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United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish rules and regulations pertaining to leases on oil and gas within the Osage Indian Tribe's mineral estate so that oil and gas leases producing from a common source of supply may be unitized.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Provides that funds accruing to the Osage Indian Tribe of Oklahoma may be spent on programs beneficial to the tribe unless those funds are from: (1) the Osage mineral estate, or (2) judgements under the Indian Claims Commission Act. States that those funds that are ineligible for beneficial programs shall be placed in the U.S. Treasury for the credit of the Osage Indian Tribe and distributed to individual members of the tribe in the same manner as interest payments on money held in trust. Authorizes the use of unclaimed individual shares of funds restored to the tribe for the benefit of the tribe.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Amends the act reserving certain mineral rights to the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma to make those right perpetual.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Provides that the Department of the Interior may determine the heirs or legatees of deceased owners of mineral rights, unrestricted real estate, or funds on deposit of the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma. Prohibits such administrative determination if: (1) the aggregate interests exceed $5,000, or (2) a court of competent jurisdiction has undertaken the probate of the deceased's estate.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1977
Requires that the Governments of Puerto Rico and United States territories and possessions contribute 30 percent of their income tax receipts from their citizens and residents to the United States under agreements negotiated with the Secretary of the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1977
Food Additive Safety Amendments - States that a food additive shall be deemed safe if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1) makes a finding, based on recommendations of an advisory committee, that the public benefit from permitting the use of such additive would exceed the public risk which might result from such use; (2) gives notice in the Federal Register of such a finding and invites public comment thereon; and (3) issues a final order within 120 days of publication in the Federal Register of such findings. Specifies factors the Secretary must take into consideration when evaluating a food additive. Deems saccharin a safe food additive unless the Secretary declares it unsafe under the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1977
Amends the Water Resources Control Act of 1976 to repeal the termination date on procedures under which the Chief of the Corps of Engineers certifies that local flood control improvements are compatible with Federal projects under consideration.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1977
Designates the week of May 22 through May 28, 1977, as "Small Business Week."
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1977
Sets forth the standards and rights of foster children, including (1) the right to receive continuing care and respect, (2) the right to grow up in an understanding and accepting neighborhood, (3) the right to receive help in overcoming emotional, physical and social problems, and (4) the right to receive education, training and career guidance.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1977
Equal Access to Courts Act - Entitles a party which (1) prevails in any civil action, including an action for judicial review of agency actions, and (2) is a small business as defined by the Small Business Act or an individual or entity having assets or income below specified amounts to a judgment for costs and an award for attorney fees, witness fees, and necessary studies and reports. Directs an agency to pay costs and fees to a party meeting the criteria of (2) above if such a party (1) successfully defends the imposition of an agency sanction, (2) successfully opposes the issuance or amendments of certain agency orders, or (3) successfully appeals agency action or is subject to agency action which is appealed or reviewed. Entitles a party partially prevailing against the United States to costs and fees to the extent to which it prevailed. Authorizes where in the interest of justice, an award of cost and fees to a party which fails to prevail in a civil action instituted by or against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1977
Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1972 to transfer regulatory authority under such Act from the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to the Secretary of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1977
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be administered by a Secretary of Education. States that the principal function of such Department is to promote the cause and advancement of education throughout the United States. Transfers to the Secretary specified functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of Education, and various educational responsibilities of other Federal agencies and instrumentalities. Creates the Federal Interagency Committee on Education and the National Advisory Commission on Education. Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Secretary of such Department, as the Department of Health and Welfare, and the Secretary of Health and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1977
Alien Employment Act - Prohibits, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the employment or referral for employment of aliens who have not been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence unless such employment is authorized by the Attorney General. States that any person who violates such provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished for a first offense by a fine not in excess of $1,000 for each alien with respect to whom a violation occurs, and for any subsequent offense such person shall be fined an amount not exceeding $1,000. Prohibits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from assigning to any individual a social security account number unless the Secretary is satisfied that such individual is either a citizen of the United States, or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Assigns duties to the Attorney General pertaining to the enforcement of provisions of this Act. Exempts from the provisions of this Act specified nonimmigrant agricultural labor force personnel lawfully admitted to the United States. Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to conduct surveys to insure that individuals employed by employers surveyed have shown their employers a social security card and two pieces of supporting identification. Adds border crossing cards, alien registration receipt cards, and other documents prescribed by regulation for entry into the United States to the list of documents the false making of which shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment or both. Imposes a penalty for counterfeiting or altering social security cards.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1977
Small Business Development Center Act - Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make grants to universities to assist them in developing centers to provide small businesses with a broad range of advice, information, and assistance. Limits the amount of such grant to no more than 75 percent of the cost of eligible activities in the operation or development of the center, except for grants to regional centers assisting State centers in research or other high cost activities. Establishes a Small Business Management and Technical Assistance Division within the Small Business Administration to administer the Small Business Development Center program through a Deputy Associate Administrator. Establishes a Small Business Development Center Advisory Board composed of 14 members to advise and confer with the Deputy Associate Administrator for Management and Technical Assistance. Authorizes the Administration to make grants to universities, organizations, and business concerns to support research to solve problems which affect small business concerns.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1977
Declares certain federally owned land known as the Yardeka School land to be held in trust for the Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1977
Management and Policy Strike-Force Act - Establishes as an independent agency of the United States a Policy-Management Study Coordination Office made up of the President, the Comptroller General, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, two Senators, and two Representatives. Directs the Office to appoint as many Management and Policy Strike-Forces (MAPS) as it deems necessary to conduct studies of the efficiency and effectiveness of the Government. States that the Office shall require each MAPS to submit to it interim and final reports as it may require and to disseminate such reports to the public. Provides that each MAPS shall consist of three members who are not employees of the federal Government and who are not now and never have been Members of either House of Congress. Terminates each MAPS within 60 days after submission of its final report. Terminates the Office 180 days after the date of submission of the final MAPS report.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation: (1) to study opportunities to augment, utilize or conserve water supplies available to Federal reclamation projects and to undertake conservation activities to mitigate damages to such projects from the 1976-1977 drought period; (2) to purchase water supplies and redistribute such water within Federal reclamation projects; (3) to study and evaluate potential facilities to mitigate the effects of a recurrence of drought and make recommendations to the President and to Congress evaluating such facilities; and (4) to make payments to Federal reclamation project landowners who are without irrigation water supplies to carry out soil conservation measures. Authorizes the Secretary to defer without penalty the 1977 and 1978 payments of any installment charges owed to the United States on Federal reclamation projects as he deems necessary because of financial hardship caused by extreme drought conditions. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress by March 1, 1978, on expenditures under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1977
Authorizes the State of Oklahoma to convey oil and gas mineral leases to the Lake Murray Recreation Demonstration Area.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1977
Redefines "extortion" for purposes of provisions prohibiting interference with commerce by threat or violence.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1977
Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include within the meaning of the term "hospital" under such Title, rural health facilities of 50 beds or less. Sets forth exceptions to staffing, health, and safety requirements set forth for hospitals in the definition of such term.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 the maximum size of small issues of industrial development bands on which the interest qualifies for a tax exclusion.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Designates the week starting with the third Monday in February of each year as "National Patriotism Week."
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1977
Requests the President of the United States to convene a White House Conference on Small Business with the help of the Senate Small Business Committee to develop recommendations, including suggestions for joint legislative and executive action, for revitalizing and maintaining the economic viability of the small business infrastructure.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to further define the term "navigable waters" as it applies to the issuance of permits for dredged or fill material by the Corps of Engineers to declare that bodies of water (1) wholly on private property, (2) under the jurisdiction of State or local governments, or (3) not susceptible to transport interstate commerce in their natural condition shall not be deemed navigable for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1977
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to exclude from the definition of the term "surety" as such term is used in connection with guarantees of bid bonds, performance bonds, and payment bonds, the surety's producing agent if the producing agent is an independent contractor. Adds a new definition of the term "guarantee" to signify an undertaking by the Small Business Administration that it will pay the surety a sum not to exceed 90 percent of the loss incurred by the surety.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey all mineral interests reserved to the United States in specified land to Oklahoma State University.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Confers jurisdiction upon the Indian Claims Commission to hear any claims of the Wichita Indian Tribe of Oklahoma with respect to lands taken without compensation by the United States from that tribe. Declares that previous awards with respect to lands that are the subject of a claim under this Act shall have no effect on such a claim.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Amends the Health Programs Extension Act of 1973 to prohibit any entity which receives financial aid from, or enters into any contract with, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from questioning any applicant for admission as a student about the views of the applicant regarding abortion or sterilization. Prohibits such entity from discriminating against any applicant for study because of the refusal of the applicant to participate in the performance of an abortion or other medical services contrary to the religious beliefs or moral convictions of the applicant.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1976 to delay, for one year, the effective date of the changes made in the Internal Revenue Code with regard to the taxation of income earned abroad by U.S. citizens living abroad.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to review Government revenues and expenditures at specified times and to determine a surtax rate when expenditures exceed revenues to insure that receipts will equal outlays. Authorizes a suspension of such measures in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1977
Federal Salary Act Amendments -- Requires the President's recommendations of salary increases under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to be approved or disapproved within 60 days after being submitted to Congress. Repeals all changes in compensation of Federal employees since January 1, 1977, pursuant to such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1977
Entitles employees of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service to an annuity if separated from service after completing 25 years of service or after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 years of service before December 31, 1989, if such employee is not otherwise entitled to other full retirement benefits and is not an Indian entitled to an employment preference by law.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1977
Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment for rural health clinic services pursuant to program of Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for the aged and Disabled of such Title.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1977
Authorizes the Attorney General, in his discretion, in the case of any alien who is a native or citizen of Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia and who has been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States, to adjust the status of such alien to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Sets forth conditions for the granting of such adjusted status. Applies this Act to the resident spouse and children of any alien whose status is changed pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1977
Coal Pipeline Act - Authorizes the exercise of the right of eminent domain by any carrier of coal by pipeline who holds a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Department of the Interior. Stipulates that, before issuance of such certificate, environmental considerations and the need for energy domestically shall be weighed before the Secretary of the Interior makes a finding. Requires that no carrier granted the power of eminent domain under this Act shall transport any coal in which it has any ownership interest. Establishes procedures for making application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, for antitrust review, and for enforcement under this Act. Imposes a maximum fine of $10,000, six months imprisonment, or both, for knowing violations of any provision of, or regulation issued pursuant to, this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1977
Indian Tribal Restoration Act - Extends Federal recognition to the Wyandotte Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, the Ottawa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Peoria Indian Tribe of Oklahoma. Reinstates all rights and privileges of such tribes under Federal treaty, statute, or otherwise which may have been diminished or lost under previous legislative enactments. Extends recognition to the Modoc Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, after consulting with the Secretary of Defense, to enter into agreements with the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations of Oklahoma providing for the purchase or lease by the United States of the rights of these nations in the Arkansas Riverbed. Requires any lease or purchase agreement to provide for payment to such nations of not less than the appraised value of the property rights involved. Provides that such agreements shall become effective 60 days after they are submitted to Congress, unless either House adopts a resolution disapproving that agreement within 60 days.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to increase from one-twelfth of one percent to five-ninths of one percent the increment by which an individual's old-age benefits shall be increased because of delayed retirement beyond age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1977
Regulatory Reform Act - Requires the President to submit to Congress a plan recommending reforms with respect to the regulation of: (1) energy, the environment, housing, and occupational health and safety by specified Federal agencies by April 30, 1979; (2) transportation and communications by specified Federal agencies by April 30, 1981; (3) banking and finance, international trade, and Government procurement by specified Federal agencies by April 30, 1983; and (4) food, consumer health and safety, economic trade practices, and labor- management concerns by specified Federal agencies by April 30, 1985. States that each such plan shall include recommendations for reform of such specified agencies and shall report on the cumulative impact of all Government regulatory activity reviewed, up to that date, on specific industry groupings. States that if the President fails to submit such plans by the specified dates, the Senate and House Committees on Government Operations shall draft their own plans to be submitted to Congress for action. Requires the Comptroller General and the Congressional Budget Office, contemporaneously with the development of the President's plan, to submit a report assessing the purpose, effects, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of each agency included in the plans submitted by the President. States that if no comprehensive regulatory reform legislation is enacted by August 1 of the year following the year in which a comprehensive plan has been submitted by the President, then all agencies affected thereby shall have no authority to issue any new rules not essential for preserving the public health and safety; if such reform is not enacted by October 1 of such year, such agency shall have no authority to enforce any rule not essential for preserving the public health and safety; if no such reform is enacted by December 31 of such year, such agency shall be terminated on such date. States that all rules of such terminated agency essential for preserving the public health and safety shall remain effective and shall be enforced by the Department of Justice. Requires the President to submit subsequent plans in the manner and in the order and frequency set forth by this Act every ten years.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Grain Standards Act Advisory Committee to advise the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service with respect to the implementation of the United States Grain STandards Act of 1976. Amends the recordkeeping provision of the United States Grain Standards Act of 1976 to require records of the operations of export elevators located at export port locations and of all inland terminal elevators. Defines "inland terminal elevator" as a grain elevator, warehouse, or other terminal grain storage or handling facility located in the interior of the United States, as determined by the Administrator, that receives grain primarily from other inland elevators, ships grain out primarily to export elevators or grain processors and millers, and handles a total volume of grain in an average year of ten million bushels or more.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Establishes a two-year, seven-member advisory committee to advise the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service with respect to the implementation of the United States Grain Standards Act of 1976. Amends such Act to repeal the requirement that the State and other official agencies designated to perform inspection or weighing functions pay fees to the Administrator to cover the costs of the direct supervision of personnel of such agencies by the field office personnel of the Federal GRain Inspection Service. Authorizes appropriations to cover such supervisory costs. Amends each Act relative to recordkeeping. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, within six months of the effective date of this Act, to review certain recordkeeping provisions of Federal law and the regulations of the Commodity Credit Corporation as they apply to grain elevators, warehouses or other grain storage and handling facilities. Directs the Secretary on the basis of such review, to establish a single system for recordkeeping by such facilities that will meet the requirements of such regulations and the law.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to increase to $5,100 the amount of outside earnings which is permitted an individual each year without any deduction from benefits under such title.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
Excludes from eligibility for food stamps under the Food Stamp Act of 1964 any household whose head-of-household is on strike against his employer as the result of a labor dispute. Excepts from this exclusion any household which was eligible for participation in the food stamp program before its head-of-household went out on strike, or whose head-of-household is not working because of an employer lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1977
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: (1) to increase to $196,800,000 the appropriations authorized for fiscal year 1977 for military assistance; and (2) to limit to $34,500,000 for fiscal year 1977 the authorization of appropriations for military assistance for Portugal.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1977
Declares a certain individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person", with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Declares the term "person," with respect to due process and equal protection, applicable to human beings irrespective of age, health, function or condition of dependency, including the unborn. Prohibits the deprivation of life of an unborn person, except under laws permitting medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Disapproves the recommendations of the President transmitted to Congress pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967 recommending rates of pay for (1) Members of Congress and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, (2) certain positions in the legislative branch, (3) specified judicial personnel, and (4) certain positions under the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1977
Increases the amounts excludable from gross income as income earned abroad by repealing the provisions respecting such exclusions enacted in the Tax Reform Act and restoring former law.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to redefine the term "navigable waters" as it applies to permits for dredged or fill material as required by the Act. Allows the discharge of dredged or fill materials without a permit in waters other than navigable waters and adjacent wetlands. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Corps of Engineers, to enter into agreements with States to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material in waters other than navigable waters and in wetlands other than adjacent wetlands. Exempts farming, silviculture, ranching, forestry and specified construction activities from permit requirements with respect to discharges of dredged or fill material. Stipulates that Federal projects shall be exempt only if the effects of such discharges have been assessed pursuant to the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Corps of Engineers, to delegate authority over dredged and fill material in adjacent wetlands to the States.