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United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Independent Local Newspaper Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to promote the survival of independent newspapers by providing for the establishment of tax exempt trusts for paying estate taxes on such papers, and by postponing the payment of estate taxes on such papers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Independent Local Newspaper Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to promote the survival of independent newspapers by providing for the establishment of tax exempt trusts for paying estate taxes on such papers, and by postponing the payment of estate taxes on such papers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Independent Local Newspaper Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to promote the survival of independent newspapers by providing for the establishment of tax exempt trusts for paying estate taxes on such papers, and by postponing the payment of estate taxes on such papers.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to local governments and urban and insular areas for the rehabilitation and development of recreation areas and facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Authorizes the appropriation of a specified sum for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for fiscal year 1979. Allocates the amount authorized to named programs of the Commission. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1953 to require any person proposing to enter into an arrangement with the Commission for the conduct of research, development, evaluation activities, or for technical and management support services to furnish such information to the Commission as will allow a determination as to the existence or absence of a conflict-of-interest.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Modifies the southern boundary of the Salt River Maricopa Indian Reservation, Arizona. Declares that the United States shall have all rights and interests in specified lands including portions of the Arizona Canal right-of-way within the boundaries of the Salt River Indian Reservation and other reclamation project lands.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to increase from $10,000,000 to $25,000,000 the 1979 and 1980 fiscal years authorization concerning: initial regulatory procedures over surface coal mining operations; the program for mining and reclamation projects on Federal lands; and the study of regulation of surface mining on Indian lands. Amends such Act to increase by $15,000,000 for fiscal years 1979 and 1980 and by $5,000,000 for the next 13 fiscal years the sums authorized to be appropriated for State and Federal regulatory authority payments of expenses incurred by coal surface mining operators producing less than 100,000 tons annually in meeting application requirements regarding the determination of probable hydrologic consequences and test boring and core sampling results.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Establishes the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area National Recreation Area, in Minnesota. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the areas. Directs the Secretary to restrict motorboat usage on specified lakes and rivers within the wilderness. Permits certain owners of commercially operated resorts to require the Secretary to purchase their interests. Permits such owners to retain a limited area for personal use. Directs affected owners to offer the Secretary the right of first refusal to purchase specified lands. Directs the Secretary to terminate, within a year, the timber sale contracts in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Provides for compensation for the termination of such contracts. Establishes procedures for the management of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area National Recreation Area. Prohibits mining in the wilderness and recreation areas and provides for the acquisition of any mining or mineral rights therein. Directs the Secretary to cooperate with the State of Minnesota in the administration of the areas covered by this Act. Provides that nothing in this Act shall effect rights established by the treaties of the United States. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a comprehensive management plan concerning the areas. Establishes the Boundary Waters Canoe Area National Recreational Area Advisory Commission to assist and advise the Secretary concerning the management of the areas.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1978
Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop research, development, and demonstration programs concerning the use of solar photovoltaic energy systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to 75 percent of the purchase and installation costs of selected systems used for research purposes. Requires the Secretary to formulate definitive performance criteria concerning solar photovoltaic systems and to develop a system certification for conforming systems. Directs the Secretary to consult with relevant Federal agencies concerning the use of solar photovoltaic systems in Federal facilities. Requires the Secretary to set up a development and demonstration program of prototype photovoltaic systems at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. Directs the Secretary to establish a solar energy data bank at the Golden facility. Requires relevant Federal officials to ensure that small business concerns are granted realistic and adequate opportunities to participate, to the maximum extent possible, in the programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1978
Federal Disclosure and Accountability Act - Prohibits any Federal employee from coercing any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right of such individual to disclose any illegal or otherwise improper Government action to the Review Board on Improper Government Actions, established by this Act and from taking any adverse personnel action against such individual who is a Federal employee in retaliation for such disclosure. Requires the Board to investigate any such disclosure and, in the event further investigation or action is warranted, to notify the person, the head of the agency in which such person is employed, and, if appropriate, the Attorney General and/or the Comptroller General.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Comprehensive Family Planning Services, Research in Human Reproduction, and Prevention of Unwanted Teenage Pregnancy Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit entities to assist: (1) in the establishment, maintenance and expansion of voluntary family planning projects which offer a broad range of family planning methods (including natural family planning methods) to all persons who need and desire them; (2) in the provision through such projects of comprehensive services appropriate to the needs of teenagers who are at risk of unwanted pregnancy; and (3) in the establishment and operation of demonstration projects aimed toward the alleviation of problems of infertility through counseling, referral, and medical services to persons who need and desire them. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public or nonprofit private entities and enter into contracts with public or nonprofit private entities and individuals: (1) to establish and maintain a network of community-based informational and educational services designed to help adolescents more fully understand the risks and consequences of teenage pregnancy and childbearing; and (2) to assist in developing appropriate information and educational materials for dissemination to such community-based services. Requires the Secretary to annually report a plan for achieving the purposes set forth in this Act with particular emphasis on assistance to adolescents. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for fiscal years 1979 through 1981 to carry out the programs specified in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1978
Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to increase from $10,000,000 to $19,068,000 the 1979 fiscal year authorization concerning: initial regulatory procedures over surface coal mining operations; the program for mining and reclamation projects on Federal lands; and the study of regulation of surface mining on Indian lands.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1978
Authorizes and directs the President to designate April 18, 1978, as "Education Day, U.S.A."
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial, technical, and other assistance to State foresters or equivalent State officials for: (1) the rural forestry assistance program; (2) the forestry incentive program; (3) insect and disease control; (4) urban and community forestry assistance programs; (5) fire prevention and control in rural communities and areas; (6) fire prevention and control on non-Federal forest and rural lands; (7) forest resources management and planning assistance programs; and (8) cooperative technology implementation programs. Permits the Secretary to make consolidated payments to a State in lieu of functional cost-sharing mechanisms, formulas, or agreements. Establishes within the Treasury of the United States a special rural fire disaster fund. Requires annual reports to Congress on these programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Forest and Rangeland Reweable Resources Research Act - Establishes a program of investigations, experiments, tests, and other activities necessary to obtain, analyze, demonstrate, and disseminate scientific information about protecting, managing, and utilizing forest and rangeland renewable resources in rural, suburban, and urban areas. Specifies the content of renewable resource management, environmental, protection, utilization, and assessment research fields. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish forest and rangeland research facilities and to make competitive grants to public and private institutions and agencies and to individuals to further such research activities. Directs the Secretary to make and keep current a comprehensive survey and analysis of the present and prospective conditions of and requirements for the renewable resources of the forests and rangelands of the United States and of the supplies of such renewable resources. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary. Repeals the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Renewable Resources Extension Act - Provides for a nationally coordinated program to insure the most efficient utilization of forest and rangeland renewable resources. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Renewable Resources Extension Program in cooperation with State directors of cooperative extension service programs and eligible colleges and universities. Requires the Secretary and relevant State officials to cooperate in the identification and study of needed areas of research, and in the dissemination of the results of such research. Requires the Secretary to coordinate the establishment of ongoing training programs for landowner, processors and other interested parties. Directs the Secretary to prepare a five-year Renewable Resources Extension Program to provide national guidance for State programs. Requires annual reporting to Congress on implementation of the plan.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Authorizes the immediate supervisor of any Federal employee who has applied for continuation pay during a period of disability caused by a work injury to require such employee to submit to an examination by a physician designated by the supervisor for the purposes of obtaining a second opinion concerning the employee's claim. Prohibits the payment of continuation pay for the first three days of disability unless the period of disability exceeds 14 days.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Directs the President, when making comparability pay adjustments for Government officials and employees, to make additional adjustments for the purpose of maintaining pay distinctions between grades, steps within grades, schedules, and other levels of pay which would exist but for the operation of the statutory requirement limiting the rates of pay of certain positions to the rate of pay for level V of the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Revises the list of officials who are members of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, and makes similar other revisions to reflect the changes of titles of officials and agencies resulting from the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act. Increases the maximum amount which the Corporation is authorized to borrow from the Treasury of the United States. Extends through fiscal year 1990 the authority of the Corporation to issue obligations. Stipulates that the Corporation, in carrying out its duties (1) shall request the Council of the District of Columbia to close any street or alley when required to implement the plan and shall receive title to such property without cost, barring the existence of a reverter to a private landowner and (2) may transfer title and jurisdiction to real property which is to be dedicated to public uses to the United States or District of Columbia. Increases and extends the appropriation authorization for the administrative expenses of the Corporation. Replaces the set dollar authorization for implementation of the development plan with an authorization for such sums as may be necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1978
Nuclear Siting and Licensing Act - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to establish a licensing process for the siting, construction, and operation of nuclear power reactors which meet applicable safety and environmental criteria. Title I: Planning, Siting, and Licensing - Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to encourage or require persons proposign to construct and operate or to operate nuclear power reactors, and persons proposing to obtain site permits or such facilities to engage in open and advance planning for such addition of generating capacity and site selection. States that the Commission and interested persons shall be given the opportunity to participate in such advance planning in order to promote the early identification and resolution of issues which may exist with respect to a potential site or facility. Directs the Commission to require that a person proposing to obtain approval of a standardized facility design notify the Commission of intent to file an application therefore not less than six months prior thereto, and that persons proposing to obtain approval to construct and/or operate a production or utilization facility, or to obtain a site permit for such a facility, notify both the Commission and the State in which the facility is proposed to be located not less than six months before applying for such approval. Requires the Commission, on receiving such notification, to take steps to notify through the Federal Register and major local newspapers, concerned or affected persons. Prohibits the Commission from granting a construction permit or a combined construction permit and operating license for a thermal neutron power generation facility unless the State, a political subdivision thereof, or another public authority which has direct authority over electric generating facilities, certifies to the Commission, after a hearing, the specific need for the facility. Provides for public participation at such hearing. Provides for the approval by the Commission of limited facility site preparation by an applicant before final approval of the construction or operation permit upon the determination that there is reasonable assurance that specified findings respecting health, safety, and environmental considerations have been made. Specifies nuclear power facility licensing and construction proceedings concerning which the Commission is required to hold a hearing upon the request of any person whose interest may be affected by such proceeding. Requires the Commission, in any proceeding for: (1) a combined construction permit and operating license; (2) the granting of a site permit; or (3) the approval of a standardized facility design, to hold a hearing and to admit as a party any person whose interest may be affected by such hearing. States that such hearings shall be conducted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. Specifies the means by which public notice of such hearing shall be given. Authorizes the Commission to issue an interim operating license or an interim amendment to an operating license for a production or utilization facility, or to allow interim operation of a facility for which a combined construction permit and operating license had been issued, in advance of the conduct or completion of any required hearing. States that no such interim license or operation may be issued or commenced unless the Commission has determined: (1) that there is an urgent public need for such issuance or commencement; and (2) that any required hearings have been completed with respect to matters of public health and safety, or the common defense and security. Limits such interim license or operation to 12 months except when good cause can be shown for the extension of such period. Authorizes the Commission to issue a site permit for approval of a site for one or more thermal neutron power generation facilities prior to the filing of an application for a construction permit or combined construction permit and operating license for such facility or facilities. Sets forth the requirements for the application for such a permit. States that such a permit shall be valid for ten years. Provides for renewal of such permits. Authorizes and directs the Commission to establish procedures under which it may approve the preliminary or final design for a thermal neutron power generation facility or to approve the preliminary or final standardized designs for any major subsystem of such a facility notwithstanding the fact that no application for a construction permit or combined construction permit and operating license for such facility has been filed. States that such approval designs shall be valid for five years. Provides for the renewal of such approval. Title II: Federal and State Reviews - Provides for the review by the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safety of construction permits, site permits, approvals of standardized facility designs, and extensions thereof, upon the referral to such Committee of those matters by the Commission. Directs the Commission to notify any State in which a nuclear power generation facility is proposed to be located, of the filing of an application for approval of such facility. Permits the affected State to elect to determine the environmental acceptability of and/or need for the proposed facility, or to evaluate discrete, limited aspects of the environmental acceptability of and/or need for such facility. Declares that the action of a State, in making the required determinations and evaluations, shall discharge the Commission from its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with regard to such determinations and evaluations. Sets forth the requirements of State programs under this Title. Authorizes the Commission to make grants to any State or authorized interstate or regional agency for the purpose of assisting in the development or administration of a program for evaluating the environmental impact or determining the need of a nuclear power generating facility. Directs the Commission, with respect to any application for a site permit, for approval of a standardized facility design, for a construction permit and/or operating license, or for a manufacturing license, to establish a schedule for the conduct and completion of all required Commission reviews and decisions. Authorizes the Commission to cooperate with other Federal, State, or regional agencies with review and/or decisionmaking authority regarding new nuclear power reactor facilities. Title III: Intervenors - Authorizes the Commission to establish a pilot program for finding intervenors in initial or renewal licensing proceedings. States that the amount paid, if any, shall be determined based upon the intervenor's contribution to the proceedings. Directs that criteria for determining the eligibility for payment of an intervenor shall include: (1) the intervenor's interest in the matter; (2) the likelihood of the intervenor's participation leading to the presentation of substantive arguments and views; and (3) the necessity of such payment for the intervenor's participation. Title IV: Conforming Amendments - Amends specified provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to conform to the changes effected by this Act. Title V: Effective Dates - Establishes the dates on which the provisions set forth in this Act shall become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior should coordinate development of the National Wilderness Preservation System; (2) interested persons should participate in the present roadless area reviews; and (3) future uses of roadless lands be decided as rapidly as possible.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1978
Title I: Establishment of Park - Establishes, in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, the Lowell National Historical Park. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for development of such Park. Title II: Role of the Secretary - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to submit a park management plan to Congress. Provides for consultation with the Lowell city manager, the Lowell National Historical Park Commission, established by this Act, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in developing such plan. Sets requirements for acquisition of specified properties for the Park. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance in preservation, restoration, and other use of park properties. Provides for agreements with park property owners for provision of exhibits and programs. Permits withholding of park management plan funds by the Secretary if the city of Lowell fails to meet specified criteria. Title III: Role of the Commission - Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Lowell National Historical Park Commission to administer the preservation zone. Requires the Commission to file park preservation plans with the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to publish notice of the approval of park preservation plans in the Federal Register. Directs the Commission to make loans, grants, and technical assistance for the preservation, restoration, or development of specified park property. Provides for the acquisition and disposition of property by the Commission. Enumerates the powers of the Commission, including the holding of hearings, and provides for the staff of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1978
Solar Energy Transition Act - Directs each Federal agency to use and encourage the use of solar energy technologies. Requires each agency to review the programs, projects, and policies it is administering and assess the feasibility of alternative approaches utilizing solar energy technologies. Directs the Secretary of Energy to develop guidelines and otherwise assist the Federal agencies in the review required by this Act. Establishes the National Solar Energy Advisory Council to advise the Secretary in the performance of his duties under this Act. Directs the Secretary to report to the President and Congress annually starting April 20, 1980 on the progress of the Federal Government and the nation in converting to solar energy.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1978
Expresses the condemnation of the House of Representatives of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) Italy deserves the support of the United States, and (2) the President should instruct the Permanent Representative to the United Nations to press for consideration of solutions to the problem of terrorism in all appropriate forums.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1978
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the seizure and forfeiture of vessels, vehicles, and aircraft used to illegally transport aliens into the United States. Sets forth exceptions to such authority, including a vessel, vehicle, or aircraft used as a common carrier unless the owner or other person in charge was at the time of the alleged illegal act a consenting party or privy thereto. Provides for such seizure without a warrant if incident to an arrest, or if the Attorney General has probable cause to believe such illegal transport occurred.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1978
Expresses the condemnation by the Congress of the March 11, 1978, attack on Israel by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the expressed intention of the PLO to continue such attacks and to disrupt the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Requests the President to make the disapproval of the Congress known to governments approving the PLO attack. Expresses Congressional approval of the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Urges other Middle East countries to join such efforts. Declares negotiation to be the best way to bring peace to the Middle East.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Solar Global Marketing Survey Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to conduct a global market survey to determine which foreign countries might serve as markets for solar energy equipment manufactured in the United States. Requires such survey be computed by September 1, 1980. Limits the amount which may be authorized to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Title I: Small Business Act Amendments - Empowers the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make loans to assist any small business concern in financing plant construction and equipment acquisition for the production, installation, or maintenance of solar energy equipment or other energy conservation equipment. Permits the Administration to make grants to non-profit organizations for the establishment of training seminars that teach small business concerns methods of design, installation, and maintenance of solar energy equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Foreign Mission Solar Energy Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of State to demonstrate solar energy and other renewable energy technologies by using such energy sources in Foreign Service buildings located abroad. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Energy concerning the most viable techniques adaptable to the local resources and environmental conditions of the host country. Requires the Secretary of State to insure that projects under this Act are demonstrated to, and are available for inspection by, officials and other citizens of the host country. Directs the Secretary to give priority to projects in less developed countries.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations corresponding to the principles set forth in a certain private letter ruling relating to the exclusion from gross income of amounts deferred by participants in public deferred compensation plans.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Declares it the sense of Congress that the United States should encourage the United Nations to hold a World Alternate Energy Conference to consider alternate ways to meet the world's energy needs and to establish an International Alternate Energy Commission to encourage worldwide use of alternate energy sources.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Authorizes the Administrator of the General Services to dispose of up to 45,000 long tons of tin presently held in the national and supplemental stockpiles. Stipulates that: (1) up to 26,000 long tons of such tin, or the proceeds from the sale thereof, shall be used to obtain up to 225,000 short tons of copper; (2) the proceeds from the sale of the first 5,000 long tons of tin sold pursuant in this Act in fiscal year 1978 and the proceeds from the sale of the first 10,000 long tons of such tin sold in fiscal year 1979 shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts; and (3) 4,000 long tons of such tin, or the proceeds from the sale thereof shall be used to acquire strategic and critical materials which are needed on a priority basis. Authorizes the Administrator to use any quantity of tungsten or the proceeds from the sale thereof, which is available for disposal to aid in the acquisition of the 225,000 short tons of copper (except that the proceeds from the sale of the first 3,000,000 pounds of tungsten for each of the fiscal years 1978 and 1979 may not be used for such purpose). Stipulates that the copper acquired pursuant to this Act shall be placed in the national stockpile.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Title I: Energy Use, Application, Conservation, and Regulation - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulation Commission for fiscal year 1979. Declares that nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize funds for research and development purposes or for the testing or production of atomic weapons or other nuclear weapons activity. Authorizes funds to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for gas regulation functions, hydroelectric regulations functions, and multiresource functions. Authorizes funds to the Economic Regulatory Administration for coal utilization functions, conservation, regulation, emergency preparedness, and policy and management functions. Authorizes funds for the Energy Information Administration. Authorizes funds for specified conservation and solar applications. Authorizes funds for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Plan, multiresource alternative fuels demonstration program, and for policy and management function concerning resource applications. Authorizes funds for environmental overview and assessment functions and consumer affairs and competition. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated to the Department of Energy for the 1978 fiscal year for the purchase or lease of vehicles for use in vanpooling arrangements unless such use is specifically permitted by statute. Limits the reprogramming of funds. Title II: Amendments to Energy Conservation and Production Act and Certain Other Energy Related Acts - Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to establish an Office of Competition and Consumer Affairs within the Department of Energy. Amends the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 to extend to December 31, 1979, the authority to issue orders and rules as specified under this Act. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to permit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to exercise certain functions without the express assignment of such functions to the Commission by the Department of Energy. Limits the authority of the chairman of the Commission to make appointments of hearing examiners. Title III: Power Marketing Administration; Resource Development - Authorizes the appropriation of funds to implement the authority over specified programs transferred to the Department of Energy concerning flood control, naval petroleum reserves, and other programs. Authorizes the appropriation of funds for the Alaska Power Administration. Authorizes funds for the Western Area Power Administration to be used for electric power transmission and marketing, unusual or emergency conditions, and the Upper Colorado River Storage project. Authorizes funds for the Southwestern Power Administration and the Southeastern Power Administration. Authorizes funds to the Department of Energy for resource development and management of naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. Delineates specified procedures for the reprogramming of funds. Title IV: Uranium Management and Use of Nuclear Energy - Authorizes funds for specified programs concerning uranium management and the use of nuclear energy. Delineates specified procedures for the reprogramming of funds. Title V: Charge for Uranium Enrichment Services - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to specify that the prices charged by the government for uranium enrichment services shall assure the recovery of the government's costs over a reasonable time. Requires further that prices shall result in revenues sufficient to cover normal business expenses, taxes and return on equity which would otherwise be reflected in prices charged by a private operator providing similar services. Provides for congressional review of pricing schedules before implementation. Title VI: Amendments to Title V of the National Energy Extension Service Act - Amends the National Energy Extension Service Act to delete the proviso requiring no matching State or local funds for the development of guidelines for extending service. Deletes from the formula used to compute the allocations for individual States, the requirement that the latest decennial census be used. Requires matching State or local funds for the implementation of the energy extension services contemplated by this Act. Title VII: Program Direction - Authorizes the appropriation of funds for specified administrative management and support functions of the Department of Energy. Title VIII: General Provisions - Permits the Secretary of Energy, pursuant to specified Acts, to authorize the expenditure of funds for facilities or equipment to be located outside the installations of the Department of Energy. Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 120 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $5,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of Congress unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of Energy has presented to all the appropriate Congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of this requirement where such waiver is signed by each appropriate committee of Congress. Prohibits the start of construction projects whose costs exceed by more than 25 percent the estimated cost of the project waives this requirement concerning construction projects having an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Authorizes the start of general plant projects only under specified circumstances. Allows the Secretary to expend funds authorized for construction design services where such funds are included in a bill before Congress and the Secretary determines that the projects urgently need for national defense, public safety, or other specified purposes. Permits the Department of Energy to retain any moneys received from uranium enrichment and other reimbursable programs except for sums received from the disposal of property pursuant to the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, or the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act, or with respect to fees received for tests or investigations under the Act of May 16, 1910, as amended. Limits the authority, under this Act, to enter into contracts obligating the United States to those outlays that are provided for in advance in appropriation acts.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Amends Title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act to increase the ceiling imposed upon payments for services under such Title for the fiscal years 1979, 1980, 1981 and maintains the 1981 level for succeeding years.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of April 16 through April 22, 1978, as "National Oceans Week."
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1978
Reclamation Safety of Dams Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to modify Bureau of Reclamation dams and related facilities in order to preserve structural safety.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide graduted income tax rates for corporations with a maximum rate of 45 percent on income in excess of $150,000 and a minimum rate of 18 percent on income not in excess of $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act - Title I: Tribally Controlled Community Colleges - Provides for educational grants by the Secretary of the Interior to tribally controlled Indian community colleges. Provides that schools eligible for such grants shall be: (1) formally controlled, sanctioned or chartered by an Indian tribe or tribes; (2) governed by a board of directors, a majority of whom are Indians; (3) directed by stated goals, philosophy, or plan of action aimed at meeting the needs of Indians; and (4) attended by students, a majority of whom must be Indians if the school has been in operation more than one year. Authorizes technical assistance to the schools. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to contract with the Assistant Secretary of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for feasibility studies of individual schools. Requires such studies to be conducted by the Secretary of the Interior upon tribal request. Provides for the administration, and funding of these grants, with certain rule-making authority being vested in the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations of stated amounts for three years. Directs the Secretary to make annual reports and recommendations to Congress on the program. Stipulates that assistance under this Act shall not, in itself, prevent any recipient college from receiving other educational assistance. Directs the Secretary to prepare a report, on existing and planned tribally controlled community college facilities, Bureau of Indian Affairs facilities which could reasonably be converted to such use. Excludes the Navajo Tribe from the provisions of this title, as well as any colleges which limit enrollment to specific tribes. Title II: Construction Grants - Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress by November, 1979, a survey and study on the academic facilities required by tribally controlled community colleges. Authorizes the Secretary to make planning and construction grants to the colleges upon proper applications and showings. Excludes the Navajo Tribe, as well as any colleges which limit enrollment to specific tribes, from the provisions of this title. Title III: Navajo Community College - Navajo Community College Assistance Act - Amends the Navajo Community College Act to authorize construction appropriations of $60,000,000 for the College over the three years following this enactment. Appropriates additional operating and maintenance appropriations for the College. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish procedures to control such appropriations and to segregate them from appropriations for Navajo programs historically expended by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Increases from $500,000 to $1,000,000 the amount authorized to be appropriated annually for the expenses of the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Social Security Refinancing Act - Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to finance the payment of disability insurance benefits and hospital insurance benefits through general tax revenues, rather than through employment and self-employment tax revenues. Reduces employment and self-employment tax rates below the rates established by the Social Security Financing Amendments of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1978
Limits the number and salaries of persons who may be employed in the White House Office, the Executive Residence at the White House or by the Vice President, the Domestic Policy Staff, or the Office of Administration, at salary levels equivalent to those above GS-16 of the General Schedule. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,000,000 to be used by the President at his discretion to meet unanticipated needs, including personnel needs. Permits the detailing of employees of Federal agencies to the offices specified in this Act, but requires the President to notify Congress annually as to who is so detailed and who is performing the duties which would otherwise be performed by such employee had such employee not been so detailed. Increases the President's travel allowance from $40,000 to $100,000. Replaces specified statutory references to the Executive Mansion and the White House with the term "Executive Residence at the White House."
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Title I: Establishment of Park - Establishes, in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, the Lowell National Cultural Park, consisting of a preservation zone and an intensive use zone, to preserve sites and structures through implementation of the plan of the Lowell Historic Canal District Commission. Title II: Role of the Secretary - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to submit a park management plan to Congress. Provides for consultation with the Lowell city manager and the Lowell National Cultural Park Commission, established by this Act, in setting preservation, restoration, and use standards. Sets requirements for acquisition of property within the preservation zone. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance in preservation, restoration, and other use of park properties. Permits withholding of park management plan funds by the Secretary if the city of Lowell fails to meet specified criteria. Title III: Role of the Commission - Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Lowell National Cultural Park Commission to administer the preservation zone. Requires the Commission to submit management plans and an index of Federal Register and other potentially significant historic cultural or architectural properties. Directs the Commission to make loans, grants, and technical assistance for the preservation, restoration, or development of the park. Provides for the acquisition and disposition of property by the Commission. Enumerates the powers of the Commission, including the holding of hearings, and provides for the staff of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1978
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to repeal the requirement that the administrator of an employee benefit plan file with the Secretary of Labor a copy of the summary plan description at times when copies of such description are required to be furnished to participants and beneficiaries. Directs the Secretary to make every effort to minimize reporting requirements for plans with 25 or fewer participants. Revises requirements for annual statements to employee benefit plan beneficiaries. Provides for small business representation on the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans. Specifies deadlines by which requested administrative action must be taken. Revises guidelines for fiduciaries investing employee benefit plan funds.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1978
Declares that it shall be the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the traditional religions of American Indians. Requires the President to direct the Federal departments and agencies to evaluate their policies and procedures in consultation with native religious leaders to determine appropriate changes necessary to protect Native American religious cultural rights and practices.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Federal Disclosure and Accountability Act - Prohibits any Federal employee from coercing any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right of such individual to disclose any illegal or otherwise improper Government action to the Review Board on Improper Government Actions, established by this Act and from taking any adverse personnel action against such individual who is a Federal employee in retaliation for such disclosure. Requires the Board to investigate any such disclosure and, in the event further investigation or action is warranted, to notify the person, the head of the agency in which such person is employed, and, if appropriate, the Attorney General and/or the Comptroller General.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Authorizes and directs the President to designate May 21, 1978 as "Firefighters' Memorial Sunday."
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Authorizes funds to be appropriated for activities and programs administered through the Bureau of Land Management, pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Title I: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979 - Authorizes appropriations for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to be used for research on domestic safeguard matters, 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 1980 - Authorizes such sums to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as may be necessary for fiscal year 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Amends the fiscal year 1978 authorization for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by increasing from $22,090,000 to $24,790,000 the amount authorized for nuclear materials safety and safeguards.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Designates May 3, 1978, as "Sun Day."