United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Rural Health Needs Planning Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to include in the national guidelines for health planning separate guidelines for nonurbanized areas. Requires to be included on the National Council on Health Planning and Development consumers of health care who are representative of nonmetropolitan areas. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to health systems agencies on the basis of square mileage served by the agency, for the development and operation of subarea councils and requires health systems agencies to consider the views of such councils. Changes the formula by which the size of grants to health systems agencies shall be determined. Requires the inclusion of members from nonmetropolitan areas on Statewide Health Coordinating Councils. Requires centers for health planning to disseminate to health systems agencies planning approaches and methodologies with special emphasis on the needs of medically underserved populations.
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 · 23 January 1978
Emergency Interim Consumer Product Safety Rule Act - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to provide an interim mandatory safety standard for flame resistance and corrosiveness for cellulose insulation. Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to enforce such safety rule until a final cellulose home insulation product safety rule is in effect. Establishes procedures for amendments to the interim rule as promulgated by the General Services Administration. Directs the Commission to study: (1) the need for safety standards for other forms of home insulation; (2) the methods of testing such insulation; and (3) the methods of enforcing home insulation standards.
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 Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee, amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for educational assistance to the employee. Limits to 25 percent the amount of payments which may be made by such programs to shareholders or owners (or their spouses or dependents), each of whom owns more than five percent of the stock or of the capital or profits interest in the employer.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Veterans' and Survivors' Income Security Act - Title I: Security Pension for Veterans and Survivors - Establishes rates for security pensions which may be elected in lieu of regular pensions by: (1) veterans of a period of war who are permanently and totally disabled from a non-service-connected disability; and (2) surviving spouses or children of veterans of a period of war of deceased veterans entitled to compensation or retirement pay for a service-connected disability. Specifies exclusions from the determination of annual income of such veterans and survivors. Requires persons applying for a security pension to report the income and estate of each spouse and child on account of whom added pension is applied for or received. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires annual adjustments of security pension rates in conjunction with cost-of-living increases in Social Security benefits. Title III: Effective Date - Sets the effective date of this Act as October 1, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Authorizes a $543,000,000 appropriation for reimbursing States for expenditures made with respect to services provided by such States under specified titles of the Social Security Act. Sets forth procedures and time limitations for making claims for reimbursement and maximums amounts which a State may receive for providing services under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1977
Emergency Interim Consumer Product Safety Rule Act - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to provide an interim mandatory safety standard for flame resistance and corrosiveness for cellulose insulation. Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to enforce such safety rule until a final cellulose home insulation product safety rule is in effect. Establishes procedures for amendments to the interim rule as promulgated by the General Services Administration. Directs the Commission to study: (1) the need for safety standards for other forms of home insulation; (2) the methods of testing such insulation; and (3) the methods of enforcing home insulation standards.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1977
Amends rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require that bills, joint resolutions, and amendments, reported by the Senate Committee on Finance, which contain or extend tax expenditures provisions be referred to the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the committees having legislative jurisdiction over the subject matters involved.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1977
Prohibits denial of employment (except by an employer with no more than ten employees) to any person because of any obligation as a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1977
Designates the South Portal Federal Office Building of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare at 200 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington, D. C., as the "Hubert H. Humphrey Building."
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977
Declares that the President should establish a Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition which should: (1) collect and generate information and resources on food, hunger, malnutrition and related concerns; (2) assess current programs affecting domestic and international hunger and malnutrition; (3) analyze and report its findings and recommendations to the President, the Congress, and the public; and (4) assist the President and the Congress in implementing its recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) remove the adjusted gross income limitation on the credit for the elderly; (2) increase the amount of the credit; and (3) provide an annual cost-of-living adjustment for the credit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977
Declares it the sense of the Senate that the Privacy Protection Study Commission should be commended for its report, "Personal Privacy in an Information Society," and that the Congress should implement the Commission's recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1977
Grants survivor benefits to dependents of present or former members of the armed forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-regular service. Stipulates that such amount be 55 percent of the retired pay to which such member would have been entitled. Adds 10 U.S.C. 1448(e).
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1977
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to exempt legally qualified candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States from the equal-time requirements under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as a scholarship and to exclude from gross income any amounts received by an individual under the Armed Forces health professions scholarship program or the National Health Service Corps scholarship program.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1977
Provides for payment of a supplemental tuition allowance to each qualified veteran upon application to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Structures such allowance to offset institutional differences in tuition costs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations in such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal year 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Amends the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 to authorize the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to carry out such Act for fiscal year 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Arson Control Assistance Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make grants to programs to prevent and detect the burning of urban structures by or under the direction of their owners. Directs the Federal Bureau of Investigation to classify arson as a major crime for its Uniform Crime Reports System.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to distilled spirits and wines hereafter, called liquors, to allow, under regulations prescribed by the Treasury: (1) labeling gin or vodka with a trademark without conspicuously displaying the names of the distiller or producer; (2) the drawback of taxes paid on imported liquors, packaged or bottled in the United States, which are to be exported; and (3) the tax free return of liquors to bonded premises for storage pending export.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the termination dates for the income tax exclusion of scholarhsips under the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1977
States that an individual or family, whose income is increased by reason of a general increase in monthly social security benefits, will not, because of such general increase suffer a loss of or reduction in the benefits the individual or family has been receiving under certain Federal or federally assisted programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1977
Removes the power of any United States court to issue school transportation orders based on race, color, or national origin unless the court first determines that a discriminatory purpose in education was a principal motivating factor in the constitutional violation for which such transportation is proposed as a remedy. Stipulates that any court order requiring the transportation of any student based on race, color, or national origin must be promulgated by a three judge district court. Restricts such transportation of students to that which is reasonably necessary to have the student composition reflect what it otherwise would have been if a constitutional violation had not occurred. Requires any court before entering a transportation order to hold a hearing and make specific findings of the discriminatory purpose of the violation and the degree to which the concentration in the student composition by race, color, or national origin has been altered from its normal course by such violation. Stipulates that any transportation order on the basis of a constitutional violation shall be stayed until all appeals have been exhausted. Specifies that any transportation order for a constitutional violation which is not yet final before the date of enactment of this Act must meet the requirements imposed by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1977
Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act - Prohibits the sexual exploitation of children by making it unlawful for any person to knowingly use or cause any minor to engage in or assist in any sexual act for the purpose of promoting any film, photograph or other visual medium. Makes it unlawful for any parent, guardian or person having control over a minor to knowingly permit such minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Imposes a fine of $10,000 and/or imprisonment up to ten years for a violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1977
Requires the Federal Communications Commission, in interpreting or implementing policy governing the nationwide telecommunications network, to consider specified matters affecting rural users of telecommunications services. Directs Congress: (1) to initiate studies to determine the potential economic impact of competition in the telecommunications industry; and (2) establish a national telecommunications policy which permits competition in such industry and assures that residents of less densely populated rural areas continue to receive telecommunications services on a par with urban areas.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Medicare - Medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act - Establishes a new method of reimbursement for routine operating costs for hospitals under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Requires the establishment of uniform accounting and cost allocation system for determining operating and capital costs of hospitals providing services. Requires the establishment of a system by which hospitals will be classified by such criteria as (1) size; (2) type of hospital (general, teaching, or specialized care); and (3) other criteria. Stipulates that the term "routine operating costs" does not include: (1) capital costs; (2) direct personnel and supply costs of hospital education and training programs; (3) costs of interns, residents, and non-administrative physicians; (4) energy costs associated with heating and cooling the hospital plant; and (5) malpractice insurance expense; or (6) ancillary service costs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to determine annually for the hospitals classified in each category of the hospital classification system established by this Act, an average per diem routine operating cost amount for use in determining the reasonable cost of that portion of the hospital's costs which consist of routine operating costs. Provides for the periodic increase during the year of the routine operating cost as determined pursuant to this Act to reflect increases in the cost of services which are attributable to inflation. Provides for the adjustment of the routine operating cost of a hospital to reflect higher costs to such hospital of a case mix which requires a greater intensity of care than for other hospitals in the same classification. Directs the Secretary to establish a five-member Hospital Transitional Allowance Board to act on the applications of hospitals for reimbursement of expenses incurred in the retirement or conversion of underutilized facilities. Requires that such conversion promote efficient and economical delivery of services covered by the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Establishes a plan for the reimbursement of physicians under which participating doctors of medicine or osteopathy would accept the assignment of patients' claims for reimbursement under the Medicare program. Requires the Secretary to establish procedures for expediting the payment of such assigned claims to physicians. Promulgates an incentive payment to encourage physicians to participate in the program of assignment of claims. Sets forth criteria for determining the reasonable charge which may be made for physicians' services, and medical services, supplies and equipment under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Sets forth the conditions under which anesthesiologists, pathologists, and radiologists may be paid under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for patient care services. Authorizes payment, under the Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits program of Medicare, for antigens prepared by an allergist for a particular patient. Permits the Secretary to make agreements with the States under which the services of a State health agency will be utilized for the purpose of determining whether an institution in such State qualifies as a skilled nursing facility for purposes of the Medicaid program. Combines the Medicare, Medicaid, Office of Long Term Care, and Bureau of Quality Assurance agencies into a single Administration for Health Care Financing headed by an Assistant Secretary. Establishes specific performance criteria with respect to State Administration of Medicaid. Terminates the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public or nonprofit private regional pediatric respiratory centers affiliated with institutions of higher learning for training and instruction in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of respiratory diseases in children and young adults and in providing health care services to children and young adults suffering from such diseases. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for the making of such grants for fiscal year 1978 and the succeeding four fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to design and construct on an expedited basis certain flood control facilities on portions of the Big Sandy River, and the Cumberland River, in Kentucky and West Virginia.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1977
Amends the Small Business Act to reduce to three percent per year the interest rate on the Small Business Administration's share of any loan made with respect to a major disaster occurring on or after April 1, 1977, and prior to June 6, 1977. Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to grant to the recipient of a disaster loan up to $5,000 to provide immediate relief from the effects of such disaster. Allows cancellation of loans made with respect to disasters occurring on or after April, 1977, and prior to June 6, 1977, according to provisions of the Small Business Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to pay to each State an amount equal to the amount expended by such State for erroneous supplemental payments to aged, blind, or disabled individual during 1974, under the Supplemental Security Income Program of the Social Security Act, to the extent that the amount paid by such State was required to be paid by Federal statute, was made as a result of good faith reliance by such State upon erroneous or incomplete information supplied by HEW, and recovery of such payments by the States is impossible or unreasonable.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to direct that copies of documents required to be filed with States be filed with the State officer charged with maintaining State election campaign reports. Revises the period for which copies of such documents must be retained. Requires that only those portions of filed documents which relate to candidates for election in the State of filing need be preserved. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums to the Federal Election Commission for the purpose of reimbursing during 1977 and 1978 State offices with which campaign documents are filed.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1977
Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to authorize appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission for fiscal years 1978-1980. Requires the Commission to submit specified budgetary and legislative information to Congress. Permits the Commission to appoint 25 additional persons to attorney, economist, special expert and outside counsel positions. Amends the Act to allow review of cease and desist orders only in the court of appeals for the circuit within which the appellant resides or maintains its principal place of business or in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. States that cease and desist orders of the Commission shall become final 60 days after issuance in spite of the filing of a petition for review unless such order is stayed by the Commission, an appropriate court of appeals, or the Supreme Court. Authorizes the Commission to commence a civil action in a district court of the United States to obtain a cease and desist order without first adjudicating the case within the Commission. Sets penalties for failure to comply with any Commission order or subpoena. Permits the Commission to bring suit for injunctive relief in a district court. Allows a citizen to appeal to an appropriate district court when the Commission denies a petition for rulemaking. Permits any person injured by any rule, order, or cease and desist order violation to commence a civil action for relief against such violator in a district court or in any court of competent jurisdiction of a State.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Social Security Cost-of-Living Improvement Act - Requires an annual cost-of-living increase in Federal old-age, survivors, and disability benefits under the Social Security Act. Defines the base periods from which the need for such increases shall be determined. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop a special Consumer Price Index for the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1977
Provides that the lake referred to as "Laurel River Lake" on the Laurel River, Kentucky shall hereafter be known as the "John Sherman Cooper Lake," and that the dam forming such lake shall hereafter be referred to as the "John Sherman Cooper Dam."
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1977
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase from 50 to 90 the percentage of the cost of a water or waste project which the Department of Agriculture may fund by a grant to a local association. Requires that such a grant be in an amount that will leave the average domestic user payment rate in the area served by the project at no more than: (1) one percent of the median family income of the area if such income falls in the lowest 25 percentile of the national median income; (2) one-and-one-half percent, if the median income falls in the 26 to 49 percentile; (3) two percent, if the median income falls in the 50 to 74 percentile; or (4) two-and-one-half percent, if the median income is above the 75 percentile of the national median income. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to seek State and Federal assistance if the maximum amount of a grant will be insufficient to result in the applicable user cost limitation prescribed. Specifies conditions under which the Secretary may increase the amount of a grant. Revises the priorities for recipients of such grants to accord the highest priority to specified municipalities or public agencies which have a hazardous public health situation (currently, such priority is accorded to municipalities or public agencies which already have community water supply or waste disposal systems, when due to unanticipated occurrences such systems are suddenly inadequate to serve the community needs).
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1977
Interstate Horseracing Act - Expresses the findings of Congress with regard to the significance of the horseracing industry and the effects of off-track betting on that industry. Declares that the policy of Congress is to assure continued revenue flow from horseracing to the States and to protect the horseracing industry. Prohibits the acceptance of a wager, placed or accepted in one state on the outcome of a horserace in another state. Subjects any person violating this Act to a civil action which may be brought by (1) the host racing association, (2) the host State, or (3) any owner of any horse participating in a race which is the subject of an interstate off-track wager. Allows the courts (1) to enjoin further violations of this Act, and (2) to award damages in an amount equal to three times the amount of that portion of the interstate off-track wagers which the host State, the host racing association, and the owners of horses participating in the race would have received if such wagers had been placed at the track where the race was held. States that in the event that a wager accepted in violation of this Act is of a type not accepted at the host track, the damages shall be equal to three times the greater of (1) the maximum takeout permitted for any type of pari-mutuel wager in the host State, or (2) the maximum takeout for any type of pari-mutuel wager in the off-track state. Defines "takeout" as that portion of a wager which is deducted from the pari-mutuel pool and is distributed to persons or entities other than those placing wagers. Grants jurisdiction over an action under this Act to the United States District Court in the host State or State in which the off track wager was alleged to have been made. Grants concurrent jurisdiction to state courts of competent jurisdiction in the host State or off-track State. Prescribes a statute of limitations of three years after the discovery of an alleged violation of this Act. States that this Act shall not apply to any interstate off-track pari-mutuel wager which is accepted by an off-track State pursuant to a contract which (1) is entered into by the off-track State and the host State prior to enactment of this Act, and (2) authorizes the off-track State to accept such wagers with respect to the outcome of a horserace taking place in the host State. Limits this exception to this Act to the termination date of the above contract, or the period extending until April 30, 1983, whichever date occurs first.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Makes highway related maintenance projects eligible for funding under the Federal-aid highway program. Makes construction projects on the Interstate System in urban areas for the purpose of reducing noise levels eligible for such assistance. Revises the apportionment system for the expenditure of funds under the Federal-aid highway program. Increases the Federal share of projects on the Federal-aid primary system, the Federal-aid secondary system, and the Federal-aid urban system.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1977
Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct a study of the effects of saccharin within one year from the enactment of this resolution. Directs the Secretary to submit a report on the findings of such study to the President and Congress. Prohibits the banning of saccharin until such report has been submitted to the President and Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1977
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be administered by a Secretary of Education. States that the principal function of such Department is to promote the cause and advancement of education throughout the United States. Transfers to the Secretary specified functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of Education, and various educational responsibilities of other Federal agencies and instrumentalities. Creates the Federal Interagency Committee on Education and the National Advisory Commission on Education. Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Secretary of such Department, as the Department of Health and Welfare, and the Secretary of Health and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1977
Coal Utilization Act - Amends the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 by establishing a new Title II: Natural Gas and Petroleum Conservation Act. Requires that electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations utilize coal or a fuel source other than natural gas, or petroleum. Establishes procedures and criteria for extensions of compliance dates and exemptions for facilities otherwise subject to the requirements of this Act. Requires consideration of environmental control requirements where appropriate. Specifies effective dates of January 1, 1979, for the prohibition on use of natural gas as a primary energy source, and January 1, 1990, for the prohibition on use of petroleum as a primary source with respect to existing facilities. Requires all Federal facilities to comply with the requirements of this Act. Authorizes exemptions for Federal facilities by the President where determined to be in the paramount national interest. Establishes procedures to allow for just compensation for disruption of energy supply contracts caused by operations of the provisions of this Act. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. Specifies the amount of civil penalties based on amounts of oil and natural gas used in excess of the maximum allowable amount. Authorizes exemptions from compliance with this Act where necessary to protect public health, safety, or welfare during emergencies. Amends the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 to establish a new Title III: Coal Substitution Incentive Act. Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to make and guarantee loans to assist industries in the purchase and installation of air pollution control devices for coal-fired boilers and heating devices. Limits the aggregate amount of outstanding loan guarantees to $5,000,000,000. Limits the aggregate amount of outstanding loans to $1,000,000,000. Establishes additional criteria and limitations on the making of such loans and guarantees. Stipulates that no such commitments shall be made after January 1, 1985. Authorizes the appropriation of $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1978 through 1982 for the purposes of this Act. Stipulates that priority consideration shall be given to requests for assistance by facilities in receipt of coal conversion orders issued by the Administrator under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974. Authorizes the Federal Energy Administrator to prohibit powerplants or major fuel-burning installations from burning natural gas where (1) burning of petroleum products by such installations is practicable and (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has certified that such facilities will be in compliance with the Clean Air Act. Extends the authority of the Federal Energy Administrator to issue coal conversion orders under such Act until September 30, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1977
Consumer Controversies Resolution Act - States that existing mechanisms for the resolution of controversies involving consumer goods and services are largely unavailable, inaccessible, ineffective, expensive, or unfair. Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to assure all consumers convenient access to consumer controversy resolution mechanisms which are expeditious, effective, and fair. Directs the Federal Trade Commission, in implementing the provisions of this Act: (1) to enter into or renew cooperative agreements with the States under which the Commission will provide financial assistance for the development, establishment, improvement, or maintenance of State systems for the resolution of controversies involving consumers, and (2) to take such other actions as are appropriate to fulfill the purposes of this Act. Directs the Commission to establish an Office of Consumer Redress. States that the Commission may enter into cooperative agreements with States for the provision of financial assistance to consumer controversy resolution systems upon submission by a State of a satisfactory State plan for the resolution of consumer controversies. Sets forth the requirements which a State plan must meet to be considered satisfactory. Directs the Commission to review such plans periodically. Specifies the purposes for which assistance funds provided to the States may be used, including: (1) compensation to personnel who assist consumers involved in consumer controversies; (2) the recruitment, training, and education of such personnel; (3) public education and publicity regarding the availability and proper use of consumer controversy resolution mechanisms; and (4) research and development of improved controversy resolution mechanisms. States that the Federal share of the estimated cost of a cooperative agreement shall not exceed 70 percent of the total cost of such agreement. Authorizes the Commission to award grants for research or demonstration projects consistent with the purposes of this Act. Requires each recipient of assistance under this Act to keep such records as the Federal Trade Commission shall prescribe. Directs the Commission to submit an annual report to the President and Congress. Authorizes to be appropriated not more than $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1979.
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