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United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1973
Proclaims that April 30, 1974, shall be a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. Calls upon the people of our Nation to humble ourselves as we see fit, before our Creator to acknowledge our final dependence upon Him and to repent of our national sins.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1973
Occupational Safety and Health Act Amendments - States that the Secretary of Labor shall not propose any rule promulgating a new occupational health or safety standard before he (1) has, as part of each such proposal, reviewed and published in the Federal Register the financial impact of such proposed standard, and (2) has determined that the benefit to be derived from such standard justifies such proposal. Sets forth procedures to be followed by the Secretary in establishing emergency standards under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Directs the Secretary to provide 24-hours advance notice to an employer who is to be inspected under such Act. Sets forth conditions under which an employer who has been found to be not in compliance with specified rules or standards. Requires the Secretary to visit the workplaces of employers for the purpose of affording consultation and advice to such employers. Directs the Secretary to make recommendations regarding the elimination of any hazards disclosed within the scope of an onsite consultation.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1973
Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish Speaking People through fiscal year 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should determine and take immediate steps to reduce Federal Government consumption of fuels by a third; (2) the President should initiate a program within the Federal Government to immediately reduce nonessential uses of all Government vehicles and equipment, and commercial and mass transportation should be utilized whenever practical in the conduct of government business; (3) the President should allot Federal Government departments and agencies a fixed quantity of fuel for a fixed period for essential purposes only, and critical national security activities and other vital services may be exempted on a case-by-case basis; (4) the Secretary of Defense should immediately initiate innovative measures to reduce the amount of fuels used for defense activities; and (5) the President should immediately urge State, local, and other public authorities to adopt similar measures.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, a graduated capital gains tax based on the holding period of assets. Increases the deduction for capital losses. Provides that if an individual's capital losses exceed capital gains, a deduction of up to $4,000 is permitted each year against ordinary income.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1973
Federal Energy Administration - Establishes the Federal Energy Administration to assure that the nations energy needs are met for the foreseeable future. Directs the Administrator to plan, direct, and conduct programs related to the production, conservation, use, and allocation of all forms of energy. Transfers to and vests in the Administrator all functions of the Secretary of the Interior, the Department of the Interior, and officers and components of that Department: (1) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Petroleum Allocation; (2) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Energy Conservation; (3) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Energy Data and Analysis; and (4) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Oil and Gas. Transfers to and vests in the Administrator all functions of the Chairman of the Cost of Living Council, the Executive Director of the Cost of Living Counsil, and officers and components as relate to or are utilized by the Energy Division of the Cost of Living Council. Empowers the Administrator to promulgate such rules, regulations, and procedures as may be necessary to carry out the functions vested in him; and to perform such other activities as may be necessary for the effective fulfillment of his duties and functions. Provides that final orders and actions of any official or component in the performance of functions transferred by this Act shall be subject to judicial review to the same extent and in the same manner as if such orders or actions had been made or taken by the officer, department, agency, or instrumentality in the performance of such functions immediately preceding the effective date of this Act. States that nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate any function of the President which he had immediately before the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1973
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the calendar week beginning May 6, 1974, as "National Historic Preservation Week".
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1973
Repeals the laws concerning the development of a Hudson River basin compact.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973
Carpool Incentives Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out demonstration projects designed to encourage the use of carpools in urban areas throughout the country while not adversely affecting bus and other mass transportation ridership in such areas. Provides that from proposals submitted by the States to the Secretary, the Secretary shall approve for funding those projects which offer the best prospects of achieving the objectives of this Act and which provide a reasonable balance among cities of various population sizes, traffic patterns, and geographical locations. States that the Federal share of the cost of such work shall be 90 per cent, except that the Federal share shall not exceed $1,000,000 for any single project. Directs the Secretary to give permits to demonstration projects proposed for cities or areas in air quality control regions after consultation with the Environment Protection Agency as to the value of such projects as a part of a transportation control plan for such region. Directs the Secretary to conduct a full investigation of the effectiveness of measures employed in the demonstration projects authorized by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $10,000,000 from the Highway Trust Fund to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1973
Provides for the relief of Fredrick Po-Shing Chu.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1973
Provides for the relief of Grace Wing-Ping Chu.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States Government, while engaged in a lessening of tensions with the People's Republic of China, do nothing to compromise the freedom of our friend and ally the Republic of China and its people.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1973
Clean Air Act Amendments - States that nothing in the Clean Air Act is intended to require the establishment of pollution standards more stringent than primary and secondary ambient air quality standards. Authorizes the postponement of plans for transportation reduction or control in States where serious detrimental effects will occur. Provides for a two-year postponement of the effective dates of specified standards relating to motor vehicle emissions. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 1857(b)(1))
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Expresses the gratitude and respect of the Congress to Vietnam veterans on Veterans Day 1973 for their gallant part in attaining peace in Vietnam and making it possible to observe Veterans Day 1973 in peace.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1973
Geothermal Energy Act - Title I: Loan Guarantee Program - Declares it to be the policy of the Congress to encourage the commercial development of means to produce energy from geothermal resources and to facilitate such development by authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to guarantee loans for such purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to guarantee loans made for the purposes of acquiring rights in geothermal resources and performing exploration, development, and construction and operation of facilities for the commercial production of energy from geothermal resources. Specifies the terms and conditions such loans must meet prior to guarantee. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to pay the lenders the interest charges which become due and payable on the unpaid balance of any such loan if the Secretary finds that enumerated circumstances occur. Establishes, in the Treasury of the United States, a Geothermal Resources Development Fund. Authorizes to be appropriated to the fund an amount not to exceed $50,000,000 annually, and such amounts as may be required for the administrative costs of carrying out the provisions of this title. Title II: Coordination of Federal Activities in Geothermal Energy Exploration, Research, and Development - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Geological Survey, to: (1) carry out a plan for the orderly exploration of all forms of geothermal resources of the Federal lands; (2) conduct regional surveys that will lead to a national inventory of geothermal resources in the United States; (3) publish and make available maps, reports, and other documents developed from such exploration to facilitate the commercial development of geothermal resources; (4) make such recommendations for legislation; and, (5) participate with the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation in research. Enumerates the activities in which the Atomic Energy Commission is directed to participate in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. Directs the Commission to coordinate such activities with the Department of the Interior. States the conditions precedent to entering into agreements under this Act. Authorizes the Commission to investigate potential agreements for the cooperative development of major facilities to demonstrate the production of energy from geothermal resources and to submit engineering and financial proposals to the Congress for consideration of authorization to proceed with implementation. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this title: (1) $10 million for fiscal years 1974, 1975 and 1976 to the Secretary of the Interior; (2) $35 million for fiscal years 1974, 1975 and 1976 to the Atomic Energy Commission; and (3) such amounts as may be required in fiscal years 1974, 1975 and 1976 to NASA.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1973
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the President, in exercising the authority conferred by the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 with respect to price levels applicable to sales of gasoline or diesel fuel grade number two, should permit the passthrough of any increase in the cost to the seller of gasoline or diesel fuel grade number two which was lawfully put into effect on or after August 1, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1973
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of the HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust Funds, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Department of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II, XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapter and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each Trust Fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administratering titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Provides that average monthly wage, quarters of coverage, and coverage credits derived from self-employment income for taxable years beginning before 1974 are to be determined on a basis of income credited to calender quarters. Limits quarters coverage to quarters occuring before 1974 and make additonal modification to taxation of self-employed persons. Allocates, under the Social Security Act, coverage credits for earnings before 1974 based on quarters of coverage and after 1973 on the basis of earnings durings the calendar year. Provides that a person will satisfy the requirements prerequisite to a determination of disability if he has 20 or more coverage credits which were credited to the period ending on the day the disability arose and consisting of that part of the current calendar year up until the day the disability began and the nine prior calendar years. Redefines a "fully insured individual" in terms of coverage credits rather than quarters of coverage." States that any person upon obtaining the age of 62 with the proper number of coverage credits is fully insured. Provides that specified benefits be paid to individuals not citizens of the United States who amassed sufficient coverage credits. Title II: Amendments Preserving Relationship Between Railroad Retirement and Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, that in the calculation of an employee's "average monthly renumeration" after calendar 1974 an individual employee shall obtain the benefit of full allowable coverage credits, irrespective of whether particular quarters of coverage were otherwise available for calculation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1973
Authorizes the partition of the surface rights in the joint use area of the 1882 Executive Order Hopi Reservation and the surface and subsurface rights in the 1934 Navajo Reservation between the Hopi and Navajo Tribe. Provides for allotments of such rights to Paiute Indians living on said land.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1973
Provides, under the Clean Air Act, that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall prescribe standards applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from any class of new motor vehicles or new engines, which in his judgment contributes to, or is likely to contribute to, air pollution which endangers the public health or welfare. States that such regulations applicable to emissions of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles and engines manufactured during or after model year 1975 shall contain standards which were established for the 1974 model year. Requires the Administrator to report annually to the Congress with respect to the development of systems necessary to implement the emission standards established pursuant to this Act. implement the emission standards established pursuant to this Act. Specifies the content of such reports. Provides that any manufacturer may file with the Administrator an application requesting the suspension, for one year only, of the effective date of any emission standard. Prescribes the procedures for granting or denial of such suspension. Directs the Administrator to undertake arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences and other concerned Government agencies to conduct a study of the entire vehicle emission problem. Directs the Academy to submit semiannual progress reports. Requires the Administrator, upon review of such reports, to recommend congressional action necessary to insure implementation of the optimal engine-fuel-hardware strategy for emission control.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Permits the use of the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) for implants in beef cattle and sheep.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Public School Jurisdiction Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is necessary and proper that the Congress take action: (1) to enhance the enforcement of court determinations under the Civil Rights Act of 1964; (2) to make court enforcement uniform; and (3) to relieve the congestion of court calendars by providing for the orderly release of continuing Federal jurisdiction over desegregated public schools. Sets forth the definition of "unitary school system" under this Act. Provides, under title IV of the Civil Rights Act, that the continuing applicability of any court order requiring the desegregation of public schools shall terminate upon a determination by jury or by a court having review jurisdiction that such schools are and have been a unitary school system for a period of not less than a full school year. States that no district court or court of appeals of the United States shall have original, continuing, or pendent jurisdiction to issue in any case or controversy any command directing, forbidding, or changing: (1) the assignment or transportation of any student; (2) the employment, transfer, or retention of teaching or administrative staffs; (3) any appropriation or expenditure of any funds for any such school; or (4) the accreditation of any such school.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Declares that the United States Senate does hereby congratulate and felicitate the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, the Honorable John C. Stennis, on his birthday and expresses the wish that he will enjoy many other such anniversaries in the future. Declares that members of the Senate greatly miss the distinguished Senator and wish for him an early return to the Senate Chamber and to his duties in the Senate. Directs that a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and a copy furnished to Mr. Stennis.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1973
Authorizes the establishment of the Big Thicket National Biological Reserve in the State of Texas. Sets forth provisions regarding the retention for a limited number of years of improved property by owners on the date of its acquisition by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Provides that during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Provides that, during the last month of each fiscal year, the President shall review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays for that fiscal year. States that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he considers necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Requires that such surtax shall be effective, and so applied, as determined by the President only during the next succeeding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1973
Declares that the interests of the United States in the lands in the State of Arizona set aside by Executive Orders of December 22, 1898, and May 14, 1900, shall be held by the United States in trust for the Hualapai Reservation, Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1973
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 $50,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1973
Emergency Anti-inflation Act - Provides that the President shall submit a budget pursuant to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 in which nontrust fund expenditures do not exceed nontrust fund revenues for each fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1973
Provides, under the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act, for the certification of labor representatives only upon vote by secret ballot of 50 percent of the employees entitled to vote in the union election. Requires that employees voting in such elections be afforded an opportunity to vote against representation by any individual or organization.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Makes it an unfair labor practice, under the National Labor Relations Act, to require a person who conscientiously objects to membership in a labor organization to be a member of such an organization as a condition of employment.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Makes it an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act for a labor organization to discriminate on account of race, color, religion, or national origin.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Makes it an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act for a labor organization to impose sanctions against its members for exceeding production quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1973
Provides that no person may mail, or cause to be mailed, to any other person any obscene material without obtaining the prior consent of the other person, or if the other person is a minor living with a parent or guardian, the prior consent of such parent or guardian, to the sending of such material. States that the receipt of such obscene material shall constitute an invasion of the privacy of the person receiving such material. Permits the person receiving obscene material to commence a civil action against the mailer. Provides for compensatory damages and punitive damages of no less than $5,000. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act, including "obscene material", "nudity", and "sexual conduct". (Adds 28 U.S.C. 2941)
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1973
Provides that whenever the Secretary of the Treasury determines that the purchase price or exporter's sales price of a class of foreign merchandise which is being or is likely to be sold in the United States or elsewhere, is less than the constructed value of such class of foreign merchandise, he shall make a determination that such class of merchandise is being sold at less than fair value in the United States or elsewhere, and such determination shall result in the imposition of a special dumping duty and other specified provisions of the Anti-Dumping Act. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 171)
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1973
Authorizes the President to proclaim September 28, 1973, as "National Indian Day".
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Establishes within the General Accounting Office a Division of Legislative Budget Review. States that within the Division there shall be a separate office for each executive agency which shall: (1) continuously observe and study the operation of the agency to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency in the utilization of appropriated funds; (2) review and analyze the budget estimates submitted by that agency for inclusion in the budget and in supplemental and deficiency requests; (3) review and analyze budget requests for that agency included in the budget and in supplemental and deficiency budget requests submitted to Congress; and (4) make its own present and future budget estimates with respect to that agency; (5) develop, establish, and maintain an up-to-date inventory of executive branch fiscal, budgetary, and program related information; and (6) review these agency operations on a continuing basis and determine whether the agency is satisfying congressional intent and requirements. Directs the Comptroller General to transmit to Congress, as soon as practicable, each review, analysis, and estimate of each such office. States that an officer or employee in an office for an executive agency shall not serve in that office for more than thirty six consecutive months and that upon termination of service in that office such officer or employee shall not be appointed, detailed, assigned, or otherwise made available to perform duties with respect to that same agency unless at least six years have elapsed since the date of such termination of service. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, but not more than 10 percent of the funds utilized by the various agencies of the executive branch in the formulation, presentation, and justification of agency estimates within the various agencies and departments; presentation and justification to the Office of Management and Budget; and presentation and justification to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Navy to take action with respect to specified leases issued pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act in the Santa Barbara Channel, offshore of the State of California. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to explore Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4. Creates a national energy reserve on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Santa Barbara Channel, offshore of the State of California.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to contract for the sale, operation, maintenance, repair, or relocation of certain Government-owned electric utility systems constructed and operated as a part of an irrigation system used in the administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (Amends 25 U.S.C. 15)
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1973
Establishes within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture a Youth Conservation Corps. Specifies that the Corps shall consist of young men and women between the ages of 15 and 19 whom the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture may employ without regard to civil service classification regulations for the purpose of developing, preserving, and maintaining the lands and waters of the U.S. Outlines the functions of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture under this Act. Provides for a program of grants to the States to assist in meeting the costs of this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior and Agriculture to prepare a joint report to be annually submitted to the President and Congress. Authorizes to be appropriated the sum of $150,000,000 for each fiscal year to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Deems disabilities involving the loss of one or more lives by an individual and incurred pursuant to State National Guard service during World War I to be service-connected for purposes of veterans compensation for service-connected disabilities. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make specified lump-sum payments to such individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Provides for a phrasing out of specified entitlements under the present law relating to financial assistance for schools in areas affected by Federal activities beginning in fiscal years after 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Transfers the authority for the administration of the Federal Reports Act from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the General Accounting Office under the Comptroller General. Establishes within the General Accounting Office a unit to review tax forms and other public use documents prepared by the Internal Revenue Service and to make recommendations for their simplification, frequency with which such forms should be completed and the scope of such forms. Sets forth a procedure by which the Comptroller General may order the simplification, combining or completion use frequently of any such tax form.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Declares that on Memorial Day, May 28, 1973, special remembrance be given by a grateful people to the 1,288 members of the Armed Forces of the United States currently listed as missing in action in Indochina. Declares that all American motorists are encouraged to turn on their automobile lights throughout Memorial Day, May 28, 1973, as a symbol of this remembrance. Provides that every effort be made to secure the cooperation of all parties in the Indochina conflict to insure the fullest and most expeditious resolution of the status of members of the U.S. Armed Forces missing in Indochina.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1973
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act - Title I: Objective - Gives recognition to the problems caused to the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, due to the increasing salinity of the Colorado River. Declares it to be Congress' intent to institute a salinity control program based upon the policy adopted in the Conclusions and Recommendations published in the proceedings of the reconvened seventh session of the conference in the matter of the pollution of the interstate waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries in the States of California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming held in Denver, Colorado on April 26-27, 1972, and approved on June 9, 1972 by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Directs the Secretary of Interior to implement the program generally as described in Chapter VI of the Secretary's report entitled, "Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program", October 1972. Title II: Initial Stage - Authorizes the Secretary to construct as initial units of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program, the La Verkin Springs unit, Paradox Valley unit, and Grand Valley unit. Title III: Continuing Program - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to expedite completion of the planning report on specified units. Directs the Secretary to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in his actions toward salinity control. Title IV: Advisory Council - Creates a Colorado River Salinity Control Advisory Council composed of no more than three members appointed by the Governor from each of the seven Colorado River Basin states. States that the Council is to be advisory to the Secretary of the Interior in his work of carrying out the salinity control program. Title V: Allocation of Costs, Repayments - Provides for allocation and repayment of costs. Provides that 75 percent of the total costs of construction, operation, and maintenance and replacement of each unit of the salinity control projects is declared to be non-reimbursable and that the remaining 25 percent is to be allocated to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund. Provides for repayment of the costs of the salinity control projects allocated to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund and the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to raise the rates for electrical energy under all contracts administered under the Colorado River Storage Project Act to the extent necessary to repay the costs allocated to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund with respect to salinity control projects. Title VI: General Provisions - Provides for biennial reporting by the Secretary on the progress of the salinity control program, and the anticipated work to be accomplished in the future. Authorizes the necessary funds to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1973
Directs the Committee on Armed Services to conduct an investigation and study relative to the treatment by representatives of the North Vietnam and the Viet Cong of American military and civilian personnel held in confinement during the Vietnam conflict in Southeast Asia. Requires the Committee on Armed Services to follow the submission to the Senate of such interim reports as it considers appropriate, make a final report of the results of the investigation and study and to determine whether its investigation and study indicate the necessity or desirability of the enactment of new congressional legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1973
Deepwater Port Facilities Act - Provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to accommodate the exploration and exploitation of the oil and gas and other mineral resources of the Outer Continental Shelf with the construction and operation of deepwater port facilities licensed by him. Title I: - States that the purpose of this Act is to authorize and regulate the construction and operation of deepwater port facilities in accordance with the policy of this Act. Provides that no citizen of the United States may construct or operate or make any significant addition to a deepwater port facility without first receiving a license from the Secretary of the Interior. Authorizes the Secretary to issue to any citizen of the United States a license to construct or operate a deepwater port facility if he first determines that: (1) the applicant is financially responsible and has demonstrated his ability and willingness to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and license conditions; (2) the construction and operation of the proposed deepwater port facility will not unreasonably interfere with international navigation or other reasonable uses of the high seas, and is consistent with the international obligations of the United States; and (3) the facility will be located, constructed, or operated in a manner which will minimize or prevent any adverse significant environmental effects. Provides that licenses issued under this Act shall be for a term of no longer than thirty years, with preferential right in the licensee to renew under such terms and for such period not to exceed thirty years as the Secretary determines is reasonable. States that the Secretary shall consult with the Governor of any State off whose coasts the facility is proposed to be located to insure that the operation of the facility and directly related land-based activities would be consistent with the State land-use program. Provides that in carrying out all of his functions under this Act, the Secretary shall consult with all interest or affected Federal agencies. Sets forth the procedures for issuing licenses. Provides that any person adversely affected by an order of the Secretary granting or denying a license may, within sixty days after such order is issued, seek judicial review thereof in the United States court of appeals for the circuit nearest to which the facility is sought to be located. Authorizes the Secretary to include in any license granted under this Act any conditions he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that any licensee who violates any condition of his license or any rule or regulation of the Secretary issued under this Act may be assessed a civil penalty by the Secretary, in a determination on the record after opportunity for a hearing, of not more than $10,000 for each day during which such violation occurs. States that any person who willfully and knowingly violates any provision of this Act or of any rule, regulation, restriction, or condition made or imposed by the Secretary under the authority of this Act shall, in addition to any other penalties provided by law, be punished criminally by a fine of not more than $25,000 for each day during which such offense occurs. Provides for the revocation or suspension of a license for a failure to comply with applicable rules or regulations. States that the Constitution and the laws and treaties of the United States shall apply to deepwater port facilities licensed under this Act and insofar as consistent with international law to activities connected with the operation and use of such deepwater port facilities in the same manner as if the facilities were located in the navigable waters of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Incorporates the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Makes it unlawful for any Executive Branch officer or any person acting under such officer's authority to require any of the following from any United States Government employee or any applicant for employment in the Executive Branch of the Government: (1) disclose their race, religion, or national origin; (2) attend Government-sponsored meetings and lectures or participate in outside activities unrelated to their employment; (3) report on their outside activites or undertakings unrelated to their work; (4) submit to questioning about their religion, personal relationships or sexual attitudes through interviews, psychological tests, or polygraphs; and (5) support political candidates or attend political meetings. Permits inquiries into national origin when necessary for the national interest or overseas work. Allows agency officers to advise employees of charges of sexual misconduct as long as the employee has an opportunity to refute the charge. Makes it illegal to coerce an employee to buy bonds or make charitable contributions; or to require him to disclose his own personal assets, liabilities, or expenditures, or those of any member of his family unless they would show a conflict of interest. Provides a right to have a counsel or other person present, if the employee wishes, at an interview which may lead to disciplinary proceedings. Makes it unlawful for any Civil Service Commission officer to require any executive department or agency to do any prohibited act; or to require a person seeking to establish Civil Service status or employment in the executive branch to submit to interrogation, polygraph testing, or psychological testing designed to elicit views regarding religion, personal relationships, or sexual attitude. Accords the right to a civil action in a Federal court for violation or threatened violation of this Act. Directs the Attorney General to defend all persons sued who acted pursuant to an order or who, in his opinion, did not willfully violate this Act. Establishes a three-member Board on Employees' Rights with members appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Grants the Board the authority and duty to receive and investigate written complaints from any person claiming to be aggrieved by any violation or threatened violation of this Act and to conduct a hearing on each such complaint. Grants the Board powers which will eliminate violation of this Act. Directs the Board to make an annual report of its activities to Congress. Excludes the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency from the provisions of this Act. Permits the establishment of agency grievance procedures to enforce this Act, but the existence of such procedures shall not preclude the use of other remedies.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
National Amateur Sports Development Foundation Act - Establishes in the District of Columbia a body corporate by the name of the National Amateur Sports Development Foundation which shall not be an agency or establishment of the United States Government. Provides that the foundation shall be directed in accordance with the provisions of this Act by a board to be known as the Trustees of the National Amateur Sports Foundation whose duty it shall be to maintain and administer the foundation and to execute such other functions as are vested in the board by this Act. Provides that the Board shall be composed of sixteen voting members and the president of the foundation ex officio. Authorizes the President of the United States to appoint incorporators, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall serve as the initial board of trustees of the foundation. Sets forth the powers of the Board. States that it shall be the purpose of the foundation to: (1) encourage the achievement of individual excellence in the field of physical endeavor; (2) reduce inequalities among social, economic, and geographic groups in opportunities to participate in amateur sports; (3) coordinate by voluntary means the interests and activities of national sports associations with one another and with related educational and recreational programs of local, State, and Federal Government; (4) strengthen and expand development of amateur sports in the United States; (5) strengthen the position of United States competitors in significant international amateur athletic events; (6) extend knowledge and facilitate the practice of amateur sports; (7) promote broadened cultural exchanges with foreign nations in the field of amateur sports; and (8) study national needs relating to amateur sports. Requires the Board to submit an annual report to the President for submission to the Congress on the activities and accomplishments of the foundation during the preceding calendar year. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974 $1,000,000 to be used by the board in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the board for use by it in carrying out the provisions of this Act, for each fiscal year following fiscal year 1974, an amount equal to the amount of donations, bequests, and devises of money, securities, and other property received by the board during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which such appropriation is made, except that the total aggregate amount appropriated pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed $50,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Menominee Restoration Act - Provides for the repeal of the Act of June 17, 1954 which terminated Federal supervision of the Menominee Tribe. Provides that within fifteen days after the date of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall announce the date of a general council meeting of the tribe to elect the Menominee Restoration Committee. States that the Menominee Restoration Committee shall represent the Menominee people in the implementation of this Act and shall have no powers other than those given to it in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the Menominee Restoration Committee, under contract with the Secretary, to proceed to make current the membership role of the Menominee Tribe in accordance with the terms of this Act. Requires the Menominee Restoration Committee to conduct elections by secret ballot for the purposes of determining the tribe's constitution and bylaws and the individuals who shall serve as members of the tribe's governing body. States that subject to the approval of the shareholders as required by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, the board of Directors of Menominee Enterprises Incorporated shall transfer to the Secretary all assets held by such corporation. Provides that such assets shall be held in trust by the Secretary, on behalf of the United States for the tribe. Authorizes the Secretary to make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 7 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 7 members appointed by the Speaker of the House. Provides for the selection of the Chairman of the Committee and for the filling of vacancies on the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to (a) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority, (b) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, (c) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and (d) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budget authority. Requires the committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 15 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Finance, and 5 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before May 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning July 1. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resolution on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Acts of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff, headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantitative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.