United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to make a private brand product processed in whole or in part in the United States and composed in whole or in part of U.S. agricultural commodities eligible for market promotion assistance. Sets forth related marketing plan requirements. Requires an eligible trade organization to establish per country market penetration goals. Limits per country promotion assistance to the attainment of such goal.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Wild Bird Conservation Act of 1992 - Prohibits, as of four years after enactment of this Act, the U.S. importation of any exotic bird species which is not included in an approved species list to be established by the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) or otherwise permitted by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to establish specific annual species quotas based upon specified criteria. Requires the Secretary, in the absence of any specific quota, to establish general quotas which shall reduce imports by 25 percent during each year of the four-year phase-in period. Directs the Secretary to establish an approved list of exotic birds which may be imported without an import permit. Sets forth inclusion criteria. Authorizes any person to petition the Secretary to establish or remove a quota, restriction, or moratorium under this Act. Makes it unlawful to import into the United States a species subject to a moratorium, or to import beyond permitted limits a species subject to import restrictions. Authorizes the Secretary to allow, through the issuance of import permits, the importation of any exotic bird upon determination that such importation is not detrimental to the species' survival and that the bird is being imported for one of the following reasons: (1) scientific research; (2) a personal pet; (3) zoological display; (4) religious purposes; or (5) cooperative breeding programs. Sets forth civil penalties. Authorizes the Secretary to take specified action with regard to the conservation or conditions for international trade of other wildlife and plant species. Establishes the Exotic Bird Conservation Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to review opportunities for a voluntary program of bird labeling, retail outlet and breeding facilities certification, and privately run foreign technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Commission on the Airplane Crash at Gander, Newfoundland, Act - Establishes in the legislative branch of the Government the Commission on the Airplane Crash at Gander, Newfoundland. Directs the Commission to investigate and study the circumstances surrounding the crash of an Arrow Airlines airplane near Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, on December 12, 1985. Requires a report to the President and the Congress on findings and conclusions.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Congressional Foreign Travel Accountability Act of 1992 - Prohibits Federal funds from being made available for foreign travel expenses by a Senator, Representative, or any officer or employee of either House of Congress unless such expenses are paid out of a specific appropriation for such purposes. Requires all foreign travel regulated by this Act to be accomplished by the most economical means conveniently possible. Provides for reimbursement of the costs of any transportation and lodging provided by the Government from the specific travel appropriation. Requires congressional committees to: (1) establish guidelines for foreign travel by their members and employees to avoid unnecessary trips; and (2) file quarterly reports with respect to such travel which shall be made available for public inspection. Requires such reports to be destroyed six years after being filed unless they are required in an ongoing investigation. Makes it unlawful for any person to obtain or use a report for: (1) any unlawful purposes; (2) any commercial purpose other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public; or (3) use in the solicitation of money for any political, charitable, or other purpose. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Primary Care Health Practitioner Incentive Act of 1992 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide increased Medicare reimbursement for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives (practitioners) at 97 percent of the physician fee schedule amount for services performed without regard to location or practice setting. Provides for bonus payments for services provided by such practitioners in health professional shortage areas. Defines "clinical nurse specialist" as an individual who is a registered nurse and is licensed to practice nursing in the State in which the clinical nurse specialist services are performed and holds a master's degree in a defined clinical area of nursing from an accredited educational institution.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) as part of the Uruguay Round and North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations, negotiate tariffication of Canada's chicken supply management system and the elimination of processed chicken from Canada's Import Control List; (2) seek the elimination of new duties imposed by Canada on chicken imports in accordance with the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement; and (3) oppose any Canadian activity which results in lost sales for U.S. chicken exporters and restricts U.S. access to Canadian markets.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Designates October 24 through November 1, 1992, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug Free America. Recognize the hard work and dedication of those involved in combatting substance abuse.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1992
Cofiring Promotion Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) implement a program of research and demonstration of cofiring (of natural gas and coal) in utility and large industrial boilers in order to determine optimal natural gas injection levels for environmental and operational benefits; and (2) provide financial assistance for half the costs of such cofiring technology projects. Requires the Secretary to provide a status report to the Congress by a specified deadline. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1992
Community and Residents Education at Hazardous Waste Sites Act of 1992 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to conduct health studies at any hazardous waste facility and take other actions with respect to risks to human health posed by such facility. Requires the ATSDR Administrator, if a health study finds that the exposure concerned may present a health risk, to notify the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State (if the State has an authorized hazardous waste program) and recommend actions necessary to reduce the exposure and eliminate or mitigate risks. Directs the EPA Administrator or the State to order the owner or operator of the facility to take steps to reduce the exposure and eliminate or mitigate the risks. Provides for public participation in health studies, including public meetings and comments on proposed studies and public availability of completed studies. Permits petitions to request the performance of a health study. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the ATSDR Administrator to: (1) develop a plan to perform health assessments at hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facilities identified under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) give priority in selecting such facilities to the 25 facilities believed to present the highest risk to human health; and (3) report to the Congress on such assessments, including findings on exposure and risk reduction and efforts to improve responsiveness to communities. Establishes: (1) an ATSDR Peer Review Board to carry out technical and scientific peer review of ATSDR health studies; and (2) an ATSDR Citizen Review Board to monitor ATSDR and EPA responsiveness to citizen concerns and to make recommendations on ways to improve citizen involvement and the readability of documents intended for public consumption. Requires: (1) the Peer Review Board to review and report to the Congress on the quality of the ATSDR health assessments; and (2) the Citizen Review Board to report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the ATSDR in responding to the needs of communities for information on health effects of hazardous wastes. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the ATSDR Administrator to make health education grants to any group that may be affected by exposure to hazardous wastes from a facility with respect to which a health study is being conducted. Permits such grants to be used for obtaining the following from health professionals: (1) information about threats of exposure and actions that can be taken to reduce exposure; (2) assistance in interpreting and reviewing health assessments and studies and other information developed by the ATSDR and other agencies; and (3) assistance in preparing public comments and in designing community health surveillance techniques. Limits the amount of such grants. Authorizes grant cost recovery from hazardous waste facility owners or operators as a condition of receiving a facility permit. Applies small purchase or other simplified procurement procedures to grant recipients. Permits grant cost recovery as a response cost under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 from persons contributing to hazardous substance releases in cases where a health assessment or study discloses exposure of a population to such releases. Authorizes the EPA Administrator to make specified amounts available to the Director of the Office of Research and Development for grants to demonstrate nonincineration technologies for the treatment of dioxin and hazardous wastes and substances. Requires the EPA Administrator to consider the use of nonincineration treatment technologies in corrective and response actions and to promote public participation in such demonstrations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1992
Infrastructure Investment Accounting Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to require the annual budget submitted by the President to be a unified budget which includes an infrastructure investment account. Requires such budget to present prior, current, and future proposed amounts and contain: (1) unified budget financing requirements; and (2) for the infrastructure investment account physical infrastructure revenues, physical infrastructure investments, physical infrastructure financing requirements before interfund transfers, interfund transfers, and physical infrastructure financing requirements. Requires the President, in addition to the unified budget, to present such information for accounts, agencies, and functions. States that the infrastructure investment account includes only the major activities, projects, and programs which support the acquistition, construction, alteration, and rehabilitation of physical infrastructure. Requires all other activities, projects, and programs to be represented elsewhere in the unified budget. Defines a unified budget as one in which revenues and expenses for general funds, trust funds, and enterprise funds are consolidated to display totals for the Federal Government as a whole, including operating expenses. Requires the Comptroller General, as necessary, to review and report to the Congress on the implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that any legislation passed by the Congress to address American health care needs must include coverage for mental disorders.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1992
Agricultural Market Promotion Program Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to make a private brand product processed entirely in the United States and composed in whole or in part of U.S. agricultural commodities eligible for market promotion assistance. Sets forth related marketing plan requirements. Requires an eligible trade organization to establish per country market penetration goals. Limits per country promotion assistance to the attainment of such goal.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1992
National Pursuit Awareness Act of 1992 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to make grants to States under the drug control and system improvement grant program for programs that increase awareness and improve public safety through implementation of policies and training procedures to regulate the use of vehicular pursuit by law enforcement officers (officers) of criminal suspects. Reduces BJA formula grants by 25 percent (for redistribution to other participating States) to any State that by the first day of each fiscal year after FY 1995: (1) does not have in effect a law which prohibits the driver of a motor vehicle from increasing speed or taking other evasive action if an officer signals the driver to stop and which provides a minimum penalty of three months imprisonment and seizure of the violator's vehicle for such a violation; and (2) does not require each State agency employing officers who may conduct a motor vehicle pursuit in the course of employment to have in effect a policy which describes the manner and circumstances in which such a pursuit should be conducted and terminated, to train all officers of the agency in accordance with such policy, and to transmit to the State in such fiscal year a report containing information on each motor vehicle pursuit conducted by an officer of the agency. Requires: (1) the Attorney General, the Secretaries of Agriculture, Interior, and Treasury, the Chief of the Capitol Police, and the Administrator of the General Services Administration to report to the Congress on department policy on motor vehicle pursuits by department officers, and on procedures used to train department officers in implementation of such policy; and (2) each such policy to meet the requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1992
Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to establish as one of Amtrak's goals the achievement, by October 1, 2000, of a positive ratio of annual revenue to annual operating costs. Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to establish in the Treasury an Intercity Rail Passenger Capital Improvement Trust Fund to provide moneys to improve the safety of intercity rail passenger operations. Requires amounts from a one cent tax imposed on each gallon of diesel and gasoline to be deposited into the Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1992
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the payment limitation with respect to mental health services furnished to skilled nursing facility residents.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1992
Expansion of Processed and High-Value Agricultural Exports and Employment Opportunities Act of 1992 - Establishes: (1) export credit guarantee and enhancement program set-asides for processed and high-value agricultural products; and (2) related reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Education Opportunity Enhancement Act of 1992 - Title I: Federal Pell Grants - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and rename the Pell Grants program under HEA title IV part A subpart 1 as the Federal Pell Grants program (later redesignates the provisions as subpart 2). Extends such program authority through FY 1998. Increases the maximum award amount for Pell Grants to $4,500 in academic year 1993-1994, with further increases based on the Consumer Price Index for academic years 1994-1995 through 1998-1999. Revises the formula for determining the amount of a Pell Grant award to a student. Sets forth payment schedules based on the expected family contribution and tuition costs, for various types of students. Permits Pell Grant awards (proportionately reduced) to students attending on a less-than-half time basis (including those taking one course at a time). Prohibits Pell Grants awards to prisoners in Federal or State penal institutions. Revises provisions relating to the period of eligibility for Pell Grants. Includes as eligible for Pell Grants students in programs of study abroad that are approved for credit by the institutions. Revises provisions relating to the eligibility index. Provides that Pell Grant recipients shall not be considered to be individual grantees for purposes of specified Federal law. Repeals specified provisions for a separate need analysis formula for Pell Grants. (Later in this Act, a single new need analysis formula and system is established for all title IV student aid programs, including Pell Grants.) Title II: Need Analysis - Revises HEA title IV part F provisions for Need Analysis. Establishes a new single need analysis formula to be used in the calculation of financial need for all title IV Student Assistance programs (thus replacing the current separate formulas for Pell Grants and for other title IV programs). Bases such new formula on the current formula used for the Stafford (GSL) and the "campus-based" aid programs including supplemental grants and work-study programs. Revises provisions for amount of need. Eliminates provisions for a minimum student contribution. Revises provisions for cost of attendance. Revises provisions for expected family contribution: (1) in general; (2) for dependent students; (3) independent students without dependent children; and (4) independent students with dependent children. Revises provisions relating to the Secretary's authority to prescribe specified updated need analysis tables and to propose modifications in the need analysis methodology. Revises provisions for the simplified needs test to provide for a by-pass and consideration as having a zero family contribution for those with family adjusted gross incomes less than or equal to the earned income tax credit. Retains provisions relating to: (1) the discretion of student financial aid administrators; (2) disregard of student aid in other Federal programs; and (3) Native American students. Revises definitions for need analysis provisions under title IV. Includes, under the definition of independent student, one who is 24 years of age or older by December 31 of the award year.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Law Enforcement Responsibility Act of 1991 - Title I: Police Accreditation - Permits law enforcement agencies (LEAs) of a State, unit of local government, or non-Federal public agency to apply for accreditation. Specifies that applications for accreditation may be filed with the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies. Directs that: (1) a copy of such application be forwarded by the Commission to an Accreditation Coordinator (AC) at the Department of Justice; and (2) LEAs file the application for accreditation in good faith and use good faith efforts to assist in processing such application. Gives the Attorney General discretion to provide financial and technical assistance to LEAs applying for accreditation, subject to specified limitations. Requires: (1) the Attorney General to appoint an AC to assist LEAs seeking Federal assistance in processing accreditation; and (2) the AC to provide those persons necessary to assist LEAs in processing applications for accreditation and to complete the accreditation process. Authorizes the AC, upon request, to reimburse an LEA for any administrative costs incurred by the LEA in processing the application, provided that: (1) the LEA has requested assistance from the AC; (2) the AC did not furnish such assistance but did certify the agency as likely to benefit in terms of improved law enforcement from the process and as eligible for expense reimbursement; and (3) the LEA has successfully completed the accreditation process. Title II: Civilian Protection in Cases of Police Misconduct - Requires State, local, and public LEAs to have procedures allowing citizen submission of sworn complaints regarding the action, or inaction, of the LEA, law enforcement officers of the LEA, or employees of the LEA. Requires individual LEAs to provide, at a minimum, that: (1) the general public has access to required forms and information concerning the submission and disposition of sworn complaints; (2) the LEA assist individuals in filing complaints; (3) adequate records are maintained by the agency to allow regular monitoring of the nature and disposition of such cases; (4) the LEA has established written procedures for hearings; and (5) the complainant receives a written report on the final disposition of a complaint. Specifies that any or all records required under this title may be sealed to prevent public disclosure provided that: (1) good cause has been shown by order of a court of competent jurisdiction; and (2) such order is a public record and states reasons for sealing. Title III: Law Enforcement Officer's Responsibilities - Specifies that whenever a law enforcement officer (officer) is under formal investigation for alleged malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance of official duty with a view to possible disciplinary action, demotion, dismissal, suspension, or criminal charges (except with respect to questioning carried out as part of an LEA's routine supervision of an officer, summary discipline, administrative action, or emergency suspension), the following minimum standards shall apply: (1) the officer shall be informed in writing of all charges against such officer, the nature and purpose of the investigation, and the name, rank, and command of the person or persons conducting such investigation, and shall be given the opportunity to review any evidence or testimony relevant to the charges in the possession of the LEA; (2) except when the officer is requested to fulfill normal administrative duties or to provide the LEA with necessary reports on performance of duty, no adverse inference shall be drawn and no punitive action taken from a refusal of such officer to participate in the investigation; (3) such officer shall be informed in writing of the date, time, and location of such questioning, of all persons who will be present, and of the rights established by this Act; (4) no questioning of any officer shall be conducted except during the officer's regularly scheduled working hours, unless the officer otherwise agrees, when such questioning is part of a normal supervisory operating of the LEA, and in emergency or adverse situations; (5) any questioning shall be for a reasonable period of time, in a reasonable place, and shall allow for reasonable periods for the rest and personal necessities of such officer; and (6) such officer shall be entitled to the presence of a person of the officer's choice at any interrogation in connection with the formal investigation. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to: (1) notice of disciplinary action; (2) entitlement to a hearing; (3) fair representation of officers on complaint review boards; and (4) protection of officers from retaliation for exercising rights established under this Act. Title IV: General Provisions - Grants any citizen or officer the right to recover pecuniary and other damages, including but not limited to full reinstatement of an officer, from any person or agencies that violate the rights established by this Act. Specifies that nothing in this Act shall: (1) disparage or impair any other legal remedy with respect to rights established by this Act or any other State or Federal law; or (2) be construed to preempt any State law which meets or exceeds the minimum requirements set forth by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
National Trade Council Act - Establishes the National Trade Council in the Executive Office of the President to provide advice on integration of national and international policies relating to international trade, business policy, and other issues affecting U.S. industry competitiveness. Requires the Council to have a staff to be headed by the National Trade Adviser who shall be appointed by the President. Requires the Council to report annually to the Congress on the international trade and economic position of the United States. Requires the submission of a trade impact statement in cases where the provisions of a regulation, Executive order, or executive agreement, or bill or resolution reported by a congressional committee, would have a significant impact on the ability of significant domestic product and service industries to compete in domestic and international markets against foreign products. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Quality Act of 1992 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for optional Medicaid coverage of services provided through a case management program that meets specified requirements to Medicaid-eligible individuals who suffer traumatic brain injuries. Describes the services provided under such a program, which include: (1) rehabilitation services; (2) transitional and independent living services; (3) home care; (4) behavior disorder treatment services; and (5) respite or recreation services to aid the individual and members of the individual's family in adapting to residual deficits resulting from brain injury. Authorizes such program to: (1) obtain for participating individuals other benefits and services for which such individuals are eligible under other Federal, State, or local programs, including employment services, education benefits, old age services, and disability insurance; and (2) waive restrictions on the amount, duration, and scope of services otherwise applicable under State plans. Declares that an individual must reside in a State that has designated a State coordinator for traumatic brain injuries in order to receive services under this Act. Requires such coordinator to establish policies and standards for providing services, make necessary reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, supervise and coordinate services for persons with traumatic brain injuries, and perform the duties set out below. Makes such coordinator responsible for a program of activities related to preventing and reducing the rate of traumatic brain injuries in the State. Requires such coordinator to: (1) establish and maintain a central registry of persons who sustain traumatic brain injury in order to collect information necessary to facilitate such programs and ensure the provision to such persons of information on rehabilitative service providers; (2) notify the State employment agency of individuals reported to have suffered a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury; (3) establish standards for marketing of services to traumatic brain injury patients or family members, in consultation with the advisory committee established below; (4) collect and analyze injury incidence information for coordinator studies concerning traumatic brain injury; (5) provide summary registry data to entities to conduct studies; (6) establish an advisory committee to provide recommendations regarding the needs of persons with traumatic brain injuries; (7) adopt such rules as are necessary to carry out this Act; and (8) establish a reporting system that notifies the coordinator of the identity of any person treated for a traumatic brain injury in the State. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards for the reporting of data on traumatic brain injuries and the operation of registries on traumatic brain injuries for coordinator use. Requires the Administrator for Health Care Policy and Research to conduct a study on the effectiveness of traumatic brain injury interventions.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Trade Promotion Expansion Act of 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for the placement of 20 additional United States and Foreign Commercial Service Officers in: (1) countries with which the United States has the largest trade deficit; and (2) newly emerging market economy countries, with democratically elected governments, in Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to report to specified congressional committees on the effectiveness of such additional Commercial Service Officers in increasing U.S. exports to such countries. Requires the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on the effectiveness of the district in coordinating its export promotion programs with the export promotion programs of the States in which such offices are located.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Water Quality Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reduce the amounts of certain State contributions required for the receipt of capitalization grants for water pollution control revolving funds for States which are economically distressed. Requires capitalization grant agreements to require States, in providing water pollution control assistance, to give priority to projects which serve economically distressed counties. Authorizes economically distressed States, for purposes of complying with contribution requirements, to sell obligations to the Federal Financing Bank in the same manner as the Federal Government sells Federal obligations. Waives interest payments on loans made from revolving funds for recipients serving economically distressed areas. Extends the period for loan repayment to 30 years for such recipients. Extends the authorization of appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds through the year 2000.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Rural Telecommunications Opportunity Act of 1992 - Directs the Administrator of the Rural Development Administration to prepare annual reports which: (1) list rural areas in each State that will have advanced telecommunications capability in place within two years, together with the reasons for arriving at such determination; and (2) rank such rural areas in the order in which the Administrator desires data processing (or other telecommunications intensive) (DP) firms to locate in such areas, based on specified projections. Provides a formula for the determination of the number of rural areas to be included on each State's list. Directs the Administrator to provide a copy of each such report to each Federal agency that is considering relocating a DP operation to a new address. Requires each Federal agency, in considering such a relocation, to: (1) select from the list one or more areas considered to best meet the agency's DP needs; and (2) perform a comparative analysis of the costs and benefits of relocation. Requires a Federal agency to report the reasons for a decision to relocate to an area not on the list to specified congressional committees and to the Administrators of the Rural Electrification Administration and the General Services Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Research, Experimentation, and Investment Incentives Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the credit for increasing research activities until December 31, 1996. (Currently, such provision expires June 30, 1992.) Allows an investment tax credit for manufacturing and other productive equipment for the period after December 31, 1991, and before January 1, 1994. Provides for determining such credit.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Deficit Reduction Trust Fund Act of 1992 - Establishes the Deficit Reduction Trust Fund. Tranfers to such Fund amounts as specified by Acts of Congress. Requires investment in U.S. bonds of a portion of such Fund. Establishes the Build America Trust Fund consisting of interest earned on obligations in the Deficit Reduction Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) consideration of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) should be a high priority; (2) LIHEAP funding for FY 1993 should be increased to a level greater than or equal to funding for FY 1992; and (3) the President should accept the LIHEAP funding level for FY 1993 as recommended by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1992
Rural Communities Hazardous Waste Information Act of 1992 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit the issuance of permits for off-site hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facilities to be located in a rural community unless a rural community impact statement has been prepared. Makes such statements available for public review. Sets forth requirements concerning the selection of independent contractors to prepare such statements. Provides for the imposition of fees on permit applicants. Requires such fees to be in an amount necessary to cover the cost of preparing impact statements. Requires impact statements to describe: (1) the economic and social impacts of the proposed facility on each rural community which is within a 20-mile radius of the facility site, including effects on employment, recreational amenities, tourism, public safety and emergency preparedness, and transportation systems; and (2) the costs of mitigating such impacts.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Cancer Registries Amendment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants or contracts to operate population-based, statewide cancer registries in order to collect certain data for each form of in-situ and invasive cancer except basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. Authorizes grants for planning the registries. Mandates a study on factors contributing to elevated rates of breast cancer mortality in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, directly or through grants and contracts, or both, to provide technical assistance to the States in the establishment and operation of statewide registries. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Coalbed Methane Development Act of 1992 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to publish in the Federal Register a list of States ("affected States") where: (1) there is legal uncertainty regarding methane gas ownership; (2) such uncertainty impedes development of significant deposits of coalbed methane gas; (3) no legal scheme is in effect which permits and encourages coalbed methane gas development prior to the resolution of ownership of the gas; and (4) there is no extensive development of coalbed methane gas. Names West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, and Illinois as affected States as of enactment of this Act. Requires affected States to establish State agencies or instrumentalities ("State Boards") to promulgate regulations for the expeditious and economical development of coalbed methane gas deposits. Prescribes coalbed gas development and drilling guidelines. Proscribes the drilling of any well for coalbed methane gas production without State Board approval.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Oil and Gas Exploration Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove percentage depletion and intangible drilling costs from computation of the alternative minimum tax. Makes permanent the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source. Allows such credit to offset the alternative minimum tax. Limits such credit to the production of a specified amount of gas or oil from any one well or in any one facility.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Anti-Recession Infrastructure Jobs Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Economic Development Administration, to make grants to State and local governments for infrastructure projects in distressed areas. Provides for direct grants for construction and improvement and for completion of planning. Provides for supplemental grants for other Federal grant programs and for State and local programs. Prohibits the use of grants to acquire real property or to cover maintenance costs. Requires assurance that on-site labor can begin within 90 days of project approval. Requires: (1) contracting out construction or improvement work on grant projects; (2) competitive bidding; (3) acceptance of the lowest responsive bid; (4) advertised specifications covering all requirements or obligations preceding contract award; (5) Buy American conditions; (6) minority participation; and (7) applicability of specified Federal laws regarding individuals with disabilities. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out this Act, to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedures that assure adequate consideration is given to the relative needs of various sections of the country, including consideration of these factors in proposed project areas: (1) severity and duration of unemployment; (2) income levels and extent of underemployment; (3) extent of proposed project contribution to reducing unemployment; and (4) amount of unemployment or underemployment in the construction and construction-related industries. Requires a final determination on each grant application within 60 days after the Secretary receives it (or else the grant will be deemed approved). Sets forth formulas for allocation of funds. Sets aside two and one-half percent for Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages. Sets minimum and maximum allocation limits for any one State and for specified U.S. territories. Requires the Secretary, in making such grants, to give priority and preference to public works: (1) projects of local governments; (2) projects requested by a State or special purpose unit of local government and endorsed by a general purpose local government; and (3) projects requested by school districts. Requires the Secretary, if the average national unemployment rate is six percent or above for the most recent 12 consecutive months, to: (1) expedite and give priority to applications from State or local governments with rates for that period above the national rate; and (2) give priority thereafter to those from any State or local governments having rates for that period above six percent but below the national rate. Requires State and local prioritization of applications. Requires (if the applicant so requests) that the local government's unemployment rate be based on the rate of any community or neighborhood within such local government's jurisdiction. Authorizes appropriations.
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