United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Africa Famine, Recovery, and Development Fund Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide aid for: (1) relief, rehabilitation, and recovery activities in sub-Saharan Africa; and (2) long-term development in sub-Saharan Africa. Sets forth the objectives of such long-term development assistance. Requires that the funds to carry out this Act will be provided through authorizations that are separate from the development assistance authorizations. Designates the funds appropriated to carry out this Act as the Africa Famine, Recovery, and Development Fund. Makes certain other development and economic assistance funds available for assistance to sub-Saharan Africa. Authorizes the President to procure goods and services for use in carrying out this Act. Authorizes the President to make available certain amounts from the Fund to support activities of international organizations which are consistent with the purposes of this Act and which are undertaken in coordination with the Agency for International Development. Encourages the President to use the authorities provided in this Act in cooperation with activities of the multilateral development banks in sub-Saharan Africa. Expresses the sense of the Congress that appropriate Federal officials should undertake special efforts to reduce trade barriers and otherwise encourage trade between the United States and the developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa and to promote debt relief measures for these countries. Includes in the President's annual report to the Congress on foreign aid programs a report on the progress made in carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1986
Prohibits any regulation which is issued under specified Executive Orders that impose sanctions on Libya from being effective if such regulation would allow U.S. persons to participate in production, marketing, or distribution activities with respect to crude oil produced in Libya.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Onshore Competitive Oil and Gas Leasing Amendments of 1986 - Amends Federal law regarding competitive leasing of oil and gas for onshore Federal lands to increase from 640 acres to 2,560 acres the units of land open to competitive leasing. Requires lease sales to be held for each State on at least a quarterly basis. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to accept the highest bid which is at least $20 or greater per acre, without evaluation of the economic or geologic value of the lands proposed for lease. Requires that all bids for less than $20 per acre be rejected. Conditions the lease of lands not subject to competitive bidding to a royalty payment rate that is at least 12 1/2 percent the value of the production removed or sold from the lease. Makes lands available for leasing for a one-year period if the highest bid received for such lands was less than $20 per acre. Increases from 50 cents per acre to $1.00 per acre the annual lease rentals for the first five lease years, and not less than $3.00 per acre per lease year thereafter. Increases the minimum royalty from $1.00 to $3.00 per acre after the discovery of oil or gas in paying quantities on the leased land. Increases the primary lease term from five to ten years. Subjects a lease to cancellation by the Secretary after 30 days' notice for noncompliance with the lease terms unless: (1) the leasehold contains a well capable of production of oil or gas in paying quantities; or (2) the lease is committed to an approved cooperative or unit plan or communitization agreement which contains a well capable of production of unitized substances in paying quantities. Requires that oil and gas leases on public lands and on national forest system lands be considered in a land use plan and forest management plan respectively. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on the progress made by the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture in complying with the land use plan requirements. Authorizes the appropriate Secretary to issue oil and gas leases on lands for which plans have not been completed upon submission of an explanation to the Congress. Prohibits any person from conducting oil or gas exploration without obtaining a lease or exploration license. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly prescribe regulations for such license. Sets the license term at one year. Subjects any person who willfully and knowingly conducts oil and gas exploration for commercial purposes without such license to a maximum penalty of $50,000 for each day of violation. Makes all data collected by such person as a result of such violation available to the public. Prohibits noncompetitive lease applications for specified lands from being processed until such lands are posted for competitive bidding in accordance with this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to hold at least one competitive lease sale for tracts which but for this Act would have been posted for the filing of simultaneous oil and gas lease applications. Permits the inclusion in such sale of certain tracts which had over-the-counter noncompetitive oil and gas lease offers. Imposes civil penalties upon persons who, while engaged in the business of acquiring Federal mineral leases for others on a fee basis, willfully and knowingly misrepresent the value of lands and leases under this Act. Grants to the States concurrent civil and criminal jurisdiction for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Requests the President to establish a cooperative international research program concerning the greenhouse effect of increased concentration of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Requires any such program established by the President to be started during or before 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1986
Establishes the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Arizona. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop, within two years, a comprehensive management plan for such area to protect the natural riparian, wildlife, cultural, and recreational resources. Directs the Secretary to establish a Multiple Use Advisory Council for such Area. Requires the Secretary to report within five years to the Congress on the implementation of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1986
Federal Land Exchange Facilitation Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to require the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to promulgate regulations relating to the exchange of land or land interests, including the submission of appraisals in disagreement to binding arbitration. Requires regulations governing appraisals to reflect nationally recognized appraisal standards and the differences between acquisition appraisals and transfer appraisals. Makes funding available for such exchanges for FY 1988 through 1997 from oil and gas lease revenues.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) Japan should allow U.S. semiconductor manufacturers full access to the Japanese semiconductor market; and (2) the President should take action to achieve such access, including action under the Trade Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that if the basis recovery rule for annuities of employees who contribute to their retirement program is changed in tax reform legislation, in no event should such change apply to individuals retiring before the date of enactment of such legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
States that U.S. defense programs should not carry out any development, test, or deployment activity of any antiballistic missile system or component. (This is in conformance with the defense system restrictions of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.)
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Torture Victim Protection Act of 1986 - Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to impose civil liability on anyone who, under actual or apparent authority of any foreign nation, subjects any person to torture or extrajudicial killing. Grants jurisdiction over such cases to U.S. district courts only after claimants have exhausted all available remedies in the place in which the conduct giving rise to the claim occurred.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Grants congressional approval to the Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Government of Palau. Sets forth the provisions of such Compact. (Declares that the people of Palau are self-governing. States that the United States shall provide grant and program assistance to Palau. Declares that the United States has full authority and responsibility for the security and defense of Palau.)
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should insist at the Vienna Review Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and in discussions with Communist Party and Soviet leaders, that imprisoned and exiled members of the Ukrainian and other Helsinki Monitoring Groups be released and allowed to emigrate to the countries of their choice. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Secretary of State should ensure that the U.S. consulate in Kiev reports on Soviet human rights violations in the Ukraine; and (2) such information should be included in reports on compliance with the Helsinki Final Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Medicare Adult Day Care Amendments of 1986 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment of adult day care programs providing certain health services to chronically-impaired adults in a group setting outside their homes for up to 100 days on a less than 24-hour basis. Requires providers of such services to have a multidisciplinary group of health care personnel conduct a written assessment of the status of each chronically-impaired adult before the adult's admission to the program and thereafter periodically develop a coordinate an individualized treatment plan for, and with the cooperation of, the adult. Defines a "chronically-impaired adult" as an individual 18 years of age or older who has a physical, emotional, or mental impairment which, but for the provision of adult day care, would require the provision of care in a hospital, skilled nursing, or intermediate care facility. Makes deductibles inapplicable to adult day care, requiring only the payment of a specified coinsurance amount. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations regarding adult day care programs. Requires the Secretary to adopt the standards established by the National Institute of Adult Day Care as the minimum standards for qualifying as a provider of such care.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to grant duty-free treatment of meat products and hides that are processed abroad from bovine of U.S. origin. Provides that a bovine is of U.S. origin if it was calved in the United States or was in the United States continuously during the 90-day period before the date of its exportation to a foreign country.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1986
President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act of 1986 - Establishes the President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Includes among the Council's responsibilities an assessment of available but under-used health promotion and disease prevention resources. Directs the Council to advise the President on how such resources can be better utilized. Requires the Council to prepare and transmit a report to the President and to the Congress within 18 months. Terminates the Council within 18 months after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1986
Nuclear Safety Board Act of 1986 - Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to establish the Nuclear Safety Board to review and assess the licensing and other regulatory practices of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and to make recommendations to such Commission. Prohibits Federal officers or employees from serving on such Board. Directs the Board to: (1) investigate events under Commission jurisdiction which could adversely affect public health and safety; (2) recommend to the Commission measures to minimize threats to public safety; and (3) issue periodic reports to the Congress and various government agencies affected by activities subject to Commission jurisdiction. Requires such reports to contain: (1) specific recommendations to reduce the likelihood of nuclear events similar to those investigated by the Board; and (2) recommended corrective measures to improve safety conditions at nuclear facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Prohibits the United States from making available any STINGER air defense guided missile (or any comparable portable ground-to-air missile) to any foreign military or paramilitary force other than: (1) the armed forces of a government with which the United States has diplomatic relations; (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; or (3) any other international organization, all of whose members have diplomatic relations with the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1986
Expresses the respect and friendship of the Congress for the Australian people and its sense that the United States should contribute to Australia's bicentennial observance in a manner indicative of our respect and affection for that nation.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the full amount of excise taxes imposed on rum produced in the Virgin Islands shall be covered over to the treasury of the Virgin Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Indian Health Care Amendments of 1986 - Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize appropriations for specified Indian health programs for FY 1987 through 1989, including scholarship programs and continuing education allowances. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) from denying scholarship assistance solely on the basis of an applicant's scholastic achievement if such applicant has been admitted to, or maintained good standing at, an accredited health professions institution. Directs the Secretary to grant Indian Health Scholarships to Indians enrolled full-time in certain schools for health professionals. States that the active duty service requirements of the Public Health Service Act can be met by specified services, including: (1) service or employment under a contract pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act; (2) employment in a program under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act; or (3) the private practice of a health professional if such practice is in a health professional shortage area and addresses the health care needs of a substantial number of Indians. Repeals the Indian Health Scholarship Program under the Public Health Service Act. Title II: Health Services - Enumerates the health services for which the Secretary is authorized to expend Indian Health Care Improvement Fund appropriations. Prohibits the use of such funds to offset or limit appropriations made under other Acts. Conditions the allocation of such funds upon the health resource deficiency level of the affected Indian tribes. Allocates such funds: (1) on a service unit basis; and (2) in the case of multi-tribal service units, on the basis of the health resources deficiency level of each separate tribe within such service unit. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a current health services priority system report, including the methodology for determining tribal health resources deficiencies, the funds needed to raise all service units to a zero level deficiency, and an evaluation of the preventive health, health protection, and the health promotion needs of Indians identified in tribal specific health plans. Directs the Secretary to establish a review mechanism for tribal petitions regarding the health resource deficiency level of a tribe. Requires the Secretary to provide a current update of tribal specific health plans. Requires at least one percent of the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund appropriation to be expended for research. Makes programs administered by tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act eligible for specified funds on an equal basis with programs administered directly by the Indian Health Service. Directs the President to include with the submission of the budget a separate statement which specifies the amounts obligated to implement enumerated health services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for specified health services. Designates such appropriations the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund. Establishes an Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund to meet extraordinary medical costs for victims of disasters or catastrophic illness. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the operation of such fund. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the competitive procurement requirements for health services upon certification by the responsible Chief Medical Officer that such requirements would compromise the quality, accessibility, or continuity of health services or would not result in any appreciable competition or savings. Requires the Secretary to require each Indian tribe to include within any tribal specific health plan submitted to the Secretary an identification of the preventive health, health protection, and health promotion needs of each tribe and a comprehensive plan for the provision of such services to such tribe. Title III: Health Facilities - Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a health facilities priority system report regarding the construction or renovation needs of the ten top priority inpatient and ten top priority ambulatory care facilities. Requires the Secretary to consult with any Indian tribe that might be affected by an expenditure for health facilities before the Secretary makes a commitment for such an expenditure. Conditions the closure of any health care facility upon the Secretary's submission to the Congress of an impact assessment one year prior to the contemplated closing. Enumerates the data to be included in such assessment. Directs the Secretary to implement a ten-year plan to provide safe water and sanitary sewage and solid waste disposal facilities to Indian homes and communities. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress regarding the Indian Health Service's current Indian sanitation facility priority system and the funds needed to raise all communities or tribes to a zero level of deficiency. Authorizes specified appropriations to provide sanitation facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance for the operation and maintenance of sanitation facilities, utility organizations, and emergency repairs of sanitation facilities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Authorizes tribes to expend certain non-Indian Health Service funds for the renovation of Indian health facilities subject to specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to exchange certain real property with the Bethel Native Corporation (Alaska). Title IV: Access to Health Services - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to make certain providers of the Indian Health Service eligible for Medicaid payments. Directs the Secretary to ensure that each service unit of the Indian Health Service receives at least half of the amounts to which its facilities are entitled, if such amounts are necessary to bring the facilities into compliance with this Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study in consultation with Indian tribes regarding barriers to Indian participation in Medicaid programs. Title V: Urban Indian Health Services - Directs the Secretary to contract with urban Indian organizations to administer health services programs in urban areas. Sets forth specified requirements to be included in such contracts. Details eligibility criteria for the selection of such organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to determine the health status and unmet health care needs of urban Indians in affected urban areas. Delineates the requirements of such contracts. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop evaluation procedures for the performance of such contracts; and (2) conduct annual onsite evaluations of each contracting urban Indian organization. Prescribes guidelines for the renewal of health care or referral services contracts. Prohibits renewal of contracts for determination of unmet health needs if their performance has been non-compliant or otherwise unsatisfactory and problems cannot be resolved. Requires certain reports to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989 for purposes of carrying out such contracts. Title VI: Organizational Improvements - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services the Office of Indian Health Service to administer all Indian health programs and authorities assigned to the Secretary or the Surgeon General, including such programs and authorities under this Act and other specified Acts. Places the Office of Indian Health Service under the direction of an Assistant Secretary for Indian Health who shall be responsible for the conduct and operation of Indian health matters. Transfers the Indian Health Service to the Office of Indian Health Service (thus terminating the Indian Health Service as part of the Health Resources and Services Administration). Requires the Secretary to establish an automated management information system for: (1) the Indian Health Service; and (2) all tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations providing health services under contracts with the Indian Health Service. Provides that such required systems be established in California by a specified date. Provides for patients' access to their health records. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into legal agreements with Indian tribes or tribal organizations in order to provide compensation for facility space costs associated with the administration and delivery of health services by the Indian Health Service or tribally operated programs. Directs the Secretary to coordinate efforts with the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Education to develop programs to combat alcohol and drug abuse among Indian juveniles, including preventive education programs in schools operated by or under the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse within the Indian Health Service. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 and 1988. Extends from FY 1984 to 1989 the time during which Arizona is designated as a contract health service delivery area. Extends eligibility for health services to specified Indians in the State of California through 1988. Establishes eligibility guidelines for such medical benefits. Designates the State of California as a contract health service delivery area. Lists programs eligible for Indian Health Service funds. Provides for certain alternative health arrangements for eligible California Indians who are not members of a tribe. Restricts circumstances under which the Secretary may remove a member of the National Health Service Corps who is performing obligated service in a health facility operated by or under the Indian Health Service. Authorizes the Secretary under certain circumstances to provide medical care or benefits by the Indian Health Service to otherwise ineligible persons. Limits restrictions on the use of Indian Health Service appropriations. Sets a deadline by which the Secretary must develop and implement a plan to reduce Indian infant and maternal mortality rates to that of the general population. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the progress of lowering such rates. Directs the Secretary to provide contract health services to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who reside in the Trenton Service Area of specified counties in the States of North Dakota and Montana. Requires the Secretary to examine the feasibility of sharing medical facilities and services between the Indian Health Service and the Veterans Administration. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on such feasibility. Requires the Secretary to make grants to the Navajo tribe to establish a demonstration program in Gallup, New Mexico, to rehabilitate adult Navajo Indians suffering from alcoholism or alcohol abuse. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the physical and mental health care needs of Native Hawaiians and other Native American Pacific Islanders, and to report the results of such study to the Congress one year after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in light of specified international human rights agreements, the Soviet Union should approve the exit visa applications of Doctor Naum Meiman and his wife, Inna Kitrosskaya, and arrange for them to go to the country of their choice. Urges the President to: (1) protest the Soviet Government's refusal to consider the exit visa applications of Dr. Meiman and his wife; (2) call upon all other signatory nations of the Helsinki Accords to join in such protest; and (3) instruct the U.S. delegation to the meeting of experts on human contacts organized under the auspices of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to be held in Bern, Switzerland, to pursue this matter.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to expand operational coordination at all levels, including internationally, for the conservation of natural and cultural resources. Requires that all actions supported comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the National Historic Preservation Act, as well as other Federal laws. Amends the National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1980 to require the head of a Federal agency undertaking an activity which would affect a World Heritage List property or a property on the appropriate country's equivalent of the National Register to advise the Council of such undertaking. Requires the Secretary to be notified of Federal actions affecting certain natural properties outside the United States. Directs the Secretary and the Council to report annually to the President and the Congress on activities under this Act. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the progress made in carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Acid Deposition Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Stationary Sources - Amends the Clean Air Act to require States to develop and submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an emissions limitation compliance schedule for sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from fossil-fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units. Requires a two-phase reduction in such emissions, the first to be achieved by 1993, the second by 1997. Requires each State to develop and submit to the Administrator a plan to achieve emissions reductions from other fossil-fuel-fired steam generating units by 1977. Directs the Administrator to conduct and update a comprehensive annual inventory of emissions of sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from stationary sources, identifying achievable reductions which could be made by 1997. Requires States to submit to the Administrator for approval a plan for achieving such reductions. Grants States discretion in their choice of compliance measures. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress by July 1, 1993, on phase I reductions and the feasibility of meeting phase II reductions. States that phase II reductions will not take effect if the Congress enacts legislation to that effect. Sets forth emissions rates a State without an approved reductions plan must follow. Authorizes the Administrator to impose a fee on the generation and importation of electric energy between December 31, 1988, and December 31, 1996, to subsidize the interest on qualified pollution control debt incurred by the utility. Establishes civil penalties for fee violations. Establishes in the Treasury the Acid Deposition Control Fund to receive such fees and provide interest subsidy payments for pollution control systems meeting specified standards. Revises the standards for nitrogen oxides emissions for new electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and for certain fossil-fuel-fired steam generating units. Requires certain smelters to be in compliance with the applicable emissions reduction standard by January 2, 1988, without extension or delay. Title II: Control of Emission from Mobile Sources - Sets oxides of nitrogen emission standards for motor vehicles for model years 1988, 1989, and beyond. Modifies hydrocarbon standards for trucks after model year 1989. Directs the Administrator to regulate sulfur in diesel fuel for 1989 and beyond. Requires either the use of onboard hydrocarbon control technology or the use of gasoline vapor recovery of hydrocarbon emissions emanating from fueling motor vehicles. Title III: International Cooperation - Expresses the concern of the Congress over transboundary pollution between the United States and Mexico and directs the Secretary of State and the Administrator to conclude an agreement within three months of enactment. Requires such an agreement to cover specified copper smelters. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to report to the Congress within six months on negotiating such agreement. Requires EPA to perform atmospheric field experiments to determine the effects of sulfur dioxide emissions, before and after pollution controls, of the Nacozaria smelter, Mexico, on specified western States. Directs the Secretary to establish an international agency, or utilize an existing agency, to report on the effects of transboundary air pollution from copper smelters on public health and welfare in the United States and in Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Designates May 21, 1986, as National Andrei Sakharov Day. Authorizes and requests the President to urge the Soviet Union to permit Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner to freely choose their place of residence.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Prohibits the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to specified proposed sales of Sidewinder, Stinger, and Harpoon missiles and services to Saudi Arabia, as described in the April 8, 1986, certifications from the President to the Congress under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Agriculture should take immediate steps to investigate alternative animal identification procedures in lieu of hot-iron cheek branding.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
Commends the people and the Government of Spain for their support of continued participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and their commitment to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Terrorist Prosecution Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it an offense to commit or attempt to commit murder or manslaughter against any U.S. national abroad, or conspire to do so. (Murder is punishable by capital punishment, a life sentence, or for any term of years and voluntary manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment up to ten years and involuntary manslaughter by imprisonment up to three years and/or a fine up to $1,000.) Makes it an offense to (or to attempt to) assault, wound, strike, imprison, endanger, or make any other violent attack upon the person or liberty of any U.S. national in any foreign country (or make violent attack on his or her business premises, private accommodation or means of transport). Provides for a fine of not more than $5,000 and/or imprisonment for not more than three years. Increases the fine to $10,000 and/or imprisonment to ten years if a deadly or dangerous weapon is used. Makes it an offense to conspire, outside the United States, to murder any U.S. national within the United States. Prohibits an indictment under this Act without the written approval of the Attorney General or his designee.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Prohibits the placement of additional commemorative works on National Park Service lands within the National Capital Region, except as specified. Redesignates the National Capital Memorial Advisory Committee as the National Capital Memorial Commission to advise the Secretary of the Interior on the establishment of such works.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Directs the President to provide, within seven days, to the House of Representatives documents relating to the use of specified funds appropriated for humanitarian assistance for the Nicaraguan democratic resistance.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Title I: Wild and Scenic River Designations - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado, as part of the wild and scenic rivers system. Authorizes appropriations for land acquisition. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, to provide grants and assistance to the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, for studying the possibility of designating a segment of such river as a national recreation area. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within three years on such study. Designates as part of the wild and scenic rivers system: (1) a segment of the Saline Bayou, Louisiana; (2) a segment of Black Creek, Mississippi; (3) a segment of the North Fork Kern River, California; and (4) a segment of the South Fork Kern River, California. Title II: Wild and Scenic River Studies - Designates the following river segments for study for their possible inclusion in the wild and scenic rivers system: (1) a segment of Henry's Fork, Idaho; and (2) a segment of the Farmington Rivers, West Branch, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Farmington River Study Committee to provide consultation during the study of the Farmington River's potential. Title III: Technical Amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Makes technical amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Requires maps of designated river segments to be available for public inspection. Requires the preparation of management plans to protect river values for all rivers designated after 1985.
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