United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Beef Import Act - Title I: Import Quotas - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Title II: Customs Duties - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the customs duties on beef whenever domestic production is too low to trigger the imposition of import quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop research, development, and demonstration programs concerning the use of solar photovoltaic energy systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to 75 percent of the purchase and installation costs of selected systems used for research purposes. Requires the Secretary to formulate definitive performance criteria concerning solar photovoltaic systems and to develop a system of certification for conforming systems. Directs the Secretary to consult with relevant Federal agencies concerning the use of solar photovoltaic systems in Federal facilities. Requires the Secretary to set up a development and demonstration program of prototype photovoltaic systems at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. Directs the Secretary to establish a solar energy data bank at the Golden facility. Requires relevant Federal officials to ensure that small business concerns are granted realistic and adequate opportunities to participate, to the maximum extent possible, in the programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop research, development, and demonstration programs concerning the use of solar photovoltaic energy systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to 75 percent of the purchase and installation costs of selected systems used for research purposes. Requires the Secretary to formulate definitive performance criteria concerning solar photovoltaic systems and to develop a system of certification for conforming systems. Directs the Secretary to consult with relevant Federal agencies concerning the use of solar photovoltaic systems in Federal facilities. Requires the Secretary to set up a development and demonstration program of prototype photovoltaic systems at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. Directs the Secretary to establish a solar energy data bank at the Golden facility. Requires relevant Federal officials to ensure that small business concerns are granted realistic and adequate opportunities to participate, to the maximum extent possible, in the programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974: (1) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for renovation and alteration of the Marjorie Webster College site of the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control; (2) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for the Fire Research Center; and (3) to change the name of the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration to the United States Fire Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
National Science Foundation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations for each of the National Science Foundation's major program areas during fiscal year 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce to carry out the purposes of the Standard Reference Data Act during fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants in amounts not exceeding $10,000 with specified limitations to assist totally and permanently disabled individuals in acquiring housing units. Sets forth factors to be considered in determining eligibility for such grants.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Title I: Energy - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 1979. Authorizes the appropriation of funds for specified energy supply-research and technology development programs. Authorizes the appropriation of funds for energy supply-research and technology development capital investment. Supplements the previous authorizations for specified energy supply-research and technology development projects. Authorizes funds for specified energy supply-production demonstration and distribution programs. Authorizes funds for specified capital investment programs concerning energy supply-production, demonstration and distribution. Supplements previous authorizations for energy supply-production, demonstration and distribution projects. Authorizes the appropriation of funds for specified conservation programs, the regulation program, emergency preparedness, energy information, the environment program, and for policy and management programs. Title II: General Science and Research - Authorizes a specified sum for the general science and research program. Authorizes specified sums for designated general science and research capital investment projects. Title III: Atomic Energy Defense Activities - Authorizes the appropriation of funds for inertial confinement fusion, naval reactor development, weapons activities, defense intelligence and arms control, special materials production, and nuclear materials security and safeguards. Authorizes funds for capital investment in the areas of weapons activities, special materials production, general plant projects, plant engineering and design, and capital equipment not related to construction. Supplements the previous authorizations for specified projects. Title IV: Power Marketing Administrations - Authorizes specified amounts for the Alaska Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration. Title V: Special Foreign Currency - Authorizes a specified amount for foreign currency to be used for international cooperation in nonnuclear technolgoy. Title VI: Other Provisions - Allows the location of facilities or major items of equipment at installations not within the Department of Energy. Permits the Secretary of Energy to transfer the title or other interests in property of the United States when the Secretary determines such transfer is in the best interests of the government. Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 120 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $5,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of Congress unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of Energy has presented to all the appropriate Congresssional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of this requirement where such waiver is signed by each appropriate committee of Congress. Prohibits the start of construction projects whose costs exceed by more than 25 percent the estimated cost of the project. Waives this requirement concerning construction projects having an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Authorizes the start of general plant projects only under specified circumstances. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to all other programs of the Department of Energy. Permits the Secretary to expend funds authorized for construction design services where such funds are included in a bill before Congress and the Secretary determines that the project is urgently needed for national defense, public safety, or other specified purposes. Title VII: Basis for Government Charge for Uranium Enrichment Services - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to specify that the prices charged by the government for uranium enrichment services shall assure the recovery of the government's costs over a reasonable time. Requires further that prices shall result in revenues sufficient to cover normal business expenses, taxes, and return on equity which would otherwise be reflected in prices charged by a private operator providing similar services. Provides for Congressional review of pricing schedules before implementation. Title VIII: Amendments to the National Energy Extension Service Act - Amends the National Energy Extension Service Act to delete the provision requiring no matching State or local funds for the development of guidelines for extending service. Deletes, from the formula used to compute the allocations for individual States, the requirement that the latest decennial census be used. Requires matching State or local funds for the implementation of energy extension services contemplated by this Act. Title IX: Loan Guarantees for Energy Demonstration - Amends the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 to permit the use of Federal loan guarantees and commitments in support of joint university-industry nonnuclear energy research. Provides guidelines within which the Secretary of Energy must work concerning the issuance of loan guarantees and commitments. Title X: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980 - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy of such sums as may be necessary in fiscal year 1980 for energy, general service and research, atomic energy defense activities, power marketing administrations, and special foreign currency.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Increases the rates of educational assistance for eligible veterans and their survivors and dependents for: (1) vocational rehabilitation; (2) flight training; (3) special supplementary assistance for educationally disadvantaged veterans; (4) correspondence courses; (5) apprenticeship or other on-the-job training; and (6) education loans.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Changes the period of active duty which a member of the Armed Forces Reserves must serve before being entitled to reemployment rights from three consecutive months to 12 consecutive weeks.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Terminates educational assistance for flight training courses for veterans and correspondence training courses for veterans, spouses, and surviving spouses.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Provides that the educational assistance allowance to a veteran with no dependents incarcerated in a Federal, State, county, or local prison or jail shall be computed on the same basis as that for individuals pursuing a program of education on active duty or on less than a half-time basis.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Establishes within the Veterans' Administration the office of Associate Deputy Administrator for Veterans' Employment to replace the Department of Labor's office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment as principal advisor to the Secretary of Labor regarding (1) job counseling, training and placement for veterans; (2) employment and training of disabled and Vietnam era veterans; and (3) reemployment rights of veterans. Transfers certain functions regarding such veterans' programs' from the Secretary of Labor to the Associate Deputy Administrator for Veterans' Employment. Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 to transfer from the Secretary of Labor to the Administration the responsiblity for carrying out certain Federal contracting requirements regarding Vietnam era and disabled veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy for energy research and development, and related activities for fiscal year 1979. Title I: Energy Research and Development, and Related Activities - Authorizes appropriations for operating expenses for research in advanced energy technologies and energy conservation, fossil and nuclear energy, environmental research and development and other programs. Authorizes plant and capital equipment funds for projects concerning coal use, breeder reactors, other advanced reactor concepts, light water reactors, basic energy sciences, uranium enrichment, environmental research and development, high energy physics, nuclear physics, and program management and support. Authorizes additional funds for designated ongoing programs concerning specified concepts, plant engineering and design, general plant projects, and capital equipment not related to construction. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the start-up or continuation of projects that have cost overruns that exceed, by specified amounts, the authorizations included in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Communications Commission should maximize local primary radio broadcast service in any proceeding respecting the provision of class I-A and I-B radio service. Prohibits the operation of a standard broadcast station with power in excess of 50,000 watts.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop research, development, and demonstration programs concerning the use of solar photovoltaic energy systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to 75 percent of the purchase and installation costs of selected systems used for research purposes. Requires the Secretary to formulate definitive performance criteria concerning solar photovoltaic systems and to develop a system of certification for conforming systems. Directs the Secretary to consult with relevant Federal agencies concerning the use of solar photovoltaic systems in Federal facilities. Requires the Secretary to set up a development and demonstration program of prototype photovoltaic systems at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. Directs the Secretary to establish a solar energy data bank at the Golden facility. Requires relevant Federal officials to ensure that small business concerns are granted realistic and adequate opportunities to participate, to the maximum extent possible, in the programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for specified aviation research, development, and demonstration projects for fiscal year 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
National Science Foundation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations for specified activities of the National Science Foundation for fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for certain research and development programs, construction of facilities, and research and program management for fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Expresses the sense of the Congress that any right to, title to, or interest in the property of the United States Government agencies in the Panama Canal Zone or any real property and improvements thereon located in the zone should not be conveyed, relinquished, or otherwise disposed of to any foreign government without specific authorization of such conveyance, relinquishment, or other disposition by any Act of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978
Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate a Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program to study technical problems regarding the viability of the solar power satellite concept. Requires the Secretary to cooperate with the Administrator in the submission to Congress, by September 30, 1978, of a comprehensive plan to implement the Program.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Extends the authority to make veterans readjustment appointments of Vietnam era veterans to the Federal Government through September 30, 1980. Abolishes the time limitation on eligibility for such appointments of veterans eligible for them on April 9, 1970, or who were separated from the armed forces on or after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Provides educational benefits, on a prorated basis, to spouses and children of veterans having permanent service-connected disabilities rated at not less than 80 percent but less than total. Increases the rates of special training allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Establishes priorities for research in outer space. Directs the Congress and executive agencies to determine how they may aid in achieving national goals in outer space.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1977
Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that the Republic of Korea should cooperate with the House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in determining whether Members of the House were bribed by such government.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1977
Establishes eligibility for educational assistance for children of a veteran with a service-connected permanent disability rated 80 percent or more. Makes the parent or guardian of such children eligible for a special restorative training allowance. Requires any veteran or institution seeking approval for a sales management course to show that at least one-half of the persons who enrolled in it successfully completed their programs of instruction. Requires each State approving agency to notify the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs of any educational institution which has been cited for, terminated because of, or is under investigation for illegal or improper practices, or for unsatisfactory performance or academic standards. Requires approval of correspondence-residence training programs by appropriate nationally recognized accrediting agencies. Provides for readjustment professional educational and vocational counseling.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1977
Extends the delimiting period for an eligible veteran prevented from initiating or completing a chosen program of education within the normal ten-year period because of a physical or mental disability. Requires any veteran or institution seeking approval for a sales or sales management course to show that at least one-half of the persons who enrolled in it successfully completed their programs of instruction. Requires each State approving agency to notify the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs of any educational institution which has been cited for, terminated because of, or is under investigation for illegal or improper practices, or for unsatisfactory performance or academic standards. Requires approval of correspondence-residence training programs by appropriate nationally recognized accrediting agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1977
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives to the deferral of certain budget authority (D78-33) relating to the Energy Research and Development Administration Magnetic Energy Program-Fusion Material Test Facility, proposed by the President in his message of October 3, 1977, transmitted under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1977
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives to the deferral of certain budget authority (D78-34) relating to the Energy Research and Development Administration, Magnetic Fusion Energy Program-Intense Neutron Source Facility, proposed by the President in his message of October 3, 1977, transmitted under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1977
Expresses the disapproval of the House of Representatives of the proposed deferral D78-30, relating to the Energy Research and Development Administration, gas cooled thermal reactor program, as set forth in the message of October 3, 1977, which was transmitted to the Congress by the President pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1977
Disapproves the deferral of certain budget authority (D78-35) relating to the Energy Research and Development Administration, High Energy Physics Program-Intersecting Storage Ring Accelerator, proposed by the President in his message of October 3, 1977, transmitted under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1977
Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 for fiscal year 1978 and fiscal year 1979. Renames the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration the United States Fire Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1977
Prohibits the Secretaries of the various military departments from making a finding of death with respect to members of the uniformed services in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia unless the next of kin of such a member agree that such a finding be made.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to transfer the responsibility for investigating Communist and subversive organizations affecting the internal security of the United States to a standing Committee on Internal Security established by this Resolution. Confers upon such committee the responsibility for investigating all organizations within the United States aimed at overthrowing or altering the Government of the United States by force, insurrection or other unlawful means or inciting or employing violence to obstruct the authority of the Federal Government with respect to matters of internal security of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977
GI Bill Improvements Act - Title I: GI Bill Rate Increases - Increases the rates of educational assistance, vocational rehabilitation subsistence, survivors' and dependents' educational assistance, flight training, correspondence course, and on-the-job training assistance allowances, and of education loans. Title II: Educational Assistance Program Adjustments - Excludes from the computation, pursuant to the "85-15" rule, of the percentage of students in a course who are receiving Government educational assistance those students whose fees are paid by Federal agencies other than the Veterans' Administration. Exempts from the two-year minimum period of operation rule courses offered on or immediately adjacent to a military base which are available to civilians as well as to active duty military personnel and their dependents, but only when such courses are offered outside the United States. Permits waiver of the two-year minimum period of operation rule for courses offered by branches or extensions of specified educational institutions where the Administrator finds it to be in the best interest of the eligible veteran and the Federal Government. Authorizes the Administrator to permit a person's educational progress to extend a reasonable time beyond the approved length of time without being declared unsatisfactory progress. Lowers from 30 percent to ten percent the disability rating necessary to qualify a disabled veteran for employment and training assistance. Title III: Effective Date - Makes October 1, 1977, the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977
Denies veterans' benefits retroactively to any individual whose entitlement is based on an upgraded discharge under specified revised standards not made applicable to all persons administratively discharged or released from active military service under less than honorable conditions. Requires the board of review to make a separate determination whether an upgraded individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under discharge review standards made applicable to all persons administratively discharged under less than honorable conditions. Entitles to veterans' benefits any individual whose upgraded discharge would have been awarded under previous unrevised review standards. Denies, as of the date of enactment, benefits for any disability incurred or aggravated during a period of service from which a veteran was discharged by reason of a bad conduct discharge. States that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should promulgate any new or revised regulations providing any unique or special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under revised standards, or otherwise make any special distinction between such veterans and other veterans. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take all necessary action to provide that less than honorable discharges and releases of former members of the Armed Forces with respect to any period of war be reviewed under specified revised standards, if they have not been so reviewed previously.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1977
Title I: Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish procedures for expeditious review of applications for the licensing of sites for nuclear production and utilization facilities. Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to adhere to specified timetables for decisions on various classes of license applications. Requires that the Commission establish procedures, through arrangements with other Federal agencies, for the preparation of a single environmental impact statement for all related Federal actions by the Commission in connection with licensing of such facilities. Directs the Commission to coordinate the planning and scheduling of license and permit proceedings so as to eliminate duplication of functions. Authorizes the Commission to issue site permits for productions or utilization facilities where applications for construction permits have not been filed. Authorizes completion of up to 30 percent of all construction activities by applicants for construction licenses prior to license approval. Authorizes the issuance of combined construction permits and operating licenses. Authorizes the suspension of public hearing requirements for applications for construction and/or operating permits where a site approval permit has been obtained and where no person has requested such a hearing within 30 days of the publication of notice in the Federal Register. Requires that persons requesting such a hearing: (1) have an interest that may be affected by the operation; (2) show the existence of a genuine issue of material fact; and (3) show that a hearing is likely to result in some action which will provide additional protection for the public health and safety, national defense and security, or the environment. Prohibits the issuance of stays of operation pending the outcome of such hearing unless the criteria for issuance of a preliminary injunction is satisfied. Authorizes the Commission to issue interim operating licenses of up to 12 months prior to the completion of a required hearing where such interim license is found to be necessary in the public interest of avoiding undue delay. Stipulates that such interim licenses may be renewed for similar periods absent good cause shown to the contrary. Title II: Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to direct the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards to review combined construction (operating permit) applications before the Commission. Title III: Revises provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 for consistency with the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1977
Denies veterans' benefits retroactively to any individual whose entitlement is based on an upgraded discharge under specified revised standards not made applicable to all persons administratively discharged or released from active service under less than honorable conditions. Requires the board of review to make a separate determination whether an upgraded individual would have been awarded an upgraded discharge under discharge review standards made applicable to all persons administratively discharged under less than honorable conditions. Entitles to veterans' benefits any individual whose upgraded discharge would have been awarded under previous unrevised review standards. Denies benefits as of the date of enactment for any disability incurred or aggravated during a period of service from which a veteran was discharged by reason of a bad conduct discharge. States that the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should not promulgate any new or revised regulations providing any unique or special advantage to veterans who have received upgraded discharges under revised standards, or otherwise make any special distinction between such veterans and other veterans. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should take all necessary action to provide that less than honorable discharges and releases of former members of the Armed Forces with respect to any period of war be reviewed under specified revised standards, if they have not been so reviewed previously.
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