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United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to authorize the establishment of citizen advisory committees to advise and make recommendations on additional components to the national wild and scenic rivers system.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1977
Title I: Meat and Meat Products - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to require meat imports to be labeled as imports and to be subjected to tests regarding substances or levels of substances prohibited in any domestically produced animal. Title II: Dairy Products - Prohibits the importation of dairy products unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies that such imports originated from pure and wholesome supplies and were manufactured in plants which comply with certain minimum standards of sanitation. Makes such products subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act after entry into the United States. Permits assessments and fees to be prescribed for such tests and inspections and the revocation of import privileges for failure to pay such fees.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1977
Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to solicit to enroll or enroll any member of the armed forces in any labor organization or for any member to encourage others to join or to actively support any military labor organization. Sets forth penalties for violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1977
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make real estate and operating loans available to private domestic corporations and partnerships controlled by farmers and ranchers engaged primarily in farming or ranching who, individually or as to their principal stockholders and partners, are United States citizens. Increases the maximum allowable total principal indebtedness for real estate loans which may be outstanding by any one borrower to $200,000 or $300,000 in the case of a guaranteed loan. States that special consideration for: (1) water and waste facilities loans may be given rural areas having a population of more than 5,500; and (2) soil and water conservation, pollution control and private business enterprise loans may be given to rural areas having a population of more than 25,000. Revises the maximum interest rate on real estate loans other than guaranteed loans under such Act from five percent to a rate determined by the Secretary taking into account the current market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States. Removes the $500,000 ceiling from the aggregate principal of loans made using the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. Increases the amount of indebtedness which may be outstanding for operating loans under such Act for an individual from $50,000 to $100,000 or in the case of a guaranteed loan, $200,000. States that the interest rates on such loans which are guaranteed shall be the rate agreed upon by the borrower and lender. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase the guaranteed portion of any rural development loan using funds from the Rural Development Insurance Fund and the guaranteed portion of all other loans with funds from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and grants, and approve transfers and assumptions under such Act in connection with property securing a loan made, insured, or held by the Secretary notwithstanding the fact an area ceases to be eligible for assistance under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to provide a procedure for appeal and review of determinations by a county committee that a loan applicant is not unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere to finance his actual needs at reasonable rates and terms. Provides for congressional authorization of program levels under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1977
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education to whom shall be transferred all functions of the Office of Education and of the Commissioner of Education. Transfers to the Secretary of Education specified functions of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Assistant Secretary of Education. Provides for the redesignation of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare. Grants to the Secretary of Education the administrative powers necessary to the performance of his functions. Makes amendments to other Federal laws to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this Act. Provides that any matter of legal privilege or prohibition which has become effective under any provision of law amended by this Act shall continue in effect according to its terms until modified, terminated, or superceded by order of the Secretary, court of competent jurisdiction, or operation of law.
United States · United States Congress · 18 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 · 18 January 1977
Requests the President to negotiate international agreements to prevent terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1977
Recognizes the outstanding contributions made by President Ford to this Nation and commends him for the manner and integrity with which he carried out his responsibilities.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to include in the term "fresh, chilled, or frozen" any meat on which preparation or preservation must be completed in the United States, its territories or possessions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977
Deems service as a member of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots as active duty for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977
Amends the policy of Congress to restrict to 750,000,000 pounds the annual aggregate importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen beef, goat, or sheep meat after December 31, 1974. Prescribes a formula for adjustment of such quota. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allocate such quota among supplying countries according to certain criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1977
Declares it the sense of the Congress that the United States should oppose United Nations membership of Vietnam and deny diplomatic recognition to Vietnam until that country cooperates in securing a satisfactory accounting of Americans missing in action and unaccounted for in the territory under Vietnamese control.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1977
Establishes within the Department of the Interior an additional position of Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs to be responsible for such duties as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe with respect to Indian Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1977
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration to guarantee loans to finance construction and operation of electric transmission facilities to provide electrical energy to municipalities with 25,000 inhabitants or less. Stipulates that such loan guarantee authority shall terminate on September 30, 2006.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1977
Extends various programs under the Agriculture Act of 1970, as amended by the Agriculture and the Consumer Protection Act of 1973, through 1981, 1982, or 1984. Continues the price support programs for wheat, feed grains, cotton, wool, soybeans and dairy products through 1981. Increases the minimum support and loan levels for wheat to $2.25 per bushel and for feed grains to $1.87 per bushel, plus handling costs. Sets the support level for milk at 80 percent of parity and the loan level for cotton at 38 cents per pound. Revises the formula for support payments for each crop to reflect established prices of: (1) $3.10 per bushel of wheat; (2) $2.25 per bushel of each feed grain; and (3) 48 cents per pound of cotton. Increases the limit on payments under the wheat, feed grain and cotton programs for the 1974 through 1981 crops to $30,000. Sets a five percent maximum interest rate for wheat, feed grains and cotton loans and allows the producer-borrower to specify any loan period not exceeding five years. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to pay 50 percent of the storage costs incurred by any producer under the price support programs. Directs the Secretary to give wheat and feed grain producers the option to set aside acreage or to plant a full crop and store a percentage of the harvest whenever carryover stocks will be so large as to seriously depress the price of the particular commodity. Makes election under such option a condition of receiving loans, purchases and payments under the two price support programs. Requires the Secretary to pay 50 percent of the storage costs incurred by a producer pursuant to an election to plant and store, and authorizes him to guarantee loans for 90 percent of the cost of constructing storage facilities. Allows the removal and sale of wheat or feed grains so stored whenever the market price for either equals 150 percent of the loan rate on such crop; and requires repayment of the loan from the proceeds of such sale. Permits the Secretary to recall loans when the price of a commodity exceeds the loan level of stored crops by more than 200 percent. Forbids prohibitions or limitations on the export of wheat or a feed grain, with exceptions, whenever the equivalent of 350,000,000 bushels of wheat or 500,000,000 bushels of such feed grain is under storage pursuant to elections provided for by this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish human nutrition food reserve to help meet emergency food conditions in any area of the world suffering severe food loss due to a natural disaster. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire and process for the reserve up to 100,000,000 bushels of grain. Prohibits the sale of reserve food supplements through normal commercial channels. Allows the Secretary to permit foreign countries to participate in the program by purchasing the wheat or feed grains concerned and paying the required storage and handling costs. Prohibits the application of export embargoes to commodities so stored. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate House and Senate committees within 90 days of enactment indicating the action taken to implement this reserve program. Extends through 1981, among other things: (1) the effectiveness of various orders to producers and handlers relating to uniform prices for milk products; (2) the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs and the Secretary of the Army to use dairy products stored under price support programs in facilities under their respective jurisdictions; (3) the exemption of wheat from marketing quotas; (4) the exclusion of wheat allotments from the transfer of acreage allotments on public lands; (5) the floor for sales of wheat and feed grains by the Commodity Credit Corporation and the price at which purchases must be made to offset sales; (6) the limit on summer fallow use to 55 percent of the cropland acreage for crops of wheat, feed grains and cotton (7) the prohibition on equalizing the price supports of cottonseed and soybeans; and (8) the application of established rules for classifying skiprows. Excludes crop loans for wheat, feed grains and cotton from the budget of the United States and exempts them from any general limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and net lending of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt aircraft used primarily for agricultural operation from the excise tax on civil aircraft. Provides for the refund of the excise tax on gasoline used for farming purposes in an aircraft to the aerial applicator who purchased it.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977
Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments - Amends Titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require that Medicare and Medicaid payments be made directly to the physician or other person providing the service involved. Allows payment in accordance with an assignment from the person or institution providing care or service if such assignment is made to a governmental agency or entity or is established by the order of a court of competent jurisdiction or to an agent of such person or institution if the agency does so pursuant to an agency agreement under which the compensation to be paid to the agency for his services or in connection with the billing or collection of payments due such person or institution under the plan is unrelated to the amount of such payments or the billings thereof, and is not dependent upon the actual collection of any such payment. States that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall by regulation (or by contract provision) provide that any entity (other than a public agency) which is a provider or supplier that furnishes or arranges for the furnishing of items or services with respect to which payment is claimed under Title XVIII, Title V (Maternal and Child Welfare), or under Title XIX of the Social Security Act to a party to an agreement with the Secretary under such titles shall promptly comply with any request, specifically addressed to that entity by the Secretary or the Comptroller General of the United States, for information concerning ownership, control, or costs of such entities. Increases the maximum penalty for defrauding the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Authorizes the Comptroller General of the United States to sign and issue subpoenas for the purpose of any audit, investigation, examination, analysis, review, evaluation, or other function authorized by law with respect to any program authorized under this Act. Requires the Secretary to suspend any physician or practitioner from participation in the Medicare or Medicaid programs whenever such individual is convicted of a criminal offense related to their involvement in such programs. Conditions participation in or certification or recertification under the programs established by titles XVIII, XIX, and XX (Grants to States for Services) upon disclosure of the name of any person who: (1) has a direct or indirect ownership or control interest of five percent or more in such provider, institution, organization, or agency; and (2) has been convicted of a criminal offense related to the involvement of such person in any of such programs. Prohibits expenditure under the Medicaid plan to the extent that any agency, organization, or other person (other than a member of the individual's family) would have been obligated by a State law or contract to provide such care or services but for a provision of the State law or contract which limits or excludes such obligation because the individual is eligible for or receives care or services under the plan.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977
Occupational Safety and Health Amendments - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to exclude from the definition of employer any person engaged in interstate commerce who employs less than 25 man-years of labor. States that the Secretary of Labor shall not propose any rule promulgating a new occupational health or safety standard before he: (1) has, as part of each such proposal, reviewed and published in the Federal Register the financial impact of such proposed standard; and (2) has determined with due regard for that impact that the benefit to be derived from such standard justifies such proposal. Provides that no standard adopted or promulgated shall require any employer to phase out, change, or replace existing equipment or facilities before the normal useful life of that equipment or facility has expired unless failure to so phase out, change, or replace that equipment or facility prematurely would result in a serious violation. Sets forth requirements with respect to notifying an employer of violations of the requirements prescribed pursuant to this Act. States that any employer who has been found to be not in compliance with any rule or standard adopted or promulgated under this Act shall not receive a notice for such violation if he is able to show: (1) that implementing such rule or standard would not materially affect the safety or health of his employees in the facility inspected; (2) that he has employed alternative procedures to protect his employees from the hazards contemplated by the rule or standard which are as effective in protecting the safety and health of his employees; (3) that he has furnished adequate notice and exerted all reasonable efforts, pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, to obtain the compliance of his employees, that such violation was attributable to such employees, and that he could not otherwise have reasonably prevented such violation; or (4) that the condition or process constituting such violation was created or maintained pursuant to a suggestion of the Secretary or his representative made to correct a previous violation. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, to make visits to the work place of any employer, upon the request of the employer, to consult with and advise the employer concerning the obligations of the employer under such Act. Directs the Secretary to give priority to small business and hazardous work places. Stipulates that no consultative visit made under this Act may serve as an inspection or investigation as otherwise provided for by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, except: (1) in the case of an employer who fails to eliminate a danger disclosed during such a visit; or (2) if conditions are found during such a visit which indicate the probability that death or serious harm could result to employees therefrom, the Secretary may notify the employer of such conditions and afford him a reasonable time to eliminate such conditions. Prohibits the transmission of information obtained during a consultative visit to representatives of the Secretary engaged in enforcement except in specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977
Opportunities Industrialization Centers Skills Training and National Community Based Organizations Job Creation and Employment Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) contact Opportunities Industrialization Centers, Incorporated, for the provision of skills training to certain types of unemployed persons through such centers; and (2) contact other national community based organizations, such as the Urban League and union-related organizations, for the provision of comprehensive employment services, including counseling, job creation and development, remedial education, and followup. Directs the head of each agency having administrative authority with respect to specified Federal grant and construction programs to take steps to assure that special consideration be given national community based organizations in providing employment services and job opportunities for unemployed persons pursuant to such authority.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977
Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to exclude from the definition of employer any agricultural employer who employs less than 12 man-years of compensated agricultural labor during the calendar year. Includes within the term agricultural employer persons employing the operating crews of combine machines used in the harvesting of grain, if such activity affects interstate commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977
Provides that a certain individual be issued a visa and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if he is found otherwise admissible under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act by decreasing from 72 to 62 years the age at which deductions will no longer be made from benefits on account of noncovered work outside the United States. Increases to $4,200 the amount of outside earnings which is permitted an individual each year without any deduction from benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to decrease from 72 to 65 the age at which earnings limitations are no longer applicable.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977
Natural Gas Agricultural Priority Act of 1977 - Amends the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Power Commission to prohibit the curtailment of adequate supplies of natural gas for essential agricultural purposes. Stipulates that the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine which agricultural-related purposes are essential.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977
Natural Gas Act Amendments - Amends the Natural Gas Act to prohibit the Federal Power Commission from regulating sales or deliveries of natural gas by producers of new natural gas. Prohibits the Commission from regulating rates or charges made by natural gas companies dealing with affiliates to the extent that such prices do not exceed current prices paid for comparable gas to nonaffiliates. Prohibits the Commission from utilizing prices charged for new natural gas as a basis for determining whether or not to grant certificates of public convenience or necessity to natural gas transportation companies.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977
Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to stipulate that price controls shall not apply to the first sale of crude oil produced by enhanced recovery operations. Establishes procedures for certification of oil production systems as enhanced recovery operations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each elector to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the electors of President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for electors of President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for electors of President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if no pair of persons has such number, a runoff election shall be held in which the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results for such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.
United States · United States Congress · 10 January 1977
Repeals the Gun Control Act of 1968.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1976
Expresses the Senate's gratitude to Mike Mansfield of Montana for his participation in the Government and his service on behalf of the Nation's people.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1976
Provides for the relief of Grace McDougall Anderson.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1976
States that the Senate disapproves of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 passed by the Council of the District of Columbia.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1976
States that the Congress disapproves of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 passed by the Council of the District of Columbia.
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
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 · 10 August 1976
Amends the Walsh-Healey Act to permit employment not in excess of ten hours per day and not in excess of four days per week by employees of contractors of the Federal Government whose contracts exceed $10,000. Amends the Contract Work Hours Standards Act to limit overtime pay only to hours worked in excess of ten hours in any calendar day or in excess of 40 hours during the workweek.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Allen Camp unit of the Central Valley project in California. Authorizes the Secretary to replace roads and bridges which would be inundated by the project. Places restrictions on the use of water from such project. Authorizes the appropriation of $64,220,000 for construction of the unit. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1977 of $150,000 under the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act, $1,200,000 under the Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act, $1,200,000 under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and $632,000 under the Adult Education Act for the continuation of specified grants authorized under those Acts. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants under authorities contained in the Indian Education Act in specified amounts to applicants not yet funded for fiscal year 1976 from the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1976
Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act to reduce the portion of the income from Federal mineral lands to be paid into the reclamation fund created by the Reclamation Act from 52 1/2 to 40 percent. Directs that an additional 12 1/2 percent of such revenues by paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the States from within which such recepits were derived. Requires States, in disposing of such additional funds, to give priority to those subdivisions socially or economically impacted by the development of mineral lands for (1) planning, (2) construction and maintenance of public facilities, and (3) provision of public services. Requires Colorado and Utah to give similar priority in spending funds received from specified oil shale test leases. Directs theat income received by the United States under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 be disposed of in the same manner as income received under the Mineral Lands Leasing Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1976
Includes within the meaning of the term "hospital" in Title XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, rural health facilities of 50 beds or less.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1976
Encourages all Americans to engage in reflection and prayer of thanksgiving and guidance throughout the Bicentennial weekend.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1976
Amends the National Labor Relations Act to exempt full-time and part-time secondary and college students from compulsory union membership.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1976
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 Management and Budget, two Senators, and two Representatives. States that the duties of such Office include dividing the Government along functional, structural, or other lines to facilitate a study of the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal Government and to appoint as many Management and Policy Strike-Forces (MAPS) as it deems necessary to conduct such studies. 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. Grants subpeona power to all MAPS groups. Terminates each MAPS within 60 days after submission of its final report. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1976
Requires that 30 percent of Federal income taxes imposed on United States citizens residing in United States possessions and territories be paid to the Federal Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1976
Amends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1974 to provide that compensation payable to an individual thereunder shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of periodic benefits payable to such individual under a pension. Limits Federal financial participation in compensation payments under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to an individual to the portion thereof which is in excess of any periodic benefits payable to such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indian Nations for the purchase or lease by the United States of each nation's right and interests in the riverbed of the Arkansas River. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1976
Extends the period of eligibility during which qualified disabled veterans may be afforded vocational rehabilitation from June, 1975, to such time as is determined by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to be necessary for each such veteran based upon the veteran's disability and need for vocational rehabilitation. States that the Administrator shall not approve the enrollment of veterans or dependents eligible for educational assistance in any independent study program except one leading to a standard college degree. Places specified limits on the furnishing of financial support to veterans or dependents enrolled in independent study programs leading to a standard college degree. States that payment of educational assistance shall not be made to: (1) any eligible veteran or person for auditing a course; (2) any eligible veteran or person for a course for which the grade assigned is not used in computing the requirements for graduation, including a course from which the student withdraws unless there are mitigating circumstances beyond his control; and (3) any eligible veteran or person for pursuit of the correspondence portion of a combination correspondence-residence course leading to a vocational objective. States that the Administrator shall not approve the enrollment of an eligible veteran or eligible person in any course offered by: (1) a public or other tax-supported institution where the branch or extension is located outside of the area of the taxing jurisdiction providing support to such institution; or (2) a proprietary institution where the branch or extension is located beyond the normal commuting distance of such institution, if such course has been in operation for less than two years.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Authorizes the Wichita Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, and its affiliated bands and groups of Indians, to file with the Indian Claims Commission any of their claims against the United States for lands taken without adequate compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1976
Directs that there be printed for the use of the Special Committee on aging 4,500 additional copies of its report to the Senate entitled "Fraud and Abuse Among Clinical Laboratories."
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1976
Establishes the George W. Norris Home National Historic Site, Nebraska.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1976
Provides for the relief of Richard A. S. Moore.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1976
Dairy and Meat Import Inspection and Identification Act - Title I: Dairy Products - Defines terms used in this title. Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States unless the Secretary of Agriculture has certified that such products are wholesome and pure and that the plants in which such products were manufactured or processed comply with minimum standards of sanitation prescribed by the Secretary. Requires that the standards established under this title be comparable to those imposed upon domestic dairy products. Directs the Secretary to inspect imported dairy products and to require that such products be accompanied by a certificate of compliance indicating that such products conform to the minimum standards established under this Act. Provides for the assessment of fees on imported dairy products to cover the cost of inspections and certificates required by this title. Title II: Meat and Meat Products - Prohibits the importation of meat or meat products capable of use as human food into the United States unless tests have been conducted to determine whether such articles contain any substance prohibited in any carcass or meat product from any domestically produced animal or contain a level of any substance in excess of the maximum allowable level for domestically produced meat products. Stipulates that such tests may be conducted by persons in the exporting country if such individuals have been certified to do so under the same criteria as persons certified by the Department of Agriculture to conduct such test on articles of animals produced in the United States. Provides for the assessment of fees on such imported products to cover the costs of inspections and testing required under this title. Title III: Study; Effective Date - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct a study to determine the most practicable and effective method of requiring imported meat and dairy products to bear lables identifying such products as being imported.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1976
Provides, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, that exclusive territorial arrangements in any franchise agreement, or any trademark licensing contract or agreement, for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of a trademarked soft drink product shall not be deemed unlawful, provided: (1) that such product is in substantial and effective competition with products of the same general class distributed or sold by others; (2) the licensee is in substantial and effective competition with vendors of other products of the same general class; and (3) the licensor retains control over the nature and quality of such product in accordance with the provisions of the Trademark Act of 1946.