The world's political record
Person
![Official portrait of Sen. Bellmon, Henry L. [R-OK]](https://www.congress.gov/img/member/b000351_200.jpg)
United States · Official source
509 records where Sen. Bellmon, Henry L. [R-OK] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Provides for the lifting of the suspension under Federal law setting quotas for the importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle meat or goat and sheep meat. Sets limits upon the length of any such suspension imposed under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to include cost-of-living increases in educational benefits payable to qualified veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in 18 States and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Coal Research Laboratory and Energy Research Fellowship Act - Title I: University Coal Research Laboratories - Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation, after consultation with the National Academy of Engineering, to designate five institutions of higher education at which university coal research laboratories will be establsihed and operated. States that in making designations under this Act, the Director shall consider the following criteria: (1) the institution of higher education shall be located in a State with abundant coal reserves; (2) the institution of higher education shall have experience in coal research, expertise in several areas of coal research, and currently active, outstanding programs in coal research; and (3) the institution of higher education has the capacity to establish and operate the coal laboratories to be assisted under this title. Provides that not more than one coal laboratory established pursuant to this title shall be located in a single State. Specifies information to be included in applications by institutions of higher education desiring to be designated under this title. Authorizes the Director to make grants to any designated institution of higher education to pay the Federal share of the cost of establishing and maintaining a coal laboratory. States that no institution of higher education may receive more than $4,000,000 for the construction of its coal research laboratory, including initially installed fixed equipment, nor may it receive more than $1,500,000 for initially installed movable equipment, nor may it receive more than $500,000 for new program startup expenses. Provides that no institution of higher education may receive more than $1,500,000 per year from the Federal Government for operating expenses. Establishes an Advisory Council on Coal Research. Stipulates that the Advisory Council advise the Director with respect to the general administration of this title, and furnish such additional advice as he may request. Authorizes appropriations of not to exceed $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 (including the cost of construction, equipment, and startup expenses; and $7,500,000 beginning with the fiscal year 1976 and each fiscal year thereafter through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1980, to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Energy Resource Graduate Fellowships - Authorizes the Director to award under the provisions of this title not to exceed one thousand five hundred fellowships for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and each of the five succeeding fiscal years. States that fellowships shall be awarded under the provsions of this title for graduate study and research in those areas of applied science and engineering that are related to the production, conservation, and utilization of fuels and energy. Provides that fellowships shall be awarded to students in programs leading to master's degrees. States that fellowships shall be awarded for graduate study and research at any institution of higher education, library, archive, or any other research center approved by the Director after consultation with the Commissioner of Education. Provides that recipients of fellowships under this title shall be: (1) persons who have been accepted by an institution of higher education for graduate study leading to an advanced degree or for a professional degree, and (2) persons who plan a career in the field of energy resources, production, or utilization. States that each person awarded a fellowship under this title shall receive a stipend of $4,000 for each academic year of study, and an additional amount of $500 for each such calendar year of study shall be paid to such person on account of each of his dependents. Authorizes appropriations of $11,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Declares, under the Atomic Energy Act, that Congress finds it is in the national interest to minimize the environmental impact of nuclear power plants by locating and designating sites for such plants in each region of the Nation. States that the Congress directs the Atomic Energy Commission to make a national survey to locate and designate at least one nuclear power park site in each of the nine electric reliability regions. Describes the aspects to be included in such survey. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 to conduct the survey.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1974
Provides for cost-of-living increases for veterans' compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation and pension payments equal to the rise in the consumer price index when the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs determines that the Consumer Price Index has increased by percent or more.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1974
Revises the period used for determining changes in the index of prices paid by farmers and in the national average yield per acre for the purpose of making adjustments in the target price of the 1976 crops of wheat, feed grains, and cotton.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, that individuals receiving aid under a State medical assistance plan approved under aid to the aged, blind, disabled and needy families with children provisions of the Social Security Act, or who meet the income and resources requirements of such a plan shall not pay an enrollment fee or premium or any deduction, cost sharing, or similar charge for specified medical services. Provides that deductions or cost sharing charges for other services for such individuals will be nominal.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Establishes, under the Environmental Protection Agency, a National Weather Modification Commission. Directs the Commission to provide for a study of the need for regulation of weather modification activities, the status of current technologies, and the appropriate responsibilities for operations in the field of weather modification. Requires the Commission to report in two years after the first meeting to the President and the Congress on its findings and recommendations. Authorizes appropriation of sums as are necessary, not to exceed $400,000, for carrying out this Act. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its report.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out an emergency assistance program to assist States in relieving severe drought conditions that threaten to destroy livestock or crops. Authorizes to be apppopriated from time to time the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
National Weather Modification Policy Act - Establishes, within the Environmental Protection Agency, an Office of National Weather Modification Policy. Provides that such Office shall develop and promulgate a national policy for all weather modification activities by departments and agencies of the Federal Government. Requires such Office to observe and require reports on such activities. Requires such Office to make such recommendations to the President and the Congress as are necessary to further implement such national policy. Authorizes the appropriation of such amounts as are necessary for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1974
Regulatory Control Act - Provides that, upon the promulgation of proposed rules and regulations implementing public laws, by the head of an executive or military department, the committee of origin, whether in the Senate or in the House of Representatives, shall give approval or disapproval of said rules and regulations within sixty days from the date of their submission. States that in the event the committee fails to disapprove the proposed rules and regulations, within 60 days, such abstention shall be deemed to be approval of said rules and regulations. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 301).
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
Farm and Rural Credit Amendments - Increases the credit facilities for farmers and other rural residents under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. Requires the Commodity Credit Corporation to: (1) insure buyers and sellers who contract for future delivery of agricultural commodities (including livestock) against financial loss resulting from failure to comply; and (2) finance the purchase of agricultural commodities from producers whenever the purchaser is unable to make payment upon delivery because of an unavoidable delay and obtaining reasonable financing from usual sources for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1974
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provisions for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Prohibits the diversion of refined petroleum products from a State which allows the development or processing of crude oil resources within areas under its jurisdiction and control to a State which, by its laws or policies, or both, prohibits, substantially limits, or restricts the development or processing of crude oil resources within areas under its jurisdiction or control, where such diversion is for the purpose of relieving shortages of refined petroleum products in such State.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1974
Increases the maximum tax credit, under the Internal Revenue Code, for contributions to candidates for public office to $150 ($300 for joint returns). Repeals the tax deduction allowable for contributions to candidates for public office. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 41(b)(1), repeals 26 U.S.C. 218(b)(1)).
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Increases, by 20 percent, the maximum limitations on loans made or guaranteed for the purchase of homes under the Veterans' Administration housing programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Increases from $17,500 to $20,000 the maximum amount of the grant payable for specially adapted housing for disabled veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Increases the rates of vocational rehabilitation, educational assistance, and training assistance allowances paid to veterans and other eligible persons.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Rural Development Health Care Services Act - Calls for the identification of health service scarcity areas in the rural United States. Provides for matching fund grants to associated community health councils for the development, utilization, organization, and financing of health care services in rural areas. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out such purposes $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and each of the next two succeeding fiscal years. Defines the term "associated community health councils" as two or more political subdivisions which have voluntarily joined together for the purpose of providing health care to individuals residing in their jurisdictions by contracting with direct providers of health care services for the provision of such services in rural areas. Prohibits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from establishing higher fees for comparable services in urban areas than in rural areas within the same State.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act Amendments - Empowers the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans for the purpose of financing 90 percent of the cost of constructing facilities and purchasing equipment for the storage of agricultural commodities. Authorizes the Secretary to make and insure loans for the purchase of any agricultural commodity whenever the purchaser is unable to: (1) make payment upon delivery because of an unavoidable delay in delivery to a subsequent purchaser, and (2) obtain financing upon reasonable terms.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1974
Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine and announce the carryover for wheat for any marketing year as of May 31 of the immediately preceding market year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Provides that no regulation and no modification of any regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare after January 1, 1973, shall be effective for any period which begins prior to January 1, 1976, if such regulation or modification pertains to the provisions of law as relate to the use, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, of utilization review committees and procedures for review of inpatient hospital services and skilled nursing services established under title XVIII (Medicare) of such Act and certification and recertification of patient need for institutional services under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Provides, under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act, that the Corporation shall: (1) insure any buyer who contracts to purchase from any producer for future delivery any agricultural commodity (including livestock), and insure any producer who contracts to sell for future delivery any agricultural commodity (including livestock) against financial loss resulting from failure of the buyer or seller to comply with the terms of the contract; and (2) finance the purchase of any agricultural commodity whenever the purchaser is unable to (a) make payment upon delivery because of an unavoidable delay in the delivery to a subsequent purchaser, and (b) obtain financing from usual commercial sources upon reasonable terms and conditions. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 714(c))
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Declares that the Senate disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to rates of pay transmitted to the Congress during February, 1974 pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Repeals the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. Provides tht whoever, prior to the date of enactment of this Act, willfully violates any provision of law repealed, shall be punished in accordance with such provision as in effect on the date such violation occurred. States that the repeal shall not affect any suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced prior to the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Indian Health Care Improvement Act - Declares that it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligation to the American Indian people, to meet the national goal of providing the highest possible health status to Indians and to provide existing Indian health services with all resources necessary to effect that policy. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make scholarship grants to individuals: (1) who are enrolled in medical schools; schools of optometry, osteophathy, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, or nursing, or schools licensed by a State to train persons in the allied health professions, and (2) who agree to provide their professional services to Indians after completion of their professional training. Establishes a priority according to which the Secretary shall award scholarship grants under this Act. States that any scholarship grant awarded to any individual under this Act shall be awarded under the condition that such individual will, after the completion of his professional training, provide his professional services to Indians for a reasonable period of time as prescribed by the Secretary. Sets forth a formula by which the United States shall be entitled to recover scholarship grants from individuals who fail to comply with such condition for the full period. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $22,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $30.000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $34,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and for each succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to continue to make such grants to individuals who (prior to July 1, 1979) have received such grants and who are eligible for such grants under this Act during such succeeding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make scholarship grants for a period not to exceed two academic years to Indians who: (1) have successfully completed their high school education; and (2) have demonstrated an aptitude for being capable of successfully completing a premedical, predental, or preosteopathy course of study. Authorizes to be appropriated for the above program: $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $3,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years. Permits the Secretary to provide continuing education allowances to Indian Health Service physicians. Authorizes to be appropriated for such programs: $350,000 each year for fiscal years 1975 and 1976; $375,000 for fiscal year 1977, $390,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $410,000 for fiscal year 1979. Title II: Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend over a five-fiscal-year period $123,500,000, in addition to the annual appropriations required to continue the health service program to the Indian people, and to employ additional personnel for the purpose of eliminating backlogs in Indian health care services and to supply known, unmet medical, surgical, dental and other Indian health needs. Title III: Health Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary to expend $400,000,000 over a five-fiscal-year period for the purpose of eliminating inadequate, outdated, and otherwise unsatisfactory Service hospitals, health centers, health stations, and other Service facilities. Enables the Secretary to expend $470,000,000 within a five-fiscal-year period to supply unmet needs for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities in existing and new Indian homes and communities. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan, together with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to assure that the five-year schedule provided for in this Act will be met. Title IV: Access to Health Services - States that the Service facilities used to provide health care and services to Indians are hereby deemed to be accredited facilities for the purposes of title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Title V: Access to Health Services for Urban Indians - Defines "Urban Indian", "urban Indian organization" and "urban center" as used in this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to provide Federal assistance to such organizations for the purpose of establishing and administering outreach programs to make urban Indians in the urban centers in which such organizations are situated knowledgeable of the health service resources available within such centers and the means of gaining access to those resources. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the criteria for selecting urban Indian organizations with which to contract pursuant to this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that, within six months after the end of fiscal year 1976, the Secretary shall review the above program and shall submit to the Congress his assessment of it and recommendations for any further legislation. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary to report annually to the President and the Congress on progress made in effecting the purposes of this Act. States that within three months after the end of fiscal year 1978, the Secretary shall review the programs established or assisted under this Act and shall submit to the Congress his assessment and recommendations of additional programs or additional assistance necessary to, at a minimum provide health services to Indians, and insure a health status for Indians, which is at a parity with the health services available to, and the health status of, the general population. Provides that the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Extends the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, established by S. Res. 281, Ninetieth Congress, through February 28, 1975. Authorizes the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs in studying matters pertaining to the lack of food, medical assistance, and other related necessities of life and health from March 1, 1974, through February 28, 1975, in its discretion: (1) to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate, (2) to employ personnel, (3) to subpena witnesses and documents, (4) with the prior consent of the Government department or agency concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel, information, and facilities of any such department or agency, (5) to procure the temporary services (not in excess of one year) or intermittent services of individual consultants, or oragnizations thereof, (6) to interview employees of the Federal, State, and local governments and other individuals, and (7) to take depositions and other testimony. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution. Limits the expenses of the committee under this resolution to $399,000.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, is retired for reasons other than physical disability, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability whose disability was finally determined to be of a permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949, and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972. States that a member or fomer member of a uniformed service who elects to have his retired pay recomputed as authorized under this Act shall be entitled to retired pay based upon such recomputation effective on the first day of the first calendar month following the month in which he makes such election.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1973
Declares that specified federally owned land is held by the United States in trust for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Tribes of Oklahoma.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should determine and take immediate steps to reduce Federal Government consumption of fuels by a third; (2) the President should initiate a program within the Federal Government to immediately reduce nonessential uses of all Government vehicles and equipment, and commercial and mass transportation should be utilized whenever practical in the conduct of government business; (3) the President should allot Federal Government departments and agencies a fixed quantity of fuel for a fixed period for essential purposes only, and critical national security activities and other vital services may be exempted on a case-by-case basis; (4) the Secretary of Defense should immediately initiate innovative measures to reduce the amount of fuels used for defense activities; and (5) the President should immediately urge State, local, and other public authorities to adopt similar measures.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1973
Authorizes the guarantee of loans, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, to farmers, associations of farmers, or commercial warehouse operators for the purpose of financing up to 90 percent of the cost of constructing facilities and purchasing, handling, and conditioning equipment (other than refrigerated cold storage facilities) for the storage of agricultural commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1973
Provides for the relief of Kria Malik Basiluos.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973
Repeals the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. States that whoever, prior to the date of enactment of this Act, willfully violates any provision of law repealed, shall be punished in accordance with such provision as in effect on the date such violation occurred. Provides that such repeal shall not affect any suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced prior to the date of this Act, or any proceeding based upon any act committed prior to such date. States that no proceeding lawfully commenced by or against any agency or officer of the United States in relation to the discharge of official duties under any provision of law repealed shall abate, but the court, upon motion or supplemental petition filed at any time within twelve months after the date of enactment of this Act showing the necessity for the survival of such proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, may allow the same to be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1973
Livestock Export Health and Safety Act - Expands the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to examine accommodations for export animals to include aircraft and other means of conveyance (formerly limited to an examination of vessesls only). States that the rules issued by the Secretary relating to such accommodations shall include: (1) minimum standards for the construction and maintenance of any container and system used for exporting any animal; and (2) designation of ports through which the export of any such animal must be made -- Specifies the requirements to be met by such ports of export prior to their designation as such. Makes it a misdemeanor for any exporter, or for any owner or principal operator of any means of conveyance, or the master, aircraft commander, or other agent knowingly to violate any rule issued under this Act." Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1973
Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may loan specified Rural Loan Investment Companies up to five times their capital for a period of five years to allow them to purchase government guaranteed loans from qualified lenders in rural areas of less than fifty thousand population.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973
Provides, under the Economic stabilization Act of 1970, that the President, in exercising authority with respect to retail pride levels, shall permit the passthrough of all increases in the cost of goods sold or services performed.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1973
Provides, under the Clean Air Act, that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall prescribe standards applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from any class of new motor vehicles or new engines, which in his judgment contributes to, or is likely to contribute to, air pollution which endangers the public health or welfare. States that such regulations applicable to emissions of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles and engines manufactured during or after model year 1975 shall contain standards which were established for the 1974 model year. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the Congress with respect to the development of systems necessary to implement the emission standards established pursuant to this Act. implement the emission standards established pursuant to this Act. Specifies the content of such reports. Provides that any manufacturer may file with the Administrator an application requesting the suspension, for one year only, of the effective date of any emission standard. Prescribes the procedures for granting or denial of such suspension. Directs the Administrator to undertake arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences and other concerned Government agencies to conduct a study of the entire vehicle emission problem. Directs the Academy to submit semiannual progress reports. Requires the Administrator, upon review of such reports, to recommend congressional action necessary to insure implementation of the optimal engine-fuel-hardware strategy for emission control.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Declares that the United States Senate does hereby congratulate and felicitate the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, the Honorable John C. Stennis, on his birthday and expresses the wish that he will enjoy many other such anniversaries in the future. Declares that members of the Senate greatly miss the distinguished Senator and wish for him an early return to the Senate Chamber and to his duties in the Senate. Directs that a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and a copy furnished to Mr. Stennis.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1973
National Forest Environmental Management Act - Declares that comprehensive planning is needed to secure the greatest net public benefit from the National Forest System. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act, including differentiations between "forest land," "rangeland," and "recreational land." Title I: General Management Authority - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to manage the National Forest System in a manner which will assure payment of fair market value by users of such lands and which will provide maximum opportunities for the public to participate in decisionmaking concerning such lands. Prescribes rules regarding the management of national forest lands and the authority for promulgation of such rules. Requires the Secretary to prepare an inventory of all national forest lands, and their tangible and intangible resource values. Specifies the content and currency of such inventory. Provides that the Secretary shall develop, maintain, and revise land use plans for the National Forest System. States that in the development and maintenance of such land use plans, the Secretary shall: (1) use a systematic interdisciplinary approach integrating physical, biological, economic, and social sciences considerations; (2) give priority to the protection of areas of critical environmental concern; (3) consider the relative scarcity of the values involved; (4) weigh long-term public benefits against short-term local or individual benefits; and (5) consider the requirements of applicable pollution control laws. Provides that the Secretary shall present to the Congress a long-range natural resources physical budget for the National Forest System which sets forth specified factors. Enumerates such factors. States that in fiscal year 1975 and thereafter at the start of each decade the Secretary shall present to the Congress his estimate of the natural resources physical budget of the National Forest System along with his recommendations for each of the next 5 decades ahead. Provides for public hearings and a joint resolution by Congress on such policy. Requires that there be included in the annual fiscal budget for the management of the National Forest System a request for funding sufficient to assure a high level of resource growth and production under high environmental standards. Requires that as part of this goal each annual budget contain a request for funds sufficient to reforest an acreage equal to at least 110 percent of the area on which it is estimated timber will be harvested in the preceding fiscal year plus an amount to improve the stands of young growing forests with trees between the ages of five years and seventy-five years on an acreage equal to at least 110 percent of the areas computed above. Directs the Secretary to determine an environmentally sound level of timber harvest for the commercial forest land within each national forest management unit. Provides that the Secretary shall determine an environmentally sound level of grazing, water, soil, recreation, and wildlife management for each national forest management unit. Title II: Other Acts Amended - Specifies new procedures for the sale of trees and forest products. Provides that the Secretary shall maintain a long-term, decade ahead, and annual transportation plan for the national forests. States that the on-the-ground field offices, district rangers and forest supervisors, and the field supervisory offices and regional offices shall be so situated as to provide the optimum level of convenient, useful services to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1973
Provides that, in order to acquire waterfowl nesting and breeding grounds (wetlands and pothole areas), the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue obligations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase any such obligations. Provides that all obligations issued by the Secretary of the Interior shall be lawful investments, and shall be deemed to be exempt securities. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Treasury to determine the amount of revenues from the sale of Federal migratory bird hunting stamps, and to determine whether such revenues will be sufficient, together with other revenues in the migratory bird conservation fund, to pay the principal of and interest on any obligations issued under this Act and the premium, if any, upon redemption. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1973
Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Civil Aeronautics Board, to undertake a study of existing conditions in the treatment of animals in air transportation. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the results of such study, including his recommendations, not later than sixty days after the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to prescribe, not later than one hundred twenty days after the date of enactment of this Act, regulations, including minimum standards, providing for the humane treatment of animals in air transportation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1973
Emergency Anti-inflation Act - Provides that the President shall submit a budget pursuant to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 in which nontrust fund expenditures do not exceed nontrust fund revenues for each fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1973
Authorizes the Federal Power Commission to exempt the production and gathering of natural gas by small producers from the provisions of the Natural Gas Act (Amends 15 U.S.C. 717)
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1973
Provides that whoever makes public any information with respect to the number of votes cast for any candidate for election to Federal office (or to the office of Presidential and Vice Presidential elector) in the general election held for the appointment of Presidential electors and the election of other Federal officers, prior to midnight, eastern standard time, on the first Tuesday in October on which such election is held shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1973
Provides methods for the Attorney General to enforce the support obligations of parents of children who are receiving assistance under title IV of the Social Security Act (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children). Establishes in the Treasury a revolving Federal Child Support Fund which shall be available to the Attorney General without fiscal year limitation to enable him to carry out his responsibilities. Makes appropriations to the fund. Directs the Attorney General to establish and conduct, within the Department of Justice, a Parent Locator Service which shall be used to obtain and transmit to any authorized person information as to the whereabouts of any absent parent when such information is to be used to locate such parent for the purpose of enforcing support obligations against such parent. Declares that the support rights assigned to the United States shall constitute an obligation owed to the United States by the individual providing such support. Creates regional laboratories to establish paternity through analysis and classification of blood. Authorizes to be appropriated necessary funds to accomplish this purpose. Provides that any individual who is the parent of any child or children and who is under a legal duty to provide for the support and maintenance of such child or children but fails to perform such duty and has left, deserted, or abandoned such child or children and such child or children receive assistance payments to provide for their support and maintenance which are funded in whole or in part from funds appropriated therefor by the Federal Government shall, upon conviction, be penalized in an amount equal to 50 percent of the support obligation owed to the United States, or fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned for not more than one year, or any combination of these three penalties.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1973
Prohibits, under the Truth in Lending Act, discrimination against individuals seeking credit on account of sex or marital status. Prescribes a penalty for any creditor or card issuer who discriminates against an individual in the manner prohibited by this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 1631)
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to undertake a feasibility investigation of McGee Creek Reservoir, Oklahoma.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1973
Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, a Government sponsored, private corporation to serve as a secondary market and warehousing facility for farm and nonfarm loans to rural residents. Creates the Rural Loan Marketing Association. Exempts such Association from all taxation except real property taxation. Authorizes the transfer from the Rural Development Insurance Fund of $5,000,000 for the purpose of establishing the Association. Provides for a Board of Directors of the Association, the Chairman to be designated by the President, and for an interim Board of Directors to serve until sufficient common stock of the Association has been purchased by rural lenders and institutional investors. Authorizes the Association to make advances on the security of, purchase, service and sell farm and nonfarm loans made by rural lenders to persons and entities who are residents of the open country or cities of less than fifty thousand population. Sets forth provisions regarding the issuance of common and nonvoting preferred stock. Provides for annual audits of the accounts of the Association.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1973
Flexible Hours Employment Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States Government that, unless adjudged impossible by the Secretary of Labor, at least 2 percent of the positions at each and all levels in all executive agencies shall be available on a flexible hours employment basis for persons who cannot work or do not desire to work full time within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, 4 percent within two years, 6 percent within three years, 8 percent within four years, and 10 percent within five years. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the procedures, activities, projects, and other efforts undertaken to carry out this policy. Provides that no person who is otherwise qualified for fulltime Federal employment shall be required to accept flexible hour employment as a condition of new or continued employment. Provides that all persons employed in flexible hours employment positions pursuant to the policy established by this Act shall receive, on a pro rata basis, all benefits normally available to full-time employees of all executive agencies in similar position or grade.