United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Designates specified lands in the Grand Canyon National Park and in the Grand Canyon and Marbel Canyon National Monuments, Arizona, as the Grand Canyon Wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Designates specified lands in the Matia Island and San Juan National Wildlife Refuges, San Juan and Skagit Counties, Washington, as the San Juan Islands Wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Designates specified lands in the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Jackson, Union, and Williamson Counties, Illinois, as the Crab Orchard Wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Designates specified lands in the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Yuma County, Arizona, and Imperial County, California, as the Imperial Wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Designates specified lands as the Idaho Wilderness in the Boise, Challis, Payette, and Salmon National Forests, Idaho. Designates specified lands as the Salmon River Wilderness in the Bitterroot, Nezperce, and Salmon National Forests, Idaho.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal and zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) that there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible, except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestitute of any United States owned peroperty, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Antitrust Law Labor Amendments - Removes statutory limitations upon the application of the Sherman Act to labor organizations and their activities. States that every contract or agreement between any labor organization and any employer whereby such employer undertakes to cease or to refrain from using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in any of the products of any producer, processor, or manufacturer which are distributed in trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared illegal. Provides that every person who enters into, attempts to enter into, or conspires with any other person to enter into any such contract or agreement shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $100,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding three years or both.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1975
Provides for the relief of Evaristo Laborin, his wife, Amparo Laborin, and their children, Evaristo Laborin, Jr., Francisco Laborin, Catalina Laborin, Jesus Laborin, and Benito Laborin.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1975
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments - Provides that the prohibition in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 shall be limited to individuals who are forty years of age or older.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Exempts refiners whose total refining capacity on January 1, 1975, did not exceed one hundred thousand barrels per day from regulation promulgated under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act which would require the purchase of entitlement, or the payment of money through any other similar transfer arrangement aimed at equalizing the cost of crude oil domestic refiners during the existence of a two-tiered market for crude oil. Provides that this Act shall not restrict the rights of small refiners to receive such payments.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making grants to States for establishing, expanding or improving veterans' cemeteries. Requires the States to provide at least 35 percent of the costs of cemetery acquisition or improvement. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to annually pay to each State up to 65 percent of the annual costs of maintaining veterans' cemeteries within such State.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Revises the provisions of title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act by increasing the increment in old-age benefits payable to individuals who delay their retirement beyond age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Beef Research and Consumer Information Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to enable cattle producers to establish, finance, and carry out a coordinated program to improve markets for cattle, beef and beef products, and to provide an adequate supply of high quality beef to the consumers of the Nation at reasonable prices. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue beef research and promotion orders. Provides that such orders shall be issued only after due notice and opportunity for hearing shall have been given to producers and producer organizations, and after the Secretary shall have determined that the issuance of such an order will effectuate the declared policy of this Act. Declares that such order shall not take effect until approved by a majority of two-thirds of the cattle producers voting in a referendum. Establishes a Beef Board to administer the Order in accordance with its terms and provisions, to make rules and regulations to effectuate the terms and provisions of the Order, to receive, investigate and report complaints of violations of the Order, and to recommend to the Secretary amendments to the Order. Lists the procedures for appointing members of such board. Requires that any plans for advertising, sales promotion, consumer education, producer education, research, and the annual budget be developed by the Beef Board and submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for approval. Empowers the Beef Board to enter into contracts or agreements for the development and carrying out of the activities authorized under the Order. Declares that producers of cattle shall be assessed at a specific rate to be determined by stated procedures. Provides that each time cattle are sold, the cattle producer shall pay to the purchaser the amount assessed, based upon the sale price of the cattle. Provides that any cattle producer against whose cattle or beef any assessment is made and collected shall have the right to demand and receive from the Beef Board a refund of such assessment. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to pre-empt or interfere with the workings of any beef board, beef council, or other beef promotion entity organized and operating within and by authority of any of the several states. Provides for the return to any such beef board or council of an amount to be determined by a stated formula. Stipulates that to qualify for the funds, such a state beef board, beef council or other beef promotional entity shall demonstrate ability to provide research, promotion and education within the state consistent with this Act and Order. States that each purchaser, handler or agent may be required to report to the Beef Board periodically concerning number of cattle handled, amount assessed, sale price of cattle on which assessment was collected, and other information necessary for the enforcement of this Act. Declares that this Act and any order issued pursuant to it may be enforced in the District Courts of the U.S., with the U.S. Attorney General having authority to bring any Civil suits authorized under the Act. Provides for a fine of not more than $1,000 for violations of this Act and any orders issued pursuant to it. Stipulates that no funds collected by the Beef Board shall in any manner be used for the purpose of influencing governmental policy or action. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that funds so appropriated shall not be available for payment of the expenses or expenditures of the Beef Board in administering any provisions of any order issued pursuant to the terms of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1975
Deep Seabed Hard Minerals Act - Sets forth the findings of Congress and the purposes of the Act. Defines the terms used in the Act. Declares that, with specified exceptions, no person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall engage directly or indirectly in the development of hard mineral resources of the deep seabed. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept applications from and to issue licenses to eligible applicants upon tender of a fee of $50,000 for the development of hard mineral resources of the seabed. Sets forth the provisions for the issuing of such licenses. Declares that in no event shall any license under this Act authorize the commercial recovery of such resources prior to January 1, 1976, and that except to the extent that such licenses are authorized pursuant to the provisions of an international agreement establishing a regime for the development of mineral resources of the international seabed area beyond the limits of coastal State territorial or resource jurisdiction, no licenses shall be issued under this Act subsequent to the ratification by the United States of any such international agreement. Provides that every license issued under this Act shall remain in force for 15 years. Makes provisions for licensing procedures under this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish objective environmental standards to which operations under a licenses issued pursuant to this Act shall adhere. Sets forth a table of minimum expenditures per licensed block until commercial recovery from such block is initiated. Authorizes the Secretary to begin commercial recovery and for the withdrawal of specified areas from licensing. Makes the provisions for investment guaranty and insurance through the Secretary of Commerce. Provides a civil penalty of $10,000 per day during which violations of this Act occur and a criminal penalty of $25,000 per day for willful and knowing violations of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for the current fiscal year and the two succeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary for the administration of this Act. Declares that if any provision of this Act is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act not be affected thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Reaffirms, under the Clean Air Act, the standards to protect the quality of the Nation's air. Limits such standards by providing that nothing in such Act is intended to require or provide for the establishment of standards more stringent than primary and secondary ambient air quality standards.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Fuel Emergency Clean Air Act Amendments - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to extend any stationary source fuel or sulfur oxide emission limitation for a powerplant using coal as its primary source. Stipulates that such extension shall be made only if such powerplant can apply interim measures to attain national primary ambient air quality standards. Limits such extension to a period ending January 1, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Authorizes, under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, each Senator to have one or more mobile offices in the State he represents. Specifies the formula for determining the maximum rental amount to be paid for such offices.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Extends for five years, under the Clean Air Act, the dates for compliance with the present Federal emission standards for carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles and engines.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Prohibits any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973, have been fully complied with by North Vietnam or the President has determined and reported to Congress that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Calls for a joint session of Congress to assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on February 20, 1975, at 1 o'clock postmeridian for the purpose of receiving a message on the state of the States from the chairman of the National Governor's Conference.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Bilingual Courts Act - Provides for bilingual proceedings in all district courts of the United States in both civil and criminal actions where it is determined that a party to the action or one of his witnesses does not understand the English language. Authorizes appropriations to the Federal Judiciary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides that States not currently having Medicaid plans in effect but are preparing to put such a plan in effect before January 1, 1976, shall be entitled to payments for the implementation of such plans between June 30, 1974, and January 1, 1976, as if such plans had been in effect.