity for acquiring and using technology to make their economies more environmentally sustainable, global goals of slowing deforestation of primary forests, the creation of a global action plan to raise the status of women, the development of new agreements to eliminate land-based sources of marine pollution, a process of international consultations aimed at identifying ways that poverty can be alleviated and natural resources better conserved through reduction of developing country debt burdens, the development of a reformed system of national accounting that would reflect full economic costs of environmental and resource degradation and the benefits of the sustainable use of natural resources, and programs that provide maternal and child health care, education and training especially for women, and voluntary family planning.