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United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1978
Extends the best wishes of the Senate to Senator Dewey F. Bartlett upon his retirement from the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1978
Prohibits the President from taking any action that would affect the validity of any post-World War II security and mutual defense treaties without the advice and consent of the Senate, or the approval of both Houses of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate October 14, 1978, as "National Jogging Day."
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1978
Permits any person, association, partnership or corporation in adverse possession of public lands to obtain a patent to such lands from the Secretary of the Interior. Sets forth the information to be included in a petition for such a patent. Directs the Secretary to grant a patent to public lands if the petitioner, the petitioner's ancestors, or grantors have held such lands: (1) under color of title, meaning the semblance or appearance of title; (2) in good faith at the time of acquisition of color of title; (3) peacefully for at least 20 years; and (4) have improved or cultivated such lands. Establishes procedures for the review of such petitions. Directs the Secretary, upon a determination that the petition is sufficient, to issue a patent for the interest claimed in an area of public land 50 acres or less upon the payment of $1.25 or less per acre. Grants the Secretary the option of issuing a patent for more than 50 acres upon the payment of the required fee. Requires the Secretary to obtain the consent of other Federal agencies to a patent award if a claim under this Act interferes with functions of such agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to issue a patent to a comparable tract of land or to pay the fair market value of the interest in the land claimed if such consent is not obtained. Permits the petitioner to elect compensation in lieu of substitute land. Reserves to the United States all mineral interests in any land to which a patent is issued under this Act. Prohibits the issuance of any patent if there is an unadjudicated claim adverse to the petitioner. Establishes jurisdiction in the United States Courts of Appeals for the review of all final actions of the Secretary under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject to capital gains taxation the gain from the sale or exchange of farming property and undeveloped real property by a nonresident alien.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1978
Declares a certain individual to have satisfied the residence and physical presence requirements for naturalization, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1978
Declares two individuals lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1978
Regulatory Flexibility and Reform Act - Requires Federal agencies to include the following information in the general notice of a proposed rule: (1) the goals and purpose of the rule; (2) the estimated number of individuals, businesses, organizations, and governmental jurisdictions affected by the rule; (3) a statement that the agency seeks alternative proposals which could achieve the goal of the proposed rule at a lower cost to individuals of limited means, small businesses, small organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions; and (4) a list of the measures necessary for compliance with any reporting requirement affecting more than ten persons. Requires Federal agencies to accept and consider alternative proposals to a proposed rule and to publish those proposals with justification of the selection of the final rule. Defines a small business, small organization, small governmental jurisdiction, and an individual of limited means as used in this Act. Authorizes the Comptroller General to advise and assist the agencies in making rules. Terminates after seven years any rule in effect before the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1978
Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the export, for sale, donation, or barter, of a minimum aggregate quantity of 7,000,000 metric tons of United States farm commodities each fiscal year from 1979 through 1982, unless: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture determines that export supplies are not available; or (2) the food needs of developing countries, as gaged by specified factors, do not merit such quantity. Requires the President to report to the appropriate committees of Congress the specific reasons for any shortfall should less than the minimum quantities required by this Act be exported.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Declares it the sense of the Senate that specified steps should be taken to insure that more efficient use is made of the existing stock of railroad freight cars and power equipment and to encourage the acquisition of new cars and equipment in order to meet the needs of American agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1978
Justice System Improvement Act - Restates and amends in its entirety Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Law Enforcement Assistance). Sets forth the purposes of the title. Retains within the Department of Justice a Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and within the Administration, the Office of Community Anti-Crime Programs. Renames the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice the National Institute of Justice. Establishes a 21 member National Institute of Justice Advisory Board to develop research policy for the Institute. Establishes within the Department a Bureau of Justice Statistics. Sets forth the responsibilities of the Bureau, including collecting national crime statistics. Establishes a Bureau of Justice Statistics Advisory Board to recommend policy and priorities for the Bureau. Restructures the existing program of grants and assistance to State and local units of government into three categories, formula grants, national priority grants, and discretionary grants. Sets forth the purposes for which such grants may be made and the procedures to be followed in making the grants. Continues the authority of the LEAA to conduct training, recruiting and career development programs for law enforcement officials. Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics to provide staff support, set policy, and coordinate the activities of the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the LEAA. Establishes an advisory board to the Office. Sets forth the powers and administrative procedures of the offices established by this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the programs and grants established by this Act. Continues the existing program of public safety officers' death benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Amends the Water Bank Act to increase from $10,000,000 to $50,000,000 the payment limitation on conservation agreements for calendar years after 1977. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to re-examine the payment rate for such an agreement at the beginning of the fifth year of any ten-year initial or renewal period, in any calendar year after 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1978
Maternal, Infant, and Crippled Children's Health Reform Act - Amends the Social Security Act to establish in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a unit known as the National Office of Maternal and Child Health. Requires the National Office to: (1) seek to improve maternal and child health care services through coordination of the activities of Federal health agencies with respect to maternal and child health and crippled children's services; (2) develop a data collection and retrieval system to serve as a central source of information related to the health of mothers and children; and (3) develop a long-range program to promote the availability of health services to all pregnant women, infants, and children. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a National Advisory Council on Maternal and Child Health. Requires such Council to advise and assist the States and the Secretary and the National Office. Directs the Council to study Federal health programs for mothers, infants, and children. Sets forth the scope of such study.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979 - Authorizes the appropriation of specified funds for fiscal year 1979 to carry out specified activities of the Department of Justice. Requires the Attorney General to investigate all specific allegations of criminal law violations by specified individuals, including the President, Vice President, persons in the Executive Branch compensated at a rate of pay prescribed for positions I and II of the Executive Schedule, Senators or Representatives in Congress, and any national campaign manager or chairman of any national campaign committee seeking the election or reelection of the President. Requires the Attorney General to decide within 90 days whether the matter warrants prosecution and if so, directs him to apply to the division of the U.S. Courts of Appeals responsible for the appointment of a special prosecutor. Requires the Attorney General to apply for the appointment of a special prosecutor whenever, in the course of any criminal investigation, he determines that the continuing investigation or resulting prosecution may so directly and substantially affect the political or personal interests of the President or the Attorney General or the interests of the President's political party as to make it inappropriate in the interest of the administration of justice for the Department of Justice to conduct such investigation. Enumerates the authority and duties of a special prosecutor. Gives a special prosecutor all the investigative and prosecutorial functions and powers of the Department except those which specifically require the Attorney General's personal action. Requires a special prosecutor to report annually to Congress and at the conclusion of such special prosecutor's duties to the division of the court. Requires a special prosecutor to promptly advise the House of Representatives of any substantial and credible information which may constitute grounds for an impeachment. States that a special prosecutor may only be removed from office by impeachment and conviction, or by the Attorney General for extraordinary improprieties, malfeasance in office, willful neglect of duty, permanent incapacitation, or conduct constituting a felony. Permits the division of the court to terminate an office of special prosecutor at any time on the grounds that the investigations and prosecutions of such prosecutor have been completed. Requires the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to assign five judges or justices for two-year periods to a division of the Court to be the special panel of the court for the appointment of special prosecutors. Terminates the provisions of this Act which pertain to a special prosecutor five years after the date on which this Act takes effect. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to be held by the Department as a contingent fund for the use of any special prosecutor appointed pursuant to this Act. Requires the Attorney General to promulgate rules requiring any officer or employee of the Department, including a United States Attorney, to disqualify himself from participation in a particular investigation or prosecution if such participation may result in a personal, financial, or political conflict of interests or the appearance of such conflict. Establishes within the Department an Office of Government Crimes to be directed by a person appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and who has not, during the five years preceeding such appointment, held a high-level position of trust and responsibility on the personal campaign staff of, or in an organization or political party working on behalf of, a candidate for any elective Federal Office. Confers upon the Office jurisdiction over: (1) criminal violations of Federal law related to his Government position, employment, or compensation, by any individual who holds or who held a position as an elected or appointed Federal Government officer, employee or special employee; (2) criminal violations of Federal laws relating to lobbying, conflicts of interest, campaigns, and election to public office committed by any person except insofar as such violations relate to matters involving discrimination or intimidation on the grounds of race, color, religion, or national origin; (3) the supervision of investigations and prosecutions of criminal violations of Federal law involving State or local government officials or employees; and (4) such other matters as the Attorney General may deem appropriate except as to matters referred to the special prosecutor pursuant to this Act. Requires the Attorney General to report annually to Congress on the activities of the Office. Prohibits the appointment as Attorney General or Deputy Attorney General of any individual who, having held the position of national campaign manager, national chairman of the finance committee, chairman of the national political party, or other comparable high level campaign role, has played a leading partisan role in the election of a President.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of s.3151 (Department of Justice funding).
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore part of the pre-1969 tax treatment of capital gains by repealing the capital gains item of tax preference for the minimum tax; lowering the corporate alternative tax to 25 percent of net capital gain; and lowering the alternative individual tax to 25 percent of net capital gain.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1978
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey specified lands to the Holmes County School District, in Holmes County, Mississippi.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Commends Lee Williams for his long, faithful, and exemplary service to the United States Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to collect statistics pertaining to all aspects of agriculture in the United States. Requires the Secretary to limit access to the identity of the sources of such statistics to those officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture who require such information for the performance of official duties related to the collection and dissemination of agricultural statistics.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1978
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include specified textiles and textile products in the articles reserved from tariff reduction or elimination negotiations by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop and carry out a plan for the completion of the Natchez Trace Parkway from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, within five years after the enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations not to exceed $180,000,000 for such construction project.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of the Senate to pay, out of funds appropriated to the Committee on the Judiciary, a certain sum to the United States Marshall for the District of Columbia, as reimbursement for service of specified subpoenas.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1978
Eliminates the right to a jury trial in civil actions against the United States for recovery of wrongfully collected taxes, tax penalties, or other sums under internal revenue laws.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Amends the Reservoir Salvage Act of 1960, as amended, to authorize appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for fiscal years 1979-1983 for administration, investigation, and salvage operations of the program providing for recovery, protection, and preservation of significant scientific, prehistorical, historical, or archeological data which may be lost through federally regulated, permitted, or licensed construction projects.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Declares a certain individual to have satisfied residence and physical presence requirements for naturalization under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Emergency Agricultural Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, with respect to 1978 crops only, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make payments to cotton, feed grains, soybean, and wheat producers for setting aside acreage to approved conservation uses in addition to required set-asides. Requires a minimum acreage set-aside, under this program, of: (1) 15 million acres for wheat; (2) 10 million acres for feed grains; and (3) 3 million acres each for cotton and soybeans. Authorizes additional payments for set-aside acreage opened to the general public for hunting, trapping, fishing, and hiking. Requires the Secretary to make up to 50 percent of any such payment immediately, in advance of determination of performance. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase the Corporation's borrowing authority from $14,500,000,000 to $25,000,000,000. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make private domestic corporations and partnerships controlled by farmers and ranchers, and engaged primarily in farming or ranching, eligible for real estate and operating loans. Increases the maximum allowable total principal indebtedness for real estate loans which may be outstanding by any one borrower to $200,000, or $300,000 in the case of a guaranteed loan. Increases the amount of indebtedness which may be outstanding for operating loans for an individual from $50,000 to $100,000, or in the case of a guaranteed loan, $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
Declares two individuals lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1978
Consumer and Agricultural Protection Act - Establishes a National Board of Agricultural Governors, independent of the Department of Agriculture and consisting in part of agricultural producers, whose primary duty shall be the annual establishment of cost of production prices for cotton, dairy products, dry beans, feed grains, poultry, rice, soybeans, sugar, livestock and wheat. States that such prices shall take into account: (1) machinery ownership costs; (2) general farm overhead costs; (3) a value for the management services contributed by the producer; (4) labor costs; and (5) a value for the land utilized. Sets 1978 cost of production prices as follows: (1) dry beans, $22.00 per hundredweight; (2) wheat, $4.75 per bushel; (3) sugar, $.25 (raw) per pound; (4) corn, $3.15 per bushel; (5) soybeans, $6.60 per bushel; (6) barley, $3.00 per bushel; (7) grain sorghum, $5.39 per hundredweight; (8) oats, $1,65 per bushel; (9) cotton, $.70 per pound; (10) cattle, $.55 per pound; (11) calves, $.65 per pound; (12) milk, $12.00 per hundredweight; (13) hogs, $.50 per pound; (14) rice, $10.00 per hundredweight; and (15) poultry, $.40 per pound. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to guarantee or make direct nonrecourse loans to producers of specified nonperishable commodities. Specifies formula for the determination of loan levels and conditions for the calling of such loans. Directs the Board to establish mandatory release prices for each commodity, expressed in terms of a percentage of the cost of production price plus storage costs and interest charges. Requires the release for domestic or export sale of a portion of a commodity under loan when such commodity's market price reaches the mandatory release price level. Requires the Secretary to establish and maintain a National Commodity Reserve of cotton, feed grains, rice, soybeans, sugar, and wheat, for provision during national emergencies and for the protection of producers from depressed prices. Requires the Secretary, upon receiving written production estimates from producers prior to the production year, to determine and announce production adjustments if he finds that, in the absence of such adjustments, domestic stocks, including Reserve quantities, will exceed domestic and foreign demand and the replenishment needs of the reserve. Directs the Board to apportion production cutbacks and mandatory set-asides among producers equally. Specifies civil penalties for the use of land removed from production for harvesting any crop or for grazing. Permits production adjustments with respect to livestock, dairy products, poultry, and perishable commodities (designated by the Board) only upon a vote by a majority of the producers of such a commodity. Provides for coverage under this Act of any commodity not specified, by means of a petition and majority-vote referendum among the producers of such commodity. Permits the termination of such commodity, whether specified or unspecified by the same means. Bars the importation of a specified commodity at less than the domestic cost of production price, adjusted for transportation and handling costs. Authorizes the board to impose price maintenance custom duties on imported agricultural commodities. Prohibits the purchase of domestic specified commodities for foreign assistance programs at less than cost of production prices.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Removes the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Federal district courts over any case arising out of any State statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, which relates to voluntary prayers in public schools and public buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration should not promulgate any rules or restrictions on the use and distributions of penicillin and tetracycline products in animal feeds at low levels until a well-designed epidemiological study and a thorough benefit-risk determination are made concerning the safety of such products.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with each State for payment of 100 percent of the costs of repairing highways and surface rails of urban mass transportation systems (other than railroads) which were damaged as a result of the winter weather of 1977-1978. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Office of Energy Security Act - Establishes within the Department of Energy the Office of Energy Security to coordinate Federal activities related to the maintenance of security of the trans-Alaska pipeline and other oil and gas resources of the nation. Requires the Director of the Office of Energy Security to submit to the Secretary of Energy and to Congress an annual report the first of which shall be submitted within one year of the enactment of this Act. Requires the Director to include in the first annual report findings and recommendations concerning the need for a centralized security force, identification of security problems, recommendations for Congressional action and an evaluation of the progress and achievements of the office. Requires the Director to seek and the relevant Federal agencies to render such help as the Director may deem necessary in the fulfillment of duties.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1978
Authorizes additional expenditures, not to exceed $5,693,642, by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for inquiries and investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Declares a certain individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to information to be supplied to the Environmental Protection Agency by owners and operators of any point source to restrict such information to matters that are necessarily and directly involved in carrying out the provisions of the Act. Excludes from required information financial statements or similar comprehensive financial information, investment data, tax information, or general production costs.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1978
Psychotropic Substances Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to meet obligations under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to: (1) extend the authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission through September 30, 1983; (2) provide for appointment of the Commission Chairman by the President, to serve at the President's pleasure; and (3) prohibit options trading until such time as the Commission can document to Congress its ability to regulate specified options transactions successfully, and 90 calendar days pass without disapproval by either House of the proposed regulations. Grants immunity from prosecution to witnesses claiming self incrimination who testify before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Clayton Act to entitle any foreign sovereign government to sue for actual damages and the cost of suit (but not for treble damages) when injured in its business or property by reason of any action forbidden in the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Declares two individuals lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Agricultural Trade Expansion Act - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to permit the Commodity Credit Corporation to finance export sales of agricultural commodities on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Exempts such sales from the requirement that exports be transported on privately owned United States - flag commercial vessels.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Declares that there be no reduction of customs duties on textile, apparel, or fiber products and that such products be excluded from the current Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Freedom in Livestock Marketing Act - Title I: General Provisions and Definitions - States the findings of Congress that the public interest would be served by the application of open, free, and competitive factors declaring certain livestock marketing transactions unfair or unlawful. Title II: Livestock Marketing Commission - Establishes, within the Department of Agriculture, the Livestock Marketing Commission. Title III: Jurisdiction - Authorizes such Commission to investigate any facts, conditions, practices, persons, or matters which it may deem necessary or proper to aid in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Title IV: Unlawful Transactions - Declares it unlawful for any person engaged directly or indirectly in livestock marketing to commit any act of fraud or to steal or convert livestock or money to its own use or to the use of another. Title V: Illegal Marketing Practices - Deems as unfair and illegal certain marketing practices, including violations of Title VI and VII of this Act. Title VI: Financial Responsibility - Requires every livestock market, livestock dealer, and livestock broker to maintain a financial position which reflects total assets in excess of total liabilities under established accounting principles customary and usual to those businesses. Title VII: Scales and Weighing - Requires regular maintenance and service and accurate operation of livestock scales in all livestock transactions in commerce where the purchase and sale price of the livestock is determined on the basis of the weight of the livestock. Title VIII: Multiple Business - Deems it not unlawful, nor an unfair marketing practice, for any livestock market, livestock dealer, or livestock broker to engage in any other business of any kind. Title IX: Arbitration - Requires the Livestock Marketing Commission to establish fair and equitable arbitration procedures for resolving disputes arising in livestock marketing transactions. Title X: Penalties - Establishes administrative and criminal penalties for the violation of provisions of this Act. Title XI: State Law - Deems this Act controlling to the extent that State statutes or laws regulating livestock markets, livestock dealers, and livestock brokers are inconsistent with this Act and the regulations promulgated pursuant to its provisions by the Commission. Title XII: Repealing Clauses - Repeals specified provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 relating to dealers, bonds, registration requirements, charges, fees and rates. Title XIII: General Provisions - Declares that the validity of the remainder of this Act shall not be affected if any provision of it or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1977
National Science Policy Commission Act - Establishes a National Science Policy Commission to conduct a study on Federal science policies regarding potentially hazardous research activities. Authorizes the Commission to establish advisory committees to carry out analytical or investigative undertakings. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1977
Authorizes United States district courts to refer the following types of civil actions to arbitration, any appeal from which is to be by trial de novo: (1) Federal litigation of a type designated by the Attorney General for referral; (2) certain action by employees and materialmen of public contractors for money owed; (3) actions for money damages where all parties consent to referral; and (4) most diversity and general Federal question actions where money damages under $50,000 are sought and nonmonetary claims are insubstantial.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1977
Alien Adjustment Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to create a record of lawful admission for permanent residence in the case of an alien who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1970 (updated from June 30, 1948 by this Act) provided that such alien is not inadmissible because of past criminal or otherwise proscribed behavior. Prohibits the creation of such a record for an alien who assisted in the prosecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Authorizes the Attorney General to permit any alien who entered the United States on or before January 1, 1977 to reside in the United States for a period of up to five years if specified criteria are met and such person is not otherwise inadmissible under provisions of the Act excluding criminals, and other immoral persons. Prohibits temporary resident aliens admitted under this Act from receiving Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Supplemental Security Income, or Food Stamps. Prohibits any person from employing or assisting illegal aliens in procuring or retaining employment in the United States. Sets penalties for violating such prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that ordinary promissory notes shall be treated as evidence of indebtedness for purposes of reporting income from certain sales on the installment method.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1977
Aquaculture Policy Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to make a comprehensive assessment of aquaculture in the United States. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a national aquaculture development strategy, and to furnish leadership for Federal activities relating to the development of aquaculture. Requires the Secretary to alleviate constraints on aquacultural development, furnish assistance regarding aquaculture to public and private organizations and persons, compile production data, arrange for information exchanges with foreign nations, and coordinate the national aquaculture effort. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any function under this Act through grants to or contracts with Federal or State agencies, colleges and universities, or individuals. Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to authorize the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to insure, or reinsure insurers of, aquatic species propagated and reared in aquaculture operations. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1977
Declares 553 individuals lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1977
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 2149 (District court for Northern Mariana Islands).
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1977
Commends Courtney C. Pace for his outstanding service to the Senate.