United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
SALT II Sublimit Mutual Restraint Act of 1987 - Prohibits, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, the obligation or expenditure of funds through December 31, 1987, which would cause the United States to exceed the numerical sublimits on strategic launchers and platforms contained in the SALT II Treaty. Requires the President, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to notify the Congress of his plans for carrying out this provision. Directs the President, by October 15, 1987, to report to the Congress concerning dismantling actions taken by the United States and the Soviet Union to comply with the SALT II numerical sublimits. Reaffirms the sense of the Congress that it is in U.S. national security interests to comply with the numerical sublimits of the SALT II Treaty as long as the Soviet Union does likewise. Encourages the President to pursue restraints on offensive nuclear forces with the Soviet Union until a new comprehensive nuclear arms agreement is concluded. Waives all such numerical compliance if the President notifies the Congress, with an accompanying report, that the Soviet Union has exceeded the numerical sublimits.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Education for Competitive America Act - Title I: Education for Economic Security - Education for Economic Security Reauthorization Act - Amends the Education for Economic Security Act to extend through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations under title II of such Act for financial assistance from the Secretary of Education to State and local educational agencies and to institutions of higher education to improve the skills of teachers and instruction in mathematics, science, computer learning, and foreign languages. Extends through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations under title III of the Act for the National Science Foundation program for partnerships in education for mathematics, science, and engineering to improve the quality of instruction, furnish additional support for research, student scholarships, and faculty exchange programs, and encourage educational partnerships among business, higher education, and elementary and secondary schools. Title II: Foreign Language Assistance - Foreign Language Assistance Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies to fund model programs, designed and operated by local educational agencies, for the improvement and expansion of foreign language study for children who reside within their school districts. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount of such grants based on State population. Sets forth provisions relating to the availability of such funds. Sets forth grant application requirements for State educational agencies, including provisions for periodic student proficiency evaluation. Provides for program participation by private school children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1993 to carry out this title. Title III: Vocational Education - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 to provide vocational training to: (1) workers, especially those 55 and older, who have been or are about to be adversely affected by foreign competition; (2) unemployed or underemployed individuals; (3) current employees in order to make their industries more competitive; and (4) individuals in high technology occupations. Title IV: Adult Education - Amends the Adult Education Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for grants to States in order to provide literacy training to: (1) unemployed or underemployed individuals in order to enhance their employability; (2) displaced workers; (3) illiterate adults; and (4) illiterate, out-of-school youth who are not enrolled in other education programs. Title V: Technology Transfer Training - Training Technology Transfer Act of 1987 - Establishes the Office of Training Technology Transfer in the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the Department of Commerce. Provides that the Director of the Office shall be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretaries of Education and Labor. Sets forth provisions relating to staffing and staff compensation. Requires the Director to compile and maintain a current and comprehensive inventory of all training technology developed by or under the supervision of Federal agencies. Defines "training technology" as computer software which is developed by a Federal agency to train its employees and which may be transferred to or converted for use by a commercial user or a public interest user. Includes under such definition software for computer-based instructional systems, interactive video disc systems, microcomputer training devices, audiovisual devices, and programmed learning kits, and associated manuals and devices integrally related to the software program. Requires the Director, in compiling such inventory, to: (1) consult with and fully utilize the resources of all Federal agencies engaged in the collection and dissemination of information concerning training technology; and (2) request the participation and cooperation of entities in the legislative and judicial branches. Requires the Director to disseminate the inventory and its revisions widely and on a regular basis to give all potential users of training technology ample notice of its development by Federal agencies. Requires the Director, in doing so, to use all interagency and intergovernmental communications mechanisms and to encourage the participation of independent private sector organizations. Requires the Director to develop and distribute detailed instructions and procedures for securing copies, and rights thereto, of training technology listed in such inventory and guidelines for cooperative agreements between commercial users and public interest users under specified provisions of this title. Defines "public interest user" as: (1) any Federal agency which uses or intends to use the training technology of another Federal agency; and (2) any nonprofit entity which uses or intends to use the training technology of a Federal agency and which provides job training, vocational education, or other education services (including public school systems, vocational schools, private preparatory schools, colleges, universities, community colleges, private industry councils, community-based organizations, and State and local government agencies). Requires the Director to advise and consult with any prospective public interest user of training technology listed in the inventory and assist such user in securing the transfer and conversion of such technology from the Federal agency which developed it. Requires the Director to encourage such user to obtain such technology by working with the Training Technology Transfer Officer of such agency. Requires the Director, if an agency has not established procedures for the transfer of training technology, to negotiate the transfer of such technology upon application by such user. Requires the Director to advise and consult with any prospective commercial user of a training technology listed in the inventory. Authorizes the Director to sell or lease such technology, including exclusive or nonexclusive rights in patents or copyrights, to a commercial user for a price or fee which reflects a reasonable return to the Government. Authorizes the Director to waive, or negotiate reductions of, such purchase prices or lease fees, or negotiate exclusive sale or lease agreements or other favorable terms for commercial users who agree to enter into cooperative agreements with public interest users or user groups. Requires such agreements to be acceptable to the Director and to provide for a conversion of the training technology, without charge, by the commercial user to meet the specific needs of the public interest user or user group. Requires the Director, in negotiating such terms for the sale or lease of training technology, to give preferential consideration to cooperative agreements which: (1) will result in enhancing the employment potential and potential earnings of the maximum number of individuals; (2) encourage and promote multiple uses of training technology converted by users with similar training needs; and (3) provide beneficial uses of training technology for small businesses. Requires any training technology converted under such a cooperative agreement to be: (1) listed in the inventory; and (2) available for transfer to any other public interest user. Requires the Director to: (1) study the effectiveness of training technology transfers and conversions under this title; and (2) analyze national needs for methods to convert training technology which are in addition to the method of cooperative agreements between commercial and public interest users. Requires the Director, within three years after the enactment of this title, to report to the Congress on such study and analysis, with the Director's recommendations as to whether the public interest would be served through the establishment of a program of grants to support the conversion of training technology. Requires all Federal agencies to cooperate with the Director in implementing this title. Requires Federal agency heads to report to the Secretary of Commerce if they find that their agency cannot cooperate with the Director for reasons of national security or any other reason. Directs the Secretary to report all such findings received during the preceding 12-month period to the Congress by July 1 of each year. Requires the Director to cooperate with the Federal Software Exchange Center of NTIS to facilitate training technology transfer between Federal agencies. Requires the Director, in carrying out this title, to take into account the human factors involved in integrating the work force with new technological developments (including psychological, physiological, sociological, and socioeconomic factors). Sets forth administrative provisions. Establishes the Training Technology Transfer Advisory Board and sets forth provisions relating to Board appointments, compensation, and meetings. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and succeeding fiscal years. Title VI: Higher Education Programs - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for the Department of Education for FY 1988 through 1991 to provide for the acquisition, translation, and dissemination of foreign technical and scientific periodicals that may be of value to Federal agencies, businesses, and U.S. researchers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 for Education Department grants for additional international foreign language centers and programs which are designed to address the issues of competitiveness of American industry. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 for Education Department grants and contracts with institutions of higher education for graduate programs which offer joint degrees or coordinate degrees in business and international studies.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
America's Living Standard Act of 1987 - Title I: Establishment of an Office of Technology Assessment in Certain Foreign Nations to Catalogue, Abstract, Translate, and Report on Scientific and Technological Developments - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to establish an Office of Technology Assessment within the U.S. Embassy in five foreign nations which maintain a high level of scientific and technological development. Requires such offices to: (1) participate in the scientific and technical community of the host nation and issue a monthly catalogue of activities; (2) monitor, select, abstract, and translate important articles from scientific and technical journals of the host nation; and (3) prepare an annual analysis of technological trends and a directory listing government and private sources of information about scientific and engineering developments of the host nation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988. Title II: Office of Technology Assessment, Forecast and Outreach - Establishes within the Department of Commerce the Office of Technology Assessment, Forecast and Outreach, headed by a Director to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. Requires the Office to: (1) identify emerging areas of technology throughout the world; (2) analyze the sources of new technology; (3) develop and administer a program involving the identification of the ownership of U.S. patents, including by country and firm; (4) determine trends in patent behavior throughout the world; (5) assure regular reviews by relevant industry sector advisory committees; and (6) assure broad private sector knowledge of, and access to, findings, data, and other information made or acquired by the Office. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and subsequent fiscal years. Title III: National Science Foundation Engineering Research Assistance - National Science Foundation Engineering Research Assistance Act - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1988 to the National Science Foundation for engineering research centers. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to direct the National Science Foundation, in cooperation with participating institutions of higher education, to seek methods of excluding from participation in engineering research activities foreign corporations which do not allow reciprocal participation by U.S. corporations in similar research activities. Title IV: Scientific Research Fellows Program - Scientific Research Fellows Program Act - Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to direct the National Science Foundation to award up to 500 scientific leadership fellowships in each fiscal year to outstanding graduate students who pursue studies which give promise to contribute significantly to the efficiency, economic productivity, and international competitiveness of the United States. Directs the Foundation to give special consideration to applicants who demonstrate competence in the foreign language of one of identified foreign countries and who intend to perform at least two years research in such foreign country. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1992. Title V: University Research Facilities Fund - University Research Facilities Act of 1987 - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish a University Facilities Division within the Directorate for Science and Engineering Education of the Foundation. Establishes a University Research Facilities Fund in the Treasury. Provides that awards from the Fund made under this title shall be used by institutions of higher education for the Federal share of the cost of acquiring, replacing, renovating, upgrading, or constructing facilities and equipment to be principally used for scientific research or laboratory instruction. Sets forth provisions for applications for such awards and for review of such applications. Sets forth a matching requirement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1997 to be deposited in the Fund. Title VI: Future Teacher Training Corps - Future Teacher Training Corps Act - Amends title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a new part G program of Future Teacher Training Corps Fellowships. Directs the Secretary of Education to allot program grant funds to each State on the basis of school-age population. Directs State Governors to appoint Selection Review Panels to select fellowship recipients. Requires that recipients be interested in teaching careers and agree to teach in areas of the State where there is a shortage of elementary or secondary school teachers or in fields of study where there is a shortage of such teachers. Sets forth guidelines for selection procedures. Sets forth program grant application requirements for States. Limits each such fellowship to not more than: (1) $5,000 for each year of graduate education in preparation to become an elementary or secondary school teacher; and (2) two years of such graduate education. Sets forth fellowship conditions. Requires fellowship repayment in cases of noncompliance with fellowship agreements, with specified exceptions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award up to 5,000 fellowships during each of those fiscal years. Title VII: Computer Software and Videotape Assistance - Computer Software and Videotape Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Education (through the National Institute of Education) and the National Science Foundation to provide advice and technical assistance to State and local educational agencies on expenditures for acquisition of suitable computer software and videotapes by performing specified evaluation, dissemination, and development activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991. Directs the National Science Foundation to foster research and experimentation on, and dissemination of, models of instruction in the operation and use of computers and videotapes. Requires the Director of the Foundation to report annually to the Congress on the results of such research and experimentation. Requires the Director, in conjunction with the National Institute of Education, to disseminate information concerning such results to local educational agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991. Directs the National Science Foundation to arrange for specified entities to develop and operate institutes in the use of computers for computer education instruction and other educational programs in schools. Provides that such institutes shall be for preservice or inservice training of teachers, supervisors, or trainers of teachers. Provides for stipends for attendance at such institutes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991. Title VIII: Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact - Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact (WORC) of 1987 - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require AFDC applicants and recipients to register with a State agency for employment counseling, training, and assignment. Authorizes AFDC recipients to refuse employment which results in a net loss in their income. Directs an agency of each State to: (1) establish a single intake and registration process for AFDC applicants and recipients; (2) determine whether training or education is needed to prepare registered applicants and recipients for employment and then provide counseling regarding prospects and needs; (3) arrange for their participation in one or more of the work-related programs established under title IV of the Act or other Federal law, while coordinating such programs to enhance the availability and efficiency of services provided; and (4) develop an employment plan for each AFDC applicant or recipient. Requires the State agency to provide AFDC applicants and recipients assigned to employment, training, or education programs with child care and transportation services. Sets the Federal contribution to education, training, and assignment costs at 70 percent and the Federal share of administrative and support service costs at 50 percent. Increases to 75 percent for any fiscal year after FY 1987 the Federal share of education, training, and assignment costs, provided a State meets certain performance standards to be developed by the Office of Technology Assessment. Provides that such standards shall measure a State's success in reducing welfare costs and helping AFDC recipients achieve self-sufficiency, while accounting for differing conditions among the States. Title IX: State Job Bank Systems - State Job Bank Assistance Act of 1987 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to add provisions for State job bank systems. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make funds available through the U.S. Employment Service for the development and implementation of job bank systems in each State. Requires that such systems be designed to use computerized electronic data processing and telecommunications systems. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Labor, within six months after the enactment of this title, to commence a study: (1) of the feasibility of providing portability for pensions and health benefits of dislocated workers; and (2) evaluating the benefits of providing early retirement benefits without penalty for older dislocated workers. Requires a report of such study to be submitted to the Congress within 18 months after such enactment. Authorizes appropriations. Title X: Council on Industrial Competitiveness - Council on Industrial Competitiveness Act - Establishes in the executive branch an independent agency to be known as the Council on Industrial Competitiveness. Requires the Council to: (1) gather and analyze information regarding the competitiveness of U.S. industries; (2) create an institutional forum where national leaders will identify economic problems inhibiting the competitiveness of industries, develop long-term strategies to address those problems, and create broad consensus in support of those strategies; and (3) make recommendations on issues crucial to the development of coordinated industrial strategies. Directs the Council to examine and make available to the public all international agreements on foreign trade that have been agreed to by the United States. Directs the Council to monitor, and maintain public records regarding, the effect of imports on domestic industries. Requires the Council, not later than one year after the date of enactment of this title, to transmit a report to the Congress and the President containing recommendations for changes in any Federal policy necessary to implement effective industrial strategies. Requires the Council to make annual reports concerning the major industrial development priorities of the United States. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Redesignates the Capulin Mountain National Monument, New Mexico, as the Capulin Volcano National Monument. Transfers jurisdiction over the federally owned lands within the revised boundaries of the Monument to the National Park Service.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the Santa Fe Trail, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico, as the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to report within one year to the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee a comprehensive management and use plan for the Trail. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Prompt Payment Act Amendments of 1987 - Revises Federal law to deem the head of a Federal agency to have received an invoice on the later of: (1) the date on which the designated office or employee of an agency actually receives it; or (2) 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. Makes the Postmaster General responsible for issuing procurement regulations, solicitation provisions, and contract clauses. Reduces the 15-day grace period for payment of interest penalties to eight days for solicitations (other than meat products and agricultural commodities) issued before October 1, 1990. Eliminates such grace period for procurement solicitations issued on or after October 1, 1990. Requires an agency to pay a double interest penalty if: (1) the agency owes the interest penalty; (2) the interest penalty is not paid to the business concern on or after the date the penalty is due; (3) the agency does not pay the penalty within ten days after such payment is made; and (4) a written demand is made within 40 days after such payment is made. Requires regulations on interest penalties, in the case of construction contracts, to provide for the payment of interest on: (1) progress payments due for more than seven days, or a longer period if the prevailing practice in private construction contracts is to provide such longer period; and (2) amounts retained during the performance of a contract, if such amounts are not paid by the required payment date. Requires regulations on interest penalties to provide for periodic payments in the case of supply or service contracts upon: (1) the submission of an invoice for supplies delivered or services performed; and (2) acceptance of supplies or services by an authorized employee or certification of performance by such an employee. Requires Government construction contractors to include a payment provision in their agreements with their subcontractors which provides for payment in accordance with prevailing industry standards. Requires the contractor to pay a late payment interest penalty to the subcontractor at the rate applicable between the prime contractor and the Government. Declares that a prime contractor's obligation to pay an interest penalty to a subcontractor may not be construed to be an obligation of the United States. 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 the Federal acquisition regulation to implement Federal prompt payment provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Title I: General Accounting Office Investigation and Report - Requires the Comptroller General to begin an investigation, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, concerning displaced nationals of El Salvador. Requires a report to the Congress within one year after initiation of such study. Title II: Congressional Review - Provides for the referral of such report to the appropriate congressional committees for committee hearings and committee reports. Title III: Temporary Stay of Deportation - Provides for a temporary stay of detention and deportation for certain nationals of El Salvador.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1987
School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Act of 1987 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for demonstration programs of dropout prevention, reentry, and information. Allots specified percentages of such funds to various categories of LEAs. Limits the Federal share of project cost to no more than 90 percent in the first fiscal year, 80 percent in the second, and 70 percent in the third. Sets forth grant application requirements, including plans for dropout information collection and reporting systems. Sets forth authorized activities for which such grants may be used. Requires that: (1) at least 30 percent of grant funds be used for dropout prevention activities; (2) at least 30 percent of grant funds be used for dropout reentry persuasion and assistance activities; and (3) not more than 15 percent of any grant be used for administrative costs. Requires that grants be used to supplement other funds. Requires grant recipients to cooperate with the coordination and dissemination efforts of the National Diffusion Network and State educational agencies. Directs the Secretary of Education to report annually to the appropriate committees of the Congress on the activities under this Act. Sets forth provisions for auditing and withholding payments. Directs the Secretary to use a specified amount to conduct a one-year study of the nature and extent of the dropout problem.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1987
Allows the display of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag in the Capitol Rotunda until a satisfactory accounting of all Vietnam POW/MIAs has taken place.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress in opposition to reductions in Veterans Administration funding levels used to pay for health care for certain categories of eligible veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1987
Commodity Distribution Program Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take specified actions to modify the commodity distribution program, including: (1) quality testing and monitoring; (2) making items available in optional sizes and forms; and (3) developing and monitoring distribution.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1987
Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Children and Youth Education Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants and contracts for programs or projects designed to meet the educational needs of gifted and talented children and youth, including the training of teachers or their supervisors. Sets forth authorized uses of such funds. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Center for Research and Development in the Education of Gifted and Talented Children and Youth through grants to or contracts with one or more institutions of higher education or State educational agencies, or a combination or consortium of such institutions and agencies. Sets forth program priorities, including the identification and inclusion of gifted and talented children and youth who may not be identified through traditional assessment methods. Sets forth provisions for participation of private school children and teachers. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory committee to advise on the administration of this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish or designate an administrative unit within the Department of Education to administer the programs authorized by this Act, coordinate all programs for gifted and talented children and youth administered by the Department, and serve as a focal point of national leadership and information on the educational needs of gifted and talented children and youth and the availability of educational services and programs designed to meet those needs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an import fee on: (1) the first sale within the United States of any crude oil or any refined petroleum product imported into the United States; and (2) the use within the United States of any crude oil or any refined petroleum product imported into the United States if no such tax has been imposed prior to such use. Exempts from such tax crude oil or refined petroleum products purchased for export. Specifies that such fee shall be imposed only at a time when the average international price of crude oil for any four-week period is less than $18 per barrel. Sets the rate of such tax as the difference between $18 per barrel and the average international price of crude oil for the preceding four-week period.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a percentage depletion income tax deduction for proven oil and gas wells which have been transferred to a new owner. Provides that the exemption of stripper well oil from the windfall profit tax shall apply after a transfer of such a well to a new owner. Provides that the 50 percent net income limitation on the percentage depletion allowance shall not apply to oil or gas wells. Increases the rate of the percentage depletion allowance for oil and natural gas. Sets forth a fluctuating rate based on the average annual removal price during the calendar year. Includes geological, geophysical, and surface casing costs as intangible drilling costs eligible for expensing for tax deduction purposes. Repeals the recapture of gain realized from the disposition of an interest in oil, gas, or geothermal property.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends the Federal law concerning military uniforms to authorize the wearing of an item of religious apparel as part of the military uniform if: (1) the item is part of the religious faith of the member; and (2) it is neat and conservative. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to prohibit the wearing of an item of religious apparel if it is found to significantly interfere with the performance of duty.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
State Dependent Care Grants Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends the State Dependent Care Development Grants Act to require that amounts paid to States for use in the operation of child care services be designed to enable children whose families lack adequate financial resources to participate in before or after school child care programs. Requires State Governors to include specified information in their grant reports. Extends from September 30, 1987, to September 30, 1991, the time until which necessary revisions of grant program descriptions must be submitted.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Veterans' Administration Adjudication Procedure and Judicial Review Act - Title I: Adjudication Procedures - Codifies, for Veterans Administration (VA) adjudication purposes, the burden of proof and reasonable doubt standards currently provided for by VA regulation. States that a claimant has the burden of submitting sufficient evidence to justify a claim, and that if an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence exists regarding the merits of a claim, the VA is to resolve such doubt in favor of the claimant. States that VA subpoenas may be served either by personal delivery or by registered or certified mail. Requires the chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals to submit an annual report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning the Board's current handling of cases and projections for the subsequent fiscal year. Requires the Board to: (1) provide notice to a claimant and an opportunity for a hearing before a decision may be based on "additional official information" received after a Board decision has previously been made; and (2) make its decision exclusively on evidence and material of record in the proceeding. Removes the requirement that new material sufficient to allow the Board to reopen a previously disallowed claim be in the form of official reports. Provides that the Board's discretionary authority to reopen a claim will to reopen a claim will not be diminished by a juficial decision following an appeal as provided for by this Act. Requires the Board to mail to the claimant notice of its decision and the reasons for such decision. Provides that, upon the request of a claimant, the Board shall provide an independent advisory medical opinion when there exists substantial medical disagreement with respect to a material issue in a veteran's appeal. Sets forth new procedural rules for adjudication hearings regarding: (1) oaths, affirmations, and witness examination; (2) admissibility of evidence; (3) procedural rights of claimants; (4) disqualification of a hearing officer; (5) the record of the proceedings and the claimant's right to examine and obtain a copy of such record; and (6) the exclusiveness of veterans' adjudication procedures and rights prescribed by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to provide at each stage of the appeal proceedings written notice to a claimant of the claimant's procedural rights. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct a study of two alternative claims resolution methods: one a new intermediate-level adjudication process; the other an enhanced schedule of formal Appeals Board hearings. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on such studies. Title II: Veterans Administration Rule Making - Includes the VA's rulemaking procedures under the relevant provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Title III: Judicial Review - Provides for judicial review of VA decisions in the Federal court system. States with regard to jurisdiction: (1) the definition of final decision; (2) that judicial review of a final decision in a claim for benefits may be obtained in a civil action brought within 180 days of the Board's mailing of notice of its decision, and that such action shall be brought in Federal district court; (3) that the VA shall file the various materials constituting the record in a case together with its answer to the claimant's complaint; (4) that the court may render a decision on the pleadings; and (5) that the judicial review procedures established under this Act shall not apply to insurance and home loans. States, with regard to the reviewing court's scope of review, that such court: (1) shall decide questions of law and interpret constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, but that questions of fact (unless unsupported by substantial evidence) will not be subject to a trial de novo; and (2) in reviewing a final decision of the VA which is adverse to a party solely because such party failed to comply with VA procedures, may only review questions concerning such procedures. Sets out provisions regarding remand, survival of actions, and appellate review. Title IV: Attorneys' Fees - Authorizes the Administrator to allow attorneys' fees above the present $10 maximum if the appealing party's claim is allowed by the VA after an initial denial. States that such fee shall be the lesser of: (1) the fee agreed upon by the party and attorney; (2) $500, unless the Administrator approves a greater amount; or (3) if the party and attorney have entered into a contingent-fee agreement, not more than 25 percent of the total of any past-due benefits awarded on the basis of such party's claim. Provides for the approval of attorneys' fees in successful veterans' claims brought before a court as provided for under this Act. States that such fees shall be determined by such court, and in contingent-fee agreements such fees shall not exceed 25 percent of the total of any past-due benefits awarded on the basis of such claim. Authorizes attorneys' fees of up to $750 in certain unsuccessful veterans' claims. Prohibits the VA from authorizing payment to a claimant's attorney based on past-due benefits unless such benefits are owed as of the date of the VA's or a court's award. States that such provisions regarding attorneys' fees shall only apply to claims for benefits under the laws administered by the VA and shall not apply in cases in which the VA is the plaintiff or in which other attorneys' fees statutes are otherwise controlling. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates for this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Indian Health Care Amendments of 1987 - Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize appropriations for specified Indian health programs for FY 1988 through 1991, including scholarship programs and continuing education allowances. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) from denying scholarship assistance solely on the basis of an applicant's scholastic achievement if such applicant has been admitted to, or maintained good standing at, an accredited health professions institution. Directs the Secretary to grant Indian Health Scholarships to Indians enrolled full-time in certain schools for health professionals. States that the active duty service requirements of the Public Health Service Act can be met by service: (1) in the Indian Health Service (Service); (2) in a program conducted under a contract entered into under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act; (3) in a program assisted under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act; or (4) in the private practice of a health professional if such practice is in a health professional shortage area and addresses the health care needs of a substantial number of Indians. Repeals the Indian Health Scholarship Program under the Public Health Service Act. Amends the Public Health Service Act to make Native Hawaiians, subject to available appropriations, eligible for scholarships under the Indian Health Scholarship Program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988, and for each fiscal year thereafter. Directs the Secretary to maintain a Community Health Representative program to provide for the training and the use of Indians as health paraprofessionals to Indian communities. Title II: Health Services - Enumerates the health services for which the Secretary is authorized to expend funds for the improvement of the health of Indians. Prohibits the use of such funds to offset or limit appropriations made under other Acts. Conditions the allocation of such funds upon the health resource deficiency level of the affected Indian tribes. Permits the allocation of such funds on a service unit basis. Directs the Secretary to establish a review mechanism for tribal petitions regarding the health resource deficiency level of a tribe. Makes programs administered by tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act eligible for specified funds on an equal basis with programs administered directly by the Indian Health Service. Provides that any portion of funds from the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund that are used for contracts under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act may be used for health planning, training, technical assistance, and other administrative support functions. Requires at least one percent of the Fund's appropriation to be expended for research. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a current health services priority system report, including the methodology for determining tribal health resources deficiencies, and the funds needed to raise all tribes to a zero level deficiency. Requires the Secretary to annually provide an update of tribal specific health plans. Directs the President to include with the submission of the budget a separate statement which specifies the amounts obligated to implement enumerated health services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 for specified health services. Designates such appropriations the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund. Establishes an Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund to meet the extraordinary medical costs for victims of disasters or catastrophic illness. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits the use of such funds to offset or limit appropriations made under other Acts. Requires the Secretary to provide health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians. Requires the Secretary to include in each health services priority system report an evaluation of the health promotion and disease prevention needs of Indians and the resources that are currently available to meet such needs. Requires each Indian tribe to include within any tribal specific health plan that such tribe is required to submit to the Secretary a comprehensive plan developed by such tribe for health promotion and disease prevention among its members. Requires the Secretary to develop from such plans a comprehensive plan for the provision by the Service of health promotion and disease prevention services to Indians and a schedule for the provision of such services. Requires the Secretary to establish at least one demonstration project (but no more than four) to determine the most effective and cost-efficient means of providing health promotion and disease prevention services and training to Indians. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with, or make grants to, schools of medicine or osteopathy to carry out such demonstration projects. Terminates such projects 30 months after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish in the State of Hawaii, as a demonstration project, a Native Hawaiian Program for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to meet the unique health care needs of Native Hawaiians. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with Native Hawaiian organizations to assist the Secretary in providing health care services under the Native Hawaiian demonstration project. Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with a Native Hawaiian organization to: (1) conduct a study to determine the incidence of diabetes among Native Hawaiians and ways to reduce its incidence; and (2) prepare an inventory of health care programs within Hawaii that are available for the treatment, prevention, or control of diabetes among Native Hawaiians. Requires such organization to prepare and transmit a report to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to submit such report to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with a Native Hawaiian organization to: (1) establish a diabetes control program; (2) promote coordination between all health care providers in the delivery of diabetes related services to Native Hawaiians; (3) establish a model diabetes program to serve Native Hawaiians in Hawaii; (4) develop an outreach program to assure the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diabetes among Native Hawaiians; (5) develop a standardized system to collect, analyze, and report diabetes data among Native Hawaiians; and (6) conduct diabetes research and coordinate such research with State agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services. Directs the Secretary to submit certain reports to the Congress. Requires the Secretary to: (1) include in contracts with Native Hawaiian organizations such conditions to ensure that the objectives of such contracts are achieved; (2) develop procedures to evaluate compliance with, and performance of, contracts entered into by Native Hawaiian organizations; and (3) conduct an annual onsite evaluation of each Native Hawaiian organization. Sets forth specified actions the Secretary may take if a Native Hawaiian organization does not comply with the conditions of a contract. Permits the Secretary, at the request or consent of a Native Hawaiian organization, to amend contracts entered into with such organizations. Requires each Native Hawaiian organization to submit to the Secretary a quarterly report of its activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1992. Provides that the United States shall have the right to recover reasonable expenses incurred by the Secretary in the provision of health services, through the Service, to individuals. Requires all funds reimbursed to the United States by reason of the provision of such services to be credited to the account of the Service in the Treasury. Title III: Health Facilities - Requires the Secretary to consult with any Indian tribe that might be affected by an expenditure for health facilities before the Secretary makes a commitment for such an expenditure. Conditions the closure of any health care facility upon the Secretary's submission to the Congress of an impact assessment one year prior to the contemplated closing. Directs the President to include with the budgets submitted for FY 1989 through 1991 program information documents for the construction of ten Indian health facilities. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report relating to the current health facility priority system. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance for the operation and maintenance of sanitation facilities, utility organizations, and emergency repairs of sanitation facilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to transfer funds from the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to the Secretary for the provision of sanitation facilities and services to Indians. Directs the Secretary to implement a ten-year plan to provide safe water and sanitary sewage and solid waste disposal facilities to Indian homes and communities. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a report with respect to current Indian sanitation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Permits tribes, subject to acceptance by the Secretary, to expend certain non-Indian Health Service funds for the renovation of Indian Health Service facilities, subject to specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to exchange certain real property with the Bethel Native Corporation (Alaska). Title IV: Access to Health Services - Extends the authorization for specified appropriations for grants and contracts with tribal organizations from FY 1989 through 1991. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to make certain providers of the Indian Health Service eligible for Medicare and Medicaid payments. Directs the Secretary to ensure that each service unit of the Indian Health Service receives at least half of the amounts to which its facilities are entitled if such amounts are necessary to bring the facilities into compliance with this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration project in which certain Indian (and Alaska Native) health organizations which provide health care services shall bill for Medicare and Medicaid payments directly. Requires the Secretary to monitor such organizations and to require quarterly reports on their operations. Sets forth eligibility and participation guidelines for such health service facilities. Requires a final report to the Congress by the end of FY 1994. Title V: Urban Indian Health Services - Directs the Secretary to contract with urban Indian organizations to administer health services programs in urban areas. Sets forth specified requirements to be included in such contracts. Lists criteria for the selection of such organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to determine the health status and unmet health care needs of urban Indians in affected urban areas. Delineates the requirements of such contracts. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop evaluation procedures for the performance of the contracts entered into under this title; and (2) conduct annual onsite evaluations of each contracting urban Indian organization. Prescribes guidelines for the renewal of health care or referral services contracts. Prohibits renewal of contracts for determination of unmet health needs if such an organization's performance has been noncompliant or otherwise unsatisfactory and problems cannot be resolved. Sets forth other specified contract requirements. Requires urban Indian organizations to submit a quarterly report to the Secretary. Redefines "urban Indian organization" to mean a nonprofit corporate body situated in an urban center and governed by an urban Indian controlled board of directors. Title VI: Organizational Improvements - Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish an automated management information system for the Indian Health Service; and (2) provide Indian tribes and tribal organizations that provide health services under contracts with the Service with such systems. Directs the Secretary to reimburse each tribe and tribal organization for the cost of the operation of such system that is used for the treatment of Service patients. Requires the Secretary to provide such systems. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into legal agreements with Indian tribes or tribal organizations in order to provide compensation for facility space costs associated with the administration and delivery of health services by the Indian Health Service tribally operated programs. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary to enter into an agreement to coordinate the efforts of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services in health promotion, disease prevention, and health education among Indian youth. Extends to FY 1990 the time during which Arizona is designated as a contract health service delivery area. Extends eligibility for health services to specified Indians in the State of California through FY 1988. Establishes eligibility guidelines for such medical benefits. Designates the State of California as a contract health service delivery area. Lists programs eligible for Service funds. Restricts circumstances under which the Secretary may remove a member of the National Health Service Corps who is performing obligated service in a health facility operated by or under the Service. Authorizes the Secretary under certain circumstances to provide medical care or benefits by the Service to otherwise ineligible persons. Sets a deadline by which the Secretary must develop and implement a plan to reduce Indian infant, maternal, and fetal alcohol syndrome mortality rates to a certain level or that of the general population. Directs the Secretary to provide contract health services to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who reside in the Trenton Service Area of specified counties in the States of North Dakota and Montana. Requires the Secretary to examine the feasibility of the sharing of medical facilities and services between the Service and the Veterans Administration. Requires the Secretary to provide health care services for Indians in Montana. Title VIII: Diabetes Prevention and Control - Requires the Secretary to determine: (1) the incidence of diabetes among Indians; (2) activities the Indian Health Service should take to reduce such incidence, to provide guidance in the prevention, treatment, and control of diabetes, to provide early diagnosis, and to ensure proper health care to those Indians who are diagnosed as diabetic; and (3) the fiscal impact to the Federal Government of treating diabetes among such people. Requires the Secretary to prepare an inventory of all health care programs and resources within the United States that are available for the treatment, prevention, or control of diabetes among Indians. Requires the Secretary to transmit to the President and the Congress a report containing his determinations and research activities among Indians. Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement a program to strengthen and expand the diabetes program of the Indian Health Service; (2) screen recipients of diabetes services from the Service; (3) enable the Service to treat such disease effectively; and (4) conduct, for Federal, tribal, and other Indian health care providers, training programs with respect to the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Requires the Secretary to: (1) maintain specified model diabetes clinics; and (2) establish such clinics at additional specified locations. Requires the Secretary to develop specified programs with respect to data collection and analysis and research relating to diabetes among Native Americans. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Severability Provision - Provides that any invalidation of the provisions of this Act shall not affect the remaining provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Improvement Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the establishment and operation of a National Clearinghouse on Emergency Medical Services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the application procedure for Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grants to provide the State officer responsible for the administration of the State highway safety program an opportunity to participate in the development of any plan relating to emergency medical services. Allows the State official responsible for the provision of emergency medical services the opportunity to participate in the development of the State highway safety program. Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to allow certain grant allotments to be used for the purchase of communications equipment. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow grants to be used for the establishment of a uniform emergency telephone number system if certain determinations are made by the Secretary. Requires the Federal Communications Commission to: (1) study the availability of radio frequency channels for emergency medical services communications; (2) establish a plan to ensure that the needs of emergency medical services communications are provided for in the allocations of frequencies; and (3) submit a report to the Congress containing such study and plan. Requires each State, beginning in FY 1989, to submit annual comprehensive emergency medical services and trauma care plans to the Secretary. Establishes a Trauma Care Block Grant program. Sets forth the requirements for the distribution and use of allotments. Sets forth application requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary to study: (1) the financial impact of payments to trauma centers under the Medicare and Medicaid programs; and (2) the long-term economic effects of trauma.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion for employee educational assistance programs. (Present law terminates such exclusion as of December 31, 1987.)
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Senatorial Election Campaign Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for spending limits and public financing for Senate general elections. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such public financing, including: (1) that a candidate raise contributions of a specified amount; (2) that a percentage of such contributions be made by the candidate's constituents; (3) that at least one other candidate has qualified for the same general election; and (4) that the candidate and the candidate's committees agree to abide by provisions of this Act. Limits personal expenditures to $20,000 and overall spending to $600,000 plus 25 cents multiplied by the voting age population of the State involved. Establishes formulae for determining entitlements of candidates of a major party and for those not of a major party. Entitles candidates to certain broadcast media rates. Provides for additional payments and suspension of spending limits in cases of non-participating candidates and their committees exceeding spending limitations. Requires the Federal Election Commission to certify the eligibility of candidates to the Secretary of the Treasury in order for such candidates to receive payments. Requires the Secretary to maintain in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund the Senate Election Campaign Fund for the deposit of funds for payments to eligible candidates. Directs the Commission, after each election, to audit the campaign expenses of publicly financed candidates. Requires such candidates to repay any excess amounts received. Subjects Commission actions under this Act to judicial review by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Directs the Commission to report to the Senate after each election on actions taken under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Commission as necessary. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount an individual may designate to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund from $1 to $2 (and in the case of joint returns, from $2 to $4). Establishes reporting requirements for Senate candidates relating to spending limitations, candidacy eligibility, and independent expenditures. Decreases, from $5,000 to $3,000, the amount a multicandidate political committee may contribute to an individual candidate or to any other political committee. Limits the overall contributions that a multicandidate political committee can make to candidates in general elections to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Limits contributions to a national political party by all contributing multicandidate political committees to $2,000,000 in any two-year election cycle. Provides for the accountability of contributions made by intermediaries or conduits to political action committees. Describes circumstances where an expenditure shall not constitute an independent expenditure for purposes of this Act. Requires, when independent expenditures are made for television broadcast communications, that a statement appear continuously during such broadcast showing the name of the person or committee making such expenditure. Requires any other type of general public communication to include such statement. Prohibits political committees of foreign nationals from making campaign contributions. Prohibits the use of campaign contributions to repay loans by a candidate to himself for herself or to his or her authorized committees.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 2015.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Veterans' Health Care Improvement Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to include as a veterans' medical benefit services necessary to overcome a service-connected disability which impairs the veteran's procreative ability. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to furnish domiciliary care to any veteran who is found to: (1) have a service-connected disability; or (2) be incapacitated from earning a living and having no means of adequate support. Extends the eligibility for the furnishing of readjustment counseling and related mental health services to veterans or persons currently on active duty who also served on active duty in Vietnam or after May 7, 1975, in an area where hostilities occurred. Extends certain transition period and reporting requirement dates under the Veterans Administration (VA) Vet Center program. Authorizes the Administrator, between January 1, 1988, and December 31, 1991, to conduct a pilot program under which certain veterans will be furnished medical, rehabilitative, and health-related care in noninstitutional settings at not less than five nor more than ten demonstration project sites. Gives priority for the selection of veterans to such program. Provides for case management services by the VA for each veteran participating in such program. Authorizes the Administrator to furnish in-kind assistance to facilities furnishing services to veterans under these provisions. Prohibits the total cost of conducting the pilot program from exceeding 60 percent of the cost incurred by the VA if the VA had instead furnished such services. Requires the Administrator to conduct a study concerning such program, and report the study's findings, concerning the operation of the program during its first 36 months, to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees no later than April 1, 1991. Increases the per diem rates paid to States for providing care to veterans in State homes. Revises provisions relating to the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery to establish the position of a second Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director to act as a second assistant to the Chief Medical Director of such Department. Prohibits the Administrator from declaring as excess to the needs of the VA or otherwise disposing of the land and improvements at the VA Medical Centers in West Los Angeles and Sepulveda, California. Repeals current Federal law conflicting with such prohibition. Directs the Administrator, no later than March 1, 1987, to report to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees regarding the VA's activities designed to promote increased efforts by medical and other health-professional training schools in: (1) training health-care professionals to care for older patients; and (2) research into the aging process and diseases and disabilities associated with aging. Outlines the information to be included in such report.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Title I: El Malpais National Monument - Establishes the El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the National Park Service, to administer such Monument. Permits the continuation of existing grazing privileges through 1996. Title II: Masau Trail - Authorizes the Secretary to designate a vehicular tour route along existing public roads linking prehistoric and historic cultural sites in western New Mexico, to be known as the Masau Trail. Permits the erection of informational devices. Title III: Grants National Conservation Area - Establishes the Grants National Conservation Area, to be administered by the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, as part of the Albuquerque District. Permits hunting and trapping except in designated zones. Prohibits the commercial collection of wood. Title IV: Wilderness Designation - Designates specified lands in the Grants National Conservation Area as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Permits the grazing of livestock as specified. Title V: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to develop and report within two years to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate Committee on Energy and National Resources on separate general management plans for the Monument and the Conservation Area. Requires such plans to include interpretation and education programs, public facility proposals, and natural and cultural resources management. Requires such plans to evaluate specified lands for their suitability for preservation as wilderness. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands within the Monument or Conservation Area by donation, exchange, or purchase. Requires the Secretary to notify the New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands of State lands or interests within the Monument or Conservation Area and of the opportunity to exchange such lands for Federal public lands. Sets forth procedures for such exchange. Withdraws all Federal lands within the Monument and Conservation Area from entry under the public land, mining, or mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Requires that such Monument and Conservation Area be open to Indians for traditional cultural and religious purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for the interpretation of the prehistoric and historic civilizations in western New Mexico. Title VI: Appropriation Authorization - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
New GI Bill Continuation Act - Extends indefinitely (currently ends on June 30, 1988) the required date of entry into the armed forces for eligibility for basic educational assistance entitlement for veterans (both of active and Selected Reserve duty) of the All-Volunteer Force.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Natural Gas Utilization Act of 1987 - Amends the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to repeal: (1) prohibitions on the use of natural gas and petroleum as a primary energy source in new electric powerplants and new major fuel-burning installations; (2) the prohibition on the construction of new powerplants without alternate fuel capability; (3) the authority of the Secretary of Energy to prohibit the use of natural gas in certain boilers; (4) the prohibition on the use of natural gas for decorative outdoor lighting; and (5) the authority of the Secretary to restrict increased uses of petroleum by existing powerplants. Makes conforming amendments. Repeals the incremental pricing provisions of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Research and Development Incentive Act of 1987 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax credit for increasing research activities. (Present law terminates such credit as of December 31, 1988.) Increases the amount of such credit from 20 to 25 percent of the increase in expenses of such research activities.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to add to the list of products covered under the Act: (1) freezers which can be operated by alternating current electricity (with specified exceptions); (2) central air conditioning heat pumps; (3) direct heating equipment; and (4) pool heaters. Deletes from specific coverage: (1) humidifiers; and (2) dehumidifiers. Excludes from such coverage consumer products designed solely for use in recreational vehicles and other mobile equipment. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to amend Federal energy efficiency test procedures for appliances under specified guidelines. Prohibits manufacturers from making any representations regarding the energy efficiency of appliances covered by this Act unless such appliances have been tested in accordance with the Federal test procedures, and the manufacturer's representations fairly disclose the results of such testing. Sets forth specific Federal energy conservation standards for products covered by this Act and manufactured after certain dates. Establishes deadlines by which the Secretary must issue rules regarding such standards. Details the criteria to be applied if such standards are revised. Revises the information requirements with which manufacturers must comply to provide that the Secretary shall exercise authority in a manner designed to minimize unnecessary burdens on manufacturers of covered products. Revises the rules under which State regulations are superseded by the Federal regulations for testing and labeling requirements and energy conservation standards. Permits the waiver of Federal preemption if the Secretary finds that such waiver is needed to meet compelling and unusual local energy conditions. Prescribes procedural guidelines for such a waiver. Details conditions under which State and local building code requirements regarding energy conservation standards are not superseded by the standards promulgated under this Act. Permits the commencement of a citizen's suit against the Secretary for failure to comply with a nondiscretionary duty to issue rules according to prescribed schedules. Directs the courts to expedite the disposition of such suits. Vests jurisdiction in the Federal district courts over actions brought by any adversely affected person to determine whether a State or local government is complying with the requirements of this Act. Declares that the required submission by the Secretary of an annual report regarding Federal energy efficiency standards does not constitute a defense or justification for a failure by the Secretary to comply with the nondiscretionary duty provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Water Quality Act of 1987 - Title I: Amendments to Title I - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the Clean Water Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1990 for: (1) specified research, investigation, and training programs in water pollution control; (2) State and interstate pollution control programs; (3) undergraduate programs in water quality control; (4) grants for developing waste treatment management plans for areas with substantial water quality control problems; (5) water pollution control programs in agricultural areas; (6) agreements among Government agencies providing for maximum use of existing programs for water quality control; (7) grants to States for lake pollution control; and (8) carrying out the Clean Water Act generally. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award an annual grant to support a National Clearinghouse on small flows (of sewage) and innovative or alternative technologies information. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue the Chesapeake Bay Program and establish such an Office within EPA to: (1) collect and disseminate research and other information on the environmental quality of the Bay; (2) coordinate Federal research efforts; (3) conduct research on sediment deposition in the Bay; and (4) conduct research on how environmental changes effect the living resources of the Bay, with particular emphasis on the impact of pollutant loading. Directs the Administrator to make a grant to a State affected by the interstate management plan developed under the Bay Program to implement management mechanisms in the plan if the State has approved and is committed to implementing all or substantially all aspects of the plan. Requires a State or combination of the States, in order to qualify for such grants, to submit a plan of proposed abatement actions to reduce Bay pollution and meet applicable water quality standards and of estimated costs for the approval of the Administrator. Limits such grants to 50 percent of the plan implementation costs. Limits administrative costs. Requires States to submit progress reports biennially to the Administrator for transmittal to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990. Establishes the already existing Great Lakes National Program Office within EPA. Requires such Office to be located in a Great Lakes State. Requires such Office to carry out the responsibilities of the United States under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978, monitor the water quality of the Great Lakes, and serve as a liaison with the International Joint Commission Canadian members. Directs the Office to develop a five-year plan for reducing the amount of nutrients introduced into the Lakes and a five-year study and demonstration project program for the control and removal of toxic pollutants. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on Great Lakes water quality. Establishes, within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Great Lakes Research Office to develop, coordinate, and report on research on issues related to the Great Lakes resources. Require such Office to be located in a Great Lakes State. Requires the Program and Research Offices to prepare annually a joint research plan. Requires interagency cooperation and reporting with respect to such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991, earmarking funds for specified purposes. Directs the Administrator to research the harmful effects on the health and welfare of persons caused by pollutants in water, especially the bioaccumulation of these pollutants in aquatic species and any reduction in the value of aquatic industries. Title II: Construction Grants Amendments - Sets a time limit on resolving treatment works construction contract disputes. Limits the 75 percent Federal share of treatment works construction costs to grants made by a State before FY 1991. Makes the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority project eligible for grants of 75 percent of construction costs. Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant to fund all the costs of modifying or replacing bio disc equipment (rotating biological contractors) in any publicly owned treatment works if deficiencies are not attributable to negligence. Deems the activated bio-filter feature of the project for treatment works of Little Falls, Minnesota, an innovative wastewater process and technique entitled to an 85 percent grant. Permits the use of Farmers Home Administration funds for the nonfederal share of construction costs for publicly owned treatment works under this Act. Directs the Administrator to make preconstruction agreements with grant applicants for treatment work construction assistance to specify which costs are eligible for Federal payments. Sets forth contract terms and conditions concerning design approval and payments including interest payments. Qualifies for purposes of treatment works grants a system of user charges imposing lower charges for low-income residential users. Requires the Administrator to reallot to States treatment works construction grants for FY 1987 through 1990. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for minimum allotments to States and specified U.S. territories and possessions. Increases the allotment for specified U.S. territories and possessions. Extends through FY 1994 the reservation of certain amounts from State allotments for State administrative expenses. Extends through FY 1990 the use of funds to control pollutants from storm sewers. Increases the mandatory set-aside for rural States and other States to up to seven and one-half percent. Extends through FY 1990 specified provisions relating to minimum expenditures for increasing the Federal share of grants for construction of treatment works utilizing innovative processes and techniques. Requires a State to allocate at least 40 percent of its water quality management planning grant to regional and interstate public comprehensive organizations if it would significantly assist in encouraging such organizations' participation in developing wastewater treatment programs. Increases the amount of additional funds which the Administrator shall have available for addressing water quality problems of marine bays and estuaries subject to lower levels of water quality due to the impact of discharges from combined storm water and sanitary sewer overflows. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for the construction grant program. Adds a new title VI: Grants for Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds to the Clean Water Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1994 for capitalization grants to States which establish Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds which would gradually take over the Federal program. Requires a participating State to: (1) enter into agreements with the Administrator; (2) establish the required Fund; (3) deposit in its Fund from State monies an amount equal to 20 percent of the capitalization grant; (4) make loan commitments for publicly owned waste treatment plants within one year which commit all of the Fund; (5) submit required annual and intended use reports; and (6) comply with generally accepted procedures and standards. Sets forth permitted uses of the Fund. Authorizes the Administrator to reallot a noncomplying State's capitalization grant. Sets forth required accounting procedures. Directs the Administrator to review annually each State plan and report for using the Fund. Authorizes a State to use Federal grant funds to set up a Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund upon request. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress by February 10, 1990, on the operation of the State Funds. Directs the Administrator to make grants for treatment works improvement programs for: (1) Avalon, California; (2) Walker and Smithfield Townships, Pennsylvania; (3) Taylor Mill, Kentucky; and (4) Watsonville, California. Directs the Administrator to make a grant to the State of California for the construction of a collection system for specified areas of Nevada County. Directs the Administrator to make grants to the Wanaque Valley Regional Sewage Authority, New Jersey, for the construction of treatment works of a specified capacity. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of construction costs. Directs the Administrator to make grants to Lena, Illinois, for the construction of a replacement moving bed filter press for the treatment works. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of construction costs. Requires Pennsylvania to give Federal funding priority to the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority secondary treatment project and to a project for wastewater treatment for Altoona, Pennsylvania. Authorizes the Chicago tunnel and reservoir project to receive grants without regard to allocation limitation if the Administrator determines that such project is cost-effective without redesign or reconstruction and the Governor of Illinois demonstrates the water quality benefits accruing from such project. Permits the towns of Hampton and Nashua, New Hampshire, to continue using an ad valorem tax user charge system for collecting the costs of operation and maintenance of sewage treatment works in satisfaction of specified requirements for grants for treatment works. Requires the Administrator to review such system for compliance with other requirements. Title III: Standards and Enforcements - Extends the compliance date for specified priority toxic pollutants, all other toxic pollutants, and the application of best practicable technology for all other pollutants to no later than three years after effluent limitations are established or by March 31, 1989, whichever is earlier. Directs the Administrator of EPA to promulgate final regulations by the end of 1986 establishing effluent limitations for direct dischargers and limitations requiring pretreatment for all the priority toxic pollutants which are discharged from certain categories of point sources in accordance with a specified schedule. Permits the Administrator to modify the effluent limitations for nonconventional pollutants such as ammonia, chlorine, color, iron, and total phenols. Permits the Administrator to add or delete from the list of pollutants for which such modification is permitted as indicated by current evidence or the lack of it. Requires that such modifications not interfere, alone or in combination, with the prescribed water quality standard. Requires as new conditions for the modification of treatment requirements with respect to the discharges of pollutants from a publicly owned treatment works that an applicant for such modification demonstrate that: (1) in the case of a treatment works serving a population of 50,000 or more, there is in effect a specified pretreatment program for toxic pollutants introduced into such works for which there is no pretreatment requirement in effect; and (2) the effluent which is discharged from such works is receiving primary treatment and meets the criteria for water established by the Administrator. Prohibits the discharge of a pollutant into saline estuarine waters that do not support fish and wildlife or whose quality is below applicable standards. Prohibits dumping in the New York Bight Apex. Extends the filing deadline for treatment works modification. Extends the innovative technology compliance deadlines for direct dischargers. Permits variances from an otherwise applicable effluent limitation or pretreatment standard if an applicant can demonstrate during the rulemaking (or did not have an opportunity to demonstrate) that factors relating the facilities, equipment, and processes of such person are fundamentally different from the factors considered in the rulemaking. Requires the Administrator to assess and collect fees for variance applications. Requires the Administrator to report biannually to the appropriate congressional committees on the status of variance applications. Permits the modifications of ph levels and the amount of iron and manganese in discharges from remined areas of coal remining operations if such operations provide potential for water quality improvement and use the best available technology (BAT). Requires States within two years to identify bodies of water within or adjacent to them which will not meet State water quality standards because of toxic pollutants after the implementation of BAT. Requires each State to develop an individual control for each such body to achieve the applicable standard within three years. Requires that Administrator, within nine months of this Act's enactment, to develop guidelines for such identification and for measuring water quality criteria for toxic pollutants on other than pollutant-by-pollutant criteria, using biomonitoring and assessment techniques. Directs the States to establish numerical criteria, based on EPA's national water quality criteria, for toxic pollutants which could otherwise interfere with designated water uses. Permits such criteria to include the use of biological monitoring or assessment methods. Permits the Administrator, with State concurrence, to modify effluent limitations: (1) if a non-toxic polluter demonstrates that complete compliance does not satisfy a reasonable cost-benefit analysis; or (2) for five years if a toxic polluter demonstrates that a modified maximum limitation within the polluter's economic means will result in reasonable progress to post-BAT water quality standards. Directs the Administrator, within one year of this Act's enactment and then biennially, to publish guidelines for effluent limitations for toxic pollutants for industrial categories currently without such guidelines and to establish a schedule for the review, revision, and promulgation of other effluent guidelines. Directs the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on water quality improvements achieved through the application of BAT economically achievable. Authorizes a two-year extension for a treatment works to comply with a categorical pretreatment standard if it uses an innovative treatment system which has potential for industry-wide application and the treatment works can still comply with the terms of its permit. Establishes criminal penalties for the knowing disclosure of confidential information gained by authorized personnel in the course of inspection of treatment facilities. Permits a State to adopt more stringent standards for marine sanitation devices on a houseboat than those required under Federal law. Increases criminal and civil penalties. Adds administrative civil penalties for specified violations. Establishes criminal penalties for the knowing endangerment of a person through violations of specified provisions. Requires the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator to each report to the Congress by December 1, 1988, on the enforcement mechanisms available and on improving enforcement. Directs each State to report biennially to the Administrator on the water quality of the publicly owned lakes. Requires the Administrator to then report such information to the appropriate congressional committees, including an evaluation of methods and procedures used. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct lake water quality demonstration programs at: (1) Lake Houston, Texas; (2) Beaver Lake, Arkansas; (3) Greenwood Lake and Belcher Creek, New Jersey; (4) Deal Lake, New Jersey, (5) Alcyon Lake, New Jersey; (6) Gorton's Pond, Rhode Island; (7) Lake Washington, Rhode Island; (8) Lake Bomoseen, Vermont; (9) Sauk Lake, Minnesota; and (10) Lake Worth, Texas. Directs the Administrator to publish within one year of enactment and update biennially a lake restoration guidance manual. Directs the Governor of each State to submit to the Administrator for approval a report: (1) identifying navigable waters not meeting applicable water quality standards because of pollution from nonpoint sources (e.g., rainfall runoff as opposed to identifiable pipes); (2) identifying categories of significantly polluting nonpoint sources; (3) identifying State and local programs for controlling such pollution and improving the water quality of the navigable waters; and (4) describing administrative measures to be taken. Requires each Governor to develop Administrator-approved nonpoint source pollution management programs identifying: (1) the best management practices to institute; (2) an implementation schedule; (3) any additional State authorities necessary for the program including an implementation schedule for acquiring such authorities; (4) available financial assistances; and (5) the effect of existing Federal programs on such program. Provides for resubmission of rejected programs which are subsequently modified. Directs the Administrator to develop a program for any State which fails to do so and report on such actions to the Congress. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to a local agency to develop a four-year plan if a State fails to submit a satisfactory plan and the local agency is of sufficient geographical size. Treats such local agency as a State agency for implementation assistance purposes after such plan has been approved. Directs the Administrator to convene a management conference of the affected States when any State is unable to meet its applicable water quality standards because of pollution from nonpoint sources in another State. Requires the offending State to modify its management program to reflect an agreement reached in such conference. Directs the Administrator to provide grants to States to assist in the implementation of approved four-year plans. Limits the Federal share to a maximum of 60 percent of costs. Sets forth other terms and conditions for such grants, including reporting and administrative requirements. Limits each grant per State to a maximum of 15 percent of total authorizations. Authorizes the Administrator to give priority in making grants to States with management programs with particularly difficult nonpoint pollution problems, innovative technologies, or which address essential groundwater quality protection problems. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991. Directs the Administrator to transmit to the Office of Management and Budget and the appropriate Federal departments and agencies a list of those assistance programs and development projects identified by States for which individual assistance applications and projects will be reviewed. Requires each Federal department and agency to modify existing regulations to allow States to conduct such review and accommodate the concerns of the State regarding the consistency of such applications or projects with the State program. Directs the Administrator to collect and make available information pertaining to management practices and implementation methods. Directs the Administrator to report annually, and finally by January 1, 1990, to the Congress on the State management programs and the grants. Earmarks funds for such programs. Authorizes the Governor of any State to nominate to the Administrator an estuary within the State's jurisdiction which is of national significance and to request a management conference to develop a comprehensive management plan. Directs the Administrator to convene such conference if the need for it is sufficiently documented. Gives priority to: (1) Long Island Sound, New York and Connecticut; (2) Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; (3) Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts; (4) Puget Sound; Washington; (5) New York-New Jersey Harbor, New York and New Jersey; (6) Delaware Bay, Delaware and New Jersey; (7) Albemarle Sound, North Carolina; (8) Sarasota Bay, Florida; (9) San Francisco Bay, California; and (10) Galveston Bay, Texas. Prohibits convening such a conference before a final adjudication has been made in any pending State boundary dispute involving such estuary. Requires a management conference to assess the relevant ecological data and develop a comprehensive conservation and management plan which recommends priority corrective actions and compliance schedules and coordinates intergovernmental efforts. Requires each conference to include the Administrator and affected governmental and private interests. Limits the terms of a conference to five years. Requires Administrator approval of any plan. Permits the use of construction grant or State revolving fund monies for implementation approval of any plan. Authorizes the Administrator to provide up to 75 percent of research and study costs through State grants. Requires such State to report to the Administrator biennially. Earmarks funds for the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to coordinate and implement an assessment, research, and water quality sampling program for pollutants and ecosystems to determine when an estuarine management conference should be called. Requires the Administrators to report to the Congress biennially on estuarine health and research. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Prohibits the location or placing of a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, or land treatment facility, or the placement of solid waste in any of these if they are located over the Unconsolidated Quarternary Aquifer, or the recharge zone of such aquifer in the Rockaway River Basin, New Jersey. Title IV: Permits and Licenses - Exempts from permit requirements and effluent limitations certain stormwater runoff discharges from mining operations or oil or gas exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations. Requires exempted run-offs to be a product of precipitation flows or systems designed to collect or convey such water. Requires that such run-offs be uncontaminated (as determined by the Administrator). Prohibits the Administrator from requiring additional pretreatment by a discharger of conventional pollutants when its publicly owned treatment works is not meeting NPDES permit requirements because of inadequate design or operation. Authorizes a partial NPDES permit program covering a portion of the discharges into the navigable waters in such State if it covers administration of a major category of such discharges or a major component of the State's NPDES permit program. Provides that a State may return, or the Administrator may withdraw approval of, delegated NPDES permit program responsibilities. Sets forth anti-backsliding requirements relating to renewal or reissuance of NPDES permits. Permits limited exceptions. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress within two years on the extent to which States have modified water quality standards or NPDES permits should be modifiable to permit less stringent effluent limitations. States that prior to FY 1993 no permit shall be required for discharges composed entirely of stormwater other than: (1) those associated with industrial activity or municipal separate storm sewers; or (2) those which are determined to be in violation of a water quality standard or contribute significantly to water pollution. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress on the nature of most stormwater discharges and which classes of such discharges should have permits. Revises the sewage sludge disposal timetable. Directs the Administrator to identify in two stages those toxic pollutants which may be present in sewage sludge in concentrations which may adversely affect public health or the environment. Directs the Administrator to publish regulations specifying acceptable management practices and establishing numerical limitations for each such pollutant and requiring compliance within 12 months after publication. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate a design, equipment, management practice, or operational standard for certain pollutants if a numerical limitation is not feasible and the same protection can be achieved. Requires NPDES permits to include requirements for the use and disposal of sludge, and provides for implementing such regulations. Authorizes the Administrator to issue a permit to implement such regulations to a facility not subject to NPDES. Authorizes the Administrator to initiate studies and projects to promote the safe and beneficial use of sewage sludge. Authorizes appropriations. Stays the decision of Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concerning revised pretreatment requirements for certain publicly owned treatment works. Prohibits the authorization of removal credits until final regulations are issued. Permits the merger of permit requirements for log transfer facilities subject to both EPA's and the Army's jurisdiction so long as certain requirements are satisfied. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Permits the Administrator to enter into noncompetitive procurement contracts with State audit organizations for audits of recipients of Federal assistance under this Act. Includes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands within the definition of "State." Excludes agricultural stormwater discharges from the definition of "point source" pollution. Requires that the Attorney General and the Administrator receive notice of any citizen suits or proposed consent judgments. Revises venue provisions to permit an applicant for judicial review of certain Administrator actions to bring suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal district in which such applicant has its principal place of business or where such applicant transacts the business which is directly affected by the action in question. Increases the appeal period. Provides a random selection procedure to determine the forum when reviews of a particular EPA action have been filed in more than one court. Empowers the court to award attorney's fees to a prevailing or substantially prevailing party. Directs the Administrator to assess the sewage treatment needs of Indian tribes, reporting to the Congress within one year. Authorizes the Administrator to reserve one-half of one percent of specified funds for Indian needs after FY 1986. Authorizes the Administrator to treat Indian tribes specially or as States as required to meet such tribes' sewage treatment needs. Defines "point source" to include a landfill leachate collection system. Amends the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to prohibit the issuance of any new permit to non-eligible authorities now presently permitted to use the New York Bight Apex to dump or transport municipal sludge. Prohibits anyone but an eligible authority from dumping or transporting municipal sludge within the 106-mile Ocean Waste Dump Site. Authorizes the Administrator to issue a research permit to the Orange County, California, Sanitation Districts for the discharge of preconditioned municipal sewage sludge into the ocean to analyze the effects of disposing of such sludge by way of pipelines. Limits such permit to five years. Limits the amount of sludge which may be discharged. Requires such districts to report to the Congress on the results of such program. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to the State of California, for construction of a project consisting of publicly owned treatment works in San Diego to provide primary or advanced treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste for the city of Tijuana, Mexico, and for San Diego. Requires the Administrator to make additional grants for defensive treatment works in case of breakdown. Authorizes the Administrator to permit ocean discharge of certain specially-treated pollutants. Imposes a cap on raw sewage discharges from the drainage areas of the North River Plant, Manhattan, New York, and the Red Hook Plant, Brooklyn, New York, into navigable waters (the Hudson-Raritan Estuary) if New York City fails to meet the deadlines for achieving advanced preliminary treatment contained in the consent decree of December 30, 1982 (August 1, 1986, for the North River plant; August 1, 1987, for the Red Hook Plant). Permits the Administrator to raise such cap for seasonal variation or natural disasters, or other circumstances beyond the control of the city of New York. States that violations of this Act shall be considered violations of the Clean Water Act, as well as of the consent decree. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Administrator should not agree to any further modification of the advanced preliminary treatment schedule in the consent decree. Directs the Administrator to implement monitoring activities for both plans and commence enforcement actions in the event of unexcused violations. Directs the Administrator to pay, in the same proportion as the Federal share of other project costs, all expenses for the relocation of facilities for the distribution of natural gas with respect to the entire waste water treatment works known as Oakwood Beach and Red Hook projects, New York. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to make grants of up to 75 percent of costs to the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority for the construction of necessary secondary waste water treatment works to improve the water quality of Boston Harbor and adjacent waters. Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant up to 85 percent of costs to the San Diego Water Reclamation Agency, California, to demonstrate innovations in wastewater reclamation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant of 75 percent of construction costs to the city of Des Moines, Iowa, for construction of the Central Sewage Treatment Plant. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study the feasibility and desirability of eliminating the regulation of de minimus discharges of pollutants into navigable waters. Directs the Administrator to report on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the effectiveness of specified innovative and alternative wastewater treatment processes and techniques which have been used in treatment works constructed under the Clean Water Act. Directs the Administrator to report within one year on such study to specified congressional committees. Directs the Administrator to study the testing procedures for analysis of pollutants established under specified provisions of such Act. Directs the Administrator to report on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the pretreatment of toxic pollutants and report to the appropriate congressional committees within four years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study methods for controlling point and nonpoint sources of pollution in specified groundwater systems and aquifers, including: (1) the Upper Santa Cruz Basin and the Avra-Altar Basin of Pima, Pinal, and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona; (2) the Spokane-Rathdrum Valley Aquifer, Washington and Idaho; (3) the Nassau and Suffolk Counties Aquifer, New York; (4) the Whidbey Island Aquifer, Washington; (5) the Unconsolidated Quarternary Aquifer, Rockaway River area, New Jersey; and (6) groundwater in Litchfield, Hartford, Fairfield, Tolland, and New Haven Counties, Connecticut; and (7) the Sparta Aquifer, Arkansas. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress within two years on the final status of such studies and plans. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to undertake a study on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water, focussing on control measures which would reduce the quantity of water consumed without adversely affecting the projected growth of the region. Requires that such study include an analysis of both existing and new technology, including assessments of water quality assessment methodologies, the economic and environmental affects of manufacturing uses, and regulation of such uses. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study the problem of the corrosive effects of sulfides in collection and treatment systems, the extent to which the uniform imposition of categorical pretreatment standards will exacerbate this problem, and the range of available options to deal with the effects. Requires that such study be conducted in consultation with the Los Angeles City and County sanitation agencies which have observed examples of corrosion probably caused by sulfides. Directs the Administrator to report on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study and report to the Congress within one year on the problems of rainfall induced infiltration into wastewater treatment sewer systems. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on the effects of dams on water quality and the performance of State revolving loan funds. Directs the Administrator to conduct and report to the Congress on a comprehensive study of pollution in Lake Pend Oreille, Montana and Idaho, and the Clark Fork River, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide that a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist may, in collaboration with a physician, certify and recertify a patient's need for skilled nursing or intermediate care facility services. Authorizes skilled nursing facilities to satisfy certain Medicare requirements by having such nurses, in collaboration with physicians, supervise patient care and be available for patient emergencies. (Currently, a physician must make need certifications, supervise patient care, and be available for patient emergencies.) Provides Medicare coverage for 100 percent of the reasonable cost of items and services furnished by a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist in a skilled nursing facility. Provides Medicaid coverage for services furnished by such nurses, in collaboration with a physician, in an intermediate care or skilled nursing facility.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the use of the three-year basis recovery rule in computing the amount of an employee's retirement benefits includible in gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1986
Directs the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to hold hearings on procedures for protecting citizens against improper investigative and prosecutorial practices and to report findings to the Senate on or before September 1, 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1986
Title I: El Malpais National Monument - Establishes the El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the National Park Service, to administer such Monument. Permits the continuation of existing grazing privileges through 1996. Title II: Masau Trail - Authorizes the Secretary to designate a vehicular tour route along existing public roads linking prehistoric and historic cultural sites in western New Mexico, to be known as the Masau Trail. Permits the erection of informational devices. Title III: Grants National Conservation Area - Establishes the Grants National Conservation Area, to be administered by the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, as part of the Albuquerque District. Permits hunting and trapping except in designated zones. Prohibits the commercial collection of wood. Title IV: Wilderness Designation - Designates specified lands in the Grants National Conservation Area as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Permits the grazing of livestock as specified. Title V: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to develop and report within two years to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate Committee on Energy and National Resources on separate general management plans for the Monument and the Conservation Area. Requires such plans to include interpretation and education programs, public facility proposals, and natural and cultural resources management. Requires such plans to evaluate specified lands for their suitability for preservation as wilderness. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands within the Monument or Conservation Area by donation, exchange, or purchase. Requires the Secretary to notify the New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands of State lands or interests within the Monument or Conservation Area and of the opportunity to exchange such lands for Federal public lands. Sets forth procedures for such exchange. Withdraws all Federal lands within the Monument and Conservation Area from entry under the public land, mining, or mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Requires that such Monument and Conservation Area be open to Indians for traditional cultural and religious purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for the interpretation of the prehistoric and historic civilizations in western New Mexico. Title VI: Appropriations Authorization - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1986
State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Advocacy Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require States to establish an Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman (Office) encompassing any area or local ombudsman entity designated by the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman as a subdivision of the Office. Requires States to provide assurances that Office staff are not subject to conflicts of interest and that mechanisms are in place to identify and remedy such conflicts. Immunizes Office representatives from liability under State law for the good faith performance of official duties. Directs States to provide legal counsel to: (1) the Office for advice and consultation; and (2) Office representatives sued in connection with the performance of official duties. Requires States to provide appropriate sanctions against: (1) those willfully interfering with Office representatives in the performance of official duties; and (2) extended care facilities which retaliate against residents or employees who file a complaint with, or provide information to, the Office. Requires State licensure and certification agencies to provide the Office with inspection reports, notices of deficiencies, and sanctions issued with respect to extended care facilities as well as other data relevant to the Office's investigations of such facilities. Directs the Office to submit annual reports to State licensure and certification agencies, State agencies on aging, and the State legislature and Governor analyzing and suggesting resolutions to problems experienced by, and complaints received against, extended care facilities. Requires that office staff who do investigative work be trained in Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and policies regarding State extended care facilities as well as investigative techniques. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide technical assistance and training to State Long-Term Care Ombudsman programs and Ombudsman representatives. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require that extended care facilities provide ombudsmen with access to facility residents and, with the patient's or guardian's consent, to the patient's medical and social records. Requires that ombudsmen be given access to individuals who are admitted to hospitals from skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities. Directs the Secretary to promptly notify the appropriate Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman of any Medicare or Medicaid sanction imposed on a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility. Requires the Commissioner on Aging to issue a report by January 15th of each year analyzing and suggesting resolutions to problems experienced by, and complaints received against, extended care facilities. Specifies the congressional Committees, Federal agencies, and private organizations which are to receive such reports. Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Commissioner on Aging to designate a full-time staff of the Administration on Aging within 90 days of enactment of this Act. Requires the Administration to conduct studies and issue findings regarding the practices and impact of the Ombudsman program. Amends part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require peer review organizations to make available to Ombudsman program personnel their data showing the substantial failure of a provider to meet professionally recognized standards of health care.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1986
Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to require the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture to promulgate regulations relating to the exchange of land or land interests, including the timing of appraisals and the submission of appraisals in disagreement to binding arbitration. Requires regulations governing appraisals to reflect nationally recognized appraisal standards and the differences between acquisition appraisals and transfer appraisals. Permits each Secretary to exchange land or interests of approximately equal value if to do so would be in the public interest and expedite the exchange. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1997 for land exchange activities. States that lands acquired through exchange shall be given the same status as the Federal lands exchanged for such lands. States that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act shall remain unaffected by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1986
Requires the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) to review all agreements entered into by any producer of potassium chloride in Canada under the Antidumping Act, 1921. Requires the Secretary to determine, within 120 days of enactment of this Act, whether any such producer has, at any time during the most recent 12 month period, sold potassium chloride at less than its foreign market value. Requires the Secretary to impose an antidumping duty on imports of potassium chloride from such producers if the Secretary determines that sales at less than foreign market value have taken place. Requires the Secretary to: (1) initiate antidumping investigations with respect to potassium chloride produced by other producers; and (2) provide notice of such investigations to the International Trade Commission. Provides for suspension or termination of such reviews, investigations, and orders.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1986
Indian Self-Determination Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 to make a tribal organization, in cases where the Indian Health Service has no direct care facilities and the Indian tribes are served by such tribal organization, eligible to receive a contract for the performance of services provided the tribal organization has the approval of each tribe it proposes to serve. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon the request of an Indian tribe, to enter into construction contracts with tribal organizations for the benefit of such tribes. Extends the Secretary's authority to enter into such contracts with such tribal organizations to administer education program functions even when such functions (including construction programs) are the subject of appropriations made to other agencies and regardless of the office within which they are performed in the Department of the Interior. Extends the Secretary of Health and Human Services' authority to enter into contracts with Indian tribal organizations to implement hospital and health facility functions even when such functions are the subject of appropriations made to other agencies or regardless of the office within which they are performed in the Department of Health and Human Services. Requires a tribal organization which has entered into such contracts with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be treated as an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services for purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act with respect to a tort arising out of the performance of such contracts. Extends the eligibility period with respect to the retention of specified Federal benefits by employees who leave Federal employment to be employed by a tribal organization. Provides, upon the request of a tribe, for the waiver of Federal contracting laws with respect to contracts entered into under this Act, unless declined under specified criteria. Allows the appropriate Secretary to transfer title to personal property found to be in excess of the needs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or Indian Health Service to an Indian tribe that has received a contract or grant with respect to the provision of educational or health care facility programs. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to contracts entered into under this Act. Requires the appropriate Secretary, in order to meet tribal requests, to designate an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service to supervise the review of contracts by such agencies. Requires the appropriate Secretary to designate officials who are not employed by the Bureau or the Service to conduct hearings in contract declination appeals. Requires contracts entered into pursuant to this Act to be subject to the Contract Dispute Act of 1978. Sets forth specified provisions with respect to indirect costs on contracts negotiated between a tribe or tribal organization and a Federal agency. Provides that funds obligated under this Act but not expended may be expended during the next succeeding fiscal year. Requires, for purposes of applying the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act with respect to Anchorage, Alaska, that regional associations established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and Cook Inlet regional corporation also established under such Act be treated as Indian tribes. Requires all contracts and grants made under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to regional corporations established for the Cook Inlet region to be limited to the performance of services for the benefit of "Native" shareholders of such corporations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1986
Amends the National Trails System Act to include the Santa Fe National Historic Trail running from a point near Old Franklin, Missouri, through Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1986
English Proficiency Act - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to establish within the Office of Adult Education a program of grants for English literacy programs for individuals of limited English proficiency. Allows such grants to provide for support services including child care and transportation costs for program participants. Provides that such grants may be made to community-based organizations, local education agencies, tribally-controlled schools, institutions of higher education (including community colleges), public libraries, and prisons. Sets forth grant application requirements. Limits grants to not more than three years duration. Requires that at least 50 percent of grant funds go to community-based organizations with the demonstrated capability to administer English proficiency programs. Requires grant recipients to report annually to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Adult Education, directly and through grants and contracts, to carry out demonstration programs to: (1) develop innovative approaches and methods of literacy education for individuals of limited English proficiency; and (2) establish a nationwide clearinghouse on literacy education for individuals of limited English proficiency. Directs the Secretary, directly and through grants and contracts, to evaluate and annually audit programs funded under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to accept grants, gifts, or bequests of money for the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Limits to ten percent the portion of funds available under this Act which may be used for demonstration programs and evaluation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1986
America's Living Standard Act of 1986 - Title I: Establishment of an Office of Technology Assessment in Certain Foreign Nations to Catalogue, Abstract, Translate, and Report on Scientific and Technological Developments - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to establish an Office of Technology Assessment within the U.S. Embassy in five foreign nations which maintain a high level of scientifc and technological development. Requires such offices to: (1) participate in the scientific and technical community of the host nation and issue a monthly catalogue of activities; (2) monitor, select, abstract, and translate important articles from scientific and technical journals of the host nation; and (3) prepare an annual analysis of technological trends and a directory listing government and private sources of information about scientific and engineering developments of the host nation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986. Title II: Office of Technology Assessment, Forecast and Outreach - Establishes within the Department of Commerce the Office of Technology Assessment, Forecast and Outreach, headed by a Director to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. Requires the Office to: (1) identify emerging areas of technology throughout the world; (2) analyze the sources of new technology; (3) develop and administer a program involving the identification of the ownership of U.S. patents, including by country and firm; (4) determine trends in patent behavior throughout the world; (5) assure regular reviews by relevant industry sector advisory committees; and (6) assure broad private sector knowledge of, and access to, findings, data, and other information made or acquired by the Office. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 and subsequent fiscal years. Title III: National Science Foundation Engineering Research Assistance - National Science Foundation Engineering Research Assistance Act - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1987 to the National Science Foundation for engineering research centers. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to direct the National Science Foundation, in cooperation with participating institutions of higher education, to seek methods of excluding from participation in engineering research activities foreign corporations which do not allow reciprocal participation by U.S. corporations in similar research activities. Title IV: Scientific Research Fellows Program - Scientific Research Fellows Program Act - Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to direct the National Science Foundation to award up to 500 scientific leadership fellowships in each fiscal year to outstanding graduate students who pursue studies which give promise to contribute significantly to the efficiency, economic productivity, and international competitiveness of the United States. Directs the Foundation to give special consideration to applicants who demonstrate competence in the foreign language of one of identified foreign countries and who intend to perform at least two years research in such foreign country. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Title V: University Research Facilities Fund - University Research Facilities Act of 1986 - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish a University Facilities Division within the Directorate for Science and Engineering Education of the Foundation. Establishes a University Research Facilities Fund in the Treasury. Provides that awards from the Fund made under this title shall be used by institutions of higher education for the Federal share of the cost of acquiring, replacing, renovating, upgrading, or constructing facilities and equipment to be principally used for scientific research or laboratory instruction. Sets forth provisions for applications for such awards and for review of such applications. Sets forth a matching requirement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1997 to be deposited in the Fund. Title VI: Future Teacher Training Corps - Future Teacher Training Corps Act - Amends title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a new part G program of Future Teacher Training Corps Fellowships. Directs the Secretary of Education to allot program grant funds to each State on the basis of school-age population. Directs State Governors to appoint Selection Review Panels to select fellowship recipients. Requires that recipients be interested in teaching careers and agree to teach in areas of the State where there is a shortage of elementary or secondary school teachers or in fields of study where there is a shortage of such teachers. Sets forth guidelines for selection procedures. Sets forth program grant application requirements for States. Limits each such fellowship to not more than: (1) $5,000 for each year of graduate education in preparation to become an elementary or secondary school teacher; and (2) two years of such graduate education. Sets forth fellowship conditions. Requires fellowship repayment in cases of noncompliance with fellowship agreements, with specified exceptions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award up to 5,000 fellowships during each of those fiscal years. Title VII: Computer Software and Videotape Assistance - Computer Software and Videotape Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Education (through the National Institute of Education) and the National Science Foundation to provide advice and technical assistance to State and local educational agencies on expenditures for acquisition of suitable computer software and videotapes by performing specified evaluation, dissemination, and development activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990. Directs the National Science Foundation to foster research and experimentation on, and dissemination of, models of instruction in the operation and use of computers and videotapes. Requires the Director of the Foundation to report annually to the Congress on the results of such research and experimentation. Requires the Director, in conjunction with the National Institute of Education, to disseminate information concerning such results to local educational agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990. Directs the National Science Foundation to arrange for specified entities to develop and operate institutes in the use of computers for computer education instruction and other educational programs in schools. Provides that such institutes shall be for preservice or inservice training of teachers, supervisors, or trainers of teachers. Provides for stipends for attendance at such institutes. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990. Title VIII: Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact - Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact (WORC) of 1986 - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require AFDC applicants and recipients to register with a State agency for employment counseling, training, and assignment. Authorizes AFDC recipients to refuse employment which results in a net loss in their income. Directs an agency of each State to: (1) establish a single intake and registration process for AFDC applicants and recipients; (2) determine whether training or education is needed to prepare registered applicants and recipients for employment and then provide counseling regarding prospects and needs; (3) arrange for their participation in one or more of the work-related programs established under title IV of the Act or other Federal law, while coordinating such programs to enhance the availability and efficiency of services provided; and (4) develop an employment plan for each AFDC applicant or recipient. Requires the State agency to provide AFDC applicants and recipients assigned to employment, training, or education programs with child care and transportation services. Sets the Federal contribution to education, training, and assignment costs at 70 percent and the Federal share of administrative and support service costs at 50 percent. Increases, by five percent in any fiscal year after FY 1987, the Federal share of education, training, and assignment costs, provided a State meets certain performance standards to be developed by the Office of Technology Assessment. Provides that such standards shall measure a State's success in reducing welfare costs and helping AFDC recipients achieve self-sufficiency, while accounting for differing conditions among the States. Title IX: State Job Bank Systems - State Job Bank Assistance Act of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to add provisions for State job bank systems. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make funds available through the U.S. Employment Service for the development and implementation of job bank systems in each State. Requires that such systems be designed to use computerized electronic data processing and telecommunications systems. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Labor, within six months after the enactment of this title, to commence a study: (1) of the feasibility of providing portability for pensions and health benefits of dislocated workers; and (2) evaluating the benefits of providing early retirement benefits without penalty for older dislocated workers. Requires a report of such study to be submitted to the Congress within 18 months after such enactment. Authorizes appropriations. Title X: Council on Industrial Competitiveness - Council on Industrial Competitiveness Act - Establishes in the executive branch an independent agency to be known as the Council on Industrial Competitiveness. Requires the Council to: (1) gather and analyze information regarding the competitiveness of U.S. industries; (2) create an institutional forum where national leaders will identify economic problems inhibiting the competitiveness of industries, develop long-term strategies to address those problems, and create broad consensus in support of those strategies; and (3) make recommendations on issues crucial to the development of coordinated industrial strategies. Directs the Council to examine and make available to the public all international agreements on foreign trade that have been agreed to by the United States. Directs the Council to monitor, and maintain public records regarding, the effect of imports on domestic industries. Requires the Council, not later than one year after the date of enactment of this title, to transmit a report to the Congress and the President containing recommendations for changes in any Federal policy necessary to implement effective industrial strategies. Requires the Council to make annual reports concerning the major industrial development priorities of the United States. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1986
Comprehensive Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Coordination and Leadership - Subtitle A: Office of the Director of National and International Drug Operations and Policy - National Narcotics Act of 1986 - Establishes a Cabinet-level Office of the Director of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to plan and coordinate drug enforcement efforts of the Federal Government. Requires the Director to report to the Congress on U.S. policy with respect to illegal drugs. Requires the Director to make recommendations to specified congressional committees for legislation to reorganize the executive branch of the Government to more effectively reduce drug trafficking and drug abuse. Terminates the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987. Subtitle B: White House Conference on Narcotics Abuse and Control - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Narcotics Abuse and Control to develop recommendations to control the illicit production, trafficking, and distribution of narcotics, and to prevent and treat narcotics abuse. Directs the Conference to review: (1) the impact of recently enacted laws on efforts to control trafficking in narcotics and to prevent and treat narcotics abuse; (2) the recommendations of the President's Commission on Organized Crime as they relate to narcotics abuse and control; and (3) the extent to which sanctions in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 have been, or should be, used in encouraging foreign states to comply with their international responsibilities respecting narcotics control. Requires the Conference to report its findings to the President and the Congress. Subtitle C: Coordinated Budget Submission for Federal Drug Control and Enforcement Activities - Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission a detailed request for Federal agencies responsible for drug abuse prevention and treatment and drug law enforcement. Title II: Enforcement - Subtitle A: Drug Enforcement Enhancement - Drug Enforcement Enhancement Act of 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 to the Department of Justice for: (1) the Drug Enforcement Administration; (2) assistant U.S. attorneys; (3) U.S. Marshals; and (4) the National Park Police. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1987 and 1989 for the Federal Prison System; (2) FY 1988 and 1989 for the construction of Federal penal and correctional institutions; and (3) FY 1988 for establishing an All Source Intelligence Center. Subtitle B: State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States for narcotics law enforcement. Establishes a procedure for grant applications. Requires such an application to include a State-wide strategy for the enforcement of State drug laws. Requires 75 percent of such grants to be distributed to States according to population, with the remaining 25 percent distributed according to need. Requires each State receiving such a grant to submit yearly reports to the Attorney General. Requires the Attorney General to submit annual reports to the Congress summarizing the State reports and the expenditure of such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 and 1988. Subtitle C: More Effective Criminal Penalties - Narcotics Penalties and Enforcement Act of 1986 - Part 1: Controlled Substances Penalties - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the threshold quantity and kinds of controlled substances (adding cocaine freebase and controlled substance analogs) which trigger enhanced penalties. Establishes a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment (ten years for subsequent offenses) for violations involving a specified large quality of such substances. Increases the maximum sentence for such violations to 25 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $1,000,000 (40 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $2,000,000 for subsequent violations). Provides for a fine of up to $3,000,000 ($6,000,000 for subsequent violations) for violations involving a person other than an individual (corporation). Specifies lesser penalties for smaller quantities of the same substance. Increases the fines for certain Controlled Substances Act violations. Establishes criminal penalties (imprisonment for up to one year and a fine of up to $5,000, up to two years and $10,000 for subsequent violations) for possession of a controlled substance in a special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Provides increased criminal penalties (a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment, maximum term of life) for certain Controlled Substances Act violations which result in death or a serious bodily injury. Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to modify the threshold quantity and kinds of controlled substances which trigger revised enhanced penalties. (Modifies the quantities and kinds of substances to reflect those in the Controlled Substances Act.) Increases the fines for certain Controlled Substances Import and Export Act violations. Provides increased criminal penalties (a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment, maximum term of life) for cetain Controlled Substances Import and Export Act violations which result in death or serious bodily injury. Part 2: Protection of Children from Crack and Other Narcotic Drugs - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make cocaine freebase a schedule I substance. Establishes criminal penalties for employing or using persons under 21 years of age in drug operations. Establishes enhanced criminal penalties for the manufacture of a controlled substance in or near an elementary or secondary school. (Current law establishes such enhanced penalties only for the distribution of a controlled substance in or near such schools.) Subtitle D: Unlawful Money Laundering - Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish money laundering as a Federal offense. Sets forth fines and penalties to be imposed on anyone who, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a transaction which in fact involves such proceeds: (1) with the intent to facilitate the carrying on of specified unlawful activity; or (2) knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of such proceeds, or to avoid a transaction reporting requirement under State or Federal law. Sets forth fines and penalties to be imposed upon anyone who: (1) transports or attempts to transport a monetary instrument or funds from a place in the United States to or through a place outside the United States, or vice versa, with similar intent or knowledge; or (2) conducts or attempts to conduct a financial transaction that in whole or in part involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activities with intent to violate or facilitate the violation of certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Provides, for each of such offenses, for a fine of not more than $250,000 or twice the value of the monetary instrument, whichever is greater, or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both. Establishes a civil penalty of the greater of the value of the funds or the monetary instrument involved or $10,000. Authorizes components of the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury to investigate such offenses, as appropriate. Establishes extraterritorial jurisdiction if certain conditions are met. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 with respect to the permissible notification of the Federal Government by a financial institution that the institution has information which may be relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation. Restricts such information to the name or names and other identifying information concerning the individuals and accounts involved in and the nature of the suspected illegal activity. Preempts any State or local law which prohibits disclosure of such information. Precludes liability under any law for an institution for such a disclosure or for failing to notify the customer of such disclosure. Grants a district court authority to order the institution to delay notifying a customer of the existence of a grand jury subpoena of financial records or of information furnished to the grand jury. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) examine books, papers, and records of domestic financial institutions; and (2) summon an officer or employee having possession or custody of reports or records to appear and give testimony under oath. Permits the Secretary to make information filed by financial institutions in certain reports available to a Federal, State, or local agency upon request. Authorizes the Secretary to make such information available to a Federal agency when the Secretary has reason to believe it may be relevant to a matter within the receiving agency's jurisdiction. Authorizes the disclosure of such information for national security purposes. Exempts such reports, and records of such reports, from public disclosure provisions. Increases the civil penalties for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act's reporting rules. Provides in the case of a reporting violation for a maximum penalty of $1,000,000 and a minimum of $25,000. Reduces the civil penalty by any amount forfeited to the United States. Imposes a civil penalty for the criminal violation of such rules, in the amount of the transaction or $25,000, whichever is greater, where the violation involves a transaction. Sets a civil penalty of the entire amount of an account (up to $250,000), or $25,000, whichever is greater, where the violation involves failure to report the existence of an account or any required identifying data pertaining to it. Imposes a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 in the case of a negligent violation. Authorizes the Secretary to assess a civil penalty within six years after the transaction on which the penalty is based. Permits the Secretary to bring a civil action to recover a civil penalty within two years after assessment. Lists money laundering as a predicate offense for purposes of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. Authorizes wiretapping for the investigation of money laundering. Establishes civil and criminal forfeiture procedures for the offense of money laundering. Subtitle E: Designer Drugs - Controlled Substance Analogs Enforcement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish criminal penalties for the manufacture, possession with intent to distribute, or distribution of controlled substance analogs. Subtitle F: Career Criminals - Career Criminal Amendments Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide increased mandatory penalties for any person who transports firearms or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce if such person has multiple convictions for serious drug offenses and violent felonies. (Current law provides increased penalties where such person had multiple convictions for robbery and burglary.) Subtitle G: Technical Amendments to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 - Grants the Attorney General authority to enter into contracts with State and local law enforcement agencies to provide cooperative controlled substance enforcement. Makes technical and conforming changes to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. Subtitle H: Use of Defense Facilities as Detention Facilities - Requires the President to direct the Secretary of Defense to prepare a list of defense facilities which can be used as detention facilities for felons and describe how such facilities can be converted for use as detention facilities. Title III: Forfeiture - Authorizes the use of funds in the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund and the Customs Forfeiture Fund for specified controlled substances law enforcement activities. Directs the General Accounting Office to prepare a report on the feasibility and desirability of abolishing such funds and combining such funds under the authority of either of the offices. Requires such report to be submitted to specified congressional committees within six months of enactment of this Act. Requires the Attorney General to prepare a report on the feasibility and desirability of allowing evidentiary cash in Federal criminal and civil trials to be demonetized to expedite the transfer of such cash into the Federal Government's assets forfeiture funds. Title IV: Armed Services: Interdiction and Intelligence - Subtitle A: National Drug Interdiction Improvement - National Drug Interdiction Improvement Act of 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY 1987 for enhanced drug enforcement assistance, including: (1) the procurement of aircraft (including helicopters and long-range surveillance aircraft); and (2) aerostat radar systems. Directs the Secretary of Defense to make such aircraft available for use by the U.S. Customs Service (which shall be responsible for the expense of operating and maintaining such aircraft). Directs the Commissioner of Customs to consult with the Commandant of the Coast Guard regarding deployment of such aircraft. Requires the Commissioner to make quarterly reports to specified congressional committees regarding drug interdiction plans developed under this Act. Allows the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to assign specially trained members of the Coast Guard to duty on naval vessels for drug enforcement purposes. Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for FY 1987 for: (1) the acquisition of secure radio equipment; (2) additional personnel; and (3) long-range surveillance aircraft. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for the U.S. Customs Service for: (1) additional drug interdiction personnel, equipment (including drug enforcement vehicles and vessels), and training (including training for Southwest Boarder Drug Enforcement Task Force personnel); (2) the operation and use of vessels made available by the United States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force; (3) the operation and maintenance of the air interdiction program; and (4) the establishment of a customs air support branch in the Northeast Region of the United States (including the purchase of specified aircraft). Authorizes appropriations for the establishment of command, control, communications, and intelligence centers in the United States. Establishes the United States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force. Directs the Commissioner of Customs to enter into negotiations with the Government of the Bahamas regarding the establishment and operation of such task force. Directs the Director of the Office of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to make quarterly reports to specified congressional committees regarding progress in establishing the Task Force. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for: (1) the Coast Guard-Bahamas Drug Interdiction docking facility; (2) helicopters for drug interdiction operations in Hawaii; and (3) the establishment of an All Source Intelligence Center in the Department of Justice. Subtitle B: Anti-Smuggling Provisions - Anti-Smuggling Act of 1986 - Part I: Amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to include monetary instruments within the meaning of "merchandise." Requires the master of any vessel from a foreign port or place, any foreign vessel from a domestic port or place, or any U.S. vessel carrying bonded merchandise or foreign merchandise for which entry has not been made, to immediately report such vessel's arrival at a U.S. or Virgin Island port to the nearest customs facility or place prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Restricts the arrival of any vehicle coming into the United States to border crossing points designated by the Secretary. Requires the person in charge of such vehicle to report its arrival, and present such vehicle and all persons and merchandise on board, to the customs officer. Requires the pilot of any aircraft arriving in the United States to comply with such advance notification, arrival reporting, and landing requirements as the Secretary may prescribe. Prohibits the departure of such vessels, vehicles, or aircraft, or the discharge of passengers or merchandise, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Imposes penalties for violations of the arrival, reporting, or entry requirements. Increases the fine for the unauthorized unloading of passengers. Sets forth reporting requirements for individuals arriving in the United States. Imposes penalties for violations of such reporting requirements. Requires unclaimed property to be retained by the Customs Service for six months (currently one year). Allows such property to be retained for official use or otherwise disposed of in accordance with regulations. Allows counterfeit merchandise seized by the Customs Service to be sold at auction after 60 days (currently one year). Increases the criminal fines for: (1) failing to produce a vessel's manifest; (2) producing a false manifest; and (3) unlawfully unloading merchandise. Makes aviation smuggling unlawful. Prohibits the at sea transfer of prohibited merchandise between U.S. owned aircraft and vessels. Prohibits the at sea transfer of prohibited merchandise between aircraft and vessels, regardless of the nationality of either, where the intent is to smuggle the merchandise into the United States. Establishes penalties, including seizure of the aircraft of vessel, for violations of such anti-smuggling provisions. Specifies certain acts that, if engaged in within 250 miles of the U.S. territorial seas, shall be: (1) persumed to indicate intent to smuggle; and (2) deemed prima facie evidence that the aircraft or vessel was used in aiding or facilitating such smuggling. Establishes civil penalties for making false written or oral statements which seeks or affects the payment or credit of any drawback payment, refund of duties, allowance, or rebate, or relates to merchandise which is to be exported contrary to law. Changes the procedures for the seizure and forfeiture of conveyances used in smuggling to require that a common carrier be seized and forfeited under certain circumstances. Authorizes the issuance of search warrants for places suspected of containing: (1) merchandise brought into the United States unlawfully; (2) property which is subject to forfeiture under the customs laws; or (3) articles which are evidence of a customs violation. Authorizes the seizure and forfeiture of smuggled merchandise. Requires that any deposit made in lieu of forfeiture of property seized under customs laws be treated in the same manner as the proceeds of a sale of any forfeited item. Provides that the expenses of a forfeiture proceeding shall be a priority claim in the same manner as court costs. Provides that compensation for informers shall not exceed 25 percent of the amount recovered. (Current law requires such compensation to equal 25 percent of such amount.) Declares that an action to recover a pecuniary penalty is considered to have been commenced when the penalty notice is issued. Authorizes the Secretary to require the production of foreign landing certificates to comply with international obligations. Permits the Secretary to authorize customs officials to exchange information or documents with foreign customs or law enforcement agencies under certain circumstances. Allows the Secretary, when authorized by treaty or executive agreement, to station customs officers in foreign countries to examine persons or merchandise prior to their arrival in the United States. Provides that merchandise seized at a foreign station may be transported to the United States for customs proceedings. Permits the stationing of foreign customs officers in the United States (if similar privileges are extended to the United States). Imposes penalties for making fraudulent statements to such foreign officials. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to provide a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not to exceed two years, or both, for persons (owners of aircraft) who operate an aircraft: (1) that is not registered; (2) during any period for which the aircraft certificate or registration has been suspended or revoked by the Secretary of Transportation; (3) without a valid airman certificate; or (4) who employ airmen without valid airman certificates. Requires any person having an ownership interest in an aircraft for which a certificate or registration has been issued, upon the sale, transfer, or conveyance of such interest, to file within 15 days such notice as the Secretary of the Treasury may provide. Part II: Amendments to the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act - Makes it unlawful for any United States citizen on board any aircraft, or any person on board any aircraft owned by a U.S. citizen or registered in the United States, to manufacture or distribute or possess with intent to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance. Amends the Federal criminal code to provide criminal penalties for any person to operate an aircraft; (1) without navigation and/or anticollision lights; and (2) with an illegal fuel tank or fuel system installation. Title V: Foreign Relations - Subtitle A: International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - Part 1: International Narcotics Control Assistance Program - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the FY 1987 authorization for aid for international narcotics control. Permits certain additional funds to be appropriated for FY 1987 only if the President has submitted to the Congress: (1) a budget request for such funds; and (2) a plan showing how such funds will be used. Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 military assistance authorization be available to provide aircraft to countries receiving such assistance for narcotics control eradication and interdiction efforts. Earmarks at least half of such funds for aircraft based in Latin America. Requires such aircraft to be made available to foreign countries only on a lease or loan basis. Requires the Secretary of State to maintain detailed records on the use of such aircraft. Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 military assistance authorization be available for education and training in the operation and maintenance of aircraft used in narcotics control interdiction and eradication efforts. Earmarks a specified amount of the FY 1987 international narcotics control assistance for research, development, and testing of safe and effective herbicides for use in aerial eradication of coca. Requires the Comptroller General to investigate and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the international narcotics control assistance program. Part 2: Improving Law Enforcement and Other Narcotics Control Activities Abroad - Requires the President's annual report to the Congress on the international strategy to prevent cultivation and trafficking in narcotics to include a discussion of the extent which each source country has cooperated with U.S. narcotics control efforts through the extradition or prosecution of drug traffickers and a description of the state of negotiations on updated extradition treaties. Commends the decision of the Secretary of State to issue diplomatic passports to officials and employees of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress before changing such policy. Requires the executive branch to establish expeditiously the information sharing system that will list all drug arrests of foreign nationals in the United States as required by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1986 and 1987. Requires the executive branch to report to the Congress when the system is established. Urges the President to require that greater priority be given to the collection and sharing of information concerning narcotics related activities abroad. Requires the President to order the preparation of an updated threat assessment of narcotics trafficking from Africa. Requires the President to take steps to improve the capability of the executive branch to: (1) collect information concerning links between narcotics traffickers and acts of terrorism abroad; and (2) develop means to respond to the threat which those links pose. Requires the President to report to the Congress on such steps. Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 administration of justice program authorization be used to provide Colombia (and other countries in the region) assistance to protect judicial or other officials who are targets of narcoterrorist attacks. Urges the Secretary to increase efforts to negotiate with relevant countries procedures to facilitate the interdiction of vessels suspected of carrying illicit narcotics. Directs the President to take appropriate actions, including denial of access to U.S. ports, if a country refuses to negotiate interdiction procedures. Requires the Secretary to submit semiannual reports to the Congress identifying countries that fail to negotiate such procedures. Provides that the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State shall jointly determine when armed forces personnel are needed to provide law enforcement assistance (in enforcing specified customs and drug laws and the Immigration and Nationality Act) activities abroad. Part 3: Development and Narcotics Production and Trafficking - Requires the annual report on foreign aid programs to contain a description of the development programs (other than narcotics control programs) dealing with illicit narcotics production. Part 4: Drug Education Programs Abroad - Authorizes additional appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency for FY 1987 which shall be available only for increasing drug education programs abroad. Authorizes additional appropriations for development assistance programs for FY 1987 which shall be used for additional activities aimed at increasing awareness of the effects of production and trafficking of illicit narcotics on source and transit countries. Requires the Director of the U.S. Information Agency and the Director of the Agency for International Development to include in their annual reports to the Congress a description of the drug education programs carried out by their respective agencies. Part 5: United Nations Activities Related to Drug Narcotics Control - Declares congressional support or the United Nations General Assembly decision to convene in 1987 an International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Calls upon the President to appoint the head of the U.S. delegation well in advance of the conference and ensure that necessary resources are available for U.S. preparation and participation. Requires the President to report to the Congress by April 30, 1987, on the status of U.S. preparation for the conference. Calls for the conduct of a study of the effectiveness of the United Nations drug-related declarations, conventions, and entities. Requires the President to report any recommendations which result from such study to the Congress. Urges the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to complete work as soon as possible on a new draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Calls for more effective implementation of existing conventions relating to narcotics. Part 6: Provisions Relating to Specific Countries - Urges the President to direct the Secretary to enter into negotiations with the Government of Mexico to create a Mexico-United States Intergovernmental Commission on Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug Use and Abuse. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within 90 days of enactment of this Act on progress in establishing such a commission. Urges Pakistan to adopt and implement a comprehensive narcotics control program. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within 60 days of enactment of this Act on the adoption and implementation of such a program. Calls upon the President to instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to request that the problem of illicit drug production in Iran, Afghanistan, and Laos be raised at the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Subtitle B: Drug Eradication Act of 1986 - Drug Eradication Act of 1986 - Directs the United States to promote, through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank, the development and implementation of national drug eradication programs in developing countries. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multinational development banks to propose that assistance be provided to such countries in developing and implementing such programs. Authorizes the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to certify the adequacy of such programs and annually review such programs. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to: (1) vote against loans to major drug producing countries that have no certified program within one year of enactment of this Act; and (2) propose that their respective banks increase lending for crop substitution programs. Requires the Secretary to include an accounting of the manner and extent of compliance siwht this Subtitle in its annual report to the Congress. Subtitle C: Denial of Trade Benefits to Certain Drug Source Nations - Narcotics Control Trade Act - Directs the President to designate a country an uncooperative drug source nation if during any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1986, such country: (1) was a source of any illicit narcotic and psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances that are significantly affecting the United States; and (2) did not cooperate with the United States in preventing such drugs and substances from affecting the United States by taking specified actions. Directs the President to report to the Congress the name of each such country. Denises the products of each such country most-favored-nation treatment until the President notifies the Congress that such country has made significant progress and will continue to make progress in remedying those policies on which an uncooperative drug source nation designation was based. Title VI: Education and Public Awareness - Subtitle A: Emergency Response - Designates October 6, 1986, as National Drug Abuse Education Day. Requires the Secretary of Education to insure that State educational departments and local school districts and schools have information on: (1) the scope and nature of the cocaine freebase epidemic; (2) strategies for effective school level intervention and community mobilization; and (3) available resources. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse to produce and disseminate public service announcements on the consequences of cocaine freebase use. Subtitle B: Establishment of Office Within the Department of Education - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Prevention in the Department of Education. Provides that such Office shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Prevention (the Assistant Secretary). Sets forth the duties of the Office. Requires the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to report to the Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act on the progress in establishing the Office and the long-term strategy of the Office for drug education and prevention. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to coordinate efforts to: (1) disseminate program related information; (2) provide training and technical assistance; and (3) identify research and development priorities. Subtitle C: Student Drug Abuse Education and Prevention - Student Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to establish a program of grants to States for drug (including alcohol) abuse education in elementary and secondary schools. Lists the State and local educational agency uses of such funds. Restricts the amount States may use for administrative costs. Provides for: (1) the allotment of such grant funds to States; (2) State application for such grant funds; (3) allocations to local educational agencies; and (4) local application to State educational agencies. Provides for the equitable participation of children enrolled in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools in such program. Provides that the use of such grant funds is to supplement and not supplant other Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Subtitle D: Regional Drug and Alcohol Abuse Training Centers - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for establishing and operating regional drug and alcohol abuse training centers. TItle VII: Prevention and Treatment - Subtitle A: Prevention - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an emergency report and feasibility study of intervention by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Drug Abuse to reduce the epidemic of cocaine freebase use in the United States. Subtitle B: Research on Effective Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand certain information dissemination activities regarding drug abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. Subtitle C: State and Local Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Assistance - State and Local Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 to provide assistance to the States for planning, establishing, and maintaining effective prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and activities to deal with the abuse of controlled substances. Requires 75 percent of such assistance to be distributed to States according to population, with the remaining 25 percent distributed according to need. Establishes procedures for grant applications. Imposes limitations on the use of such assistance, including a maximum five percent allocation for administrative purposes. Subtitle D: Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Model Projects for High Risk Youths - Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Model Projects for High Risk Youth Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate effective models of preventing drug abuse and alcohol abuse among high risk youths. Requires the Secretary to give priority to applications for projects directed at: (1) latchkey children; (2) children at risk of abuse or neglect; (3) preschool children eligible for services under the Heald Start Act; (4) children at risk of dropping out of school; (5) children at risk of becoming adolescent parents; and (6) children who do not attend school and who are at risk of being unemployed. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate effective models of treamtnt and rehabilitation of high risk youths who are drug abusers or alcohol abusers. Requires the Secretary to give priority to projects which address the relationship between drug abuse or alcohol abuse and: (1) physical, sexual, and/or emotional child abuse; (2) dropping out of school; (3) unemployment; (4) delinquency; (5) pregnancy; (6) violence; (7) suicide; or (8) mental health problems. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Requires public and nonprofit private entities to submit their grant applications to the Governor of the State in which the project will be conducted. Requires the Governor to review each application and submit his or her recommendations to the Secretary, together with a priority ranking of those recommended for approval. Requires the Secretary to give priority to applications from community-based organizations for projects: (1) to develop innovative multi-disciplinary models for the prevention or for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug abuse or alcohol abuse by high risk youths; and (2) to demonstrate effective models which may be replicated. Requires the Secretary, in making such grants, to consider the specific needs of urban and rural areas. Requires the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to evaluate projects conducted with grants under this Act. Subtitle E: Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment - Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986 - Grants the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts authority to contract with public and private agencies for the detection and treatment of alcohol-dependent and drug-dependent offenders. Amends the Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Authorization Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for contracts for the supervision of released drug offenders through FY 1989. Subtitle F: Indians and Alaska Natives - Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 - Part I: General Provisions - Sets forth the purpose of this Act. Part II: Coordination of Resources and Programs - Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement which shall: (1) define the scope of the problem of alcohol and substance abuse for Indian tribes and assess its financial and human costs; (2) assess the resources available to combat alcohol and drug abuse among Indian people; (3) establish appropriate standards for each agency's program responsibility; (4) coordinate the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service alcohol and substance abuse programs; (5) delineate the responsibilities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service to coordinate services; (6) directs the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency and education superintendents and the Indian Health Service unit directors to cooperate; and (7) provide for an annual review of such agreement by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the agreement to be submitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register. Allows the governing body of any Indian tribe to establish a Tribal Action Plan to coordinate available resources and programs in an effort to combat alcohol and substance abuse among its members. Requires the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency and education superintendents and the Indian Health Service service unit director to cooperate, if requested, in developing such plans. Provides for the development of such plans by Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service personnel if an Indian tribe fails to adopt such a plan. Establishes within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs an Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse to: (1) monitor the performance and compliance of programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in meeting the goals and purposes of such agreement and this Act; and (2) serving as a point of contact within the Bureau of Indian Affairs for Indian tribes and the Tribal Coordinating Committees. Establishes within the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse the position of Indian Youth Programs Officer. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available for community use, in the futherance of the purposes and goals of this Act, local Federal facilities, property, and equipment. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish summer recreation, employment, and counseling programs for Indian youth; (2) keep open schools which are necessary to provide facilities for the programs established under this Act; and (3) provide coordinators, as needed, for such programs. Part III: Indian Youth Program - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review: (1) Federal program providing specified services or benefits to Indian children and families; and (2) tribal, State, local, and private resources, benefits, and programs providing specified services. Requires the results of such review to be provided to each Indian tribe. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs to develop and implement a pilot program in selected schools to determine the effectiveness of summer youth programs in furthering the purposes and goals of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to publish an alcohol and substance abuse newsletter. Requires the Tribal Action Plans to make provisions for the establishment, funding, licensing, and operation of emergency shelters or half-way houses for Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers. Urges States to require its law enforcement officers to place any youth arrested for any offense related to alcohol or substance abuse in such shelter or half-way house. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989 for the contruction, renovation, and operation of such shelters and half-way houses. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to require the compilation of data relating to the number and types of child abuse and neglect cases seen and the type of assistance provided. Part V: Law Enforcement and Judicial Services - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review: (1) Federal programs providing law enforcement or judicial services to Indian tribes; and (2) tribal and State and local law enforcement and judicial programs and systems. Requires the results of such review to be provided to each Indian tribe. Part VI: Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcemnt - Increases the maximum sentence (from six months to one year) and fine (from $500 to $5,000) which a tribal court can impose for any offense. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to ensure that all Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal law enforcement and judicial personnel have training available in the investigation and prosecution of offenses relating to illegal narcotics and in alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Requires the Memorandum of Agreement to include a provision for the development and implementation of a procedure for the emergency medical assessment and treatment of Indian youth arrested or detained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs or tribal law enforcement personnel for offenses relating to or involving alcohol or substance abuse. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish and implement a program for the eradication of marijuana cultivation within Indian country; (2) develop and implement a plan for the construction or renovation and staffing of tribal juvenile detention and rehabilitation centers; (3) provide for the development of a Model Indian Juvenile Code; and (4) collect data regarding calls and encounters, and arrests and detentions, and the disposition of cases involving Indians where alcohol or drug abuse is a contributing factor. Part VII: Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review: (1) Federal programs providing health services and benfits to Indians; (2) tribal, State, local, and private health resources and programs; (3) where facilities that provide such treatment are or should be located; and (4) the effectiveness of private and public alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs. Requires the Memorandum of Agreement to include provisions pursuant to which the Indian Health Service shall assume responsibility for: (1) determing the scope of the alcohol and substance abuse problem among Indians; (2) assessing the existing and needed resources to support an alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treament program for Indians; and (3) estimate the funding necessary to support such a program. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) provide a comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment program for members of Indian tribes; (2) develop and implement a program for acute detoxification and treatment for Indian youth who are alcohol and substance abusers; (3) begin the construction of 11 regional treatment centers serving Indian tribes; (4) develop and implement within each Indian Health Service service unit community-based rehabilitation and follow up services for Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers; (5) develop and implement within each service unit a program of community education and involvement; (6) require that the existing health staff of the Indian Health Service receive training in alcohol and substance abuse; (7) develop and implement a program of alcohol and substance abuse prevention through education intervention; (8) identify and use existing Federally owned structures as residential alcohol and substance abuse treatment centers for Indian youths; (9) make grants to the Navajo tribe to establish a demonstration program in Gallup, New Mexico, to rehabilitate adult Navajo Indians suffering from alcoholism or alcohol abuse; and (10) compile data on the number of incidents where Indian Health Service personnel or services were involved in matters related to alcohol or substance abuse. Subtitle G: Programs in United States Insular Areas - Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the efforts of Federal agencies, and the adequacy of arrangements with States in preventing the illegal entry of controlled substances into the United States. Authorizes law enforcement officers of the Governments of American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands to: (1) execute and serve warrants, subpoenas, and summons issued under the authority of the United States; (2) make arrests without warrants; and (3) make seizures of property to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, and any other applicable Federal narcotics laws. Authorizes the Attorney General to train such law enforcement officers and provide certain law enforcement equipment. Requires the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Coast Guard, the Customs Service, and the Postal Service to assign and maintain a specified number of agents, officers, and vessels in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
Energy Security Act of 1986 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an import fee on: (1) the first sale within the United States of any crude oil or any refined petroleum product imported into the United States; and (2) the use within the United States of any crude oil or any refined petroleum product imported into the United States if no such tax has been imposed prior to such use. Exempts from such tax crude oil or refined petroleum products purchased for export. Sets the rate of such tax as the difference between $18 per barrel and the average world price of crude oil per barrel.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
National Narcotics Act of 1986 - Establishes a Cabinet-level Office of the Director of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to plan and coordinate drug enforcement efforts of the Federal Government. Requires the Director to report to the Congress on U.S. policy with respect to illegal drugs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
Emergency Crack Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Law Enforcement - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include cocaine freebase as a schedule I substance. Establishes criminal penalties of up to 20 years in prison, or up to $250,000 fine, or both, for manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing cocaine freebase. Provides increased penalties for employing persons under 21 years of age to distribute controlled substances. Imposes enhanced penalties for the manufacture of a controlled substance in or near an elementary or secondary school. (Current law imposes such enhanced penalties only for the distribution of a controlled substance in or near such schools.) Makes it a Federal criminal offense to open, maintain, manage, or control any facility used for manufacturing, storing, distributing, or using a controlled substance. Title II: Education and Public Awareness - Part A: Emergency Response - Designates October 6, 1986, as National Drug Abuse Education Day. Requires the Secretary of Education to ensure that State educational departments and all schools have timely information on: (1) the scope and nature of the cocaine freebase epidemic; (2) strategies for effective school intervention and community mobilization; and (3) available resources. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse to produce and disseminate two emergency public service announcements on the consequences of cocaine freebase use. Part B: Establishment of Office Within the Department of Education - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish within the Department an Office of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Policy. Provides that such Office shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Prevention (the Assistant Secretary). Sets forth the duties of the Office. Requires the Secretary of Education to report to the Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act on progress in establishing the Office and the long-term strategy of the Office for drug education and prevention. Part C: Student Drug Abuse and Prevention - Student Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to establish a program of grants to States for drug (including alcohol) abuse education in elementary and secondary schools. Lists the State and local educational agency uses of such funds. Restricts the amount States may use for administrative costs. Provides for: (1) the allotment of such grant funds to States; (2) State application for such grant funds; (3) allocations to local educational agencies; and (4) local application to State educational agencies. Provides for the equitable participation of children enrolled in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools in such program. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to: (1) collect and disseminate program-related information to State and local educational agencies; (2) provide technical assistance; and (3) identify research and development priorities. Authorizes appropriations for such activities. Provides that the use of such grant funds is to supplement and not supplant other Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Title III: Prevention - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an emergency report on and feasibility study of intervention by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Drug Abuse to reduce the epidemic of cocaine freebase use.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1986
Commemorates the return of Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco from captivity in Lebanon. Urges the continuance of all efforts to gain the release of the other hostages.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1986
Declares that all Federal rights, title, and interests to the surface and mineral estates in specified lands (located in New Mexico) of the Department of the Interior are to be held in trust by the United States for the Pueblo of Zia Indians. Requires all gross receipts (including, but not limited to, bonuses, rents, and royalties) that are derived by the United States with respect to such lands to be administered in accordance with the laws relating to trust property. Exempts such receipts from: (1) Federal, State, and local taxation; and (2) being considered income or resources to recipients for purposes of taxation or income or resources with respect to eligibility for assistance (including under the Social Security Act). Requires all applications for mineral leases involving such lands pending on the date of enactment of this Act to be rejected and advance payments returned to the applicants. Provides that nothing in this Act shall: (1) deprive any person (other than the United States) of any lease, right-of-way, mining claim, grazing permit, water right, or other interest in such lands before enactment of this Act; (2) affect a specified right-of-way; or (3) affect specified mineral leases.
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