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United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should implement the objectives of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981).
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1980
Requests the President to designate May 13 of each year as "National Indian Day."
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1980
National Trails System Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the National Trails System Act to declare that it is a purpose of such Act to encourage and assist citizen involvement in the development and management of trails. Specifies that national scenic trails may be located so as to include, but need not be limited to, desert, marsh, grassland, mountain, canyon, river, or forest areas, as well as landforms which exhibit significant characteristics of the physiographic regions into which the Nation is divided. Allows additional trail segments subsequently protected within Federal project boundaries to be established as trail components. Designates the following as national scenic and historic trails: (1) Ice Age National Scenic Trail; (2) Santa Fe National Historic Trail; (3) Chisholm, Shawnee, and Western Historic Trails; (4) Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail; (5) Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail; and (6) Florida National Scenic Trail. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, where lands administered by either of such Secretaries are involved, to submit specified studies concerning the suitability of trail designations not later than two fiscal years from the date of the addition of such trails to the national scenic or historic trails. Directs the Secretary, if during the course of such study it is determined that it is not feasible to develop a national scenic or national historic trail along the proposed route and that there is no significant need for such trail, to submit a report containing such determination to specified Congressional committees. Directs that the following trails be studied for consideration for designation as national scenic trails: (1) the Goodnight and Goodnight-Loving Trails in the States of New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas, and Colorado; (2) the Juan Bautista de Anza Trail in the State of California; (3) the Trail of Tears in the States of North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma; (4) the Illinois Trail in the State of Illinois; and (5) the Jedediah Smith Trail in the States of Wyoming, California, Utah, Washington, and Oregon. Requires a report to specified Congressional committees by the appropriate Secretary concerning a comprehensive management plan for a designated national historic trail pursuant to such Act to include: (1) an acquisition or protection plan, by fiscal year, for any high potential trail routes or high potential historic sites; and (2) general and site-specific development plans, including anticipated costs. Permits the appropriate Secretary, when a tract of land lies partly within and partly without a national scenic or national historic trail right-of- way, to acquire the entire tract in order to avoid the payment of severance costs, with the consent of the owner thereof. Directs each Secretary charged with the administration of any component of the National Trails System, by means of a cooperative agreement or otherwise, to undertake a systematic study of State, local, and private land use practices within the trail rights-of-way. Directs the Secretary of Transportation and the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission to encourage State and local agencies and private interests to establish recreational trails. Authorizes the establishment of a volunteer action trails demonstration program to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior to encourage the planning and management by volunteers of all types of nonmotorized trails throughout the Nation. Allows the Secretary, under such program, to make grants of not more than $25,000 to certified trail groups for specified purposes and to private landowners for the construction or repair of gates, fences, bridges, or similar structures which are desirable to be built or maintained as a result of the location of a national scenic, historic, or recreation trail. Prohibits any such grant from being made to a certified trail group unless the group agrees to provide funds, or services pertaining to trails, the value of which is equal to the amount of the grant.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Directs the President to designate the week of September 28-October 4, 1980, as "National High School Activities Week."
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that aliens who engage in unlawful or disorderly activities in the United States should be promptly deported in accordance with provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1980
Declares that the people of Poland should be allowed to settle their own affairs, including the formation of independent trade unions and the right to strike, without foreign interference.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate September 18, 1980, as "Constantino Brumidi Day."
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1980
Directs the printing as a House document of a collection of statements made in tribute to the late Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Authorizes the additional printing of copies for use by the House at a cost not to exceed $1,200.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1980
Requests the President to designate October 11, 1980, as "National Jogging Day."
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1980
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to revise the definition of "farm labor contractor" to: (1) broaden specified exclusions from such definition (thus broadening certain exemptions from coverage under such Act); and (2) exclude from such definition (and such coverage) any nonprofit or cooperative association of farmers, growers, or ranchers, duly incorporated under appropriate State laws, and operated solely for the mutual benefit of the members thereof, and any full-time or regular employee of such association or cooperative who engages in such activity solely for such employer. Adds other definitions relating to such revisions. Revises the definition of "agricultural employment" to specify that listed activities take place on a farm or ranch. Limits the definition of "migrant worker" to mean (among individuals engaged in agricultural employment on a farm or ranch on a seasonal or temporary basis) only those who cannot regularly return to their domicile each day after working hours, or who are transported from and to their domicile each workday by the person who recruits, solicits, hires, or furnishes such worker for agricultural employment on a farm or ranch owned or operated by another person.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1980
Directs the President to furnish the House of Representatives with information concerning White House and Justice Department actions with regard to Billy Carter's involvement with Libya.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1980
Petroleum Displacement Act of 1980 - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to repeal certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of natural gas as a primary energy source in electric powerplants. Repeals the authority of the Secretary of Energy to prohibit the use of petroleum or natural gas or both as a primary energy source in electric powerplants where coal or alternate fuel capability exists. Makes certain technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Estate and Gift Tax Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $47,000 to $155,800 the unified credit against the estate and gift tax; and (2) increase from $3,000 to $6,000 the gift tax exclusion.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Tax Rate Reduction Act of 1980 - Title I: Individual Tax Rates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual income tax rates for calendar years 1981 through 1985, and permanently thereafter. Title II: Inflation Adjustments for Taxable Years Beginning After 1985 - Requires annual cost of living adjustments to income levels in each income tax bracket, beginning in calendar year 1985. Requires similar cost of living adjustments to the $1,000 personal tax exemption. Increases the minimum income levels at which a taxpayer is required to file an income tax return by providing that such levels shall be equal to the taxpayer's income tax exemption and zero bracket amount, adjusted for inflation.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. foreign policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength with specified principles and goals.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
Revises the boundaries of the Congaree Swamp National Monument in the State of South Carolina.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Tax Reduction - Job Creation Act - Title I: Individual Tax Rates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce income tax rates for each category of individual taxpayers. Title II: Incentives for New Plant and Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and a six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits taxpayers to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Calls on the President, in the exercise of authority under the Davis-Bacon Act, to declare a national economic emergency and suspend the provisions of such Act and the provisions of all other Acts providing for the payment of wages on the basis of determinations of the Secretary of Labor concerning wage rates on public works projects under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1980
Terminates the export controls imposed by the President on agricultural commodities to the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1980
Prohibits the receipts and disbursements of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and any amount in such Trust Fund from being included in the totals of the budget of the United States Government. Exempts such receipts, disbursements, and amounts from any general limitations imposed on budget outlays of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1980
Small Refineries Relief Act of 1980 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to require that refineries have a refining capacity of less than 50,000 barrels of oil per day, as well as not have their own source of crude oil supply, in order to qualify for preference in the sale of any U.S. royalty oil by the Secretary of Energy.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1980
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from charging in excess of nine percent on price support loans under the Agricultural Act of 1949 on the 1979 and 1980 crops.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1980
Authorizes the President to present a gold-plated medal, on behalf of the Congress, to those athletes selected through the Olympic trial process to be members of the United States Summer Olympic Team of 1980. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be stricken 650 such medals with suitable emblems. Declares that such medals are national medals and that funds to carry out this Act shall be made available under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1980
Designates March 19, 1981, as "National Agriculture Day."
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1980
Extends the congratulations of the House of Representatives to members of the 1980 handicapped Olympic team and recognizes specified organizations for their efforts in producing the second winter Olympics for the physically handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1980
Requires the Federal Government and persons conducting federally assisted programs, projects, and activities to pay interest to business concerns for overdue sales and lease agreement payments not made by the thirtieth day after the bill for such payment is received. Specifies the procedure for computing such interest.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1980
Establishes the Mount Saint Helens National Monument in the State of Washington. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters, and interests therein by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, transfer from any other Federal agency, or exchange. Specifies that lands, waters, and interests therein owned by the State of Washington or any political subdivision thereof may only be acquired by donation or exchange. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary, for the purposes of the monument, the lands, waters, and interests therein within the boundary of the monument which are a part of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Withdraws lands within the monument from disposition under the public lands laws and from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, from the operation of the mineral leasing laws, and from the operation of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1980
Nuclear Waste Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a research, development, and demonstration program for the disposal of nuclear wastes. Requires the Secretary to identify four regional repository sites in the continental United States, at least one of which shall be located in each of the eastern, central, and western regions of the United States. Directs that emphasis be given to federally owned sites. Directs the Secretary to design, construct, and operate four technology-demonstration repository facilities at the sites selected. Requires that all four repositories be in operation by the end of fiscal year 1990, with the first having been placed in operation by the end of fiscal year 1986. Sets forth certain design requirements for such sites and for disposal methods. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study and report to Congress on advanced techniques for disposal of low-level radioactive wastes.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1980
Expresses the opposition of Congress to the imposition of any withholding tax on interest-bearing bank accounts and on dividend income.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1980
Establishes the Public Debt Retirement Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States. Appropriates to such Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the crude oil windfall profit tax and the oil import fees imposed by the President under Proclamation 4744 on April 2, 1980. Requires the transfer of such amounts at least monthly from the general fund of the Treasury to the Trust Fund. Limits the use of such Trust Fund amounts to the payment, purchase before maturity, or redemption of any obligations included in the public debt. Requires cancellation and retirement of all obligations so paid for, purchased, or redeemed. Repeals provisions of the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 which set up the Windfall Profit Tax Account in the Treasury and direct the allocation of amounts deposited therein.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1980
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to permit specified practitioners to register to dispense heroin for an inpatient who has been diagnosed as being terminally ill with cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a national medal to each athlete selected to be a member of the 1980 United States Olympic Team to the Olympic Games. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be struck such medals in bronze with gold plating, and with such emblems as shall be determined by the Secretary in consultation with the United States Olympic Committee. Authorizes the Secretary to strike duplicates and replicas of such medal in bronze for sale to the general public.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with the Accokeek Foundation in the operation and maintenance of the National Colonial Farm, Accokeek, Maryland, and to make available to the Foundation the funds appropriated to the Secretary for the operation and maintenance of the farm.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income interest earned on industrial development bonds, substantially all of the proceeds of which are used to provide financing for railroad rehabilitation. Includes in such rehabilitation: (1) the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, or erection of any roadbed, track, trestle, depot, switching and signaling equipment, but not rolling stock; or (2) the acquisition of land or rights- of-way.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil, tier 2, and tier 3 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable income tax credit for certain charges paid or incurred on agricultural operating loans (as defined by the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act) in excess of a 12 percent rate. Limits the application of this Act to loans whose payout period does not exceed 12 months and whose aggregate principal does not exceed $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1980
Proclaims October 19, 1981, a national day of celebration as the two hundredth anniversary of the victory of General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
National Usury Act - Establishes the legal rate of interest at ten percent per year. Provides that, except with respect to loans of less than $2,500 made by petty loan companies or credit unions: (1) any agreement to charge interest in excess of ten percent per year on a loan of more than $300 is void as to the excess interest which may be recovered by the borrower; and (2) any partial payment on a debt must be first applied to the interest due. Prohibits the defense of usury in any action to recover on a debt. States that insurance premiums required to be paid under a secured loan agreement shall not be considered interest if the premiums do not exceed those charged under similar policies unrelated to loans. Sets forth provisions governing the application of the legal rate of interest to judgments. Requires any person engaged in the business of financing loans on personal property sold by dealers to purchasers on credit to pay interest at five percent per year on any reserve withheld from the dealer under the contract for financing. States that any amount so withheld shall be due immediately upon the close of the loan account. Requires that dealers receive biannual reports on the status of their reserve accounts. Establishes a fine for violation of such provisions on dealer financing. Requires the board of directors of any institution which deals in bills of exchange to fix the rates of exchange. Requires such rates to be publicly posted. Prohibits any officer of such an institution from deviating from the posted rate of exchange. Sets forth provisions governing secured and unsecured installment loans given by banks, trust companies, and combined banks and trust companies.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Designates the third Monday in February of each year as "National Patriotism Week."
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1980
Designates the Curecanti Storage Unit, Colorado, of the Colorado River Storage Project as the Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1980
Expresses the opposition of the House of Representatives to the action by the President imposing a fee on the importation of crude oil.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Energy expedite implementation of the alternative fuels production programs with emphasis on alcohol as an alternative fuel derived from biomass, and industrial and municipal solid wastes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. foreign policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength with specified principles and goals.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to reduce the value of the allotment received by a household containing members who have available to them meals provided under the national school lunch program.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1980
Amends the Food and Agricultural Act of 1977 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase the same quantity of classes of commodities affected by a suspension of commercial export sales of a specified commodity as he is required to purchase of such suspended commodity.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1980
National Heritage Act of 1980 - Title I: National Heritage Policy - Declares that it is the duty and continuing policy of the Federal government, in cooperation with other nations and in partnership with the States, local communities, Indian tribes, and private organizations and individuals to: (1) develop and use means and measures for promoting conditions under which society and our heritage can exist in productive harmony; (2) provide leadership in the conservation and preservation of the natural and cultural heritage resources of the United States, and of the international community; (3) administer federally-owned, administered or controlled, natural and cultural heritage resources in a spirit of stewardship and trusteeship for the benefit of present and future generations; and (4) administer the national heritage program. Title II: Historic Preservation Program - Amends the Act known as the "National Historic Preservation Act of 1966" to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a national historic preservation program. Requires the Secretary to expand and maintain a National Register of Historic Places which shall include districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of national, State, and local significance in American history, architecture, archaeology, and culture. Stipulates that historic properties meeting the established criteria for national significance shall be designated as National Historic Landmarks. Directs the Secretary to develop or revise a State historic preservation program which includes appropriate governmental mechanisms for the identification, evaluation, protection, management and preservation of historic properties and for assistance to local governments and private organizations and individuals undertaking preservation activities, through grants, loans, loan guarantees, education, training and such other means and measures as the Secretary determines necessary. Requires the Secretary to request the Governor of each participating State to designate a State Historic Preservation Officer to carry out the State historic preservation program. Requires the Secretary to establish and maintain: (1) a program of grants to States for the purpose of preparing comprehensive statewide historic surveys and plans; (2) a program of matching grant-in-aid to States for historical projects; and (3) a program of matching grant-in-aid to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Limits such grants to no more than 50 percent of the total cost of such project, except in the case of grants to States for statewide historic surveys and grants. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such grants through fiscal year 1986. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish standards to provide for the protection, management, curation and maintenance of federally-owned heritage resources; (2) develop a process for the voluntary involvement of the public in the conservation and preservation of historic properties; (3) extend honorific Federal recognition of exceptional efforts by local governments, organizations and individuals in the identification and protection of historic properties; (4) develop and provide technical and nontechnical information and assistance on all aspects of historic preservation; (5) to study the feasibility and desirability of establishing or developing other measures for the conservation, preservation, management, and maintenance of historic properties; (6) develop and make available training and information relating to methods and techniques for identification, management, preservation, protection, rehabilitation, curation, restoration and maintenance of historic properties; and (7) establish, in cooperation with the Council on Heritage Conservation and other appropriate organization, a comprehensive education and training program concerning the administration of historic preservation programs for Federal, State, and local officials. Sets forth the responsibilities of Federal agencies with regard to historic properties that meet the criteria of eligibility for inclusion in the National Register. Requires the head of any Federal agency, prior to the approval of any Federal undertaking which may adversely affect any National Historic Landmark, to determine that no prudent feasible alternative to such undertaking exists and to afford the Council on Heritage Conservation a reasonable opportunity to comment on such undertaking. Requires each Federal agency to: (1) cooperate with the Secretary and the States in the collection, use, and exchange of historic properties information; (2) integrate information contained in the State historic preservation program inventories into its planning process; and (3) develop, within 18 months of the effective date of this Act, regulations or guidelines to carry out its responsibilities under this Act. Title III: Natural Heritage Program - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a natural heritage program. Directs the Secretary to establish and administer a National Register of Natural Areas which shall include resources of national, State, and local significance. Declares that items of national significance shall be designated as "National Natural Landmarks" (such designations shall only apply to an area which clearly meets the standards for national significance as established by this Act). Requires the Secretary, within one year of the effective date of this Act, to develop or expand regulations, procedures, or guidelines, as appropriate, for: (1) documentation of significant information concerning the natural heritage resources; (2) eligibility criteria for inclusion in the Natural Register; and (3) nominations to the Natural Register by Federal agencies and by the State natural heritage officer as established by this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop, in consultation with the States, regulations or guidelines for a State natural heritage program and request the governor of each participating State to designate a State Natural Heritage Officer. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) develop a process for the voluntary involvement of the public in the conservation of natural resources; (2) extend honorific Federal recognition of exceptional efforts by local governments and the private sector in the identification and protection of natural heritage resources; (3) develop and provide technical and nontechnical information and assistance on all aspects of natural heritage conservation; and (4) study, in cooperation with other agencies and private and public organizations, the feasibility and desirability of establishing or developing other measures for the conservation, preservation, management and maintenance of natural heritage resources. Requires each Federal agency, with the advice of the Secretary and in cooperation with the State Natural Heritage Officer, to locate and nominate the Natural Register heritage resources located on lands which it owns or administers that appear to be eligible for inclusion. Sets forth measures to be taken by Federal agencies to provide for the maintenance, preservation, rehabilitation, or restoration of federally-owned natural heritage resources. Requires the head of any Federal agency having direct or indirect jurisdiction over a proposed Federal or federally assisted undertaking in any State or having authority to license any such undertaking, prior to the approval of the expenditure of any Federal funds or the issuance of any license, to take into account the effect of the undertaking on any area included in or eligible for inclusion in the Natural Register. Specifies that, prior to the approval of any Federal undertaking which may adversely affect any natural landmark, the head of the Federal agency involved shall determine that no feasible alternative to such undertaking exists. Requires the Council on Heritage Conservation, with the concurrence of the Secretary, to promulgate regulations or guidelines for the exemption of Federal undertakings from requirements of this Act. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to States for the conservation of natural areas. Title IV: International Activities and World Heritage Convention - Requires the Secretary to direct and coordinate United States participation in the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and in other international activities concerning the conservation of heritage resources. Requires the Secretary to establish a program to evaluate this Nation's heritage resources, to identify properties of international significance, and to periodically nominate such properties to the World Heritage Committee on behalf of the United States. Title V: Council on Heritage Conservation - Renames the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation the Council on Heritage Conservation. Directs the Council to: (1) review Federal policies and programs affecting historic places and natural areas; and (2) inform and educate interested Federal agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, other nations, and international organizations and private groups and individuals as to the Council's activities. Directs the Council to promulgate, within six months of the effective date of this Act, such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to implement its responsibilities, including, with the concurrence of the Secretary, regulations or guidelines as appropriate, for the exemption of Federal undertakings from any or all of the requirements of this Act. Title VI: General, Administrative, and Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A - General and Administrative Provisions - Authorizes each Federal agency to expend funds appropriated for its authorized programs for the purposes of this Act. Allows the head of each Federal agency, after consultation with the Secretary, to withhold from public disclosure information relating to the location of heritage resources which are eligible for or included in the Natural Register or the Historic Register, whenever it is determined that the disclosure of such information would create a risk of harm to such locations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, to submit, within two years after the date of enactment of this Act, a report to the President and the Congress on preserving and conserving the intangible elements of our cultural heritage. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to submit a report to the President and the Congress on Federal tax laws relating to historic preservation or affecting in any manner historic preservation. Directs the Secretary to undertake a comprehensive study and formulate recommendations for the creation of a National System of Cultural Parks. Subtitle B - Center for the Building Arts - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the pension building located in Washington, District of Columbia, as a national historic site to be named the "National Center for the Building Arts." Authorizes the Secretary to renovate, maintain, and administer such site and to enter into contracts with the National Building Arts Foundation. Authorizes appropriations to be used for the renovation of the Center. Establishes in the District of Columbia a charitable, educational, and scientific nonprofit corporation to be known as the National Building Arts Foundation whose duty it shall be to carry out the following programs: (1) collection and dissemination of information concerning the building arts; (2) providing education and information relating to the history and practice of the building arts; and (3) the public display of temporary and permanent exhibits illustrating and interpreting the building arts. Specifies that the Foundation shall be under the direction of a Board of Trustees, which shall have the power to appoint and remove a President of the Foundation and such other officers as the Board determines to be necessary. Declares that Foundation shall have the power to: (1) have succession until dissolved by Act of Congress; (2) sue and be sued in its corporate name; (3) adopt, alter, and use a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed; (4) adopt and make necessary such bylaws, rules, and regulations; (5) accept, hold, and administer gifts and bequests of money, securities, or other personal property; (6) acquire by gift, devise, purchase, or otherwise any real property, or any estate or interest therein; (7) contract and make cooperative agreements with Federal, State, municipal, or special purpose departments, agencies, or districts, corporations, associations, or individuals; (8) accept grants from Federal, State, and local governmental agencies and other entities; (9) enter into contracts generally and to execute all instruments necessary or appropriate to carry out its corporate purposes; (10) generally to do any and all lawful acts necessary to carry out the Foundation's purposes. Directs the General Accounting Office to review and audit regularly the accounts of the Foundation for purposes of determining the continuing ability of the Foundation to pay for the functions of the Center. Directs the Foundation to submit annually to specified congressional committees a report containing a statement of its activities carried out, together with a plan of the programs which it proposes to carry out during the succeeding four years. Directs the Secretary to investigate the plans and performance of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation as they relate to historic preservation and, within 90 days from the date of this Act, submit a report to the Congress containing the results of such study together with the Secretary's recommendations for the inclusion in such plans of a comprehensive historic preservation element. Declares that the areas which are subject to the Pennsylvania Development Corporation Act shall be deemed to be a historic district.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require annual rather than biannual adjustments in the cost of the thrifty food plan and the standard deduction under the food stamp program.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Requires that each State establish and maintain an approved workfare program as a condition of its eligibility for Federal payments or other assistance under the: (1) program of aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act; (2) food stamp program under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; and (3) public housing and assisted housing programs under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Requires that such State workfare program shall require every State resident applying for or receiving aid under such Federal public assistance program to perform work in return for (and as a condition of his or her eligibility for) such aid. Directs the appropriate Federal agencies to promulgate guidelines for approval, supervision, and oversight of such State workfare programs. Exempts from required participation in such programs those who are: (1) under age 18 or over age 65; (2) disabled; (3) regularly employed for at least 40 hours a week; or (4) primarily responsible for the care of a child less than three years old (or for the care of a child more than two but less than six years old if suitable child care is not available at reasonable cost). Requires that each State workfare program must provide that if any individual who is required to participate in such program refuses to accept a bona fide offer of qualified employment or to perform qualified employment, in any month, neither such individual nor any other person in the family or household of which such individual is a member shall be eligible to receive any aid under such Federal public assistance programs for that month. Requires that State workfare programs include provision for job counseling, assistance in obtaining employment outside the program, and job search activities. Provides for: (1) Federal matching funds to cover administrative costs of such State programs; (2) Federal cut-offs of funds to State agencies for failure to comply with this Act; and (3) Federal agency reports to Congress on such State programs. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Designates the week commencing with the third Monday in February of 1981 as "National Patriotism Week."
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of feed grains to divert from production 12,000,000 metric tons of such grains. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that feed grain producers devote to approved conservation uses not less than 15 percent of their 1980 crop planted acreage. Set forth a formula for determining the amount of such payments. Sets payment rates, for purposes of such formula, at not less than $1.25 per bushel for corn and at a fair and reasonable rate in relation to such corn rate, as determined by the Secretary, for all other feed grains. Directs the Secretary to establish a land diversion payment program for the 1980 crop of wheat to divert from production 4,000,000 metric tons of wheat. Requires, as a condition of eligibility for such payments, that wheat producers devote to approved conservation uses not less than ten percent of their 1980 crop planted acreage. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such payments. Sets payment rates, for purposes of such formula, at not less than $1.50 per bushel. Directs the Secretary to implement and administer a special grazing and hay program for the 1980 crop year. Sets payments rates for the 1980 crop of wheat under such program at not less than $0.50 per bushel.