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United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1981
Requests the President the designate the week commencing with the third Monday in February of 1982 as "National Patriotism Week."
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Irrigation Water Conservation Tax Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an additional ten percent investment tax credit for equipment which conserves farm irrigation water and an election to depreciate such equipment based on a useful life of three years.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Sunset Review Act of 1981 - Requires the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to jointly develop and maintain an inventory of all Federal programs and tax expenditures. Requires such inventory to classify all such programs and expenditures according to the jurisdiction of the various legislative committees of the two Houses. Requires the General Accounting Office (GAO), before the beginning of the 98th Congress, after consultation with the appropriate legislative committees and the Congressional Budget Office, to submit a draft inventory to the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Requires such Committees to notify each legislative committee of the programs and tax expenditures which are classified within its jurisdiction. Allows any legislative committee to propose revisions of such inventory within 30 days after notification. Requires that such inventory be published in a single document. Requires that an update be made of such inventory at the beginning of every Congress. Specifies information to be contained in such an inventory. Directs the GAO to publish a supplement to such inventory which includes certain budget information. Requires each legislative committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate, by a specified date, to report a resolution setting forth an agenda for the sunset review of selected Federal programs within its jurisdiction, or, in the case of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, of selected tax expenditures. Directs the committees of each House to develop their sunset review agenda in consultation with any other committee which has concurrent jurisdiction over any programs or tax expenditures involved. Requires, where practicable, that related programs and expenditures be reviewed during the same Congress. Requires the report accompanying any agenda reported in the 104th Congress and every fifth Congress thereafter to summarize the programs and expenditures reviewed and not reviewed during the five previous Congresses. Prohibits either the House or the Senate from considering a primary expense resolution for any legislative committee in any Congress until that committee has developed and submitted its sunset review agenda. Requires the House Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to incorporate such agendas into a consolidated sunset review agenda and to report such consolidated agenda to its House in the form of a concurrent resolution, within seven legislative days after all committee sunset review agendas have been submitted. Requires the consolidated sunset review agenda to be adopted in the House and in the Senate no later than March 30 in the first session of each Congress. Sets forth the procedures for the consideration and adoption of such agenda. Requires each committee of the House or the Senate, not later than May 15 in the second session of each Congress, to report a bill or bills modifying, continuing, or terminating each program or tax expenditure which it has been directed to review under the consolidated sunset review agenda adopted during the first session. Requires such bill to be accompanied by a report. Requires each department, agency, and instrumentality in the executive branch of the Government which is responsible for the administration of a Federal program or tax expenditure selected for sunset review to provide the appropriate Congressional committees with its views, information, and assistance. Directs the Comptroller General to supply specified information on audits. Exempts foreign intelligence or counterintelligence programs designated by the President as requiring protection from unauthorized disclosure. Directs the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate to review such programs pursuant to the spirit of this Act. Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to include the consolidated sunset review agendas and the Congressional inventory of Federal programs as part of the House Committee on Rules' functions.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1981
Sunset Act of 1981 - Title I: Reauthorization of Government Programs - Sets forth a ten-year schedule for reauthorization of all Federal programs according to budget function and subfunction as set forth in the Budget of the United States Government for fiscal year 1979. Sets forth the procedure in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the consideration of any bill, resolution, or amendment which authorizes new budget authority. States that it is not in order for either House to consider any legislation which authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a program for a period of more than ten years, for an indefinite period, or for any fiscal year beginning after the next reauthorization date applicable to such program. Provides that before the Congress can appropriate funds for any program, after its first reauthorization date, there must be a specific authorization in law to support the appropriation. Requires the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives to schedule and conduct a sunset review of programs to be reauthorized. Requires that the report accompanying such reauthorizations contain specified information and be completed during the Congress in which the program is scheduled for reauthorization. Exempts from the requirements of this Act specified programs such as interest on Federal debts, health care services, general retirement and disability payments, as well as litigation activities which have as their objectives the protection and implementation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and specified retirement pay and benefits. Allows the reauthorization schedule set forth in this Act to be changed by concurrent resolution of the two House of Congress and sets forth the procedure for such change. Requires all legislation and other matters related to changes in the dates for programs under this Act to be referred to the committee with legislative jurisdiction over any program affected by the proposal and, sequentially, to the Committee on Rules in the House Representatives and to the Committee on Rules and Administration in the Senate. Requires such committees to report any concurrent resolution or bill referred to it by a committee of legislative jurisdiction within 30 days, with a statement on each of its recommendations. Makes provisions for any proposed change which has been reported by a committee before June 1, 1982. Title II: Program Inventory - Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to prepare an inventory of Federal programs. Declares that the purpose of such program inventory is to advise and assist Congress in carrying out reauthorization and reexamination requirements and to link such reauthorization and review process with the budget process. Requires the Comptroller General to submit such program inventory to each House of Congress no later than January 1, 1982. Sets forth the contents of the inventory program, including the type of authorization provided for such programs' new budget authority and the manner in which related program areas may be grouped for evaluation and review. Permits the Congressional committees, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional Research Service to review the program inventory and to suggest revisions. Requires that the program inventory be revised at the end of each session of Congress, and that such revisions be reported to each House. Requires that periodic reports tabulate the progress of Congressional action on bills and resolutions authorizing budget authority for programs in the inventory. Requires the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit periodic reports to the Congress on the adequacy of the functional and subfunctional categories for grouping programs of like missions or objectives. Title III: Program Reexamination - Requires each committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to reexamine selected programs or groups of programs over which it has jurisdiction. Sets forth procedures for such review, and criteria for selection of program areas for evaluation. Directs each committee to consult with the appropriate committees of either the House of Representatives or the Senate in order to achieve coordination of program reevaluation. Directs each Committee to inform itself of the related activities of or available assistance from the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Research Service, the Office of Technology Assessment, and other appropriate instrumentalities in the executive and judicial branches. Requires each committee to deliver a report on the reexamination to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House at the date specified in the funding resolution first reported by such committee in 1983 and thereafter for the first session of each Congress. Allows two or more committees which have legislative jurisdiction over the same programs or portions of the same programs to examine such programs jointly and submit a joint report. Stipulates that such report: (1) contain the findings, recommendations, and justifications of the program; and (2) include specified information including, but not limited to, an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of the program and an identification of any trends, developments, and emerging conditions which are likely to affect the nature and extent of the problems or needs which the program is intended to address. Requires each executive department or agency which is responsible for a program selected for reexamination to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget and to the appropriate committees of the Congress on its findings, recommendations, and justifications of specified aspects of the program. Title IV: Tax Expenditures - Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, after consultation with the Joint Committee on Taxation of the Congress, to prepare an inventory of tax expenditure provisions and to submit a report on such inventory to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House and the Senate Finance Committee. Defines the term "tax expenditure provision" as any provision of Federal law which allows a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction in determining liability for any tax or which provides a special credit against any tax, a preferential rate of tax, or a deferral of tax liability. Specifies the contents of the report, which include an estimate of the revenue loss from each tax provision. Requires the Director to: (1) submit a revised inventory to each House of Congress by December 1, 1982; (2) revise the inventory after the close of each session of Congress and report such revisions to Congress; and (3) periodically report on Congressional action on bills and resolutions which create or affect tax provisions. Directs the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance to prepare a reauthorization schedule for all tax provisions similar to the schedule set out for Federal programs in title I of this Act. Requires Congress to take final action on the reauthorization schedule for tax provisions before the end of the 97th Congress. Provides that each tax expenditure provision shall expire unless it is reauthorized by a law enacted during the Congress in which it is scheduled for review. Sets forth procedures and restrictions for the consideration of bills reauthorizing tax provisions, which are similar to the restrictions and procedures governing bills authorizing new budget authority for Federal programs as described in title I. Requires that the report accompanying a reauthorization bill include specified information. Permits Congress to prescribe technical rules necessary to mitigate adverse effects which might result for taxpayers who rely on a certain tax provision. Title V: Miscellaneous - Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to permit the committees of Congress to obtain from the agencies of the Government estimates or requests for appropriations, or requests for increases in an item of any such estimate or request, and recommendations as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met. Sets forth administrative procedures and requirements. Directs the President, with the cooperation of the head of each appropriate agency, to submit to the Congress a "Regulatory Duplication and Conflicts Report" for all programs scheduled for reauthorization in the next Congress. Requires that each such report identify duplicative or conflicting rules and regulations promulgated by executive departments, independent agencies, and State and local governments and contain recommendations which address such conflicts or duplications. Directs the chairmen of the House and Senate committees having jurisdiction over a program scheduled for reauthorization during a Congress, to introduce a bill constituting a reauthorization within 15 days of the beginning of the second session of that Congress. Declares that it shall be in order to discharge a committee from consideration of such a bill if the committee fails to report the bill by a specified date. Makes it the duty of the Committees on Governmental Affairs and on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the Committees on Government Operations and Rules of the House of Representatives to review the operation of the procedures established by this Act and to submit a report every five years beginning December 31, 1988. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1980
Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Title I: Disposal of Transuranic Waste, High-Level Radioactive Wastes and Spent Nuclear Fuel - Directs the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the United States Geological Survey, to issue guidelines for the recommendation of sites for repositories (any facility for the permanent disposal of transuranic waste, high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or any combination of such wastes or fuel, whether or not such facility is designated to permit the subsequent recovery of materials placed in the repository). Exempts such guidelines from requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Requires the Secretary, by January 1, 1982, to identify and recommend to the President at least two sites suitable for site characterization (activities to determine the potential of a site as a repository). Requires the Secretary, by February 1, 1985, to identify and recommend to the President at least two additional sites. Requires each recommendation to include a statement of the basis for the recommendation. Directs the Secretary to notify the State Review Board of the State in which the site is located, or any Indian Tribe on whose reservation the site is located, of the recommendation. Requires the Secretary to hold public hearings in the vicinity of any site to be recommended to the President. Requires the President to: (1) review each site recommended; (2) either approve or disapprove the recommendation within 60 days; and (3) transmit his or her decision to the Secretary and the appropriate State Review Board. Provides that Presidential failure to approve or disapprove a site within the 60 day period (or failure to invoke authority as granted to delay the determination) shall be considered as an approval. Directs the Secretary, before sinking shafts at any site, to submit to the Commission and to the appropriate State Review Board, or Indian tribe, for their review and comment: (1) an environmental assessment; (2) a site characterization plan; and (3) proposals describing the possible form or packaging for the waste material and spent fuel which would be emplaced in the repository. Directs the Secretary to conduct tests at sites at which site characterization activities are being conducted in order to provide the necessary data for an application for a construction authorization for a repository at the site and for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Prohibits the use of any radioactive materials during site characterization tests, subject to stated exceptions. Requires the Secretary to hold public hearings if a selected site is determined to meet applicable requirements. Requires the Secretary to submit a recommendation and a report to the President if the Secretary affirms the determination. Requires the President to submit to Congress not later than March 30, 1987, a recommendation of a site qualified for application for a license as a repository. Requires the President, if the recommended site is disapproved by Congress, to recommend another site within a year. Requires the Secretary, if a site designation isnot disapproved by Congress, to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a license application for the construction ofa repository at the site. Requires the NRC to approve or disapprove the application by: (1) January 1, 1990; or (2) no later than four years after the submission of the application, whichever occurs later. Provides that a site designation shall be effective 30 days after the President recommends the site to Congress unless a State Review Board or an affected Indian tribe petitions Congress in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Provides that unless Congress passes a resolution approving such petition the designation shall be effective. Defines "State Review Board" and authorizes such Board to: (1) review activities under this Act with respect to the effect any site within a State would have upon the State; (2) represent the State in any proceeding before the Commission respecting a site; and (3) submit petitions of disapproval to Congress respecting sites. Directs the Secretary to make grants to State Review Boards. Requires the Secretary to seek to enter into a written agreement with a State Review Board and with any affected Indian tribe as soon as possible after deciding to study an area as a possible repository site. Requires this agreement to specify procedures: (1) for the State or Indian tribe to study, determine, comment on, and make recommendations regarding the repository; (2) which permit the Secretary to consider and respond to comments and recommendations made by the State Review Board and the Indian tribe; (3) by which the Secretary and either the State Review Board or the Indian tribe may periodically review or modify the agreement; and (4) for public notification of the above three subparagraphs. Directs the Secretary to provide funds to any affected Indian tribe to assist the tribe in conducting activities pursuant to this Act. Makes provisions for the judicial review of agency actions relating to site characterization, repository site designation, and construction or operation of a facility. Requires any Federal officer or agency issuing or granting a certificate, right-of-way, permit, lease, or other authorization related to the characterization, construction, or initial operation of any recommended site to issue or grant any such authorization at the earliest practicable date. Requires any repository for the disposal of high-level waste and spent fuel to be designed and constructed so that the spent fuel may be retrieved. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to Congress proposing fees to be collected to offset all construction, operation, administrative, and other costs incurred in providing for the management, interim storage, and disposal of nuclear wastes and spent fuel. Title II: Low-Level Radioactive Waste - Declares it to be the policy of the Federal Government that: (1) each State is responsible for the disposal of non-Federal low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders; and (2) non-Federal low-level radioactive waste can be most safely and efficiently managed on a regional basis. Permits the States to enter compacts as necessary to provide for the establishment and operation of facilities for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste can be most safely and effectively managed on a regional basis. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report on assisting States in carrying out this policy. Directs the Secretary to investigate whether it is appropriate to fund 90 percent of the cost of cleanup of the uranium mill tailing site at Edgemont, South Dakota (which is under the control of the Tennessee Valley Authority) under the provisions of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978. Requires that a report on the appropriate legislative recommendations and the views and recommendations of the Tennessee Valley Authority be submitted to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1980
Makes corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 39 (Alaska lands conservation).
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1980
Makes corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 39 (Alaska public lands).
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1980
Alaska Lands Amendments Act - Title I: Findings and Purposes - Declares it the purpose of this Act to amend the provisions of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act so as: (1) to preserve the geological, scientific, wilderness, cultural, recreational, and wildlife values of remaining Federal lands in Alaska; and (2) to provide authorities and guidelines for the administration of the provisions of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Title II - Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to increase the acreage of: (1) West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness; (2) Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness; (3) Russel Fjord Wilderness; (4) Renali Wilderness; (5) Gates of the Artic Wilderness; (6) Glacier Bay Wilderness; (7) Katmai Wilderness; (8) Artic Wildlife Refuge Wilderness; (9) Koyukak Wilderness; (10) Yukon Wilderness; (11) Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; and (12) Artic National Wildlife Refuge. Decreases the acreage of: (1) Wrangell-Saint Elicis Wilderness; (2) Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park; and (3) Lake Clark National Preserve. Increases the acreage of Wrangell-Saint Elias National Preserve and Lake Clark National Preserve. Establishes: (1) Yukon Charley Wilderness; (2) Devilnaw Wilderness; (3) Copper River Wilderness; (4) Copper River National Wildlife Refuge; and (5) Tetlin Wilderness. Establishes the Teshekpuk National Wildlife Refuge and the Utukok National Wildlife Refuge with a program for the issuance of exploration permits and lease sales. Increases the acreage of Wild and Scenic River Corridors and designates portions of the Yukon (Ramparts section) as a scenic river area. Designates certain planning areas within the Tongass National Forest. Provides that no timber within designated planning areas be sold except pursuant to the Tongass land management plan. Provides that all National Forest System lands in specified planning areas be withdrawn from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, subject to valid existing rights. Requires the Secretary of Agriculutre to report to Congress findings as to whether specified planning areas should be: (A) designated a wilderness; (B) continued in planning status; or (C) made available for multiple uses. Exempts specified planning areas from the second roadless area review and evaluation. Provides that funds necessary to maintain the timber supply from the Tongass National Forest shall be drawn from the total sums collected as receipts from oil, gas, timber and coal which are deposited in the Treasury and credited as miscellaneous receipts. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to designate alternative lands of equal or greater timber value other than within Admiralty Island and Misty Fjords National Monuments in the satisfaction of the rights of the Natives of Sitka. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to permit limited development within Misty Fjords National Monument to the extent U.S. Borax and Chemical is presently entitled. Provides that Monument McKinley shall retain its name. Removes Stiese National Conservation Area from coverage of the Act. Places certain restrictions on state selections and conveyances. Sets forth procedures for the conveyance of public lands to certain Village Corporations and Regional Corporations. Permits local residents and others aggrieved by a failure of the State or Federal government to provide for the priority for subsistence uses to file a civil action in the Federal Court for the District of Alaska. Provides that nothing in the Act shall preclude the renewal or continuation of valid leases or permits for cabins, homesites or similar structures. Extends the length of time required for the Secretary to complete certain studies and reports to the Congress. Provides that the executive may not withdraw more than 5,000 acres without the approval of the Congress by joint resolution within one year of notice of such withdrawal. Requires the Secretary to establish an oil and gas leasing program on public lands not included in the Federal North Slope Oil and Gas leasing program or the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska unless prohibited by applicable law. Permits the Secretary to refuse to renew a permit for an existing cabin if the Secretary determines that such renewal would not be in the public interest. Prohibits any fees from being charged for entrance or admission to any unit of the National Park System located in Alaska. Makes additional technical, conforming and perfecting amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Supreme Court should televise the oral arguments made before it to broaden the access of the general public.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey without consideration to the owners of record any interest, including mineral rights, of the United States in specified lands in Pima County, Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1980
Increases the standard deferred premium which may be charged a licensee of a nuclear facility following a nuclear incident. Requires such premiums to be paid in equal installments over a period between one and five years. Increases the amount of indemnification the Nuclear Regulatory Commission may provide a licensee or a Federal contractor to $5,000,000,000. Reduces such indemnity by an amount equal to all of the financial protection required of a licensee or contractor. Limits the public liability for a single nuclear incident, involving facilities which received a construction permit before a specified date, to the required financial protection and applicable indemnity. Requires the exhaustion of such protection and indemnity before payment of damages from any source except the required financial protection may be made in the case of facilities which received a construction permit after such specified date. Increases the annual fee which the Commission may charge for an indemnification agreement from $30 to $1,000. Authorizes the Commission to return any portion of a collected fee after ten years. Requires the Commission to survey the cause and extent of damage of each nuclear incident regardless of the extent of public liability. Increases the indemnity for a licensee operating as a nonprofit educational institution to $5,000,000,000. Authorizes the Commission to require any person who it indemnifies to waive certain defenses to liability with respect to any nuclear incident (under existing law such waivers may be obtained only with respect to extraordinary nuclear occurrences). Increases the period of time within which a suit may be brought pursuant to a waiver of any statute of limitations to 40 years from the date of a nuclear incident. Sets forth the priority of claims for damages by owners or operators of nuclear facilities. Requires the 1983 Commission report to the Congress to contain recommendations concerning liability issues, specifically those relating to proof of causation and proper elements of damages. Directs the Commission to promulgate regulations to implement the amendments made by this Act within one year after enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1980
Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act - Establishes the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council composed of representatives from the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Directs the Council to establish a voluntary scientific and statistical advisory committee to assist in the development, collection, and evaluation of specified information relevant to the Council's development and amendment of a regional conservation and electric power plan. Authorizes the Council to establish such other voluntary advisory committees as necessary or appropriate to assist it. Directs the Council to prepare a regional conservation and electric power plan, giving priority in decreasing order of importance, to conservation, renewable resources, energy resources derived from utilizing waste heat or having high fuel conversion efficiency, and other resources. Sets forth the components of such plan, including: (1) an energy conservation program; (2) recommendations for research and development; (3) a methodology for determining environmental and social costs and benefits of conservation measures taken under this Act; (4) a 20-year demand forecast of power resources required to meet the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration's obligations and the portion of such obligations which can be met by resources in each of the above priority categories; (5) an analysis of reserve and reliability requirements and cost-effective methods of providing reserves; and (6) a methodology for determining surcharges, if surcharges are recommended by the Council. Directs the Council to study energy conservation measures and analyze the result of the implementation of such measures. Directs the Council and the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to inform the Pacific Northwest public of major regional power issues to insure widespread public involvement in the formulation of regional power policies. Directs the Council to: (1) solicit recommendations from the region's State and Federal fish and wildlife agencies and appropriate Indian tribes for measures to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife resources affected by the development and operation of any hydroelectric project of the Columbia River and its tributaries and for fish and wildlife research and development; and (2) develop a program based on the recommendations consisting of measures to protect, mitigate and enhance fish and wildlife affected by any hydroelectric project while assuring the Pacific Northwest a reliable and efficient power supply. Directs the Administrator to utilize the Bonnevile Power Administration fund and the authorities available under this Act and other applicable laws to finance such fish and wildlife protection and enhancement activities. Directs the Council to submit an annual report to specified congressional committees on the actions taken and to be taken by the Council regarding such fish and wildlife protection and enhancement activities. Directs the Council, by a specified date, to complete a thorough analysis of the costs and the equity of the conservation measures and conservation resources implemented pursuant to this Act to consumers in the Pacific Northwest region. Directs the Administrator to offer to sell electric power to each requesting public body and cooperative entitled to preference under the Bonneville Project Act of 1937 and to each requesting investor-owned utility to meet that entity's firm power load which exceeds its resource capability for meeting the previous year's firm loan requirements. Authorizes the Administrator to sell electric power to Federal agencies in the region. Directs the Administrator, subject to certain stipulations, to purchase electric power from a Pacific Northwest utility if offered at the "average system cost" of resources then available to that utility, and to offer, in exchange, to sell an equivalent amount of electric power to such utility for resale to that utility's residential users within the region. Directs the Administrator to determine the "average system cost" on the basis of a methodology developed by the Council and subject to the review and approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Authorizes the Administrator to sell electric power to existing direct service industrial customers which presently have contracts for the purchase of electric power from the Administrator, so long as such sale provides a portion of the reserves for firm power loads within the region. Prohibits the Administrator from selling electric power, including reserves, directly to new direct service industrial customers or to existing direct service industrial customers in excess of the amount permitted above unless the Administrator determines that such proposed sale is consistent with the plan, is approved by the Council, and meets certain additional requirements. Authorizes the Administrator to sell, or otherwise dispose of, electric power, including acquired power, that is surplus to obligations incurred in accordance with this Act and other applicable statutes. Sets forth provisions regarding negotiations for, and offers to enter into, initial long term contracts for the sale and/or exchange of electric power. Directs the Administrator to acquire electric power resources through conservation, to implement all conservation measures, and to acquire such renewable resources, which are installed, by a residential or small commercial consumer to reduce load, as the Administrator determines are consistent with the criteria for developing the regional conservation and electric power plan, and in the case of major resources, as provided in this Act. Provides that such measures and resources may include: (1) loans and grants to consumers for insulation, weatherization, increased system efficiency, and waste energy recovery; (2) technical and financial assistance to, and other cooperation with, the Administrator's customers and governmental authorities to encourage conservation; (3) aiding such customers and authorities in implementing model conservation standards adopted pursuant to this Act; and (4) conducting demonstration projects to determine the cost-effectiveness of conservation measures and direct application of renewable energy resources. Directs the Administrator, when proposing to acquire any major resource, when implementing a conservation measure which will conserve electric power in an amount equal to that of a major resource, when paying or reimbursing investigation and preconstruction expenses of the sponsors of a major resource, or when granting billing credit involving a major resource to: (1) conduct public hearings; (2) give notice of the proposed action to the Council, the Governor of each affected State, and the Administrator's customers; and (3) publish such notice in the Federal Register. Directs the Administrator to submit a written decision on such action to the Council and to the public for the Council's approval. Prohibits the Administrator from implementing any such proposed action without submitting to the appropriate congressional committees the administrative record of the decision. Establishes procedures to be followed when the Administrator wishes to acquire a resource, which does not meet the criteria of this Act, for experimental, developmental, or demonstration purposes, but which has a potential for providing cost-effective service to the region. Establishes procedures to be followed for entering into agreements for resources the Administrator determines to be consistent with the plan. Authorizes the Administrator to grant billing credits and provide services to a customer, subject to certain limitations, for such customer's independent conservation activities, and for resources acquired by the customer which reduce the obligation of the Administrator to acquire resources under this Act. Directs the Administrator to investigate opportunities for adding to the region's resources or reducing the region's power costs through the accelerated or cooperative development of resources located outside the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, if such resources are renewable resources and are planned or considered for development by nonregional agencies which would own, sponsor, or otherwise develop them. Directs the Administrator to establish rates for: (1) the sale and disposition of electric power and the transmission of non-Federal power; and (2) electric power sold to meet the general requirements of public body, cooperative, and Federal agency customers within the Pacific Northwest, and electric utility customers. Sets forth guidelines to be followed in establishing such rates. Authorizes the Administrator to make annual impact aid payments from the Fund to local governments within the region with respect to major transmission facilities which: (1) are within the jurisdictions of such governments; (2) have a substantial impact on such governments; and (3) are completed after the effective date of this Act. Directs the Administrator to determine the amounts of such payments by a regionwide, uniform formula established by rule under the rate-setting procedures set forth in this Act. Amends the Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act to authorize the Administrator: (1) to make expenditures from the Bonneville Power Administration fund for making such payments as are required under this Act; (2) to issue and sell bonds on behalf of the Bonneville Power Administration in order to implement authority under this Act to provide financial assistance for conservation measures, renewable resources, and fish and wildlife; and (3) purchase electric power on a short term basis to meet obligations which may arise because of actions taken under this Act to protect, mitigate and enhance fish and wildlife. Increases the aggregate principal amount of any bonds outstanding at one time after October 1, 1981, by $1,250,000,000, and provides that such amount shall be reserved for the purposes of providing funds for conservation and renewable resources loans and grants in a special revolving account created in the Bonneville Power Administration fund. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the interest rate on such bonds issued by the Administrator if, beginning in fiscal year 1982, the Administrator fails to repay by the end of any fiscal year all the amounts projected to be repaid to the Treasury under the repayment criteria of the Secretary of Energy because of reasons other than a decrease in power sale revenues due to fluctuating streamflows or reasons beyond the Administrator's control. Amends the Act limiting the transfer of electric energy generated at Federal hydroelectric plants in the Pacific Northwest for use outside the Pacific Northwest to redefine the term "Pacific Northwest." Authorizes the Administrator to enter into contracts in accordance with the Bonneville Project Act of 1937. Directs the Administrator to discharge office functions in accordance with the Bonneville Project Act of 1937, the Department of Energy Organization Act, and this Act. Sets forth various administrative and savings provisions. Establishes within the Bonneville Power Administration an executive for conservation and renewable resources who shall be responsible for conservation and direct application renewable resource programs.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1980
Special Areas Soil Conservation Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program for the conservation of soil, water, and related resources in special areas designated pursuant to this Act by providing technical and financial assistance to owners and operators of farm, ranch, and certain other lands. Limits such assistance on State, county, and other public land to those lands that are an integral part of a private farm operating unit and under the control of the private landowners or operators. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with such owners and operators to assist them to: (1) make changes in their cropping systems to conserve or protect the resources of their lands; and (2) implement soil and water conservation measures needed under such systems and uses. Requires such landowners and operators to furnish the Secretary with a plan outlining conservation operations and land use developed in cooperation with and approved by the soil and water conservation district in which the lands are situated. Sets forth the terms to which landowners and owners must agree and in return for which the Secretary shall agree to share an appropriate portion of the costs of conservation treatment. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to terminate or modify such contracts in the public interest; or (2) to enter into further contracts to maintain a conservation practice or measure. Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to special areas described in this Act and to such additional special areas as the Secretary designates as having chronic soil, water, and related resources conservation problems. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a plan for each designated special area, taking into consideration relevant Federal, State, and local programs. Allows such special areas to be designated during the ten years following the passage of this Act. Allows such contracts to be entered into during the ten years following the designation of the special area to which they relate. Limits such contracts to ten years in duration and to amounts not in excess of appropriations provided for such purpose. Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit special area plans to the appropriate committees of Congress; and (2) enter into such contracts only after such committees have passed resolutions approving the designated special areas described in such plans. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) utilize specified services and facilities in carrying out this Act; (2) expend funds for research in developing new technology to control resource problems in designated areas; and (3) provide grants to States within designated areas to evaluate and analyze the impact of local and State taxes on the conservation treatment needed for an effective program. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress annually for the first five years of the program; and (2) protect program participants from disqualifications, discrimination, eligibility reduction or forfeiture, or penalty under other agricultural programs for participating in the program authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for expenses incurred in the rental of a dwelling unit as a residence to a member of the taxpayer's family. Provides that this Act shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 28 August 1980
Amends the Revenue Act of 1978 to extend until January 1, 1983, the period during which individuals who have not been treated as employees by their employers shall not be treated as such for purposes of the employment tax.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1980
Makes corrections in the enrollment of S. 2680 (administration of the Historic Sites, Buildings, Antiquities Act of 1935).
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1980
Title I: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1981 - Authorizes appropriations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for fiscal year 1981, to remain available until expended, for: (1) nuclear reactor regulation; (2) inspection and enforcement; (3) standards development; (4) nuclear material safety and safeguards; (5) nuclear regulatory research; (6) program technical support; and (7) program direction and administration. Permits the Commission to use not more than one percent of the appropriations for nuclear regulatory research to involve undergraduate and graduate students in nuclear regulatory research activities. Directs that the Office of Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data be given such sums as may be necessary from the appropriations for program technical support to collect and assess data from operating reactors and to provide the Commission with a semiannual report. Requires the report to identify: (1) any condition which may pose a significantly increased risk to the public health and safety; and (2) the implication of such condition on the Commission's policies and procedures. Directs the Commission to determine the actions required with respect to any such condition. Requires at least $1,000,000 of the Commission's total appropriations be available for its activities related to the expeditious cleanup of Three Mile Island Unit Two. Directs the Commission to give notice to, and receive a notice of no objection from, the appropriate Congressional committees before the Commission obligates an amount $500,000 more or less than the amount authorized or appropriated for a specific purpose. Permits the Commission to retain and use cooperative nuclear research program appropriations for salaries and expenses associated with those programs. Allows the Commission to transfer to other Government agencies sums for salaries and expenses for nuclear reactor regulation from the Commission's appropriations for that purpose. Prohibits payments under this Act except to the extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Directs the Commission to use as much of the total appropriations authorized as is necessary to prepare and submit to Congress a line item budget request for fiscal years 1982 and 1983. Directs the Commission to use such sums as may be necessary to establish a Three Mile Island Advisory Panel to consult with and make recommendations to the Commission on matters relating to the decontamination of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor. Directs the Commission to consult with the Panel concerning all decontamination activities authorized by the Commission. Directs the Commissioner to conduct a study and report to Congress recommendations for developing statistically valid data on the long term health effects of employment in the nuclear power industry. Title II: Prohibitions on the Use of Funds - Prohibits the use of any funds authorized under this Act to compensate any person intervening in any Commission proceeding for the costs of such intervention.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1980
Coal Pipeline Act of 1980 - Title I: Rights-of-Way Across Non-Federal Lands - Provides that any person holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity to transport coal by coal pipeline may acquire rights-of-way over, under, upon, or through non-Federal lands owned by common carriers engaged in such transportation by the exercise of the power of eminent domain in the appropriate United States district court or State court. Requires such person to attempt to acquire any right-of-way through negotiation prior to exercising such power. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to permit such person to use or develop water through the exercise of such power. Prohibits any right-of-way through historic sites, wilderness areas, or wildlife refuges unless there is no alternative route and plans are made to minimize harm to such sites. Authorizes the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to any applicant seeking to construct, extend, or acquire a coal pipeline, upon a written determination of certain findings. Includes within such findings that: (1) the applicant has the technical and financial capability to construct, operate, and maintain the pipeline; (2) the pipeline is or will be of present or future public convenience and necessity; (3) the pipeline provides the capacity of a common carrier; (4) rates to be charged will be less than those charged by common carriers; and (5) the pipeline will not materially impair the financial ability of any other common carrier to provide transportation. Directs the Commission to include in its determination a discussion addressing issues concerning transportation, energy, and water needs and their effect on existing carriers, rate levels, and the need for the pipeline. Prohibits the issuance of a certificate until the applicant has complied with all requirements of the Commission, including: (1) submitting plans, contracts, or agreements concerning the intended use of the pipeline; (2) identifying all parties when such applicant is a business entity; (3) preparing an environmental impact statement; and (4) agreeing in writing to be deemed a Federal agency for purposes of this Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policy Act of 1970 with respect to acquisition of rights-of-way. Sets forth the procedure and timetable of the Commission after receipt of an application for a certificate, including notifying the Governor of each affected State, requesting the Secretaries of Transportation, Energy, and the Interior to submit findings, and requesting the Attorney General to conduct an antitrust review. Requires each applicant to reimburse the Commission for administrative and other costs relative to processing its application. Prohibits the issuance of a certificate prior to public notices and hearings in accordance with provisions of this Act. Subjects any certificate holder to the jurisdiction of the Commission over rates and charges as a pipeline carrier, and requires such person to provide service to any other persons seeking service during planning phases and those seeking unutilized capacity of the coal pipeline. Requires that each certificate contain such terms and conditions as the Commission deems necessary to protect the public interest. Prohibits transportation of coal in a certified pipeline if such coal is to be used by the carrier or by a person which controls or is controlled by such carrier. Prohibits the transportation of coal owned, mined, or supplied by the carrier or by a person which controls or is controlled by the carrier. Sets limitations on the amount of coal which may be transported in a certified pipeline if such coal is mined or to be used by an affiliate of the carrier. Specifies certain exemptions from such prohibitions. Permits a prospective applicant to petition the Commission for a determination of such control prior to making application for a certificate. Allows any person or governmental entity to use the power of eminent domain under Federal or State law to acquire any portion of a right-of-way acquired in whole or part under this Act so long as such use is consistent with the operation and maintenance of such pipeline. Authorizes a person to abandon or discontinue using such pipeline under specified conditions. Sets forth procedures for such abandonment. Title II: Rights-of-Way Across Federal Lands - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, after consultation with other agencies, departments, or instrumentalities of the United States administering any Federal lands, to grant or renew to a person holding a certificate rights-of-way over, under, upon, or through such Federal lands. Directs the Secretary to enter into interagency agreements with the heads of such agencies, departments, or instrumentalities in order to achieve specified goals, including: (1) avoiding duplication; (2) assigning responsibility; and (3) expediting review of applications for rights-of-way. Directs that such department heads shall administer and enforce the provisions of this Act and related regulations. Prohibits any right-of-way through historic sites, public parks, recreation areas, wilderness areas, or wildlife refuges unless there is no alternative route, and planning is conducted so as to minimize harm to such sites. Authorizes the Secretary to issue such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this Act as regards the requirement that a coal pipeline over, under, upon, or through Federal lands be located underground. Title III: General and Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs that the Federal Government cannot appropriate water within any State for use in a coal pipeline without complying with State law, nor can it claim water for a coal pipeline under the reserved rights doctrine unless such reservation is express. Directs that nothing in this Act is intended to grant any right of water use for a coal pipeline or to excuse any person from obtaining and maintaining a water permit or authorization pursuant to State law. Authorizes any State issuing a State water permit or authorization to a pipeline for which a certificate of public convenience and necessity was issued or a right-of-way was granted under this Act to condition the water rights of such pipeline to effectuate a legitimate State public interest. Authorizes the Attorney General, at the request of the Commission or the Secretary, to institute a civil action in the appropriate District court to enforce provisions of this Act. Sets forth penalties for failure to comply with this Act. Requires that all such pipelines be buried underground to the maximum extent possible. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations establishing Federal standards for the safe construction, operation, and maintenance of such pipelines. Exempts from this Act any coal pipeline which was in operation on January 1, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1980
Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease additional lands to the holder of an oil shale lease for purposes, other than the removal of minerals contained therein, connected with the development of an oil shale operation that the lessee demonstrates are necessary for such operation. Permits the lessee to use the land to, among other things: (1) dispose of oil shale waste; and (2) build plants, reduction works, and other needed facilities. Requires a lease to contain provisions providing for proper protection of environmental and other resource values. Sets forth guidelines for determining the duration of the lease and the rental fee.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1980
National Water Utilities Bank Act - Charters the National Water Utilities Bank, as a Government corporation, to provide financial assistance for the construction, maintenance, and improvement of public water systems. Sets forth the powers of such Bank. Provides for a Board of Directors. Provides for such Bank's capitalization by water suppliers and the United States. Establishes different classes of stock. Authorizes the Bank to borrow funds and to make loans to water suppliers. Specifies preferences in making such loans. Sets forth requirements of such loans. Exempts the Bank and its assets, other than real property, from taxation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
California Wilderness Act of 1980 - Designates specified lands in the State of California as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide homebuilders with an income tax credit for the construction of residences which incorporate a passive solar energy system. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretaries of Energy and Housing and Urban Development, to prescribe regulations setting forth a solar construction credit table for purposes of determining the amount of the credit for which the incorporator of the solar energy system is eligible. Limits the dollar amount of such credit to $2,000 for calendar years prior to 1986 and phases out the amount of the credit by $500 decrements until 1989 when such credit terminates. Defines "passive solar energy system" as a system which contains a solar collection area, an absorber, a storage mass, a heat distribution method, and heat regulation devices. Requires such system to be installed in a new residence after September 30, 1980 and before January 1, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1980
Presidential Nomination Commission Resolution - Establishes the Commission on Presidential Nominations to make an investigation regarding the presidential nominating process. Directs the Commission to report to the President and Congress respecting such investigation, including recommendations for the 1984 presidential elections. States that the Commission shall cease to exist 60 days after submitting such report. Sets forth the powers of such Commission and related administrative provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1980
Papago Water Rights Settlement Act of 1980 - Defines the term "Central Arizona project" to mean the project authorized under the Colorado River Basin Project Act of September 30, 1968. Title I: Papago Water Projects - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to undertake, and within ten years complete, a program to deliver annually a firm water supply at points designated by the Papago Tribe of: (1) 90,000 acre-feet to the boundary of the San Xavier Indian Reservation; (2) 30,000 acre-feet to the boundary of the Schuk Toak District of the Sells Papago Reservation for use in the Garcia Strip area; (3) 40,000 acre-feet to the boundary of the Sif Oidak District of the Sells Papago Reservation for use in the Chuichu area; and (4) 20,000 acre-feet to the boundary of the Gila Bend Reservation. Authorizes the Secretary, if a conduit or canal is extended to or near Tucson, Arizona, to construct, operate, and maintain a suitable water distribution system for the delivery of water to the San Xavier Indian Reservation and the Schuk Toak project of the Sells Papago Reservation. Allows the Secretary to enter into a written agreement with the city of Tucson for such water delivery, if such action is determined feasible. Directs the Secretary, unless alternate firm water supplies become available, to construct, operate and maintain well fields, where necessary, to supply sufficient water to the Papago Tribes as entitled under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) improve and extend (and construct for the Schuk Toak District) irrigation systems on tribal lands on condition that such tribe agrees to subjugate the lands; (2) make loans, if requested, to the tribe for the costs of subjugation and water delivery, with repayment to begin ten years after the first water delivery; and (3) require the tribe to assume responsibility for the operation and maintenance of such system after specified acreage has been irrigated. Conditions the implementation of such irrigation system upon the execution of an agreement by the Papago Tribe with the Secretary for such tribe to waive and release any and all right to claim damages for past or future deprivation of water rights on its reservation. Provides that such waiver shall not be construed as a waiver of the right to sue for damages or specific performance arising out of the Secretary's failure to carry out provisions of this Act. Confers jurisdiction over such Act upon the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Stipulates that provisions of this Act shall not become operative for the San Xavier Reservation until the Papago Tribe requests voluntary dismissal of a specified case pending before such Court. Authorizes the Secretary to exchange lands within the Gila Bend Reservation upon a determination that present lands for such Reservation are not feasible for an irrigation system. Title II: General Provisions - Permits the Secretary, in his discretion, to transfer to lands within the reservations of the Papago Tribe any Federal water rights appurtenant to the public lands or to any lands within a Federal reservation under his jurisdiction. Authorizes the Secretary to develop new water supplies on public lands or other Federal lands under his jurisdiction and to transfer such water rights to the Tribe. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire, by purchase, exchange, or eminent domain proceedings, such private lands and such State water rights as he deems appropriate for the purpose of providing water to the Papago Tribe. Prohibits the acquisition of water rights belonging to any Indian tribe, band, group or community, or any individual Indian allottees. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts and to use facilities constructed in whole or in part with Federal funds to facilitate the delivery of water to reservations of the Papago Tribe. Provides that any water available on a firm basis from underground sources of such reservations and within specified water basins shall be credited against the amount of water the Secretary is obligated to deliver to the tribe. Directs the Secretary to construct powerlines as are necessary and to sell power and energy available to the tribe at rates not to exceed actual cost. Requires that the differential of power prices sold to the tribe which is less than that sold to non-Indian customers shall be credited to the Colorado River Basin Development Fund established by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of September 30, 1968. Grants the tribe the right to drill wells and pump water within the Sells Papago Reservation to serve lands outside the San Xavier, Schuk Toak, Chuichu, and Gila Bend systems. Directs that such water not be charged against the entitlement of such tribe under provisions of this Act. Gives the tribe the right to devote water supplies it develops and to which it is entitled to any beneficial use, provided that: (1) nonagricultural use shall not increase the tribe's entitlement; (2) the tribe does not alienate any water right without the consent of the Secretary; and (3) any profit derived from the sale or other disposition of water shall be devoted to the subjugation of land within the irrigation systems. Deems all water entitled to the Papago Tribe, except water acquired from the state of Arizona, to have been reserved or appropriated as of the date such reservation was established. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1980
Saturday Mail Delivery Act of 1980 - Requires the Postal Service to maintain the frequency of mail delivery service in effect on June 1, 1980 (six days each week).
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Makes corrections in the enrollment of S. 562 (Nuclear Regulatory Commission funding).
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1980
Amends the Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 to prohibit the Indian Claims Commission, in determining the amount of payment to be made by the United States to an Indian claimant, from setting off against such payment any money or property given to, or funds expended gratuitously for, such claimant after June 30, 1951.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1980
Directs the Committees on Appropriations and House Administration to conduct a joint study and report to the House of Representatives a specific plan for reducing congressional employment levels no later than December 31, 1980. States that such employees include employees of the House of Representatives, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Library of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, the Botanic Garden, and the Government Printing Office.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1980
Eliminates the assessment of fees by the Secretary of the Interior for determining heirship of deceased members of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma and certain other Indians.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1980
Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to establish the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in the State of Idaho. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to continue implementation of the comprehensive plan for the management of the public lands and their resources within the area pursuant to such Act. Directs the Secretary, within two years after the effective date of this section, to review the plan in effect on the effective date of this section to assure that it provides for protection and enhancement of the raptor population and raptor habitat within a framework of multiple use and sustained yield. Requires the Secretary to review and revise such plan as necessary, but no less than once every four years. Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section with regard to management, use and protection of the public lands including the property located thereon in the area. Sets forth penalties for violations of such rules or regulations. Withdraws, subject to valid existing rights, the area from operation of the mining laws and mineral exploration and development. Requires the head of any Federal agency, with respect to any expenditure of funds for new projects, programs, or activities within the area, to provide for such conditions and restrictions as the Secretary determines are necessary to avoid adverse effects on raptor habitat. Permits any project in such area which the Secretary of Defense determines is essential to national defense. Requires the Secretary to review existing authorizations or agreements with the Idaho National Guard which provide for military maneuvers within the area and to provide for continuation of such use subject to such modification as the Secretary deems necessary. Requires the Secretary to provide for visitor use of the public lands within the area to such extent and in such manner as is consistent with protection of the raptors and the raptor habitat within the area. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to, and to enter into cooperative agreements with, State and local governments to carry out the purposes and policies of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1980
Requests the President to designate the week of October 20 through 25, 1980, as "National Water Resources Week."
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1980
Year-End Spending Control Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to apportion appropriations to Federal agencies in a manner which insures that no more than 20 percent of the total appropriations available to an agency in a fiscal year may be obligated during the last two months of that year. Authorizes the Director to waive such a spending limitation upon determining that it would seriously disrupt an agency program or operation, if the Director reports on such waiver to Congress before the agency violates such limitation. Requires the Director to report to Congress concerning: (1) the implementation of this Act; (2) violations of spending limitations; (3) the results and impacts of this Act including the effects upon procurement and apportionment processes; and (4) recommendations on continuing the spending limitations. Exempts reserves established to comply with a spending limitation under this Act from reporting requirements of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Directs an agency to consider an employee's compliance with agency rules and procedures applicable to year-end expenditure practices when: (1) evaluating the performance of a member of the Senior Executive Service; and (2) determining any pay increase for a supervisor or manager under the merit pay system.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Amends the Mineral Land Leasing Act of 1920 and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands to expand the application of such Acts to include gilsonite and all vein-type solid hydrocarbons. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish a lower aggregate acreage limitation for leases in areas known to contain deposits of tar sand. Directs the Secretary, under specified conditions, to extend a lease for not less than three years beyond its primary term in areas known to contain deposits of tar sand. Permits the owner of an oil and gas lease issued before the date of enactment of this Act to apply to the Secretary to convert the lease to a new combined hydrocarbon lease.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Replaces the office of Commissioner of Reclamation in the Department of the Interior with that of Commissioner of Water and Power Resources to administer the reclamation of arid lands.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1980
Establishes the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Martin Luther King, Junior, Preservation District which shall consist of the properties within the Martin Luther King, Junior, Historic District. Authorizes the Secretary, within the national historic site, to: (1) acquire by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, transfer or exchange, lands and interests therein; (2) convey a freehold or leasehold or leasehold interest in any property, for such sums as he deems appropriate, and subject to such terms and conditions and reservations as will assure the use of the property in a manner consistent with the purposes of this Act; (3) enter into cooperative agreements with the owners of properties of historical or cultural significance; and (4) provide security and law enforcement services as authorized by law. Establishes, in the Department of the Interior, the Martin Luther King, Junior, Advisory Commission to advise the Secretary with respect to the formulation and execution of plans for the national historic site and the preservation district. Terminates such Commission ten years from the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1980
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Committee on Ways and Means should study, and consider legislation to achieve the goals of recent proposals by certain prominent economists to control inflation by providing tax benefits to employers who moderate price increases for their products and employees who moderate wage demands.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1980
Designates the third Monday in February of each year as "National Patriotism Week."
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Act of 1979 - Alters the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to grant leases of oil and gas lands. Permits the Secretary to lease lands which are favorable for the discovery of oil or gas within a producing geologic province only by competitive bidding. Sets forth the conditions for such bidding. Permits the leasing of all other lands without such bidding. Increases the size of the tract which may be leased from 640 to 2,560 acres or larger, in the discretion of the Secretary. Establishes an initial period of five years for both competitive and noncompetitive leases. Permits an extension of such leases up to a total of five years under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to disapprove the assignment of such leases under specified conditions. Permits the Secretary to refuse to accept a bid or issue a readjust or assign a lease when such action would be inconsistent with the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1980
Small Business Motor Fuel Marketer Preservation Act of 1980 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make loans to small businesses acquiring gas stations from a refiner. Makes it unlawful for a refiner, other than an independent or small refiner, to operate a gas station in the United States. Requires a refiner, in disposing of any interest in such a station, to offer a right of first refusal to the dealer at such station. Sets forth the requirements for such an offer. Makes it unlawful for a refiner to: (1) exceed specified annual sales limitations in any State (requires the Federal Trade Commission to determine specified limitation formulas); and (2) sell motor fuel at any time at any point of transfer at different prices (except for price differentials which reflect manufacturing, sale, or delivery differences). Stipulates that a refiner shall: (1) be in violation of this Act if such refiner withholds available motor fuel from a purchaser and then resells such fuel at a lower price to refiner-operated stations; and (2) not be prevented from charging a uniform surcharge in connection with a sale of motor fuel as consideration for the purchaser's use of a refiner's trademark or other such identifying symbol. Makes it unlawful for any person to interfere in any way with the purchasing, selling, or storing of motor fuel by a dealer. Makes it unlawful for any dealer at a station displaying a trademark or identifying symbol of a particular refiner to sell motor fuel not refined by such refiner without providing notice to purchasers. Requires each refiner within three months of enactment to provide to the Federal Trade Commission information regarding the number of: (1) gallons of motor fuel sold, consigned, or distributed in each State during the preceding year; (2) gallons of motor fuel sold to its stations in each State during the preceding year; and (3) barrels of crude oil produced and refined during the preceding year. Requires persons owning 50 or more motor fuel stations in the United States to report specified information to the Commission. Sets forth fines for violation of this Act. Permits civil actions to be brought against violators of the requirements of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
National Educational Opportunities Act of 1980 - States the purpose of this Act to be to: (1) establish a national policy on equal educational opportunities based on the implementation of quality education with equal educational opportunities for all students regardless of race, color, or national origin; (2) provide an experimental mechanism for States and their local educational systems to implement such national policy; (3) support experimental efforts to reduce achievement disparities between racial and socio-economic groups in the schools; and (4) facilitate, where possible, a reduction in the concentration of children from low-income and minority groups in certain schools primarily by means other than busing. Requires a State wishing to receive funds under this Act to submit a desegregation plan and an implementation plan. Sets forth the guidelines and requirements for such implementation plan, including: (1) the creation of a State advisory council and local advisory committees: (2) an intradistrict and interdistrict transfer plan; (3) an intradistrict and interdistrict cooperation plan; and (4) a compensatory education program. Requires such implementation to: (1) be submitted to the Secretary of Education by January 31, 1982; (2) be developed in consultation with local educational agencies and the State advisory council; and (3) define goals consistent with the purpose of this Act and provide for attaining such goals by a date approved by the Secretary, but in no event later than October 1, 1987. Requires the Secretary to provide notice to applicants 30 days before a final selection is made. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1985.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1980
Designates the week beginning March 8, 1981, as "Women's History Week."
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 for: (1) the health professions recruitment program for Indians; (2) health professions preparatory scholarship program for Indians; (3) health professions scholarship program; (4) Indian health service extern programs; (5) continuing education allowances; (6) health services, including patient and dental care, field health, mental health services, and the treatment of alcoholism among Indians; (7) the construction and renovation of hospitals, health centers and stations, and staff housing; (8) the construction of safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities; and (9) health services for urban Indians.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Title I: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1981 - Authorizes appropriations for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for fiscal year 1981 to be used for nuclear reactor regulation, inspection and enforcement, standards development, nuclear material safety and safeguards, nuclear regulatory research, program technical support, and program direction and administration. Title II: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982 - Authorizes appropriations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for fiscal year 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Department of Energy Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1981 and 1982 - Civilian Applications - Title I: Research and Development - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for operating expenses and capital investment for fossil fuel programs related to coal, petroleum and enhanced gas recovery. Authorizes appropriations for specified fossil energy construction projects related to coal. Authorizes appropriations for operating expenses and capital investment for energy supply research and development programs and specified projects related to solar energy, geothermal energy, nuclear fission, magnetic fusion, electric energy systems, energy storage systems, hydroelectric power, environment programs, and supporting research. Authorizes appropriations for operating expenses and capital investment for specified conservation research and development programs. Authorizes appropriations for operating expenses and capital investment for specified general science and research programs and projects. Authorizes appropriations for operating expenses and capital investment for the uranium enrichment process development program. Authorizes appropriations for expenses of the geothermal resources development fund. Title II: Commercialization and Related Activities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for expenses for specified renewable resources and conservation commercialization programs and related activities. Title III: Regulatory and Related Functions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for expenses to the Economic Regulatory Administration, the Office of Hearings and Appeals, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and for the energy information program and the strategic petroleum reserve program. Title IV: Power Marketing and Federal Leasing - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for the Alaska Power Administration, the Southeastern Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Western Area Power Administration. Authorizes appropriations for specified Federal leasing and fuel data gathering and analysis expenses. Title V: Nuclear Assessment, Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage and Commercial Waste Remedial Action - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for uranium resource assessment operating expenses and capital investment. Authorizes appropriations for spent nuclear fuel storage and remedial action programs. Title VI: Other Fossil Energy, Solar Energy, and Conservation Activities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for expenses for other fossil energy, solar energy, and conservation activities programs. Title VII: Other Departmental Activities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for operating expenses and capital investment for specified uranium enrichment activities programs and projects. Authorizes appropriations for operating expenses and capital investment for specified Department of Energy administrative activities programs and projects. Title VIII: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the Department of Energy.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Cayuga Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon finding that the United States has acquired the interest of the State in the lands comprising Sampson State Park, in Seneca County, New York, to publish such a finding thereby effectuating the transfer of land or natural resources located anywhere within the State from, by, or on behalf of the Cayuga Indian Nation or any of its members. Extinguishes the aboriginal title and any Indian claims to such lands. Retains for the tribe any hunting and fishing rights previously reserved or granted. Establishes within the Treasury the Cayuga Indian Claims Settlement Fund to be held in trust for the benefit of the tribe. Directs the Secretary to make the income of such fund freely available to the tribe in semiannual payments. Permits the Secretary to use a specified portion of such fund to acquire land for the tribe. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire options to purchase lands on behalf of the tribe. Withdraws from the National Forest System, specified federally-owned lands within Seneca County, New York, known as the Hector Land Use Area. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer title to such lands to the Secretary to be held in trust for the benefit of the tribe, subject to valid existing rights. States that the establishment of hiking trails shall not be considered such a right. Directs the Secretary to acquire from the State by eminent domain the parcel of land known as Sampson State Park to be held by the United States in trust for the tribe in consideration for the tribe's relinquishment of its land claims. Requires that a portion of such Park continue to be operated as a public recreation area from October 1, 1983, through January 1, 1989, so long as the tribe can operate such facilities without incurring a financial loss. Retains for the State all necessary easements. Directs the Secretary to prepare a roll of the members of the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York. Sets forth the procedures and requirements for being placed on such roll. Grants the Cayuga Indian Nation court jurisdiction over criminal offenses committed on the Cayuga Reservation. Makes all federally-owned lands within the State of New York administered as part of the National Forest System: (1) subject to all laws applicable to national forest lands acquired under the Weeks Act and specified sections of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act; and (2) entitled to payments to local governments based upon the amount of public lands within the boundaries of such localities. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to forgive any outstanding debt obligations of the Hector Cooperative Grazing Association, Incorporated, of Trumansburg, New York as specified.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Western Arctic Area Management and Leasing Act - Title I: Short Title, Policy, and Purposes - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that the development of the oil and gas resources within the Western Arctic Management Area is in the national interest and should be accomplished in an orderly manner while assuring the conservation of surface resources. Title II: Establishment and Planning of the Area - Establishes the area currently designated as the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska as the Western Arctic Management Area (area). Directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer the area through the Bureau of Land Management in accordance with provisions of this Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary, within 16 months after enactment of this Act, to withdraw from entry and disposition under the public land laws any lands within the area which may be necessary for the management of the area. Revokes, after such 16-month period, any withdrawals or reservations made pursuant to the Naval Petroleum Reserves Product Act of 1976 with respect to such area. Directs the Secretary to prepare a long-range plan for the multiple use management of the area. Requires such plan to provide for: (1) a leasing program for the efficient exploration for and development of gas and oil; (2) the protection of surface resources, especially within certain special management areas; and (3) the protection of opportunities for the continued subsistence use of the area. Directs the Secretary in developing the plan: (1) to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service; and (2) to provide for participation by the State of Alaska and affected local governments, Federal agencies, organizations, and individuals. Permits the long-range plan to be accomplished in stages. Requires an initial plan to be completed within 16 months after enactment of this Act. Declares that the first lease sale under the oil and gas leasing program included in the initial plan shall be conducted within 20 months after this Act is enacted. Directs the Secretary: (1) to review the long-range plan within five years after the initial plan is published and every ten years thereafter; (2) during the initial review, to determine whether any lands within special management areas should be established as one or more units within the National Refuge System; and (3) upon determining that such a unit should be established to submit a legislative proposal to that effect to Congress. Title III: Lease Exploration Permits and Leasing Authority - Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to conduct or to allow by contract or permit the conduct of geophysical and geological explorations in the area in accordance with specified provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976; and (2) to grant oil and gas leases within the area only to the highest qualified bidder by competitive bidding. Sets forth guidelines for conducting the bidding. Directs the Secretary to establish lease tracts not exceeding 60,000 acres each. Declares that each lease shall be issued for an initial period of up to ten years, and extended for so long as oil or gas is produced from the area in paying quantities. Requires the Secretary to prescribe a rule prohibiting any person who represents both a major oil company, or more than one company or affiliate, from bidding for any right to develop oil or gas in the area. Specifies conditions under which the Secretary may exempt such a person from such prohibition. Directs the Secretary to establish restrictions on leases and operating permits to enhance safety, encourage efficient management, protect the environment, and conserve the area's natural resources. Authorizes the Secretary to require that any royalty taken in amount of production be made available to small or independent refiners. Directs the Secretary, before accepting bids for a lease or issuing a lease, to allow the Attorney General, in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission, 30 days to review the potential results including antitrust effects of the lease. Prohibits the sale or transfer of a lease without the Secretary's approval. Requires the holder of a lease to submit an exploration or development plan to the Secretary for approval before commencing exploration or development activities. Specifies: (1) conditions under which the Secretary may suspend or cancel a lease; and (2) the compensation available to a lessee whose lease is cancelled. Requires any lessee or individual permitted to conduct an activity pursuant to this title to provide the Secretary access to any information obtained from such activity. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules for the protection and release of any privileged information. Requires a lessee to cooperate with Federal officers responsible for monitoring and examining the lessee's activities under this title. Sets forth the enforcement procedure for, and the penalties for violations of, provisions of this Act, regulations issued pursuant to this Act, and the terms of any lease or permit issued under this title. Authorizes the Secretary to issue exploration permits and leases for the development of minerals other than oil and gas in the area in accordance with the policy of this Act. Title IV: Other Administrative Provisions - Directs the Secretary to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this Act. Permits any existing facilities used for subsistence purposes to remain and be maintained or replaced subject to any restrictions the Secretary may impose. Authorizes the Secretary to permit the construction of new facilities for purposes of subsistence, public health, and area use and management. Requires the United States to pay specified amounts of the revenue generated by this Act to: (1) the Alaska Native Fund; (2) the Department of the Treasury; and (3) the state of Alaska for public service purposes. Directs the Secretary: (1) to continue operation of the South Barrow oil field and such other fields as may be necessary to supply gas to the Native Village of Barrow and other communities and installations near Point Barrow, Alaska; and (2) within one year after enactment of this Act, to submit to Congress a plan for an entity or local government unit of the State of Alaska to assume ownership and operation of the fields and ancillary facilities. Requires the Secretary to establish a Western Arctic National Conservation Area Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary concerning the long-range plan for the multiple use management of the area and the promulgation of regulations to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1980
Reclamation Reform Act of 1980 - Sets forth acreage limitations for limited and qualified landholdings which may be served with water under Federal reclamation laws. Declares that, upon the request of a land owner or lessee, the acreage limitation for a qualified landholding shall be considered applicable to: (1) a specified amount of land classified by the Secretary of the Interior as project land having the greatest productive potential; or (2) an equivalent amount of less productive land. Directs the Secretary to take into account all factors which affect the economic feasibility of irrigated agriculture in determining the productive potential of land and land classes. States that any land for which the frost-free growing season exceeds 180 days, shall be considered to be highly productive land for purposes of acreage limitations, except under certain conditions. Specifies those lands which may receive project water three years after enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to deliver project water to bonda fide religious or nonprofit charitable organizations and certain excess lands, provided that such lands otherwise would be eligible to receive project water. Amends existing Federal reclamation laws to delete the 25-year limitation which lessees of lands owned by States and political subdivisions which are subject to acreage limitations may receive project water. States that no provision of Federal reclamation law shall apply to landholdings receiving benefits from a Federal water resources project unless that project: (1) has been designated as a Federal reclamation project; or (2) is explicitly made subject to acreage limitation provisions by statute. Declares that no owner or qualified lessee of a limited or qualified landholding shall be required to be a resident of such landholding to be eligible to receive project water for agricultural purposes. Prohibits an owner of a qualified landholding acquired after the enactment of this Act from leasing such landholding unless the Secretary determines that the owner, during each of the last five years after acquiring the land, has derived a significant percent of his or her income directly from agricultural production. Authorizes the Secretary to waive or grant exemptions from such agricultural production requirements. Exempts from such requirement any owner who resides within 50 miles of the landholding. Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to direct the Secretary to publish notice of the proposed contract or amendment and provide an opportunity for written comments, before entering into or amending any repayment contract or contract concerning the delivery of project water for irrigation purposes. Permits the owner of any excess land: (1) to dispose of such land before the end of the term of a recordable contract, to specified persons, at a price approved by the Secretary; and (2) to request the Secretary to dispose of such land by lottery. Vests power of attorney in the Secretary to sell such land if it is not sold by the end of the term of the contract. Repeals provisions which limit the right to receive water on sold excess lands until one-half of the construction charges have been paid. Sets forth requirements to be met before a sale of excess land, or resale of such land within 15 years of initial sale, shall carry rights to receive project water. Declares that any nonexcess land which is acquired into excess status pursuant to foreclosure or other process of law, conveyance in satisfaction of mortgage, inheritance, or devise, may be sold at its fair market value without regard to provisions of this Act or existing law. Approves water contracts pertaining to qualified landholdings, which provide that relief from acreage limitations will result upon full payment of construction charges. Specifies the expiration date for acreage limitations following the repayment of construction charges which shall apply in any case in which such date is not specified in the project repayment contract. Directs the Secretary to provide a landholder with a certificate acknowledging any relief from acreage limitations. Sets forth administrative rules and regulations, and penalties for violations, under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1980
National Heritage Policy Act of 1979 - Title I - Declares the findings of Congress concerning the identification and protection of resources significant to the national heritage. Title II: National Heritage Program - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish a national heritage program and an historic preservation program. Directs the Secretary to establish and administer a National Register of Natural Areas which shall include resources of national, state and local significance. Declares that items of national significance shall be designated as "National Natural Landmarks" and such designations shall only apply to an area which clearly meets the standards for national significance as established by this Act. Requires the Secretary to expand and administer the National Register of Historic Places which shall include resources of national, state, and local significance. Requires the Secretary, within one year of the effective date of this Act, to develop or expand regulations or guidelines, as appropriate, for: (1) documentation of significant information concerning such resources; (2) eligibility criteria for inclusion in the Natural or Historic Register; and (3) nominations to the Natural or Historic Register by the State natural heritage officer of the State historic preservation officer as established by this Act. Requires the Secretary to establish revised criteria for the designation of nationally significant areas and places on the Registers. Requires the Secretary, within 18 months after the effective date of this Act, to develop regulations and guidelines for State natural heritage programs and State historic preservation programs, and to request the Governor of each participating State to designate a State natural heritage officer and historic preservation officer. Declares that there may be one person for both such positions. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) develop a process for the voluntary involvement of the public in the conservation and preservation of natural and historic resources; (2) extend honorific Federal recognition of exceptional efforts by local governments and the private sector in the identification and protection of significant heritage resources; (3) develop and provide technical and nontechnical information and assistance on all aspects of natural and historic heritage conservation; and (4) study, in cooperation with other agencies and private and public organizations, the feasibility and necessity of establishing or developing other protective measures at the Federal, State, and local level for natural areas and historic places. Directs each Federal agency, with the advice of the Secretary and in cooperation with the State historic preservation officer, to locate and nominate to the Historic Register, historic resources located on lands which it owns or administers. Specifies measures to be taken by Federal agencies to provide for the maintenance, preservation, rehabilitation, or restoration of federally owned historic resources. Requires the head of any Federal agency having direct or indirect jurisdiction over a proposed Federal or federally assisted undertaking in any State or having authority to license any such undertaking, prior to the approval of the expenditure of any Federal funds or the issuance of any license, to take into account the effect of the undertaking on any area included in or eligible for inclusion in the Natural Register. Specifies that, prior to the approval of any Federal undertaking which may adversely affect any natural or historic landmark, the head of the Federal agency involved shall determine that no feasible alternative to such undertaking exists. Requires the Council on Heritage Conservation, with the concurrence of the Secretary, to promulgate regulations or guidelines for the exemption of Federal undertakings from requirements of this Act. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to States for the conservation of natural areas. Includes networks, cultural landscapes, and neighborhoods significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, or culture, in the National Register. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for the Historic Preservation Fund through fiscal year 1983. Title III: Council on Heritage Conservation - Renames the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation the Council on Heritage Conservation. Directs the Council to: (1) review Federal policies and programs affecting historic places natural areas; and (2) inform and educate interested Federal agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, other nations, and international organizations and private groups and individuals as to the authorized activities of the Council. Authorizes appropriations for the assessment for United States membership in the International Centre for Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property for fiscal years 1979 and 1980. Stipulates that no appropriation may be authorized and no payment made to the Centre in excess of 25 percent of the total annual assessment of such organization. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Permits the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations and bequests of money and personal property for the purposes of this Act. Allows the head of each Federal agency, after consultation with the Secretary, to withhold from public disclosure, information which might reveal the specific location of sites, objects, buildings, structures, terrestrial communities, aquatic communities, geologic features, or landforms which are eligible for or included in the Natural Register or the Historic Register, whenever it is determined that the disclosure of such information would create a risk of harm to such locations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1980
Reclamation Reform Act of 1980 - Sets forth acreage limitations for limited and qualified landholdings which may be served with water under Federal reclamation laws. Declares that, upon the request of a land owner or lessee, the acreage limitation for a qualified landholding shall be considered applicable to: (1) a specified amount of land classified by the Secretary of the Interior as project land having the greatest productive potential; or (2) an equivalent amount of less productive land. Directs the Secretary to take into account all factors which affect the economic feasibility of irrigated agriculture in determining the productive potential of land and land classes. States that any land for which the frost-free growing season exceeds 180 days shall be considered to be highly productive land for purposes of acreage limitations, except under certain conditions. Specifies those lands which may receive project water three years after enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to deliver project water to bona fide religious or nonprofit charitable organizations and certain excess lands, provided that such lands otherwise would be eligible to receive project water. Amends existing Federal reclamation laws to delete the 25-year limitation on the period during which lessees of lands owned by States and political subdivisions which are subject to acreage limitations may receive project water. States that no provision of Federal reclamation law shall apply to landholdings receiving benefits from a Federal water resources project which has not been designated as a Federal reclamation project. Requires an owner or qualified lessee of a limited or qualified landholding to be a resident of such landholding to be eligible to receive project water for agriculture purposes. Prohibits an owner of a qualified landholding acquired after the enactment of this Act from leasing such landholding unless the Secretary determines that the owner, during each of the last five years after acquiring the land, has derived 51 percent of his or her income directly from agricultural production. Authorizes the Secretary to waive or grant exemptions from such agricultural production requirements. Exempts from such requirement any owner who resides within 50 miles of the landholding. Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to direct the Secretary to publish notice of the proposed contract or amendment and provide an opportunity for written comments, before entering into or amending any repayment contract or contract concerning the delivery of project water for irrigation purposes. Permits the owner of any excess land: (1) to dispose of such land before the end of the term of a recordable contract, to specified persons, at a price approved by the Secretary; or (2) to request the Secretary to dispose of such land by lottery. Vests power of attorney in the Secretary to sell such land, if it is not sold by the end of the term of the contract. Repeals provisions which limit the right to receive water on sold excess lands until one-half of the construction charges have been paid. Sets forth requirements to be met before a sale of excess land, or resale of such land within 15 years of initial sale, shall carry rights to receive project water. Declares that any nonexcess land which is acquired into excess status pursuant to foreclosure or other process of law, conveyance in satisfaction of mortgage, inheritance, or devise, may be sold at its fair market value without regard to provisions of this Act or existing law. Approves water contracts pertaining to qualified landholdings, which provide that relief from acreage limitations will result upon full payment of construction charges. Specifies the expiration date for acreage limitations following the repayment of construction charges which shall apply in any case in which such date is not specified in the project repayment contract. Directs the Secretary to provide a landholder with a certificate acknowledging any relief from acreage limitations. Sets forth administrative rules and regulations for purposes of this Act and penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1980
Provides that Government life insurance shall be paid in accordance with any election of the insured. Stipulates that if at the time of death no such election has been made, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall notify the beneficiary who shall elect whether to receive payment in a lump sum or in installments. Directs the Administrator to notify all insured individuals have not made such election concerning the effect of this Act.