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United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Small Business Administration be maintained as an independent agency. Urges the President to nominate an Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1986
National Nuclear Reactor Safety Study Commission Act - Establishes the National Commission on United States Nuclear Safety to: (1) review all information pertaining to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident; (2) compare Soviet reactor design and safety standards with U.S. commercial and defense production reactors; (3) review and evaluate U.S. nuclear reactor management and regulation; and (4) recommend improvements in licensing and related regulatory practices. Requires the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress within one year after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1986
Authorizes the use of proceeds from public land management area stamps (permits) issued by a State agency for acquiring land interests which provide public access over nonpublic lands to public lands for hunting, fishing, or trapping purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Medicare Timely Payment Amendments of 1986 - Amends parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require intermediaries and carriers to pay the claims of Medicare providers and beneficiaries, and give such providers and beneficiaries notice of improperly submitted claims, within 22 days of receiving such claims (unless payment is made on a periodic interim payment basis). Requires the Federal Government to pay the interest accruing on such claims for the period during which the payment or notice is past due.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) it is against the national security interests of the United States to abandon existing strategic offensive arms agreements by exceeding the numerical sublimits of such agreements as long as the Soviet Union remains within such sublimits; (2) the Soviet Union should take steps to resolve U.S. concerns about Soviet violations of existing strategic arms agreements and to negotiate a new agreement; and (3) the Congress and the President should continue to review the policy of mutual adherence to the numerical sublimits on launchers of strategic nuclear delivery systems and the significance of both Soviet compliance and noncompliance with existing strategic offensive arms agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1986
Commends the United Steelworkers of America on their 50th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1986
Young Commission Act - Title I: Establishment of an Export Promotion Organization - Requires the Secretary of Commerce, within six months of enactment of this Act, to transmit to the Congress a proposal to establish a semiprivate, nonprofit U.S. export promotion organization. Requires the proposal to set forth: (1) the activities the organization should undertake; (2) the method of funding the organization; and (3) the structure of the organization. Title II: Confidentiality of Business Records - Business Confidentiality Improvement Act - Amends the Freedom of Information Act to provide a procedure for business confidentiality with regard to information consisting of trade secrets or commercial, research, financial, or business information. Establishes procedures under which a submitter of information which may be subject to the commercial information exemption is to be notified of a decision allowing disclosure and permitted to provide written objections and seek de novo judicial review of a decision allowing disclosure over such objections. Title III: Annual Report Regarding the Promotion of the United States Exports - Requires each chief of a U.S. diplomatic mission in a foreign country to report annually to the President on efforts made by such mission during the preceding year to promote U.S. exports in such country. Title IV: Japanese Technical Literature Translation - Japanese Technical Literature Act of 1986 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program to: (1) monitor Japanese technical activities and developments; (2) consult with businesses, professional societies, and libraries in the United States on their needs for information on Japanese developments in technology and engineering; (3) acquire and translate selected Japanese technical reports and documents that may be of value to Federal agencies and to businesses and researchers in the United States; and (4) coordinate with other Federal agencies to identify significant gaps and avoid duplication in Federal Government efforts to acquire, translate, index, and disseminate Japanese technical literature. Directs the Secretary to maintain such program, including an office in Japan, through the National Technical Information Service and other appropriate offices within the Department of Commerce. Requires that such acquisition and translation of Japanese technical reports and documents be performed only on a cost-reimbursable basis. Requires that such translations be performed only if they are not otherwise available within the private sector in the United States. Directs the Secretary, beginning in 1986, to report annually on important Japanese scientific discoveries and technical innovations in areas such as computers, semiconductors, biotechnology, and robotics and manufacturing. Directs the Secretary to consult with professional societies and businesses in the United States in preparing such reports. Authorizes the Secretary, to the extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts, to contract with private organizations to acquire and translate information relevant to the preparation of such reports. Directs the Secretary to encourage libraries, professional societies, and private businesses in the United States to increase their efforts to acquire, screen, translate, and disseminate Japanese technical literature. Directs the Secretary to compile, publish, and disseminate an annual directory which lists: (1) all programs and services in the United States that collect, abstract, translate, and distribute Japanese scientific and technical information; and (2) all translations of Japanese technical documents performed by Federal agencies in the preceding 12 months that are available to the public. Directs the Secretary, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on Federal activities to collect, abstract, translate, and distribute declassified Japanese scientific and technical information. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that unless the Health Care Financing Administration allocates sufficient funds and takes other action to ensure prompt payment of Medicare claims, the Senate shall adopt legislation ensuring prompt claims payment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the 50-year-old tax exemption of the 84 nonprofit, community-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans be retained without modification.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Prompt Payment Amendments of 1986 - Revises Federal law to deem the head of an agency to receive an invoice on the fifth day after the date on which a property is actually delivered, or final performance of a service is actually completed, unless the contract specifies otherwise. Makes Federal prompt payment provisions applicable to the United States Postal Service. Reduces the 15-day grace period for payment of interest penalties to eight days for solicitations issued before October 1, 1988. Requires an agency to pay a double interest penalty if it fails to meet such grace period and the business concern makes a written demand that the agency pay such penalty. Makes the interest penalty provisions applicable to construction contracts for progress payments and retained amounts. Specifies the calculation of time for interest penalties on discount payments. Revises agency reporting requirements on interest penalty payments to include a description of agency payment practices. Requires the modification of Government-wide procurement regulations to implement Federal prompt payment provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1986
Designates June 26, 1986, as National Interstate Highway Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Designates June 21, 1986, as National Save American Industry and Jobs Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Farm Credit System should take specified actions to assist borrowers, including: (1) participating to the maximum extent possible with the Farmers Home Administration and other Government guarantee programs to provide 1986 operating loans; (2) following policies of reasonable loan forbearance; (3) using loan restructuring; (4) emphasizing loan servicing approaches that help borrowers meet the conditions of their loan contracts; (5) resorting to foreclosure only when there is no alternative or when the associated costs would be less than loan restructuring; (6) providing defaulting borrowers with the opportunity to bid on foreclosed property; and (7) maintaining sound institutional credit policies.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1986
Designates the week beginning on June 1, 1986, as National Neighborhood Housing Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Small Business Administration be maintained as an independent agency. Urges the President to nominate an Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Rural Health Care Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require that whenever the Secretary of Health and Human Services proposes a regulation or promulgates a final version of a regulation under titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), or part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Act which will have a substantial impact on small rural hospitals, the Secretary make a regulatory impact analysis available to the public. Amends the Medicare program to continue, beyond FY 1986, current law regarding Medicare payment to sole community hospitals for capital-related costs, treating such costs as distinct from operating costs of inpatient hospital services. Provides certain small sole community and rural hospitals with payment for extremely high cost cases (outlier payments) which represent five or six percent of the total payments made to such hospitals. Sets aside ten percent of amounts expended by the Secretary on certain experiments and demonstration projects for projects relating exclusively to rural health issues. Requires fiscal intermediaries to pay certain small rural hospitals for Medicare claims, at the latest, 30 days after receiving the request for such payment. Amends title VII (Administration) of the Act to establish an Office of Rural Health Policy in the Office of the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration to: (1) advise the Administrator regarding the effects of changes in the Medicare and Medicaid programs on rural health; and (2) oversee compliance with provisions of this Act requiring regulatory impact analysis and rural health demonstration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Provides for a right to money damages to any U.S. citizen who has been injured in his business or property by the dumping of a commodity by a foreign person. Allows such a citizen to petition the U.S. Court of International Trade for damages if there has been a final affirmative finding by the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission in an antidumping duty investigation. Grants such Court jurisdiction over any foreign person who has been found to have dumped commodities in the United States. Sets forth: (1) the method for calculation of damages by such Court; and (2) procedures for the satisfaction of judgment awards. Provides for the stay of actions for damages pending review by such Court. Requires a petitioner, after an affirmative finding of dumping, to make an election, in writing, to the Commission, that it chooses to: (1) allow the imposition of antidumping duties according to specified Federal law; or (2) preserve the right to seek damages from foreign producers who dump their products in the United States. Provides for a different assessment of antidumping duties depending on such election. Allows a petitioner to seek additional damages if there is a finding of continued dumping of such foreign commodities. Provides for civil penalties for foreign persons who have been the subject of multiple affirmative antidumping determinations. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to maintain a list of all persons who produce commodities which have been the subject of a final affirmative determination by the administering authority. Requires the Secretary to commence an action in the U.S. Court of International Trade for the collection of penalties against persons who have been the subject of two or more affirmative determinations. Grants the U.S. Court of International Trade exclusive jurisdiction over civil actions for damages commenced pursuant to this Act. Prohibits the award of damages or the assessment of civil penalties which are found to violate U.S. legal obligations under international agreements, including the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Requires the President to negotiate bilateral and multilateral agreements to harmonize the provisions of this Act with the U.S. legal obligations under such international agreements (including GATT).
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1986
Designates November 18, 1986, as National Community Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1986
Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to allow an extension of time for the filing of claims for credit or refund of Federal income taxes for insolvent farmers who were exempted by such Act from the alternative minimum tax on capital gains realized on the transfer or sale of farmland under threat of foreclosure or in cancellation of indebtedness.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1986
Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act of 1986 - Subjects the owner or operator of a vessel or facility to liability for oil discharged in violation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (unless the discharge was caused by an act of God, war, by a third party, or by Federal negligence). Causes such owners and operators to be liable for: (1) all actual costs of removal incurred by the United States or a State under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Intervention on the High Seas Act, or the Deepwater Port Act of 1974; (2) any removal costs incurred by any person, as removal is defined under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and (3) specified damages for economic loss or loss of natural resources resulting from such a discharge. Limits such liability, but stipulates that an owner or operator shall be liable for all damages and removal costs in the case of: (1) willful misconduct or negligence; (2) violation of applicable safety, construction, or operating standards or regulations (within the knowledge or privity of the owner or operator); or (3) a refusal to provide reasonable cooperation and assistance requested by a responsible official. Provides that owners or operators subject to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act shall bear all costs of removal. Authorizes the President to establish additional limitations on liability for certain facilities. Provides for third party liability. Establishes the Oil Spill Liability Fund for: (1) payment of removal costs; and (2) related research. Sets forth procedures for asserting claims against the Fund. Requires any claimant, prior to asserting a claim, to present the claim to the owner, operator, or guarantor of the vessel or facility from which the oil was discharged. Directs the President to prescribe forms and procedures for filing claims. Directs the President, acting through certain Federal agencies, to promulgate and periodically review regulations for the assessment of damages for injury to natural resources resulting from an oil spillage. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Congress regarding Oil Spill Liability Fund audit results. Requires the owner and operator of any offshore vessel and/or facility to establish and maintain stated levels of financial responsibility sufficient to satisfy claims. Amends the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act to abolish the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund. Replaces the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund and the Deepwater Port Liability Fund with the Oil Spill Liability Fund of this Act. Repeals the oil spill liability provisions of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 (thereby replacing the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund under that Act with the Oil Spill Liability Fund established in this Act).
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Medicaid Maternal and Infant Amendments of 1986 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give States the option of extending coverage to pregnant women and infants up to age one whose family income does not exceed the higher of the income eligibility threshold under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Act or the Federal poverty level. Prohibits States which provide coverage pursuant to this Act from establishing more stringent AFDC eligibility tests or reducing AFDC payment levels after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Prohibits for a period of ten years any disposition of any federally owned or operated power production or transmission facility located in the conterminous 48 States whose electric energy is transmitted for sale by a Federal Power Marketing Administration or by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Exempts from such proscription certain authority granted: (1) under the Bonneville Project Act of 1937; (2) to the Tennessee Valley Authority for property dispositions in the normal course of business; and (3) to the Administrator of the General Services Administration to dispose of surplus property. Makes such proscription inapplicable to transactions involving the production and transmission of electric power among Federal officials that may occur in the normal course of business.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Directs the President, within a specified time, to report to the Congress on the status and implementation of the recommendations of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1986
Federal Building Asbestos Hazard Abatement Act of 1986 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations for asbestos hazard abatement in Federal and other buildings. Directs the Administrator to develop a model accreditation plan for States for individuals who inspect, manage, abate, and analyze asbestos problems. Requires asbestos contractors to be accredited by an equivalent or more stringent plan. Requires the Administrator to develop and periodically revise a schedule of Federal buildings to be inspected, including a management plan for those found to contain asbestos and the possible later addition of non-Federal buildings. Requires the owners of designated buildings to conduct an asbestos inspection, reporting results to the Administrator and posting results in the inspected building. Requires owners of buildings found to contain asbestos to prepare a management plan for dealing with the substance, including schedules for followup inspections, which complies with the regulations. Requires that such plans be made available to the public. Requires warning labels on any asbestos still within the building. Prohibits the Federal leasing of any building not inspected for asbestos. Authorizes the Administrator or the appropriate State Governor to take necessary response measures where asbestos in a designated building may be hazardous and adequate owner's actions have not been taken. Requires the Administrator to include actions taken under this Act in the annual report required under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1986
Infant Mortality Prevention Act of 1986 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give States the option of extending coverage to women in need of pregnancy-related medical services and infants up to age one whose family income exceeds current income eligibility thresholds, but does not exceed a State maximum income level to be established at or below the Federal poverty level. Requires the State maximum income level for eligibility under this program to be no less than the payment level applicable to a family with no income under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Act. Prohibits States which provide coverage pursuant to this Act from reducing AFDC payment levels after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make required red meat purchases in proportion to the number of dairy cattle slaughtered in each disposal period under the milk production termination program (program). Provides that if such purchases are inadequate to offset the amount of meat being marketed under the program, the Secretary shall decrease meat imports, or increase purchases and exports. Directs the Secretary to ensure the orderly marketing of such dairy cattle consistent with historical beef and dairy marketing patterns.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to suspend the current milk production termination program while the Secretary of Agriculture develops a new program that will minimize the adverse effects on beef, pork, and lamb producers. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates the month of November 1986 as National Hospice Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Prohibits the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to specified proposed sales of Sidewinder, Stinger, and Harpoon missiles and services to Saudi Arabia, as described in the April 8, 1986, certifications from the President to the Congress under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Recognizes the Ireland Fund for its laudable charitable achievements, and its founder, Dr. Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, for the humane work he has inspired on behalf of the people of Ireland.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture shall take specified steps to address the current instability in the red meat market, including additional Federal purchases and proportional spacing of dairy cattle slaughter.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue permits for the use and occupancy of National Forest System lands for commercial skiing operations. Requires existing permits to conform to the new system.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Designates the week beginning April 13, 1986, as National Medical Laboratory Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1986
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to antidumping and countervailing duty investigations to require the producers or growers of agricultural products to be considered part of the industry that produces processed agricultural products if such products are produced from the raw agricultural product through a single continuous line of production, and there is a substantial coincidence of economic interest between the producers of the raw agricultural product and the producers of the processed agricultural product based upon certain economic factors. Sets forth specified factors, for purposes of this Act, to be considered to determine: (1) when a processed agricultural product shall be deemed to be processed from a raw agricultural product through a single continuous line of production; and (2) questions of coincidence of economic interest. Defines "raw agricultural product." Requires the International Trade Commission, with respect to whether imports (or sales for importation) of both a raw agricultural product and a product processed from such raw agricultural product threaten material injury to a U.S. industry, to consider, in addition to other relevant economic factors, the likelihood that an affirmative determination by the Commission with respect to either products (but not both) would result in an increase in the imports of the other agricultural product to an injurious level. Includes U.S. manufacturers, producers, or wholesalers engaged in the production of processed agricultural products as "interested parties" with respect to antidumping and countervailing duty investigations involving such products.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1986
Unfair Trade Concessions Requirements Act - Requires the President to seek commitments in trade agreement negotiations to remove existing, and avoid future use of, unfair trade concessions requirements. Permits such commitments to provide for the temporary use of unfair trade concessions requirements by certain developing countries. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to define "unfair trade concessions requirements" to mean any practice or policy of a foreign government that requires, as a condition for allowing U.S. imports into such country or for carrying on businesses in such country, that: (1) substantial investment be made in such country; (2) intellectual property be licensed to such country; or (3) other collateral concession be made. Makes countries that impose unfair trade concessions requirements on U.S. products covered by bilateral trade agreements ineligible for designation as beneficiary developing countries under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act and under the Generalized System of Preferences of the Trade Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund Temporary Funding Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend temporarily the authority to collect Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund) excise taxes on petroleum and chemicals during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the date the amount received totals $150,000,000. Terminates the authority to collect an excise tax on the receipt of hazardous waste at a qualified facility after September 30, 1985. Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) to permit advances to such trust fund to be made through May 13, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1986
Appropriates interim funds for the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund).
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1986
Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act - Makes permanent provisions which provide benefits under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment. Removes SSI limitations for the first two months of an individual's stay in a health facility if such individual was eligible for the benefits made permanent by this Act during the month preceding admission to the facility. Requires the district offices of the Social Security Administration to each designate a staff member to implement the program providing benefits to individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite severe medical impairment. Revises the eligibility requirements for such benefits. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and implement procedures which provide that whenever an individual is formally notified of his or her SSI eligibility, such individual will also be notified of the availability of assistance under title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act. Directs the Secretary, when any individual receives SSI benefits on the basis of a disability, to notify such individual of his or her potential eligibility for the SSI benefits available for those performing substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the operation of the SSI section which provides benefits for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment, with the particular objective of evaluating the work incentive provisions of such section. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress the findings of such study. Provides that when an individual becomes ineligible for SSI benefits upon entitlement to child's insurance benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Act, such individual shall be treated for Medicaid purposes as continuing to receive SSI benefits so long as he or she would otherwise be eligible for such benefits. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects designed to assess the advantages and disadvantages of various work incentive programs under the OASDI and SSI programs. Sets forth reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
New Clean Air Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to limit after 1991 the number of hours a fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facility which is a major stationary source of sulfur dioxide emissions may operate according to its emissions rate. Requires such major sources to attain by 1995 the best degree of emission reduction technically available. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to periodically publish demonstrated levels of emission reduction and to promulgate emission standards for oil shale production and processing facilities, synthetic fuels production facilities, and other categories of major energy-production sources. Sets emission standards for light-duty vehicles and engines for model years after 1989 and for heavy-duty vehicles and engines for model years after 1990. Prohibits the sale of diesel fuel with a sulfur content above a certain level determined by the Administrator. Requires State vehicle inspection programs to require emissions testing or direct inspection of components of vehicle emissions control systems. Provides for the assessment of daily civil penalties for violations of the fuel and fuel additive regulatory requirements. Directs the Administrator to implement a monitoring system for assessing the effects of acid deposition by 1988. Makes it a violation of the Clean Air Act if a State's air pollutant emissions contribute to the violation of another State's water quality standard under the Clean Water Act. Amends the Clean Water Act to state that such emissions endanger health or welfare abroad if they contribute to the violation of such country's water quality standards. Directs the President to negotiate with Canada and Mexico by 1987 to cooperate in reducing air pollution. Directs the President to negotiate treaties or other international agreements to apply uniform standards of performance for the control of air pollutant emissions. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress by 1989 on a system of tariffs on emissions sufficient to encourage reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Acid Deposition Control Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish an interstate transport and acid precursor reduction program. Designates an acid deposition impact region comprising a long-range transport corridor of 31 States east of the Mississippi and the District of Columbia. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report to the Congress within two years on a study of long-range transport of pollutants in the remaining States. Sets forth sulfur dioxide emission reduction standards for the acid deposition impact region of ten million tons below 1980 levels within ten years, permitting annual emissions of no more than 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million British thermal units of heat input. Restricts increases in emissions from major stationary sources of oxides of nitrogen or sulfur dioxide, except as specified. Permits States to reallocate necessary reductions among themselves so long as the total reductions of the States involved meet the required standards. Requires each impact region State to adopt enforceable emission production measures for sulfur dioxide, including compliance schedules. Requires the Administrator's approval and other Governors' perusal of such measures. Requires each major stationary source subject to an emission limitation to notify the Governor of the State, who shall notify the Administrator, within four years of its intended method of compliance. Requires sources choosing fuel substitution to be in compliance with their applicable emission limitations within six years. Requires those sources complying through the installation of a technological system of continuous emission reduction or the replacement of facilities to have entered into binding contracts for the same within six years. Subjects owners of sources in noncompliance with the applicable implementation plans to the established emission limitation schedule and a noncompliance penalty. Permits the use of the following measures to reduce emissions in addition to enforceable continuous emission reduction measures if such measures are enforceable by entities and persons other than the State in which the emissions occur: (1) least emissions dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity; (2) retirement of major stationary sources at an earlier than provided for date; (3) investments in energy conservation where emission reductions can be identified with such investments; (4) trading of emission reduction requirements and actual reductions through emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions; and (5) precombustion cleaning of fuels. Permits sulfur emission reduction compliance by reducing emissions of oxides of nitrogen at a rate of two units by weight of oxides of nitrogen for each unit of sulfur dioxide. Makes it a violation of the Clean Air Act to emit an air pollutant which adversely affects the public health or welfare of another State or foreign country. Repeals primary nonferrous smelter orders which permitted temporary waivers of emissions reduction requirements. Revises motor vehicle emission and fuel standards to establish oxides of nitrogen emissions standards for light-duty vehicles and engines after model year 1989 and increase the useful life of such vehicles and engines. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to revoke or suspend an automobile manufacturer's certificate of compliance with motor vehicle emissions standards if fewer than 90 percent of vehicles or engines tested in any sample or sampling period conform with the requirements being certified. Requires State automobile inspection programs to: (1) require emissions testing or direct inspection of components of vehicle emissions control systems; and (2) the replacement of inoperative parts which control emissions of oxides of nitrogen. Directs the President to negotiate with Canada and Mexico to control air pollution and to enter international agreements to establish uniform standards of air pollution control.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Foreign Agents Compulsory Ethics in Trade Act of 1986 - Prohibits former high-level Federal civilian officers or employees or high-ranking officers of the uniformed services from representing or advising foreign principals during the five-year period beginning on the last day of such a person's Federal employment or service. Authorizes the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce to jointly determine a longer prohibitive period in the interest of national security. Establishes criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Defines and lists employee positions to which this Act applies.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Construction Industry Labor Law Amendments of 1986 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that in the construction industry two or more business entities engaged in the same or similar work with common ownership or control shall be deemed a single employer. Applies the terms of a collective bargaining agreement regarding employees of such business entities to all other business entities comprising the same single employer within the geographical area covered by the agreement. States that collective bargaining agreements may only be repudiated after the National Labor Relations Board certifies election results in which a majority of the employees select a bargaining representative other than the representative with whom such agreement was made.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) any tax reform legislation should reduce income taxes on small businesses; (2) any reduction in corporate tax rates should apply to each income tax bracket; (3) the phaseout of graduated corporate tax rates should not occur at an income level below that established by current law; and (4) the maximum corporate tax rate should not apply to a level of income below that established by current law.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Amends the Small Business Act to extend through FY 1991 the authorization for not-for-profit organizations operated in the interest of handicapped and blind individuals to receive Federal contracts from the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires each agency having procurement powers to report to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy each time such a contract is entered into. Requires the Office to collect specified data and to report such data to the SBA. Requires the General Accounting Office, not later than September 30, 1990, to prepare a report on the impact that contracts awarded to such organizations have on for-profit small businesses for FY 1987 through 1989. Requires such report to be transmitted to specified congressional committees. Establishes a task force on purchases from the blind and severely handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Designates 1988 as the Year of New Sweden.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1986
Designates the week of April 20 through April 26, 1986, as National Reading Is Fun Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1986
National Park System Resources Preservation and Revitalization Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a comprehensive program to preserve and revitalize resources in the National Park System. Requires the Secretary to prepare and regularly update resource management plans for each unit of the System. Requires such plans to address both natural and cultural resources. Directs the Secretary to develop criteria for establishing priorities for addressing resource problems and prepare a priority list which determines how funds are allocated. Requires the Secretary to establish priorities for monitoring and research and establish model uniform methods of conducting baseline inventories and data collection, based upon a ten-unit pilot program. Requires the National Park Service to report to the Congress within three years on the effectiveness of such pilot program. Directs the Secretary to establish a national natural and cultural resources training center within the Service and to offer a comprehensive training course for resource management specialists and other training opportunities. Directs the Secretary to report biennially to the Congress on the condition and needs of the System, including a per unit analysis of resource issues. Allocates funds for matching grants for resource protection projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1996. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to charge new and increase certain existing fees for admission into units of the System. Exempts urban, outdoor recreation areas. Allocates all admission fees for ten years to resource protection within the System.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Requires the Federal Reserve Banks, for 36 months, to discount or rediscount up to a specified amount of notes, drafts, and bills of exchange for agricultural purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Disapproves the proposed rescission of budget authority for payments to local governments from the Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund (R86-68) as set forth in the special message of the President transmitted to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Tax Gap Act of 1986 - Title I: Internal Revenue Service Publicity Campaign and Public Relations Program - Establishes a publicity campaign and public relations program to be conducted by the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the taxpaying public regarding tax reform, tax evasion, and other tax matters aimed at increasing compliance with the tax laws. Provides for a variety of publicity techniques to be used to institute the publicity campaign and public relations program. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Increased Taxpayer Compliance Through Improved Enforcement Activities and Strengthened Penalties and Information Reporting Requirements - Part I: Increased Audits - Directs the Secretary to initiate a highly publicized audit program targeted at: (1) the unreported legal source income for the period between 1981 and 1986; and (2) any other sector the Secretary determines to be growing in noncompliance. Authorizes additional appropriations to increase by 2,500 the number of audit examiners so as to double the number of returns audited each taxable year. Part II: Public Disclosure of Certain Taxpayers - Permits the public disclosure of the identity of taxpayers where delinquent taxes are in excess of $10,000 or the delinquent taxpayer has become subject to enforcement actions. Part III: Revision of Certain Penalties, Etc. - Provides penalties for: (1) failure to file certain information returns; (2) failure to furnish certain payee statements; and (3) failure to include certain information on certain returns and statements. Establishes certain waiver provisions, definitions, and special rules relating to the filing of information returns and statements. Increases the penalty for failure to pay tax in certain cases from 0.5 percent per month to one percent per month. Modifies the provisions relating to the tax penalty in instances involving negligence and fraud. Increases the tax penalty for substantial underpayment of tax liability from ten percent to 20 percent. Part IV: Information Reporting Provisions - Requires real estate brokers to report certain real estate transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. Requires the head of every Federal executive agency which enters into any contract to report to the Internal Revenue Service certain information relating to the person with whom such agency contracts. Requires the information reporting of State and local government income tax refunds and real and personal property taxes. Requires any tax-exempt interest received for the taxable year to be shown on the tax return for such year. Part V: Additional Authorizations - Authorizes additional appropriations for the Internal Revenue Service to increase the level of return processing and taxpayer service activities, to increase tax fraud and collection activities, and to increase litigation activities. Title III: Tax Amnesty - Provides for a one-time amnesty from criminal and civil tax penalties for a taxpayer who: (1) files a written statement with specified information concerning any underpayment of tax; (2) pays the amount of such underpayment when filing the statement; and (3) within 30 days of notification of the amount of interest payable on any tax delinquent amount, pays the amount of such interest or delinquency. Permits installment payments in certain cases. Provides that where there is a dispute with regard to an amount of the delinquent tax and it is resolved in favor of the taxpayer, the Secretary shall refund such amount with interest at the six-month Treasury bill rate. Defines the amnesty period as a six-month period with a beginning date during calendar year 1987 which is selected by the Secretary. Disallows such amnesty where: (1) there has been an underpayment assessed and a notice of deficiency with respect to the underpayment was mailed, or the taxpayer was put on notice of a substantive question of the taxpayer's tax liability; (2) there was fraud in seeking amnesty; or (3) a criminal investigation is pending. Provides that the amnesty provisions apply only to underpayments of Federal tax for taxable periods ending before January 1, 1986. Authorizes appropriations to inform the general public about the operation of the amnesty provisions.