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United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1989
Designates May 29, 1989, as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the U.S.S. Iowa.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
FDA Revitalization Act - Title I: Power of FDA Over Real Property, Buildings, and Facilities - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to grant the Secretary of Health and Human Services specified powers in connection with real property, buildings, and facilities (such as acquiring and disposing of property, leasing buildings, and accepting gifts) to facilitate the transaction of the business of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Title II: Senior Scientific Health Service - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the establishment of a Senior Scientific Health Service, outside the competitive civil service, whose members may be appointed based solely on distinction and achievement in the fields of biomedical research or clinical research evaluation. Amends Federal law relating to physicians' comparability allowances to include any physician or dentist who is paid under provisions of this title. Title III: Recovery and Retention of Fees for FOIA Requests - Amends the FDCA to authorize the Secretary, through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to charge fees to recover direct and indirect costs incurred in processing Freedom of Information Act requests for records obtained or created under the Act. Title IV: Small Business Training and Technical Assistance - Amends the FDCA to authorize the Secretary, through the Commissioner, to establish an office to provide technical and other nonfinancial assistance to small manufacturers of medical devices, drugs, cosmetics, and foods to assist the manufacturers in complying with the Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Title V: Biotechnology Demonstration Project - Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration project allowing the use of the facilities of any public or private cooperative with the permission of and in conjunction with the cooperative to promote the development of biotechnology. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Title VI: Training and Loan Repayment Programs - Authorizes grants to public or nonprofit academic institutions, including schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and food science, to enable such institutions to develop core curriculum programs to train individuals in the field of regulatory review. Requires obligated service of grantees as FDA employees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992 for such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a loan repayment program under which the Secretary must repay loans incurred by individuals to obtain training in regulatory review in exchange for the individuals serving a period of time as employees of the FDA. Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue regulations to carry out these provisions; and (2) carry out the program, to the extent practicable, in a manner that is consistent with the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992. Title VII: Scientific Review Groups - Authorizes the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to establish such technical and scientific review groups as necessary to carry out the functions of the FDA. Title VIII: Human Food Safety, Technology, and Nutrition Advisory Committee - Directs the Secretary to establish the Human Food Safety, Technology, and Nutrition Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs on issues involving food for human consumption, including: (1) food technology and production; (2) food research and development; (3) biotechnology and food products; (4) food safety; (5) the relationship between diet, nutrition, and health; and (6) health-related claims for food. Title IX: Automation of FDA - Directs the Secretary, through the Commissioner, to automate appropriate activities of the FDA to ensure timely review of activities regulated under the FDCA. Authorizes appropriations. Title X: Compensation and Employment Requirements for FDA and EPA Scientists - Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to ensure, to the extent practicable, that the level of compensation and employment requirements are comparable for scientists employed by the FDA and by the Environmental Protection Agency. Title XI: Funding Floor for FDA - Declares that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be appropriated no less than a specified amount each fiscal year for the activities of the FDA.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Designates the period commencing September 11, 1989, and ending September 15, 1989, as National Historically Black Colleges Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Designates the week of October 8 through October 14, 1989, as National Week of Commitment to Helping the Homeless.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Designates October 5, 1989, as Raoul Wallenberg Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Designates October 3, 1989, as National Teacher Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Directs the United States Postal Service to issue a commemorative postage stamp to honor the public service of Doctor Thomas Anthony Dooley III.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Toxics Release Prevention Act of 1989 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise provisions concerning national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to include on the list of such pollutants each pollutant listed in committee print 101-XX published by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Directs the Administrator to review and revise such list at least every five years by adding pollutants which present a threat of adverse human health or environmental effects. Provides that no substance or activity regulated under part B of such Act shall be subject to regulation solely due to adverse environmental effects. Permits others to petition for additions to or deletions from such list. Requires the presentation of adequate data concerning health or environmental effects for the addition or deletion of any substance to or from such list. Directs the Administrator to list categories of major sources of hazardous air pollutants and establish a minimum emissions rate for each pollutant emitted by such sources. Limits the minimum annual emissions rate to ten metric tons for any one hazardous air pollutant or 25 metric tons for any combination of such pollutants. Authorizes the Administrator to establish an annual minimum emissions rate of more than ten metric tons for any category and pollutant, provided that a certain health threshold will not be exceeded and no adverse environmental effects will occur. Requires emission standards for such sources to require the maximum degree of reductions that the Administrator determines is achievable. Prohibits emission standards for new sources from being less stringent than those for existing sources in the same category. Permits emissions standards for existing sources to be less stringent than standards for new sources if the Administrator determines that the level of control applicable to new sources is technically or economically infeasible for existing sources. Directs the Administrator to review such standards at least every seven years. Requires the Administrator to establish such standards within: (1) 24 months of this Act's enactment for sources of specified pollutants; and (2) three, five, or ten years of this Act's enactment, based on the quantity of the pollutant and the risk of exposure. Requires standards for all categories to be promulgated within ten years of this Act's enactment. Directs the Administrator, within three years after the initial promulgation of such standards, to evaluate the risks to human health and the environment from emissions remaining after the application of such standards. Requires the revision of such standards if the Administrator determines that such emissions present a significant risk of adverse human health or environmental effects. Directs the Administrator to establish additional emissions regulations for categories of sources of carcinogens or for pollutants for which standards do not reduce emissions to a level at or below the threshold for adverse health effects. Prohibits any consideration of cost, cost-effectiveness, economic, or energy factors or technological feasibility to determine the appropriate level of such standards. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate design, equipment, work practice, or operational standards for sources under this Act. Requires the Administrator to promulgate such standards when it is infeasible to prescribe or enforce an emission standard for a category of hazardous air pollutants. Permits the use of an alternative means of emission limitations if such alternative achieves a reduction equivalent to that achieved under this Act's requirements. Authorizes the Administrator or a State with an approved program to require owners or operators of facilities which emit hazardous air pollutants to: (1) monitor the presence of such pollutant in the source emissions and ambient air; (2) install and maintain leak detection systems; and (3) keep records and report on the results of such monitoring and leak detection. Requires work practice emissions standards to include, where appropriate, leak prevention, detection, and correction requirements. Sets forth a compliance schedule for emissions standards under this Act. Requires compliance by existing sources within three years of the effective date of such standards. Grants an extension of up to two additional years for such sources under specified conditions. Authorizes the Administrator or a State with an approved program to: (1) exempt existing sources from certain carcinogen emissions standards under specified conditions; and (2) require owners or operators of such sources to conduct research and development on improved technology or management practices as a condition for such temporary exemption or permit renewal. Provides an opportunity for public comment on any proposed exemption. Authorizes the President to exempt any source from emissions standards for up to two years if the technology to implement such standards is unavailable and the operation of such source is required for national security. Authorizes extensions of such exemptions for additional two-year periods. Authorizes the Administrator to exempt any existing major listed source from applicable emissions standards upon a showing that such source has achieved a voluntary emissions reduction of at least 90 percent by December 31, 1992. Waives emissions requirements for sources where emissions are in de minimis amounts and do not pose a risk of adverse human health or environmental effects and where control of such pollutant would require installation of additional and separate control technologies. Makes it unlawful to construct a new source or emit any pollutant subject to standards under this Act, except in compliance with a permit issued by the Administrator or an approved State. Outlines the requirements of the permit program. Limits State permits to five-year periods. Authorizes the issuance of a temporary permit if a source owner or operator certifies that the source will comply with applicable standards. Requires the Administrator or a State, within six months of the issuance of a temporary permit, to review the operations of such source to determine whether a full permit should be issued. Sets forth administrative provisions regarding the issuance of permits. Requires the Administrator to conduct an urban pollution research program to include: (1) ambient monitoring for a range of hazardous air pollutants in a number of urban areas; (2) analysis to characterize the area sources of such pollution and the health risks posed by such pollutants; and (3) consideration of factors which elevate such health risks. Directs States receiving grants for air pollution planning and control which contain a metropolitan area with over 250,000 persons to commence a monitoring program in each such area to measure the ambient concentration of hazardous air pollutants. Requires Governors of such States to report biennially to the Administrator on the results of such monitoring and to make such information available to the public. Requires the Administrator to transmit to the Congress a comprehensive strategy to control hazardous air pollutants released by sources in urban areas. Outlines the requirements of such strategy, including: (1) a schedule for specific actions to reduce emissions of particular hazardous air pollutants; and (2) the identification of research needs in monitoring or pollution control techniques and recommendations for changes in law to further the goals of such strategy. Requires the Administrator to set aside at least ten percent of funds available for grants under this section to support State strategies to reduce risk from source emissions in urban areas. Directs the Administrator, at intervals no later than eight and ten years after this Act's enactment, to report to the Congress on actions taken to reduce risks to public health posed by pollutants from area sources. Requires such report to identify metropolitan areas which continue to experience high risks as the result of emissions from such sources. Directs the Administrator to report to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on health impacts of mobile source benzene emissions and fuel and vehicle-based control strategies. Authorizes States to develop and submit to the Administrator for approval programs for the control of emissions of hazardous air pollutants or for the prevention and mitigation of accidental releases of such pollutants. Permits the Administrator's enforcement authorities to be transferred to a State. Requires the Administrator to publish guidance for use in program development. Requires such guidance to include standards for emissions control as well as registration of facilities handling such pollutants in amounts greater than the threshold quantity. Directs the Administrator to establish and maintain an air toxics clearinghouse, control technology center, and risk information center to provide technical assistance and information to States on emissions reduction. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States for program development. Requires the Administrator to withdraw approval of a program if it is determined that the State is not administering or enforcing such program. Directs the Administrator to: (1) assess the hazards to public health and the environment resulting from emissions of hydrogen sulfide associated with the extraction of oil and natural gas resources; (2) report the results of such assessment, together with recommendations, to the Congress; and (3) develop and implement a control strategy for such emissions. Requires the Administrator to: (1) review risk assessment methods used by EPA to determine the carcinogenic risks associated with exposure to hazardous air pollutants and source categories; and (2) report the results of such review to the Congress. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on measures taken by the EPA and States to implement the requirements of this Act. Requires the Administrator to list at least 50 substances which could be released suddenly in concentrations that may cause adverse human health effects. Directs the Administrator to update such list at least every five years. Requires owners and operators of facilities at which such substances are present in amounts greater than a threshold quantity to conduct hazard assessments for each substance present at the facility. Directs the Administrator to publish guidance for the preparation of such assessments. Requires such assessments to include an identification of potential release sources and exposures and to be biennially updated. Directs the Administrator, to the extent practicable, to: (1) coordinate assessment requirements with requirements imposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, including joint promulgation of regulations; and (2) facilitate compliance with such requirements by designing generic hazard identification and assessment tools for owners and operators of hazardous substance facilities. Makes such assessments available to the Administrator, States, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, local emergency planning entities and, subject to conditions of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, the public. Requires the Administrator to establish a long-term research program to develop and disseminate information on improved hazard assessment methods and techniques. Establishes within EPA a Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board to investigate and report on accidental chemical releases, make recommendations on the safety of chemical production, handling, and storage, and promulgate requirements for the reporting of such releases. Requires the Board to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the National Transportation Safety Board to assure coordination of functions and limit duplication of activities. Authorizes the Board to conduct research and studies with respect to accidental, sudden releases of hazardous substances. Requires the Board to publish a report, along with recommendations, on the use of hazard assessments in preventing and minimizing such releases. Directs the Administrator to set forth reasons for any refusal to implement a recommendation of the Board. Authorizes the Board to hold hearings, secure written reports from any person handling chemicals, and conduct inspections of any facility where an accidental release has occurred. Requires information obtained by the Board, unless it is likely to cause substantial harm to a person's competitive position, to be made available to the public. Directs the Board to report annually to the President and the Congress on accidental releases, recommendations, and priorities for research and investigations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate release prevention, detection, and correction requirements, including requirements for monitoring, recordkeeping, and design, equipment, and operational practices, for extremely hazardous pollutant facilities. Authorizes the Administrator to secure such relief as may be necessary when determined that an actual or threatened release of an extremely hazardous substance poses an imminent and substantial danger to the public health or welfare or the environment. Permits the Administrator to issue orders to protect human health, welfare, or the environment. Establishes daily penalties for violations of such orders. Directs the Administrator to publish guidance for the coordination of such authority with the relevant authorities under other Federal environmental laws. Requires the President to: (1) review release prevention, mitigation, and response authorities of various Federal agencies and coordinate agency responsibilities to assure efficient implementation of such authorities and identify any deficiencies in authority or resources; and (2) report to the Congress on such activities, along with recommendations for changes in law. Authorizes appropriations. Increases and expands the scope of penalties under the Clean Air Act. Repeals certain provisions of such Act concerning the revision of stationary source regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Designates October 7 through October 14, 1989, as National Week of Outreach to the Rural Disabled.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Designates February 18 through February 24, 1990, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Declares that it is a shared responsibility of both the public and private sectors at the Federal, State, and local levels to take the necessary steps to remove existing barriers to access to quality health care for every child and pregnant woman.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1989
United States Coinage Reform Act of 1989 - Requires that one dollar coins be gold colored, be at least 90 percent copper, and be fabricated in the United States from natural deposits located in the United States. Redesigns the obverse side of the dollar coin to symbolize the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to place such coins into circulation within 18 months. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study and report to the Congress on the advisability of phasing out production of the one-cent and 50-cent coins and of rounding cash sales to the nearest five cents.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1989
North American Wetlands Conservation Act - Establishes a North American Wetlands Conservation Commission. Sets forth elements to be considered by the Commission in making recommendations for wetlands conservation projects. Requires the Commission to submit annual descriptions to the Secretary of the Interior and the appropriate congressional committees of projects recommended for Federal funding. Directs the Secretary to approve such projects for funding unless such projects should not have been recommended based on the consideration factors. Requires the Secretary to carry out such projects with funding available under this Act and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act. Requires lands, waters, or other interests acquired by the Secretary to carry out such projects to be included in the National Wildlife Refuge System, except as otherwise provided in this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to States or public or private agencies approved by States any real property interest acquired, managed, or restored with funding provided by this Act, except that no such interest shall, without the Secretary's approval, be converted for uses other than conservation of migratory birds, other fish and wildlife, and the wetland ecosystems on which such species depend. Requires the Secretary to approve such conversion only if the Secretary finds it in accordance with the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (Plan) signed by Canada and the United States in 1986 and only upon such conditions deemed necessary to assure the substitution of comparable wetland ecosystems or other habitats for migratory birds and other fish and wildlife species. Directs the Secretary to grant funds to public and private entities for carrying out wetlands conservation projects in Canada and Mexico. Subjects the granting of such funds to the condition that property interests acquired, managed, or restored with such funds will be administered for the long-term conservation and management of fish and wildlife and will provide for public access and use. Amends the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to invest in interest-bearing obligations such portion of the wildlife restoration fund not required for the current year's withdrawals. Sets forth authorized investment activities and the required use of interest held on obligations in such fund. Excludes such interest from revenues to be deducted for administrative expenses. Authorizes the sums of certain penalties or fines received for violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior for allocations of funds under this Act. Authorizes additional appropriations. Allocates funds made available under this Act and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act. Limits the Federal contribution to wetlands conservation projects to 75 percent for projects in Canada and Mexico and 50 percent of the total cost for projects in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make progress payments to wetlands conservation projects; and (2) enter into agreements to make payments on initial portions of such projects, subject to the availability of Federal funds. Prohibits the use of moneys allocated under this Act for acquiring lands for inclusion in the National Wildlife Refuge System, except as provided, unless there is appropriated under the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act for such fiscal year an amount equal to the difference between the total amount of net receipts and the aggregate amount of payments to be made to counties. Requires the head of each Federal agency responsible for acquiring, managing, or disposing of Federal lands and waters to cooperate with the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore, protect, and enhance the wetland ecosystems and other habitats for migratory birds, fish, and wildlife within such lands and waters. Directs such agencies, in the consideration of land disposal alternatives, to give priority to transfers of property for conservation purposes. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) the estimated number of wetland acres and habitats that were restored, protected, or enhanced for migratory birds during such two-year period; and (2) trends in the population size and distribution of North American migratory birds. Directs the Secretary to report annually to such committees on the status of wetlands conservation projects and expenditures. Requires the Secretary, in 1991 and quinquennially thereafter, to revise the Plan with appropriate Canadian and Mexican officials. Prohibits funds made available under this Act and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act from being used for fish and wildlife mitigation purposes under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act or the Water Resources Development Act of 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1989
Designates September 1989 as National Library Card Sign-Up Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) ASEAN first asylum countries (defined to include any country which is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and which is the first to receive an individual seeking asylum) should reinstate the practice of providing refuge for all Vietnamese asylum-seekers, while carrying out the screening of such individuals; (2) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees should be given early access to provide humane care to such asylum-seekers; (3) no repatriation of Vietnamese asylum-seekers should occur until an internationally approved mechanism is in place to guarantee that such individuals will not be subjected to persecution; (4) forced repatriation of refugees to Vietnam should not be considered a viable option; and (5) the United States should remain committed to, and urge its Western allies to implement or continue, a generous and humane Southeast Asian refugee resettlement policy.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
Authorizes each State by legislation to prohibit the export of unprocessed logs harvested from land it owns.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
Rural Access to Telecommunications Services Act of 1989 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to add a new section to such Act concerning rural access to telecommunications services. Expresses as the goal of the United States, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), to make universal and affordable state-of-the-art telecommunications access available to rural residents, businesses, industries, and other facilities through services such as: (1) voice telephone service; (2) private (not multiparty) telephone service; (3) reliable facsimile document and data transmission; (4) competitive long-distance carriers and value-added data networks; (5) cellular (mobile) telephone service; (6) touchtone telephone service; (7) custom-calling services; (8) voicemail services designed to record, store, and retrieve voice messages; (9) 911 emergency service with automatic number identification; and (10) other telecommunications and information services generally available in urban areas. Establishes in the Treasury the Rural Telecommunications Incentive Fund to serve as a source of capital in providing telecommunications to rural businesses, industries, and public facilities, including schools and hospitals. Directs the Administrator of REA to use the Fund to provide loans to: (1) entities providing telephone service to a rural area; and (2) rural telephone systems eligible for financing under this Act to provide modern telecommunications services to rural businesses, industries, and public facilities. Sets forth repayment terms and interest rates for such loans. Requires the Administrator, in providing such loans, to give priority to projects: (1) that provide telecommunications services to enhance the potential for rural economic development; and (2) for which the investment required cannot produce an adequate return to the borrower without such assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994. Requires the Administrator to provide grants to persons to conduct pilot projects to test the feasibility of using advanced telecommunications technologies to transmit and receive communications for business or other entities in rural areas of the United States. Authorizes appropriations for such projects for FY 1990 through 1994. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on the gap, if any, that exists on a State-by-State basis between subscribers served by borrowers from the Fund compared to the total telephone industry. Directs the Administrator to establish a special unit to assist rural telephone systems in eliminating such technology gap. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on the activities of such special unit. Directs each telecommunications exchange carrier to report annually to either the Administrator or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on: (1) the type of telecommunications services available to subscribers; and (2) the price of such services to subscribers. Directs the Administrator or the FCC to require each such carrier to compile certain information with respect to its subscribers and the availability of services. Requires the Administrator and the FCC to cooperate and jointly report on the results of a common survey form with respect to the provision of advanced telecommunications services to rural areas. Authorizes the Administrator, in making insured loans under this Act, to charge a less-than-standard interest rate on such loans if the borrower could not receive a sufficient return on investment (in providing telecommunications services to rural areas) to cover expenses and pay the debt service costs of a loan bearing an interest rate of five percent per annum.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
Child Care Assistance Act of 1989 - Title I: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 - Subtitle A: Young Child Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a new refundable tax credit, the Young Child Tax Credit. Allows families with incomes not exceeding $10,000 the credit of 12 percent of their earned income for one of their children under age five, plus six percent for each of up to two additional children under age five. Sets the maximum credit at $1,000 per year for one qualifying child, $1,500 for two, and $2,000 for three or more. Phases out the credit by reducing it by ten percent of so much of the adjusted gross income (or, if greater, the earned income) as exceeds $10,000. Allows advance payments of the credit. Subtitle B: Incentives for Employer Provided Child Care - Establishes a new business-related tax credit, the Dependent Care Assistance Program Credit. Allows the credit to employers for ten percent of their expenditures for payment or provision of services under a qualified dependent care assistance program for their employees. Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) study barriers to employers providing child care services for their employees; and (2) report within 540 days to specified congressional committees on such study, with recommendations on removal of barriers and on incentives for employers to provide such services. Title II: Block Grants to States for Activities Relating to Dependent Care Services - Amends the State Dependent Care Development Grants Act to increase the authorization of appropriations for FY 1990 and to extend it through FY 1992, for grants to States for planning and development of dependent care programs. Revises and expands the authorized uses of allotments of such block grants to States. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report annually to specified congressional committees on State programs carried out with such block grants. Requires States to submit such reports on their use of grants as the Secretary may require. Changes the short title of such Act to the State Dependent Care Block Grants Act. Title III: Child Care Liability Risk Retention Group - Authorizes any State to assist in the establishment and operation of a child care liability risk retention group (i.e., a corporation or other limited liability association whose members are child care providers licensed or accredited pursuant to State or local law or standards, and which otherwise satisfies specified criteria for risk retention groups). Sets forth State application requirements. Requires State plans to: (1) identify the lead agency designated and responsible for the administration of funds under this part; (2) provide that all participants in the child care liability risk retention group are child care providers who are licensed or accredited pursuant to State or local law or standards; (3) provide for maximum membership of family-based child care providers in the group; (4) provide that the State shall use at least the amount allotted to establish or maintain a liability risk retention group for child care providers; and (5) specify how any such liability risk retention group will continue to be financed after FY 1992, including by contributions by the State or by members of such pool. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and approve State plans and to monitor State compliance with requirements of this title. Provides for suspension of payments upon a finding of noncompliance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 to carry out this title and to remain available for assistance to States for FY 1990 through 1992. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to reserve specified portions of such funds for payments to specified U.S. territories and for administrative costs. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to allot the remainder to States on the basis of the number of children under 13 years of age. Permits a portion of such allotments to be used for State administrative costs. Sets forth provisions relating to entitlement, method, and State spending of allotment payments. Title IV: Revolving Loan Fund - Provides assistance for State-established revolving loan funds to enable family-based child care providers to meet accreditation or licensing standards. Requires each applicant State to establish a revolving loan fund, along with specified procedures and guidelines. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990, to remain available for assistance to States for FY 1990 through 1992. Directs the Secretary to make allotments to States through a formula based on the number of children under 12 years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 - Reiterates the U.S. policy that any dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) shall be contingent upon the PLO's recognition of Israel's right to exist, its acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and its abstention from, and renunciation of, all acts of terrorism. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should seek the implementation of concrete steps by the PLO consistent with its commitments to move towards peace and recognition of Israel and away from terrorism and other violence, to include: (1) disbanding units which have been involved in terrorism; (2) publicly condemning all acts of terrorism for which they are not responsible and abstaining from committing such acts; (3) ceasing the intimidation of Palestinians seeking peace with Israel; (4) calling on the Arab states to recognize and end the economic boycott of Israel; and (5) amending the PLO's Covenant to remove provisions which undermine Israel's legitimacy and call for Israel's destruction. Requires the President, as long as the dialogue between the United States and the PLO continues, to report every 120 days to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the PLO's progress in achieving such goals.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
Federal Timber Export Restriction Act of 1989 - Prohibits any person who acquires unprocessed timber from Federal lands from exporting such timber from the United States. Sets forth civil penalties for violations under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
Declares that the purpose of this Act is to implement the Bipartisan Accord on Central America of March 24, 1989. Authorizes the President to transfer to the Agency for International Development (AID) unobligated funds from specified defense appropriations accounts for: (1) humanitarian assistance (including transportation expenses) to the Nicaraguan Resistance to be available through February 28, 1990; and (2) operating expenses of AID. Limits the total amount of funds that may be transferred for such purposes. Requires the transportation of such assistance to be arranged solely by AID in a manner consistent with the Bipartisan Accord. Prohibits the transportation of any assistance not specified by this Act. Authorizes the President to transfer to AID an additional amount from the specified accounts for medical assistance for the civilian victims of Nicaraguan civil strife. Requires such assistance to be transported and administered by the Nicaraguan Catholic Church. Encourages the President to submit proposals for actions to: (1) provide additional economic assistance to the democratic countries of Central America; (2) facilitate the ability of Central American economies to grow through the development of infrastructure, expansion of exports, and increased investment opportunities; (3) provide a plan to assist Central American countries in managing debt; and (4) develop such initiatives in concert with Western Europe, Japan, and other democratic allies. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds available under this Act to assist the Nicaraguan Resistance in military or paramilitary operations. Prohibits providing assistance under this Act to any group including an individual who has been found to engage in: (1) gross violations of internationally recognized human rights; or (2) drug smuggling or significant misuse of funds. Grants congressional oversight for assistance under this Act to specified congressional committees. Applies provisions of a specified Act concerning management and delivery of assistance to the Nicaraguan Resistance to assistance under this Act. Prohibits additional assistance to the Nicaraguan Resistance unless authorized specifically by a subsequent Act. Repeals title IX (Assistance for the Nicaraguan Resistance) of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1989. Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Congress on progress in the peace and democratization process, including the use of assistance under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
Requires the Architect of the Capitol to establish and implement a voluntary program for recycling paper disposed of in the operation of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1989
Authorizes the President to present a gold medal, on behalf of the Congress, to Robert Wise in recognition of his contribution to this Nation's cultural heritage. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of such medal at a price sufficient to cover the costs of such duplicates and the gold medal. Requires the appropriations to be reimbursed out of the sales proceeds. Designates all such medals as National Medals.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1989
Authorizes the President to present gold medals, on behalf of the Congress, to each of the following individuals in recognition of their contributions to this Nation's cultural heritage: (1) Frank Capra; (2) James Stewart; and (3) Fred Zinnemann. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to design a different gold medal for each such individual. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of such medals at a price sufficient to cover the costs of such duplicates and the gold medals. Requires the appropriations to be reimbursed out of the sales proceeds. Designates all such medals as National Medals.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the targeted jobs income tax credit through 1992. (Under current law the credit will expire after December 31, 1989.) Amends the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations through FY 1992 in connection with the targeted jobs credit. Raises from 23 years to 25 years the age limitation with respect to economically disadvantaged youth targeted for credit purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1989
Expresses the Senate's confidence, hope, and trust for those who will serve in the Senate during its third century.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1989
Educational Excellence Act of 1989 - Title I: Improving Elementary and Secondary Education - Part A: Presidential Merit Schools - Presidential Merit Schools Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish the Presidential Merit Schools Program to recognize and reward public and private elementary and secondary schools that have made substantial progress in: (1) raising student educational achievement, especially in reading, writing, and mathematics; (2) creating a safe and alcohol- and drug-free school environment; and (3) reducing the dropout rate. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Authorizes State educational agencies (SEAs) to designate as a Merit School any public or private elementary or secondary school nominated through procedures established by the SEA. Sets forth requirements for selection criteria established by the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) and by SEAs. Provides that each Merit School will be awarded a Presidential Certificate of Merit, as well as funds to further its educational program. Prohibits Federal, State, or local reduction of other assistance to a school because it receives such an award. Part B: Magnet Schools of Excellence - Magnet Schools of Excellence Act of 1989 - Amends ESEA to establish the Magnet Schools of Excellence Program of grants to support public elementary or secondary schools that: (1) offer the highest quality instruction in an academic or vocational discipline or create a unique and effective learning environment; (2) are open to students from beyond the immediate school attendance area; and (3) are capable of attracting students from a variety of backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Sets forth criteria for selection of applications. Limits such grants to any one school to no more than two years and requires satisfactory progress in order to receive the grant for the second year. Prohibits Federal, State, or local reduction of assistance to a school because it receives such an award. Part C: Alternative Certification for Teachers and Principals - Alternative Certification of Teachers and Principals Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends ESEA to establish a program of assistance for Alternative Certification of Teachers and Principals. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990. Repeals this part as of October 1, 1990. Part D: Presidential Awards for Excellence in Education - Amends ESEA to establish the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Education Program to recognize and reward outstanding elementary and secondary school teachers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Makes any full-time public or private elementary or secondary school teacher of academic or vocational subjects eligible for such an award. Makes teachers of religion (other than religion as an academic discipline) ineligible. Allows various individuals, groups, or institutions to nominate teachers for such awards. Requires State panels to select award recipients using criteria approved by the Secretary. Sets the amount of such an award at $5,000, and allows the recipient to use it for any purpose. Part E: Effective Date - Sets the effective date of the amendments made by this title. Title II: National Science Scholars - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish the National Science Scholars Program to recognize student excellence and achievement in the physical, life, and computer sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to award scholarships to outstanding students selected as National Science Scholars by the President. Allows students who satisfy certain requirements to receive such scholarships for the first year of undergraduate study and, if they satisfy additional requirements, additional scholarships to cover the remaining undergraduate years. Directs the Secretary to appoint a panel of experts to recommend academic achievement criteria for use in the nomination of scholars. Sets forth requirements for initial and continuation awards. Sets the scholarship amount at $10,000 for an academic year, but reduces such amount based on cost of attendance and other grant or scholarship assistance, and adjusts for insufficient appropriations. Requires that scholarship recipients, to the extent they are otherwise qualified, be given priority consideration for federally financed summer employment in research and development centers. Title III: Other Programs - Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to establish a Drug-Free Schools Urban Emergency Grants program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Directs the Secretary to use program funds to award a small number of one-time grants to local educational agencies in urban areas with the most severe drug problems to assist them in developing and implementing comprehensive approaches to eliminating such problems. Amends HEA to authorize appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for special awards to historically Black colleges and universities. Makes institutions that receive such awards ineligible for other specified awards, and makes institutions that do not receive them eligible for those other awards.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1989
Healthy Birth Act of 1989 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to increase authorized appropriations for such program. Sets aside certain appropriated amounts for comprehensive State infant mortality initiatives and Federal activities in coordination with such initiatives. Prohibits Federal assistance for such a State initiative unless the State provides assurances that it will: (1) establish a toll-free telephone information and referral system for maternal and child health services; (2) provide technical assistance and public awareness activities regarding the maternal and child health handbook to be disseminated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; (3) develop and expand maternal and child health home visiting programs; (4) establish a "one-stop shopping," client-centered program under which pregnant women and mothers can apply for a wide range of Government programs in a coordinated manner at a location at which social and health-related services are made available to pregnant women and infants; (5) evaluate the impact of such initiative; and (6) be able to continue such initiative without Federal assistance within five years of the first receipt of such assistance. Directs the Secretary to use a specified portion of set-aside amounts to: (1) provide technical assistance to State initiatives; (2) disseminate a maternal and child health handbook to all pregnant women and new parents; (3) establish a nationwide, toll-free telephone information and referral system for maternal and child health services; (4) develop a model, coordinated application and eligibility determination system for use by States under the Medicaid program (title XIX of the Act) and the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children; (5) improve the integration and coordination of Federal programs serving pregnant women and children; and (6) monitor and evaluate State infant mortality initiatives. Requires the Secretary to give priority to the initiatives of States demonstrating the greatest need and an ability to implement such initiatives, while recognizing the need for an equitable distribution of assistance among the States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1989
Social Services Block Grant Restoration Act of 1989 - Amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act to authorize increased appropriations under such title from FY 1990 through 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1989
Patient Outcomes Research Act of 1989 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a patient outcomes assessment research program to generate and disseminate information concerning the best methods of managing selected health conditions. Gives priority to significant health conditions that are subject to a variety of management methods among patients in different geographical locations and in different clinical settings. Requires the Secretary to establish a program for the development of practice guidelines to assist health care professionals in adopting those practice patterns determined to be most effective in combating selected health conditions. Authorizes appropriations for the research program and the guidelines program for FY 1990 through 1992. Requires that at least 70 percent of amounts appropriated for a fiscal year be used to fund grants to, and agreements with, non-Federal entities. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to establish the Independent Advisory Committee on Managing Patient Outcomes to advise and assist the Assistant Secretary in carrying out this Act's provisions. Requires the Assistant Secretary to contract with the Institute of Medicine for an annual review of the findings and recommendations of the research program. Includes, as part of such review: (1) the recommendation of strategic priorities for the research program and practice guidelines; (2) the evaluation of the success of the research program; and (3) the issuance of annual reports summarizing research findings and suggesting improvements to the research program and guidelines program. Authorizes appropriations for the Institute's review activities for FY 1990 through 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1989
Designates July 2, 1989, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates October 1989 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates the week of September 10 through September 16, 1989, as National Check-Up Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates April 28, 1989, as Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates the week of June 4, 1989, through June 10, 1989, as National Intelligence Community Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Indoor Air Quality Act of 1989 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a national research, development, and demonstration program to assure the quality of indoor air, including coordinating and accelerating efforts related to the causes, detection, and correction of contaminated air. Requires such program to include information collection and dissemination, cooperative research, grants, studies, development of techniques, facility construction, and conferences. Requires that research focus on human health effects and the identification of types and levels of contaminants likely to cause harm, including the development of methodology and techniques for detection and control. Authorizes the Administrator to assist technology demonstration activities based on a technology's potential to cost effectively control sources of contaminants. Limits Federal funding to 75 percent of the costs of such projects. Requires the Administrator to publish: (1) general reports on the findings of such demonstration projects; and (2) bulletins assessing technology and management practices for controlling and measuring indoor air contaminants, which shall be provided to the Indoor Air Quality Information Clearinghouse. Directs the Administrator to develop protocols, within six months of this Act's enactment, for the measurement of radon gas in child care facilities and disseminate information regarding techniques for measuring and mitigating radon in such facilities. Authorizes the Administrator to take certain other actions conducive to the detection and reduction of radon in such facilities. Directs the Administrator to publish and biennially revise a list of contaminants known to occur in indoor air. Provides for additions to such list upon application of a State Governor. Requires the Administrator to publish advisory materials addressing the human health effects of listed contaminants which describe the properties, effects, risks, and concentrations of such contaminants. Directs the Indoor Air Panel of the EPA Science Advisory Board to assist in the listing and advisories. Requires advisories to be updated at least once every five years. Directs the Administrator to develop and publish a national indoor air quality response plan to reduce human exposure to the listed indoor air contaminants and reduce, to the fullest extent practicable, indoor air contaminant concentration levels to levels at which there is no known or anticipated human health effect, with an adequate margin of safety. Requires the response plan to identify the contaminant, the basis for the action, the nature of the response, the responsible Federal authority, the necessary financial resources, and the technological or legislative changes required for further reduction of the contaminant. Requires the Administrator and the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to develop and implement a program to respond to and reduce indoor air contamination in Federal buildings and to demonstrate methods of reducing indoor air contamination in new Federal buildings. Directs the Administrator of the GSA to prepare a specific response plan for Federal buildings which lists buildings and the reduction and response actions to be taken and identifies those buildings for which there is sufficient evidence of indoor air contamination to warrant their assessment under this Act's Building Assessment Demonstration Program. Exempts specified buildings for national security, demolition, or special use purposes. Requires the Administrator of the GSA to provide a method and format for filing comments and complaints concerning indoor air quality in Federal buildings. Requires response plans to be submitted to the Congress on a biennial basis. Directs the Administrator of the GSA to reserve 0.5 percent of any funds appropriated for construction of new Federal buildings for design and construction of measures to reduce indoor air contaminant concentrations within such buildings. Requires that any new EPA building be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated as a model to demonstrate principles and practices for protecting indoor air quality. Authorizes grants to States for the development and implementation of management strategies and indoor air quality assessment and response programs similar to those of the Federal program. Directs the Administrator to establish the Office of Indoor Air Quality within the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation to implement agency responsibilities under this Act. Establishes a Council on Indoor Air Quality to coordinate Federal indoor air quality activities and review and comment on the national indoor air response program and the Federal building response plan. Requires the Council to report to the Congress on a biennial basis. Directs the Administrator to establish a national indoor air quality clearinghouse which shall operate a toll-free hotline on indoor air quality. Requires the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to implement a Building Assessment Demonstration Program to support the development of methods, techniques, and protocols for assessing indoor air contamination in non-residential, non-industrial buildings and to provide contamination reduction assistance and guidance to building owners and occupants. Sets forth building assessment report requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Title I: Statehood Centennial Coin - Statehood Centennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of one-dollar silver coins and five-dollar palladium coins in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the statehood of Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Requires the Secretary to provide a specified amount of all surcharges to the Documents West exhibition program with the remaining amount of surcharges to be deposited in the Treasury to be used to reduce the national debt. Requires the Secretary to obtain silver for the one-dollar coins only from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Requires the Secretary to obtain palladium for the five-dollar coins by purchase of palladium mined and refined in the United States. Grants the Comptroller General the right to examine records and other data of the Idaho Centennial Commission. Title II: Silver Proof Sets - Silver Coin Proof Set Act - Authorizes the Secretary to mint and issue silver coin proof sets. Sets forth certain specified features of such coins and provides for their sale to the public. Requires the Secretary to obtain silver for such coins by purchase from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act and from Treasury stocks on hand.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Global Environmental Protection Act of 1989 - Title I: Elimination and Regulation of Global Change Pollutants - Part A: Chlorofluorocarbons and Related Chemicals - Global Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Preservation Act of 1989 - States that this Act's objectives are to restore and maintain the chemical and physical integrity of the Earth's atmosphere and to protect human health and the global environment from all known and potential dangers due to atmospheric or climatic modification. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish a priority list of manufactured substances which are known, or may reasonably be anticipated, to cause or contribute to atmospheric or climatic modification, including chlorofluorocarbon-11, chlorofluorocarbon-12, chlorofluorocarbon-113, halon-1211, and halon-1301; (2) create and annually update a list of other manufactured substances which meet such criteria; and (3) assign to each listed substance a numerical value representing the ozone depletion potential of such substance. Imposes reporting requirements on producers of listed substances. Phases out, by January 1, 2000, the production or release of listed substances for any use other than medical purposes. Prohibits the use or introduction into interstate commerce of a priority-listed substance after 1993 except for approved medical purposes. Prohibits, after 2009, the production of any listed substance in annual quantities that yield a total ozone depletion greater than five percent of that produced by priority-listed substances in 1986. Directs the Administrator to require a producer of a listed substance to reduce production of such substance more rapidly if new information indicates that expedition is necessary for the protection of human health or the environment or the availability of substitutes makes expedited reductions attainable. Authorizes the President to issue orders exempting from this Act's requirements the production and use of halon-1211 and halon-1301 at any specified site or facility if the President finds that adequate substitutes are not available and the production and use of such substance is necessary to protect national security interests. Prohibits the importation of a priority listed substance, any product containing such substance, or any product manufactured with a process that uses such substance unless the Administrator has certified that the nations in which such substance or product was manufactured and from which such substance or product was imported have programs that require reduced production of such substance and limit the production of other substances covered by this Act pursuant to a schedule and limitations at least as stringent as those applicable under this Act. Deems a person who imports a listed substance or a product containing such substance to have produced such substance for purposes of this Act's requirements. Requires that containers in which listed substances are stored or transported, products containing such substances, and products manufactured with a process using such substances be labeled as harmful to public health and the environment by reason of the effect such substances have on the ozone and climate. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations regarding: (1) the use, recapture, recycling, and safe disposal of substances covered by this Act; and (2) the use of any manufactured substance that may exacerbate the problem of human induced global climate change. Prohibits, after 1992, the knowing use, release, or disposal of any substance covered by this Act (with specified exceptions) in a fashion which permits such substance to enter the environment. Exempts from such prohibition releases associated with: (1) the approved use of medical devices and diagnostic products for medical purposes; (2) good-faith attempts to recapture and recycle or safely dispose of such substances; and (3) the servicing or repair of equipment which contains such substances but does not include an aperture which allows the recapture of such substances, if, during the first servicing or repair after the effective date of this Act, an aperture or other such feature is installed. Part B: Carbon Dioxide - Act to Reduce and Stabilize Atmospheric Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide - Requires the Administrator to revise nonutility stationary source emission standards by January 1, 1990, and express such standards in terms of carbon dioxide emitted per unit or product output. Directs the Administrator to promulgate standards requiring specified reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from cement kilns, iron and steel manufacturing operations, pulp and paper mills, and synthetic fiber plants by January 1, 2000. Amends the Clean Air Act to set motor vehicle carbon dioxide emission standards which require a reduction of such emissions of at least ten percent by 1990, 25 percent by 1995, 50 percent by 2000, and 75 percent by 2010 from 1985 carbon dioxide emission levels. Requires that, after January 1, 1992, new homes which are equipped with a central furnace, central air-conditioner, or hot-water heater be equipped only with one that satisfies the carbon dioxide emission limitation achieved by the best available residential control technology. Requires that each replacement central furnace, central air-conditioner, or hot-water heater installed in a home after 1992 satisfy such limitation. Part C: Methane - Methane Emission Elimination Act - Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress by January 1, 1992, on: (1) the contribution of methane gas to global climate change; (2) the sources and sinks of methane; (3) the methods of controlling methane emissions; and (4) the relationship between methane emissions and concentrations of other trace gases. Requires that State solid waste management plans provide for the minimization of emissions of methane and other gases during the operation and after the closure of sanitary landfills. Prohibits, after 1993, mass releases and flaring of methane. Part D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Administrator to respond to violations of this title's requirements by assessing a civil penalty against violators and/or requiring their immediate compliance, or commencing a civil action in the U.S. district court in the district in which the violation occurred for appropriate relief. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this title's requirements. Provides for judicial review of the Administrator's final actions. Authorizes citizen suits to enforce any permit, regulation, condition, requirement, prohibition, or order which has become effective pursuant to this title. Title II: Global Change Adjustment and Mitigation - Environmental Adjustment Act of 1989 - Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to add at the end thereof the Atmospheric Protection Act of 1989. Authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible: (1) policies, regulations, and laws of the United States be interpreted and administered in accordance with the Act's policies; and (2) all Federal agencies minimize the impacts of proposed actions on the global environment and prepare environmental impact statements regarding such actions. Title III: International Financing - Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require environmental impact assessments on proposed actions affecting the quality of the human environment by certain multilateral development banks listed under the Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1986. Directs the Council on Environmental Quality to establish the criteria for such assessments. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) take steps to expand international consensus on the importance of environmental issues and to secure support for programs that encourage energy efficiency and conservation and integrated pest management; and (2) report to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries on the progress made by the multilateral development banks in environmental assessment activities. Requires the Federal Government to undertake a systematic and comprehensive survey of all Federal lands and structures, by January 1, 1991, to ascertain their vulnerability to changes associated with global environmental changes. Directs the President to report to the Congress, by January 1, 1993, on the results of such survey, including recommendations for generic and site-specific actions and policies to preclude further public or private investment in susceptible areas and minimize and mitigate the loss or damage likely to occur. Ground Water Recharge Research and Demonstration Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to undertake a program of research, development, and demonstration of artificial groundwater recharge techniques. Requires the Secretary of the Army to submit to specified congressional committees a final report, by May 30, 1993, and a brief interim report, within 30 months of this Act's enactment, on such activities. Title IV: International Cooperation - Directs the President to request the United Nations to promptly establish a temporary new agency, to be headed by the Director of the United Nations Environmental Program, to: (1) coordinate international efforts to minimize and mitigate the effects of unavoidable environmental alterations; and (2) provide financial, technical, and other assistance to developing nations to facilitate improvements in their standard of living while minimizing or eliminating their contributions to global, continental, and subcontinental scale environmental damages. Directs the President to request the United Nations to establish a temporary program of forestation to: (1) assist and encourage nations in halting activities that are destroying forests; and (2) undertake a global reforestation program. Requires the President to instruct U.S. representatives to other bilateral and multilateral organizations to assure that the activities of such organizations are consistent with this Act's goals and objectives. Establishes as a national goal the generation of 50 percent of the national supply of energy from nonpolluting technologies and practices by the year 2000 and 100 percent by the year 2050. Title V: Development of Nonpolluting Energy Sources - Authorizes the Administrator to charter the National New Energy Development Institute, an organization concerned with energy production standards and practices to be incorporated in the District of Columbia. Requires the Institute to promote the use of energy efficient technologies which will: (1) minimize the quantity of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere and the consumption of scarce resources; (2) insure the competitiveness of U.S. industry; and (3) assure that human health and the environment will not be adversely affected. Directs the Institute to establish industry energy technology standards to protect the global climate. Outlines criteria to be considered by the Administrator in granting a charter to the prospective Institute. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to the Institute. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for interest on any indebtedness incurred to pay the educational expenses, including reasonable living expenses, of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependent.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Section 89 Simplification Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the new nondiscrimination requirements for coverage and benefits under certain statutory employee benefit plans to: (1) prescribe criteria for simplified health arrangements which, if offered by an employer, will be treated as meeting the nondiscrimination requirements of Internal Revenue Section 89; (2) increase from 17 1/2 hours to 25 hours per week (30 hours in 1989, 27 1/2 hours in 1990) the threshold number of work hours triggering requirements with respect to part-time employees; (3) apply noncompliance penalties (taxation of benefits) only with respect to highly compensated employees rather than with respect to all employees; (4) exempt the plans of entities with no highly compensated employees; and (5) revise rules relating to plan testing, aggregation of plans, and coverage valuation.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, with the Governor of Louisiana if the Governor agrees, to enter into an agreement to: (1) set forth a process by which the State of Louisiana agrees to develop a Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Plan; and (2) designate a State agency to develop and submit such Plan to the Secretary and the Administrator for approval. Requires the Secretary to make grants to assist the agency in developing the Plan. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator to provide technical assistance to the State for such Plan. Prohibits conditioning studies or construction of existing projects on payment of a non-Federal cost share. Provides that coastal restoration and conservation projects commenced in Louisiana prior to the signing of the agreement shall not require a non-Federal cost share. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Plan to: (1) establish a program to assure that no net loss of Louisiana coastal wetlands occurs as a result of development activities and require permits for such activities; (2) identify Louisiana coastal wetlands and describe projects to restore such wetlands, including a research program for coastal restoration; (3) implement a system to account for gains and losses of wetlands to evaluate compliance with the goal of no net loss; (4) educate the public of the necessity to conserve wetlands and encourage the use of technology by persons engaged in development activities; and (5) encourage private owners of wetlands to maintain such lands as wetlands. Outlines the authority of the State with respect to the issuance of permits for development activities. Limits such permits to terms of five years and allows termination or modification under certain conditions. Authorizes States whose waters may be affected by the issuance of a permit to submit recommendations with respect to such permit to the State of Louisiana and the Administrator. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator to approve the Plan if: (1) the State has adequate authority to implement and enforce the Plan; and (2) the Plan is in compliance with this Act and was adopted after reasonable notice and hearing. Sets forth modification procedures in the case of noncompliance. Authorizes the State to modify an approved Plan, but makes such modifications subject to approval procedures. Makes certain provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act inapplicable to Louisiana wetlands or coastal waters on the effective date of the permit program. Sets forth sanctions for noncompliance with the permit program, including the suspension of Federal assistance for wetlands conservation and restoration and the revocation of the Plan. Establishes the Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Trust Fund. Appropriates to the Fund five percent of all bonuses, rents, and royalties paid to the United States in connection with leasing activities on the Outer Continental Shelf. Makes Fund moneys available for grants to Louisiana to implement the Plan. Limits the Federal share for restoration projects to 90 percent of the cost. Directs the Governor of Louisiana to report, not less than annually, to the Secretary and the Administrator on the status of programs under this Act. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator to report biennially to the Congress on the status and effectiveness of the Plan. Authorizes the Chief of Engineers of the Department of the Army to carry out projects for the protection, restoration, and creation of vegetated wetlands. Requires such projects to be given equal priority with navigation and flood control projects.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Medical Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989 - Amends Federal patent law to provide that it is not an act of infringement to make, use, or sell patented medical devices solely for noncommercial research and development uses, or for the submission of federally required information. Declares that it is an act of infringement to submit an application for a medical device claimed in a patent under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act if the purpose of such application is to engage in commercial transactions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Designates the week of October 1 through October 7, 1989, as National Health Care Food Service Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Designates the week of July 24 to July 30, 1989, 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, 1989, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
National Global Warming Policy Act - Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) reduce the generation of greenhouse gases in the United States, with an initial goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from 1988 levels by 20 percent by the end of the year 2000; (2) host, in 1989, an international summit meeting on global warming and environmental concerns; (3) encourage, and develop multilateral agreements with, other nations to reduce the generation of such gases; (4) assist in the worldwide protection of tropical rainforests; (5) require Federal agencies to determine the impacts of global warming on their activities and propose greenhouse gas reduction policies; and (6) develop technologies that will provide reliable energy and services while reducing the generation of such gases.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Designates November 17, 1989, as National Philanthropy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Pollution Prevention Act of 1989 - Establishes within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an office to promote pollution prevention through source reduction. Requires the EPA Administrator to develop and implement a source reduction strategy which: (1) establishes standard methods for measuring source reduction; (2) coordinates and promotes source reduction activities and techniques in Federal agencies, businesses, and educational curricula; (3) coordinates and streamlines data collection requirements under existing environmental statutes and identifies data gaps with respect to the measurement of hazardous substances, pollution, or contamination generation and management practices; (4) makes recommendations to the Congress to eliminate barriers to source reduction including the use of incentives; (5) develops and disseminates model source reduction auditing procedures designed to highlight source reduction opportunities; and (6) promotes source reduction for nonhazardous wastes. Directs the Administrator to make matching grants to States for programs to promote source reduction by businesses. Sets forth criteria to be evaluated in the awarding of such grants. Limits the percentage of funds for such programs that may be Federal funds to 75 percent in FY 1990 and 1991, 62.5 percent in FY 1992 and 1993, and 50 percent in FY 1994. Requires the Administrator to establish a Source Reduction Clearinghouse to compile a computer data base which contains information on management, technical, and operational approaches to source reduction. Directs the Administrator to make such information available to the public. Directs owners or operators of facilities required to file annual toxic chemical release forms under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) to include with each such filing a toxic chemical source reduction and pollution control report. Sets forth items to be included in such reports, including: (1) the quantity of each chemical entering any waste stream prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal during the reporting year, and the two years thereafter, and the percentage change from the previous year; (2) the source reduction practices used with respect to such chemicals; (3) a ratio of production in the reporting year to production in the previous year; (4) the total volume of each such chemical that was recycled, treated, or disposed during the reporting year; and (5) the amount of any hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants released which resulted from remedial action and not from current production processes. Directs the Administrator to collect certain waste stream information from a sample of facilities drawn from classifications producing the highest volume of toxic chemicals entering the waste stream. Makes provisions of SARA applicable to the reporting requirements of this Act. Directs the Administrator to make data collected under this Act publicly available in the same manner as data collected under SARA. Establishes the National Pollution Prevention Award. Directs the President or the Administrator to make the award to companies or organizations which have benefited the economic or social well-being of the United States through reduction in the generation of hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, or nonhazardous solid waste. Authorizes organizations which receive such award and agree to help other American organizations improve source reduction to publicize such award. Makes such organizations ineligible to receive another award in the same category for a period of five years. Authorizes the Administrator to establish categories to make such awards and sets forth application and qualification criteria. Authorizes the Administrator to seek and accept gifts from private and public sources to carry out such program. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress by September 30, 1991, and biennially thereafter on actions and results of the source reduction strategy. Authorizes and allocates appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Research and Experimental Credit Extension and Reform Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax credit for qualified research expenditures by repealing the provisions that would terminate the credit for expenses incurred or paid after 1989. Revises the method for computing: (1) base period research expenses, adding a factor reflecting the gross national product growth rate; and (2) the tax credit, adding an alternative computation component. Applies the credit to in-house research expenses that the taxpayer pays or incurs for the principal purpose of using the research results in the active conduct of a future trade or business.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Designates the month of November in 1989 and 1990 as National Hospice Month.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Commends the cable television industry on the tenth anniversary of the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) for its contribution toward informing and educating U.S. citizens.