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Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 290 (101st)referred

A joint resolution to designate the week of July 22, 1990, through July 28, 1990, as the "National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War.

United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990

Designates the week of July 22 to 28, 1990, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1990, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.

Bill· SS. 2426 (101st)open

National Tree Trust Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990

National Tree Trust Act of 1990 - Title I: National Tree Trust - Authorizes the President to designate a private nonprofit organization meeting certain criteria the National Tree Trust Foundation, which shall promote tree planting. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the Foundation in FY 1991. Title II: Assistance for Tree Planting and Forest Improvement - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish rural and community tree planting and forest improvement programs as special components of the Rural and Urban Forestry Assistance Programs under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act. Provides for financial, technical, and related assistance to State foresters in order to assist nonindustrial private landowners, local governments, civic organizations, and individuals to plant, maintain, and improve trees and forests. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a cost-sharing program (with a Federal share of up to 75 percent) to encourage tree planting and management on nonindustrial private lands. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 2445 (101st)referred

Food Stamp Trafficking Prevention and Penalty Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990

Food Stamp Trafficking Prevention and Penalty Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require retail and wholesale food concerns participating in the food stamp program to provide the Secretary of Agriculture with their Internal Revenue Service taxpayer identifying numbers. Makes it unlawful to launder funds obtained from food stamp coupon trafficking. Provides for civil and criminal forfeiture and property disposition for violating this Act.

Bill· SS. 2415 (101st)open

A bill to encourage colar, wind, waste, and geothermal power production by removing the size limitations contained in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990

Solar and Geothermal Power Production Incentives Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to remove the size limitations placed upon solar and geothermal facilities eligible for PURPA regulatory benefits. Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate proposed modifications to its regulations to implement this Act.

Bill· SS. 2385 (101st)open

National Forest Foundation Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990

National Forest Foundation Act - Establishes the National Forest Foundation to promote and support activities of the Forest Service. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 2373 (101st)referred

Science and Mathematics Achievement Readiness Act (SMART)

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990

Science and Mathematics Achievement Readiness Act (SMART) - Title I: Curriculum Choices - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation, by the end of FY 1991, to develop and report to the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) a set of at least ten curriculum choices designed to enhance the science and mathematics literacy of elementary and secondary school students. Directs the Secretary to disseminate such set to local educational agencies (LEAs) throughout the United States. Directs the Secretary, by the end of FY 1992, to make grants to LEAs to implement such curricula development. Limits to 1,000 the total number of such grants in each fiscal year. Requires such grant funds to be used for teacher hiring and in-service training, and for purchase of books, equipment, and materials. Requires evaluation of such curriculum choices. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Mathematics and Science Scholarships - Authorizes the Secretary to award annually up to 5,000 undergraduate and graduate scholarships to assist individuals in obtaining a teaching degree. Requires recipients to agree, within two years of completing their course of study, to teach science or mathematics in an elementary or secondary school for at least two years for each year of scholarship assistance, or else repay it. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 2382 (101st)referred

Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990

Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990 - Title I: The Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 - Revises title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 with regard to food and development assistance. Provides agricultural commodity grants to least developed countries and concessional credit sales to developing countries. Prohibits assistance to countries that violate human rights. Provides for: (1) direct uses or sales of donated commodities within recipient countries; (2) creation of local currency accounts; (3) multiyear development agreements; (4) use of payments for trade development, agribusiness and facilities loans, and research; and (5) value-added food assistance, including the partial waiver of repayment for such assistance. Revises title II of such Act with regard to emergency and private assistance programs. Authorizes the President, through the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, to provide commodities to foreign countries for reasons of famine, malnutrition, and economic and environmental development. Authorizes multiyear agreements for nonemergency assistance. Authorizes participating private voluntary organizations to barter or sell the commodities in the recipient country. Sets forth specified minimum assistance levels and requires specified assistance amounts to be in the form of value-added commodities. Establishes a Food Aid Consultative Group. Sets forth maximum expenditure levels. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a farmer-to-farmer assistance program. Obligates specified minimum funding for developing countries. Revises title III of such Act to establish the Food for Freedom Program in order to support governmental democratization and individual and economic freedoms. Makes commodity assistance available on grant or credit basis. Authorizes multiyear agreements. Authorizes a private market enhancement program. Revises title IV of such Act to authorize debt forgiveness of an eligible developing country. Prohibits agreements to finance sales or to provide other assistance under such Act after December 31, 1995. Provides for General Accounting Office audits of grant, concessional credit sale, and title II programs. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to the disposition of commodities to prevent waste, limiting the authority involved to carrying out programs under titles II and III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Title II: The Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 - Revises title I of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to set forth U.S. agricultural trade policy and long-term trade strategies and goals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a list of foreign country priority growth markets and individualized market plans; and (2) review U.S. trade performance against such long-term agricultural goals. Revises title II of such Act to authorize a direct credit short-term (less than three years) export assistance program. Prohibits the resale or transshipment of intermediate-term program commodities. Authorizes short-term and intermediate-term credit guarantees. Prohibits commodity resale or transshipment. Requires at least 90 percent domestic content for commodity eligibility. Sets forth financial institution requirements. Authorizes: (1) deferred payment sales; (2) marketing assistance; and (3) barter of agricultural commodities or exchanges for strategic or critical materials (including a specified amount of commodities to acquire petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve). Terminates the Agricultural Credit Revolving Fund effective October 1, 1995. Sets forth funding levels for: (1) direct credit programs; (2) export credit guarantee programs; and (3) marketing assistance programs. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this title. Revises title III of such Act to authorize an export enhancement program to combat unfair trade practices. Sets forth program funding levels. Authorizes appropriations. Revises title IV of such Act to provide for agricultural embargo protection, including the development of contingency plans to alleviate an embargo's adverse effects. Authorizes contracting authority for services abroad to expand export markets. Requires specified agency consultations before removing or relaxing any agricultural import restrictions. Revises title V of such Act to establish in the Department of Agriculture the position of Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service. Establishes a specified minimum number of Foreign Agricultural Service (Service) personnel. Grants the diplomatic title of Minister-Counselor to the senior Service officer in a foreign mission. Authorizes appropriations to permit the Service to carry out this Act. Revises title VI of such Act to require the Secretary to prepare (every three years) a Long-Term Agricultural Trade Strategy Report. Sets forth other reporting requirements under such Act and under the Agricultural Act of 1954. Establishes a Service attache educational program. Title III: General Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1980 to extend the food security wheat reserve. Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to extend certain cottonseed and sunflower seed oil export assistance. Directs the Secretary to establish an agricultural fellowship program for middle income countries and emerging democracies (Cochran Fellowship Program). Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Conforming Provisions and Technical Changes - Makes specified conforming and technical amendments.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 113 (101st)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress on international nuclear sales to South Asia.

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990

Urges the President to: (1) continue efforts to encourage Pakistan, India, and other non-nuclear-weapon states that are not parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to agree to full-scope nuclear safeguards; (2) urge current adherents to such Treaty to join the United States in seeking these objectives; and (3) continue and expand efforts to encourage all nuclear supplier nations to require such safeguards as a condition for future nuclear commerce and cooperation with all non-nuclear-weapon nations.

Bill· SS. 2347 (101st)referred

Rural Air Service Preservation Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990

Rural Air Service Preservation Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, for any period before September 30, 1998, to enter into contracts with air carriers to assure air service to certain small communities for which a determination of essential air transportation has been made under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 2310 (101st)referred

Hunger Prevention Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990

Hunger Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize the food stamp program through FY 1995. Increases the basic benefit level by specified increments through FY 1994 and after, according to formulae involving the rising cost of the thrifty food plan. Permits the use of food stamps to purchase meals at homeless shelters and soup kitchens as well as private establishments (like restaurants) which contract with a State to offer meals for qualifying persons at concessional prices. Permits the use of appropriations to make grants for projects designed to improve the effectiveness of the program in delivering food assistance to the homeless. Allows families in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program to receive the first $50 of child support payments each month without lowering their food stamp benefits. Repeals the cap on the excess shelter deduction, permitting all eligible households to deduct the full amount of excess shelter costs in the determination of food stamp benefits. Raises from $4,500 to $5,500 after January 1, 1991, the limit on the value of a motor vehicle an eligible family may own. Requires annual cost-of-living adjustments to such limit beginning October 1, 1991. Provides for the issuance of food stamp coupons by mail to households in rural areas where low-income persons face substantial difficulties in obtaining transportation. Reauthorizes Nutrition Assistance to Puerto Rico through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct pilot projects that test changes in, and new, food stamp program administrative and eligibility determination procedures designed to increase participation in rural areas. Authorizes State agencies to implement on-line electronic benefit transfer systems in which household benefits are issued from and stored in central data banks and electronically accessed by household members at the point-of-sale. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for approving such systems. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to: (1) rename it the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983; and (2) reauthorize it through FY 1995. Amends the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 to extend through FY 1995 commodity support for soup kitchens and food banks which primarily serve the homeless. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase authorized appropriations for FY 1991 and the three subsequent fiscal years. Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to reauthorize the Commodity Supplemental Food Program through FY 1995. Amends the National School Lunch Act to earmark funds through FY 1994 for assistance to homeless preschool children.

Bill· SS. 2304 (101st)open

Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990

Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Title I: HOPE Grants - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation matching grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for HUD Multifamily Homeownership - Authorizes technical assistance, planning, and implementation matching grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership through Nonprofit Organizations - Authorizes implementation matching grants to private nonprofit organizations to carry out homeownership programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Resident Homeownership - Retitles title II of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 as the "Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990." Revises mortgage prepayment provisions. Authorizes approval of resident homeownership plans. Sets forth related conditions. Title III: Other HOPE Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to establish the shelter plus care program to provide specified rental assistance in connection with related support services to homeless persons who are seriously mentally ill or who have chronic alcohol or drug problems. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of combining housing vouchers and support services to assist frail elderly persons to continue to live independently. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish the Operation Bootstrap program to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate certificate and voucher program assistance with public and private resources to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Housing Opportunity Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate Housing Opportunity Zones and approve Barrier-Removal Plans for cities and urban counties in order to remove legislative and administrative barriers to new and rehabilitated housing production.

Bill· SS. 2299 (101st)referred

Avenue of the Saints Authorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990

Avenue of the Saints Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a highway project to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of improved highway access between major metropolitan areas by providing an improved four-lane facility between Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and St. Louis, Missouri. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary to delegate responsibility for construction of the project to the State in which such project is located upon request of such State.

Bill· SS. 2302 (101st)referred

Agricultural Conservation Reserve and Enhancement Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990

Agricultural Conservation Reserve and Enhancement Act of 1990 - Title I: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program (CRP) through crop year 1995. Establishes ten-year minimum contracts for soil salinity or off-farm environmentally threatened land placed in the CRP. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to pay up to 75 percent of CRP wetlands restoration costs. Extends CRP tree acreage through crop year 1995. Directs the Secretary to offer a 15-year CRP contract for acreage devoted to hardwood trees, shelterbelts, or windbreaks. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) offer owners the opportunity to convert CRP acreage planted to grass to hardwood trees; (2) pay up to 75 perent of conversion costs; and (3) permit alley cropping (and related rental reductions) on such converted land and on land on which the owner implements appropriate conservation measures. Authorizes a bid-back program to remove the least highly erodible cropland from the CRP. Provides for specified buffer strip CRP eligibility. Exempts CRP contracts from sequestration orders. Title II: Integrated Farm Plans - Directs the Secretary to establish a cost-sharing program to assist producers in establishing integrated farm plans. Authorizes FY 1992 through 2002 appropriations. Title III: Wetland Provisions - Directs the Secretary to determine the extent to which penalties for minor infractions of the wetland program have not been commensurate with the violation. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit the production of native wetland crops under such program. Extends through the 1995 crop year and makes mandatory multiyear set-asides.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 106 (101st)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress concerning Jerusalem and the peace process.

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990

Acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel. Declares that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected. Calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.

Bill· SS. 2281 (101st)referred

A bill for the relief of Martin Huit.

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990

Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill· SS. 2280 (101st)referred

A bill for the relief of Rolando Martinez.

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990

Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill· SS. 2282 (101st)referred

A bill for the relief of Victor Diaz.

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990

Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill· SS. 2291 (101st)referred

Paperwork Reduction Reauthorization Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990

Paperwork Reduction Reauthorization Act of 1990 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 to increase authorized appropriations to carry it out and to extend its provisions through FY 1993.

Bill· SS. 2267 (101st)referred

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to exclude certain rental payments from self-employment income for the excess earnings test.

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to exclude rental payments and cost sharing payments to owners or operators of a farm or ranch under the conservation reserve provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 from the income of an individual who has attained retirement age and is entitled to OASDI benefits.

Bill· SS. 2284 (101st)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define the term light or reduced fat butter, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "light butter" and "reduced fat butter" as being a product with the same appearance as butter but with at least one-third fewer calories, made from milk or cream, with 52 percent milk fat, and meeting other requirements. Specifies optional ingredients.

Bill· SS. 2251 (101st)referred

Farm Flexibility Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990

Farm Flexibility Act of 1990 - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of wheat recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $4.00 per bushel. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title II: Feed Grains - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of feed grains recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $2.75 per bushel. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title III: Cotton - Subtitle A: Upland Cotton - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of upland cotton recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of three of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), or 90 percent of the average of the five lowest-priced growths of certain European cotton; but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $0.729 per pound. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Requires the President to proclaim a special limited global import quota for upland cotton whenever the average price of Strict Low Middling one and one-sixteenth inch cotton in designated spot markets for a month exceeds 130 percent of the average price of the quality of cotton in those markets for the preceding 36 months. Subtitle B: Extra Long Staple Cotton - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of extra long staple cotton recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $0.981 per pound. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title IV: Rice - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of rice recourse loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop. Provides for nonrecourse loans for such crops at not less than 80 percent of the level for recourse loans. Provides for deficiency payments. Sets the target price for a crop at $10.71 per hundredweight. Requires the Secretary to estimate the national weighted average market price for a marketing year. Permits producers to elect to have the estimated price used for determining their actual earned deficiency payment rate. Title V: Oilseeds - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make available to producers of the 1991 through 1997 crops of: (1) soybeans loans at a rate between 75 and 85 percent of the past five years' simple average price (excluding the high and the low years), but at least 95 percent of the rate for the preceding crop; and (2) sunflower seeds at such level as the Secretary determines, taking into account certain factors. Provides for: (1) deficiency payments for sunflowers; and (2) graduated payments for oilseeds generally (soybeans, sunflower seeds, flax, safflower, and rapeseed). Title VI: General Commodity Provisions - Subtitle A: Farm Acreage Bases and Nonprogram Crops - Requires the Secretary to establish a farm acreage base for each farm. Permits producers to plant and harvest nonprogram crops on a farm on acreage included in the farm acreage base if the producers forfeit program payments prorated according to a certain formula. Authorizes county committees to require planting and production histories from producers seeking to establish farm acreage bases. Permits committees to provide for establishment of bases in their counties if the bases cannot be established otherwise. Subtitle B: Diversion Payments - Authorizes the Secretary to make land diversion payments if they will not undermine U.S. agricultural competitiveness or lead to lower world market shares of affected commodities. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Amends the: (1) Food Security Act of 1985 with respect to payment limitation; and (2) Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to advance deficiency and diversion payments, Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions (establishing a minimum at the lower of 115 percent of the support price or of the loan repayment level), the producer reserve program for wheat and feed grains, and advance program announcement. Subtitle D: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Agricultural Act of 1949. Subtitle E: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for this title. Title VII: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program through 1997. Requires the Secretary to include in the reserve program: (1) land that is not highly erodible but nonetheless poses an on-farm or off-farm environmental threat; (2) wetlands; and (3) shelterbelts and windbreaks. Directs the Secretary to pay for 50 percent of the reasonable and necessary costs incurred by an owner who has contracted to maintain new hardwood tree plantings on conservation reserve land. Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on means of allowing cropland subject to expiring conservation reserve contracts to be used according to its highest sustainable use.

Bill· SS. 2244 (101st)open

Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990

Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Act of 1990 - Title I: United States Coast Guard Regulations - Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, through the Commandant of the Coast Guard, to promulgate regulations to prevent and control the transportation into U.S. waters of viable biological materials in ship ballast waters. Mandates the use of a high sea ballast water exchange or alternative methods developed and recommended by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to prevent the unintentional transfer or introduction of nonindigenous species by ships operating exclusively within U.S. territorial waters or contiguous coastal waters of North America. Exempts such ships from the high seas exchange requirement of this Act. Exempts from the high seas exchange requirement a ship that is subject to requirements regarding the treatment of ballast water for the removal of chemical contaminants. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil monetary penalties for violation of the regulations. Makes civil penalties available, as provided by appropriation Acts, to endow research on the control of nonindigenous species. Title II: Zebra Mussel and Aquatic Nuisance Species Research, Control, and Educational Program - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Secretary of Commerce, through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (National Cooperative Action Group - NCAG), to jointly coordinate national research, control, and educational efforts associated with the infestation of the zebra mussel and other aquatic nuisance species in U.S. waters. Authorizes the NCAG to establish and coordinate regional commissions as necessary and to facilitate information transfer among the commissions. Authorizes Federal agency heads, on request of the chairman of any commission, to detail personnel to the commission. Requires the NCAG to provide advice to the Secretary of State concerning aquatic nuisance species that infest water resources shared with other countries. Requires the NCAG to establish a regional commission for the Great Lakes region and to request that the Great Lakes Fishery Commission: (1) designate a representative to serve on it; (2) advise, coordinate, and provide secretarial services on matters related to Great Lakes fisheries, related environmental concerns, and interactions with the Government of Canada; and (3) provide technical services for any technical committee established by the NCAG. Requires that the NCAG request that the Great Lakes Commission (established under the Great Lakes Basin Compact): (1) designate a representative to serve on the regional commission; (2) advise, coordinate, and provide secretarial services on matters related to the economic impacts of the zebra mussel on the geographic area of the Great Lakes; and (3) provide technical services for any technical committee established by the NCAG. Requires that research activities under this Act be carried out only in drainage basins infested with an aquatic nuisance species, with research funds allocated, to the extent possible, to existing facilities within infested areas. Sets forth research priorities. Directs the Secretary of State to initiate negotiations with foreign governments concerning prevention, research, education, and control programs for shared water resources. Requires compliance with specified treaties relating to the Great Lakes. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to declare the zebra mussel an injurious species. Requires the appropriate lead agency to allocate funds authorized under this Act for competitive university research grants to be administered through the Sea Grant College program to study aquatic nuisance species. Authorizes the program to conduct education and assistance services related to the prevention and control of such species. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 2250 (101st)referred

Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990

Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 - Raises the minimum per annum rates of basic pay for entry level grades GS-3 through GS-10 for Federal law enforcement officers on a sliding scale with larger adjustments at the lower levels. Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to prescribe regulations to: (1) readjust the rates of pay for such entry level grades every three years, based upon comparisons of State and local compensation for comparable work, in order to keep starting salaries of Federal law enforcement officers competitive with those paid to State and local law enforcement officers; and (2) establish a mechanism to adjust the rates of pay of Federal law enforcement officers serving in certain high cost-of-living areas in order to recruit and retain the best-qualified individuals. Sets forth procedures for identifying those regions for which higher pay rates are needed. Terminates a pay rate payable to Federal law enforcement officers that is based on a particular region if such an officer is transferred or reassigned to a place outside of such region. Requires pay rates established under this Act to be based on data compiled by the National Advisory Commission on Law Enforcement. Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics to survey State and local law enforcement salaries every three years to compile the data needed to carry out this Act. Authorizes Federal agency heads, in order to retain highly qualified law enforcement officers who possess special skills or experience or whose continued services are particularly important due to factors associated with the geographic area to which they are assigned, to pay Federal law enforcement officers who are eligible for retirement an allowance of up to $10,000 per year provided the officers agree to complete at least one year of additional service in the agency involved. Makes Federal law enforcement officers who are transferred to an area within the United States having higher than average housing costs eligible for a relocation payment of up to $20,000 provided they agree to remain in Federal law enforcement for a specified period. Authorizes Federal agencies to offer rates of pay higher than the minimum rates for positions of GS-3 (currently, GS-11) or above if necessary to attract well qualified entry-candidates for Federal law enforcement service. Authorizes Federal agencies to pay law enforcement officers who possess and make substantial use of foreign language proficiency while performing their official duties a cash award of up to 25 percent of basic pay. Raises the mandatory age for Federal law enforcement officers to retire under the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems from 55 to 57. Changes the method of computing overtime for Federal law enforcement officers to one and one-half times the hourly rate of basic pay for work performed in excess of 40 hours per week. Limits the aggregate rate of pay (including premium pay) for Federal law enforcement officers in a calendar year to the pay rate for level V of the Executive Schedule. Prohibits application of other limitations on premium pay for administratively uncontrollable overtime.

Bill· SS. 2216 (101st)referred

Innovative Boot Camp Prison Act of 1990

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990

Innovative Boot Camp Prison Act of 1990 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize grants to States to carry out projects that demonstrate innovative alternatives to the imprisonment of individuals convicted of nonviolent offenses. Includes boot camp prisons as such alternatives, in conjunction with drug treatment, literacy education, vocational education, and job training programs. Makes drug testing and treatment mandatory for drug offenders. Sets forth: (1) application procedures and requirements for grants; and (2) procedures for review of applications. Authorizes appropriations.