United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1975
Makes it a Federal crime to use false documents or make false use of official documents to obtain official identification. Makes the production, sale, or transmission of false documents to be used in obtaining official identification a Federal crime. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1028, 1029)
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1975
National Commission on Small Business in America Act - Establishes the National Commission on Small Business in America. Makes it the function of the Commission to study the effects of Federal programs and policies on small businesses, and make periodic recommendations and reports. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1975
Federal Conflict of Interest Act - Imposes a civil penalty equal to the amount of any profit gained by an officer or employee of the Federal Government for engaging in personal business transactions based upon his or her official position or authority. Makes it unlawful for any such person to knowingly violate any standard of ethical conduct promulgated by the Commission on Conduct (established by this Act). Requires persons in the employ of the Federal Government compensated in excess of $25,000 per year to make an annual financial disclosure, including elected officials. Authorizes the Commission to investigate any alleged violation of any provision of this Act or regulation promulgated under it. Specifies the procedures to be followed by the Commission upon finding that an individual has violated the standards of ethical conduct of the Commission or any requirement of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Designates the Miners' Hospital in Raton, New Mexico, as a Public Health Service hospital, to be known as the "Miners' Rehabilitation and Medical Hospital," and to be controlled, managed, and operated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that any person who is or has been engaged in the removal of ores, precious stones, or other materials from pits or excavations, and whose disease, injury, or disability was incurred while so engaged or is related thereto, shall be entitled to receive care and hospitalization on a priority basis without charge at the Miners' Hospital. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, an income tax credit for the costs of maintaining or restoring the exterior appearance and structural soundness of qualified historic buildings and structures.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Secuirty Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1975
National Food Stamp Reform Act - Defines the term "income" as used in the Food Stamp Act as the monthly gross income of all members of a household, including any in-kind payment, and the total value of any publicly funded assistance payments which supplement food and housing needs. Excludes specified individuals from the definition of "household. Provides for the distribution of federally donated foods to households upon the request by a political subdivision that such distribution be made to all eligible households in lieu of food stamps. Excludes households from eligibility for food stamps: (1) if the monthly household income exceeds the poverty index level of income established by the Office of Management and Budget; or (2) if the market value of liquid and nonliquid resources of a household consisting of one individual exceeds $1,500 or the resources of a multiple-member household exceed $2,250 exclusive of specified resources. Excludes from eligibility households which include an able-bodied adult between the ages of 18 and 65 who is enrolled in an institution of postsecondary education and such enrollment is a substitute for fulltime employment. Declares that a refusal to work at a plant or site because of a strike or other labor dispute shall be deemed a refusal to work which makes the household of the nonworking individual ineligible for food stamps. Rejects as an excuse for refusal to accept work a condition of employment which requires an individual to join, resign from, or refrain from joining any labor organization. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to require each household receiving benefits under this Act to report its income at least once each month. Requires food coupons to be designed with a space for the recipient to sign upon receipt and again at redemption. Requires one member of each eligible household to be issued a photo-identification card with color photograph. States that such card must be presented at redemption at a food store. Sets forth specific instructions to provide control and accountability over the distribution of food coupons to State agencies. Ties the value of the coupon allotment to the overall retail cost-of-living index. States that the "nutritionally adequate diet" as used to determine the amount of the coupon allotment shall mean the low-cost food plan developed by the Agricultural Research Service of the Department of Agriculture. Establishes as the charge a household shall pay for its coupon allotment the lesser of: (1) the percentage of its income which would be expended for food by an average household of its size and income range in the same region of the country; or (2) 30 percent. Provides, under the requirements for State plans for the administration of the food stamp program, for closer State supervision of eligibility by households. Requires the State agencies administering the program to conduct nutrition education programs for recipients. States that the United States Postal Service shall serve as a food stamp issuing agency upon the request of a State food stamp administration agency. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to pay the States 100 percent of the costs of providing food stamps to eligible aliens, and 75 percent of the costs of State investigations, prosecutions, collections of claims and other State activities related to retrieving food stamp losses. Provides for payment by the Federal Government to the States of a share of the difference between the face value of the coupon allotment and the amount charged eligible households for the allotment. Sets forth the method of determining and paying the Federal share. Directs the transfer of all functions of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food Stamp Act to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1975
Extends until December 31, 1975, the authority of the Federal Energy Administrator under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act to issue orders or rules concerning the conversion of petroleum-burning power plants to coal-burning plants.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1975
Natural Gas Agricultural Priority Act - Directs the Federal Power Commission to take such steps as are necessary, under the Natural Gas Act, to assure the uninterrupted availability in interstate commerce of sufficient quantities of natural gas for use in agricultural irrigation pumping.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is 60 years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of a permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949, and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Alien Employment Act - Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that any person who willfully or knowingly, or who in the exercise of due diligence should know, employs, whether as an agent or as an employer, or refers, for a fee, an alien for employment by an employer, or refers for employment, any alien in the United States who is not lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, unless the employment of such alien is authorized by the Attorney General, shall be guilty of misdemeanor and shall be punished for a first offense by a fine not in excess of $1,000 for each alien with respect to whom a violation occurs, and for any subsequent offense such person shall be fined not exceeding $1,000 or imprisoned for not exceeding one year, or both, for each such alien with respect to whom such a violation occurs. Assigns responsibilities to the Social Security Administration relating to the issuance of account numbers for persons covered by this Act. Assigns duties to the Attorney General pertaining to the enforcement of provisions of this Act. Exempts from the provisions of this Act specified nonimmigrant agricultural labor force personnel lawfully admitted to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Wild Horses and Burros Amendments Act - Authorizes the capture and sale or donation of wild horses and burros whenever the Secretary of the Interior determines that such action is necessary to maintain an ecological balance on public lands. Prohibits the donation or sale of such animals unless the Secretary first determines that they will receive humane treatment. Authorizes the Secretary to return, without payment, any horse or burro to any person claiming ownership thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate the week beginning on the first Saturday after the first Tuesday in January as "National Ski Week".
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the feasibility and desirability of designating Tolter Gorge in the States of Colorado and New Mexico as a unit of the National Park System. Requires the Secretary to report the findings of the study to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Requires, under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, comprehensive State plans to include provisions for the prevention of crimes against the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Excludes from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code any amount of a student loan indebtedness which has been discharged, if such discharge was pursuant to a provision permitting such discharge, if such individual worked in specified professions or specified geographical regions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Extends the protection of the Executive Protective Service to foreign diplomatic missions located outside the District of Columbia in metropolitan areas where there are 20 or more such missions headed by full-time career officers. Increases the maximum number of Executive Protective Service officers from 850 to 1200. Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to utilize the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of State and local governments to carry out the functions of the Executive Protective Service, and to reimburse such governments. Authorizes 10 additional positions in the United States Secret Service at GS-16, GS-17 and GS-18 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Abolishes the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Board of Review. Transfers the functions and powers of such Board to the Secretary of the Interior.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act - Requires the licensing of all clinical laboratories, as defined by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue such licenses. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate licensing authority to the States, providing the Secretary determines that State standards meet or exceed Federal standards. Sets forth the standards that must be met by clinical laboratories in order to receive and maintain the license required by this Act. Provides that such standards shall be designed to assure consistently accurate laboratory procedures and service. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Clinical Laboratories. Declares that the purpose of such Office shall be to centralize the laboratory regulatory functions authorized by this Act and to assume responsibility for the laboratory component of other health programs administered and enforced by the Secretary. Creates an advisory council to advise the Office with respect to guidelines for laboratory licensing, personnel, and performance standards. Provides that no grant or reimbursement which the Secretary is authorized to make, or contract which he is authorized to award, whether to or for any health care facility, including but not limited to health maintenance organizations, hospitals, skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities, or in connection with the procurement and reimbursement for clinical laboratory services shall be entered into unless the laboratory meets the standards established by the Secretary. Provides for grants and technical assistance to those States which desire to establish State licensing procedures and regulations for development, administration, and enforcement purposes. Provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Provides for the Federal incorporation of the National Ski Patrol System. Makes the purpose of the corporation the promotion, in all and any ways, of public safety in skiing. Provides that the principal office of the corporation shall be located in Denver, Colorado. Requires the corporation to maintain a designated agent in the District of Columbia. Provides for the membership of the corporation. Sets forth the powers and the limitations of such corporation. Prohibits corporation participation in any political activity or in any attempt to influence legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Uniformed Services Retired and Retainer Pay Equalization Act - Provides that, not withstanding any other provision of law, a member or former member of the uniformed service who is entitled to retired or retainer pay in effect after September 30, 1949, and before January 1, 1974, is entitled to have that pay recomputed under the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1974. Lists provisions for such recomputation.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue gold commemorative coins bearing the seal or symbol of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1975
Provides that employers of 50 or less employees shall not be required to pay or deposit employment taxes more often than once each quarter under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act to withhold a percentage of the total entitlement payment for any period to insure sufficient funds for final allocation of funds among the State and local units of government. Appropriates to the State and Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund: (1) $1,625,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; (2) $6,687,500,000 for fiscal year 1977; (3) $6,837,500,000 for fiscal year 1978; (4) $6,987,500,000 for fiscal year 1979; (5) $7,137,500,000 for fiscal year 1980; and (6) $7,287,500,000 for fiscal year 1981. Appropriates to the Fund as noncontiguous States adjustment: (1) $1,195,000 for fiscal year 1976; and (2) $4,780,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976 through 1981. Exempts amounts appropriated to the Fund from the provisions of the Congressional Budget Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a report with appropriate recommendations to the Congress no later than September 30, 1980, concerning the extension of such Act. Declares that if the entitlement of any Indian tribe or Alaskan native village is waived for any entitlement period, then the amount of such entitlement shall become part of the entitlement of the county government of the county in which such unit is located. Directs each State and local unit of government which receives funds under such Act to submit a report to the Secretary after the close of each entitlement period on the use of the funds received. Directs each unit of local government which expects to receive funds to submit a report to the Secretary on how it plans to use the funds it expects to receive. Empowers the Secretary whenever he determines that a unit of government has failed to comply with an applicable regulation to withhold all or a portion of the entitlement funds due such unit of government, to terminate the eligibility of such unit of government, and to require repayment of the entitlement funds expended. Requires units of government to provide an opportunity for citizens to give recommendations and views on the proposed expenditures of all funds distributed under such Act within such unit.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
American Folklife Preservation Act - Creates an American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Provides that the center shall be subject to the supervision and direction of a board of trustees. Specifies the composition of the board, including: four members appointed by the President, and seven members appointed by the Librarian of Congress. Directs the Librarian to appoint a Director of the Center. Authorizes the Center to establish and implement a program of contracts, grants, loans and scholarships to promote and support American folklife traditions and arts. Provides that no payment shall be made pursuant to this Act to carry out any research or training over a period in excess of two years, with specified exceptions. Provides that no former employee of the Federal government shall be eligible to receive any grant or other assistance under this Act in the two year period following the termination of such employment. Requires the Center to submit to the Librarian of Congress, for inclusion in his annual report to the Congress, an annual report of its operations under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Center to carry out the provisions of this Act $167,750 for fiscal year 1976, $710,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $1,716,000 for fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the seven calendar days commencing on April 30 of each year as "National Beta Sigma Phi Week".
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Opportunities for Adoption Act - Provides for adoption assistance programs under the provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Makes it the purpose of this Act, in order to promote the public health and welfare, to facilitate the elimination of obstacles to adoption, and to locate children in need of adoption and facilitate the placement in permanent adoptive homes of such children, particularly children with special needs, by: (1) promoting the establishment of uniform adoption regulations in the States and territories of the United States in order to eliminate jurisdictional and legal obstacles to adoption; (2) providing Federal financial assistance to States for the purpose of assisting certain public and private nonprofit agencies and adoptive and prospective adoptive parents in meeting certain costs of adoption in order to remove or alleviate the financial obstacles which present serious barriers to adoption by qualified persons; and (3) providing for the establishment of a National Office of Adoption Information and Services in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to (A) ensure quality standards for adoption services (including pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoption counseling and standards to protect the rights of children in need of adoption) and (B) provide for a national adoption information exchange system. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a Committee on Uniform Adoption Regulations to be composed of representatives of National, State, and local child welfare organizations and representatives of National, State, and local child welfare organizations and representatives of other groups interested in facilitating the objectives of adoption agencies, and the Chief of the Children's Bureau in the Office of Child Development, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, or his designee. Directs such Committee to: (1) review current conditions, practices, and laws relating to adoption, with special reference to their effect on facilitating or impeding the finding of suitable adoptive homes for children and the completion of suitable adoptions; (2) propose to the Secretary uniform adoption regulations which would facilitate adoption; and (3) report its proposals to the Congress and the President not later than eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that following receipt of the Committee's proposals, but not later than twenty-four months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish the proposed uniform adoption regulations in the Federal Register for comment and, after soliciting and giving due consideration to the comments of interested individuals, groups and organizations and consulting further with the Committee, he shall issue and publish final uniform adoption regulations which shall apply in the administration of the grant program. Directs the Secretary, in accordance with regulations which he shall prescribe, to make matching grants to States for allocation, by State agencies principally responsible for services to families and children, to public and private nonprofit adoption agencies which meet standards of quality prescribed pursuant to this Act for the purpose of assisting: (1) such agencies in meeting the cost involved in the adoptive placement of children with special needs (including identifying children in need of adoption, locating and counseling their parents, freeing appropriate children for adoption, locating suitable homes and providing pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoptive counseling to children in need of adoption and to prespective and actual adoptive parents); (2) such agencies in meeting the cost of providing prenatal and postpartum services to mothers, voluntarily planning to place their children for adoption, who are unable to assume such costs, in order to protect the health and welfare of both the mother and child; but only to the extent that assistance under other Federal or State programs in the community in question is not readily available to provide adequately for such services; (3) such agencies in meeting the cost of providing for professional counseling and other social services to children in need of adoption, and to prospective and actual adoptive parents and foster parents to assist them in providing a supportive and healthful family environment; (4) adoptive parents in locating and, where appropriate, defraying the cost of post-placement and post-adoption special services to children requiring such services as a result of conditions which existed prior to their placement, up to an amount not exceeding the amount which similar services would cost the State in question were it to provide or secure such services as the guardian of such children; and (5) prospective adoptive parents, who would consider adoption but for their financial inability to meet a child's needs, in defraying the post-placement and post-adoption cost of supporting children with special needs, in amounts of assistance determined by the Secretary to be adequate to enable such adoptive parents to assume responsibility for raising such children (including payment of legal fees and court costs). Provides for the establishment of a system in the States under which, with respect to a child who has been in foster care in a State for at least six months after such child is considered legally available for adoptive placement, the foster parents providing care to such child will be notified of the possibility of the financial assistance for adoptive placement authorized by this Act if it appears to be in the child's best interest. Directs the Secretary to take such steps as he deems necessary to encourage and facilitate the consideration of comprehensive adoption assistance legislation by those States which have not enacted such legislation. Establishes within the Children's Bureau of the Office of Child Development of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Office of Adoption Information and Services which shall be headed by a Director appointed by the Secretary upon the joint recommendation of the Director of the Office of Child Development and the Chief of the Children's Bureau. Provides that the Office shall be the principal agency for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Directs the Director, in accordance with regulations which he shall presecribe, to: (1) conduct a continuous educational program on adoption and to prepare, publish, and disseminate to all interested parties, private and public agencies and organizations, and governmental bodies educational materials regarding adoption and adoption assistance programs; (2) measure and evaluate the impact of the programs authorized by this Act and, not later than ninety days after June 30 of each year, prepare and submit to the Secretary for transmittal to the President and the Congress a report on such evaluation, which shall include, but not be limited to (A) the number of children placed in adoptive homes under adoption assistance agreements during the year preceding the annual report and the major characteristics of such children; and (B) the number of children currently in foster care for six months or more, and the legal status of such children; (3) insure that adoption agencies receiving assistance authorized under this Act subscribe to standards of quality, which he shall prescribe, for adoption services (including pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoption counseling and standards to protect the rights of children in need of adoption) and comply with the requirements of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and (4) notwithstanding any other provision of law, provide for the operation of a national adoption information system, utilizing computers and modern data processing methods, to assist in the location of children in need of adoption and in the placement in adoptive homes of children awaiting adoption, and for the promotion of cooperative efforts with any similar programs; and (5) coordinate and consult with other appropriate Federal agencies, and coordinate all other programs within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Authorizes the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and the succeeding three fiscal years, of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Supplemental Security Income Amendments - Provides that: (1) charges by residential institutions in excess of those charges applicable to an individual under the supplemental security income provisions of the Social Security Act; and (2) assistance based on need provided by a tax-exempt organization shall not be counted as unearned income for the purposes of such Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish criteria for the determination of presumptive disability under the supplemental security income program. Provides that the assistance afforded under such program shall be coordinated with that of other assistance programs on both the Federal and State levels. Provides that the eligibility of households containing a recipient of supplemental security income benefits shall be determined on the basis of the uniform national eligibility standards for non-public assistance households. Repeals the requirement that such benefits be paid to a third party payee upon the certification of the chief medical officer at the facility where the recipient is undergoing treatment that payment directly to the recipient would be of significant therapeutic value and that there is substantial reason for believing that the funds would not be improperly used. Requires expedited action on applications for benefits and determinations regarding disability. Excludes from income, those education expenses paid for by grant, fellowship, or scholarship for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits. Revises the eligibility standards for residents of a principally residential facility not used as a health care facility, correctional institution, or school or training facility.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments - Authorizes to be appropriated to the Appalachian Regional Commission such sums as may be necessary for its administrative expenses. Authorizes the use of Federal highway construction funds for the Appalachian development highway system. Allows the Commission to make grants to public bodies and nonprofit entities for planning, engineering, and reasonable site acquisition or development costs. Provides that the Federal share shall not exceed 80 percent of such costs. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants and loans to Appalachian States to assist nonprofit timber development organizations and programs organized and operated for specific forestry purposes. Expands the authority of: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to rehabilitate areas damaged by deleterious mining practices; (2) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide financial assistance for housing construction or rehabilitation projects for low - and moderate - income families and individuals; and (3) the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide assistance for vocational education facilities and projects demonstrating areawide education planning, services, and programs. States that no assistance shall be provided under the Appalachian Regional Development Act to assist establishments in relocating or to enable plant subcontractors to undertake work previously performed in another area by other subcontractors or contractors. Provides that funds provided under such Act shall not be substituted for, but shall be in addition to, State funds provided for similar purposes. Provides that to further the Appalachian State Development Planning Process, each State member shall: (1) submit a development plan with specified aspects for the area of the State within the region; and (2) cooperate with local development districts certified by the State, including preparation and execution of areawide action programs. Increases the Federal share of and purposes for which grants may be made by the President to the Commission for administrative and management expenses incurred in carrying out the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1975
Authorizes expanded home health services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Authorizes appropriations from general revenues to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust and to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for fiscal years beginning with 1976 of amounts necessary to reimburse such trust funds with 100 percent of the expenditures required to expand the program authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1975
Materials and Energy Recovery Act - Declares that the purposes of this Act are to: (1) encourage waste reduction and maximum recovery of energy and materials from municipal, industrial, and other sources of solid waste, and encourage the use of recycled materials by the Federal Government to help preserve our natural resources; (2) assist States and localities in carrying out their primary responsibilities for solid waste reduction, collection, handling, recycling, and disposal; and (3) control carefully the treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes to avoid adverse effects on health and the environment. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide financial assistance to States to assist them in developing comprehensive State plans for solid waste reduction, source separation, and energy and resource recovery and to assist them in implementing such plans. Requires any solid waste management plan or program assisted under this Act to include adequate authorities and programs to achieve specified goals. Directs the Administrator to grant to each State 80 percent of the cost of a comprehensive solid waste management and energy and resource program which meets such requirement. Authorizes to be appropriated a sum not to exceed $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 for purposes of making such grants. Directs the Administrator to provide: (1) management grant assistance of up to 10 percent of the estimated cost of implementation of any publically financed energy or resources recovery facility; and (2) a complete program of management and technical assistance to any regional agency to help it develop projects for: (a) improving source reduction, collection, separation, and handling of solid waste; (b) implementing energy and resource recovery or disposal systems which are technologically feasible and cost-effective; and (c) considering optimum ways to market energy and secondary materials recovered from solid waste. Authorizes to be appropriated a sum not to exceed $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 for purposes of making such grants. Requires the Administrator, within one year of the passage of this Act, to promulgate standards for collection, handling, disposal, and recovery of all hazardous and other solid wastes that may cause air or water pollution or other environmental degradation. Specifies requirements for such standards. Provides, under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, that the Administrator, in carrying out the provisions of that Act, may require the operator of any disposal system for hazardous or other designated solid wastes to maintain such records and provide such information as the Administrator may request. Grants the Administrator the right of entry upon any premises in which a hazardous or other designated solid waste disposal site is located. Authorizes the Attorney General to commence a civil action against any person who is in violation of any rule, regulation or standard pertaining to solid waste disposal promulgated under this Act. Authorizes injunctive relief and fines of up to $25,000 for each day of violation if the violator fails to take corrective action after notification of the violation. Requires the Administrator, within one year of the passage of this Act and each year thereafter, to publish guidelines specifying the percentages of energy resources that can be recovered from solid waste by use of the best recovery management practices and technology that are reasonably available. Directs the Administrator to: (1) make a complete assessment of the use of energy and virgin and recycled materials in product packaging and of the environmental, social, and economic impact of such packaging; (2) establish guidelines for the packaging of products which will encourage efficient use of energy and materials with a consequent reduction in solid waste and improvement in environmental quality; and (3) publish model standards and regulations which, if implemented by States and localities, will insure use of types of packaging which best conserve energy and materials while avoiding adverse economic, social, and environmental impact. Directs the Administrator to conduct a full investigation and study of the legal and institutional problems associated with the acquisition of land for hazardous and other solid waste disposal, and for the construction of energy and resource recovery facilities. Requires a report of such study to be submitted to Congress not later than 9 months after the enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States to establish, equip, and maintain one regional energy and resources recovery research institute at a college or university in each of the 10 standard Federal regions in the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated $750,000 for fiscal year 1976 and each fiscal year thereafter for purposes of making such grants. Directs the Administrator, within one year of the enactment of this Act, to establish guidelines that encourage the procurement and use by Federal agencies of materials recovered from solid waste. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act (other than those for which specific authorizations are made) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and each of the fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make loans (either directly or in cooperation with banks or other lenders through agreements to participate on an immediate or deferred basis) to assist any small business concern in affecting additions to or alterations in the equipment, facilities, or methods of operation of such concern to recover energy and resources from solid waste, if such loans will help achieve the purposes of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended. Authorizes to be appropriated to the business loan fund, established by the Small Business Act, $300,000,000 for the purpose of making such loans. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve municipal energy and resource recovery projects for purposes of financing pursuant to the Environmental Financing Act of 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Allows under the Internal Revenue Code an income tax credit equal to one-half of all contributions to official bicentennial celebration organizations. Limits such credit to a maximum of $25 for a joint tax return, or $12.50 for an individual return.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Provides that in commemoration of "My America-Yesterday, Today, Tommorrow", a Bicentennial observance involving the participation by American schoolchildren in competitions including essays, drawings, and other graphic and plastic arts, the President is requested to designate the week of February 15, 1976, as "My America Week".
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Removes the numerical limitation on Allen J. Ellender Fellowships to disadvantaged secondary school students. Authorizes $750,000 for each of fiscal years 1977 and 1978 and $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Directs Federal departments to undertake an immediate review of public lands within their respective jurisdictions withdrawn by executive action from exploration, development, and production of energy and other mineral resoruces. Requires each department to submit an interim and final report to the President and the Congress containing its findings and recommendations pursuant to this Act. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Calls upon the President to direct the United States ambassador to the United Nations to insist that the United Nations take all necessary actions to obtain a full and accurate accounting for members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action in Southeast Asia. Directs that if such action is not taken the United States contribution to the United Nations shall be cut from 25 to 10 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975
Solar Tax Incentives Act - Allows, under the Internal Revenue Code, as a credit against the income tax an amount equal to the ordinary and necessary expenses paid during the taxable year for the application of solar energy to the principal residence and/or place of business through the installation of solar heating energy equipment. Limits such credit for residences to 25 percent of any qualified expense not to exceed $2,000 during January 1, 1975, to December 31, 1979, and 15 percent not to exceed $200 during January 1, 1980 through December 31, 1984. Limits such credit in commercial buildings to 12 percent of any qualified expense during January 1, 1975, and December 31, 1979, and 10 percent of any qualified expense during January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1984. Allows as deduction from gross income the amortization for the taxable year based on a period of 60 months for the solar energy equipment installed and capable of normal functioning.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Health Manpower and Shortage Area Assistance Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Title II: Assistance for construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1977 for such purposes. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools. Prescribes new procedures for the establishment of the National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements by the Secretary of the Congess in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps. Establish the National Advisory Council in the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975-1977. Revises the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligibility requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth new computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorizations of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances from each types of school, including assurances as to the enrollment of each school, are met. Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1977. Title V: Assistance for Specialized Training - Authorizes appropriations for three fiscal years for grants for: (1) training, traineeships, and fellowships in family medicine; (2) community-based health manpower education program; (3) clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy; and (4) bilingual health training clinical centers. Title VI: Allied Health Personnel - Revises the training programs for allied health personnel and allied health personnel, extending appropriations through fiscal year 1977. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Prohibits discrimination under this Act on the basis of moral beliefs or religious convictions. Authorizes appropriations for ten Lister Hill scholarship grants to individuals practicing family medicine in areas where there is a shortage of such doctors.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Provides that specified submarginal lands of the United States that are now administered by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of specified Indian tribes shall be held by the United States in trust for such tribes. Requires that all receipts received prior to the date of enactment of this Act which directly relate to any land conveyed by this Act shall be deposited to the credit of the Indian tribe receiving such land.
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