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United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Declares that specified federally owned land of approximately 791.8 acres to be held in trust by the United States for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Tribes of Oklahoma upon payment therefor in the amount of $71,733.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides for the relief of Clyde E. Boyette.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey, upon payment of $71,733 specified property comprising approximately 890.46 acres to the city of Lawton, Okalohoma, for development for public use as an outdoor recreation complex. Stipulates that no such conveyance shall be made unless prior to such conveyance the city of Lawton, Oklahoma, (1) offers to lease to Cameron University real property suitable for use in the university agricultural education program, and (2) conveys without compensation to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, all right of the city of Lawton to specified real property comprising approximately 259.72 acres.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides for the relief of Harold L. Rutherford.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Prohibits the importation of any cattle, fresh, chilled or frozen beef, preserved beef or veal, milk, cream, butter, oleomargarine and butter substitutes, cheeses, or any beef or dairy products described or specified in any of the items of the Tariff schedules of the United States relating to such products until the Secretary of Agriculture certifies to the Agricultural Committees of Congress, that such imports do not pose a danger to the economic well-being of the Nation's meat and dairy producers, and the Nation's quality and health standards for foods for domestic consumption. Stipulates that no such certification shall be issued until one year from the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Rural Job Development Act - Provides income tax incentives and other benefits for employers operating certain industrial or commercial enterprises in rural job development areas. Title I: Eligibility for Assistance Certification - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to certify as eligible for benefits under this Act new facilities or new parts of facilities which meet the requirements set forth in this Act, including: (1) that such facility has been approved by the local authority as consistent with local zoning ordinances and economic and physical planning; (2) that such facility was placed in service by the person to whom the certificate is to be issued a rural job development area in the first taxable year of the certification period; (3) the creation of new, full-time jobs for at least ten persons; and (4) the employment of persons in at least 50 percent of the jobs in such facility who reside within the rural job development area, or have served at least one year on active duty in the Armed Forces, or have been enrolled at least one year in the Job Corps. Requires the Secretary to issue a certificate of eligibility to such businesses which meet the requirements set forth in this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to require certified businesses to file reports, and provides criminal sanctions for filing false reports. Title II: Tax Incentives - Provides an income tax credit for investment in certified, depreciable property in rural job development areas. Limits the amount of credit to the taxpayer's tax liability for the year, but provides for carryback and carryover of excess credits. Provides for tax increases if property for which credits were allowed are disposed of under certain circumstances within 10 years of the expenditures which qualified for the credits in the case of real property, or within 4 years in the case of personal property. Provides regulations for depreciation deductions for property of the same type for which credits are allowed under this Act, and for carryover as a deduction of net operating losses of certified businesses. Allows a tax deduction to an eligible employer of 50 percent of the compensation paid during the taxable year to employees who: (1) satisfy the requirements of section 101 of the Rural Job Development Act of 1969; (2) performs substantially all of his services at a qualified facility; and (3) is receiving training to acquire the skills necessary to perform (A) the position or job in which he is employed or (B) another position or job as an employee of such facility. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to collect, analyze, and publish economic data for the information and guidance of businessmen seeking to establish jobs creating enterprises in rural job development areas. Authorizes expenditures of $350,000 for each fiscal year for purposes of this Act. Creates the National Advisory Committee on Rural Industrialization, to be composed of twenty-five members appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, to assist the Secretary in administering this Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual report to Congress concerning his operations under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Dairy Import Sanitation Act - Provides for the inspection of imported dairy products in order to protect the public health and welfare. Requires that such products comply with minimum standards for sanitation established by the Secretary of Agriculture and that the dairy farms on which milk is produced and the plants in which such products are produced meet minimum standards of sanitation. States that such standards shall be comparable to the standards of purity, wholesomeness, and sanitation recommended by the Secretary for domestic dairy products. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the administration and supervision of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives with regard to the desirability of a post season football game between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Michigan, the net proceeds of which would be donated to the American Cancer Society for cancer research.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Expresses the findings of Congress, including that Federal information reporting requirements have placed an unprecedented paperwork burden upon private citizens, recipients of Federal assistance, businesses, governmental contractors, and State and local governments. Establishes a Commission on Federal Paperwork to study procedures and practices of the Federal Government relating to information gathering, dissemination, and the management and control of information activities. Enumerates the areas to be considered by the Commission in its studies. Directs the Commission to make a final report to the Congress and the President within two years of the date of its first meeting. Sets forth the membership composition of the Commission and their compensation. Details the administrative powers of the Commission. Calls for cooperation between Federal agencies and the Commission. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1974
Declares that all foreign troops currently involved in Cyprus be withdrawn immediately so that the United Nations may be permitted to restore peace to the island and the Cypriot people guaranteed the right to determine their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1974
Entitles specified veterans of the Mexican border period and of World War I and their widows and children to a veterans' pension benefit on the same basis as that accorded to veterans of the Spanish American War and their widows and children, respectively. Provides for an increase in pension rates applicable to such classes of veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Reclamation Development Act - Title I: Page, Arizona, Community Act - States that the purpose of this title is to separate the town of Page, Arizona, from the Colorado River storage project so that the United States may withdraw from ownership and operation of the town, and the town may be incorporated and self-governing. Transfers designated properties to such town without cost. Provides for water rights for Page, Arizona from Lake Powell. Specifies projects to be completed in Page by the United States. Authorizes payment of $500,000 to Page, upon its incorporation, for specified municipal services and facilites. Authorizes appropriations from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund to Page in the amount necessary for Page to acquire electric distribution facilities. Transfers 808 acres in Cocomino County, Arizona, to the Navajo Indian Reservation. Authorizes the use of up to $4,000,000 from the Upper Colorado Basin Fund to carry out this title. Title II: Cibolo Project, Texas - Authorizes the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam on recreational facilities on Cibolo Creek, Texas, including provision of water for municipal and industrial use. Authorizes appropriations of $24,160,000 for flood control, fish and wildlife, and recreation in connection with such project. Title III: Mountain Park Project Oklahoma - Provides for the construction and operation of municipal water supply facilities, and authorizes appropriations therefor, for Frederick, Oklahoma. Title IV: Casitas Reservation Open Space, California - Directs the purchase of, and authorizes appropriations for, private lands to add to the Lake Casistas Reservoir area in California. Title V: Klamath Project Right-of-Way, Oregon - Directs the conveyance by quitclaim deed to the owners of record of specified lands in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Title VI: Solana Project Recreational Facilities, California - Authorizes the development and operation of short-term recreational facilities at Lake Berryessa, Solano Project California, and authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Title VII: Miscellaneous Drainage Construction, Utah - Authorizes the construction of specified drainage facilities in the Central Utah and Emery County projects in Utah. Title VIII: Belle Fourche Dam Rehabilitation, South Dakota - Authorizes the construction and operation of an adequate spillway and improvement of the upstream slope protection at the Belle Fourche Dam, South Dakota. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Title IX: Glendo Unit Road Reconstruction, Wyoming - Authorizes the relocation and reconstruction, and appropriations therefor, for a highway near the Glendo Dam and Reservoir, Wyoming. Title X: Nueces River Project, Texas - Authorizes the construction and operation, and appropriations therefor, for the Nueces River project in Texas, including furnishing of water for municipal, industrial, and recreational uses. Title XI: Elephant Butte Recreation Pool, New Mexico - Authorizes the releases from Heron Reservoir, New Mexico, to provide storage and a recreation pool in Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico. Title XII: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado - Authorizes additional appropriations for construction and operation at the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, Colorado. Title XIII: Savage Rapids Fish Way, Oregon - Authorizes the construction of improved fish passages at the Savage Rapids Dam, Oregon, and authorizes appropriations therefor. Title XIV: Feasibility Study Authorities - Authorizes feasibility studies of water resource development programs in California, Arizona, and North Dakota.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act - Title I: Treasury Department - Treasury Department Appropriations Act - Makes appropriations for necessary expenses in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the United States Customs Service, the Bureau of the Mint and other specified units of such Department. Title II: Postal Service - Postal Service Appropriation Act - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service Fund. Specifies an amount to be made available only for transfer to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Title III: Executive Office of the President - Executive Office Appropriation Act - Makes appropriations for the expenses of, and for salaries of personnel of, specified offices and councils under the Executive Office of the President. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act - Makes appropriations for independent commissions, committees, councils, services and offices of the Federal Government. Provides for a payment to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Makes appropriations for salaries and necessary expenses for the United States Tax Court. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations upon the use of funds appropriated under this Act for travel expenses. Sets forth limitations upon the utilizations of funds appropriated under this Act for purposes of procurement and purchase of various specified items. Title VI: General Provisions - Limits the amounts which may be used for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles by executive agencies and departments. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for publicity or propaganda purposes designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Provides, under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, that whenever the President deems it to be in the national interest, he shall endeavor to insure that, to the maximum extent practicable, such assistance shall be furnished only pursuant to agreements which provide for the exchange of necessary strategic or critical raw materials for such assistance. Defines the term "necessary strategic or critical raw materials" to include petroleum, fossil fuels, metals, minerals, or other substances which: (1) are in short supply in the United States or (2) the United States requirements of which are not produced in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism in the Middle East; (2) the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to (a) call upon all governments to condemn this inhuman act of violence against innocent victims; and (b) strongly urge the governments who harbor these groups and individuals to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terrorism and senseless violence; and (3) the President should request the American Ambassador to the United Nations to take appropriate action before that body in order to have introduced a Security Council resolution condemning this brutal act of violence.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust Funds, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Departments of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapters and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each trust fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administrating titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Provides that average monthly wage, quarters of coverage, and coverage credits derived from self-employment income for taxable years beginning before 1974 are to be determined on a basis of income credited to calendar quarters. Limits quarters coverage to quarters occuring before 1974 and makes additional modification to taxation of self-employed persons. Allocates, under the Social Security Act, coverage credits for earnings before 1974 based on quarters of coverage and after 1973 on the basis of earnings during the calendar year. Provides that a person will satisfy the requirements prerequisite to a determination of disability if he has 20 or more coverage credits which were credited to the period ending on the day the disability arose and consisting of that part of the current calendar year up until the day the disability began and the nine prior calendar years. Redefines a "fully insured individual" in terms of coverage credits rather than quarters of coverage. States that any person upon attaining the age of 62 with the proper number of coverage credits is fully insured. Provides that specified benefits be paid to individuals not citizens of the United States who amassed sufficient coverage credits. Title II: Amendments Preserving Relationship Between Railroad Retirement and Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, that in the calucalation of an employee's "average monthly remumeration" after calendar year 1974 an individual employee shall obtain the benefit of full allowable coverage credits, irrespective of whether particular quarters of coverage were otherwise available for calculation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Extends the use of tax-free industrial bonds under the Internal Revenue Code, without limit, to be used in the conversion from gas burning to oil burning equipment or oil burning equipment to other energy burning materials. Raises the limit of general industrial revenue bonds intended for small business.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1974
Provides, under the provisions of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, for a roll back of the wholesale and retail prices of propane gas. Requires that the President shall, in the administration of the pricing authority under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, provide for the equitable allocation of costs among different petroleum products covered by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1974
Declares that the Federal Energy Office and other agencies concerned know that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the fertilizer industry receive full allocation of materials and fuels, including energy and natural gas, required for the manufacture, distribution, and ultimate delivery of the maximum amount of fertilizer possible to the farmer.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Provides for the relief of those members of the class action suit, Mozelle Frey against United States of America, filed in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Oklahoma, for whom judgments were entered by such court, but later vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1974
Extends the appropriations authorizations for a five-year period under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make loans directly or in cooperation with lending institutions to assist small businesses adversely affected by fuel shortages, electrical energy shortages, shortages of energy producing resources, or shortages of raw or processed processed materials resulting from such shortages.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Federal Paperwork Burden Relief Act - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the reporting requirements of Federal regulatory programs to determine the extent to which these requirements may be revised to lessen the burden upon small and independent business establishments. Requires the Comptroller General to report the results of such study to the Congress one year from the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Suspends emissions controls on motor vehicles and engines in the continental United States except vehicles registered to residents of designated air quality regions until June 30, 1977, or sixty days after the President determines there is no significant shortage of petroleum fuels, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate, subject to the limitations of the Act, geographic areas of the United States in which there is significant auto emissions related air pollution. Provides that each State shall, not later than sixty days following enactment of this Act, submit to the Administrator a plan for implementing the Act. Provides that if a State fails to submit a plan under the Act or if the Administrator determines (after notice and opportunity for hearing) that such State is not adequately enforcing such a plan, then such State shall lose its entitlement to, and may not thereafter receive, any Federal grant or loan assistance under this Act or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Declares that willful and deliberate violation of any provision of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Provides that the term "Federal property" for purposes of assistance to local educational agencies for the education of children of low-income families does not include any real property which was transferred to the U.S. Postal Service and was, prior to such transfer, treated as Federal property for purposes of assistance for local educational agencies in areas affected by Federal activity.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1973
Declares that certain federally owned land is held by the United States in trust for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Tribes of Oklahoma.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1973
Declares that all right, title, and interest of the Citizen Band of Potawatomi Indians of Oklahoma in and to the lands described, and all improvements thereon are held by the United States in trust for the Citizen Band of Potawatomi Indians.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973
Declares it to be the sense of the House that the President, acting in accordance with the announced policy of the United States Government to maintain Israel's deterrent strength, and under existing authority, should continue to transfer to Israel the Phantom aircraft and other equipment in the quantities needed by Israel to repel the attack and to offset the military equipment and supplies furnished to the Arab States by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1973
Food Supplement Amendment - Defines the term "food supplement" for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to mean food for special dietary uses, and defines the meaning of "special dietary uses" as particular uses of food for man which meets specified requirements. Provides that in administering such Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: (1) shall not limit the potency, number, combination, amount, or variety of any synthetic or natural vitamin, mineral, substance, or ingredient of any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage; and (2) shall not require a warning label on any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1973
Provides that the antitrust laws shall apply to any joint agreement which permits telecasting of professional football or basketball games during periods (Friday nights and Saturdays from the second Friday in September through the last Saturday in March) when regularly scheduled intercollegiate or interscholastic basketball or football games are played. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1293)
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973
Provides, under the Merchant Marine Act, that the appropriate agencies take steps to assure that at least 20 per cent of the gross tonnage of all petroleum and petroleum products imported into the United States on ocean vessels be transported on privately owned United States flag commercial vessels. Requires that the quantity to be carried in United States-flag commercial vessels be at least 25 per cent after June 30, l975, and at least 30 per cent after June 30, l977. (Amends 46 U.S.C. 1241))
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week of June 17, 1974, as "National Right of Way Week".
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1973
Establishes the Chickasaw National Recreation Area and outlines the boundaries for such area. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands within the boundaries of the recreation area by donation, purchase or exchange. Permits the Secretary to specify the type of activity to occur on such lands. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1973
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act - Makes appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and specified Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1973
Declares that the United States hold specified land in trust for the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1973
Conveys, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, to the State of Oklahoma for use by the Oklahoma National Guard. Reserves the right of the United States to use Camp Gruber in time of war or national emergency if the Secretary of Defense deems such use necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1973
Provides that, with regard to computing financial assistance to local educational agencies, real property which qualifies as Federal property shall not lose such qualification because it is used for a low-rent housing project for Indians.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1973
Changes the name of the Robert S. Kerr Lock and Dam Reservoir in Oklahoma to the Robert S. Kerr Harbor.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973
Authorizes the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities to deliver water to the city of Frederick, Oklahoma, from the Mountain Park reclamation projects. Increases the previous authorization of appropriations by $3,200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Grants the consent of the United States to the Arkansas River Basin compact, Arkansas-Oklahoma. Creates an interstate administrative agency to be known as the Arkansas-Oklahoma River Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1973
Confers jurisdiction on the United States District Courts and the U.S. Court of Claims to hear, determine and render judgment upon the claims of any person arising out of the sonic boom tests conducted over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1964 for the Federal Aviation Administration. Specifies the issues upon which such cases shall be decided, including: (1) whether the sonic boom tests caused the damages claimed; and (2) the amount of those damages.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Makes it unlawful, under the Clayton Act, for any person engaged in commerce to sell, offer to sell, or contract to sell goods below cost for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating competition.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Provides for the relief of Harold L. Rutherford.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Provides for the relief of Harold L. Rutherford.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that persons who are blind and have at least six quarters of coverage shall be eligible for disability insurance benefits. Outlines those regulations which apply to the amount of benefits to be received. Defines blindness as used in this Act. Continues payment of such benefits as long as the blindness lasts, notwithstanding the amount of the individuals' earnings.